My usual crew put in their attendance half hours before coffee; some mining was involved, mainly by the second three - and by SirGalahad, who tends to come along last. Gal actually used 30 tool aids and 30 pick axes, to mine a good quantity of quality stones, which he then traded across to CaptainScarlet - who of course headed for Maargadum Jail on Auzura-4 for some serious pet-levelling.
Over on Cariae, Kaerella headed for the Tomb, and found it at an acceptable 80%, so she and Barbarienne went in, and headed for the ancient grey mummies. There was a night shadow there when I arrived, but we soon scared him off...or at least, he left us to it.
The morning session just added 0.88%, 16 skill points and 1784 pet points for Kaerella, and 0.74% plus 15 skill points for Barbarienne; to stop Barb from levelling up too soon I'd put her experience gain on to a 50% freeze, which was easy to do as she is currently the guild master of Norcaine on Cariae.
I was fairly active in the forum shoutbox today, including telling FogDew about "Last of the Summer Wine" and Foggy Dewhurst, since his name always reminds me of that character. He actually paid me a visit in the Tomb, as the temple knight SirGwainne.
A little later the sorcerer XxAvatarAptxX arrived, followed before too long by NaOmi, and they played for most of the rest of the day, though NaOmi left at about nine, to be replaced a little later by another Maurawan member, the mage cosma. Neither Avatar nor NaOmi really still need skill points, they just find the ancient grey mummies fun to hang out with apparently...Avatar is 103, and NaOmi is level 110 now.
During the afternoon session, Kaerella added another 1.77%, 36 skill points, and 3376 pet points - and Barbarienne gained 1.41%, and 34 skill points. She had the polar bear cub equipped, which meant she got a number of drops, including armour pieces and heaven stones.
Zenderfly got in touch a bit earlier than expected to trade items from Itura and Damor across to HeavenKnight; I was just thinking that I ought to log CaptainScarlet out for a rest, so that fitted in rather neatly. My level 92 royal knight SirKit logged in on Cariae-6, and did the trade for Zen; some of her items "stacked" with things he was already carrying, so I'm not sure she got all the health or mana potions she gave Kit, but she certainly got the main items. He then moved across to Cariae-4, and headed for the Tomb, to make his own visit to Kae and Barb... with the drops they'd been getting, their inventories were just about full, so they both traded their armour drops across to him, and he then logged out.
That was more convenient than Kaerella or Barbarienne going back to town - and cheaper too, as admission to the Tomb is normally 3,000 gold per level, and SirKit is eight levels lower than Kae. After that, I closed and then restarted the game on the old computer, and then CaptainScarlet was able to go back to his death mask lancer in Maargadum Jail.
As usual the evening session was the longest; we were scheduled to have a couple of hours of double skill exp starting from six o'clock, which was one reason for me wanting to be playing Kaerella and Barbarienne at that time. As usual, the GMs hadn't set their alarm clock, but we managed to get the message through, and the double skill exp started just after 6:20, UK time. Luckily, it kept going until ten, when my duo finally logged out.
The evening session had let Kaerella earn a further 2.71%, 97 skill points and 4819 pet points; Barbarienne was up by 2.13%, and 89 skill points. Our polar bear cub had done well, too, going up from level 17 to 21.
I thought that was my lot, but just as I was about to log off, MexiGer, who I'd been chatting with in the shoutbox, and who had been busy all day getting the game downloaded and sorted out, with the help of andaro and others, managed to get the game working properly at last. He wanted to get one character power-levelled in the guardian system, to get the +15 weapons, so Keerella recruited him as an apprentice, went out to the Tomb entrance, and used her last summon book to get him there. Kee fought enough screaming zombies to get him to level 25 - 31 would have been ideal, for the +10 armour set, but there are limits to how late I can stay awake! He plans to farm skill points on a different knight, GerMex, so he was invited to join the Discipline guild on that character by Kaerella, and had his experience gain half-frozen.
By the time all that was sorted out, it was pretty late... but CaptainScarlet had faithfully kept working, so that his drake was more than 40% of the way through level 48 by then.
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
A Quiet Evening
Yet again, there was no new patch at all for Last Chaos last night. "We hope to have our big release very soon", they say, beneath a headline saying "Almost There". The bug fixes supplied by the developers "appear to be working", so we ought to get them at the same time as the new content. Xuse2005 even supplied a small screenshot of a verdant new "dungeon", to whet our appetites. No updates to the item mall are reported. As someone called zeniam in the forum shoutbox commented, "Wow, still no web mall, it takes, what, 3-4 weeks, and still no fix? The idiots should be sacked, I guess it's time to go to a new game..."
My characters went out for their attendance half hours, anyway; Auzura's Kaerella went to the Tomb entrance, and found, to no great surprise, that the place was still on maximum hard. Once there was room, CaptainScarlet headed for the fifth floor of Maargadum Jail again, and continued with his pet-levelling. As I had some work to do, I logged RedRackham in over on Cariae, and he went to do a little pet-levelling on his level 37 drake as well. And then, once SirGalahad had finished his half hour, Auzura's RedRackham took his level 31 pale blue horse down there too.
RedRackham on Cariae got an "error report" crash, and that meant that, with Red in-game not attacking the death mask soldier, the monster turned its attention to his drake, and got its health down to 51% before the game finally disconnected. Still, it didn't take long to get Red back in action, this time being careful to choose the less aggressive type, a lancer, and around an hour later the drake reached level 38, automatically regaining full health. Over on Auzura. Red's horse had also levelled up by then, reaching 32. CaptainScarlet, meanwhile, had got his drake past the two-thirds mark in level 47.
RedRackham, on the new computer, got another crash of the game, and so I followed prompts to install new AMD drivers for the graphics card. This of course meant that the computer restarted and reported that it had no drivers at all for the card, so I installed the new drivers again... which left me with no option for the proper wide-screen resolution, and no "aero" type window edges etc. Installing some new windows updates was the next thing I was led into, which led to a new restart - it was just as well that my Auzura pet-levellers were keeping busy on the other two screens. For a miracle, the restart got me back to the right screen resolution, and the semi-transparent window edges. And by then it was time for the early evening food break.
RedRackham on Auzura had got his horse about 60% of the way through level 32 when he finally logged out - to allow Barbarienne to join Kaerella in the Cariae-4 Tomb of Theos, which was on 80% at the time.
The evening session proceeded much like yesterday's session, though it wasn't as long. Our old companion NaOmi, the archer, turned up before long; she was fighting alongside a couple of her guildies, a sorcerer and a mage, so Barb and Kae mainly fought in the corridor for the first hour or so. Later on the sorcerer Nhyrium was around... but there weren't really any exciting happenings to record. The evening's event was a "Turbo" thing, which turned out to be 50% extra experience. It continued beyond the two hours into the eight to nine o'clock dungeon time hour, and the bonus did "stack", so that each kill brought in about 58 to 68 million experience then.
Barbarienne equipped the polar bear cub, which generally belongs to Kaerella, and the little guy added 162.13%, reaching level 17. He attacked Barb's targets, but missed most of the time, occasionally hitting for just "1" - but he was useful, as Barb picked up three pieces of armour, two heaven stones, and some minor loot, items which she wouldn't usually get from a monster seven levels below her.
