God change, OA 142, and 5th 100+ Skill!

Just been too preoccupied to write of late. Just a temporary thing.

Time to play catch-up...

The two biggest things:

You advanced to level 100 of harvesting!

5th 100+ skill! \o/

Your overall level is now 142!

And I wasn't kicking chims when it happened, hehe.


Other Levels...

You advanced to level 46 of summoning!

You advanced to level 54 of engineering!

You advanced to level 36 of tailoring!

Sweet.


Lenny and Invasions and Quests

Got Leonard twice, both times in Palon Vertas after having almost walked into him while harving coal.

Participated in the global (well, multi-map at least) invasions. The only kind I participate in these days. Well, hidden ones are fun too, if just for trying to find the invaders...

Two new quests with a server update yesterday... both done. Back to only needing to kill off the ice dragon for the first Novac quest to have all quests done.


God Change

Even with the new "Day of Magic" or whatever it's called, I was just tiring of trying to level magic, needed a break from the constant essie mixing and bear kicking.

So I switched magic for the Crafting god. Means I got a lot of WEs to make (bleh), but it's a change of pace.

May still work on magic, besides normal use, but not in the near future. I really don't "need" a higher level than I have now, though it would be nice to have. We'll see...


Priority Increase - Archery AP

Decided to get my Archery AP up to the maximum 60 as soon as possible. Been slowly adding to it, but thinking to work on more gc now to buy the potions faster. I do all my range training in the arena now, so killing off "training" critters to quick isn't an issue anymore.

It will, however, help with killing off larger creatures during invasions and such.



Anyway, that's the update. Not feeling too well, so I'm off...

Top 10 Alchemist!

You advanced to level 116 of alchemy!

And with that, I moved up into the top 10 alchemists! \o/


That was yesterday evening, prior to a second invasion I actually participated in.


The night before, there was a 2x ranging day. It was getting late so I only stayed on for one mule load's worth of bolts. Still...

You advanced to level 43 of ranging!

Obviously a lot of my time was spent alching since my last post, working up that alch level (and well, "for the gc" as I have been once again low on it).


But there was some time continuing the hunt for a final quest item for the last of the 4 newest quests that I haven't finished.


And as previously mentioned, I participated in two invasions. Nice to not be Bethel, and not be told every detail in advance. Invasions of late have lacked the element of surprise, and even the lack of being spread out to allow for the joy of hunting down mobs.

I personally find no fun in the Bethel invasions. I know some others do, and I don't want to deny them that, but we really do need more spread out invasions between the constant Bethel ones.

Invasions shouldn't be fully planned out and known in exact detail what's going to happen in advance. That's boring, and no different than normal game play. The opposite of exciting, which is what invasions used to be.

And then last night when an invasion was starting, channel 6 suddenly got filled with a dozen people asking for exact specifics of what was going to be placed where. Damn morons have completely lost grasp of the fun invasions used to be. I don't care the reason, it's an invasion, it's an "uncontrolled change of pace", and people don't have the right to know the exact details of what's going to happen. You're told maps you can be safe on, and that's all you need to know until the invasion actually happens.


But I digress. Spent time hunting down where the monsters were invading, and got quite a many on my own.

Like multi-sslessars in Irsis:



And extreme multi-feros and white tigers:





And yes, during the course of those invasions I lost a couple bricks. I lose none to Bethel invasions because they bore me, so I don't participate at all.

Besides, losing a brick in a Bethel invasion for me means losing one due to extreme resyncing. If I'm going to die, I want it to be on my own (lack of) merits, not because the client is constantly resyncing with the server and I can't see when I'm supposed to heal or even what's attacking me.




Anyway, that's it for now. Taking advantage of a 3x harv day now that I woke up to. Then... eh, not sure. Really do need to get several k of WEs made, maybe I'll finally get around to that.

My Date With Blackie

Movin' on up, solo ranged my first black dragon!







and Blackie Bites the Big One:




That wasn't even remotely easy considering there was no pinning involved. Just lots of hit-n-run, hehe.


Next up, ice dragon. But I'll wait a while to do that. Going to be twice as difficult as Blackie was.




Haven't been posting much... spent a LOT of time of late just mixing essies for sale, working on hydro, and a motherload of time on new quests. 4 new ones added with this last update. I've finished 3, and am "almost" finished the fourth.


