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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject: Update #16 |
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10/08/2008
A very brief update…basically I did not play much at all last night…I jumped on for roughly 45 minutes to an hour. I just played Hail No since I knew I had limited time. He is now level 27 and really that is pretty much it… His base UA is almost 250 so I soon can wield some better damage weapons but I still have not located a fire UA weapon for the BSD. At level 30 I will give one of the BSD’s a try…Considering Hail No has yet to die I guess the Monkeys are as good as any to finally kill him… I suspect his melee and UA will be challenged in there but I am very curious if he can limp around and maybe hang a little…The XP from the Guards and the 20 mil bonus would be pretty good at his level. Hopefully I will find a 250 wield Fire UA tonight…
My goals tonight are Hail No to 30 and get S n S to level 107. I might be able to run a few XP quests with S n S even though the XP is minimal now… I will also do mini’s and obviously hunt in Fiuns yet again… I think it will be a little boring as I will be power leveling although calling it power leveling might be a stretch…
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject: Update #17 |
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10/09/2008
Well reaching level 107 was a bit optimistic and I did play quite a bit and ran mini’s as well… S n S ended the night at 105. Oh well sword is up to base of 390… I hunted the Fuins it seemed endlessly. I ran and killed from Fuin to Fuin pretty much non-stop…I rarely loot as they have nothing I need (for the most part). I fellowed with a few folks last night at different times. I am not sure if this helps or hurts. I have not been in a large fellowship in there that would probably make a big positive difference… I was able to make good with Deadeyed Minion and I know he at least gained 2 levels. I think he is level 80 now…He is an Archer and does pretty good…Still it took forever to level to 105 I killed over a 1000 Fuin last night and their XP just is not what it use to be. I talked to Angelina Bo Bina who is also sword to see where she is hunting… She is in 110 eaters now… so I guess that will be my next stop. Chu came online for awhile and we ran mini’s there were a lot of people in there so it was pretty much a non-event… It is depressing to me that mini’s do not get me a level anymore… As I mentioned in my last update I need to get my other toons flagged to feed into S n S… as I am leaving xp on the table everytime I run mini’s …
I did spend just over an hour playing Hail No… As I was driving home I changed my mind about where to hunt him… I decided to give the Blighted Moarsmen Fort near Danby’s Outpost a try…no point in trying to kill Tusker Guards if I could not kill level 79 Moarsmen…. Well he can kill them… not as fast as the lower level Moarsmen but they pay better XP and better loot… I was running into Stam issue but that is getting better as he progresses in levels. I started at level 25 and ended at level 30. His base UA is 255 now so, I have access to better damage UA weapons…When I logged on I went through my pack and lo and behold I did have a decent 250 wield fire cestus, which will probably work on the Tuskers. A fire rended weapon would be ideal but I have not seen any rended weapons below 350 or so…anyway the one I have buffs out pretty good…but I still have the same question… At his level will his melee be enough and will he actually hit the Guards or just stam and die… might find out tonight (still have no deaths)… He has no magics, so no way for a quick escape… he will have to fight his way out… I guess the Tusker Slaves will be the first test and if he can handle those then I will move further into the BSD…
I ended the night getting buffed for today’s log on and going to the Marketplace to do a little shopping I was tempted by a few items but only bought 1 thing a 400 Fire Rended Sword with decent numbers and a very low value so it will never drop I think it was like 1605p. So that now gives me a Slash Rended and Fire Rended 400 sword… I will hit the MP again tonight and look around… I also need some Coord and Quickness Major Sollerets or Jewelry. Then I will be looking for Major wards to fill in…I think my buffed sword skill will be around 490 or so when I hit 400 base sword…
So let’s talk about tonight’s goals for both S n S and Hail No… Hmmm… I would really like to get to 108 with S n S which would be about a plus 3 to my sword skill (making it 393) this will be extremely tough… I could not do it last night…so I may have the same issue again tonight (Time vs XP) I will run mini’s of course… I am very close to level 106 and should be able to get there in about 30 minutes of the Fuins… and that puts me working on 107 (which I will basically have to make in the Fuins)…and maybe with a Moarsmen Quest… which is not that much XP any more…then Mini’s then Fuin to 108. I guess we will see… I am not overly optimistic…. As for Hail No I think 35 is realistic I guess it depends on whether I can kill the Monkeys… I will start out back in the Moarsemen Fort at Danby’s to gain a bit more XP and tweak melee and UA skills a bit…go to Lin to get flagged and then head to the BSD (wish me luck). I am also toying with the idea (if I can kill the Guards) clearing a room logging and then logging back after 10 to 15 minutes and clear it again basically camp the room. I figure this way I can complete the quest in one extended buff cycle (might take me multiple days to get to 500 kills or not). I will probably end the night the same as last night buffing and shopping…
…and that’s about all I got today….