By the end of the evening, Kaerella had added 3.58%, 43 skill points, and 3860 pet points, while Barbarienne had earned 5.81% and 41 skill points. And at about the time they finished, CaptainScarlet over on Auzura got the drake he is working on, SirFrancis, safely into level 48. The new level will take about 37 hours to work through, I see...
My characters went out for their attendance half hours, anyway; Auzura's Kaerella went to the Tomb entrance, and found, to no great surprise, that the place was still on maximum hard. Once there was room, CaptainScarlet headed for the fifth floor of Maargadum Jail again, and continued with his pet-levelling. As I had some work to do, I logged RedRackham in over on Cariae, and he went to do a little pet-levelling on his level 37 drake as well. And then, once SirGalahad had finished his half hour, Auzura's RedRackham took his level 31 pale blue horse down there too.
RedRackham on Cariae got an "error report" crash, and that meant that, with Red in-game not attacking the death mask soldier, the monster turned its attention to his drake, and got its health down to 51% before the game finally disconnected. Still, it didn't take long to get Red back in action, this time being careful to choose the less aggressive type, a lancer, and around an hour later the drake reached level 38, automatically regaining full health. Over on Auzura. Red's horse had also levelled up by then, reaching 32. CaptainScarlet, meanwhile, had got his drake past the two-thirds mark in level 47.
RedRackham, on the new computer, got another crash of the game, and so I followed prompts to install new AMD drivers for the graphics card. This of course meant that the computer restarted and reported that it had no drivers at all for the card, so I installed the new drivers again... which left me with no option for the proper wide-screen resolution, and no "aero" type window edges etc. Installing some new windows updates was the next thing I was led into, which led to a new restart - it was just as well that my Auzura pet-levellers were keeping busy on the other two screens. For a miracle, the restart got me back to the right screen resolution, and the semi-transparent window edges. And by then it was time for the early evening food break.
RedRackham on Auzura had got his horse about 60% of the way through level 32 when he finally logged out - to allow Barbarienne to join Kaerella in the Cariae-4 Tomb of Theos, which was on 80% at the time.
The evening session proceeded much like yesterday's session, though it wasn't as long. Our old companion NaOmi, the archer, turned up before long; she was fighting alongside a couple of her guildies, a sorcerer and a mage, so Barb and Kae mainly fought in the corridor for the first hour or so. Later on the sorcerer Nhyrium was around... but there weren't really any exciting happenings to record. The evening's event was a "Turbo" thing, which turned out to be 50% extra experience. It continued beyond the two hours into the eight to nine o'clock dungeon time hour, and the bonus did "stack", so that each kill brought in about 58 to 68 million experience then.
Barbarienne equipped the polar bear cub, which generally belongs to Kaerella, and the little guy added 162.13%, reaching level 17. He attacked Barb's targets, but missed most of the time, occasionally hitting for just "1" - but he was useful, as Barb picked up three pieces of armour, two heaven stones, and some minor loot, items which she wouldn't usually get from a monster seven levels below her.
By the end of the evening, Kaerella had added 3.58%, 43 skill points, and 3860 pet points, while Barbarienne had earned 5.81% and 41 skill points. And at about the time they finished, CaptainScarlet over on Auzura got the drake he is working on, SirFrancis, safely into level 48. The new level will take about 37 hours to work through, I see...
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
A Change of Tomb
As had been suspected, the condition of the Tomb of Theos on Auzura was right down to maximum hard this morning, when MistressDomina checked. MD's western "widowmaker" costume had run out, too; such covers are only supposed to last thirty days, if MD doesn't have any pressing social engagements this week I guess I can wait a little while before buying a new one.
My usual seven characters did their attendance half hours in the morning, anyway, and then Barbarienne checked out what the Tomb was like over on the Cariae server; luckily, it was at a comparatively mild 90%, though it did fall to 80% by the time my cleric Kaerella was able to join her.
There was no point in having a third character with Barbarienne and Kaerella, as that would just have diluted their skill point gain, so I was able, back over on Auzura, to send CaptainScarlet down to the fifth floor of Maargadum Jail, to work on his current drake - so he had a good long session, getting SirFrancis past the halfway mark in level 47 by mid-evening.
The sorcerer Nhyrium was in the room when I arrived, but not actually fighting, though his pet panther was equipped. Before long the level 103 rogue Rebelcat was fighting there too, mainly in the corridor next to the room; she told me that she was actually a ranger, though she was using daggers. We chatted off and on, and Kae made sure to give her the Encourage buff as well as Barb. I wondered how a cat got along in a guild called BRITISHxBULLDOGS, but of course cats are better than bulldogs at climbing trees. "I shall have to reward you for your buffs, lol", she said... and to my surprise she insisted, when she finally left early in the evening "to go beta testing a new character in another game", on giving Kae a platinum adrenaline - and she gave Barb one too, which was very generous.
Kaerella just added 0.83% experience in the morning's hour or so, plus 26 skill points and 1489 pet points, while Barbarienne earned 1.49% and 25 skill points. Somehow, one recent day's attendance didn't register for Barb, so she is just on a 3% skill exp bonus at the moment. The afternoon session was more of the same, and saw Kaerella add another 1.70%, 63 skill points and 3235 pet points, with Barbarienne getting 2.93% and 60 skill points. Barb did actually equip SkrappY for a while, so my "Scra-Chi" type cat-pet added a few percent in level 54.
Nhyrium had another fairly short session with us, but otherwise the ancient grey mummies room was pretty quiet. Zenderfly got in touch; she was with the wood ghosts in Strayana, farming skill exp, experience, and useful drops. We agreed how useless the "kill 50 of" quests are, and made a date to meet up on Thursday at 7:00pm, mainly to help her move things between accounts. She mentioned that the German Last Chaos now has some guild skills operational: "not overwhelming, but useful." There is actually a thread about that in the forum - it looks as if guilds need to be about level 40 to benefit, which is a bit out of my range for Discipline...
The evening session continued Kaerella and Barbarienne's fighting with the ancient grey mummies. Kae did actually get up to a red ignition run, for extra skill exp, which gave her an extra 5 skill points; in all during the evening she went up by another 2.93% and 64 skill points, plus 4744 pet points, while Barbarienne earned 4.56% and 55 more skill points.
So, today Barbarienne moved from 47.75% of the skill points needed for her level 112 skill (level six of Rise Focus 2, adding 44 to her long-range physical hit rate) to 56.5%, which has to be a step in the right direction - 140 skill points in all. Another five such full-time days would get her there, and into level 111 at least.
My duo logged out at around the same time as Zenderfly, when she'd finished her three-hour blessed iris. I had one more thing to do, and that was to use up my supply of lotus seeds by attempting to make some more moon cakes, on the assumption that that particular event must end with tonight's maintenance. Once Kaerella had moved across her recent loot (and Barb's) to my merchant mage on Cariae, she just had three lotus seeds, and only managed to get one cake from Lorraine successfully - but over on Auzura, after getting loot from MistressSabina and Rage, MistressDomino had better luck, getting 15 out of 19 successfully made cakes... and SirGalahad was able to get a cake from his single lotus seed, too.
Will there be the long-awaited "new content" in the post-maintenance patch tomorrow morning? Will the Christmas event start, or will that wait for another week? Only time will tell! The last character of mine to log out was CaptainScarlet, after his marathon pet-levelling session; by the end of the evening, the drake SirFrancis had just passed the 60% mark in level 47, so he made good progress today.
