Partying at Hectors

Its official - I like to train at Hectors. Apart from a decent exp rate when solo and a decent money gaining rate when solo, the place is absolutely great when partied with a sin. It is officially my home until I decide to head elsewhere...

I trained for about 13% last night, after managing to sell off the Golden Crow I had for 500k. I looked for the other people to trade with but the only other one on logged off as soon as I found him. Most of that time training was with the sin and later with another warrior (a buddy from work). I wish I could've stayed longer, as the place is just that nice - but I made an agreement with my wife not to play as late as I have been.

I got yet another green napoleon last night and I think the only other drop was a set of blue jangoon shoes - so nothing terribly special. I'm not quite ready to go back to Orbis to trade in tails yet - but I should be after another 10-15% I think. Once there, I'm planning on NPCing a bunch of the stuff I've been carrying around, just to lighten the load and improve the way my money looks.

I've pretty much decided that getting a Str Cape pre-scrolled is just not worth it. 14-20 mil to get a +6 net bonus to strength works out to about 20-30 damage, 50-75 with power strike. Compared to a better attack glove, where a net +5 atk works out to be ~100 damage, 250 with powerstrike - and it just is the primary focus for now. I'll probably just hope to find the scrolls and work on one as I go. Maybe it'll be more important to me later when I've started getting combo boosted up.

Level 62 and expected time to reach Level 70

Well, level 70 and the third job is right on the cusp - just 8 levels to go.

That said, I managed to make level 62 last night, made a net profit of about 1 million from the sale of 2 scrolls and a few NPC items and started up on level 62. I spent the last 10% of level 61 at Zombies with the sin I party with. I was amazed at how quickly I lose money there and for that - I probably won't be heading back very soon. I'm set to fight there from 70 through 80 I believe, so I might as well spend my time at hectors for now. Heck - I lose less money fighting big yetis...

As I said, I managed to sell off a couple of scrolls and the two put me up 900k. During the night, I also got a crappy Green Seraphis, which will have to be NPCed, and a crappy Serpent's Tongue (71 atk) while likely will also need to be NPCed. Thankfully, I still have about 20 million in backlog items to sell, so I am not running low on money by any means...

I've been a little disappointed that I haven't been able to find any more reasonably priced glove attack scrolls. As such, I might have to make a more earnest effort to find a scrolled clench/husk or perhaps up the amount I'm willing to pay for one. It seems on basil that the prices are approaching 5 million now - and that's just way too much. If I'm going to scroll my own though, I still need at least 4 more scrolls of either the 60% or 10% variety (if the latter - more than 4 scrolls will be needed most likely...).

I still haven't done anything about scrolling a better helm - though I have been bidding on helmet scrolls when I see them. Until then though, I've got those three bronze crusaders just waiting. Time I guess will get me there. Too bad none of the higher level warrior helms have a nice mdef to use. If I can manage to get a silver crusader up to +3 10% - that should more than cover my needs for quite a while though - so that's what I'm hoping to get.

Short night

Didn't get a lot done last night, but I still enjoyed some fast drops... I was up to 7 green napoleons before I sold 4 of them to a buddy of mine for the NPC price. When I was training, I spent most of it training with the sin I seem to always party with and for some of the night with one of the guild clerics. The cleric wasn't a great addition in terms of exp - but not having to use unagi for some of the time was nice.

I also traded with the sin for his red magic cape for my white one. I figured I might as well use it when training with him - since my icarus doesn't have a huge stat boost, and the extra wdef and mdef is nice to have.

I'm pretty close to leveling at this point, and I hope to finish off level 61 tonight if I can. I'm well over 20 million in worth of items as well - so if I can ever manage to sell some items - I should be well enough off to either get a good attack glove or scroll one myself. I've got a few bids in on scrolls and such - so it is just a matter of finding the sellers and getting the scrolls. Since scroll prices have been heading on upwards - it is even more imperative to get them now, even if I don't end up using them until level 70.

Oh and last night I exchanged hector tails and received an ancient scroll - which I could use for the Hero's gladius quest if I choose to finish it. I don't have any of the other required materials though - so I might just sell the scroll or see if I need it for my wizard.

Werewolves, Kumbi and Other Fun stuff

Well a very productive weekend and it say plenty of experience at things that were not so productive.

On Friday night, I enjoyed most of my evening at Hectors in Cold Field I. I was just about to head to Zombies when a player on my buddy list reminded me that on Friday and Saturday nights it tends to be crowded, so I just stayed where I was. Zombies aren't going anywhere. I made somewhere around 30% on Friday alone - despite showing my brother-in-law how to kill a werewolf and dying in the process...

Saturday morning - I joined some of the Aussie members of my guild at Wolf Territory I (more punishment?). There were four of us and while high-paced and fun - it is still very stressful for me to be there... I managed to gain 1.3% while there, but in the process used 73 unagi... so I was losing money at a decent clip...

Saturday night was more hectors at Cold Field I. This screen is quickly becoming a favorite of mine at my current level and the only detraction is the number of people passing through. Usually though, I don't have to compete for the screen, which is nice. Of course, the drops that I've been getting are probably some of the reason why I like it so far. But more on that in a minute.

Sunday morning, I again joined some of the Aussie members of my guild - this time to work at Garden of Yellow II (mixed jr and big Lioners). With the three of us there - we absolutely crushed the opponents, but it really wasn't a good exp rate for me, so after gathering 100 horns and 100 tails, I set back to Orbis and eventually back down to Hectors. When I played for a short while that night, I stayed at Hectors for the duration, partying for a brief few minutes with the sin that I party with on occasion.

So I mentioned I had a decent weekend for drops. This is all since my last update - so a total of ~60% of progress:

3 sets of Kumbis, 60% Overall for Dex (finished Scadur's New Fur Coat), 60% Cape for Dex, 10% Overall for Dex (trade in of Hector tails), Gold Crow (80 atk - 4 above avg), The Blessing (82 atk - avg) and 2 Red Cleaves (1 is avg, not sure about the other). In addition - I've also received 3 Green Napoleons and a Blue Counter (this last from another opponent).

The NPC value of the equipment I have listed to sell is ~3.1 million, while with the prices I've listed it puts it up to 20.7 million. The new scrolls have a lot to do with the difference too, so I'm doing fairly well. My pure money is somewhere around 8 mil on my main character, 500k in storage, 6.8 mil on my mule and another 1 mil on my mage. I am definitely going to need to step up my selling efforts if I am going to keep ahead of the rate I'm gaining items, but there's only so much I can do...