Level 74 and NLC

Been a busy couple of days, so I've just been training when I can and trading what I can.

I managed to finish off Level 73 at Camp 2. Once I did, I decided to head over to New Leaf City. I like some of the new things, but for the most part it isn't that impressive to me. I managed to finish a couple of the quests though, so some progress was made, even if I only managed 5% in a couple of hours.

After that - I returned to Victoria and headed down to the Sanctuary with Tim, hoping to train for a bit on Macis and Spears. We found the rate of exp and spawn was actually quite bad though (we expected it to be suboptimal - we found it atrocious...), so we settled in on Cold Cradle for Ice and Dark Drakes.

That screen has improved with just a couple of levels, and I'm glad I went. Though clearly slower exp than say FoG or even Camp, it is a place that we can both train well together (Camp is much too slow for Tim at level 80 and FoG is busy enough that training together is tough unless we force someone out of a map. Earned probably 12-15% there before Tim was done for a while, so I headed back to Sleepywood to restock and sell Etc items and then down to FoG to see if I could find a spot.

I found a spot pretty quickly and kept it without issue for probably 15 minutes when a low 7x 2-handed sword crusader with a doombringer and a better speed tried to evict me. Let's do the math - he has a faster speed, but a slower weapon. We both kill Mixed and Dark golems in two hits... who gets to kill more?

Me. I got about 75% of the kills on that floor as I was constantly able to kill things faster with my faster weapon. Anyway - I didn't stay much longer even though the guy wouldn't leave himself, I just needed some sleep.

In terms of trades, I've been getting a few done here and there to help keep funds coming in and funds going out. Nothing really notable lately, though I did start scrolling my Goblin Cape - it is up to +7 str with 3 slots left. I've also been picking up reasonably priced 30% cape str scrolls to try to improve on the goblin later.

A buddy of mine sold me a bronze kalkan for level 90, plus I'm bidding on some more Kahns and watching the prices on accuracy boots. I'm planning on heading to Ghost Pirates around level 80, but with a little more accuracy, I might be able to manage as early as level 78-79. I'm a little concerned about being able to consistently knock them back, but we'll worry about that when I get there.

In other news, MegaMek has just entered the test phase for the new cycle. This means I might head over there every once in a while to help them test - taking away some time from Maple Story. With Tim already 6 levels ahead of me and with a double exp card to boot, he's entering the "sweet spot" for crusaders, so I pretty much have no hope of catching up to him to train with - leaving me the option to train solo or to find a few more people in game to train with who are not morons...

I'll probably just play Mega Mek again though. There's nothing like blowing up some oversized robots in a strategy war game...

Well - that's enough for now.