My usual seven characters did their attendance half hours in the morning, anyway, and then Barbarienne checked out what the Tomb was like over on the Cariae server; luckily, it was at a comparatively mild 90%, though it did fall to 80% by the time my cleric Kaerella was able to join her.
There was no point in having a third character with Barbarienne and Kaerella, as that would just have diluted their skill point gain, so I was able, back over on Auzura, to send CaptainScarlet down to the fifth floor of Maargadum Jail, to work on his current drake - so he had a good long session, getting SirFrancis past the halfway mark in level 47 by mid-evening.
The sorcerer Nhyrium was in the room when I arrived, but not actually fighting, though his pet panther was equipped. Before long the level 103 rogue Rebelcat was fighting there too, mainly in the corridor next to the room; she told me that she was actually a ranger, though she was using daggers. We chatted off and on, and Kae made sure to give her the Encourage buff as well as Barb. I wondered how a cat got along in a guild called BRITISHxBULLDOGS, but of course cats are better than bulldogs at climbing trees. "I shall have to reward you for your buffs, lol", she said... and to my surprise she insisted, when she finally left early in the evening "to go beta testing a new character in another game", on giving Kae a platinum adrenaline - and she gave Barb one too, which was very generous.
Kaerella just added 0.83% experience in the morning's hour or so, plus 26 skill points and 1489 pet points, while Barbarienne earned 1.49% and 25 skill points. Somehow, one recent day's attendance didn't register for Barb, so she is just on a 3% skill exp bonus at the moment. The afternoon session was more of the same, and saw Kaerella add another 1.70%, 63 skill points and 3235 pet points, with Barbarienne getting 2.93% and 60 skill points. Barb did actually equip SkrappY for a while, so my "Scra-Chi" type cat-pet added a few percent in level 54.
Nhyrium had another fairly short session with us, but otherwise the ancient grey mummies room was pretty quiet. Zenderfly got in touch; she was with the wood ghosts in Strayana, farming skill exp, experience, and useful drops. We agreed how useless the "kill 50 of" quests are, and made a date to meet up on Thursday at 7:00pm, mainly to help her move things between accounts. She mentioned that the German Last Chaos now has some guild skills operational: "not overwhelming, but useful." There is actually a thread about that in the forum - it looks as if guilds need to be about level 40 to benefit, which is a bit out of my range for Discipline...
The evening session continued Kaerella and Barbarienne's fighting with the ancient grey mummies. Kae did actually get up to a red ignition run, for extra skill exp, which gave her an extra 5 skill points; in all during the evening she went up by another 2.93% and 64 skill points, plus 4744 pet points, while Barbarienne earned 4.56% and 55 more skill points.
So, today Barbarienne moved from 47.75% of the skill points needed for her level 112 skill (level six of Rise Focus 2, adding 44 to her long-range physical hit rate) to 56.5%, which has to be a step in the right direction - 140 skill points in all. Another five such full-time days would get her there, and into level 111 at least.
My duo logged out at around the same time as Zenderfly, when she'd finished her three-hour blessed iris. I had one more thing to do, and that was to use up my supply of lotus seeds by attempting to make some more moon cakes, on the assumption that that particular event must end with tonight's maintenance. Once Kaerella had moved across her recent loot (and Barb's) to my merchant mage on Cariae, she just had three lotus seeds, and only managed to get one cake from Lorraine successfully - but over on Auzura, after getting loot from MistressSabina and Rage, MistressDomino had better luck, getting 15 out of 19 successfully made cakes... and SirGalahad was able to get a cake from his single lotus seed, too.
Will there be the long-awaited "new content" in the post-maintenance patch tomorrow morning? Will the Christmas event start, or will that wait for another week? Only time will tell! The last character of mine to log out was CaptainScarlet, after his marathon pet-levelling session; by the end of the evening, the drake SirFrancis had just passed the 60% mark in level 47, so he made good progress today.
Monday, 13 December 2010
Disconnections and a Cancellation
Auzura suffered another disconnection soon after ten this morning, while my second group of characters were doing their attendance; it was the more serious kind where for a few minutes you get the "account is already logged in" message when you try to get back online, but luckily things did settle down after that. This seems to be the time when the servers do their daily full back-ups, so it can often be a bit tricky - thank goodness that it's earlier than it used to be, having it just as a dungeon time hour was starting would be really annoying.
Anyway, my trio logged back in and completed their times, and then SirGalahad logged on to complete the set. While he was mining, Rage moved over to the main computer and checked out the Condition of the Tomb of Theos; it was on 80%, and while a guildie did try to find a guild master or guild adviser for the castle-holding guild, none were available, so it stayed that way.
Still, I decided that that was just about do-able, so Kaerella and MrChuckNorris joined Rage, once SirGalahad had finished his time, and the three of them went in, and headed for the anubis spear men. After that relatively recent disconnection the place was quiet, and the corner I tend to aim for was suitably vacant when my trio got there.
The Tomb's condition meant that the spear men hit harder, but that wasn't a problem, as the 10% suction of life accessory easily handled any damage Rage took; however, it also meant that Rage didn't hit them as hard - a critical hit did around 6650 damage, while at 100% easy she'd do 7290. So, she only killed 45 anubis spear men in the eleven to twelve o'clock dt power hour, using an experience booster each time, earning just 32.44% in level 97, plus 3 skill points.
Luckily by two o'clock the Tomb had been set - though I was warned on the guild chat channel that this may be a one-off, the castle owning guild may go "on strike" due to the continuing ban on GoksReturn, who was, apparently, one of the victims of whoever was making incriminating screenshots on a different server using the names of various high-level players - having "them" admit to hacking, offering to sell accounts, or otherwise confessing to bannable offences. I suppose it is human nature that the GMs don't want to admit that they have been made to look like fools over this, but my sympathy is with the victims.
So, the two to three o'clock dungeon time power hour was back on track, and soon got Rage into level 98; in all she used 53 experience boosters, and went up by 32.93%... the new level is longer than the old one. Rage also added 4 skill points. Rage continued for another hour, though Kaerella just stood next to Chuck for almost all that time. A wizard called Cat5 kindly gave my trio the haste and chakra shield buffs as she passed; she did mention the blog, in fact, but had moved on by the time I responded.
It was shortly after that that Rage got disconnected, though Kaerella and Chuck survived. Rage hurried back, and continued to fight the spear men for a few more minutes - but then, just after four o'clock, UK time, all three of them were disconnected.
Back in Randol, Rage was able to learn the sixth and final level of Controlled Shooting for 1000 skill points, which increases her attack for 60 seconds, though it decreases her defence and stops her from moving. It's not a skill she had ever actually used, but I decided that it might come in handy...
My trio went back in in good time for the five to six o'clock dungeon time hour, and once it began, Rage did try using Controlled Shooting as much as possible, though she couldn't keep it on all the time as sometimes she needed to be able to move forward to get the nearby third spear man. Almost 600 less physical defence didn't seem a problem, her armour was still good enough, coupled with that suction of life accessory - and getting on for 600 more physical attack raised her critical hit by almost 2300, from around 7290 to 9570.
