Back to the Bogles

The indestructible CaptainScarlet and SirPerivale headed out for the Berserkers in Merac suitably early this morning; that was about all the action that the morning saw, except for some moving of items around, so that MistressSabina now has the 30/32 high-defence 30/32 armour set, and most of the other mage armour sets have been passed into the keeping of FoxChaser. EarlGrey now has custody of a lot of "Bogle Drops" too, not a cough lozenge, but the general term for the level 65/67 armour pieces, and level 65 weapons, that the Bogles tend to drop as loot. For some reason they most commonly drop knight armour, followed by healer and titan pieces, though the weapons tend to be from the other three classes.

After lunch MistressDomina opened some more experience-type boxes, and got one more blessed iris - and a couple of the platinum blessed irises too, as well as various potions. MrChuckNorris still had his 24-hour +30% "small experience potion" active, so spending the afternoon with them in Egeha seemed the best idea. Once we got there, and Chuck started to battle a Bogle, MD started the three-hour, double experience blessed iris.

The Grand Gold Dragon waited almost an hour before appearing, but then appeared five times, just going elsewhere for one 14-minute period, so I had to alternate between the hillside and the road at the foot of the hill, which is marginally trickier as one can never be quite sure where the aggressive Dark Bogles will respawn. MistressDomina kept safely out of the way of them, however.

By the time the three hours were over MistressDomina had gone up 115.61%, taking her into level 44; Chuck had added 21.70%, and 1450 pet points, while Chuck gained 6 skill points and MD gained 5. Two skill points per hour certainly makes a change from Prokion Temple!

This was scheduled to be one of my "early finish" Wednesday evenings, but there was time to continue the session for a while first, and I decided to be a bit of a spendthrift and let MD use a platinum blessed iris, for an hour's worth of triple experience. This didn't quite get her to level 45, another 8% was needed - so I kept going, and she reached the new level before the log-out time. MistressDomina had added another 66.08% by then. Chuck's 30% boost ran out about halfway through, but he managed to add another 9.70%, as well as 862 pet points; they each added 3 more skill points.

SirPerivale and CaptainScarlet were able to fit in a little more pet levelling, before Cap had to yield the main computer to other things. Once again there is no chance of Peri levelling the dragon hatchling overnight, as the delayed server maintenance is scheduled now for 3:00am UK time. Will the "Player Appreciation" event come to an end then? Let's hope there is at least another week of it to come - they do say that no new content is being added, just "some minor server tweaks", so that sounds promising. It has been very useful while it has lasted, allowing CaptainScarlet to get a good enough armour set for pet levelling, but there is more that one can do, given the time.

Now that MistressDomina has safely reached level 45, that would allow a Combat type party with Chuck, to give him a small boost to his experience gain... but, more importantly, Chuck getting to level 55 yesterday does get him to within 15 levels of Rage. I think the first thing to try will be a Rage-led party of the pair of them in the Forgotten Temple, since the critters there are a few levels above the Bogles generally, but a joint trip to the Tomb of Theos is also a possibility. Chuck can give Rage a couple of useful buffs, after all. With MD on level 45, there's nothing to stop Chuck doing some levelling, and indeed reaching level 60, at which point he should be gifted with a +5 level 60/62 armour set and sword. And MD can still make an Equal party with any of my characters that are level 30 or over, though up to about 35 they are more interested in skill points than experience gain.

Talking of experience gain, I see that Friday's "Happy Hour" will be 50% extra experience gain again, so that afternoon should be Chuck and either MD or Rage. But we've Thursday to get through first...