Still Here, I Believe ;)

Still pre-occupied with other things, so all I've really been doing since my last post is harvesting. Mostly iron, over 50k of it.

I turned those hydro ore into bars, and bought a nexus though. My first bought nexus. Wow, that's a lotta work.

Next goal is to stock up a load of gc to buy something. It won't cost this much, but I wanna get about 400kgc in my storage, so I can buy the item and still have emergency gc stocked.

I guess the harving will come in handy to work on that gc stockpiling, heh.

Really not much to write about. Some minor mixing here and there but otherwise just been harvesting. Mainly posting to show the blog isn't abandoned.

Last Night's Wilhelm Tell Day Brings...

You advanced to level 37 of ranging!

My First Hydro Runs!

Sorry, been quiet a while. While I've been logged in a lot, I've been distracted by other non-EL things so was afk more often than not.

There have been periods of playing though, of course!

I won't bore you with the harving stuff during my mostly-afk time. Instead...


2-3 days ago, grabbed this shot of me during an invasion. This is in Naralik. Zarin is standing right next to me. Can you see either of us in that mess of clops-n-bears? :P

(Remember you can click images in this blog to see the full size version)



The clops-n-bears weren't a problem. The problem was when Zarin tossed an arctic chim in the middle of all that. Had to diss+tele when it got to me.



After a server update, there was a new quest put in the game. I did it with no help.

The award of that quest made me decide I needed a change of pace, and got my next summoning level:

You advanced to level 30 of summoning!





I then decided that, since I had gotten all the needed ings, I was going to sit in Irsis storage and not leave Irsis until I got my next potion level. The new Day of Schools (triple experience in schools instead of double) was started, and I took advantage of that with the final few hundred thousand experience needed to level (and I didn't have to leave Irsis since a pot school is there!):

You advanced to level 97 of potion!



Sweet. 3 more to goal! :P




Today, I've been offline the majority of the day. However I was on this morning, and did my first hydro runs!





I did quite a few trips, harving about 525 ores total.


And that's the update for now. :) Oh, the hydro ore will get turned to bars soon, 50 of which will be used to buy my first nexus.

Harv and Alch and Eng and OA and Def, Oh My!

Was mostly off today, doing other stuff. Only some minor harving done.

Two days ago though, I finally finished mining all the iron I needed to make the bars for my S2Es for my hydro for my "buy my first nexus" project.

And during that...

You advanced to level 90 of harvesting!



Yesterday, I spent most of the morning mixing iron and steel bars in Irsis storage. During which, one guy decided to flood the storage with 10-15 summoned skunks. *sigh*

But after that was the real tick-off. I went offline after getting all the bars mixed, only to come back on to... Joule. 5 hours of it, and I'd already mixed all my bars earlier! Grrrrrr.

So, I mixed the S2Es... 525 total with no ing loss! *kisses the 64 next to his manu level*

And I continued by mixing everything I possibly could that was alch-related. Even had to go harv some HE ings just to finish off the level, but:

You advanced to level 106 of alchemy!



Just in the nick of time, as I was missing at least 1 ing for every possible thing to alch mix as I hit the level, hehe.

Switched to potions a bit, but low on ings for those as well. Eventually ended up on engineering, with indicator ings being the only thing I had decent stock of. Joule ended as I was 3k away from the level, so I just kept going:

You advanced to level 38 of engineering!




After days of almost nothing but harvesting, it felt good to let the power-leveler in me come out with those three levels. But that wasn't enough. I had two other things that were close to a level, so I headed out to the Melinis fluffies...

Your overall level is now 128!



Which led to a trip to the wraith. Then back to the fluffies some more:

You advanced to level 92 of defense!





NOW my inner power-leveler is happy, hehe.


Anyway, now that I got the S2Es made, it's a matter of finally making those hydro runs. When to do that... well, I am not saying here until after I've done them, hehe. Could be tomorrow, could be next week. Haven't actually decided yet.

Meanwhile, I got a few other things I want to work on...

- next potion level (I'm harving stuff for that now)
- More time on the fluffs to get a few more a/d levels (and build up for another OA)
- Finally get my 30th summon level so I'll have access to the summon command menu
- Save up gc to buy a human removal stone (my next big money pit project)
- Freshen up my personal stock of C1 rings (I make a load of them every once in a while which last a while for personal use)

Or with any luck, harv one of those last babies... 4.5 million harvs in my stats and no nexus stones, so I'm not holding my breath on that.