Using Controlled Shooting as much as I could meant that during that hour Rage used 60 experience boosters, so that was roughly 15% better than usual; she gained 37.98% experience, and 6 skill points. Rage logged out after that; her whole session had earned her 107.02% experience, a mere 17 skill points, and 6603 pet points.
At six o'clock UK time on Auzura our one GM-hosted event of the week was scheduled: a high-level mad monster spawn, to which I intended to take Rage. However, it looks as if the GMs are a bit overwhelmed at present, and without any announcement, at the last minute it was all cancelled, to be replaced just with a "Turbo" event, with "mysterious XP and/or SP changes", which is a bit weak, and a great disappointment for those of us who like to go along to such community events.
Kaerella and Chuck stayed on in the Tomb; Chuck's old computer was already a bit "sticky", but he managed to tag on to Kae for a run across to the ancient grey mummies room, since Kaerella is more interested in skill exp than the regular experience at the moment. That earlier disconnection meant that Kaerella couldn't manage a red Ignition run until near the end of the session, but it looked as if the "Turbo" had at least increased the skill exp for a while. Cat5 was in a corridor as Kae and Chuck ran along, and joined us in the ancient grey mummies room, kindly giving Kaerella a level 97 y3 bow she'd identified... she insisted that I should keep it and could sell it.
From the guild chat I'd heard earlier, I had thought SacSalop, MzTickle1 and some others were planning a combat party in the final room of the Tomb, where the sphinx commanders hang out, so MistressDomina logged on about a quarter of an hour before the eight to nine dungeon time hour. There was, however, no sign of such a grouping, so MD ended up helping the level 111 temple knight Dropkick, by giving him a combat party in Floriam's Cave. He had recall, so I just specified a "safe but legal" spot, and he teleported me in, to some strange little sub-cave, where MD was able to just sit within range, and get the occasional five million or so experience. With his pbi and boosters, Dropkick was apparently getting around 380 million, for each level 132 Morakes he killed. Luda came along towards the end of the hour, and actually did some fight-and-recall assistance for Dropkick... though afterwards, she did seem set on trying to act as "cupid" for MD and Dropkick, which was a little off-putting.
That trip for MistressDomina just added 0.19% experience - but Kaerella, backed up by Chuck, had kept busy, and had actually reached level 102 - so I need to shop around for the archers' skill book for that level. By the time she and Chuck logged out, Kaerella had added a total for the day of 8.65%, plus 55 skill points and 5943 pet points, while Chuck himself had got 4.07% and 49 skill points.
RedRackham had logged in when MistressDomina logged out, and was able to give his pale blue horse an hour or so's levelling in Maargadum Jail; on the way there Red got the horse the last two levels of armour increase, since it has now reached level 31. By the end of the evening, the horse had passed the halfway mark in that level. Once Chuck had logged out, CaptainScarlet was able to head for the Jail too - but today SirFrancis would have got more pet points if he had been with Kaerella, for sure.
Anyway, my trio logged back in and completed their times, and then SirGalahad logged on to complete the set. While he was mining, Rage moved over to the main computer and checked out the Condition of the Tomb of Theos; it was on 80%, and while a guildie did try to find a guild master or guild adviser for the castle-holding guild, none were available, so it stayed that way.
Still, I decided that that was just about do-able, so Kaerella and MrChuckNorris joined Rage, once SirGalahad had finished his time, and the three of them went in, and headed for the anubis spear men. After that relatively recent disconnection the place was quiet, and the corner I tend to aim for was suitably vacant when my trio got there.
The Tomb's condition meant that the spear men hit harder, but that wasn't a problem, as the 10% suction of life accessory easily handled any damage Rage took; however, it also meant that Rage didn't hit them as hard - a critical hit did around 6650 damage, while at 100% easy she'd do 7290. So, she only killed 45 anubis spear men in the eleven to twelve o'clock dt power hour, using an experience booster each time, earning just 32.44% in level 97, plus 3 skill points.
Luckily by two o'clock the Tomb had been set - though I was warned on the guild chat channel that this may be a one-off, the castle owning guild may go "on strike" due to the continuing ban on GoksReturn, who was, apparently, one of the victims of whoever was making incriminating screenshots on a different server using the names of various high-level players - having "them" admit to hacking, offering to sell accounts, or otherwise confessing to bannable offences. I suppose it is human nature that the GMs don't want to admit that they have been made to look like fools over this, but my sympathy is with the victims.
So, the two to three o'clock dungeon time power hour was back on track, and soon got Rage into level 98; in all she used 53 experience boosters, and went up by 32.93%... the new level is longer than the old one. Rage also added 4 skill points. Rage continued for another hour, though Kaerella just stood next to Chuck for almost all that time. A wizard called Cat5 kindly gave my trio the haste and chakra shield buffs as she passed; she did mention the blog, in fact, but had moved on by the time I responded.
It was shortly after that that Rage got disconnected, though Kaerella and Chuck survived. Rage hurried back, and continued to fight the spear men for a few more minutes - but then, just after four o'clock, UK time, all three of them were disconnected.
Back in Randol, Rage was able to learn the sixth and final level of Controlled Shooting for 1000 skill points, which increases her attack for 60 seconds, though it decreases her defence and stops her from moving. It's not a skill she had ever actually used, but I decided that it might come in handy...
My trio went back in in good time for the five to six o'clock dungeon time hour, and once it began, Rage did try using Controlled Shooting as much as possible, though she couldn't keep it on all the time as sometimes she needed to be able to move forward to get the nearby third spear man. Almost 600 less physical defence didn't seem a problem, her armour was still good enough, coupled with that suction of life accessory - and getting on for 600 more physical attack raised her critical hit by almost 2300, from around 7290 to 9570.
Using Controlled Shooting as much as I could meant that during that hour Rage used 60 experience boosters, so that was roughly 15% better than usual; she gained 37.98% experience, and 6 skill points. Rage logged out after that; her whole session had earned her 107.02% experience, a mere 17 skill points, and 6603 pet points.
At six o'clock UK time on Auzura our one GM-hosted event of the week was scheduled: a high-level mad monster spawn, to which I intended to take Rage. However, it looks as if the GMs are a bit overwhelmed at present, and without any announcement, at the last minute it was all cancelled, to be replaced just with a "Turbo" event, with "mysterious XP and/or SP changes", which is a bit weak, and a great disappointment for those of us who like to go along to such community events.
Kaerella and Chuck stayed on in the Tomb; Chuck's old computer was already a bit "sticky", but he managed to tag on to Kae for a run across to the ancient grey mummies room, since Kaerella is more interested in skill exp than the regular experience at the moment. That earlier disconnection meant that Kaerella couldn't manage a red Ignition run until near the end of the session, but it looked as if the "Turbo" had at least increased the skill exp for a while. Cat5 was in a corridor as Kae and Chuck ran along, and joined us in the ancient grey mummies room, kindly giving Kaerella a level 97 y3 bow she'd identified... she insisted that I should keep it and could sell it.
