My Point Is Defense

My point is defense... and no, I don't mean I've been leveling my defense. ;-)

Priority seems to have taken a sudden change since the last update.

God Change - Having determined I could do some really heavy leveling in it now, I chose to drop the Potion goddess and take up the Engineering god again. And did so.

Current gods now: Alchemy, Manufacturing, Engineering

Massive Engineering Leveling

The method: Mixing Energy Essence in the Bethel Feros cave. Heavily stocked tiger lilly in Naralik first. Using the iron and silver in the cave, mix 550 per trip. Repeat.

For bone powders, I've been trying to hit the PWs daily. On a full run, mixing bone powders while waiting for them to respawn, I can get about 650 bone powders or so per trip. And well, the normal 10-12 S2Es and collection of AEs is nice, too, heh. Oh yeah, and the gc. Can't forget that.

Together, they make Point Defense.

As such, I've been stocking up, and mixing those in the Eng school on both Eng days and School days.

It's paid off as seen below. I started off with a huge number of critical fails, but even still it was the cheapest and quickest method to leveling, the ing loss not bothering me so much since, well, as shown above it wasn't costing me much but a little extra time.

The Plan: Continue these through level 80. Around then I'll start testing Failure Predictors, though I expect the "fails" will have me continuing Point Defense up to level 90.

Engineering is expected to be my 6th 100+ skill at this rate.


Achievements: And I got the "Medium Level Killer - Rank 1" achievement from spending all that time kicking PWs (with gargs and skeles on the side when I felt like it).


Other Projects: So much I wanna do, but since it all takes time, just working on them as I can.

1- S2Es - Besides from the PWs I've been kicking, I'm working on collecting ings to mix them myself as well. I need several Nexus to be a true all-rounder that has the ability to do everything. Specifically, I'll need two more artificial nexus to have the ability to finish the Engineering tutorial (to mix the Night Visor). My aim is to buy those through hydro projects. I'm currently halfway to buying my next nexus.

2- Essies and Potions stock - I plan to have a stock of (almost) all essies and potions for an "Ing Exchange" I'll be setting up... I'll provide finished product for ings + food. Common and less common essies and potions will be available for that. Only a few will be left out for specific reasons... Spirit Essence for example is much cheaper to buy from the magic shops than to get the ings for.

This means mixing anywhere from 2k up to 20k of each planned essence, the number determined by their demand.

If this works with essies and pots, I may expand it to include bars, as well as manu and eng items.


And of course, I gotta do some stuff to keep up the gc to afford to burn stuff off at schools, so gotta take time for earning that as well.


At any rate, here's the levels since the last post, in order...

Ranging - Haven't focused on but took some time on a ranging day to finish off a level.

You advanced to level 48 of ranging!

After which, the first wave of Eng-mania started. A school day resulted in:

You advanced to level 67 of engineering!

You advanced to level 68 of engineering!

You advanced to level 69 of engineering!

3 Eng levels, and the school day wasn't over. I wanted to take advantage of the final hour, so rushed over to Glacmor to do something I hadn't paid any attention to in quite a while... Crafting.

I didn't have enough sapphires to do the normal polished saps in the school. However I did have plenty of emeralds, so did as many saps as I had and switched to emeralds for the final two trips to the school.

You advanced to level 70 of crafting!

It would be several more days before I'd be leveling again. Doing the usual dailies, restocking Point Defense ings in Bethel feros cave and hitting PWs...

Then an Engineering day came. I was ready. I'd also stocked some ings in a hidden-away hyperbag for 800 H/D indicators, and did those first.

You advanced to level 70 of engineering!

[No image to keep the location undisclosed. Not that there's anything there now.]

You advanced to level 71 of engineering!

You advanced to level 72 of engineering!

You advanced to level 73 of engineering!

And that's just the way my Eng levels roll. ;-)

Well, those last 4 levels also included getting the Eng tutorial started. Did everything on it from start up to just before magic arrows, the first item to require a rare ingredient. I need to stockpile my rare ings before I can continue it.


Oh yeah, it's not all mixing. Still get dailies done, and do the occasional Lenny/Joker combo hunt...

The Brief Update...

Had another short period of offline time, but back today, heh.

I made some changes in my path since I last wrote.

1) Focusing on mix skills.

I may go kick chims as a break from mixing and harving, but not planning to do any a/d training for a while. Sometimes as an all-rounder some skills get prioritized over others, and I got a ton I want to do with mix skills. So taking a break from a/d training.


2) Dropped Defense god, took up Manu god.

To go along with my mix focus. I really wanna get the perk that comes with finishing the manu tutorial. In order to get it, I need at least 20 more manu levels, and as well I'm reading a ton of manu books (dragon armor construction) to prepare for it.

3) "Burn found an Animal Removal Stone."