At any rate, hopefully doing something more than just harving and harving and harving like of mostly done the past week and more. Thoughts that I need to do that 9 more times to get all the Nexus I want are just... um... some other time, perhaps, heh.

Invasion Ranger

Still mining iron for my Nexus project. Got about 14k more to get.

Meanwhile, took a break for yesterday's invasion. Spent some time fighting... desert chims, phantom warriors, and such. But when it eventually got to where the leftover creatures were too much for my little 92/91 a/d to handle, I pulled out the elven bow and put my ranging to use.

Pretty much cleared all the leftovers in South Redmoon on my own just ranging them, and a few on other maps as well.

Normally I'd just show full screenshots, but considering how many I grabbed for this, I knocked 'em down to just the basics. Just did this to show an idea of a ranger in action during invasions.

I got all of these creatures by pinning and killing them myself, and then some that I didn't get screenies for (shown in order):

SRM garden - Giant

SRM garden - Yeti

SRM garden - Giant

SRM garden - Yeti
(Tried to sneak up on me in the garden area. I tele-to-ranged outside and got him pinned)

SRM garden - Yeti

SRM garden - Yeti

SRM - Giant
(Couldn't get them over to the garden, had to lure them into the building area)

SRM - Double Yeti
(Both of these guys are pinned!)

SRM - Yeti

SRM Garden - Giant
(The last invader in SRM. Walked the map a few times after this one and nothing else to be found.)

Idaloran Cemetary - Giant
(Was picking off people returning from underworld, so I went and picked him off.)

Idaloran Fields - Yeti
(Wasn't easy to pin. Took quite a few attempts to get him.)

Idaloran Cemetary - Yeti
(Found roaming outside cemetary, took some work to get him to come to the fence.)

Idaloran Blacksmith - Giant
(My last kill, easy pin after tele-to-range across the blacksmith's fence.)

Still Harving After All These Days...

Heh. Hard to come up with posts to keep this up to date when all I'm doing is harving, walking to storage, harving some more... Not exactly the most thrilling of subjects. :P

Off a bit more than normal as well for real life reasons, so that's not speeding up the process either.

Still stocking iron for the 8k+ steel and 1k+ iron bars I need to make for my "Burn Needs a Nexus" project.

Last night, Joule appeared just as I was thinking of calling it a night. Ended up staying up an extra 3 hours to take advantage of it, but was too tired to click to take advantage of the full day.

Guess I'm getting too old for that kinda stuff. Er, no, just too tired.

But I did mix all the iron I had into steel bars during those 3 hours I had. 3k steel bars done, as well as mixed a few other odds and ends, whatever I had ings for. Tried to work a bit on potioning towards the end, but was just too tired. Had ings for at least 5k BRs on hand, only got about 1k done.


Current project status: Need about 42k more iron. When I'm not as busy in real life I'll of course "bag it" and make some bars at the iron, but it looks like for the most part I'm just stocking it in storage. Guesstimated time it'll take to harv 42k iron is around 26 hours of non-stop harving. I'm looking at possibly 3-5 days just grabbing iron with that.

If you see me in-game, it'll most likely be in EVTR at the iron or storage. And there's a decent chance I'll be AFK. Lots to do in real life, so I'll be checking in when working on that just to click as needed for harving. Slow harvesting method, but better than nothing.

Days of Harving, FEs, and a Touch of the Ranging

Day 6 of the "Hypocrisy Forum Suspension"...

Offline or AFK a lot the past few days. Had some real life stuff to do. That does get in the way on occasion. ;)

When I have been on, it's been either harving or mixing the almost 30k of Fire Essences that I need for my nexus-buy project.

With those mixed and the coal harved, I'll now be spending quite a long while at the EVTR iron mining to make the steel bars. Mixing at the iron some, and some just taking iron to storage so I have some on hand in the event of a good mixing Special Day.


About 1.5 hours of Robin Tell day this morning, so took advantage of that. As did quite a few others that can be seen below.

You advanced to level 36 of ranging!



Was there a bit longer than the day to finish off all the bolts I muled. Got about 1/3 of the way to the next level by the time I was done.


Anyway, with that no more ranging leveling for a while. Gotta save the gc for necessities while working on the bars for buying a nexus.

And with that, it's back to the iron mine. At least there's finally a general store in EVTR now (at the "egg stand" between the bookseller and KJ exit if you don't know) so pickaxes are nearby for purchase. I'll need a few for 70k+ iron...