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject: Update #18 |
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10/10/2008
I signed off last night with “The Sandman is calling” and that was so true I was really tired and that kind of explains why I missed my goals last night. However, there is some good news and a few interesting things to talk about…
First let me touch on S n S’s night, which was pretty much a broken record… Fuin’s and Mini’s I leveled him up to 106 and that seemed to take forever (in the Fuin’s kill a Fuin rinse and repeat)… I am looking forward to another dungeon that pays decent XP…I ran mini’s and got my XP from that…I was hoping but knew the math would not support that pushing me to 107… I was roughly 28 million away…and returned to the Fuins to kill some more…but ran out of gas after a very short time… So he is sitting at 106 with my base sword at 391 with 18 million to go…
On the other hand Hail No’s night was a little more interesting…First thing I did was go to Lin to get flagged for the Tusker Guard Kill Quest…I decided to just go ahead and go to a BSD and see what would happen (instead of fighting else where like I think I mentioned in my previous post)…and…he can hang quite well in there… He is critical hitting for 200+ but generally is pretty slow to take the Guards down but he does get them down… He is corner fighting as side or back hits can hurt…I think I made up to 200 Guards killed last night… I was jumping between playing S n S and Hail No between BSD spawns…I am not sure what level he will be when he gets the 20 million for the kill quest but I am guess low 40’s is where he will end up…which would be pretty good going from 30 to let say 42 in basically 4+ hours of playing time…(assuming I finish the quest tonight….which I think I can…) So Hail No ended the night at level 34. His UA skill is getting decent all points are going into UA first and Melee second… no need to buff armor as it is the Olthoi Lesser armor…and I have not needed Item for travel yet…(Not trained anyway)
I did spent a little time shopping at the MP…so I guess this is a discussion on my shopping successes… I did buy an Level 400 Acid Sword and a Level 400 Bludgeon Staff the staff is a little high value and hopefully will not drop….guess I will see next death… just getting ready for those 400+ Sword and Staff skills… I did not find a major quickness or coord item that would work in my configuration but will keep shopping…I am sure something will turn up…
Ok…since I have overshot on my last 2 updates on goals I will throttle back a little and try to be realistic… So let’s say level 38 for Hail No and Level 107 for S n S (sword to 392) for tonight… Since I do not post on the weekend I will throw in a couple of weekend goals as well… (I do have drill this weekend so will only be on in the evenings and might have somethings that come up that stop me from getting on at all….RL always takes priority) I would hope to make 109-110 for S n S (sword 395)…and I would like to get Hail No to mid to upper 40’s… I do plan to do the Aerlinthe and Son of Pookie Quests with the Clan, which might impact my ability to reach my goals but oh well…never done either and questing is always fun…
I will not be on too late this evening as I need to get up early…like I mentioned above hopefully I will be on this weekend to make and maybe exceed my goals….
*** As a general footnote I saw that members where running a few quests not on the schedule last night...If they could provide a few blasts on Allegiance with Level Req's or other requirement information, so us oldbies can know whether it is something we can do or not would be really helpful (I guess I could always ask  )***
…and so ends another week of updates…
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject: Update #19 |
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10/13/2008
So here is the weekend catch up, not catsup…
It was a weekend of quests…and some leveling… I find questing (for the most part) slows leveling but what is the point of the game if you do not go on some quests… that is where most of the good content is…plus hanging with others in the clan is always fun…
This weekend S n S completed Sanctuary Recall aka Healers Heart…saw WS was running this on Saturday and joined in…was fun… I had not done that quest since it was first introduced in I think like 1922 or something… anyway I think the Cathedral is kind of cool with the chanting etc… We had a sizable group, so it was easy and pretty quick… later Saturday I went on the Aerlinthe Recall quest… which also went really good… So I greatly improved my ability to get around with those two quests…thanks to WS and all those that went. Sunday I went on the Son of Pookie quest… I had never done that quest before… and really did not know too much about it… (note to self, do internet research before these quests to get up to speed) well generally this was pretty much a non-event (meaning not difficult) particularly the first kill… Witchie Poo led the quest (Great job Poo) and we navigated easily to the evil rabbit which just sat there and let us beat it to death… Which seemed really easy as I think SoP was bugged… but not everyone got a key so we waited for a respawn…this was a little less easy and thank you to whichever mage was healing me…otherwise I may have died…I know my 10-12 points of damage really contributed a lot to finally taking down SoP (wink…wink). Anyway I got in line and pulled from the chest… I was not sure on the rewards… so I grabbed all of the loot in the chest and… I got a rabbits foot… I was thinking this was maybe an xp reward item or maybe taken to a crafter… then I read the description…wow…what a good pull for me 20% + to weapon damage range…sweet!!! Now I just need vto erify max damages and find an uber sword to apply it to… I also need to figure out what is the best damage type… thinking maybe slash or pierce or maybe an elemental (ummm….I think that is all there is…funny how the brain works) Maybe someone has a suggestion...So overall S n S had a very productive questing weekend...
