Levelling a Sorcerer

With the usual weekly maintenance shut-down last night, there was no point in trying to pet-level overnight, but SirPerivale and CaptainScarlet started work before breakfast, so that it wasn't long before Cap's horse reached level 32, and Peri's drake reached level 18.

With a new Last Chaos week begun, my new project was to get a sorcerer to level 31, for a +10 set of armour - and then on to level 32, and explore just how a "specialist" sorcerer, with the knight and demon forms, operates. So, the sorcerer I'd just started, JohnWellington, was the candidate for promotion. If longer names were allowed he would have been JohnWellingtonWells, as that was the name of the title character in the Gilbert & Sullivan light opera, "The Sorcerer", but it still has a good sturdy old-fashioned ring to it.

Getting John up to level eight in the conventional way didn't really take long, and then it was time to team him with SirPerivale, as he is the only remaining character I have of a suitable level, now that other folk such as Darth have gone up to level 31 to get the free armour. The first thing they did was fight a level 30 Pandora's Beast that John had released from a Box, and that alone was enough to get my new sorcerer up to level 9. After that, a trip to Merac was called for, so that Peri could fight Butchers and Berserkers with John close by, and by lunchtime JohnWellington was up to level 14.

SirPerivale was able to take off his sword, move a few yards across the clearing, and settle down for pet-levelling for an hour or so; John logged out, and CaptainScarlet logged in, to join Peri. Then, after lunch, John returned, and another two levels were added, so that, with the maximum 15 level difference between party members, he would now be able to team with a level 31 character.

After JohnWellington had changed from his starter armour to some more appropriate stuff, thanks to the odd pieces that LordElpus was carrying, it was time for him to add Prokion Temple to his memory scroll. He started a potion of haste as soon as he was out of the gates of Dratan City, and, despite stopping to add Shuraine's location to his memory scroll when he reached that oasis, the potion lasted almost all the way - it got him past the Sand Golems and the foxes, which was the main thing. After adding the entrance to the temple to the scroll, he did go inside, but trying to solo a Ghoul seemed to dent his own health slightly more than his adversary's, so that attempt was quickly abandoned.

Unfortunately, I am a bit short of level 31 characters; SirDarth would have been ideal, but he is on the same account, so the only reasonable option was my cut-price titan, Cyborg. And as he had reached that level before "Player Appreciation" began, he has rather poor armour, so wouldn't really prosper in the back room. He teamed with John for another trip to the Berserkers instead, just to get him up one more level, and allow teaming with a level 32 character.

So, MistressSabina borrowed back the best mage 30/32 armour set, and her accessories, from MistressBlaze. Time was getting short, but MB and John went to the Auzura-3 Prokion Temple together, and, with horse buffs applied, made the run to our favourite back room. Sadly, it was already in use, so, as it was getting a bit close to food break time, we decided to leave it there - and Cap and Peri logged back in.

The evening session was always going to be a short one, ending about ninety minutes earlier than usual, but we made good use of the time we had. MistressSabina and JohnWellington went over to the PvP-enabled Auzura-5 sub-server, and while we found that there were quite a few players around, our back room was clear, so John took up his position, and Sabina set to work on the Orcs. It didn't take a huge amount of time to get John up to level 22 - Sabina added 19.10% experience, 83 skill points, and 611 pet points. Taking up a safe position she then traded the armour set and accessories across to John, and logged out.

MistressBlaze was now able to team up with JohnWellington, as they were now only 15 levels apart, so she logged in and hurried across to join him, and took the armour set and accessories back. And the Orc-bashing continued until eight o'clock, UK time; there was only one very slight interruption when an archer came into the room, seemed to target an Orc - and vanished. Very thoughtful, not to try to take away my targets, perhaps people are more polite on the PvP servers, unless they are actually player-killers.

MistressBlaze added 9.74% experience, and 102 skill points; teaming with a lower-level character is as much for her benefit as for John's, as it enables her to get some more skill points from the Orcs when solo she'd get hardly anything there... it was one of the reasons for starting a new character, in fact, to allow her some more Prokion time, and get her some more skill points. MistressBlaze also added another 210 guild points to her contribution to the Discipline guild's total.

JohnWellington was 40% of the way through level 24 at the end of the session, with 210 unused skill points - not that he has used many, just 32 on the first four levels of the passive skill Cursed Soul, to increase his magical attack by 40. Still, he successfully completed his apprenticeship in the Guardian system, and got his sorc "event weapon" - and that also means another 10 reputation points for Kaerella, who had been enlisted as his Guardian.

MistressSabina logged in again briefly, and got the +10 armour set back, though MB is hanging onto the better armour for the moment. Sabina also made MB the Discipline guild master for the moment, after putting JohnWellington's experience gain on 50%. It may take longer to get him to level 31 that way, but it will mean more skill points both for him and MistressBlaze. If we need to speed up as the week draws to a close, then MB will be able to unfreeze him.

Stavanic seems to have decided that he needs SirPerivale to make him another mount, though he intends to get the horse in question to level wenty himself before passing it over. He is also talking about having a "guild war" for DeathBringers against some other guild - hopefully not Vendetta! Checking up on the Last Chaos Wet Paint Wiki I see that a guild war is arranged between the two guild masters, and each pays a certain amount of gold in as prize money, which the winner gets, minus 5% tax. Normally a war lasts 30 minutes, in a map such as Juno, with PvP automatically enabled for members of the two guilds - your own guildies have a blue circle around them, while the other guild's members have a red circle. Whichever guild makes the most kills in the time available wins.

Steve was wondering if Rage or Chuck could temporarily join DeathBringers for such a war, which does seem a bit like cheating - I bet the other side would bring in a level 90 or two if they knew about it! Apparently nobody loses experience or skill exp in such a battle, so Peri at least would be happy to participate if the timing was right. It seems a bit random and unequal, how many people, or what levels, would turn up for the other guild? And what guild master would gamble his 100,000 gold, or whatever, without having a trick or two up his sleeve?

After the Prokion Temple adventuring was over, CaptainScarlet was able to do some pet levelling, so his horse is at least two-thirds of the way through level 32 now - just too high to safely be left to level through the night. SirPerivale was able to join him again later, so the drake is well into level 19, as I write.