From the guild chat I'd heard earlier, I had thought SacSalop, MzTickle1 and some others were planning a combat party in the final room of the Tomb, where the sphinx commanders hang out, so MistressDomina logged on about a quarter of an hour before the eight to nine dungeon time hour. There was, however, no sign of such a grouping, so MD ended up helping the level 111 temple knight Dropkick, by giving him a combat party in Floriam's Cave. He had recall, so I just specified a "safe but legal" spot, and he teleported me in, to some strange little sub-cave, where MD was able to just sit within range, and get the occasional five million or so experience. With his pbi and boosters, Dropkick was apparently getting around 380 million, for each level 132 Morakes he killed. Luda came along towards the end of the hour, and actually did some fight-and-recall assistance for Dropkick... though afterwards, she did seem set on trying to act as "cupid" for MD and Dropkick, which was a little off-putting.
That trip for MistressDomina just added 0.19% experience - but Kaerella, backed up by Chuck, had kept busy, and had actually reached level 102 - so I need to shop around for the archers' skill book for that level. By the time she and Chuck logged out, Kaerella had added a total for the day of 8.65%, plus 55 skill points and 5943 pet points, while Chuck himself had got 4.07% and 49 skill points.
RedRackham had logged in when MistressDomina logged out, and was able to give his pale blue horse an hour or so's levelling in Maargadum Jail; on the way there Red got the horse the last two levels of armour increase, since it has now reached level 31. By the end of the evening, the horse had passed the halfway mark in that level. Once Chuck had logged out, CaptainScarlet was able to head for the Jail too - but today SirFrancis would have got more pet points if he had been with Kaerella, for sure.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
125%
RedRackham and CaptainScarlet both continued their pet-levelling overnight successfully, so that Red's pale blue horse was halfway through level 31 by morning, having added two levels. Cap had got the drake SirFrancis safely into 47, though overnight he worked on his other drake, which managed to level up too, just reaching 37 before Cap was able to switch back.
Cariae's Kaerella and Barbarienne began the attendance line-up as usual; MistressDomina and MistressSabina were next, but a little after ten o'clock they both had their mining operations interrupted by a disconnection. That does seem to be the time of day when these things happen, now.
Auzura's Kaerella and Rage didn't do their half hours with any mining or standing around in town, instead after coffee they headed for the Tomb of Theos, which was still in excellent condition, and headed for that corner of the corridor just after the main anubis spear man room. My titan MrChuckNorris followed, and joined them there - and when eleven o'clock arrived, Rage started her power hour, with as usual a small crit, a platinum adrenaline, a berserker potion, a platinum blessed iris - and for this hour 53 experience boosters, so that Rage added exactly 44.00% during the hour, plus 4 skill points.
Twisted guildie Luda4axD, our level 100 witch, was in the main room, I discovered when I'd finished the hour; I had mentioned where I was, but she'd not responded. She was still fighting the spear men and fighters, so my trio moved into the main room to provide a combat party boost for her, while I went off and had lunch.
My trio were back at their corner in good time for the next dungeon time hour, from two to three, and this time Rage got through 52 boosters, and added 39.91%, which got her safely into level 97. Luda generally fought the sphinx fighters within range, and we had another guildie or two turn up as well - MzTickle1, and munchie, though they spent most of their time afk just providing the combat party bonus. Rage just got a couple of skill points, as the skill exp was shared out rather widely.
We generally kept fighting for the following hour or so, before I took my brief food break. Munchie brought in a friend and did some semi power-levelling of Luda in the main room, while Rage did another power hour from five to six. This hour wasn't quite as good for me, as Rage's game had an error, so she had to respawn in Randol and hurry back; nobody with recall was at their keyboard at the time. This meant that Rage only used 49 experience boosters, adding another 34.81% in level 97, plus 3 skill points.
Luda's power-level was still continuing for a few minutes after that, so my threesome went into the main room to add our combat party bonus to the mixture. By that time, on the oldest machine, MrChuckNorris was a bit difficult to move, I ended up managing to click him on to Kae to auto-follow, which he did manage, in a few instalments.
Kaerella had got up to a second red ignition run by then, and went across to the ancient grey mummies to get the extra skill exp; she certainly got more skill points there than from the long hours with the anubis spear men and sphinx fighters.
People started to log out, but MzTickle1 stayed in the room with Chuck, Kae and Rage, who kept going on the spear men until the Sunday Quiz was approaching. Rage's supply of the stun-removing Remedy was running low by then - she generally didn't bother to use her remaining ones, as there wasn't any great health loss, and the time lost wasn't important, with no pots being active.
By the end of the session, Rage had gone up by in total 125.16%, plus 22 skill points and 7500 pet points. Kaerella had gone up by 6.40%, 42 skill points (thanks to her two red ignition runs), and 3259 pet points, while MrChuckNorris had added 3.44% and 20 skill points. So, a useful day's work.
A level 102 sorcerer in the XxPhoenixxX guild, xPROx, had asked if I was staying into dungeon time, and I'd assured him I wasn't, and that I'd be off to the Sunday Quiz; he was looking forward to reaching level 103, though that means he will need to farm 25k of skill points from the ancient grey mummies...
The quiz went smoothly enough, with the GMs asking the question about game masters not demanding to be told passwords a lot of times. I didn't try to run three characters there, it was just Kaerella and MistressDomino; I sent CaptainScarlet down to Maargadum Jail to do a little more pet-levelling, which meant that by the end of the evening SirFrancis was about a sixth of the way through level 47.
Once the quiz prizes had been won, and traded across to MistressDomino along with other recent useful loot, it was time for SirGalahad, finally, to do his half hour's attendance. He did this in Prokion Temple, once the dungeon time had ended at nine, getting 336 experience and 3464 skill exp per ghoul... which rose to 336 and 3810 once the thirty minutes was up. I really don't see why the first half hour of one's time doesn't include the bonus earned from previous days, but that's just the way things are. He earned 3.04% and 80 skill points; as she was standing in Dratan City, his guardian, Kaerella, got 33 skill exp per kill too, so gained another skill point.
Cariae's Kaerella and Barbarienne began the attendance line-up as usual; MistressDomina and MistressSabina were next, but a little after ten o'clock they both had their mining operations interrupted by a disconnection. That does seem to be the time of day when these things happen, now.
Auzura's Kaerella and Rage didn't do their half hours with any mining or standing around in town, instead after coffee they headed for the Tomb of Theos, which was still in excellent condition, and headed for that corner of the corridor just after the main anubis spear man room. My titan MrChuckNorris followed, and joined them there - and when eleven o'clock arrived, Rage started her power hour, with as usual a small crit, a platinum adrenaline, a berserker potion, a platinum blessed iris - and for this hour 53 experience boosters, so that Rage added exactly 44.00% during the hour, plus 4 skill points.
Twisted guildie Luda4axD, our level 100 witch, was in the main room, I discovered when I'd finished the hour; I had mentioned where I was, but she'd not responded. She was still fighting the spear men and fighters, so my trio moved into the main room to provide a combat party boost for her, while I went off and had lunch.
My trio were back at their corner in good time for the next dungeon time hour, from two to three, and this time Rage got through 52 boosters, and added 39.91%, which got her safely into level 97. Luda generally fought the sphinx fighters within range, and we had another guildie or two turn up as well - MzTickle1, and munchie, though they spent most of their time afk just providing the combat party bonus. Rage just got a couple of skill points, as the skill exp was shared out rather widely.
We generally kept fighting for the following hour or so, before I took my brief food break. Munchie brought in a friend and did some semi power-levelling of Luda in the main room, while Rage did another power hour from five to six. This hour wasn't quite as good for me, as Rage's game had an error, so she had to respawn in Randol and hurry back; nobody with recall was at their keyboard at the time. This meant that Rage only used 49 experience boosters, adding another 34.81% in level 97, plus 3 skill points.