In true Tarantino form I will shift gears and back up in time a little to talk about Hail No…So Friday I completed the Tusker Guard Kill Quest…so Hail went from level 38 to 45 with one click….I have raised some of his numbers significantly and bought a fire rended claw for him to use at 350 UA but he is not there yet… I was tired and going to shut down(drill weekend getting up at 430am) but as I was getting ready to log…Chu asked if folks wanted to go on a Col flagging…well this is something I needed for both Hail and my mage Mu Lech (Mu is the red headed step child of my characters at the moment)… I want to leverage them both for mini’s… So I decided to go ahead and stay on to get flagged…to make a long story short Hail had no deaths when we started but by the end of flagging had 2 deaths… it became painfully obvious by the fifth room he could not hang…but he helped a little in the beginning…. So Hail is now flagged for mini’s yea! So we ran mini’s afterwards and I was dragging (it was late)…but managed to level Hail to 46. Saturday I took him to the Fuin to see if he could hang…he can kill but he is not ready and he died after about 5 minutes and took lots of damage from the magic…but he should be strong enough soon…I collected a few trophies on Sunday night from Mini’s but need to mule some ivory to make them givable…
Now let’s look at how I did on my weekend goals? Well generally I met them with the exception of S n S’s sword skill which is I think 394 but might be 393…I am not sure why that did not get to 395, seems like I should have had enough XP to get there, but obviously not…So S n S is 109 I could have easily made 110 had I not been so tired… I am really pretty close and should get there tonight if I am in game…As for Hail No I did meet my goals and am now level 46 and Hail should start moving up pretty quickly a level or 2 a night…
Now for some scatter shooting - I will probably feed Hail one trophy Stonefist a night and have him hunt (TBD)… I guess I will train item (for transportation purposes only) I will keep him in Olthio Armor, so he will have to him rely on bots… I have many options with him I spec’d bow which I could unspec and even untrain…that would get me 16 skill credits plus I think I have 12 skill credit not assigned… hmmm lots of options… I think I will just keep plugging away on Strength, Coord, Quickness…Melee and UA and not really mess too much with anything else… It always seems like a mistake to start spreading XP around as you end up getting good at nothing (in the short term)… As for S n S…if I play tonight I will make 110 on mini’s alone…So S n S is plugging away on sword… I will not spec Magic D until I get to 400 sword… and I think I will get my melee up before I spec Magic D as well…I would really like base 400+ sword, base 400+ melee and base 400+ staff prior to putting any more points into Magic D but that will not probably happen… So my goal tonight if I play is to run Mini’s and get S n S to 110… That should set S n S up to make 111 maybe 112 immediately on Tuesday as I will have enough trophies to do that…I will probably not have time tonight to mule and do all the things I need to make that happen this evening, as I will not be on till late if at all…
I actually ran into somebody that is reading my journal. I made a point to write their character names down but in true S n S form I left the information at home…anyway they mentioned they would show me around 110 Eaters once I make 110… So thank you (name to be inserted)...<edit> (His toon names were Abort-Retry_Fail / Eversblade) I will be following up shortly…
Until tomorrow…
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject: Update #20 |
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10/14/2008
Well I guess I can talk about anything today as I have no S n S update….so I will use today’s update to voice concerns and ask questions….
Ok…Here is something weird that keeps happening and maybe somebody has a suggestion… When I type a message in “Chat All”…(This is what is selected when I first log on) it blasts the Allegiance Chat … I have to go and select something else and reselect “Chat All” for it to work properly… So every now and then you may see an incoherent message on Allegiance from me… Like me responding to somebody else’s “Chat All” message…As it is I am typing challenged in the game… If I talk too much it usually ends up getting me killed…
On a completely different note…I did see an Allegiance message in game Sunday about some downtime but it was not listed on the AC login screen. I wish Turbine would update that information in advance instead of after the fact or maybe send out periodic in game messages to let players know (if they did I did not see it)…Luckily it worked out for me as I had plans last night but it seems to be a consistent problem every month as the message changes the day of an update or maybe the day before… I did see a thread about this problem/concern on the AC Turbine Forums but generally I am not sure the Turbine Admins read or do much on that site because there is a lot of old info on there (at least in the forum…not very active)
POLL TIME: (I cannot seem to get the Forum poll to work so you can just respond)
I got a Rabbits Foot 20%+ to damage…What type of sword should I put it on? (It will be a 400 base sword) I am also assuming this can be added to a rended weapon…
Elemental
Acid
Fire
Cold
Lightning
Normal
Slash
Pierce
Other?
I saw something last night while searching around on AC stuff that I found interesting…. I saw a note that Blighted Grimey Moarsmen are worth 800K XP. Is this correct? If so what Melee do I need to avoid getting creamed…they hit very hard…(respond if you have any suggestions and can verify the XP reward)
Lastly I would really like a set of the 80+ Olthoi Armor is there someone that can lead or can it be added to the quest schedule next month? Seems like it would be good to have for Hollows and maybe as run around armor….
