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Picking up from where I last left off, Wulger has spent most of his time around Teth killing everything he can handle so that he can one day kill with the big boys. He has taken a different approach than most battlemages of his kind, which has not been an easy one. It seems he gets ridiculed every step he takes, because he does not choose the standard path of a young mage. Luckily Wulger has had a few people praise him which helped him continue his trek with the power of creature magic in his hands.

Since his last adventures, Wulger has gained enough skill to kill a few Virulent Grievvers in hopes that one day, he’ll find some organic acid so he can make a door way to Lyceum, where he’ll stand trial to become a heiromancer. Wulger has been killing them since level 22, suffering resist after resist until they eventually fall. I’ve been alternating between whirling blade, force bolt and shock wave to help keep my spell economy up.

Wulger has also added Besserker Banderlings to his meal. These are a small leap in power toward a goal I want to reach with him in a few levels, Banderling Thrashers. To fight these, I land a lightning vuln, then alternate between draining health, stamina, and landing lightning bolts. Their loot kind of sucks, but they are just a lot of fun to kill, reminding me of the days when Rauvan was killing Thrashers.

Wulger, unlike most BM’s does not have item magic, which includes recall lifestone, and recall portal. This has caused me to use a system of portal mules and portal gems to get around. To get to Teth, I took one of my more experienced mages and ran him through the south dires through a portal to Slaughterhouse, and ran northeast to Teth. To get a tie close to Teth, I ran up the hill just north of Teth and went into the lighthouse up top and made my way down to an exit portal at the bottom that is tiable (the surface portal up top does not exit at the same spot). I then recalled back to Mayoi, and sent my portal mule through a summoned portal and had him tie to the same portal. Now everytime I want to go to Teth, I just summon a portal and I’m there. I always carry several portal gems to Nanto and Mayoi. I normally use the Nanto portal gems, because they are cheaper, and Wulger is still not making enough cash to afford the 22k it costs to use Mayoi portal gems. Nanto portal gems also give me the advantage of a better sell rate and buy rate for comps. I then run from Nanto to Mayoi for a ride back.

From levels 22-25, Wulger continued to fight around Teth. Killing drudges, Virulent Grievvers, bandering besserkers, tuskers, iron golems, copper golems, and even a couple obsidian golems. He was then ready for DoC. To setup for DoC, I took a different portal mule and summoned up a portal to Black Hill near Weijhou and sent my portal mule to make a tie just a little north at DoC and recalled back.



Now with a way to DoC and portal gems to get back, I LS’ed in Mayoi and went to DoC. I buffed up with IV’s in creature and V’s in life. I choose IV’s in creature, since he still fizzles a bit with V's, and I need to be able to buff up in battle. Wulger is a battlemage, and battlemages do wall hump, so after I buffed up (using stamina from the drudges near the entrance to refull mana), I headed to the back of DoC away from the wall humpers. Facing drudge after drudge and even a few Virindi, which I promptly ran by. His kill dance went as follows: bludgeon vuln IV, drain health, drain stamina, bolt IV, bolt III if needed, then stam2mana. Frequently I added more drains healths as many drudges blast me. When I first arrived, I was draining much more, but after some closer analysis, I found I was spending so much time draining that I gave them more opportunity to blast me which fed led me into a loop of drains and little mana. I then realized the best way to combat this was to kill them faster, and it worked.

I continued to fight my way to the back of DoC, facing piles and piles of drudges as I reached the last room. I fought in a hallway just before the room where several drudges spawn, killing them as well as drawing drudges out of he room before me. I fought for a couple hours in DoC and ran out of Diamina, a component for drains, so I quickly opened up my pack and double clicked on a portal gem to Mayoi. I was only a few minutes from leveling and a little disappointed.

So I sold and restocked my components and headed to Teth. One of my goals was to kill an Umbris shadow at level 26, and I decided I was close enough to 26 to give it a try. I summoned up a portal back to Teth and ran to town, buffed up and learned level V war bolts, yield 1, and yield IV. After buffing, I ran to the LS near town and reattuned myself there and went looking for Umbris.



It didn’t take long to find an Umbris. Wulger set himself at the edge of the radar and took a deep breath. The moment he was waiting for was here. His first step was to land yield I on the Umbris. He tried 2 times and ran. Eventually the pack of shadow gave up chase and he returned. He tried to land yield I 2 more times until it took hold and he followed it up with a yield IV a couple tries later. After the Umbris was yielded down to reasonable level, I was able to land a blade vuln IV my first attempt and wen to battle. Drain health, drain mana, drain health, drain mana, was the sequence of spells until I was hit with the worst possible fate, life ineptitude. Rather than running, I decided to stick it out and found I could still drain about 1 in 3 tries. When his health fell below 40% health, I started plastering him with whirling blade V until he died, leaving me with very little health.

After killing that Umbris, I had to rebuff, and I followed up that kill by killing the other Umbris in the pack, which leveled Wulger to level 26.



Good times are ahead

Wulger

Question and Answer :

Mazoch - Battlemage (WE) level 17 and rising Of the House of Colier http://communities.msn.com/HouseofColier

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