Long Since Updated, so... OA 176, Alchemy 145 and more

I went full-on map editing for several months, limiting my play to mostly just dailies. A break to deal with real-life. And Acelon and I have already gone through map plans for 1.9.5.

So I haven't actually done an update on gameplay since October 22nd. Doh! I've more recently gotten back into play, when I can...



Triple-digit count on number of invdrags killed.





Pear hunting finally hit the four-digit mark and still going.




And I sat in an egg's icky whites... thanks to a secret I added as part of 1.9.4, hehe. If you haven't found this, you haven't found all that I added to the maps for that release.




Also did a heavy increase in Lenny kills. I haven't actually hunted him in years, having been stuck at just under 100 kills for that reason. But finding him while hunting invdrags has led to getting that number up to 148.

LEVELING since Oct. 22nd...

This has been a challenge, with levels in most every skill so high already, and limited play time the last 8 or so months. But several numbers have gone up since the last update.

I'll stick to just one image per skill, heh. Though several have gone up multiple levels.

These went surprisingly fast considering I spent several months doing only dailies, and more time not playing at all. Only 3 to go.

Your overall level is now 174-175-176!

And my favorite:

You advanced to level 144-145 of alchemy!

So this happened as well. Amber stock is a Very Good Thing.

You advanced to level 124-125-126-127 of engineering!

These were all surprisingly done solely using the daily. I just haven't had time to actually work on it, though I do intend to until I at least hit 100. I've got the god and all.

You advanced to level 82-83-84-85-86-87 of summoning!

Attack and Defense, of course thanks to dailies.

You advanced to level 143-144-145 of attack!

You advanced to level 143-144-145-146 of defense!

Now this... the Invdrag heavily contributed to advancing magic. Rather than playing with TS pots to find it, I used the magic spell instead. This led to a nice load of magic experience killing over 100 of them. Leads to experience in alch and potion as well for the essies and SRs.

You advanced to level 89-90-91 of magic!

Most all of this skill has solely been leveled while mixing leather stuff for Daritha daily. Thus it's been a year or two since the last level.

You advanced to level 101 of manufacturing!

With the high levels of previous skills, this looks sad. Though considering the difficulty in getting ranging levels, it's actually pretty good.

You advanced to level 73 of ranging!

The Future

I'm actually already back at work on getting the maps for 1.9.5 put together. Though not devoting all my time to it like the last release since we've got plenty of time to get done what we've planned.

But as far as play goes, plans include:
- continue occasional invdrag hunting
- continue occasional pear hunts
- Get summoning to 100
- Get magic to 100
- Um... other stuffs ;-)

900 Pears, 173 OAs, and Other Big Numbers

Since last update, I added a 15th guild map exploration (this time Ozu!) and as well did a bit of humor by turning generic well-known meme images into Eternal Lands silliness (Ran-dumb EL Memes).

900 Pears Found

A nice, round number to achieve. My 900th pear was found yesterday, in the Nordcarn PK cave.

Overall 173

Tells you how much I wasn't paying attention to this... I hit it during a period of heavy afk-harving, so no screenie for it. Didn't realize until I finally checked my OA wondering when I'd hit another one. They take so long at these levels that I stopped paying attention.

Alchemy Rising

Just can't seem to get off the alchemy kick, despite already hitting number 1. Well, that and the essies are heavily used so I heavily make them. And well, I don't have any other schools to work with at the moment on Day of Schools so... experience is experience so I spend it in the alch school when it happens.

You advanced to level 143 of alchemy!

Engineering Rising

While I'm no longer focusing on engineering, it's still very good experience. All Action Points go to harvesting amber, then stock other ings for treasure finders for that amber... Day of Engineering they get poofed. So the number 1 engineer continues leveling...

You advanced to level 123 of engineering!

As for other skills, yeah, they're getting done. Ranging has finally been given a bit of attention, hitting the arena for a few ranging days has led to two more levels.

You advanced to level 71-72 of ranging!

Attack and Defense still primarily leveled by dailies, though of late I've been out kicking the Big Chickens. Mostly for feather stock and they give decent gc, but getting experience nonetheless.

You advanced to level 142 of defense!

You advanced to level 142 of attack!

Normally I'd be in training gear for the big chickens, for best experience, but on No Grief, while I don't have the best gear in the world, I took out what I did have and farmed a double spawn.



Summoning has been hit a bit on summoning days, though the levels have been hit while turning in the daily. Keeping a nice heavy stock of every item wanted for that, enough for 10 days worth of each fur and such. Two more levels since last update.

You advanced to level 80-81 of summoning!

Harvesting gets paid no attention, other than dailies. I don't bother with the hourly experience and haven't in years, just harving what I need not what gives best experience. But it levels eventually.

You advanced to level 124 of harvesting!

Break Quest

Besides kicking the big chickens for the experience, feathers, and gc, I also wear primarily stuff I need to break. They obliged with another red dragon set break, leaving me with only two more to do for that set.

Invasions

Not something I generally attend, but I've poked around on a few. Mostly hunting down stragglers on portal invasions, kicking what I can and informing of the others.