Also spent some time putting my Engineering and Summoning gods to use:

You advanced to level 53 of engineering!

You advanced to level 44 of summoning!

You advanced to level 45 of summoning!

There's also been a few hours on the desert chims during Sun Tzu, but not much compared to the time spent alching.



Reworking my plans, again. They didn't take summoning and engineering gods into account well so future plans will include a bit more focus on those skills, without completely ignoring others of course.


For now, that's about it. The quests, and just mass mixing essies to sell have taken up the majority of my time since my last post.



Current plans:
- Finally get back to mixing essies for magic leveling
- Another eng level
- Ranging level (actually only about 5k away from that, so this won't take long)
- Another sum level
- Another tailoring level (need to mix WEs and harv 20k more BSFs before I do this mixing)

Ranging Big Critters, and a Few Levels

Been an odd several days. While I did a few things that were on my usual to-do list, for the most part I strayed into doing other random stuff.

Which is fine, I do what I want, it's a game, hehe.

Most of it has nothing to do with levels, surprisingly, though it does of course work up to them, experience being experience and all. Just not power-leveling as I tend to normally do.


I spent some time meleeing to death chickens in WVF, not an easy task at my levels. Requires 1-2 disses to refill mana.

Then went on to range some big critters that I'd have no shot of killing melee-style.

Like a giant:




And an arctic chim:




And up to my first solo red dragon kill:






Also been on hydro runs, mixing S2Es for that, and selling the bars for gc. Yeah, I'm broke again as always. :P



Level-wise, a few... Crafting level 56, again from reading the experience books, so caught me by surprise so no screenie. ;)


As well, levels for two of my god skills:

You advanced to level 43 of summoning!

and

You advanced to level 52 of engineering!

I also did some testing for something new coming on the next server update, but I can't discuss the details of such things here. It's interesting, though. (And don't ask, as I won't tell. No matter who you are.)



Umm... that's about it I guess.


Mixing some essies to sell on my bot now, then I guess it's time to get back to work on my planned stuff. This week of slacking off slowly comes to an end. :P

Att, Def, Sum Get a Boost

Well, getting the Summon God has definitely given me that boost needed to be more encouraged to spend hours at the gypsum. Something that gets a bit tiresome done too long considering the heavy ings to mix summon stones which means lots of trips. And the 20 gypsum each makes for an extreme amount of harving for them. Summoning does take a good amount of time to level...

But doing it anyway, hehe.

With only about 3 stones away from a level, I finished off the last handful for it at storage.

You advanced to level 42 of summoning!

And with that, moved on to other things. Been doing mostly random mixing, whatever I felt like at the time, mostly alch but some indicators for engineering as well as moon meds for crafting. No levels, just random mixing.


Woke up to Sun Tzu yesterday, and took advantage of about 4.5 hours of it.

My attack officially passed my defense during that time:





And as they were so close, I got the defense level only about 5 minutes after attack:

You advanced to level 109 of attack!

You advanced to level 109 of defense!

After Sun Tzu I spent a couple hours hunting down 2 hidden mare bula invaders. I can't kill them but I can help find them, and I did, finding both. :P


Still just random mixing... mixing according to my plans when I feel like it, but mostly just stocking what I need and mixing to sell on my bot.

Haven't decided if I'll return to my normal planned mixing today or not. We'll see. I may plan to do things, but don't always follow those plans. It's a game, I do what I want. ;)

Mmmm, Finally an OA and Then Some

Had a 3-fer day two days ago:

You advanced to level 51 of engineering!

I'd actually done a few H/D Indicator runs mixed in bag at the turqoise to get harv points as well, finished off the level with saltpeter for later tailoring use.

Knowing I wasn't far from an OA, I went Desert Chim kicking for several hours, taking pauses to ensure I got harv points in...

You advanced to level 99 of harvesting!

One more level and I can become a moderator! Er.... hmmm.. okay, 1 more level to have my 5th 100+ skill, heh.


And of course, more time on the chims to finish off:

Your overall level is now 141!

Sweet, a wraith-visit OA as it gave me 2 pickpoints to play with.

And a visit I did.


Rest of the day, and part of yesterday, was spent on stocking ings for SRs as well as mixing some.


