Well I could really call this night 32 since I was only able to pop in for the Territory War.  I logged in, SOE’d to castle, and ran out to the front field. I check in with eXo, get a group with Perkaset and kind of hang out.

I set my replay going to I can see the fights better later on as well. This whole thing reminds me of listening to Olympiad fights back in the day, where this person lets this other person kill them and where is a wizard I need to kill a wizard, etc etc.

I get killed once but there is no exp loss, and I actually gained some exp so that’s fine.  I talks to bats (the player, not literal bats) during this and it is confirmed the battles are arranged this way for the rep.  I guess there isn’t enough interest, or real players to play out the way it was meant.  Besides all that I am many many levels behind everyone else and massively under geared to be of any use. Still, this is the first time I’ve ever seen a TW so it was interesting 🙂

I start out in Frozen Lab again and pick up 54 silver crystals before I decide to hoof it back to that chump Rafforty and pick up his other quest.  Again the clan hall serves its purpose as I return to it and port back to Frozen Lab repeatedly rather than running to Misa in the frozen lake and back over and over.  I process my crystals and receive 18 black ones.  Now that NPC offers an additional parameter where you can trade silver or black crystals for items.  The hilarious thing though, is for a EWB you need over 1,000 black ones, which at current failure rates you’d need something like 8,000 to whittle down to that amount, times 4 clicks each, 32,000 clicks (roughly).  No TY!

At around 80% I get invited to a party in Apostate again from Adanedhel21 and get up to 96% before buffs run and we both have something else to do. During this time I run into eXoDiaC while I am recovering from nearly wiping earlier.

I get the real nice prophet buffs here, and it makes one wonder why anyone would bother running around with no, or lesser buffs, EVER!  The more buffs the merrier! Everyone in the pool! Woo!

I finish off my level and ding 58, pick up some new skills and run into Furrious, and take an updated picture!

The armor really adds like 10 inches to an orcs size I think XD  I put my mats away, restock shots, and log for the day.

Today was server maintenance so I didn’t get as much done as normal.  I logged in early and grabbed my Vit buff since the NPCs were going to be removed and logged out until later.

In the afternoon I went to the Frozen Lab, which is convenient because of the clan hall in Schuttgart, and picked up the quest Ice Merchants Dream from Rafforty.  I set out grinding and along the way pick up a Doom Boots 100% rec, a level 58 life stone, and another 50% exp.  During all this I earn around 130 ice crystals.

On the way back I talk to Rafforty, and then the ice shelf thing and this is just where stuff gets stupid. It requires 4 clicks (quest, use tool, use tool, close window) PER CRYSTAL and it doesn’t seem to matter what you pick, because this doofus NPC breaks the majority of them.  I buzz painfully through my 130 crystals and earn 30 freaking Black Ice Crystals.  This guy is like, criminally negligent with my stuff!!  That’s what, 80% fail rate plus 10 solid minutes of clicking? And to add salt on the wound the only option this guy currently has is to give him the crystals, and 30 crystals turns into 36,000 adena. So what do I think of that? This is what!!

I log in and receive a gift from Nefe of some Black Ore jewelry! So nice 🙂 Nukes should be much less of a problem now, which is good because I really do like the area around Devastated Castle.

However in the meantime I skip around the Giants Cave area and tear through about 5,000 beast shots getting 45%.

I notice the old GC mobs are now milling around in the open.  This doesn’t go well for me and I end up running and some how not dying.

I also notice that perching produces no ill effects; the mobs do not auto evade, but perhaps that is because Kai is still within range.

My Binding Cubic is now level 5 but remains just as useless as ever, landing pretty much never, ever.  I take a break!

A little later I pick up exping again, checking around for quests my level but not finding anything for where I am at.  As I near 57 I get a BW Boots 100% recipe.  I like 100%, it’s a fine percentage. I also get an inordinate amount of Greater Antidotes but so far nothing has poisoned me. I ding 57!  All the quests I would like to do, I am still not high enough for yet even though I can exp there reasonably well and there is little else to do but grind.  eXo reminds me of the TW, and I will write it down this time.  I take a break for the day 🙂

Day 28:

I head back to the Cemetery but the orcs are fairly viscous and nothing near the back area drops herbs, so within 10% I am totally out of mp and Kai is nearly dead.  I’ve received 58 Supply Items from the Aden quest but 0 Receipt of Supply. I’ve only acquired 2 of the Suspicious Document pieces. I return to town to heal up and go back to Guard Coleman, who gives me 11,800 for my 58 items.  About 200 per quest item sucks fairly fierce so I tell Coleman to find some other sucker.

During all this I am informed that the other day someone was looking for my loc, something about not agreeing with my noob experience.  Well, I’d certainly like to hear about it in the discussion forum if that is the case.

I move elsewhere in the Cemetery and soon get a level 52 LS. I run out of C crystals so I summon Kat the Cat, only exping is considerable slowly in addition to him moving quite a bit slower.  I hit 56, learn Summon Friend, the Queen Cat, Betray and all my other useful skills.  I then clean out my inventory, restock and I’m sitting at roughly 1.5 mill adena.  I take a break.