Many Levels

I did manage to get the rest of SirKit's armour set late last night, so that he is now wearing the full blue-named, five evasion sealed level 85/87 "Abyss" armour set. The three pieces he didn't already have cost 1.63 million, so my gold reserves are once again pretty low on the Cariae server...but two pieces are the full +15, two are +14, and one is +13, so he shouldn't have much trouble in the Tomb of Theos.

Over on Katar, Kaerella moved her recent loot across to MistressSabina, who at the moment is acting as my merchant character there. She then did her five spins of the LacaRette wheel - and got the top prize, only the second time I've managed that - fifteen gold tokens. So, that was enough tokens for five goes on the "gold course"...which got me 25 item drop boosters, 75 (three times 25) skill point boosters, and a platinum blessed iris. Those goodies were also moved across to MistressSabina; I'm not sure about Katar prices, but that's got to be at least 100 million's worth of items.

MistressDomino, who on Katar is a level 22 mage set up to farm skill points in Prokion Temple, with plenty of skill point boosters, platinum super skill pills, and even seven of the now almost impossible to find "platinum skill pills" or "platinum training spells", generally known as "the blue and white one", with a 50% skill exp bonus for an hour which does stack on top of the 200% extra from a pssp, also passed across most of her sales stock to MistressSabina - she had been doing the selling before, which was difficult, inventory-wise, to combine with actually playing.

MistressDomino then had a quick look at the armour available in Roy's merchant mart; she was wearing the "Dark" set already, but only at +3, or no plus at all on the Dark Tiara, so finding that QUEENofWARS was selling all five pieces at +4 for 300,000 gold each was too tempting, and she spent 1.5 million gold to buy this better set. It increases her physical defence from 464 to 492, which may not seem like much, but ought to make fighting in Prokion Temple a bit easier for her. There wasn't a better "event weapon" Rhine Order mage wand available than the +6 one she already has, however.

Over on Auzura-4, MistressDomina set out for the Tomb of Theos in good time for the eleven to twelve "dungeon time" hour - and, with the older computer back in action, my level 92 archer Kaerella was able to go along too, in a combat party. The Condition of the place was a bit marginal, I saw when I checked the bars before going in - but 70% seemed do-able, particularly with Kae along to provide some healing.

One of the two places in the first anubis spear man room was open, but I went a few yards further to the bend in the corridor, since that spot works well and is less likely to tempt anyone else to compete for its pair of spear men. MistressDomina began fighting the spear men - and Kaerella, equipping her drake rather than the polar bear cub, targeted the sphinx fighters that were just within range. A couple of times someone came from the main room to gather up all the nearby fighters, but Kae managed to keep busy; she did have to do a little healing sometimes.

Without using any pots or boosters, Kaerella added 7.20% and 993 pet points during the session. MistressDomina used 41 experience boosters during the hour, which shows that the Condition had slowed down her kill rate a little, and added 35.79%, taking her comfortably into level 96. Including the few kills before, and one after, she added 36.01% experience, and 1143 pet points; they each gained 2 skill points. And then it was time to log out for lunch.

I was back in good time to make use of the next boosted hour, from two to three - and to celebrate the return to dual-computer playing, I decided to try having both my cleric Kaerella and my royal knight SirKit on Cariae playing, as a combat party, in Cariae-4's Tomb of Theos, which, to my relief, was set to 100% easy.

They headed for the room with the ancient grey mummies, which may not give as much experience per kill as the anubis spear men, but are easier to handle. In fact I noticed that sometimes the experience per kill was as much as the spear men gave in a solo party, so the difference wasn't too much. When the hour of 50% extra experience gain began, SirKit started a platinum adrenaline and a large crit potion, plus a platinum blessed iris when the first ancient grey mummy was almost dead, and the first of 45 experience boosters... and Kaerella also began a "power hour", with all those and a berserker potion too, using the level 85 bow that Barbarienne had passed across.

Both Kit and Kae gained a lot more experience than I'd been expecting; Kaerella added 97.93% in all, including a kill or two before the hour, using 39 experience boosters, which was just enough to get her into level 92. As he was, at least at the beginning, three levels lower, SirKit did even better, and those 45 experience boosters gained him 281.06%, which meant he reached level 91. Kae's drake, SirFrancis, added 1234 pet points, and Kit's drake gained 1239; they each added 7 skill points.

Back in Randol, Kaerella was able to learn level nine of Fast Heal, for 550 skill points, bringing that skill's healing power up from 580 to 660 hp. Level ninety's passive skill for SirKit was level seven of Two Hand Control, increasing his attack by 28 for, again, 550 skill points. Kit has to pick and choose his skills carefully, but that one did seem worth getting.

After that there was time for MistressSabina to spend an hour in Maargadum Jail with the beast flyers, using a platinum super skill pill. RedRackham had gone first, heading for level five to do some pet-levelling - and when he saw that level three was free, Sabina quickly followed, forming a solo party. The hour there was pretty hectic, rather harder work that Kaerella and SirKit's outing, but it gained MistressSabina 140 skill points, 4.83% experience, and 1011 pet points.

RedRackham was able to have quite a substantial session, continuing through the food break and beyond, so that his drake got comfortably into level 40 without any problems. As often happens on a Tuesday, my break was a lengthy one, but finally there was time to play again - so this time MistressDomina headed for the Tomb on Auzura-5, and, once she'd found that the Condition had improved to over 90%, MistressBlaze joined her there. If the Tomb had still been a bit dodgy, Kaerella would have been in the party, to supply some healing when needed - but this seemed like a good opportunity to move MistressBlaze along a bit.

There were some familiar names at the start, and gradually MistressDomina acquired her own group of assistants, not just MistressBlaze. MD of course didn't add much over the course of the evening, but by the time she left she was up 1.79%, 11 skill points, and 1662 pet points. MistressBlaze, helped along by the eight to nine o'clock dungeon time hour and the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, went up by 124.43%, and gained 1121 pet points. As she was near the top of level 57 at the start, MB reached level 59 before the end of the session.

There were at least a couple of people who sometimes lured groups of infected grey mummies and screaming zombies onto the lower-levels in the starting corridor, so I had to be careful to have MistressBlaze run right back when any such mob approached, and keep an eye on the health of MistressDomina's drake. But we survived. MistressBlaze can now learn the sixth level of Freeze Arrow, which came available when she reached 58...but her skill point stash is a bit limited, so I'll need to do some advance planning before I commit 302 skill points there. As the skill includes a "debuff", it isn't really suitable for the Tomb, anyway.

So, MistressDomina, MistressBlaze, Kaerella on Cariae, and SirKit all levelled up today, which can't be bad.