Yesterday saw mostly harving as I was preoccupied. Got all the coal needed for another batch of S2Es, harved suns and BSFs, got some more SR mixing and LE mixing done...

Last night I started my gypsum runs, bagmixing bear stones there and that's where I'm at this morning.



Today's goals:
- Finish summoning level with bear stones
- Restock my EnEs
- Restock my MatEs
- Ummmm... and whatever, heh

115 Alchemy Levels and Counting

Finished my steel bars (and got my first of four batches of S2Es for next nexus... or will I sell hydro bars again... hmmmm).

Got to work on the motherload of LEs I am going to be needing for summoning now that I got summon god...

You advanced to level 115 of alchemy!

Wooohooo, movin' on up to the top 15 alchers! :)


Starting to get hard up for gc again. Between overkilling on leather helms for school day (last post), buying some books to get read (regular knowledge, not experience books), and other assorted costs the gc is drying up quick.

Which is making me think my next hydro batch may end up going to sale for gc rather than buying a nexus.

Ah well, we'll see.



Meanwhile, a break from the LEs to work on engineering. Bag mixing H/D indicators at the turqoise a bit for a level. Also hoping to finish off the last of my "500 grizzlies" for magic experience later today.

And figuring out a better means of earning gc than selling off what should be going towards my next nexus...

Manu Top 50! And a God Switch

Did a god switch yesterday. After a couple hours with the chims, my attack got up to where it was almost even with my defense experience-wise.

So I dropped the Attack god, and got Summoning. That and Animal 5 Nexus are assuring me I'll see the gypsum a lot in my future.

But if it'll save me some of the pain of mixing stones there with extra experience, it's worth the god switch.


Also been mixing my iron/steel bars for next S2E batch. And even ranged some for the first time for a Bethel invasion. Dunno if I'll make that a habit though, I kinda prefer global invasions.


But the biggie of yesterday was a School Day. Burned a lot of gc for it when I hauled a motherload of leather and thread as a mule to poof away as helms in the manu school.

You advanced to level 69 of manufacturing!

You advanced to level 70 of manufacturing!

You advanced to level 71 of manufacturing!

Sweetness :P Though I was kinda wishing at this point I'd taken the Manu god a while before moving to the Summoning god, hehe.

But that makes the 6th skill I'm in the top 50 ranks for. \o/

Somehow doubt I'll ever make top 50 for attack and defense, but I can certainly try to get all the others up there, hehe.



Anyway, today is back to the steel bars for S2Es. And some LEs since I'm gonna be needing motherloads of those. And hopefully finish off my round of mana drains and radiation shields of 500 grizzlies, still got about 150 more of those to do.

All Skills 35+! And More Bear Furs

You advanced to level 35 of tailoring!

And with that, all my skills are at 35 or higher! \o/ Allrounder bonus, hehe.


No experience books involved, still strictly mixing for tailoring experience. And still feels weird being ranked #42 in game for tailoring, yet still haven't made anything higher than blue dyes.

I may change that soon, give some higher stuff a chance. Maybe even dye some fabrics.



Later, I got all the radiation shield and most of the mana drain essies mixed when we were blessed with several hours of Scholar's Day. Not having much in the way of ings to mix, I decided to work on magic leveling during that time.


Normally I get a total of 572 magic experience for 1 mana drain and 1 radiation shield combined. (For those who don't know, I have magic god, and I level magic by using a radiation shield which takes 30 mana, then mana draining a grizzly for 30 mana. That's the total of 572 exp per grizzly.)

With scholar day, got a total of 716 experience per bear.

And of course...

You advanced to level 71 of magic!

IWannaRock, my bot, has been quite useful. In the last 2 months he's bought over 60k in fire essies, which has left me with none to mix in recent times.

Sure, he pays slightly more for them than is common for other bots/players, but it's worth it in the end if I don't have to mix those damn things anymore. :P


People claim there's not enough HEs to go around, so of late I've been emptying the FEs from my bot and replacing them with HEs to sell. Done this for over 28k HEs so far and still doing it. This both puts more HEs in the game (at a reasonable price as well, they sell fairly quick), and helps pay for all the FEs the bot buys.

Simple process of (1) bag mix about 454 HEs in the silver cave (by way of Naralik sto through gold cave), (2) donate the HEs to my bot on the way back to storage, and take an equal amount of FEs from him.

