Finarfin's Lineage Adventures

Permanently retired from Lineage; now on WoW

2006-05-18T23:29:00.000-04:00

If anyone comes by this blog anymore (doubt it, but who knows?), I have permanently retired from Lineage. I played the game for close to 5 years, a good long time to play one game by any standard, but as the game became less enjoyable I finally realized it had run its course, for me.

My gaming life has now taken me to different pastures, World of Warcraft (WoW). I must say, having played the game for about a month now, the game rocks. Tons of fun. Of course the best part is that almost all of my former friends & pledgemates from Kismet have now moved over to WoW. Prince Kismet is our guild leader, we have about 120 characters in the guild (many are alts but still, it's awesome). I created a Night Elf Druid, who is now lvl 46. WoW currently has a level cap of 60, so I am actually starting to approach "end-game" material. Here is a picture of my character.

Don't worry, he's not a werewolf or anything, that's just a particular helm I'm wearing called a "Wolfshead Helm."

Here's another pic of me, this time as I am entering an inn.

Anyways, the game is tons of fun and just sooooo different from Lin (yet in some ways similar). If anyone from the Lin/LoA world is quitting Lin and wants to try WoW, if you remember us Kismet folks and what we stand for and want to hook up with us in WoW, go ahead and get in touch with me. We play on Greymane server, our guild name is "Kismet," all you need to do in-game is type "/who Kismet" and you'll get a list of everyone in the guild that's on. My character there is named Amdir, feel free to whis me and say hello!

exploring episode 4 on test server!

2005-12-01T23:35:00.000-05:00

I really wasn't planning on making a character on test server this publish, as I wanted to just focus on leveling Fin. However, I've had two deaths in just over 24 hours (didn't even have the heart to blog 'em), my exp bar is going backwards right now, so I figured I needed a break.

So I went to test server and made a dex elf, Elwe. Spent an hour or two leveling him up to lvl 12, and then fearlessly set out to explore some of the new areas...or at least die trying. The easiest way of getting to any of the new areas is via Pirate Island. How do you get there? You start out by talking to a new NPC at the southern end of Orc Town, Duvall.

When you talk to him, he offers to teleport you to a secret, hidden dock.

The whole hidden dock area is barely larger than one screen in size.

Like the FI boat, the boat to PI departs four times a day.

Unlike the FI boat, the PI boat is a lot less expensive!

On the boat I happened to bump into a few friends from the Lineage forums, who were kind enough to party me in with them (even though, at lvl 12, I would be virtually useless to them in terms of actually fighting anything.) Here's a shot of the arrival on PI.

Upon arriving we all escaped to PI village, in order to talk to some quest NPC's, etc. Kinda an interesting place, definitely a different feel than any other city in the game. Lots of cool, thatched buildings that would make GREAT pledge houses in the future.

The village has just about everything you need: storage dwarf, pot shop (prices slightly higher than in the shops on the mainland), weapons shop, and so forth. For you pet users, you'll be glad to know it even has a kennel!

After a few chats with some NPC's and a little time for buffing up, we went out hunting. The most common mops on PI seem to be these wild boars of various colors & attributes (Wild Fang, Wild Venom, Wild Magic).

The magic one has the ability to cast healing spells, and will heal itself or any other one of its kind that is getting attacked, so that's something to keep in mind.

Another common inhabitant is the Blue Tail, which is sort of a multicolored (but mostly blue) newt-looking thing that has the ability to shoot a distance magic attack that reminds me of an ebolt only done with fire (red) rather than blue.

The highest level mop on the island (other than the boss that spawns) is the Kiwi Parrot, which at lvl 25 is not exactly super strong...unless you're level 12, that is. :-)

Unfortunately I had to log and leave my companions after maybe a half hour on the island. I logged on later and tried to explore myself. I discovered that, by pumping a lot of pots, I can take out one of those boars by myself, but more than that, no way.

I did eventually find one of the two entrances to the PI Dungeon. Pretty cool looking entrance, if you ask me.

I went down the stairs, within seconds I was hit by two call lightnings, and the rest (as they say) is history...

Yep, there are a variety of lizardmen in PI 1f, and one of them (the high lizardmen) are magic users. His CL spell hit me for around 70 hp a pop, that was with about 40% MR. So they hurt a little bit, though I'm sure it would be radically different if I had Finarfin down there. ;-)

SO...that was the end of my adventures in PI. I decided that I needed to get back to the mainland and level Elwe up some before I could really do any further exploration. If anyone gets over to test server, feel free to look me up. Take care everyone, and see you around Aden!

been a week (I know!)

2005-11-30T09:52:00.000-05:00

Sorry everyone, no new posts recently. First, I was out of town for the long Thanksgiving holiday (gone Wednesday through Sunday night), so didn't get to play at all.

Then, since being back, I've been working with Stub & the rest of the site staff at LineageDB.com to start uploading info for episode 4. Yes, for those who didn't know, I am site staff there, have been for almost a year now. Unless something is changed, I am the only one who plays LoA as my main server, so that is part of my contribution to the site.

Anyways, been working on adding the new mops as well as getting some images uploaded, like this one.

That's the "Abyss Master," lvl 60 boss in the Elemental Ruins. (Yes, I know, all he is is a blue-colored demon. Don't blame me, blame NC!)

Anyways, another busy week at work here but hoping I can actually get on and do some hunting later this week. Cya and gl!

more demons being stingy

2005-11-23T00:21:00.000-05:00

For the second night in a row, went back up to TOI 25f. Had a good time going toe-to-toe with a bunch of these guys.

Was up there almost 2 hours, and in the end, not really a lot to show for it.

I was getting really tired, so I figured, before I escape, why not try 27f and see how it goes? So I went up there, traveled a few screens, and ran into an iffy.

Unfortunately, almost as soon as I started hitting him (and took the screenshot), a lesser demon appeared as well. I knew enough to know I could not solo an iffy and demon at the same time, so prudence was the better part of valor and I escaped.
That's it, here's my exp. Going to be away for the long thanksgiving weekend so no Lineage until sometime late in the day Sunday. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

demon hunting on TOI 25f

2005-11-22T01:37:00.000-05:00

Decided to do a little lesser demon hunting on 25f. Lasted up there about an hour and 20 minutes on 80 ojs, and really, what ended up causing me to leave was having drops too heavy to allow me to continue fighting.

Demons hurt but I found it tolerable as long as I didn't start getting ganged up on. In case any are wondering, I was hunting up there with 92% MR and 70% fire resistance. Here's a listing of my drops.

All told, not too bad a place to hunt. Because of the greater downtime to regen after fighting demons, experience I found to be okay but not great; I was getting about 0.31% per hour, whereas on 24f (no demons) I can get about 0.46% per hour. Still, for at least some hunts it is worth it, as the money is definitely better than on 24f (just look at the drops I got...pm 18k, cmomr 4k, 2hs 9k (x2), firewall 100k, etc.), plus lesser demons have a small chance to drop some really nice things, including rof, str ammy, int ammy, demon armor, etc.

