Ten Levels

The overnight selling ended prematurely when MistressDomina on Cariae got disconnected, but she'd sold quite a lot of stuff by then, nicely boosting my gold reserves on that server. Sadly, I couldn't find any good +15 armour pieces for either Keerella or Barbarienne, and drew a blank on Auzura looking for rogue gloves and jacket too, but we are poised to pounce when something useful does turn up.

SirDarth did a little pet-levelling from breakfast time until coffee, but then my level 71 archer Kaerella logged in on Auzura-4, borrowed one of Rage's "Eyes of Spirit" accessories, and headed for the Tomb of Theos. Checking the Tomb's "condition", I found it was close to the Easy end, perhaps 5% away from it - which seemed good to me. So, my level 65 wizard-mage, MistressDomina (not to be confused with merchant characters on other servers) logged in on the older computer, teleported to the Tomb's entrance, made an equal party with Kae... and they both entered.

Kaerella used the 24-hour Platinum Refining Stones to get her armour set up to +15 temporarily, making her physical defence stat 2522, and then, with Kae using the usual four pots - power, berserker, platinum adrenaline, and crit - plus a platinum blessed iris, and MD using a pbi too, Kae attacked her first Screaming Zombie of the session.

The upgraded armour was a great success, and, helped slightly by a 5% suction of life accessory, I almost never had to use Self Heal. I managed two "power hours" before lunch; a level 68 temple knight from Italy, DARKNIGHT85, joined up with us in a party, and I suppose Kae's speedy kills, thanks to those potions, compensated for MistressDomina's slightly lower contribution to the killing. MD did fight, and towards the end equipped her drake, but without pots, and with a lower level weapon, probably did less than a quarter as much damage as Kae.

DARKNIGHT85 was using a three-hour blessed iris, so kept going over my lunch break; Kae and MD stayed in the party with him, but Kae converted the party to the combat type, so that we gave him a slight boost, experience-wise, and got a little for ourselves too.

After a third power hour, MistressDomina had gone up in all 274.79%, and so was well along in level 67. Nobody got any skill points today, but MD did get 532 pet points for her drake. By then Kaerella had gone up 190.56%, and had reached level 73, and got 2788 pet points for SirFrancis. A sorcerer called prem did get our name-tags mixed up and asked "SirFrancis, are you from India?" - to which I could only reply that SirFrancis was my drake, and was "local"...

MistressDomina logged out then; later she was able to spend 350 skill points on level 7 of the Fear skill, not one she uses often, or indeed at all, now that I come to think about it. Still, she does have plenty of sp, so may as well keep all her skills maxxed. Reaching level 67 means she can wear the 70/72 armour set, and so is eager for Rage to get replacements for the last parts of that set she is still wearing.

MrChuckNorris, my level 63 warmaster titan, logged in, and joined Kaerella, for his turn to be levelled up a bit. This we did, with an equal party and both he and Kae using pbis, for four "power hours", two before the early evening food break and two after. Those two-hour sessions gave him 243.86%, taking him nicely into level 65, and 195.40%, which got him too into level 67 - his drake added 1109 and 1101 pet points, enough to get it into level 38. he stayed around for a further two hours, but this time not fighting, just supplying his pair off useful buffs for Kaerella, and got another 18.36% from that.

Back in Randol later MrChuckNorris was able to learn level 3 of the passive skill Focus Mastery 2 ("increases attack hit permanently") for 208 sp, which actually increases his hit rate by 40 - so that is useful.

Kaerella herself went up 119.77% in the first two hours, to reach level 74, and a further 104.79%, to reach level 75, in the second two hours. And then it was time for some serious levelling - with the party now in combat mode, I moved the experience boosters onto her skills bar, and began a new power hour. In all 141 XPBs were used, and Kaerella went up by 329.65%, plus 1007 pet points, reaching level 78. There was just time for another hour of that, and the Tomb was fairly quiet, so on I went, this time using just 120 XPBs while adding 227.28%, along with 961 pet points... and just reaching level 81 before the pots ran out. So, ten levels in a day - not bad!

Kaerella had rather more skills to learn than either Chuck or MD. They were all passive ones; Rise Focus 2 level 2 increased her hit rate, for 190 sp; Deadly Shot 2 for 290 sp increased her rate of deadly hits; Vital Spot Blow 2 level 2 increased her rate of critical hits, for 250 sp; Survival Training level 6 increased her physical defence, for 225 sp; and Enchant Arrow level 6 increased her attack, for 380 sp. So, Kae is now a rather better fighter all round.

DARKNIGHT85 had returned just before my early evening food break, so we were able to give him that combat party boost while I was downstairs. He levelled up twice, thanks to his blessed irises. Generally we didn't have any trouble, there was just one incident when he got three screaming zombies on him, and when I supplied some emergency healing they attacked me too - he ended up with pretty low health having to run for it, and my health got a bit low, for the only time today, too. I wondered if the Tomb had been reset at a harder level, and urged him to be careful, but things went back to normal after that. He often had two zombies on him at once without losing much health, but things got a bit hectic that one time.

While MistressDomina was still playing, the cleric drmom was there, on the first of three visits. "Oh no, how come every time you need your husband to kill a spider he isn't home?" "A law of nature", I commented. "Put a cup over it, save it for him till later, lol", LEVIATHAN said. "Here darling, I saved a cup of spider for you..." was my next contribution, and a little later "Probably one of Baal's cousins." "Lmao, I wouldn't be surprised, lol, we get some big weird hairy ones where I live", drmom said, and I added "spiders too"...

A rogue called xXbingbangXx joined the combat party when she and I were level 78, but she didn't stay long - her armour can't have been very good, she took a lot of damage fighting a single screaming zombie. Still, you can't fault her ambition, when she left the party it was because she wanted to go and fight the anubis spear men further into the Tomb, a few levels higher than the screamies, and, as boss-types, a lot harder to kill.

Today, strangely enough, Auzura did lead off the rota for the event, as advertised, the "dungeon run" - I couldn't go to it, as my pots and pbi still had 20 minutes or so left, and I get the impression that other people were taken by surprise, or just plain not able to go there. After the 15 and 5 minute warnings, the next GM message said "Attention! Maargadum Jail event is about to start!! I'm serious", and that was followed by a stern "A5. be there. Now." I hope some people were able to go, as putting Auzura first ought to be encouraged.

So, the day went pretty much as planned, and Kaerella is now within range of Rage, for an equal party. So it looks as if it may not be very long before I have to start looking for a good 85/87 armour set for a healer...these things get expensive...