SirDarth's overnight session went well, with his horse reaching level 31 soon after breakfast this morning without any incidents. MistressDomino sold a nice lot of stuff on Auzura too, though she still has rather a lot of the large attack and defence potions...when I have time, she needs to browse Roy's merchant mart stock, in case any other suitable armour pieces for Rage are available, though someone in the forum shoutbox did mention later that +15 b5e rogue armour pieces aren't usually less than 1.5 billion each, sigh.
There seems an awful lot going on this weekend. The website mentions a Dratan raffle, in which each time you drop 1000 gold on the ground in that map, and don't pick it up, you are entered in a raffle with a chance to win one of 30 "variety packs"; there's a 30% bonus on buying any amount of aeria points; there's a "tiered spender event"; there's a first time buyer event... and, while those are all announced in detail on the website, hidden away in a forum post called "While You Wait For Mondshine", we are told, if we find it, that, running from 1:00am today, UK time, for two days, the experience and Skill exp cap will be raised to 600%, and the base XP/SP experience will be raised to 200%, with thousands of 3 for 1 packs on sale in the Web Mall.
So, I just had time for one hour's worth of platinum blessed iris out in Dratan on Auzura-4 for Kaerella, in a combat party with MistressDomina, before lunch, using an experience booster on the elite sphinx speer man - which got the experience from that critter up to 15 to 17 million a go. Kaerella reached level 69 before too long, and added 75.66% in all, along with 706 pet points (the sphinx fighters went blue-named when she levelled up, cutting the pet point gain); as well as the hour in the combat party, we then switched to an equal party for another quarter of an hour, so MistressDomina managed to add 6.15%. And they each got 34 skill points.
I'd checked with the forum shoutbox about the extra experience and skill experience initially, logged in as Memree since I'd been doing level one of the tiered spender event on that account, mainly buying the 3 for 1 experience booster packs, and kept an eye on it afterwards. The conversation came round to the shortcomings of the Korean developers of the game, and Aeria_ks1lent's valiant trip to Korea to attempt to sort them out, and I posted "How many Korean devs does it take to change a light bulb?" followed by the answer, "We don't know, they are working on it. Please be patient." This appealed to some people, and forum regular lukaviljevac used it as the basis for a cartoon, which he posted in the forum's creative area.
Over on Cariae-4, Barbarienne and Keerella headed for the Tomb of Theos after lunch, having been assured in the shoutbox that it was set to easy now - and indeed it was. This was Barbarienne's turn to lead, with Kee on the older computer; with it being the weekend, with the special experience (and skill exp) running, I expected the place to be busy, and I wasn't disappointed - the opening area with its screaming zombies looked pretty hectic as I ran through, and the room with the anubis spear men, plus sphinx fighters, was in use. CombineHarvester was, er, farming, on one side, and a pair from the major guilds Vendetta and Trio were across from him, I think doing power-levelling as there seemed plenty of use of Party Recall going on.
So, Barbarienne settled in just to fight the sphinx fighters, without using any potions, hoping that a vacancy would occur; Keerella ran in to join her, but at this stage just stood in a safe place with SkrappY equipped. Before long I noticed that the power-leveller had about twenty minutes left on the platinum blessed iris, so kept my fingers crossed - and the pair did indeed disappear when the time expired.
So, Barbarienne was able to take on the far side of the room, my favourite levelling spot, and began her first power potion, berserker potion, crit pot, platinum adrenaline, and platinum blessed iris hour... and after a few minutes Keerella put SkrappY away, equipped her level 50 drake Greedo instead, and began fighting the sphinx fighters.
At some points the room was busy, and sometimes I had the place to myself. There were times when Barb had to wait for an anubis spear man to respawn, but generally I was pretty lucky. CombineHarvester moved on deeper at a time the room was crowded, which was kind; a temple knight called tristram666 actually used his Teleportation skill a few times, and I commented on it. He wondered if it could be called "telekinesis", but I said that that would involve the monster floating through the air, rather than instantaneously being moved from one spot to another - we agreed that would be a cool effect. I shared the room with a warmaster titan called BusDriver, but he didn't say anything... and other people came and went, I don't think the titan who was there when I finished understood English.