Sorry I hadn't posted for a while, but I was out of town and away from my computer all throughout last weekend. ep4 went to test server today, can't wait to start hearing the scounting reports! Anyways, here's my exp. Good luck all, see ya soon.

wide variety of things

2005-11-17T17:11:00.000-05:00

Been a few days since my last post, real life stuff has been coming up at work so been playing a little less than usual, and that also means less time for blogging. SO...here's what's been up.

Went back to dvc 6f for the first time since my lag death there a few weeks ago. I must be an important person, because as soon as I headed down the stairs from 5f to 6f, there was a welcoming committee there to greet me.

As you can see from the pic, not a whole lot in the way of drops during my 45 minutes or so on 6f. :/

Then went with pledgemate Persiphone (welcome back to Lineage, my friend!!!) to TOI 50's. I mostly went to pick up sgems and then to serve as backup in case he failed on a bunch of TU's in a row. We're walking, and suddenly his necro morph runs out and he's standing there unmorphed. A few seconds later, I see this:

Omg I almost died. So I'm sitting there...waiting...waiting...waiting. And then finally...

I was laughing so hard, I could barely breathe. It was really funny. (Luckily for him, I did have a few poly scrolls on me, even though I often don't since I never poly.)

Then just did a little low-key hunting in fv--not something I do very often. Got a drop I had never gotten before.

Also had something else nice happen while I was there.

Thanks Revm!

That's about it for hunting. However, did play around with a few other things. As part of me fully and finally retiring my de, I looked at what he had to try to figure out what to sell and what to try to blow. His +6 maphr's pestilence fell into the "blow" category, so I got out a few dai's, figuring if I could get it to +8 it might be worth selling. Started out ok, but couldn't complete the final step.

I also decided to do a little crafting. Currently Fin uses a sbos, but several elves (higher lvl than myself) suggested sbom instead because the added mp more than makes up for the slight loss in hp. So I figure I'd try it out for myself and see what I thought. I'll report back in a week or two.

Last, I was walking around oren the other day lookin' at shops and saw this. Since it's not everyday that you see a +10 weapon, I figured it was worth a blog mention.

Here's my exp count.

Past 20%, woo hoo! I think I'm getting a little in the groove as far as leveling goes, so I expect things to pick up some, at least until ep4 hits. Good luck all, cya around Aden!

Lots of hunts, lots of (okay) drops

2005-11-14T00:18:00.000-05:00

Ok lots to report since my last update so I'll get right to it. Had a nice duo hunt with pledgemate Bravestones up to TOI 20f. Elf + DE is a pretty good combo when heading up through the TOI teens. Spawns were pretty managable until we got all the way up to 20f. At that point, we ran into some pretty crazy spawns, like this one.

No uber drops on the hunt (Absolute Barrier seems to have eluded me again), but considering we each used under 100 ojs total, the drops we did get more than paid for the pots used. Plus, it was a great time and pretty decent experience, so you can never complain about that! :)

Next stop was a hunt early this morning to 24f. I had very few "massive" spawns but happily, a pretty regular stream of 2 or 3 mops on my screen at once. Perfect for maximizing experience while minimizing pot usage. Once when my hunting took me near the stairs, I did poke my head up and take out one of these.

He didn't drop me much, but the hunt was certainly not a complete loss.

Although I have only been keeping data for a few weeks, from the numbers I have crunched, I seem to do better on 24f than any other location...even better than the undead (30's) floors. My exp on 24f runs about 0.46% per hour, which is slow I know compared to some other classes, but is the best I have been able to get anywhere.
After that, later this afternoon a group of us headed to FI. Our group was myself, ZUL00, Oak, Rosalynde, and ZUL00's cousin Darkjai. Since we had five people, we had no worries about charging into the middle of the forests and thus, we were able to generate some fun crazy spawns.

We even were able to take out a few of these.

Drakes were being stingy today (best we got from any of them was an sgem and a lvl 2 scroll), but we didn't leave the island entirely empty-handed.

Anyways, was a fun hunt, I think we all came back with more pots than we left with, so add to that the experienced gained plus the share from selling the ohow, can't really complained. Plus, it was our chance to show Rosalynde around FI...welcome to the world of the 45+ Rosa! ;)

Last hunt for me was a trip late tonight to 42f. As is typical for that floor, had some slow periods where it seemed nothing was spawning, and then some times that were a real blast. (Don't forget to click the pic for a larger version!)

At the end, after I had exhausted my 3500+ arrows I had brought with me, there were still two ig's following me around. So I looked at my (full) mp bar and decided to wind shuriken them to death. Killed them both without even running out of mana! Heh, felt almost like a mage for a moment there.

As for drops...once again, 42f is being very good to me. This is my take for a hunt that lasted just over an hour and a half.

So, when my night of hunting was finished, I guess I was feeling lucky (as a result of getting yet ANOTHER bzel). So I pull a czel and that bzel out, get my +6 ets, and go to work. Result? Bzel went +1, so back to a +6 ets. :( So I pull another bzel and czel out of storage, repeat. +6 again. :( Pull a THIRD bzel and czel out of storage. Result?

That really, really sucks. That means, during my entire time on LoA server, I have never had a "success" using a bzel. Putting bzels on +5 ib, I am 0-for-2. Putting bzels on one-under-safe armors, I am now 0-for-5. Yech. Damn, my luck better improve soon. :/

Anyways, that's it for me, overall a very successful weekend. Here's my bar.

Gonna be a busy week for me but hopefully I'll get a little time each day to play. Cya all around the world of Aden...gl!

Chronology of a TOI 80's hunt

2005-11-12T15:46:00.000-05:00

For those who have ever wondered what TOI is like on the really high floors, I was always someone wondering along with you...until I got the chance to experience it myself. Here's the account of my rookie journey up there, for your enjoyment and (for those considering making such a trip in the future), perhaps your benefit in terms of hunting tips for the different floors.

I log on Friday night, stock up, and am on my way to 35f to do some leveling when I get an invite to join three of my pledgemates up on TOI 81f. I must admit, I was a little skeptical, but eventually I got talked into going. So I wander Oren til I find a shop selling an 81f scroll (only 900k, not too bad)(gack), stock up for a LONG hunt, and hang out in bp house until it is safe to go.

Upon arriving, HeavensBlade escorts me to an enclosed room where he, ShadowFyre, and DreamTime had set themselves up...unofficially dubbed "Fort Kismet."

As you can see, it is a good place to set up. Blade can run around and gather mops, bring them to the doorway to 1:1 them, with Fyre and I providing distance attack and DT healing/i2h-ing/coc-ing/etc. as needed.

Floor has Insolent Zenith Queens, Lesser Seers, and Marquise Vampires. Was able to get two of the three in one shot above (with a cut & paste on a title).

Only problem with this spot? It was actually too easy...too boring. So after a while, we packed up to head to 82f. Here's us cautiously making our way to the 82f stairs.

