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Unfortunately I've lost all the old comments, not sure what blogger did with them :(

I've spent some time again using the Lightning Cloak from Nazurus, but one of the questions I had was whether or not using lightning cloak reduced the amount of exp I would get from regular npcs who don't use specials. In this case, I was going after the Darkmoor Swamp gnolls.

Wielding: a tainted knife.
Wearing : a wedding ring, a cloak of lightning, Rose bracelet, a black
          shield, a black plate, a ring of nature, Rose necklace, The Rose Crown
          of Andor, a pair of black boots [shimmering], a gloves of the bear and
          bracers of speed.
Carrying: a stone of Weightlessness and a Tual-masok.

I'm having difficulty with the new settings on the blog screwing with my preset spacings, but I don't have the time to fix it right now.

With this gear (unique bracers, tknife) I was able to kill gnolls at an average time of 34.5 seconds each.

When I substituted Cloak of the Gleeman for the lightning cloak, my average time was 36.9 seconds each.

I then tested a theory where I used minimal gear, in case the extra strength would somehow give me more power.

In this scenario I used only tknife, bracers (both unique), lcloak (lightning cloak), and stone of weightlessness. My average time was 36.9 seconds each.

As far as exp earned, there was no difference regardless of gear. I of course had learned long ago to just do regular combat and no specials like stabs or backstabs when killing exp npcs, because that gets max exp from them. Exp was from 41,310 to 42,298.

It should also be mentioned that, against gnolls, the lcloak rarely ever procs the:

You surge with energy as lightning bolts fly out from your cloak and zap everything in the vicinity.

It needs specials to reflect, and generally your larger NPC boss types are going to be far more productive when wearing the lcloak.

My findings: there is really no benefit towards using the lightning cloak for general experiencing against standard exp npc's.  Its only real benefit is against boss mobs.  Now remember, I have an assload of block, so that could perhaps mean that lower level players would in fact benefit more from the use of the lightning cloak against non-boss type npc's.

At this point I thought I'd figure out the differential in killing NPC's using the unique bracers versus regular bracers.  This is where things got rather astounding.

with regular bracers
53
59
44
61
43.5
34
46
60
50.0 seconds per kill

again with unique bracers
32
33
40
22
34
33.5
46
27
33.4 seconds per kill

again regular bracers
39.5
52
53
40
48
43
50.5
44
46.3 seconds per kill

Obviously having the tainted knife remains a priority for thieves, but unique bracers without a doubt are the single most important piece of gear you can have in this game.  If the opportunity arises to get unique bracers right away, you get the stone dagger or dragonlance first off, then immediately go for KoU.  That should be your priority.  Tainted knife is nice, but remember, for thieves, it is a joke to try and "charge" it, as you can't wield it for like 20 minutes.  And you can get a tknife by waiting for Kehl to pop, unique bracers are the only pair in the game.

At some point in time I'll be comparing all rose gear to all stat gear.  All rose gear would for all practical purposes act as the control group of gear for such a study. 

Keep in mind that these stats above were against any gnoll, I didn't separate them out, for instance, captain gnoll or guard gnoll, didn't matter, I timed them all the same.  They give the same amount of experience, I just figure the hp remains about the same for all of them. 

Again, my apologies for this horrid setup and color scheme, I wish I could change it back to what it was.  I'll keep working on that.

UPDATED MY SKILLS PAGE

Minion's Current Skills

You either go there or I kick you in the balls, son!

Another long login with some godly armour.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=                      M i n i o n                      =
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
(                                                       )
) Level: 491                   Hit Points   : 3266/3266 (
( Race : Goblin                Stamina      : 0/0       )
) Guild: Thief, level 1862     Guild Points : 2426/2426 (
( Exp  : 15608250              Total score  : 3900      )
)                                                       (
( You have 43 of a possible 148 quest points            )
)                                                       (
( Wimpy at 1273 hit points.          Str: 37*  Con: 43* )
) You have died 29 times.            Int: 38*  Wis: 43* (
( You have killed 352139 monsters    Dex: 44*  Cha: 16  )
)                                                       (
( Best kill : Gargamel                                  )
) Arch foe  : the ghost of Minion                       (
( Money     : 553027 coins carried.                     )
)           : 308173306 coins in the bank.              (
(                                                       )
) Age: 694 days 7 hours 59 minutes 16 seconds.          (
(_______________________________________________________)

With those stats, and demon armor, you melt just about everything. I ended up getting another godly armor just for fun. Wouldn't you know it, it survived boot inside the storm box.

Okay, so I've been gone a little while. 246 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours, and 30 seconds at the time I saved this. That equals out to 1,723 days.

Or, basically, I didn't log in for 4.7 years. So what exactly have I been doing? Well, in 2011 I started playing World of Warcraft. Needless to say you can get sucked into that game pretty deep.