Works nicely thus far.




In other news, I sold the majority of my hydro bars I originally made to buy another nexus, just because I was tired of constantly fighting a low gc stash due to my constant use of gc sinks.

Feels nice to have a bit of extra gc to use for once. :P Delays my getting another nexus, but I'll survive. In fact, already got the FEs and coal for my first batch of S2Es for my next nexus buy attempt. Just a matter of bagmixing bars at the Naralik iron now.


Down to just 800k experience needed for my next alch level. Between HEs and the planned iron/steel bars for S2Es, that shouldn't be too hard.


Hopefully get around to some more chim kicking soon as well.

Top 50 Engineer and Contest Winner!

Been too busy to write here of late, so time to play "catch up".

1) Getting saltpeter (and of course the ashes for it) mixed for my next tailor level brought me up a notch in Engineering.

You advanced to level 50 of engineering!

5th skill that I'm in the top 50 ranks for (pot, alch, range, tailor, eng)!


2) Leonard died at my hands twice since my last post.


3) I'm rich! Sorta, hehe. Two new quests were implemented. One the second Novac quest, the other a hidden one that started on an already-implemented NPC.

A contest was set up by Radu, 200kgc to whoever finished the Novac one first, and 50kgc to whoever finished the other one first.

I ended up putting aside everything to do these two quests. Most of the time was spent on the Novac one. By evening of the first night, I'd found 4 of the 5 critters that you had to find. Not easy!

But by evening, noone had even found the NPC to start the other quest. So Radu offered 6 binding stones to the first to find it.

I found it in about 15 minutes. I just hadn't looked for it before. I also happened to be in Palon Vertas hunting the final critter of the Novac quest, so I started by checking those NPCs as I looked for the critter.

So I got the 6 binding stones.

After which, I started that quest. But it was late and I was tired so went to bed, thinking I could easily win all 250kgc if I kept playing, but couldn't.


Fortunately when I woke up, only 1-2 other people had found the NPC. I ended up speeding my way through that quest as quickly as possible, winning the 50kgc for being first to do it.

Went straight after that back to hunting the final critter for the Novac quest. After hours of searching, found it in EVTR just as I was leaving that map to check another.

(Note: The critters in the second Novac quest can respawn when killed on any map, so my mentioning that map isn't a spoiler. Only random chance it will appear there again.)

So I won the 200kgc prize for that too.


Total winnings: 250kgc + 6 binding stones \o/


4) Outside of that, been mixing essies, particularly those needed for my next round of mana drain and radiation shield magic training on bears. As well, stockpiling HEs (and some to sell on my bot).

5) Crafting ... still reading experience books for this skill. I also just finished doing a full stock of C1 rings for personal use as they were running low.

Got myself up to crafting level 55 now. No screenie because I was actually kicking a chim when a book finished and gave me the level, caught me by surprise.

5) Archery AP - On a reconstruction day, I used the 8 Archery AP potions I'd stockpiled in storage waiting for this day. Unfortunately didn't get any extras out of it. But it brought my Archery AP up to 20. 40 more to go...

6) A/D training - Between experience gained in the quests above, and some random training (nowhere near as long as the time in my last post), I'm down to only a 235k experience difference that defense is ahead of attack.

Which means I'm looking at gods as I make plans to drop the Attack god when it reaches a 0 difference.

7) Gods - I've decided that once the diff in a/d experience reaches 0, I'll drop the Attack god for Summoning. This will be the first time (since my reset in 2008 to remove godless) that I'll not have either the att or def god. But I need more experience in other skills.

And even though I've been doing an occasional summoning level, I've been waiting to get the god to really put my 5 animal nexus to use.

So I'll have summoning, magic, and engineering gods. Obviously due to cost I'll be keeping the eng god for some time to come. The next to change will be the magic god, but not until at least 10 more magic levels.

8) Nexus buying - I did my hydro runs and got the bars mixed to have enough to buy another nexus. However I'm realising two points:

- I'm forever low on gc
- I'm not in THAT big a rush to get the remaining nexus

So I've decided to just sell the bars for gc. Already starting my first batch of S2Es that will definitely be used for a nexus buy, but this could help with my gc issues in a big way.

