In my last journal, I just got my frost stone and just started hunting banderlings thrashers in the dires.

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So now Wulger is off and running able to fight most everything in the dires, including thrashers and enforcers now. I spent time near the Accursed halls as well as near Teth. I fought everything in sight except for harrower grievvers. I’m sure everyone has heard the motto, “Kill everything!” and that is exactly what I do. Time spent looking is time better spent killing.

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When hunting, I move from spawn to spawn always in combat, but I don’t necessarily kill everything I see. I instead, hunt the best mob that in close proximity for my troubles then make a choice again after looting what I just killed and continue forward killing constant as I go. I find myself fighting all sorts of mobs and must be prepared for anything.

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During this time, I continued to kill Virulent grievvers in hopes to get acid, and what do you know.

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Banderling hunting

While out in the dires, my favorite prey has been the banderling thrasher. To fight these, I’ve used GSA with a frost stone I acquired at level 29. I also use some al 183 gauntlets, an al 305 armet and I used to use al 183 solls, until sometimes around level 30 I looted some al 223 solls off a thrasher, which promptly replaced those.

To fight these all at once would be very tough boarding on suicide, so you must use some tactics to hunt them. I use the old tag and run trick, but rather than running until they all leave me, I only run until the thrashers have moved beyond radar range of their pod, unless enforcers come with them. I’ve found that thrashers will not fight you for more than one whack if they are beyond the radar range of their spawn point. This makes it far easier to tackle them.

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Notice that all but the one I’m draining ran back to their spawn point.

When I tag, I use yield other I. This spell is very fast, and if it lands, makes the battle easier. I quickly hit the “;” to cycle to the next thrasher and tag it as well. I try to tag 3 of them before I run. This will allow me to return and not have to run again for subsequent fights.

Until about level 35, I would also yield other IV the thrashers before I fought them. This made the many spells that were to follow much easier to land at the cost of yielding as they run to me when I couldn’t do much anyways.

Sometimes around level 35 I learned level VI war bolts and found new found power. No longer did I have to drain the banderlings down to do real damage. Now I could handle large mobs of banderling berserkers and strikers. Banderling berserkers and strikers became easy picking after this and thrashers became much easier as well.

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Panopticon

Looking for a change of pace, I decided to try out the Panopticon near Ayan Baqur. This place is largely packed with drudge raveners and stalkers with 2 virindi, 2 tuskers and 2 hollow minions. Fighting from the start to the 2 tuskers and back would yield 150k exp per buff almost exactly, but there was not enough mobs to share, or your experience would drop dramatically. I spent about an hour or two there before I moved on.




Sparkling Stone

Since I had GSA, and wanted to do something fun, I decided to do the sparkling stone quest. Not remembering how tough the quest was for a level 35 mage, I decided I’d bring a friend along and off we went.

About the most dangerous part of this quest was the run to the vault. It’s on the outer rim of the Obsidian planes. We got a ride from one of my portal mules to black rock (near Weijhou) and ran alone the norther rim of the obsidian planes.

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Once inside, I buffed up for everything and proceeded down the maze with her. After discovering at how easily I could handle the lightning elementals in the dungeon, I jumped out at every opening to just blow stuff up. This kind of upset my friend, who wanted to feel like the Uber mage for once. What can I say, BM’s are powerful and kill above their level. After a quick fight, we made our way to the last room and cleared it out in short order.

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Halls of Metos

I’m level 37.5 now and handling the dires quite easily, so I felt it was then time to spread my wings and try something new. Knowing how much experience revenants are worth, and thought this would be the perfect mob to test my skills against and so I headed off to the Halls of Metos. I sent one of my portal mules to Black Hill and ran him to the Halls of Metos just to the east to tie then I summoned up a portal and entered the dungeon for the first time.

I buffed up for all damage types, given that liches and revenants use all types of bolts to my knowledges. I ran back and jumped over the acid pit and ran by the iron golems to the revenant rooms.

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When I showed up, there were several people here fighting, so I joined in to test my skills. I was resisted quite a bit, but not too much to prevent me from killing them. My first go around I made 150k and decided to give it another go. After buffing up most of the people who were there before, had left and it was just me and another lower level swordsman. Now that it was just the two of us, things became more challenging, but the experience became much better.

To kill revenants with others around me, I found it was best to start with one or two drains, then bolt without using a vuln. With others around, the time and mana spent vulning didn’t produce much results, and generally by the time I got around to bolting, the mob had only a sliver of health left.

After going a couple more rounds with just me and the other swordsman, more people showed up and the experience went down again, so I figured it was time to explorer what was beyond these rooms.

The first rooms after leaving the revenants were filled with obsidian golems which did prove to be a challenging fight, one which I had to bring into the narrow halls to provide a little cover with the constant borage of drains and bolts. After taking out the golems I moved in further and found myself in long hallway where I could freely buff without fear of being attacked. This was just after going down a ramp beyond the golems.

I rebuffed and ventured further to find a bunch of revenants along many hallways. This continued for several twists and turns until I reach one last room full of golems, which I cleared out. This room had a pit and a surface portal at the bottom of the pit. I didn’t find anything beyond this exited via the surface portal and started back to the hallways full of revenants to make experience.

From this point on, I was farming for experience and found myself making 250k experience points every level VI buff session. It quickly catapulted me to level 38.5 and just might make a big dent in my journey to level 50.

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Now that I’m nearing level 40, my options are really starting to open up, and who knows where I’ll land next. For now, I’m going to get my Hieromancer armor and have some fun.

Wulger

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