Pets Make Progress

The two Kaerellas, my archer on the Auzura server and my cleric on Cariae, started things off by logging in for their attendance half hour, which moves their skill exp bonus on from 4% to 5%, and were followed after breakfast by Barbarienne and MistressSabina, and then Rage and MistressDomina. My firm intention had been to send SirGalahad off to Prokion Temple after coffee to farm some skill points - but when MistressDomina killed a few foxes outside Randol, she got 2 experience and 1 skill exp, which showed that the GMs had absent-mindedly left the double experience from the second half of yesterday's happy hour running. I wonder if they ever remember to turn the lights off when they leave for the day?

So, after coffee, RedRackham went down to take over the pet-levelling chores, in Auzura-6's Maargadum Jail - and he provided the solo party for MistressSabina, who went out to the giants in the Dratan desert again. It wasn't a terribly long session, but Sabina gained 12.85%, 45 skill points (with 1962 skill exp per giant), and 734 pet points.

There was an even shorter session on Tairen-6 after lunch; my level 40 assassin-rogue Memree logged on there, and traded her recent loot across to MistressDomino, my merchant mage there, who then checked the stocks of weapons that Roy had available in the merchant mart - and found a level 45 crossbow, +15, being sold by coran for 250 million. So, after checking that there were no other similarly enhanced weapons available, the crossbow was purchased - though it will be of more use to my level 42 ranger-rogue there, xRAGEx.

Memree teamed up with SirGalahad, who went down to floor five of Maargadum Jail for a little pet-levelling work on his level 10 hatchling. Memree herself fought the two-headed canines at the back of the ground floor, and in the main canine room of floor two as well. However, it soon became obvious that the double experience was no longer running, so, after only adding a few percent, the Tairen outing came to a close.

SirGalahad on Tairen is not a red-named type, just a regular level 35 temple knight, so it was interesting to have him fight a death mask soldier for a while. The soldier's health did decline a little, as it was being hit for 46 damage at a time, but a reasonably long session would be possible there. He can always go a bit red, to decrease his attack power, if needed.

SirGalahad on Auzura-6 logged in, however, and RedRackham there took over the pet-levelling side. A trip out to Prokion Temple got SirGalahad's skill point total up to 364, including the ones previously earned - getting skills, back in Randol, left him with 37, but getting killed in Ebony Mine by the degraded golien commander 33 times got that down to 13.

The next trip to Prokion, which was almost entirely running on first level ignition, got the skill point total up to 195, which was what SirGalahad needed to get all three levels of advanced weaponsmith; he got up to 88.52% of his level while earning them, so another trip to Ebony Mine, and 30 more deaths, were needed, once all the skill points had been spent.

That just left SirGalahad needing 784 more skill points to get all possible special skills maximised - the three levels of expert weaponsmith, and the last two levels of expert armoursmith. Despite the dungeon time (and, though I didn't realise it then, the continuing double experience), I was just able to get the 153 skill points needed for the second level of expert armoursmith, although I did have to move to mummies and ghouls towards the end, with their better ratio of skill exp to experience. Once that level was learnt, it was time to die a few more times in Ebony Mine.

The evening's bonus was set to be double pet experience, so SirGalahad needed to log out, as, when he is fighting in Prokion Temple, he usually doesn't equip his pony, as it takes too much damage. Instead, I decided to give my level 94 rogue Rage (or RAGE, to be accurate) an outing... so she headed for the Tomb of Theos.

For a change, I didn't turn left for the ancient grey mummies, I turned right, for the anubis spear men and sphinx fighters. I was surprised to find the room deserted when I arrived, but it was only a few minutes after the end of the hour's dungeon time... and as time went by the place did fill up. Rage got recruited into a combat party by the level 96 temple knight Armorclaw; he opened it up to other people later, but the only other one in the room itself was the level 93 assassin Z3rOZx. Armorclaw tended to lure about six to ten sphinx fighters at a time, and not surprisingly ended up with rather low health sometimes, if I'd been along as my archer I'd have been doing a lot of healing. The assassin got pretty low on health a few times, but was able to feign death using their Death Motion skill, and recover.

A level 61 specialist sorcerer called Tankeren asked if he could "ks" me, so I let him do that, and he did reach 62 before he left. As I wasn't using any pots, potions or boosters, it just meant slightly quicker kills, and since I was the one picking up the loot, that was no problem. Rage only rarely lost any health; I did attack a few anubis spear men, but generally kept to the fighters. The first fifty of them completed a quest from Tomb Guard Atum, with the reward being 0.09% experience, which has to be less than earth-shattering.

The double experience was still running on Auzura, we noticed before long, unlike Tairen, so, helped along by the eight to nine o'clock dungeon time hour, Rage added 14.66%, plus 15 skill points and 6258 pet points - and picked up a few level 97 weapons, and so on.

RedRackham, thanks to the double pet experience, got his horse to level 37, so he logged out and CaptainScarlet logged in. Using a platinum pet experience potion, stacking nicely with the event to give 6 pet points at a time, Cap got his drake into level 46. When the double pet experience stayed on beyond the scheduled two hours, I risked another ppep, so that by the end of the evening quite substantial progress in level 46 had been made. When Rage logged out, RedRackham was able to return; he made the level 37 horse into a mount, and then took a blue pet flute to Lorraine and Jajan, to get a pale blue pony. He then headed for Jail on Auzura-4, and was soon sparring with the death mask soldier, working on his new pet.