Granted, I just won 250kgc, but the way I am going through books and gc sinks, that won't last long, hehe.

Overdose of Chims

Got a bit carried away, don't normally spend as much time as I did this morning a/d training (not counting Sun Tzu), but I did it anyway...

You advanced to level 108 of defense!

You advanced to level 108 of attack!

I pulled the session stats up for the screenies to see where I was at that point. The session time started just before attacking the first chim once I had it and the fluff back on their spawns.

As can be seen, 34% more attack than defense experience, so my "iron sword" use on the chim (with 1 diss) and the fluff (no diss) worked as planned.

Also tells me I could drop the attack god and still get about 14% more attack experience that way if needed.

I'm down to about 468k experience difference that defense is ahead of attack. Once that gets caught up I'll no longer concern myself with it.

As well, I may drop Attack god at that point. For what, I dunno yet. Need to recheck my god situation. Will keep attack god until I have a plan, of course.



Offline most of the afternoon, and semi-afk since I got back online so I'm only doing semi-afk harving. Coal specifically, for my next S2E batch.


Try and get some mixing done later, need to get 2k magic and 3k air essies done.

Here Come the Levels

Yesterday saw plan changes again, as Joule happened and my ings were limited to certain skills. But it was enough for those skills at least. Plus I missed several hours of it as I had to go offline.

You advanced to level 41 of summoning!

I had just enough gypsum in storage to quick-mix a summon level. Glad I hadn't already used it as I was tempted to on several occasions trying to get past levels, heh.

You advanced to level 49 of engineering!

Joule was over by the time I got this level done, but got a lot of it during the day. H/D indicators, then for the final few k of experience stock-mixed some ropes.

And not long after...

You advanced to level 54 of crafting!

Didn't take long to mix up that level... had read a bunch of crafting books and only needed about 10k experience to finish off the level.



Did a motherload of alchemy during joule as well... mixed all essie ings I had, even did some mercury which I hadn't done in a while. No school since I needed the results. Nice chunk of experience that brought me up to the halfway point to another alch level. Still a long way to go on that though.


Switched away from experience books for a while to get more regular knowledge books read, mostly engineering books since I've got that god for quite a while to come.


Spent some time on the chims last night, but called it an early night so not long.

This morning I hit the chim/fluffy spot in Melinis for 2.5 hours to get 1 million overall experience and almost 10kgc in drops. Pretty sweet for a normal day.



Mix-wise... got a lot to do as always. Currently taking a break by just harving a while, coal for my eventual next batch of S2Es.

Still haven't done hydro runs since that latest quest has got too many people going there. Gonna wait till the quest hype dies down, which it will once most have done it.

Need to mix matter, magic, and air essies for my next batch of grizzlies/magic experience. Got the energy essies done. Considered matter essies now since that would give me plenty of "down" harving time mixing in the feros cave, but considering there's invasion critters in Bethel I think I'll wait.


Ah, that's it for now...

Was All About the Overall

Yesterday I did something incredibly uncharacteristic... spent the majority of the day a/d training.

Well, some time devoted to LE making for my coming batch of summon stones, and took part in an Idalaron Mines invasion (8kgc+gelatine stone in drops from that), but otherwise was on the desert chims most of the day.

Majority of that was in Bethel. Astro was slightly in the red, but I found using an iron sword and hitting whatever available spawns were there (and chopping down cyclops between spawns when I couldn't find a nearby free chim) was quite effective in both giving more-than-normal experience, and as well giving me much more attack than defense experience, which is what I wanted.

You advanced to level 107 of attack!

Continued in Melinis when a Bethel invasion started, after the Ida mine invasion. By then my astro was in the green so I went back to bone training.

Your overall level is now 140!

Sweet. ;)


New Quest

New quest was added 2 days ago, lots of searching for the right spawn and killing the critter in question, from rat all the way up to ice dragon apparently.

I spent several hours on this yesterday, and worked my way through 32 of the critters (up to Yeti). When my astro was better last night I gave the cockatrice a shot.

In fact, 4 shots. Melee-killed my first 4 big chickens! Until now I'd only ranged them during invasions.

Unfortunately none of the 4 I killed was the one needed for the quest, so I'm still stuck on that. And in no rush to finish it. I'll give it an attempt occasionally and eventually get through it.