Barbarienne's experience gain varied between 22% and 24% per hour - and over the five-hour session, she went up 113.38%, reaching level 104. Her drake went up by 5692 pet points. Barb used 264 experience boosters, an average of around 53 per hour, so that was a pretty expensive level to get, but speedy. Keerella wasn't using any potions or boosters, and just went up by 5.57%, but her drake added 4789 pet points - and they each gained 49 skill points.
Going on for so long, I just had some milk and biscuits at the desk for my "food break", but once the session was over I did the washing up, on the feeling that I couldn't really leave it all for Monday. Then Barbarienne logged in and got the fifth level of Rise Focus 2, for 40 million gold and 1300 skill points, increasing her hit rate by 44. That took her stash of skill points down to 3,118, but if necessary she has a few thousand "banked" in the special skills too.
The remaining part of the evening was just long enough for Kaerella and MistressDomina to team up on Auzura-4 again. Before we left Randol, a Vendetta member called ENKIL opened a trade window with Kaerella, and displayed a "Crest of Rainbow" accessory, which gives 12 each to strength, intelligence and dexterity, and 6 to constitution. As I couldn't see that Kae would actually prefer that to her current three accessories, I gracefully declined, and Kae headed for the teleporter to Dratan.
MistressDomina was by Storekeeper Bianca still, though, and ENKIL opened the trade window with her, and displayed the accessory again. "How much?" I asked, and when he assured me it was free, gratefully accepted it. With her 60/62 armour MD is obviously no noob, any more than Kae is... it was a very nice gesture, and much appreciated.
The location of the second elite sphinx "speer" man was, as usual, quiet, so, in their combat party, MD just stood and watched as Kae fought the locals. For an hour Kae used a platinum blessed iris, for triple experience, stacking with the event - and she used 40 experience boosters, on the elite, killing the regular types in between. There was a slight hiatus, though - the roadboss (or indeed raid boss) Kamira arrived.
Not feeling particularly lucky, and since it doesn't seem to matter if the person fighting the boss is higher in level, Kaerella logged out, and Rage logged in, teleporting to the other elite sphinx speer man's location and quickly riding across. Just using horse buffs, Rage did need to use a medium health potion to stop her MP getting a bit low, but Kamira didn't last long - and, along with the usual goodies, on the ground was a Tears of Knight, that most desirable of accessories. It looks as if my temple knight on Auzura, SirDarth (not a pet-leveller), is in for a treat...
Kaerella returned after that, and finished the pbi's hour - changing the party to an equal one after that, she continued for another twenty minutes, to get MistressDomina a bit more experience. In all, Kaerella added 63.82% - plus only 279 pet points, as after she reached level 70, both the local kinds of monster were blue-named. MistressDomina added 7.67%, and they both got 35 skill points.
Back in town, Kaerella found she still had level 7 of Poison Arrow to learn, from level 68, as well as the five levels of the level 70 skill, Paralyzing Arrows - the last new attack skill until the one Barbarienne has recently learnt at level 102, Fatal Blow. So, that was 1850 skill points used...
The winning event for today was apparently a "Dungeon Run". I did ask in the forum shoutbox what that might be, but our resident gamesage didn't know. "Not sure. Maybe you have to kill mobs in the different dungeons?" That was the suggestion from ants3107, anyway. I did later see a post on Sarissa saying it was taking place in Maargadum Jail, but that was a bit late in the evening for me. There was a forum post calling for votes for an event tomorrow, but sadly, while it said it was "open", [GM]Kali had absent-mindedly locked it. The candidates were Race to the Finish, Hide and Seek, and Storm the Castle...the last of which would get my vote, if I could cast it.
SirDarth logged in for a hour or so of pet-levelling on Sarissa-4 before the older computer closes down for the night, getting his horse past the 25% mark in level 31; over on Auzura-5 MistressDomino did a little selling, too. She had increased the price slightly on skill point boosters and experience boosters, since there ought to be a high demand for them at the moment, but there didn't seem to be any takers.
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