Luda's power-level was still continuing for a few minutes after that, so my threesome went into the main room to add our combat party bonus to the mixture. By that time, on the oldest machine, MrChuckNorris was a bit difficult to move, I ended up managing to click him on to Kae to auto-follow, which he did manage, in a few instalments.
Kaerella had got up to a second red ignition run by then, and went across to the ancient grey mummies to get the extra skill exp; she certainly got more skill points there than from the long hours with the anubis spear men and sphinx fighters.
People started to log out, but MzTickle1 stayed in the room with Chuck, Kae and Rage, who kept going on the spear men until the Sunday Quiz was approaching. Rage's supply of the stun-removing Remedy was running low by then - she generally didn't bother to use her remaining ones, as there wasn't any great health loss, and the time lost wasn't important, with no pots being active.
By the end of the session, Rage had gone up by in total 125.16%, plus 22 skill points and 7500 pet points. Kaerella had gone up by 6.40%, 42 skill points (thanks to her two red ignition runs), and 3259 pet points, while MrChuckNorris had added 3.44% and 20 skill points. So, a useful day's work.
A level 102 sorcerer in the XxPhoenixxX guild, xPROx, had asked if I was staying into dungeon time, and I'd assured him I wasn't, and that I'd be off to the Sunday Quiz; he was looking forward to reaching level 103, though that means he will need to farm 25k of skill points from the ancient grey mummies...
The quiz went smoothly enough, with the GMs asking the question about game masters not demanding to be told passwords a lot of times. I didn't try to run three characters there, it was just Kaerella and MistressDomino; I sent CaptainScarlet down to Maargadum Jail to do a little more pet-levelling, which meant that by the end of the evening SirFrancis was about a sixth of the way through level 47.
Once the quiz prizes had been won, and traded across to MistressDomino along with other recent useful loot, it was time for SirGalahad, finally, to do his half hour's attendance. He did this in Prokion Temple, once the dungeon time had ended at nine, getting 336 experience and 3464 skill exp per ghoul... which rose to 336 and 3810 once the thirty minutes was up. I really don't see why the first half hour of one's time doesn't include the bonus earned from previous days, but that's just the way things are. He earned 3.04% and 80 skill points; as she was standing in Dratan City, his guardian, Kaerella, got 33 skill exp per kill too, so gained another skill point.
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Two Levels for Rage
With three computers able to play Last Chaos, it didn't take too long to get the attendance system worked through for another day. Barbarienne transferred her loot from the last Merac Run across to my Cariae merchant mage; Auzura's Kaerella stayed on a bit longer to do a little mining, after exchanging drakes with CaptainScarlet, but got a disconnection before long, though SirGalahad kept going with his mining.
CaptainScarlet went down into Maargadum Jail for an hour or so, and got his new drake, SirFrancis, past the halfway mark in level 46. After his regular mining, SirGalahad took some extra tool aids out of storage, bought 31 pick axes from Merchant Geres, and stocked up on quality stones. He also took some lucky pet boxes out of storage when he was back in town; the first one he opened gave the jackpot, five of the platinum pet experience potions. He then moved to Merac Village, as did CaptainScarlet, and traded 1,000 quality stones, the five ppeps, and the remaining lucky pet boxes across to Cap.
The Tomb of Theos on Auzura was still being kept in excellent condition by its current owners, so Rage, Kaerella and MrChuckNorris went in in good time for the eleven to twelve o'clock dungeon time hour, and took up residence at the first corner after the main anubis spear man room. The room itself was already being used by one night shadow, or I would have invited some guildies along to share it; munchie was looking to do a power hour too, but ended up on a different sub-server.
Rage did her eleven to noon power hour smoothly enough, with Kaerella as usual fighting the sphinx fighters there, and Chuck supplying the hit rate and increased attack buffs. Rage used 52 experience boosters in the hour, for 51.59% experience and 3 skill points; including the preliminary kills she earned 52.20% and 5 skill points, plus 1473 pet points, while Kaerella got 2.04%, the 5 skill points, and 1123 pet points for her borrowed drake. MrChuckNorris got 0.96% just from being there - and the 5 skill points of course. Within the first quarter of an hour, Rage reached level 95.
My trio stayed there over lunch, and I soon had Rage back in action, to show that the spot was in use if anyone happened to pass by. The two to three o'clock dungeon time passed pretty similarly, with another 52 experience boosters used, for 49.20% and 4 skill points; Kaerella took some time off to just provide the combat party boost from just standing there after that for an hour or so until the food break, with her pet polar bear cub getting a few percent experience. By the time I went afk again Rage's total for the afternoon had reached 51.95%, 6 skill points, and 2773 pet points, while Kaerella got 1.82%, 5 skill points and 874 pet points, and Chuck added 1.13% and 4 skill points.
Again Rage did some solo work before the next dungeon time hour, and then managed to get through 54 experience boosters, as well as the hour-long potions, while adding 45.16% and getting well into level 96. By the time she logged out, shortly after the hour ended, she had added a total of 45.85%, 4 skill points, and 1666 pet points, with Chuck adding 0.95% and 5 skill points.
Rage is too many levels below the anubis spear men still to get any "ignition", but by the end of that third power hour Kaerella had managed to reach the red run, giving extra skill exp from each kill, so hurried across to the ancient grey mummies, where she found just enough spare ones to do her run. That meant that her figures for the early evening session went up to 2.00% and 14 skill points, plus 906 pet points.
Today's special bonus was some double pet experience, so my next step was to send CaptainScarlet back to his death mask lancer on Auzura-4. The double pet experience was already running when he got there, so a platinum pet experience potion was swiftly started, and a second one followed an hour later - though the double pet experience was turned off rather quickly, so that the last few minutes were just triple, from the ppep, rather than sextuple. RedRackham also headed for Maargadum Jail, but on Auzura-6, and did some work on his pale blue horse too, as well as providing a solo party for MistressSabina.
MistressSabina headed for the giants, of course, for a fairly non-intensive session; by the time her Elizabeth's Enhancement buff ran out she had added 11.10%, 73 skill points, and 1119 pet points. CaptainScarlet and RedRackham kept going after Sabina logged out, with Cap getting SirFrancis, Kae's drake, into level 47 before the end of the evening; Red's horse was getting fairly close to the top of level 29 by then too.
Reaching level 96 didn't make any new skill levels available for Rage, we'll have to wait for 98 for that. As for special weekend events, well, there is a "hunter gatherer raffle" running for a day from tomorrow evening, where picking up loot dropped by a monster counts as an entry. There is also a "boosterlicious tiered event", but to get anything useful in the way of packages you need to spend 4500 aeria points or more - which is a little difficult, as the web item mall is still essentially empty, except for its special packages and current BOGO offers. So, there really isn't anything that tempts me to start spending ap at the moment.
CaptainScarlet went down into Maargadum Jail for an hour or so, and got his new drake, SirFrancis, past the halfway mark in level 46. After his regular mining, SirGalahad took some extra tool aids out of storage, bought 31 pick axes from Merchant Geres, and stocked up on quality stones. He also took some lucky pet boxes out of storage when he was back in town; the first one he opened gave the jackpot, five of the platinum pet experience potions. He then moved to Merac Village, as did CaptainScarlet, and traded 1,000 quality stones, the five ppeps, and the remaining lucky pet boxes across to Cap.
