Part XII - The grand finale and Graduation (LvL 47-50)

Things have been going fairly well and although I fell victim to the great frustration over permanent Tusker killing it finally appeared to me that I should just do some big effort over four days and finish this thing off.

So I went to work, stayed and logged at the Tusker camps, just left for components. Stayed there for four days and made about 4 million XPs there per day in average. There is nothing really to report about that period as it was boring and gave me carpal tunnel syndrome.

Another thing that happened that I developed an "This is my spot - what the hell do you want" mentality after staying at this one camp for a while. There were some unpleasant discussions and I admit I was as much at fault as the others who leeched or stole my kills. Most of the time there was final agreement as there are three camps. No need for peeps to all hang out at one. This morning was the worst in this behalf as every weekend day is painful. I had one draining battle with a guy who decide that I had been long enough at that particular spot. I took the challange which dropped my XPs to 80.000 per buff cycle from a normal 200.000. I finally got tired of this childishness and moved to another, not camped camp. I have decided that I will from now on not do any serious leveling on weekends, the moron frequency is just too high.

Also something I noted was the totally screwed up spell economy, that you are all aware of. Before the mini patch I was able to cast item VI after bringing my item up to 225 base by using some of the XPs I had already safed for creature. After the patch I fixxled item VI 7/10 spells, too much for me. I changed back to item V, life protect VI, also I switched from fire vulm/blast to piercing vul/force bolt. That helped a lot with economic casting. I can recommend that as the fire spells are difinitely overused with horrendous economy.

I made it to LvL 50 this morning, finally. Thanks goes to Dizz and this community, without this page I do not know if I would have gotten through, it would have certainly taken much longer. For all interested, here are my stats at LvL 50 before and after taking creature:

Birth: March 16, 2001
Age: 17d 1h 14min
Deaths: 228

Saved for creature: 500.000 from LvL 47-48, then all from LvL 48-50
Total saved: 9,820,976 XPs

Creature after taking it : 100
Creature after putting all XPs in: 227

All Stats at LvL 50

Strength = 170
Endurance = 132
Coordination = 55
Quickness = 92
Focus = 200
Self = 200
Health = 167
Stamina = 225
Mana = 295

Life = 238
War = 252
Creature = 227
Item = 225

Magic Def = 146
Mana C = 187
Jump = 215
Run = 165
Staff = 170


The difference between Life and war is there because I only use the explorer life mastery II wand, buffed both are at 260.
Therefor I do not need to swith wands unless for buffing, then I use the item wand.

What comes now?? I am not sure, I will quit powerleveling for a long while. I will go an dstart killing all those suckers that made life miserable for me on the OP. On top of the list, shadows, virindi and bandies.

Also I will get my atlan staff after I got the staff skill up to 250, this is crazy I know but one of my pet projects, I have the HQ ingot for several weeks ready to go. I will then take a nice shield and go to lay some waste upon the lugies in the citadel. For the fun of it.

I will do some serious questing, I have to finish the smoldering stone, I want to get the mage armor and I will check out the island, not now as I feel after Tuskers only for 10 levels I need to get some practice with spellcasting critters again.
Therefor I guess this will not be the last journal here.

To be continued.......


Tokugawa

Original Post : Diary of Tokugawa the Mage, Part XII - Graduation Day