Lusters

In order to aid my slightly stiffled wallet, I decided to head back to Orbis and fight some lusters for a while. The exp rate there is only slightly slower than hectors I think, but the expense is much lower. I probably won't stay too long, but it was nice to get 4 drops there in the 7% I earned last night.

I traded in about 1400 hector tails and 100 jeti skins but didn't get anything of note. Beyond that I managed to sell my 60% cape dex scroll for 2.5 million, but I also bought a few scrolls. I'm sitting on about 3.5 million at this point - give or take 100k or so. I have won a lot of auctions over the last few days, and I expect a lot of them will be resolved this weekend - so my money will probably dip considerably. I've already started buying my level 70 armors and I'm keeping an eye out for level 70 boots, and more top/bottom scrolls.

Eventually I'll need to take a vacation into Ludi and into Eos Tower to pick up some speed scrolls for boots - probably a dozen or so (7 for snowshoes, 5 more for my regular boots). This will help my training speed when I don't feel like wearing my icarus cape. It won't be a big difference, but it will help a little.

Hopefully this weekend I'll finish off the quest requiring the spirits from the taurospears - though if I can't it can wait - since the reward for the quest is just power elixirs. Probably would be better to just wait at this point.

Vicism and I have made tentative plans to take on Yetis and possibly do a few of the Zakum Party Quest portions to gain the Dead Mine Scrolls. Beyond that - my plans are pretty much to stick around what's comfortable for now - until I am ready to move on to zombies completely.

I'm still at 41 days to level 70 - two short training sessions has stiffled my progress. Still - I am edging the distance shorter every day. Its just a matter of time.

Upgraded my helm and bought a glove

Well, I finally got a 10% to work on one of my 3 silver crusader helms and decided to just finish it with 60%s - so now I've got a +5 Silver Crusader Helm with 1 10% and 4 60%s - its a fair amount better than the mithril one I had, so I'm pretty satisfied with it.

In addition I bought a rather pricey glove yesterday and emptied out most of my coffers to do it - including NPCing a bunch of the stuff that I had been procrastinating about for a while. It left me with about 1 million left, and a glove that I can't use for another 6 levels and its not even fully scrolled... +4 atk with 2 slots left. Probably not my best purchase, but I decided I just had to get it. I'll finish it with 60%s and just hope I get a +8 atk out of it.

Other than that it was frequent and efficient killing of hectors at Cold Field for about 9%. Since I did most of the trades with my main character, I had to spend more time traveling than usual. No one was really online to party with, so I just managed it solo for the night.

I've got to step up my efforts on gaining money, and as luck would have it there's finally a bid on one of my more expensive scrolls which will be instrumental in helping me regain that ground. I was kind of hoping to keep it for the future, but I'll take the money for now and worry about the consequences later.

Nothing to see here

Well, not much to post about from last night as it was much of the same - hectors and more hectors. One more green napoleon and a bunch of money, but other than that - nothing really to report.

I've been actively bidding on Basil to pick up the stuff I want and was pleased to see a Dark Husk for sale that interested me. I'm not sure if it is a good deal really, but it seemed like a good one even after I looked around for comparative prices.

The 2nd katana that I'm bidding on is already starting to get too high for me to truly want it. I'm going to put one more bid on it and just hope - and that's only if I can still get it for 1 million or less.

Other than that - it is a bunch of helmet and 1-handed sword scrolls. I should buy some more 60% shield scrolls, but those are pretty rare to come up on Basil and they tend to be a fair amount overpriced in my opinion.

For my own selling, not much has been moving, but I just need to be patient with it. I'm going to be lowering my prices on scrolls soon, but otherwise, I'm just waiting for the right buyer to come along.

Level 64, 42 days

Well, another solid night of progress last night as I finished off level 63. I partied most of the time with Vicism and for some of the time with a cleric in my guild, CdnMage. We tore apart hector after hector until I finally managed to level up. Once done, I spent a few more minutes there before heading over to Orbis to trade in another 16 sets of hector tails and one set of pang tails. Nothing special on the trade-ins, but it was harmless to trade in, so why not.

I didn't get any drops yesterday, amazingly enough, but I'm still doing well with the other drops I've gotten lately, so I'm not complaining. I did complete a few trades yesterday, mostly for helmet scrolls - which unfortunately all failed... I'm still hoping to have an improvement on my current helm - but I'll take what I can get.

This morning I have started aggressively bidding on some more scrolls - mostly helmet, but some others as well. I want a dark clench that's on the market, but there's no way I'd be able to compete with the bidding on it - not unless I magically was able to sell the rest of my equipment in the next day. Still, my money is steadily rising, and I hope to be back in the market for an attack glove soon - if only to have it for level 70.

I need to see about having someone in Ludi pass by the scroll seller and pick up some speed scrolls for some decent snowshoes and my camel boots. The extra speed is minimal, but at least it will help out on the days that Vicism isn't partied with me (and no other random sins/bandits come along...).

I'm still hopeful to reduce my time to level 70 some more, but realistically, the 42 days I'm estimating is probably pretty accurate. Next level, I should be able to use booster a little more often (right now it is still pretty expensive and only lasts 40 seconds - so it'll mostly be used against anticipated mobs).

More hectors... 44 days

I spent the bulk of the weekend at Hectors again. That place is just so comfortable to me and it has been great progress, I simply can't get enough of it. The fact that I get a good profit from it is just a sided bonus...

I'm now 85% of the way to level 64, and the level when booster starts being more reasonable to use on occasion. After I reach it, I'm considering heading back to Victoria and toughing it out at Spears until I get the requisite number of spirits for the quest I'm working on and then moving on to Wild Cargos. Knowing me though, I'll give up after a half hour and be back on my way to Orbis...

Good drops for the weekend, including a Crossbow attack scroll from Jetis, an 82atk Gold Crow (+6 above average...) and an average dark arten. For trade-ins, I received a 4th ancient scroll and I'm starting to think I need to drop my price to sell them...

I've gotten a fair number of trades done, but as always there are more to do. My money is slowly on the incline, but at least it is heading in the right direction. I'm now at about 8-9 million in cash, and I'm still sporting around 20 million worth of sellables.

Finally made some substantial progress towards reaching level 70. Down to 44 days, I'm hoping I can close the distance quickly...