The Tomb of Theos on Auzura was still being kept in excellent condition by its current owners, so Rage, Kaerella and MrChuckNorris went in in good time for the eleven to twelve o'clock dungeon time hour, and took up residence at the first corner after the main anubis spear man room. The room itself was already being used by one night shadow, or I would have invited some guildies along to share it; munchie was looking to do a power hour too, but ended up on a different sub-server.
Rage did her eleven to noon power hour smoothly enough, with Kaerella as usual fighting the sphinx fighters there, and Chuck supplying the hit rate and increased attack buffs. Rage used 52 experience boosters in the hour, for 51.59% experience and 3 skill points; including the preliminary kills she earned 52.20% and 5 skill points, plus 1473 pet points, while Kaerella got 2.04%, the 5 skill points, and 1123 pet points for her borrowed drake. MrChuckNorris got 0.96% just from being there - and the 5 skill points of course. Within the first quarter of an hour, Rage reached level 95.
My trio stayed there over lunch, and I soon had Rage back in action, to show that the spot was in use if anyone happened to pass by. The two to three o'clock dungeon time passed pretty similarly, with another 52 experience boosters used, for 49.20% and 4 skill points; Kaerella took some time off to just provide the combat party boost from just standing there after that for an hour or so until the food break, with her pet polar bear cub getting a few percent experience. By the time I went afk again Rage's total for the afternoon had reached 51.95%, 6 skill points, and 2773 pet points, while Kaerella got 1.82%, 5 skill points and 874 pet points, and Chuck added 1.13% and 4 skill points.
Again Rage did some solo work before the next dungeon time hour, and then managed to get through 54 experience boosters, as well as the hour-long potions, while adding 45.16% and getting well into level 96. By the time she logged out, shortly after the hour ended, she had added a total of 45.85%, 4 skill points, and 1666 pet points, with Chuck adding 0.95% and 5 skill points.
Rage is too many levels below the anubis spear men still to get any "ignition", but by the end of that third power hour Kaerella had managed to reach the red run, giving extra skill exp from each kill, so hurried across to the ancient grey mummies, where she found just enough spare ones to do her run. That meant that her figures for the early evening session went up to 2.00% and 14 skill points, plus 906 pet points.
Today's special bonus was some double pet experience, so my next step was to send CaptainScarlet back to his death mask lancer on Auzura-4. The double pet experience was already running when he got there, so a platinum pet experience potion was swiftly started, and a second one followed an hour later - though the double pet experience was turned off rather quickly, so that the last few minutes were just triple, from the ppep, rather than sextuple. RedRackham also headed for Maargadum Jail, but on Auzura-6, and did some work on his pale blue horse too, as well as providing a solo party for MistressSabina.
MistressSabina headed for the giants, of course, for a fairly non-intensive session; by the time her Elizabeth's Enhancement buff ran out she had added 11.10%, 73 skill points, and 1119 pet points. CaptainScarlet and RedRackham kept going after Sabina logged out, with Cap getting SirFrancis, Kae's drake, into level 47 before the end of the evening; Red's horse was getting fairly close to the top of level 29 by then too.
Reaching level 96 didn't make any new skill levels available for Rage, we'll have to wait for 98 for that. As for special weekend events, well, there is a "hunter gatherer raffle" running for a day from tomorrow evening, where picking up loot dropped by a monster counts as an entry. There is also a "boosterlicious tiered event", but to get anything useful in the way of packages you need to spend 4500 aeria points or more - which is a little difficult, as the web item mall is still essentially empty, except for its special packages and current BOGO offers. So, there really isn't anything that tempts me to start spending ap at the moment.
Friday, 10 December 2010
When Two Become Three
RedRackham and CaptainScarlet had looked so safe and busy in Maargadum Jail last night that I decided to leave them to it until morning. CaptainScarlet switched over from the level 49 drake to his level 35 one, while Red continued with his horse. I checked up on them just before seven; Cap had recently been disconnected, so I took him back there, and switched back to the level 49 drake. By the time they logged out at breakfast time, useful progress had been made, with Red's horse up by two levels, and Cap's lower drake up by a level too.
Cariae's Kaerella and Barbarienne then logged in for the 24th days of the attendance allowance. Kae looked at a merchant or two, and was tempted to buy a necklace of wind from the Vendetta night shadow LUCYFER; at 15 million, 10% suction of life, 5 magical defence, and 16 swiftness of reflexes seemed worth getting, particularly if I do start a new phoenix-type character on Cariae before too long...
MistressDomina and Rage were next up for their attendance; MD was in a shopping mood too, but there were no tempting pieces of armour from the mage level 105/107 Orlwin set for sale in the merchant mart. There were +13 boots and a circlet, but her current level 87 ones are both +15, and thus still give better defence.
After a little mining, my Twisted guild members were replaced by Auzura's Kaerella, and MistressSabina, who both did quite a lot of mining, as I needed to go shopping, taking a quick train trip to Harrow to buy a new computer "patch cable for networking", on the feeling that the only cable I could get locally, while it did have an Ethernet-type plug at each end, was a bit different from the cables connecting the more modern two computers to their hub, modem and/or router. Once home, I plugged the new cable in, switched on the old XP-running machine...and it connected to the internet without any problem, the first sign being the notice that the anti-virus had updated itself.
So, over lunch, not only did SirGalahad do some pet-levelling work to get his attendance sorted, but he was joined on floor five of Maargadum Jail by both RedRackham and CaptainScarlet - the first time I've ever had three characters playing Last Chaos at the same time. Gal's pale blue horse reached level 25, so is now one level ahead of him.
MistressDomina checked on the Tomb's condition after lunch on Auzura-4, and found it at 90%, so Kaerella logged in and joined her - and Twisted guildie munchie, the level 101 witch, volunteered to join the combat party. When she put Recall up she was in the anubis spear man room and MD was a few yards further in at that first corridor corner, so MD temporarily moved back a short distance, but we soon got set up at the corner, and munchie recalled Kaerella in. munchie was generally afk to watch tv, but did give us both the superior witchy kind of Haste.
MistressDomina soon reached level 107, and used 63 experience boosters during the dungeon time hour, so that she went up by 29.05%, and added 8 skill points - MD's total, including the few minutes before, was 29.12% and 9 skill points, plus 1096 pet points. Once the hour was over munchie logged out, but Kaerella went across to the ancient grey mummies, and was joined by my level 94 ranger-rogue Rage there. By the time the food break came along, Rage had just added 1.19% and 5 skill points, plus 643 pet points, with Kaerella's figures at 2.30%, 15 skill points, and 1567 pet points.
Kaerella and Rage weren't alone there, though - on the oldest computer, now back in action, MrChuckNorris, my level 95 warmaster titan, logged in and hurried to join them. He didn't do any fighting, but gave the others a little extra combat party boost.