Found one, sold it for 950kgc the same day. Spent the majority of the gc the same day...

a) Bought 30 Archery AP potions (which will take me to the maximum 60 AP when I use them. Waiting for the special day to use them so I might save a few, sell the remains on my bot.)

b) Bought 120kgc worth of manu books.

c) Bought a steel set to eventually degrade and break for the armor breaking quest.

d) Stocked some NPC-only supplies.

In the end, was left with about 100kgc of the 950kgc, 2 hours after getting the gc. :P


All-rounders just can't keep money around, hehe.



I've also killed Lenny about 8 times since my last entry, with hopes that a Lenny achievement had been added. No messages.

But, I haven't logged in yet, and I see that there's new achievements on a server update today. Here's hoping... :P

Playing Catch-Up! Achievements, Levels, Gods, and more...

Been quite a long while since I posted here, mostly because I've been "not playing" more than playing of late due to real life.

Seem to be back in playing mode again, though nowhere near the way I used to. Still, it's enough that I at least feel like an active player again. :P

No way I can catch up on everything, but summarizing can be done...

Achievements

Tutorial completed, Church donator, Alchemist, Big belly

4 of the possible 9 so far.

The missing ones:
1) Armorer - Slowly working on this one, breaking the gear as I can. I don't PK or PVP so relying on chims and clops to break this stuff.

2) Child of Stars - The manufacturing tutorial. I want to get at least 10 more manu levels before attempting this. As well, possibly switch to the manu god.

3) Crafter - The crafting tutorial. Similar to the manu one, I want some more levels first, and possibly even the god.

4) Potioner - The potioning tutorial. I could very easily do this one, but I'm going to wait until I switch to the potioning goddess (see Gods below).

5) Vanquisher - Novac fighting tutorial. Almost done. Only need to kill the final ice dragon. I want to get my Archery AP up to 60 first though. It's currently at 30 so half-way there.

Gods

Still have Engineering, Alchemy, and Defense gods from when I last posted.

At this time I have no plans to change them. If I get heavily into crafting or manu I may switch the Defense god to do that, but for now I'm attempting to focus on the Alch and Eng skills, as those gods were quite expensive to get.

No thoughts on when I'll drop Alchemy god. I want to get a lot more levels in that skill, and at Alch 120 already, the levels are very slow to get, even with the god bonus.

Engineering god... I want to at the minimum reach Eng 80 before letting go of him. Though I'm more keen on getting it to being another 100+ skill so will likely keep him through that.

Leveling and Skills

There's been a bit of it since I last wrote. I won't post all the details, but I've updated my levels and stats to the right of the page.

Attack/Defense - I haven't been focusing on this. I do the dailies as much as possible, and kick chims when I need a break from mixing.

Harvesting - No focus on this at all. I harvest what I need and that eventually brings a level with it.

Alchemy - Heavy focus. Been mixing tons of HEs and EnEs both for personal use and selling on my bot. Plan to continue doing this. Mixing bars as well as needed, and have even done a few more hydro runs.

Magic - No focus on this. I heal and teleport a lot, but have made no real effort to level this.

Potion - I mix what I need (SRs, extracts, and creature food mostly) but no focus for now. I plan to heavily hit this once I'm ready to drop the Eng god and replace with the Pot goddess.

Summoning - Not touching this at all for now. Too much else to do. If I get bored I may go mix some stones at some point, as mixing those at the gypsum brings back some gypsum with me, which I can always use for potioning.

Manufacturing - Looking at doing more of this, to get the levels needed to do the tutorial. So... minor focus. Mostly manu-ing stuff for the daily quest though.

Crafting - As needed. Trying to mix my own supplies, so mostly Naralik/Glacmor/EVTR rings and the ring/polished stones needed for those.

Engineering - Heavy, heavy focus. If it's makeable and doesn't require a rare item, I'm doing it. Doing the Eng daily regularly as well, mixing my own items for that.

Tailoring - Minor focus. My only "under 40" skill, and that annoys me. ;) So I'm mixing blue dyes as I have the money/ingredients to do so.

Ranging - No focus. If I'm online for a double exp ranging day, I'll do a mule-load of bolts at the arena though.

Near-Future Goals

1- Engineering, and a motherload of it. As much as I can afford it.

2- Alchemy, and a motherload of it. Easily affordable...

3- GC to buy the last 30 Archery AP potions needed, then finish the Novac quest.

4- GC to buy gear to break for the Armorer achievement.

5- GC to buy books and continue reading. 310 of 366 done at this point.

Latest Levels

Can't post every one I've screenied or this entry would be a few miles long. Here's the latest and most notable ones...

November 10

You advanced to level 104 of harvesting!

November 14

You advanced to level 120 of alchemy!

November 15

You advanced to level 73 of magic!

November 16 (1)

You advanced to level 69 of crafting!

November 16 (2)

Your overall level is now 147!

November 19

You advanced to level 60 of engineering!

November 20

You advanced to level 116 of attack!

November 21

You advanced to level 117 of defense!