We ended up on 82f, and made our way and set up shop at the base of the stairs to 83f, figuring if things got out of control, we could escape up steps. Once again, here is the set-up.

With ZQ's and Seers, it is important for the tank to engage the mop far enough away from the support crew that the area attack does not "get" them.

After doing this a while, we were having much success at killing mops, all was working very efficiently...however, our inquisitive nature was getting the best of us. We noticed that LineageDB had absolutely NO drop info for one of the mops on 83f, the Zombie Lord of Fear. So we very cautiously headed up there. Upon arriving, we found a nice enclosed room not too far from the stairs, set up our support peeps against the back wall, and sent our bait out running around looking for some fun.

And here's our first ZL kill.

We learned that ZL's have a TON of hp, but their attack is not that bad. They have a distance/area attack that reaches about a quarter screen. As for their melee attack, it seems to do maybe a little under 200 hp per hit.

After deciding these guys weren't so bad, we went wandering around 83f looking for a little higher spawn. We didn't have to look long.

So after some hunting on 83f, we went back to 82f a while, then towards the end of our night back to 83f. Our second time wandering up there, we came across a sort of dead-end hallway that had at least 10 or 12 mops all gathered together. This shot is only a small portion of them.

So after scouting out the immediate area, we set up "trap" area at a doorway with the hopes of luring the mops out and ending them one at a time.

The spot worked great on the Queens and Seers.

With ZL's, we had to back up the bow peeps a little to stay out of range of the area attack.

And so we worked, til we had systematically lured & slaughtered that whole huge group of mops. To say we were feeling pretty good about ourselves at this point would be an understatement.

We had every reason to be confident. We had been up on the 80's for at least 4 hours, almost 5 hours. We had killed everything we had run across and really done it without any major crises or even very many "close calls." I was so confident myself that I had even taken the hotkey I normally use for escape scrolls and hotkeyed something else in that slot instead.

We were standing where you see us above, talking about how tired we all were (it was past 2:00 a.m. my time!), how both Fyre and I were totally out of wafers, and so forth...when off just to our left comes one mop (ZQ), then a second, then a 3-pack of Seers all right on top of each other (so it looked from across the screen like it was only one). Before I knew what happened DT was down, the other 3 of us scatter to try to separate mops, but even more started coming, it was clear things were out of control, at some point Blade and Fyre escaped, I see DT's dead body yelling at me, "esc esc," and I'm hitting the button BUT THE DARN THING WON'T ESCAPE WHY AM I NOT ESCAPING WHY WHY WHY AM I NOT ESCAPING.....ARR....GAHHHHH.......

Note to self: no matter how well a hunt is going, when hunting on TOI 83f, never, ever, EVER decide to un-hotkey escape scrolls.

So...that was the end of our adventure. In the end during our 5+ hour adventure we got one 91f scroll, maybe 6 or 8 ndais (Zombie Lord's seem to drop ndai maybe 1 in 4 times), and 4 czels. 91f scroll worth a million, so basically I made back about 400k of the 900k scroll cost. But it was a darned good time. Unlike the last trip up there that Blade, Fyre, and DT made (when they got SB Advanced Spirit), we didn't get any uber drops. Definitely not the kinda place someone can hunt everyday, but for a once in a great while kinda trip, it was worth it.

Didn't get a shot of my exp bar, but around 18.2% or so now. Tuesday marks the 1 month mark since hitting 50, maybe I can be up to 20% by then. Until later, have a great day!

Some great progress

2005-11-11T17:03:00.000-05:00

Been a couple of days since posting, but going back since my last post, first thing to report was a good 35f hunt. Dancing swords on that floor are a pain, and the marksmen can hurt, but what makes it great (as a bow elf) is seeing one of these "easy experience" 3-pack spawns.

These were my drops of note after about 90 minutes.

Using those zels, I already had enough irons in storage for one ib. Oh well.

Had a couple of hunts to 42f the last few days. Here are some screens of the action. (Reminder, you can click on the image to pull up a larger version of the picture!)

I must say, besides the good times and pretty good exp, the drop gods have been starting to look favorably on me again.

Last thing, this was a kinda neato sceenshot I took of myself in the midst of a NT. I thought it was neat looking, at least.

Here's the experience update. Progress, progress, progress.

Haven't had a ton of time to hunt, but also haven't died again, since moving back to water. Good decision, I think. :)

Weekend coming on, so hopefully some more time for Lineage. Cya all later!

A different adventure

2005-11-09T01:02:00.000-05:00

Decided to do a little something different today. I often hunt 11f, as it is a nice floor for elves to hunt due to our great MR. Anyways, I decided not to stay on 11f, but to see how high I could get. So I loaded up myself with 3k mith arrows, plenty of wafer candies, and 80 ancient ojs and began the climb. Where did I end up? Nowhere less than 20f itself, which I ended up hunting for nearly 40 minutes. Here's a pic of me just as I had come up to 20f, along with some of the drops I got along the way.

I was hoping for Absolute Barrier (very rare drop from Wicked Beholders), but alas, no such luck. Maybe next time!

After that, I got a little itchy with all the irons and zels in my inventory. Had enough iron for two ib's, got one to go +5.

So once again, I got one of my bzels out of my inventory. Might as well go for the grand slam, eh?

Oh well. That's 0-for-2 on bzelling +5 ib. Maybe I'll get it next time.

Then later on tonight, went on a hunt to 42f. Here's a shot of me taking out horrific ig's, as well as a nice 3-pack ghost spawn I ran into when I poked my head up onto 43f.

Nothing super spectacular, but my 90 minutes or so up there did net me a few things.

That's it for my hunting reports. Here's the experience update.

I've now passed the 1/6 mark. Hopefully I can cut down the deaths and thus accelerate the progress forward. Next milestone, 20%. Have a great day, see everyone tomorrow!

Good exp but not much else

2005-11-07T13:57:00.000-05:00

Decided to take yesterday (Sunday) as an experience-getting day. Spent over an hour on 24f, which had some pretty wild spawns. Notice the numbers of fire eggs I count off in these various shots.

From all of that, the grand total of my interesting/good drops was

So from there, went to 35f, again for over an hour. Just over 90 minutes in fact. Had a couple of wild, crazy spawns that caused so much panic I couldn't even take a screenshot. (Worst was a 3-pack of sparts, two dancing swords, and a marksman all at once!) This was the best shot I actually got, pretty lame I know.

Drops here were better, though still not good. One nzel in 90 minutes? Gack, that's pretty lousy.

In other news, this was one of the more interesting comments I've had addressed to me at Giran X.

What can I say? My foot, sure enough, was in the jello cube, as this close-up demonstrates.

Somehow, something about this whole incident just seems..."wrong." o.o

Anyhoo, that's it for the weekend. Back to the work week. Here's the exp bar, I've passed the 1/7 way there! Woo hoo! (It's the small things that matter...)

Have a good week, everyone. Cya around.