Current plans:
- Restock HEs (yesterday's mass a/d leveling wasn't planned for)
- summon stones for a summon level
- essies for another 500 mana drains and radiation shields (and some to sell on bot)
- next tailoring level for all skills 35+ (with an eng level in there making saltpeter)

High Levels and Bar Mania

Been reading more of the Crafting experience books. Last one got me to within 12k of a level. Won't read a book for that though, need to occasionally get in one of the normal books so I'm doing a couple of those now.

Been doing a lot of potioning, both for gc and stocking SRs for summoning stones.

You advanced to level 104 of potion!

Don't normally hang out at MM storage these days... had a sale there and just decided not to move back to Naralik.



Got all but about 500 of the bars done that are needed to make my final batch of S2Es for this latest buy-nexus project. Finish those tonight, maybe the S2Es themselves as well depending on my astro.

Then it's once again time for hydro runs... whenever I feel like getting to them, and as always never announced here when I'll end up doing them. ;)



Those have been my two "big things" since my last entry, potting and S2E bars. Also bought some more Archery AP pots... with the ones I have in storage I'll be up to AP 20 when I use them. Waiting for a reconstruction day to use them since I'm in no rush, with hopes I'll save some gc by getting them to work more than once, heh.


Hmmm.... yeah, that's it.


Next plans after finishing the S2Es:
- bear stones for a summon level (need to make the LEs first)
- essies for 500 mana drains and radiation shields (another bout with the grizzlies)
- tailoring level (all skills 35+! will also likely mean an engineering level as well)

Alch Levels Are Rare These Days

Spent yesterday morning finishing off essies for mana draining and radiation shields, as well as mixing some HEs, both for myself and bot sale.

You advanced to level 114 of alchemy!

Sweet. Moved up to the top 15 alchemists!


Had to go offline several hours as well, came back and mana drained (with rad shields) 500 grizzlies.

You advanced to level 70 of magic!

Also got 24k BSFs and started harving 12k BQ for a batch of about 12k SRs. Working on the rest of the BQ now this morning.


Doubt I'll mix all 12k today, that would be tiresome. I'll split them up to mix over the next 2-3 days depending on what real life lets me do, and mood of course.


Other plans:
- final batch of S2Es for artificial 6 nexus buy
- kick some chims for a/d
- LEs for another bear stone summoning level batch




Harv Medallions

Been trying out a harv med past couple days to see how the latest server change affected their break rate. Actually got 4 in total I'll use for this experimenting.

Considering I wore it during my highest harv events period (while harving diamonds at that) and it survived, I think it's nice, hehe. Granted need to wait and see all 4 break to get a better idea of how useful they are now, as it could just be sheer luck it survived that. But I'm starting day 3 of a lot of harving with the first one and it certainly wouldn't have lasted this long before the last server update.

Go Go Power Ranger? Heh

Well, thanks to a combination of hundreds of moon medallions and non-stop reading the new Crafting Experience books, I've gotten both Crafting Levels 52 and 53 of late.

No screenies cuz they catch me off guard. I forget I'm reading the books until I'm suddenly getting a crafting level while walking through the C2 portal room, or harving silver. These books are bad for my screenshots. ;)


Yesterday, another random Robin Tell double ranging day showed up first thing after I woke up. Having gc from just selling all the moon meds I made, I took advantage of it... 2 mule loads of bolts with almost 2.2k bolts per trip.

You advanced to level 42 of ranging!

Honestly had no plans to be leveling ranging as I have the last few days... but plans change on a whim, hehe.


Really do need to get back to plans though. Currently working on AEs for my next magic round with the grizzlies. Or actually, wondering if maybe I should start playing with the white tigers for magic training now. We'll see.


Made 4 more harvester medallions yesterday. No break last night though I was stress-testing it during high harv event astro. Still am for that matter.

2 enrichment stones and a rostogol came with my silver and diamond harving though. :P


Anyway, for my 500 mana drains and radiation shields, I got all the energy and matter essies done, as well as half the magic and air essies. Got the ings harved for the rest that are needed so time to go mix those.

Will probably go hit the grizzlies (or white tigers?) later today. Quite close to a magic level so will definitely get one before the 500 are done.

Also need to get some potioning done, for the gc. These bouts of ranging as well as buying experience books weren't planned expenses. ;)

And get my final batch of S2Es done for my next nexus buy...