I guess that is it….Laters…
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: Update #21 |
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10/15/2008
Well I was pleasantly surprised the servers were up when I got home…Good job Turbine. My initial plan last night was to hunt in the Fuins to make 110 but I had nearly 70 million to go and it was becoming quite laborious …Strange thing though the Fuins started dropping gaming tokens (I think they might be called something else but you know what I mean) I had found none of them until last night (on Fuins)…I found 5 throughout the night… I was looting more than normal looking for ivory… but I do search frequently for peas because of the burden to value ratio (So I would have thought I would seen one before)…. So after 30 -45 minutes of hunting I decided to answer my own question on the Blighted Grimy Moarsmen…(they do in fact pay 800K in XP) but as I had previously discovered they really hit hard… I can kill them 1 on 1 but they can kill me 1 on 1 as well, so I have to heal and the kill is not a 1 or 2 hit experience… My buffed melee is well over 400 but I think that is probably the key to hanging with them (avoid their hits). After my sword is 400 I will start dumping points into Melee and see if I can find the tipping point with them…and to beat a dead horse about the Olthio Armor, I am wondering if it would work better against them as I think I read somewhere that the BGM’s use a hollow type attack which would explain why they hit so hard… got my egg from the fort and killed a few BGM’s , died once…saw Beatin Stuff in there and said hi… Seems like the AB Blighted Moarsmen Tunnel could be an XP bonanza… I decided since I am not going to put any points in melee right now that I was playing with fire there so I went to the casinos to gamble a little…between the Egg and gambling I made a pretty big dent in my 70 million…so I returned to the Fuins and knocked out the remainder and made 110..Woot!...
Since 110 was my immediate goal last night I decided to get Hail No ready with ivory so he could start feeding S n S trophies to help push to 400 sword… so I did some muling, not exciting but necessary… I also went shopping and bought a Major Quickness necklace…(Some sort of collar must be a quest item it also has a loyalty major so hopefully that will help my patron a little) I need a coord major which I would prefer as some high AL sollies. I think I have a couple of jewelry slots open for major wards…I am pretty happy with my setup it is getting better each day it seems…although I am having to watch the Mana…
I finished the night running mini’s with Chu after she watched House  . Stee Jans was there as well… teased him a little hopefully he took it as teasing… I got trophies for both S n S and Hail No and muled the ones on Hail No to S n S…I was able to get to level 112 by doing this…I had accumulated a few extra trophies… I got my sword to base 396. Just a few more points and I am there… I am dreading getting Melee and Staff to 400… I am thinking I will work on Melee and wait a little on staff….I have enough credits to spec Magic D but I will hold off as long as possible on that …not sure that will be needed for 110 Eaters….speaking of which I guess I will need a ride there soon…
So my immediate goal is obvious…400 base sword and that is pretty much it… I will see how things go in 110 eaters and will continue to feed S n S mini boss trophies from Hail No…I am guessing that I am 2-3 playing days away from 400 sword…Having said that I will not be in game tonight or if I am it will be just to run mini’s my girlfriend is coming over so she will be my priority… I guess I will blast allegiance on the Rabbit Foot thing damage type question from yesterday’s post… I have a pretty potent Slash Rend sword which might be a good candidate…I also pulled a pretty nice sword off of a BSM last night and might talk to Chu about how I go about getting it tinked as it might make a really nice uber sword if it does not go boom in the process…it is a Dericost and could probably go slash or pierce rend but I do not know the process for doing that… I am sure someone can explain or help me out in game…
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject: Update #22 |
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10/16/2008
Ok, well no news to talk about, so I guess another short ramble…. I did not get on last night because of RL commitments… I did want to do Bone Cruncher but will have to do it some other night… I do have a question about the trophies from that quest are they givable? The reason I ask is the Scrying Orb would be great for my mage but he is only level 45…not sure he could hang on the quest…
I should be on tonight… I plan to work on earning XP for sword… hopefully I can raise it a point… 2 points might be a lot to ask… I will also be on some on Friday night as well… I will try and jump on Saturday for mini’s but not sure if I will have time…(Family Activities)… Sunday I should be on in the evening… So that is 3 of the next 4 days…. A level per day and a sword point a day would get me to 400 base by Sunday maybe….
