More Progress

After a couple of days break, I got back into Maple with 14 trades to get through with various individuals from Basil Market. I spent most of my first hour on looking for the people and actually managed to get through 5 trades - all for things I was buying. I hope in the near future, I'll be able to resolve some of my selling trades so that I can recoup the costs of those items.

Other than that - it was back to training at Camp 2. New Leaf City came out yesterday, but I didn't see much sense in heading over there and fighting with others over training territories that are all unknown to everyone.

Instead, I'll stick to the camp for a few more days - possibly until I hit level 74 and then maybe go exploring. I might just do it with my Lizard though - since he likes to explore more these days...

At the camp, I was able to train undisturbed for about a net of 2 hours to the tune of 16% or so. I wasn't really focused on running as fast as I could through the screen, so I'm not too worried about the overall speed in that time. When I need to go repot - I might see if someone is in Ludi to pick up some speed pills for me though (just to help a bit).

I'm still working through the 500 mana elixirs given to me by a buddy of mine. I think I went through ~150 of them last night (which, when combined with the ones I already had - leaves me with 500), but only 20 ice cream pops or so - maybe even less.

I didn't get a single drop last night though, which is almost nice since the Independance Day hats don't drop anymore. Still - if I am able to get some items to sell - that would help my finances some.

For the trades I did finish last night, they include a pair of level 80 boots, a pair of level 90 pants, and a few more scrolls. I've decided to pick up a few cape str scrolls (60% and 30%) to scroll up my Goblin Cape (with 60%s) and to see if I can't make a "godly" Gaia cape with 30%s. The 30% cape str scrolls are all over the place for price - so I'll just pick them up when they are cheap. Who knows - I could end up with a +15 str cape and keep it in lieu of my goblin cape if that doesn't scroll so well.

Level 73 and Camp

Made some more solid progress this weekend - spending the entire time at Camp 2 near Perion. Pressured to find out how good it was, I timed it out at 9% per hour with my 105% speed and picking up everything manually. In other words - very decent.

I've gotten a few drops there and even sold a few of them - so that's always a good sign. With 500 mana elixirs given to me from a friend - I will have extremely low potion costs for a while and have only been using ice cream pops sparingly while there (one pop lasts me about 40-50 hits from my opponents...). I advanced late on Saturday night and boosted my Combo attack up to 9. Last night, I trained part of the time with Tim and we split the screen with him on the top portion and me on the bottom. At the end, I had about 2:1 on the ETC drops of the two types of skeletons (with more of the weaker ones) - which shows well about the proportion of opponents on the bottom section. I think the top has more of the tougher skeletons - so it'd be nice to test that out later. I'm at about 19% into level 73 - so progress is steady.

For trades, I got a few more done this weekend, including selling two brown lorin gloves (500k, 600k) and purchasing a few more 1-handed sword scrolls. I'm trying to keep up a number of auctions on Basil to help keep the flow of money coming in. That said, my profit at Camp 2 is so great with just meso drops that I wouldn't need the items, but I'm not turning them away... I will need to boost my attack glove at some point after all...

I finished off the night by playing my wizard for a little bit at stirges and quickly earned 10% there. With how well my warrior has been going, it is more difficult to justify playing the wizard, but it is a refreshing change.

I'm also working on changing around my crusader build. Originally, I planned for Combo -> Coma -> Panic -> Shield Mastery -> Relax (to 10) -> Shout -> Armor Crush (1). Now I'm planning on putting Shield matery between coma and panic. Shield mastery only takes 7 levels to get through - and I'd like to benefit from it earlier rather than later.