Here Thar Be Ranging Levels!

Plans change... I say that a lot. ;) Actually did start to work on my plans from last post.

I got the essies done and mana drained 500 more grizzlies with 500 radiation shields. That's not enought for a level anymore, but not aiming for a full level when I do that anymore. Not doing more than 500 at once since just that takes quite a while.

I got sapphires polished, got the FEs and coal needed to make bars for 700 moon medallions. Started the silver bars this morning mixing at harv, about 5k silver away from being able to mix the rest at storage.


Off the planned path, I spent several hours kicking desert chims on a Day of the Dead. Not quite Sun Tzu, but better than a normal day since it means less time waiting for a respawn and catching the respawn.

You advanced to level 107 of defense!

That was yesterday.


Today, as I said worked on the silver bars this morning, but then we got a random Robin Tell day.

Now honestly, I'm not quite rolling in gc at the moment and seriously considered skipping it because of that... but the inner power-leveler in me couldn't resist.

Especially since I knew I'd get a level with my first 2k+ mule load of bolts at the arena. :P

You advanced to level 40 of ranging!

But that wasn't enough... I still had time in the day for another full mule load of bolts, so I did that.

And ran out of ammo only minutes before the end of the day.

With only about 3.5k experience needed for another level. That would annoy the hell outta me if I left it that way, so I did something I hadn't done in a long time... ranging outside of the arena. Heh, Egratia Point specifically since there's rarely people training there and plenty of targets.

And...

You advanced to level 41 of ranging!

Sweeeeeeet. Two ranging levels in one day. Not bad considering I'm in the 40s levels now.



Anyway, guess it's time to get back to plans. Same as previous entry... the moon medallions are priority (need the gc), then some potting for gc, then... eh, whatever I wrote before. Those two alone will take a while, esp. the potting part, hehe.

Summon, Harvest, and Random Stuff

Just been doing random stuff past few days, sticking to plans a bit but more often not.

Being close to a harv level, I thought doing some more engineering would be a good way to push that along as well...

You advanced to level 98 of Harvesting!

Just 2 more for my 5th 100+ skill, hehe.


Spent a lot of time on the gypsum in Arius, mixing bear stones in bags there. Got tired of that though, and with over 10k gyp in storage by now decided to use some of that instead to finish off the level...

You advanced to level 40 of summoning!

That brings me up to the rec level for spider summon stones, but I'm gonna keep on doing bear stones a while longer. Mainly because I still get plenty of critical fails on bear stones even on the best astro, so spider stones would be even worse. But also because I've still got over 4k bear furs in storage that were "free" compared to having to buy thread for the spider stones.



Otherwise....

- Made several at-silver bag loads of HEs, both for myself and drop off on my bot for sale. (Nice little thing, bot buys loads of FEs for me, I put HEs to sell on it to pay for those. Better experience and a positive gc.)

- Made the magic and energy essies needed for my next wave of 500 mana drains and radiation shields. Actually working on the matter essies as I type this.

- Tried spending some time ranging last night on the 4 MBs dropped in Bethel to get new experience books in game. Ended up being mostly a waste of time on my part though.

- Planned out some more books to read and what preferred order. Something to slowly do in the background. Though I wanna try the experience books that were added today as well. Currently reading Copper Smelting... yes, I still haven't finished all the tin/copper books, heh. Or Dvarium books for that matter besides the harvesting one.

I'm in no particular rush to read any of the books I haven't yet, just need to eventually for my "perfect all-rounder" goal. That and I'll need them as my levels go up, heh.

- Alchemy level is down to just 1.1 million needed to next level. Not that I'm deliberately trying to level it, it's just "happening" as I work for other skills and gc.



That's pretty much all that's been happening.


Current goals:

- Finish matter and air essies to go mana drain 500 more grizzlies

- Polish saps and make moon meds for another crafting level (and gc)

- Mix another motherload of SRs for sale and for summoning

- Finish off a ranging level when next ranging special day happens (1 more mule load of bolts in the ranging arena will do it)

- Try out experience books after I finish reading my current book (still 553 mins to go and I'm not wasting time in the reading room)

- Final batch of 125 S2Es / hydro runs / mix bars / buy artificial 6 nexus