I did locate another interesting site that I will post in the appropriate area on the board… So you might check it out… Somebody had a lot of time on their hands… It contains different links and info including info on macroing (of course some of it might be dated)
Plans for Hail No (UA)and Mu Lech (Mage War/Life)… I guess I can speculate a little on the development of these characters… I need to discuss Mu Lech with Chu as he is sworn to HorseShoe who I have not seen on much, so that he might need to change Patron if I start playing him… (It really does not matter too much to me) It would be nice if I could ladder my toons to S n S though…perhaps this is another discussion to have with Chu…
I would really like both Mu and Hail to feed S n S in the Col for awhile… That will allow me to more quickly move S n S numbers up… but as many of you know playing different character types can be fun, so I do plan to play them some… Hail need to make a few Moarsmen Runs and build himself up for the Fuins… he is probably pretty close…just needs some tweaking and little higher skills… I am dreading the Fuins as it reminds me of the old days of the Lugian Citidel/BSD of course with significantly fewer players now... I can run them on some quests as well...just for fun… I am thinking Mu might be able to hang in the Fuins, Magic seem to be the biggest damage type in there and his Magic D is pretty high for a low level character… (So both will probably end up in there soon) I will probably train item on Hail for transportation purposes as well… So I can portal tie both toons to the Col and Fuins so they can go back and forth to support S n S in the Col. I have no specific target on either character other than to move their numbers up… I am considering unspecing and untraining bow on Hail but no reason to mess with it now…
So…I guess this update was relatively short…
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: Update #23 |
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10/17/2008
I will start off this update by thanking Everblade for his help last night… He was very kind and took me to 90 Eaters and showed me around explained some basic tactics/rules for fighting Eaters…
1. Do not die
2. Keep your back to a wall
Although the dungeon looks different the tactics are a great deal like the old BSD (I mean old before it was nerfed on the spawn rate back like a hundred years ago)…The BSD’s use to be crazy full of monkeys… Anyway… He explained the jaw thing and showed me where to go to turn in… I also picked his brain on swords and the rabbits foot I have…I am not sure I know what the max is for a tinked 400 sword… My best sword is Slash Rend 47-58 with I think 11% 11%... I have personally not seen a better one in the MP… I have seen a few better that peeps are carrying but with the Rabbits foot I think it would be right there… anyway I will keep picking peoples brains… I know there are 420 swords but that is way off so I will probably use the foot on a 400 sword…He did support the idea of using on a Slash Rend sword, which was kind of what I was thinking. So once again thank you for your help…
So….I hunted 90’s eaters last night… I helped Deadeyed Minion with a couple bits of info (where to turn Eater jaws and where to turn in the Blighted Moarsmen Egg at AB) So I guess I did my good deed for the day …Deadeyed and I (sounds funny) are close in level so I need to stay in contact… He is an archer which would compliment my melee… We have in the past hunted the Fuin’s … Think he is like level 105 or 6…I also did mini’s with….<crap> I think… it was Dirty Bomb… I hope I got the name right…Anyway…I am starting to think I might….maybe be able to try and solo Killa I am just a little concerned about the magic on the initial drop… I muled some trophies from Hail No to S n S and made 113… and got my Sword to 397… I saw Angelina Bo Bina was on and messaged about getting a ride to 110 Eaters so I could tie… Angie was kind and opened a portal and so now I am tied to 110 eaters…I hunted in there for just a few minutes as it was late and I was distracted by the end of the Tampa/Boston baseball game… It seemed like I could hang just fine in the 110…following the above rules of course… Stamina may be an issue but I am ok on potions and ale’s at the moment…I will need to start generating money soon… because I have been spending more than I have been taking in…not critical but I suspect that will slow me down a little…and possibly cause burden issues… I need to clean house as soon as a get to 400 sword…I have a bunch of junk right now extra swords etc…. I did pickup a 400 Frost sword at MP…not uber but since I did not have a Frost sword I bought it to fill the hole till something better comes along..
Plans…Plans…Plans… Well I will be on tonight probably move up 1 level and one sword point… I would like to move 2 on each but that is probably not realistic… Saturday I am guessing I will not be on… (if so late for mini’s only) I should be on Sunday night maybe…I mentioned in the previous post my goal was 400 sword this weekend and that is still my plan but it really depends on many factors…so I will shoot for that but will not be upset if I do not quite get there….
I hope everyone has a fun and productive weekend…
Happy Hunting!
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject: Update #24 |
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10/20/2008 Weekend Update
Well…..Success!!! I got my sword to 400 base and made level 116 this weekend (with limited playing time) I actually very easily could have made 117 but ran out of gas last night and decided it could wait till tonight…
So what happened this weekend? Really not too much… Friday I played quite a bit hunted 110 Eaters and did mini’s… Did mini’s late Saturday night… (We did them all including the Matron…) I am not sure the Matron is worth that much effort but we eventually killed her… what a beating… I stammed out repeatedly… but that was the XP that pushed me over the top for 400 sword…so no complaints…Thanks to everyone that was involved… excellent team work…
Sunday I hunted 110 Eaters again…and tried my hand at the Blighted Grimy Moarsmen again… and they still hit hard…I did manage to bump my melee a bit and wanted to see if I would fare a little better…. Ummm… died twice… I have a feeling I will keep trying those guys (800K each) till either I get totally frustrated or I can solo that dungeon…
Here’s a little review of 110 Eaters… Well basically it is an incredibly easy place to hunt…I have never been remotely in any danger of dying… If you corner fight you just do not take that much damage as a melee… I usually do not have stam issues and can take the Eaters down in typically 5-6 ¾ swings… I thought the spawn rate in 90 was better but that may just be because 110 is incredibly over camped… There are macroers running on most levels… I typically go all the way to bottom where sometimes I can hunt alone… The Eaters there pay 200k which is good xp and generally they drop decent loot… I have pulled a couple of major items but generally they are dropping all minors… I did pull a 400 electric sword last night as well… The fact that I think it is easy is probably based on the fact that it is so camped…so I am not getting overwhelmed… To sum up: 110 Eaters decent XP but kind of easy/boring… (I typically feel this way about most XP mills)
I searched the internet about max tinked swords but really did not find a good site that was able to answer my questions…
Questions:
1. What is a maxed tinked 400 sword? A max 400 sword is 33-55 15% 15% but how high can you reasonably expect to tink a 400 sword? I have a 30 (something ) -58 that is 11% 11% slash rend… which seems good…