That's it, experiment over

2005-11-06T09:23:00.000-05:00

Do you ever love something & hate it at the same time? Well as you can probably tell from my last week's worth of posts, I really loved the entangle spell. Too much. It's kinda like a drug. "I have entangle, I can hunt lesser dragons. I have entangle, I can hunt lesser dragons..." The problem is, "hunting lesser dragons" too often means, "dying to lesser dragons."

This one wasn't exactly my fault. See that big pack of mops just to my left? Those were all aggro on a mage, while I was just killing one ghost by myself. Well the mage was running and got scared I think, and escaped...when he was just a few cells away from me. Result? Of course, all those mops aggro on the next nearest victim--which just happened to be me. :-( So there's death #9 at 49.

SO...that was the final straw. I realized, as long as I am earth, I am going to feel the call to hunt ld's. And as long as I hunt ld's, I am probably never going to hit 50. lol. So, back to Ellyone.

Bye bye entangle.

Hello again, water!

Now that I'm back in my old familiar (and safer) line, I set myself to some hunting. Went to 35f but was having some huge lag issues almost immediately. Scariest moment was when I had 3 dancing swords coming at me at once, and my whole screen froze for at least 10 seconds. o.o Thankfully I knew enough to keep hitting the oj button even though I couldn't see anything happening.

So I had to leave 35f almost immediately (too risky). Shut down my computer, did a little hunting in fv just to test out the lag (much better after restart). Nothing of note in drops there, only interesting thing was I got my candies mixed up in my inventory, and so went to pop a wafer candy but instead got this.

Heh, caused a bit of confusion. Never having played a mage, I didn't know what a wis pot candy looked like!

After my little fv jaunt, lag seemed gone but it was now Lineage night, so I didn't want to go to TOI 30's, so went 42f instead.

Was up there an hour and a half, but other than a few rich ghosts, really boring night for drops.

Only kinda funny thing that happened, this drop was the first of its kind I have gotten up on that floor.

Now, you might be laughing, but hey, I can sell those babies for 55a each in oum cave. That's cold, hard cash (to the tune of 15.4k) in my pocket, baby!

o.o

Ok anyways, here's the inching-forward-slower-than-a-slowed-iron-golem experience bar. Between my fv and 42f time, at least I was able to make up the lost exp from the death.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, everyone!

Relatively quiet couple of days

2005-11-05T00:52:00.000-05:00

Started off yesterday by deciding to work on some overenchants. First priority was to try to make a +7 es for me to use; over the last couple of weeks I had already blown three es's, so I figured the odds were on my side. I made three more, as well as two iboots using irons I had collected hunting 42f. Of those five items, four blew. :-(

The only thing that went was one of the ib's.

So I took them and promptly took out one of my bzels from a recent hunt, hoping to get the coveted +7 ib overenchant. Instead...

While we're on the topic of "bad news," I sadly have this to report.

Being as I have been hunting up there rather successfully lately, you might wonder what happened. Well, I wasn't up on 41f for the purpose of hunting ld's, but rather, was simply running through the floor on my way to 42f to hunt up there. However, I saw a ld, and I couldn't control my urge to take it down. Unfortunately, things didn't go exactly as planned...I think this snippet from pledge chat is all you need by way of explanation why not.

That's death #8 at lvl 49. Would be almost 1/4 of the way to 50 by now if it wasn't for those deaths. Oh well, if I dwell on that too long, I might get depressed. SO...in other news, spent some time hunting the last two days. Kinda a variety of places: 11f, 24f, 42f, mlc 6f, and a pledge hunt to TOI 2f-9f. Here as some shots of the action.

As for drops, here are the interesting ones.

Last, here are my experience bars at logoff, last night and tonight.

That's it for now. Enjoy the weekend, everyone!

Some things old and some things new

2005-11-03T00:18:00.000-05:00

Right when I logged on yesterday, got a call in pledge chat that Doppleganger boss was up from JaegerSpirit. Fun boss to fight, only because it is constantly morphing into different forms.

He ended after maybe a minute or two. Drops?

If this isn't the worst-dropping boss in the game, I don't know what is. Pathetic!

Anyways, after that we split up and went to check on some other bosses. Didn't find anything else up, but in my brief few minutes in ant caves making my way to queen's lair, did pick up a little something along the way.

Not bad for three minutes in the caves.

From there, I proceeded on a 42f hunt. Nothing spectacular, but par for the course. (P.S. I love it when horrific ig's just line up in a parade to be killed one after another!)

Drops were okay.

Earlier today also spent a little time on 41f again hunting dragons. I don't know if these things are just great droppers or if I have been extremely lucky, but this is my fourth bzel from them in 5 or 6 hours of hunting there.

Well, some other stuff happened but I am getting really tired, so I think I'll end this for now and take it up from here next time I update.

Oh, one last thing. My pledgemate DreamTime is in the market to buy SB Immune to Harm.

So if you have one to sell, whis or letter him.

Here's the exp bar (not very rapid progress, I know, but with hunting on 41f and all I've been a little more focused on drops than experience the last few days.)

Thanks, gn and gl all!

Playtime with Lesser Dragons

2005-11-01T01:18:00.000-05:00

After more event-related disappointments, I decided to forget anything having to do with the event and just hunt. Wanting to take advantage of entangle, I went back to TOI 41f.

Spent between one and two hours there, didn't have much to show for it except for the typical boatload of spellbooks (tame monster, fireball, haste, weapon break, etc.)

However, after a little break to get some food and watch Monday Night Football, I headed back up to 41f for another hour. At one point when my spirit got full, I dismissed it and saw...

Pulled up an ID scroll, and behold

So finally, after a couple hours of just junk drops, I got something nice. :)

That was really about it for my day. Gained right at my 0.75% per day goal.

Before signing off, wanted to say thanks to the second person who's now mentioned my blog-in game. Thanks, Tekniko!

Good night everyone. Cya tomorrow, for the (merciful) conclusion of the "event." Be safe tonight!

Major change for Fin!

2005-10-30T22:55:00.000-05:00

As the title of my blog indicates, I have been and consider myself a water elf. However, I have been intrigued by earth ever since entangle and earth bind were added to the game. So on a whim I decided to switch lines for maybe a week or so and see how I like earth.

For those who have done this before, you know that the first thing you need to do when you go see Ellyone on the 2nd floor of Ivory Tower is to rid yourself of your old line.

So after ridding myself of my waterly powers, I took upon myself the sacred power of the earth.

Here's a pic of my spell window with the new spells.

Having made the switch, I went with pledgemate Ebony up to TOI 41f to go try out my new earth spells on some lesser dragons. All I can say is...hmm...takes a while to get used to how to use them effectively.

:-( Yep, death #7 at lvl 49, for those of you counting at home.

Anyhoo, after a good night's sleep (aided by the extra hour due to "fall back" on the clock), I woke up refreshed this morning and decided to try to gain back some of the experience of the last few days. Spent some time hunting on 24f and experimenting with my new spells on some slightly less dangerous mops. Had a good hunt, here's the drops from my hour or maybe 90 minute hunt.

