MistressDomina had actually sold out of item drop boosters last night, but I had a reserve of them, 150 which for some reason hadn't joined the others in a single stack, to put up this morning - so MD's morning offerings were the same as yesterday evening's. It was a relatively quiet time, but she made a few useful sales.
I nearly made a costly mistake today, after checking the Last Chaos news page and finding a "Lootwheel Rebate" announcement. The prizes coming from the wheel have been improved, it seemed, to reflect lower item mall prices, and, to celebrate, "every five (5) spins will get you a '100% rebate' - and that's not all, this is unlimited." We have had a day of 100% rebates on loot wheel spins before, where every aeria point you spent was returned to you after a week or so, so I was ready to get lots of freebie stuff... but looking more closely, it seems that what they actually mean is that for every five spins you make, you will get a rebate for one spin - so, it is really just a 20% rebate.
The poor phrasing of the offer did get discussed in the shoutbox, and Giovanna_X commented that it would probably be the poor gamesages who ended up getting yelled at. I hope one or two people who were following the shoutbox then were tipped off not to spend all their aeria points and expect to get them back.
It has been a while since my level 34 specialist sorcerer JohnWellington had an outing, but for the morning session he logged in on Auzura-5, got his Elizabuff, and went to Merac to see if any quests were available - so he ended up killing twenty berserkers. Moving on to Dratan, he teleported to Prokion Temple, but before going in, headed to the nearby salamanders, since he was still one salamander tail short, for that particular quest...and the very first salamander he killed dropped the one he needed.
After that he moved into the temple, which was rather busy. The back room and corridor room were in use, so, in his knight form, he glided along into the mirror half, and ended up with the orc axemen and sergeants in a couple of small rooms there...except when a nearby rogue, lastgaylord, decided to ks while passing through, a time or two. Since the +10 armour, along with Stone Skin self-buff, give him ample physical defence, the knight form doesn't seem hugely useful there. As far as I could see the demon form, with its higher magical attack, killed more quickly, and while that was recharging, just the regular form seemed to hit harder than the knight did.
By the end of the morning, JohnWellington had earned 5.96%, 110 skill points, no more than 23 pet points from the outdoor adventures, and 56 guild points for the local branch of Discipline. He is still rather low on skill points, though, so if I do want to take him further, as my only active sorcerer, he'll need to solo-farm in Prokion for a while yet.
MistressDomina, meanwhile, had had a pretty busy morning, which continued over the lunch break, with the restock of item drop boosters selling, and someone taking a hundred chaos balls, as well as some other minor sales. This encouraged me to look in Roy's merchant mart to see if the level 85 dual swords, g5e, and +15, I'd seen yesterday being offered for 400 million were still there - and I found identical Hero' Blue Dawn Dual Swords +15 being sold by xDriv3rx for just 319 million. As previously mentioned, green-named weapons don't hit as hard as blue-named ones, but they have the advantage of a better hit rate - the five bloodseals here give 15 to attack (5 all types of physical, 6 close range, and 4 all kinds of attack) and 187 to hit rate (112 close range physical and 75 all kinds of hit rate), which is rather useful. So, Kit is set up for his future, weapon-wise.
Over on Katar-5, my archer Kaerella had a couple of quests to do, though she doesn't want to start collecting her rewards until she has finished her skill point farming. The gnolls and their red toenails were easy enough to get - the other quest involved getting "necklaces of magic power" from blood frenzies, which was easy enough, and "power necklaces" from doom slayers...who are a bit harder to find, and always have been dangerous critters, with a rather strong magic attack. Still, with a little help from her horse buffs, Kaerella survived her encounter with a group of doom slayers, and quickly returned to Merac village. From there she transferred to Dratan - and teleported out to Prokion Temple.
The back room of Prokion Temple that I check first was free, so Kaerella was able to settle in there; the rogue lOrD did turn up, and stayed standing in the room for a few minutes, but didn't try to fight at all, and finally left. Kae managed to get into a solo party almost at once; the skill exp was a lot better than in yesterday's precedence-type party, and by the end of the afternoon Kaerella had gone up another 5.38%, plus 63 guild points and just 35 pet points with the gnolls...along with a useful 219 skill points.
During the evening a "Turbo" event was due, which sounds rather exciting, but it was just a "happy hour" type deal, with 50% extra experience and skill exp. It actually started a bit earlier than expected, but I'd already logged in as my level 41 witch MistressSabina on Auzura-5, and was fighting the dire spike canines, plus the non-dire ones and the two-headed types, on the second level of Margadum Jail. With the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff the dire spike canines, being Sabina's level, gave her 2,200 skill exp...which when the event started went up to 2750, since the extra 50% was based on the regular 1,100 before the Elizabuff was put on.
It was a quite lengthy session, and MistressSabina managed to add 29.82%, which got her to the halfway point in her level, plus 2207 pet points and 144 skill points. Sabina is my only witch; she has a reasonable supply of skill points, including all her special skills, so is better off than, for example, SirKit, though it's not as great a number as my Auzura-based wizard MistressDomina still has. Still, she's probably aiming, in the long term, only at level 87 or so, which ought to mean she has all she needs.
There were other people around in Maargadum Jail, the ground floor seemed busy as I ran in, and there were a few people on level two as well. Towards the end I seemed almost to be being shadowed by a rogue called UranusQueen, who was sharing the same room, and left it to attack the three dire spike canines outside it every time I had that idea. But the time for logging out was approaching, and the game seemed to be getting a bit laggy, so I bade farewell to my comrades in the solo party, and logged out.
Over on Cariae-4, MistressDomina had kept selling my stocks of goodies; the moonstone boxes, heaven stones, large attack potions, and large defence potions all sold out, followed by, late in the evening, the last of the latest crop of item drop boosters, which meant that lashing out 319 million on those dual swords for SirKit was a minor hiccup. She even sold a few health stealers, lucky spell books, damage boosters, chaos balls, and runes of protection I. The price I was charging must be about right, for them to move relatively slowly - if something sells out within seconds of a selling session starting, the chances are that the price was a bit too low.
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