2. Can you tink a rended sword?
Tonight’s goals are simple level to 117 (Probably do this in 30-45 minutes in 110 Eaters) I will also try to get to 118 tonight… and I will put points into melee… I am a long way off from 400 melee… my immediate goal is 375 base… I was not able to go on any quest this weekend and will probably be off and on most of the week… and the weekend is shaping up to be busy as well...been working on the house painting and making repairs...I have am entertaining the idea of selling of course this is the worst possible time to do that... (I am engaged so no need for 2 houses) plan "B" is to rent it out... but my experience with that is not good... That is probably TMI but just thought I would give some explanation for my limited playing time...
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject: Update #25 |
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10/21/2008
Well I was pleasantly surprised when I logged in this morning not to be standing next to a Lifestone… The servers went down last night right as Lisa Lightning and myself were portalling into the 80+ Olthoi Armor Dungeon… Anyway the good news is no Vitae the bad news is that I was really close to getting my Olthoi Armor… Oh well maybe I can get with LL aka Beatin Stuff another day and we can finish/start the quest…
It was a pretty good night… I ran a few quests and had a little fun… Some at the mansion may have noticed me jumping up to the balcony and using the BSD statue… I decided to play a game with myself to see if I could kill 500 Tusker Guards in 1 buff cycle (2hr) I started in Lin of course and got flagged then proceeded to kill the monkeys and then kill some more monkeys and so on and so on… (The reason I did this as I know it is completely XP inefficient is that 110 Eaters was crawling with macroers and others so there was really no XP to be had there…) Well I completed the kill task with 23 minutes to spare… I would clear a BSD and then recall to the mansion and use the Statue until I ended up at a different BSD and so on and so on… I think I might be able to complete the task within a 90 minute buff cycle (next time)… Although not XP efficient it was still decent XP… I also ran the egg quest at AB for an easy 20 million XP… and I ran mini’s as well… actually ran mini’s several times to help out Deadeyed Minion…who timers was not up...so glad I was able to be of service… as many people have helped me out, so I try and help where I can…
Chu was online briefly but I did not see her come back online last night…She answered my question from a previous post (thanks)… Yes you can tink an imbued weapon…and although I am still not 100% sure there does not seem to be a max on the tinked weapon other than the 10 tink limit… Eversblade messaged me in game about a 400 sword… Which he kindly just gave to me even after I offered to pay… It is a 400 lightning sword with really pretty good stats something like 40-55 14% 15% or close to that… I also determined what salvage I need to tink my weapons so I will begin gathering those materials over the coming week…Hopefully the swords I have tinked will not go boom…
I was able to make my goals last night. I am now level 118 and I raised my base Melee to 368… I might be on tonight late to run mini’s and maybe Olthoi Armor if LL is on and willing… I will probably not be on at all Wednesday but should be back Thursday night… I guess my goal is 120 or 121 by the end of the weekend…Which seems a little low but I am not sure on playing time and given the camping at the 110 I am not sure I can generate a lot of XP… I need to find an alternative hunting area… I guess when I reach 125 I can hunt the Eater 125 but I am not optimistic that will not be camped as well… (Suggestions are welcome..) I hope my melee is up around 375 base by the end of weekend… I know I will start to have some issues pretty soon on cost to raise because I started my Quickness at 70 so Melee may become really cost prohibitive for a few levels… (We will see)….
See ya in the game soon…..