Having feeling like I had gotten it down, I went back to 41f, this time alone, to try things out again. I must say, I have been less than impressed with earth bind. It tends to work almost always, but from my experience, things only stay frozen for 4-5 seconds on average...barely time to make a difference. In fact, only real use seems to be on pledge hunts if a pledgemate is getting creamed, you can bind him and he will stop taking damage, giving mages/elves an opportunity to heal the person. Anyways, here is the one pic I was able to take of an earth bind in action, and even then, it's not the best pic in the world.

Now entangle, on the other hand, is a fabulous spell. I love it. Extremely useful in helping an elf to kite mops. If a mop (or a person) is hasted, then the first cast of entangle cancels the haste, and you need a second cast to truly slow the person. I must say, seeing fire eggs entangled is hysterical, they are SOOOOO slow. Anyways, here's some shots of entangle in action.

I spent maybe 90 minutes up on 41f toying around with all this. Didn't die (which is good!), but it takes SO long to kill these darned things, I didn't exactly gain a whole lot of experience either. However, had some real good luck with drops.

After that, spent an hour up on 34f/35f to get some experience.

So, I've only been earth for a day, but I have a feeling this is not going to be a permanent switch. While it is true I love entangle, overall I found myself having to stop and regen a lot more often than when I was water, which means overall killing everything slower and gaining experience slower. It's great for hunting for drops (no way I could solo lesser dragon's without entangle), but right now my main priority is trying to hit 50, and I just don't see earth being as useful to me for accomplishing that. Look at it this way: with Nature's Touch being +15 hp per tick, and a con elf getting a hp tick every 6 seconds while hunting (some ppl even say every 5 seconds), that means being water means an extra 150 (or 180) hp per minute. Considering my average hunts last 90 minutes, being water translates into potentially an extra 13,500 (or 16,200) hp of damage I can take.

SO...we'll see. I'm gonna give it a few more days and see.

Well, here's the experience. See you tomorrow, hopefully the boss part of this event will finally be something all of us can enjoy. Ciao!

weekend update

2005-10-29T14:53:00.000-04:00

Started out this fine Saturday morning with a few things non-hunting-related. First, I think this is the first in-game acknowledgment of my blog. Thanks Excalibur1!

The other thing is I was wandering around Oren shopping around, saw this (very rare) item in a shop.

After that, headed up for a 42f hunt. Had some really nice spawns, lots of 3-packs of hig's and plenty of ghosts.

No powergloves or bzels, but did get a nice variety of drops in only about one hour.

After that, decided to go hunt dvc 6f. For the entire time I was down there, everything seemed very laggy...almost like the (slight) lag I get in the steamy areas of fire valley. Anyways, that combined with getting jumped by a few things, resulted in this.

Damn. Death #6 at lvl 49. Not good.
Well, since event is boring and the death has me bummed, figured I'd take a break for the rest of the day, at least until tonight. Thus the early "daily" blogging. Who knows, if I play tonight and something exciting happens, I'll add an addendum. Otherwise, with that death, my exp is back down to 10.9748. Good luck all, cya soon.

My first event prize

2005-10-29T14:37:00.000-04:00

Well, despite the spawn spots being horribly camped, I did manage to kill a few of the event mops and even got a pumpkin.

With great expectation I double-clicked my prize. What would it be? Ascroll? Maybe an eva shield? Bdai? I could hardly contain my excitement as I tentatively moved my fingers to click the mouse...

>.<
So much for event. Back to leveling...

3...2...1....EVENT HAS BEGUN! (um...I think. Maybe.)

2005-10-28T18:42:00.000-04:00

Okay, here it is, the massive event we have all been waiting for. To quote from the NC release, "Gran Kain’s dark servants pouring through in droves."

Here was the shot on LoA at about 3:49 PM CST:

From the first half hour, it appears that Gran Kain has fewer "dark servants" than anyone expected, as there is nothing "pouring through in droves" so far. :/

My take so far: one pumpkin candy. Woot! [sarcasm off]. Hopefully things get better soon.

killing time 'til event

2005-10-27T22:56:00.000-04:00

Well, even though I had the day off work, I found myself not all that interested in leveling today. I think it is the calm-before-the-event-storm. Did do a little solo hunt to dvc 6f. Saw surprisingly few of these.

Seemed to run around (or tele around, didn't matter) and just find Ettin after Ettin, the rare succ, and the rarer queen. Then, after searching for 3 minutes and finding no queens, I'd be fighting an ettin or two and THEN 2 or 3 queens show up at once (ouch city!) Oh well, such is life in dvc I suppose. Not much terribly fascinating in the way of drops.

After that, did a short hunt to TOI 11f. Got a nice screenshot of a classic, 3-pack succ spawn.

My hunt got cut short (maybe a half hour), so very minimal drops. Didn't get an exact count on the scrolls.

After that, went killing lastabads a while for a change of pace. Killed some thieves outside Kent (congrats to pledgemate ZUL00, who has been hunting thieves for Holy Walk for eons and FINALLY got it as a drop today, woo hoo!), then went to desert to maybe try and find a few generals. Didn't get any of those, but when I tele'd to desert to begin my hunt I did meet with a nice little 3-way ambush.

No drops but the usual mega amounts of nteles, greens, and wis pots. The only slightly interesting drop?

Last, once again decided to press my luck. Took my last two nzels out of storage. And...

Damn. 0-for-my-last-7. Starting to get old. And yes, for those who read this blog regularly, that is the same dark cloak that only went +1 with the bzel I put on it a few days ago. Grrrrrrr. What a waste. Oh well...it's over, can't get it back, so gotta deal with it and move on.

Speaking of moving on, my experience bar moved on, just under 0.75% for the day. Probably shoulda been more, but even though it was a day off work I had tons of errands and stuff to do, so only played for a little while.

Well everyone, tomorrow it all begins. Sharpen those blades, fill those quivers, polish off those spellbooks...the event is coming! In case you haven't heard, it begins at 4:00 PM CST tomorrow (Friday). See you there!

Some significant moments

2005-10-26T23:41:00.000-04:00

Day started out sorta humdrum, had a few solo hunts to various locales. A few interesting drops, some slightly valuable, some entirely not...but here they are.

However, the MOST unusual drop of the day was this one. I've hunted 42f a lot over the last year or so. Gotten earth ring, power gloves, lots of bzels and 51f's...but never one of these.

Then I was between hunts, opened up my alt (virtually retired) dark elf and saw he had a +4 cop I didn't remember him having. So on a whim I pulled out an nzel.

Oh well. That makes me 0-for-5 on n-enchants and 0-for-2 on b-enchants over the last week. I figure my luck has gotta start improving sometime soon.

Later this evening we welcomed a new member to the pledge, DR4GON, a knight new to LoA server after having previously played on Dep (where it seems he was quite uber). Just minutes after joining the pledge, he and I went for a little hunt up to TOI 7f. Here's a shot of DR4GON getting mobbed by kfc's while I watch.