One mostly-quiet morning had a lot of leftovers, particularly in Thelinor, with almost noone doing anything about them. After running around Thelinor and killing what I could, I grabbed ranging gear and sat on this spot where I could pin stuff.






Melinis invasions are too much for me, though. I do like to show up and see how many I can pin at once while sitting on the wall. For giggles. In this case, a motherload of black dragons.





And that's pretty much it for this time... oh, right... one last thing.

The Treasure of Nordcarn

Not quite the quest, but I did find a treasure. My 4th find I think.

I'll remind again that you should not think of this location as a place to immediately check when treasures are dropped. If it were like Joker I'd never post locations. Treasures are very randomly placed, and could be on any map in any location.

About the fire... once the general location is found, the F9 "fire" was used to mark where I'd checked for the treasure in that area. Helps prevent rechecking the same spot again, wasting skeleton keys.

Number One Bomb

Almost three months since last update... been off quite a bit, and on less hours than normal when I have been around. But still, did get a few things done.

Pear Hunts

Still doing these, though being offline I haven't hunted as often, and even when online I haven't bothered sometimes. Not as worth it as it used to be so it's not as big of a priority.

Despite that, grabbed another 107 pears since my last post in May, now up to 830 found.

Number One Engineer!

Managed to make time on a couple game days to mix up the massive stock of Treasure Finder ings in school on Engineering Days to get 6 more levels (117 to 122) in Engineering the past 3 months, and take the number one spot. Looks purty next to the number one alch dude. ;-)

While I'm sure I'll continue doing that as the ings are available, it's getting a lower priority as I focus more on my "all skills 100+" goal... which many will know is quite an endeavor considering there is still to this day no 100+ ranger. ;-)


But those Finders on special Eng day can make for some killer experience... though incredibly expensive at the same time. Takes some massive planning to do right. But in just one game day alone I ended up with experience like this for Eng:

Sweet, huh? And that's not really a full game day even. I do have to take regular breaks from that due to hand troubles that require me to rest them. I'm sure others could get much more.

 But days like that led to...

You advanced to level 117-122 of engineering!

Getting Attacky and Defensivey

The A/D levels continue to come in at a trickle. Dailies for those are done... daily, excluding when I've been completely away. I do kick a lot of random creatures, but I doubt that leads to any huge amount of experience, as it's not training.

But two defense levels and one attack level have been added. I'm now one level away from being too high for 140 cap invasions... so I can hunt pears if they show up on a 140 cap invasion map. ;-)

Priorities, heh.

You advanced to level 140 of attack!

You advanced to level 140-141 of defense!

New Dailies, New Summoning Levels

So two new dailies appeared these past few months. The first a "tailoring" daily that requires PvP/Pk. WTF... no, I'm not doing that one.

The next though, is a summoning daily... scrape up some critter parts, get experience. That one, I've been doing, and even did the first minute it was added. ;-)

I'd been working on Summoning though in general before the daily, and will continue to do so as it's one of my "god skills" until it hits 100.

So a good load of summon stones have been mixed, mostly on summon day.

But the daily is welcome, and will get done daily since it's easy experience.

The summon stone mixing gave me two more levels for the most part though... this second level happened on turning in the summoning daily for only the second time.

You advanced to level 77-78 of summoning!

ZOMG! Tailoring Levels!

It's been a while since I touched this skill. I'd read some books, but that's always slow-going. It was, at the time, the cheapest means to level the skill.

However, many calculations and tests later, I've realized that even with a massive amount of critical fails on white wizard hats, I can still get better and cheaper experience on a school or tailoring day with the low successes  than even with a book.

Those hats are a rec level of 89, and I started testing them at 74. As you can imagine, that's a serious number of crit fails, on something with ings that are over 650gc per hat.

Still, fully calculated, it's the cheapest means of leveling the skill, on school/tailor day, as long as a certain minimum number are successes out of a single carried batch to the school. If planning to level this skill, it would be a good idea to calculate that for yourself.

So after getting level 74 via a Big Book, a tailoring day appeared and I got levels 75-77 using it. Only a few hours of the day as I was definitely not prepared for it.

You advanced to level 74-77 of tailoring!

Sweet. It'll take a while, but I have plans to do some heavy stocking as I can afford it, and get this skill up pretty quick-like once that's done.

Getting Crafty

Crafting is still one of my other "god skills" with a 100+ goal. And I'm getting very close to reaching that goal which will lead to another god switch.

I've been leveling this skill by two means... primarily via poofing Blank Paper in school on school day, but I've also been making tons of C2 rings to sell on my bot, to some okay success.

Six levels (90 to 95) since my last update because of those two things.

You advanced to level 93 of crafting!

You advanced to level 95 of crafting!

The Overall Factor

Imagine that, these are hard to come by at this point. But they do still rarely happen. Only 8 more to go...

Your overall level is now 171!

Here Thar Be Treasure?

I haven't done much treasure hunting. Granted, there haven't been that many of late either. But I think this was my third treasure find. It's very random when it's placed, so if you think this image is a hint on where to look for a future one, you're wasting time, that's not the way to find it.