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: Update #26 |
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10/22/2008
Yay!!! I got my 80+ Olthio Armor…. Special shout out to Lightning Lisa and Purple Shootin Sticks…Lightning Lisa led and was awesome… I am certain at my current level this quest would not have been possible… both myself and Purple got our suits so now we have armor for Hollows…. I will say it was a long process it took much longer than I thought but I really guess that is to be expected… There were macroers running in there but what can you do… it was annoying but in someways helpful in that they kept some of the rooms cleared… I had one near death experience when I was not really paying attention (isn’t that frequently the case)…I stam’d and did not realize it… So I was just sitting there swinging away thinking everything is going great… and I notice my health is at like 50….yikes…. so I drink a health potion ummm nothing… the Queen was hitting me for about the amount I was getting from the potions… so I drink a stamina potion and the damage slows down and I was able get things under control… That was really the only time I had an issue…basically nothing was hitting me for the most part…it might be possible for me to do that quest solo if I was loaded down with stamina potions… but of course I have no idea how to navigate that place…I am guessing in about 10-15 more levels and I would be fine… maybe…
I had an interesting discussion with LL on my Runed sword. It seems to me that other than casting Gossamers Flesh on creatures it’s damage varies wildly… 20, 10, bam 224… The base stats on the weapon look really good but in application it seems to lack… Sometimes it really hits hard and works as is expected, other times not so much… so I have taken to using it to Vul a difficult creatures and then switching back to whatever rended weapon seems appropriate…(I think LL’s point was that the Runed sword can be a pierce weapon and I currently do not have a pierce rended sword… so point taken) Purple said that she had a rended pierce sword that I might be able to have/buy and I will follow up with her in game tonight or tomorrow… I definitely want all damage types at my disposal…
So how did I do on my goals? Ummm… not so well… all I did last night was the Olthio Armor Quest (but that was enough)… Afterwards I was tired and thought about running mini’s but it was late and I figured if I ran them I would not be up late enough today to run them because of the timer, so it would net out the same… I will try and get on tonight and run them and not leave the XP on the table… I should level to 119 tonight… but I might need some Ivory for Hail No so he can help with the mini’s trophies…I managed to move my base Melee to 369…
I saw Chu on briefly and I will hopefully see her on tonight… I also need to gather up some tink/rend salvage….So tonight…. Mini’s some 110 Eaters and shopping for salvage…
K…got to get back to work…………..
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject: Update #27 |
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10/27/2008
Eeek what is up with the text color all my post are really hard to read now…
So…. Sorry for the delay in my update but there really has not been much to talk about but I have done a few things of note… So today I will do a little catching up…
Ok special thanks to Purple Shoot’in Sticks <sp> she gave me an awesome Pierce rended sword tinked nicely… probably my best sword now… So thanks much…
Status update - Where am I at now… well level 120 and my base melee is 378… so moving up slowly… I should reach 121 tonight maybe 122… I have a few mini items muled on Hail No but need some ivory… definitely starting to see an ivory addiction developing with him… I guess that makes my melee goal 381 or so...
My play time was very scattered over the last few days. I was not on at all on Friday. I ran mini’s Saturday night and that was pretty much it…Sunday night I joined the Glendon Wood Recall Quest led by Poo… the quest took awhile but we got it done… I think one person did not get flagged properly… It was a little confusing but now that I have done it I think I probably could have solo’d with no problems but as always it was fun to do as a group… think some of the characters that went were pretty low as we had a few deaths… but that is to be expected…My only real concern is that I got the recall orb but it takes up pack space…I wish it was a spell…Looking forward I can see as I train more magics that pack space will be at a premium…
Ok to reference Christopher Nolan the director of Batman The Dark Night…. In true “Memento” form (Memento is another movie by Nolan…pretty good if you have not seen it that goes backwards in time) so let’s go back a little... I probably should outline these posts before I start typing but that is too much work… So I started my evening Sunday by hunting the Moarsmen Tunnels at AB… I wanted to see if my new Olthio Armor and higher melee would help against the Grimy’s…. And the verdict is…a little… I can hang in the upper corridor and the room to the left where 2 spawn… I think there are a total of 6 or 7 that spawn in that area.. I was able to hunt and loot pretty much continuously in that area without having to wait much between spawns… Since they pay 800K I accumulated XP pretty quick... Loot was not that good last night but I did find some stuff to sell… I am usually ok with one of the Grimy’s on me but 2 is very dicey… Damage can be high and comes quick… but my general premise about melee maybe correct as I evaded them a ton…I will keep experimenting to see if I get to a tipping point where they cannot hit me or at least not much…For disclosure purposes I did die once in there… but earned roughly 80 million so not bad…afterword I hunted 110 Eaters and got in a fellow that was generating decent XP for a change…seems like when I usually fellow XP comes slower than not fellowing…
Now to jump ahead of the Glendon Wood Quest (see above) If you are lost on what happened Sunday here is a chronological summary Blighted Moarsment Tunnels at AB> 110 Eaters> Glendon Wood Quest> and… ok so I did my normal mini’s run… and that wraps up Sunday. Kind of anti-climatic…
Tentative schedule for the week (as far as I know) Monday night on a little, Tuesday night on a little, Wed not on (Hockey Game) and Thursday maybe on, Friday maybe on and Saturday maybe on for Mini’s and Sunday should be on at night