Lol, actually I was HELPING as well, though you can't tell that from the picture. And if you look at the chat, you can see the kind of sophisticated, tactical hunting advice that has earned me the title of Chief Officer of the pledge. o.O

Anyways, we were up hunting 4f through 7f for quite a while. How'd we do on drops? Well, this shot says it all.

Here's my experience update. Another day of getting somewhere around 0.75%, which seems to be (all things taken together) about where my average per day is settling. Big thing is, I have now surpassed the 10% mark. Woo hoo, go me! Just gotta do this much 9 more times over, and I'm there. :)

To end with though, I want to share an experience number for someone other than myself. Big congrats go out to the prince of Kismet Legends, LordTeeber, who hit 49 today! He's got a long road ahead of him, but he knows what it takes-he's already leveled a knight (SirSteve) and an elf (Teeber) to 50, so let's go LT!!!

Bye all, cya tomorrow.

Would someone explain to me fv etiquette?

2005-10-26T00:57:00.000-04:00

Ok, had a confrontation this evening with a dark elf (Laryndra) in fv. I'm trying to figure out what happened, just can't do it.

I'm hunting and I see a taurv, almost a full screen away. I start heading towards it, but haven't started shooting at it yet. (Why? You'll see in a sec.) Out of the blue, this unpoly'd de, Laryndra, who is farther away from the taurv than I am, comes flying by me and starts whacking it.

So I make a comment out loud, "not very nice" and a sad face, and head off. She whisses me back something along the lines of, "you hadn't hit it yet." So I respond, "No, but I was CLEARLY moving towards it and closer to it than you were." She in turn responds, "Then why did I hit it first?" My reply: "Lol maybe because you're a de on moving accel and I'm an elf?!?" To which her reply is, "YOU HAVE A BOW."

Ok. So what's going on here? I'll tell you...one thing I have learned as an elf in fv is it is VERY easy to "mop steal" without even intending to. In other words, if I see a mop on the very edge of my screen and immediately shoot, then often as I get closer I see there was a knight, or de, whatever, just a few cells away from that mop already-but on the "other side" of it (in other words, off-screen from me). I always feel bad when I do that, because I know it has got to be frustrating for melee chars when bow users do that.

So I have made it a point when hunting fv, at least when it is crowded, to intentionally NOT shoot a mop immediately. Instead, I walk towards it, confirm that there is no melee char just a few cells away before I go shooting at it.

In other words, I AM TRYING TO BE NICE! I AM TRYING TO BE ESPECIALLY CONSIDERATE OF MELEE CHARACTERS.

Anyways, back to Laryndra, in light of what she said, I replied with a, "So next time I see a mop and you are closer but haven't hit it yet, you're telling me I should shoot it?" To which this is her reply.

So...I don't get it. On one hand her earlier comment seems to indicate that, as a bow user, I should shoot at things immediately. Yet this comment right above also says, if I do that, she will "end" me. So which is it? You can't have your cake and eat it too, honey, you gotta decide. If every mop is free until someone hits it, then even if I see you chase a mop halfway across the screen, as long as I pluck it with an arrow 1 cell before you get there, it's mine not yours, and you have no reason to want to "end" me when I say I am going to do that to you. Whereas if there IS an etiquette that says when a player is CLEARLY moving towards a particular mop, and they are the closest one to it, then it is essentially theirs...then Laryndra, you were clearly out of line tonight. In essence, you're a mop thief. (Or at least you were to me in this instance.)

Anyways, what do you all think? What is the etiquette here? Please respond in my comments here and let me know which one of us was out of line. If it was me, fine, I'll accept that, but then someone explain to me exactly what the rules of etiquette are so that I can take advantge of them as well.

P.S. - It's always a sign of someone's personal integrity and character when they feel the need to respond to a disagreement by threatening the other person.

Ok, enough of that rant.

In other news, was doing a little low-key hunting in dv and ran across a huge fight in progress. Someone had actually Area-of-Silenced while I was there; it was the first time I had experienced that spell, it was kinda neat (and annoying at the same time.) Despite the numbers of people, only 2 or 3 were ever fighting at one time, mostly it was a lot of people standing around trying to look intimidating. lol.

Very boring day for drops, not much of note at all.

Really didn't have much time to play today, actually, which accounts for the lack of drops as well as a minimal experience gain. Still, got my bare minimum half percent, so guess I can't complain.

That's it for me. Busy week ahead, so things might slow down some, at least until the event this weekend. Cya all soon!

Up, Down, and Up

2005-10-25T00:38:00.000-04:00

Started off the day's activities with a quick hunt in TOI 11f. As always, this is something I saw frequently on my screen.

Hunt lasted only 50 minutes, but netted me a lot of 21f scrolls plus a few other things.

Then I decided to focus on experience by going up to the TOI 30's. Had gotten as far as 32f when I was jumped by two 3-packs of Pikemen, several of whom also had popped hastes. Stupid me, rather than venz, I was stubborn and refused to escape since I had probably been up in toi no more than 3 minutes. Result? The pic speaks for itself.

This marks my 5th death since reaching 49. That's something I really need to change, or at the rate I'm going, I'm going to have to earn 150% experience before I hit lvl 50. :-/ As you can see, my 3 minute hunt did net me an nzel. Hardly consolotion for the death, though.

So after that, I went on a hunt with JaegerSpirit to dvc 6f. Especially after a death, it's always nice to hunt with someone else. Sadly I don't have any really good pics of us actaully hunting, only this one.

Nor do I have any ss's of any of the drops. Nothing special; 1 ndai, 1 nzel, and adena. Used very few pots, however, so all in all a good hunt.

Last, I did a little soloing on 42f to end the evening. Lots of people up there tonight-it was like Grand Central Station. At one point I counted at least 6 other people hunting up there besides myself. Since I didn't get any valuable drops, I thought i'd share some of the unusual-but-not-really-valuable ones.

That's it. Here's my exp bar, up just a tad since yesterday. If it wasn't for the death, this would have been a pretty good experience day.

Hope everyone has a good week. Halloween event is coming up, so start planning and stocking accordingly!

Lots of luck lately...(but is it all good?)

2005-10-23T21:34:00.000-04:00

Those who read this blog regularly know I ended last night with a very lucky hunt on 42f that netted me 2 bzels in just over an hour. So first thing today, went back to 42f seeing if the luck would last. After only a few minutes, I kill a fire ghost and see...

Heh. Bet you thought it was gonna be another bzel, eh? Anyways, fire ghosts rarely drop adena, but every once in a while one will, and it is typically in the 2k-3k range. Interesting, huh?

Anyways, I decide to try to get some good exp by hunting 21f. I tend to do very well on 21f/24f in terms of experience, almost as good (or sometimes even better) than 31f/34f/35f. A half hour into the hunt, I get one of these.

Always nice to get something I can put to use later. :-) Then maybe a half hour or an hour after that...

Woo hoo! That's a pretty darn rare drop from Nightmares, so once again, the "good luck" bug seems to be buzzing around Finarfin.

