Three Team-Ups

It was a relief to return to more normal things today. MistressDomino on Auzura had done some useful selling overnight in merchant mode, mainly of heaven stones, but I noticed that the forty dire wolf transformation scrolls that I put up at 25,000 gold each had all gone, as well as moonstone boxes and a few large attack and large defence potions.

After moving some more items across to MD from Kaerella and Rage on Auzura, SirGalahad on Tairen was able to swing into action, returning to level five of Maargadum Jail to work on his drake, which just managed to reach level 29 at coffee time.

Then it was time for Memree and RedRyder on Tairen-5 to head for Prokion Temple, and the mirror-side corridor room with orc fighters and the single orc axeman, for an uninterrupted 90 minutes or so. Memree added 174 skill points, and RedRyder one less, as a couple of times she'd been out of compass range when Memree made a kill. While Memree had had to start off by killing two orc sergeants that had followed us after we ran through their room, generally we avoided killing the orc axeman and concentrated on the fighters, so that by the end of the session Memree had advanced by 31.57% and 178 guild points, while RedRyder, as usual the non-combatant in the combat party, had moved on by 7.95% and 30 guild points.

Both rogues should level up during their next session there - which may end up cutting back the skill exp per kill so much that we have to move on from fighters to the axemen and even the sergeants, who can tell?

For the afternoon session, our other Tairen team-up was back in action, with my highest-level Tairen character now, the rogue Rage, reaching level 37 - and still getting good experience and skill exp in the Prokion Temple back room, thanks to the combat party with Kaerella, on level 27. As before Kae kept to the side, but did get attacked occasionally, nearly dying once. I did have three visitors; a healer stayed for a few minutes, a rogue not quite as long, and a knight came in, looked around, and very wisely decided to leave right away. If you don't have the +10 armour, it isn't a healthy place to try fighting.

It was a good long session, so they gained 351 skill points each; Rage added 39.93% and 554 guild points, while Kaerella added 39.06% and 82 guild points, getting to the halfway point in level 27. That got Kae's store of unused sp up to 654: 212 skill points were used to finish maximising her general skills, and then 348 more were spent on starting to learn the weaponsmithing skills. Yes, Kaerella needs to learn the special skills before she can be allowed to level up, so it looks as if some "suicide runs" in Misty Canyon are in her not-so-distant future.

The evening session was quite substantial, too, and involved Kaerella, in her Auzura guise of a level 67 archer, teamed up with my level 61 wizard-mage MistressDomina, out fighting the sphinx fighters and speer men, and the elite sphinx speer man. MD just stood at the side, while Kae did all the work - MD being a few levels lower did help the amount of experience gained, as the sphinx types are green-named to Kae now. It was just an equal party, so experience, skill exp and gold drops were shared relatively equally, though Kae did get slightly more experience per kill than MD - less as a percentage, however, as level 67 is a bit longer than level 61, to work through.

A rogue called GIZMO was around for a few minutes, competing for the chance to kill the elite on its next respawning; I was slightly limited by the need to stay within compass-range of MistressDomina. And a bit later a level 60 titan from the CaZadores guild, ALeX, arrived, and asked to join the party so that he'd get horse buffs. He seemed to lose quite a lot of health fighting the elite, perhaps his armour isn't very good. He didn't stay very long, at least not by my standards.

So, most of the time I had the sphinx types to myself on Auzura-4, which seems reasonable, as people below level 60 would tend to be on the next sub-server, Auzura-5, since that is where Elizabeth now gives out her Enhancement buff. My two characters don't qualify for that any more, sadly, but without any potions managed to get 50 skill points each from the session; Kaerella went up by 14.03%, while MistressDomina added 22.79%. And Kae's drake, SirFrancis, gained 2592 pet points.

After transferring her new loot from Kae across to MistressDomino on Auzura, back on Tairen-5 SirGalahad logged in, and traded his level 29 drake across to Memree, in exchange for her level 18 one. And then he headed down to Maargadum Jail, where he soon got his new charge on to level 19.

The free goes on the Last Chaos "loot wheel", one per account, today didn't get me a polar bear pet, sadly, though a few other goodies did come my way, suitable for selling on Tairen. Come to think of it, their total value is probably more than people have been selling such pets for recently - though I'm slightly more intrigued by the new jaguar pet, which certainly in its "cub" form looks a cute little black kitten.

The special "The Shadow of Grei" event today that had been previously hinted at turned out to be a part of the Merac Castle Siege, which is a guild versus guilds battle, down at Merac Castle, that I have never been to and know nothing about. There were some mysterious GM-made announcements, along the lines of "Did you Night Shadows really think a guild could protect you from us?" - so things could get a bit unexpected. Certainly "You can flag pvp in MCS today only. There will be no repercussions" is strange, as apparently normally turning on PvP mode there causes glitches. Ah well, I have no idea even which sub-server things went down on!