Rank speculation and goals for the week based on pulling stuff out of my hat (or insert another noun)…I can see hitting 124-125 or so by the end of the week… This opens up the possibility for Viss and 125 Eaters… I would guess that my melee will be 386-387… Speaking of Viss… I have started to collect the items for Viss flagging and read through the walkthrough… seems like a lot to do… Anyway that is it for now…
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: Update #28 |
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10/28/2008
So last night was a little interesting… Although not planned I went on the Blooded Helm Quest and also got a coat for Hail to use at some point… Sesa led and did a great job on the quest… then I did a Col flagging with Mu Lech so now I have 3 chars flagged for mini’s let the XP roll… Special thanks to the high level chars that helped with the Flagging…sorry I cannot thank you by name….Maybe I will create a new char to take the Cleverace no death challenge so I can get them flagged as well… (I will have to start thinking on that…) and of course I ran mini’s (note to self get some more Ivory, I think Ivory has officially replaced mana charges as the crack of choice)
So how did I do last night well made 122 and my base melee is 380 maybe 381 cannot recall exactly at the moment…
I also hunted in 110 Eaters and had an extremely embarrassing and painful moment.. Well so it was late I was tired but was earning decent XP in a 110 fellow…so I stayed a little longer than I planned… my buffs started to go so I typed a longish message to the Fellow saying something like “Gentlemen it has been a pleasure…but it is time for me to go to bed….blah…blah” I wield my casting stein to port out and as I am doing that there is a spawn… No worries just need to hit enter and then cast recall to get out…ummm….not so much… I hit enter message goes then “umh”…”umh”… as I am a floating purple mist and then the obligatory message and standing at the lifestone… crappers… of course I caught it from the Fellow… well I buffed and returned to get my bod…. Ummm not so much.. no body… I went back to the LS…ummm not so much…I went to all the portals I have on my bar just incase I my body went there…ummm not so much… … So this morning I was going to log in and do an @corpse which I forgot to do last night in case it ended up outside (I doubt that would work since I was in a dungeon but thought I would try…ummm not so much….) the October patch update had started… So, Chu is going to be mad at me because it looks like I lost most of my good death items… If anyone sees an S n S body laying around please shoot me a message…
Ok… I will be on a little later tonight probably 8pm cst or so… my schedule for the rest of the week is filling up with personal stuff so my time in game will be less than I expected… New and improved schedule: Tuesday on around 8pm cst, Wed not on at all, Thu probably not on at all (Halloween costume party, just found out), Friday I might be on late but probably not though because it is Halloween and I have kid activities, Sat maybe mini’s if I get permission from the boss (girlfriend) so after tonight my first real time back in the game is likely Sunday night….
I still think I can make my goals from the previous post… level 124-125 or so..and 386-387 melee by Sunday… I just need to squeeze in a little play time and mini’s…
and for goodness sake port first then type your messages....what was I thinking.....
That’s it for today…
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject: Update #29 |
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10/29/2008
Last night was a little lame in that I really did not do too much… Ran the Danby’s Moarsmen egg/letter quest (That is free XP), gambled a little with some tokens (more free XP) and of course did mini’s which is great XP now that I have 3 toons flagged… Deadeyed Minion and I ran through them all pretty quick as usual Az was a pain… It seemed like I might have been missing some buffs as I was taking more damage than usual… I spent a great deal of time shopping and muling last night… I did go ahead and train item on Hail No simply to save time… I got his skill high enough to tie and cast recall and that was all I really want him to have right now… I think I will start throwing him some bones (trophies) as I can so I can get his UA skill up to 350…S n S is at level 124 with a base melee of 383… (So I am doing pretty good on my goal for the week but I might not get anymore playing time...we will see). If anyone sees Chu on let her know I should be on Sunday night… Not sure where she has been but…real life is always the priority or should be….
So I have been thinking about Cleverace’s no death challenge and I think I am going to go old school for my character… Seems like dagger is not loved much these days and I remember the days when I think Trailrix (might be a spelling issue there) was a dagger God on the server… Anyway I am thinking I will build a dagger toon… The issue with a dagger toon in a no death challenge will be ….duh… not dying… since he is melee he will be up close and personal… I am not too worried about the first 50 levels or so but after that it gets dicey… Here is what I am proposing for skills…(he will be a fighting specialist not too concerned about the magics at all)
Aluvian
Coord – 100
Quickness – 100
Focus - 100
Spec Dagger - 4
Spec Melee D - 20
Spec Magic D - 12
Spec Missile D – 10
Arcane – 4
Healing – 6 (After training dungeon)
These to follow (Most probably post 100)
Item - 8
Mana C - 6
Life - 12
Creature – 8
I will probably load up on non-mini trophy items and get his Strength, Health and Stamina up then start working on Dagger and MeleeD… I am hoping by 25 to have him in a BSD for the 20 million XP Quest and then Col Flag and hunt the appropriate Blighted Moarsmen (Quests) as needed… I think I can get him up in level pretty quick once I get a few hours of play time… If you have opinions or thoughts let me know…(I am aware some the spec’d stuff might not be needed at higher levels but I can always unspec as needed)
Stay tuned more updates to follow...........
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject: Always avail for help |
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Hiya. Just saw ya post. Be glad to help/answer questions, etc. Since I have so many toons, best to yell for Poo or Sesa ig.. Have lots of diff level toons also so I have pretty much soeone to play with anyone anywhere LOL |
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