After I finish my hunt, I think to myself, hmm...bzels last night...dark cloak today...+5 dark cloaks sell for a nice chunk of change. So I put the two together, and here's the result.

Bummer. Oh well. Then I get to thinking, I know on my (basically retired) dark elf I have a +6 shadow gloves. So I get those out, get out a czel and the bzel, and try my luck again.

Doh! Zero-for-two in the bzelling department. Oh well. You win some, you lose some. I've been blessed with some good drops lately, so I suppose it's only fair the Lineage gods look down upon my and smite my hopes at some overenchants.

Not much else on my end, however, we did have something VERY exciting today. Mage extraordinnaire DreamTime became the first member of the pledge to hit lvl 50 since the retirement of Lord Kismet and the formation of KismetLegends under LordTeeber. CONGRATS DT!!!

Bigger and better things await, I am sure! (And on a personal note, thanks for your words of wisdom/advice you've given to me as I have begun starting my own quest to reach lvl 50.)

Speaking of that, gotta love the weekends, another day with over 1% gained. I'll leave you with that, and also the promise of my prayers to all Lineage players (and everyone else) living in south Florida as they prepare for Hurricane Wilma. Be smart, stay safe, and join us back in the game as soon as you can.

Fun Stuff Happenin' in TOI

2005-10-23T02:01:00.000-04:00

Well, it was a horribly cold, rainy day here...perfect weather for staying indoors and playing Lineage. Started out this morning with a hunt to TOI 4f with pledgie Aelavel. We did quite well for quite a while, but then we hit one of those infamous TOI spawns. Very quickly we were swarmed by the mops you see here, as well as about another 8 medusas and 6 spiders which were just off-screen below us.

No big drops, just a few 11f scrolls, but a good time and decent experience.

Then later on, we had a big pledge hunt to lastabad caves. Here's us stopping for a little "photo op" on lasty 3f before heading into the Diad area.

Once inside, we hunted in the outer diad fortress area for quite a while, then headed into the oum tunnel where the spawns can be quite large.

As is typical for diad, exp was okay but no real drops of significance.

Then tonight, the big activity was a group hunt to 70f to camp Iris. We ran into some really large spawns on 68f in particular, but thanks to Sir HB being bait and excellent coordination by the Kismet team, even having 25+ mops on the screen at once was no cause for panic, and they were all systematically dispatched without anyone dying the entire hunt.

After working our way through the spawns on the lower floors, we finally reached out goal: 70f. As we had been going, the color coding on the floors had been progressing from yellow to red. But when I got to 70f, I saw the name wasn't red...it was BEYOND red.

In order to commemorate the occasion, we took a group photo during a lull in the spawns.

The hunt was disappointing in that we never saw Iris, despite being up on 70f for over two hours. We did manage to pull a few good drops, however, so it wasn't a complete loss.

After that was over, it was around midnight and I was seriously considering logging for the night; however, something inside told me to just pick a sorta easy place and maybe put in an hour or so of leveling, since I had been doing group hunts all day and, as fun as those are, the experience tends to be much lower than when solo hunting. So I thought about where to go, was gonna just do fv or dv but when I saw there were 1000+ on the server I figured those places might be crowded. So I eventually settled on TOI 42f. Stocked myself, headed up there (thanks to CursedMage for Advanced Spirit-ing me when I got there!), and about 15 minutes into the hunt I see this.

So I am thinking, awesome, not only some experience but a bzel to boot! Then about a half hour after that, I look down and see

Talk about a great night; spent maybe an hour up there, ended up with two bzels.

If only it were always that easy!
So, those were my adventures for the day. Will leave you with my exp update, have a great day all!

Interesting Day

2005-10-22T10:40:00.000-04:00

Day started with a fun pledge hunt to TOI 28f.

Fun floor to hunt, with cerbs, lesser demons, and iffys. Here's a typical "hide around corner of doorways 'til the iffy comes through" ambush attack.

And some of the havoc we wreaked (is that a real word?!?) up on the floor, as well as one of those drops that is interested but not really worth anything. (Why coulnd't that demon have dropped a fire ring or demon armor...instead of an obom?)

After all that adventuring, one can sure get tired! So we decided to talk to the Management of Hotel TOI and ask for a nice guest suite to relax a little while. This is what they gave us.

All in all, a fun hunt, even if we didn't pull in anything more significant than 3 or 4 TOI 31f scrolls.

After that, did a little solo hunt to 35f. Not much interested happened there (does *anything* interesting ever happen on the TOI 30's?). My take from just under an hour.

Late last night went on another pledge hunt, this time to TOI 62f. The three of us went up there, kinda went charging around, found ourselves in the midst of a MASSIVE spawn which I didn't get a picture of (8+ tigers, several lycans, several taurvs) because...I died. :-(

BUT...undaunted...or, er, well maybe just a little daunted...we headed back up there, this time deciding upon a system where we'd wait in the main halls and have Ebony drag mops to us in manageable amounts. Worked GREAT, here's a pic of our system in action.

If you haven't hunted up there, mops have high ac (-60's), lotsa hp (around 750-850), and hit really hard--except for the Spirit Taurverus of Fire, which seem to only kinda tickle if you have decent MR. Typical drops from these mops:

The only other thing that drops frequently-and I mean frequently-are maple wands. When we were splitting drops after hunt, this is what we had.

We didn't pull any 71f scrolls, which was a bummer, but other than my death, it was good times.

Last, as I mentioned before, trying to upgrade my ac. Had a chance to acquire two gop's in the last day, a +5 for a decent price in a shop and a +0 from a pledgemate. I already use +5's so been trying for a +6. Result so far? Nada.

Here's the exp bar, not much change from yesterday, because of the death.

Well it's the weekend, looking forward to some time playing and leveling. Cya around Aden!

Quick Note on Comments

2005-10-21T01:25:00.000-04:00

Well, only had this blog a few days but already realized there are folks out there who must use automated processes to post blog-comment-spam, advertising their own sites (some of which are pornographic, etc.) in other ppl's blog comments.

SO...the two options I have to deal with this are either to only allow registered users to post comments, or else, to turn on word verification. Since I realize legit people reading this blog might want to post a comment without having to go through the hassle of registering, I decided to try the "word verification" method.

For those of you who read this blog and comment, let me know if this is a bigger hassle than I am expecting. Thanks!

Mixed day

2005-10-21T00:53:00.000-04:00

Had the day off of work today, so was able to play for longer than normal. Spent some time on TOI 24f, some time in fv, only a few drops worth noting.

Then went and tested out how fast I would gain exp hunting kbb's on skt 4f. Answer? Not that fast...only about .22% on hour, yech. However, as usual, it was good for enchant scrolls (all of them regular) and other random drops.

Later on, decided to bring my high husky with me for a quick little hunt on 11f. BAD BAD IDEA. Was barely up there two minutes when these two succs jumped me.