The End...

Currently expecting to continue to be out of the game as equally as I have been of late for the forseeable future. Something about actually having a real life or such.

But still around, and still have goals.

Summoning and Crafting as god skills will continue until 100 levels of each.

Stockpiling for tailoring, though limited due to gc of course.

Another Alchemy level is on its way, though more from just mixing for necessity than actually trying to level it.

Definitely going to be looking into ranging again, as I haven't touched it in quite a while. I've gotten both the major ranging perks now, so that should help.

Overall 170! About Pears. Invasions. And Several Levels.

A few topics before the levels...

LION Has Been Explored

Finally got around to putting together my next guild map exploration. This time, it's LION that I've invaded.

Exploring Guild Maps XII: LION

12 maps down...

So Where Are the Whiny Pear Hunters?

You know the routine. Someone's just too lazy or plain incompetent at something, so they whine and bitch about those who can do that something.

I held a contest once, just to get people to pear hunt.

It got found faster than hoped for.

Lately my pear stock's been pretty high, so I decided to just stop hunting for a while and focus on other stuff.

For over two weeks now, I haven't hunted it. So... those people who incessantly whined about how I always always finding them, so there was no point in them trying (which is not true), no longer had that excuse.

These two weeks have proven just how much shit they're full of. How many pears found since I quit hunting, at least 56 game days ago?

Three.

Now that this period has proven that they're full of shit, and just jealous that I'm not as lazy as them, they'll have no excuse when I eventually start hunting again.

Random Invasions

Since there's a been a bit more on the lines of "not just bethel or SKF" invasions, I've started showing up at a few of them.

Then there was the time there was a single invisible rat left, could be on any map on either continent, over 24 hours passed with noone finding it. Naturally, I had to go out and do the dirty work, er, the hunt, and track it down. ;-)

But that's Hunter Life...

And Oh Yes, The Levels

Your overall level is 170!

Hitting 170 is one those happy-go-"Doh!" moments. On the one hand, you realize the number of OA levels you have left is now down to the single digits.

On the other hand, 170 is only about 64.5% of the total experience needed to get to the top level 179. Still about 1/3 of the way to go.


Engineering continues to be "whenever have TF ings to poof in the school" as I have zero focus on it otherwise. I still try to stock to do at least some of those on Eng Day though, as the experience is massive. Even without the Eng God I still clock 42k experience per minute.

You advanced to level 116 of engineering!

Summoning being a god skill, it finally got a nice boost with this update, with three more levels.

You advanced to level 74-76 of summoning!

Crafting has been slow-going despite being another god skill, as I've been busy focusing on other things. But it's still going. I plan to hit it hard later. Even have a school day stone gathering dust in storage for it.

You advanced to level 89 of crafting!

Magic... happens.

You advanced to level 88 of magic!

As does a/d.

You advanced to level 139 of attack!

And back to the leveling. Though the next few days will mostly be harv stocking and essie mixing.

700 Pear Finds, Alch 141, Invances, and So On

Just a few things happening...

New Guild Map Exploration

I've been very slow putting these up. Plenty more ready to go but I just haven't gotten around to them.

But I added a new one now... this time it's Legends of the Empire - ~LE~ I've invaded. ;-)

You can, of course, see all the available guild map explorations I've done so far on the top of the right column on this page.

700 Pears and Counting

Today I hit the 700 mark in number of pears found. Shit, that's a lotta time wasted hunting fruit. ;-)

The Eternal #1 Alchemist

So last time I tied with giove for the number one position. This time, I take seat as the first person to hit 141 in alchemy.

You advanced to level 141 of alchemy!

 

 

 

Invances, Hand Issues, and the Mason

Kept going to invances...

However, my hand issues (sometimes difficult to control my hand as well as I used to) was leading to a few too many bricks at once, and I had to stop again. Maybe more in the future, we'll see. Meanwhile, this happened...

Yay? An achievement.

Playing with Chickens and Stuff

No-break day led me to WVF where I used a double-spawn to farm Big Chicken feathers. For a while, had to go to bed after a couple hours.

But not before testing my abilities on a single chicken for a while.

Day of Invasions 

Out of boredom, I hit a few invasions during a recent day of invasions. Played with Japitas and Nasps.

And the Levels Will Rock 

Finally, of course, alchemy wasn't the only level. I took the potion god a while back but of the three gods, it's the lowest of my priorities. I will later do some power-leveling of it, but the other two take enough of my time at the moment.

Though, summoning being one of those, I do have to mass-produce SRs. And here, I was doing a huge creature food stock since I still regularly use that.

You advanced to level 114 of potion!

As well, another Engineering day led to another several hours poofing treasure finders in the engineering school, for over 40k experience per minute...

You advanced to level 115 of engineering!

And finally, more dailies (besides my chicken hunts and invances) led to more defense.

You advanced to level 139 of defense!

That would be it for this time... Currently working on stocking for both crafting and summoning. No expectation of another level the next few days at least, though it's not out of the question.