SirDarth had a successful overnight pet-levelling session, but it wasn't enough to get his horse to its next level - that had to wait until the early evening food break, when the horse finally reached level 36. After coffee, Darth had once again to make way for Keerella and Barbarienne, over on Cariae-4.
This time, Keerella was taking the lead, while Barbarienne would look after SkrappY. I was just arranging the exchange, in Dratan city, soon after ten o'clock when things went a bit strange - the final "trade" button wouldn't work. I logged Keerella out, and it took a few minutes to get her back online, with "account is already in use" and other random messages. The shoutbox was pretty busy, with people reporting that they had been killed...it seems to have been a massive lag spike, which can be unfortunate if you are fighting something dangerous at the time.
Still, Kee did get back, and made the trade with Barb, and they both headed for the Tomb of Theos - where, luckily, there were no more such spikes, at least nothing that affected us.
This time Keerella led Barbarienne down to that first room with the anubis spear men. Normally Last Chaos on the older computer is a bit dark, which makes places that are under-lit already a bit hard to navigate there - but by changing from a window to full screen, I was able to turn up the brightness a bit, which made things easier.
There was a mage fighting in the far corner when we reached the room, XoXo, but the nearer corner was free, so Barb settled back a few feet from the wall and equipped SkrappY, and Keerella started fighting, just using her staff on the spear men, and Terra Spear - not Curse to slow their approach down, as debuffs like that apparently increase their stats in some way. When XoXo left, I moved across.
The plan was for six rather than seven hours, which was just as well, given the delay at the start - I also got a disconnection on both computers at about ten past two, but it didn't take long to get back, and it seemed actually to happen at a non-perilous moment...just as I was chatting to another player about disconnections, in fact.
By the end, Keerella had used 203 experience boosters, as well as six each of the berserker, power, crit and platinum adrenaline potions - and she'd gone up by 205.12%, from level 93 to 95. Her drake, Greedo, had added 6017 pet points, which meant that Greedo had reached level 50. The old-style pets are capped at level 60, but it will take many months to get that far I'm sure. Kee also gained 50 skill points.
Barbarienne had added 4.63% just from being in the combat party, so stayed on, still in a combat party with one remaining night shadow, and killed a couple of anubis spear men herself, using experience boosters, and that raised her experience gain to a total of 5.58% - which was just enough to take her into level 103. She also got 78 pet points from that, and increased her skill point gain to 52 for the day. Her custodianship of SkrappY had got him up by another 11.49%.
Various people from the previous day had reappeared, during my hours in the Tomb, plus some new faces; occasionally I had the place to myself, sometimes I was sharing the four spear men with one other player, either with nobody else around or with some people fighting the sphinx fighters. There was one rogue who was based further along the corridor, but would sometimes come and "steal" the spear men, and a selection of fighters, luring them back to her spot, which was annoying, as they wouldn't respawn for us until she'd killed them. And sometimes the competition for the spear men was a bit fierce - but people generally moved on before too long.
Elvastar had been available to chat with, and Kee logged out rather quickly, once her last set of pots ended, rather than staying while Barb killed her two spear men, so that Kaerella would be able to log in and form a party with Elva (and LeopardKnight) before he vanished for a while. Once Barb had levelled up, she logged out too, and SirDarth was able to continue with his pet-levelling.
After my early evening food break, Kae had some shopping to do; she needed to get her level 70/72 set of armour, the last set that can be converted between classes, can be worn five levels before its stated level, and can be bloodsealed in use. Looking through Roy's merchant mart stock took quite a while, but I ended up buying the +14 helm for 180 million, +13 pants for 145 million, a +10 jacket for 65 million, +10 gloves for 86 million, and +8 boots for 45 million. So, that was 521 million gold spent, plus another couple of million to convert them to healer items. Kae's physical defence from her previous set had been 1814 - now with these items it was 1810. I had an item mall package that included ten chaos smelting stones available, so I downloaded that, and used eight chaos smelting stones to get the three lower pieces up to +12, which moved the physical defence on to 1969...and then was able to buy three extreme stones from a rogue called TradeMe for 4,999,999 each, to finish off the upgrading, making the physical defence total 2017.
Kaerella went out to the outdoor sphinx types as usual, though as she levels up, they start to give less experience. When she reached level 68, the experience from the elite sphinx speer man fell from 11.45 million, using an experience booster, to below 10 million. Elvastar, level 60, was in action now, fighting, I think, the arcane golems, including the elite one, to earn skill points, and I suggested that he ought to come and do a combat party with me at some point when he had to be afk anyway. I'd get more experience, and he'd get a little experience and some free skill exp.
After a while, Elva did ride up to where I was, and went afk just in the safe area there, and I must say it boosted my experience gain considerably - the elite went to giving at least 16 million on average, and the others increased their experience figures nicely too. The skill exp was hardly reduced at all, and it just shows how having someone a bit lower than the monsters can compensate for you yourself being higher than them.
So, I continued on rather longer than I'd planned, which meant that, using 90 experience boosters, Kae added 125.06% experience, and 173 skill points, as well as 2226 pet points. She did, however, spend 750 skill points on new levels of Greater Heal and Encourage, which came available when she reached level 68. While Elvastar was quietly sitting there, he reached level 61 - although he may only get around a sixth or a seventh as much experience per kill as the active party member, the sphinx types actually give almost eight times as much experience as the arcane golems to begin with, so my promise of "free skill points with just a little experience" wasn't entirely accurate
SirDarth was able to continue his pet-levelling, though there was what seemed to be a general disconnection, at least on Sarissa-4, at around 10:30pm, UK time, which meant that a few minutes were lost. Level 36 is a long one, but once it is ended, the horse will be able to be made into a level 37 mount, and Kaerella on Sarissa will be able to ride her pale blue horse, as on most other servers.
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