Ok, no biggie, even 3 at a time I can handle. However, just about 10 seconds after these two were on me, another THREE PACK of succs spawn just next to them. That's 5 succs at once. A few turned on my dog, he was dead before I could even see his hp bar go down, and then I look up at mine and I see basically all white. I frantically hit esc...make it out with 18 hp left. However, my dog is dead, his fang of victory and cloth pet armor gone. So I heal up, kennel the dog, and immediately head back to 11f to try to retrieve my stuff. I go back to the same area where I had been and start killing succs. Second or third one, I see this.

However, even though I stayed up there probably 45 minutes killing succs, never did get the cloth armor back. :( Oh well, such are the breaks. Given that there are some new pet armors coming out in ep4, I may just hold off and use an old steel armor I have in storage until the new episode hits and I can check out the crafting requirements for the new armor.

Last thing I did tonight was a fun little hunt with pledgemates Mariza and ZUL00 up on IT 8f. He's a picture of us getting our third Immune to Harm SB of the night.

Heh...PSYCHE! Ok, I admit it...that was a lie. Actually we didn't even get one. HOWEVER, as the pic shows, we did get some crazy fun spawns, 136 irons, a counter magic sb, and all the pots, gems, etc. typical of a hunt up there.

Before I sign off, I just want to say thanks to everyone who has been encouraging me in the leveling. This is my second day getting over 1% experience, and it is due in part to the encouragement from you guys-even "strangers" leaving little comments on this blog page or saying things to me in-game. Every word is appreciated!

Good night all, may your exp bar move quickly and may your drops be good!

Multiple, good hunts

2005-10-20T00:52:00.000-04:00

Had three different good hunts today. First was to TOI 11f; was there with pledgemate Aelavel when another elfe, LEXUS22 from SoE, asked to hunt with us. So the three of us went around, basically wiping out succs in no time flat. Hunt didn't last too long but we did pull in several 21f scrolls plus the brings and braves common on that floor.

Later on tonight, started hunting 31f for experience when Lady ShadowFyre decides to give me a guided tour of one of her favorite stomping grounds, 35f.

Some great exp there, though the spawns come fast enough I am not sure I could do very well there on my own. Being with Fyre was great, especially since it allowed me to benefit from her NB's all the time; here's a great pic of her mid-NB (and me looking a little green...)

Besides some great exp, we also pulled in a variety of drops. Excuse my rather crude cut & paste job here.

Last, after that hunt was over, did a little soloing upon 42f. Pretty low-key place; as long as I'm careful there's no real risk, as there are rarely more than 1 or 2 mops on the screen at once. Yet for all that, I still pull in about 0.4% an hour there, which is really not bad at all.

Only a few interesting drops.

Last thing to report, I am slowly working on improving my ac and at this point, the only ac item I have that is still only at "safe" enchant is my es. So I decided to make a couple of them and nzel them, trying for a +7. Sadly, all I saw was this message repeated twice over.

Outta nzels for now, so looks like further attempts will have to wait.
Okay, that's it for tonight--great day for exp (mostly thanks to 35f), I'm actually approaching 5%! (May not sound like much, but I'll take any little milestones I can get at this point.)

Good night all, and gl.

Quick Run to 10f

2005-10-19T01:53:00.000-04:00

Didn't have too long today to play, but did make a quick run through TOI 2f-10f with pledgmates JaegerSpirit and Aelavel. Here you can see us in "search and destroy" mode with Jaeger in the lead and the two of us elves in support.

Hunt went pretty well; nothing truly stunning in terms of drops but did get almost a half dozen of these.

Made it all the way to 10f, even with Aelavel suffering an unfortunate d/c somewhere in the middle of 9f. ZQ was afraid to show her ugly face, but we dealt with any of her minions who dared to approach us.

Other than the pledge hunt, I made a quick solo run to fv at the end of the day. Wasn't paying close enough attention to my husky and he actually died twice. :/ But did get one drop for my troubles.

ndai.

So, here's where I stand for now on the experience. Not as much as yesterday but I did surpass my (minimum) daily goal of half a percent a day.

Good luck to all, I hope your drops are good ones.

good day in TOI

2005-10-18T00:46:00.000-04:00

Decided to start the day's hunting by taking advantage of the high elven MR to hunt TOI 11f. Though I had played around on 11f before, I had never really systematically examined it as a hunting ground. Was a good thing to do, I learned that with 100% MR, I can get jumped by 3 succs at once and burn less than 10 pots total in fending them all off.

I can also say that, while the experience is a little slower on 11f than some other places, the drops certainly aren't. I was seeing a LOT of the following during the course of my hunt.

How much did I see that? Well, here's my take from just under 2 hours of hunting there.

Also got a few other interesting things (not necessarily valuable, but interesting).

Finally got tired of 11f, so took advantage of one of those 21f scrolls to head up there for a while. Experience was better on 21f (0.448% in an hour), but only one drop that caught my attention.

So, all in all, a pretty good day. Especially since I gained more than 1% experience - my first day at lvl 49 where I can claim that to be the case! Maybe hitting 50 in closer to 3-4 months might be realistic after all. Anyways, good luck all. As always, I'll leave you with my experience count.

Going Backwards

2005-10-17T02:55:00.000-04:00

Well, only been lvl 49 for two days, but already had three deaths. First one I deleveled back to 48. Second one was a d/c in dvc 6f right in the middle of fighting a succ queen. Third came today, when I was hunting TOI 42f and it was a little slow, so I popped my head up the stairs to 43f, only to find 6 fire ghosts and several ld's right at the top of the stairs. Was toast. :/ Oh well...

Since I got no drops of note, I figured I'd show you a picture of my favorite hunting companion. At the rate he's going, he'll have around 525 hp by the time he hits lvl 30.

Here's the experience bar.

More tomorrow, until then, gl all and good drops.

Some decent drops

2005-10-16T01:47:00.000-04:00

Over the last day or two, had a few pretty decent drops. First was from a short hunt in IT 8f, was hoping for Immune but instead got one of these.

Also spent some time leveling my relatively-young high husky up in FoD. Within 2 hours, got two of these.

But the best drops recently were from a TOI 42f hunt this afternoon.

As you probably know, fire ghosts don't drop regular or cursed zels. So whenever you see "enchant armor" after killing a fire ghost, you know you just got yourself a lovely, glowing bzel. :-)

Last, here's my progress towards 50. *sigh* Long way to go...

Hell has begun (Finarfin hits 49)

2005-10-15T22:33:00.000-04:00

Well, after having played Lineage for three years, on two servers, and having gotten four characters to lvl 48...I finally got my first one to lvl 49. I figure this marks as good a time as any to do something I've wanted to do for a while, namely, have my own Linblog. I plan on updating this basically every day, both to track my progress towards 50 and also to share some of my adventures with the rest of the Lineage world.

Here's the level up up in TOI 21f.

So now begins the long trek to 50. With any luck, I might get there in 6 months--at least that's my goal. If you see me out & around, buffs are always welcome. ;) By the same token, if you see me around and want a Nature's Touch or a Bless Weapon, just ask--I'm always happy to oblige.