The three of them moved across to the anubis spear men after the break, in good time for the five to six o'clock dungeon time hour - the corridor corner was free still, luckily. As Rage doesn't kill quite as quickly as MistressDomina, and doesn't have to keep spamming a skill like Terra Spear or bother about buffs (though Chuck supplied his attack and hit rate buffs to both Rage and Kae), it was a more relaxed power hour, but Rage still managed to use 51 experience boosters, and went up by 57.80% in level 94, plus 3 skill points. For the whole early evening session Rage managed to add 58.69%, plus 4 skill points and 1340 pet points, while Chuck gained 1.26% in all, plus 7 skill points. Kaerella added another 2.55%, 1096 pet points and 12 skill points - seven of the skill points came from a red ignition run right at the end, fighting ancient grey mummies well away from the others and getting 9900 skill exp per kill. It was hard to find enough mummies for the run, and Kae ended up in the wider, column-lined corridor close to the end of the mummy area.
CaptainScarlet logged back in after that for some more pet-levelling, on the XP-running computer, while I got up to date on other web things. RedRackham logged on for some more pet-levelling too; and MistressSabina finally went back out to the giants, since the server hasn't been doing any nasty and potentially lethal disconnections lately.
MistressSabina's session went smoothly enough; the evening's double experience had been switched on by then, and the double skill exp was still running as well, I discovered when I killed a fox. At around ten to eight I stopped Sabina's giant-killing, and logged in as MistressDomina again, to volunteer for joining a combat party, if anyone needed a few extra members within range - but there were no takers, so Sabina was able to log back on, and, after browsing through some of the accessories in Roy's merchant mart, head back to the giants.
In all, MistressSabina just added 15.77%, 82 skill points, and 925 pet points, which at least gives her a start through level 51. Once she reaches level 52, and increases her physical defence a bit, it will probably be time to move on to the (outdoor) sphinx fighters, and their friends the sphinx "speer" men.
CaptainScarlet finally got his drake into level 50, so that particular pet will probably be traded across to a new owner soon. He might possibly take temporary control of Kaerella's drake, SirFrancis, to move it on a little from level 46. RedRackham's horse was approaching level 29 as the evening neared its end, so still has a fair way to go. But now, a new weekend approaches - do our friends at Aeria have anything special planned, I wonder? An announcement of "7 Days of Winterfest" rather got my hopes up, earlier this week, but all that involves is shuffling around which high-level gems are available from the Lootforge, day by day.
Cariae's Kaerella and Barbarienne then logged in for the 24th days of the attendance allowance. Kae looked at a merchant or two, and was tempted to buy a necklace of wind from the Vendetta night shadow LUCYFER; at 15 million, 10% suction of life, 5 magical defence, and 16 swiftness of reflexes seemed worth getting, particularly if I do start a new phoenix-type character on Cariae before too long...
MistressDomina and Rage were next up for their attendance; MD was in a shopping mood too, but there were no tempting pieces of armour from the mage level 105/107 Orlwin set for sale in the merchant mart. There were +13 boots and a circlet, but her current level 87 ones are both +15, and thus still give better defence.
After a little mining, my Twisted guild members were replaced by Auzura's Kaerella, and MistressSabina, who both did quite a lot of mining, as I needed to go shopping, taking a quick train trip to Harrow to buy a new computer "patch cable for networking", on the feeling that the only cable I could get locally, while it did have an Ethernet-type plug at each end, was a bit different from the cables connecting the more modern two computers to their hub, modem and/or router. Once home, I plugged the new cable in, switched on the old XP-running machine...and it connected to the internet without any problem, the first sign being the notice that the anti-virus had updated itself.
So, over lunch, not only did SirGalahad do some pet-levelling work to get his attendance sorted, but he was joined on floor five of Maargadum Jail by both RedRackham and CaptainScarlet - the first time I've ever had three characters playing Last Chaos at the same time. Gal's pale blue horse reached level 25, so is now one level ahead of him.
MistressDomina checked on the Tomb's condition after lunch on Auzura-4, and found it at 90%, so Kaerella logged in and joined her - and Twisted guildie munchie, the level 101 witch, volunteered to join the combat party. When she put Recall up she was in the anubis spear man room and MD was a few yards further in at that first corridor corner, so MD temporarily moved back a short distance, but we soon got set up at the corner, and munchie recalled Kaerella in. munchie was generally afk to watch tv, but did give us both the superior witchy kind of Haste.
MistressDomina soon reached level 107, and used 63 experience boosters during the dungeon time hour, so that she went up by 29.05%, and added 8 skill points - MD's total, including the few minutes before, was 29.12% and 9 skill points, plus 1096 pet points. Once the hour was over munchie logged out, but Kaerella went across to the ancient grey mummies, and was joined by my level 94 ranger-rogue Rage there. By the time the food break came along, Rage had just added 1.19% and 5 skill points, plus 643 pet points, with Kaerella's figures at 2.30%, 15 skill points, and 1567 pet points.
Kaerella and Rage weren't alone there, though - on the oldest computer, now back in action, MrChuckNorris, my level 95 warmaster titan, logged in and hurried to join them. He didn't do any fighting, but gave the others a little extra combat party boost.
The three of them moved across to the anubis spear men after the break, in good time for the five to six o'clock dungeon time hour - the corridor corner was free still, luckily. As Rage doesn't kill quite as quickly as MistressDomina, and doesn't have to keep spamming a skill like Terra Spear or bother about buffs (though Chuck supplied his attack and hit rate buffs to both Rage and Kae), it was a more relaxed power hour, but Rage still managed to use 51 experience boosters, and went up by 57.80% in level 94, plus 3 skill points. For the whole early evening session Rage managed to add 58.69%, plus 4 skill points and 1340 pet points, while Chuck gained 1.26% in all, plus 7 skill points. Kaerella added another 2.55%, 1096 pet points and 12 skill points - seven of the skill points came from a red ignition run right at the end, fighting ancient grey mummies well away from the others and getting 9900 skill exp per kill. It was hard to find enough mummies for the run, and Kae ended up in the wider, column-lined corridor close to the end of the mummy area.
CaptainScarlet logged back in after that for some more pet-levelling, on the XP-running computer, while I got up to date on other web things. RedRackham logged on for some more pet-levelling too; and MistressSabina finally went back out to the giants, since the server hasn't been doing any nasty and potentially lethal disconnections lately.
MistressSabina's session went smoothly enough; the evening's double experience had been switched on by then, and the double skill exp was still running as well, I discovered when I killed a fox. At around ten to eight I stopped Sabina's giant-killing, and logged in as MistressDomina again, to volunteer for joining a combat party, if anyone needed a few extra members within range - but there were no takers, so Sabina was able to log back on, and, after browsing through some of the accessories in Roy's merchant mart, head back to the giants.
In all, MistressSabina just added 15.77%, 82 skill points, and 925 pet points, which at least gives her a start through level 51. Once she reaches level 52, and increases her physical defence a bit, it will probably be time to move on to the (outdoor) sphinx fighters, and their friends the sphinx "speer" men.
CaptainScarlet finally got his drake into level 50, so that particular pet will probably be traded across to a new owner soon. He might possibly take temporary control of Kaerella's drake, SirFrancis, to move it on a little from level 46. RedRackham's horse was approaching level 29 as the evening neared its end, so still has a fair way to go. But now, a new weekend approaches - do our friends at Aeria have anything special planned, I wonder? An announcement of "7 Days of Winterfest" rather got my hopes up, earlier this week, but all that involves is shuffling around which high-level gems are available from the Lootforge, day by day.
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