(__________________________________________________________________)
/\                            M i n i o n                            \
| \___________________________________________________________________\
| |                                                                    |
| | Level: 490                  Race: Goblin        Type: Non-PK       |
| | Guild: Thief              Gender: Male      Position: Player       |
| |                                                                    |
| | Best kill: Gargamel                                                |
| | Arch foe: the ghost of Minion                                      |
| |                                                                    |
| | He isn't logged in at the moment.                                  |
| | Last on: 246 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours and 30 seconds ago.             |
| | Email Address: horsemancrazy@yahoo.com                             |
| |                                                                    |
| | Approximate age: 98 weeks, 3 days, 18 hours                        |
| |                                                                    |
| | Unread mail is waiting.                                            |
 \|____________________________________________________________________|

On top of that, I had lost my login information for my blogger account, thought it was gone forever, but found a rather random old reset page that allowed me to reset my password for my old Yahoo account and attach it to my gmail account. So here I am again!!!

So, I have reached glevel 1800. Up until now I have been the "Indefatigable Adumbration".

I am now the "Aphotic Subjugation". Yes, scary. As in, I'm afraid I cannot figure out what that even means.

I just trained another 40 blunt, so I am now at 1362 blunt. My current skills are as follows:

skill name       lvl/ bns    #    skill name       lvl/ bns
-----------------------------#-----------------------------
combat          1115/ 469    #    | unarmed        500/ 468
| melee         4757/1260    #    | | punch        500/ 468
| | edged       1297/ 754    #    | | kick         500/ 468
| | blunt       1362/ 772    #    | defense       1095/ 551
| | pointed    11610/2256    #    | | dodge         40/ 132
| missile         27/ 107    #    | | block       2150/ 996
| | thrown        30/ 114    #    | special        300/ 362
| | fired         30/ 114    #    | points          10/  67
| | guided        20/  93

I did a comparison with a staff of good versus a tainted knife, in terms of how fast I could kill my old friends, the Darkmoor swamp gnolls. This is what I came up with:

Tainted Knife - 38  36  42
Staff Of Good - 51  48  49

The numbers listed is the time in seconds it took me to kill each gnoll, I killed three with each weapon. As you can see, I'm still a ways off from being able to kill gnolls with SOG as fast as with the tknife.

I've waited too long to post, I need to be more up to date.

So, of course, Santa Gear is back again. So, the other day I had godly armour on for about an entire 2 day boot, as did Antari. We basically did a run on Dasendreth, using scrolls to repop him. We killed him 5 times in about 7 minutes, we had like 3 scrolls left, when I stupidly hit my stop/quit key instead of my dissect key. I was not very happy, I had demon on and insane stats from wearing godly for the majority of the boot.

I've been wearing godly quite a bit for the last few days. Yesterday I wore godly for about 24 hours and ended up with:

Hp: 2994/2994   Gp: 2061/2061

Str: 38*  Con: 42* 
Int: 44*  Wis: 35* 
Dex: 46*  Cha: 16 

On for 1 day, 6 hours, and 12 seconds.

You are nearly a God when you have demon on with numbers like these. Basically one rounding each of the santa mobs, and with a couple of heals from ginors I can take down das in one round also.

Oh, and last week that bitch Banger killed me. I just about made it a year without dying, but I was at 900 hp when Banger ran northeast, I wimpied northeast from Sven, got kicked in the head by Banger dropping me to under 500, then Banger ran southeast and yep, wouldn't you know it? I ran southeast too and WHAM, dead. I had trained exp thankfully. Still annoying.

This has been my gear for normal exp'ing and aa'ing during Tharsis Christmas:

Wielding: a tainted knife.
Wearing : a wedding ring, a Most Gigantic Cock Ever Seen badge, a ring
          of eternal strength, a godly armour of fire, a gloves of the bear, a
          pair of black boots [shimmering], Rose bracelet, a black shield, The
          Rose Crown of Andor, Rose necklace, Santa's
          mittens, Santa's boots,
          Santa's hat, Santa's
          belt, Santa's suit, a cloak of
          lightning and Bracers of Speed.
Carrying: a stone of Weightlessness, two Staves of Ginor and a
          Tual-masok.

I go with the ring of eternal strength because with santa gear, it's the one time of the year you don't have to worry about f'ing gaining hp as quickly. A ring of nature is mostly useless for a thief, considering it's hard enough to use this much GP regenerating this fast. The godly is fun, especially when gearing. I had probably twice as much gear in the box the other day using high stats from godly most of the boot and then demon gear to go gearing for like the last 6 hours.

The cloak of lightning is great for gearing, but without Santa I would be using Gleeman for healing. Of course the ginors change, some days I don't have any.

Long Boot With Godly Armour Results

Str: 45*  Con: 33*
Int: 33*  Wis: 37* 131376
Dex: 31*  Cha: 16

Hp: 2580/2580   Gp: 1895/1895

----QTY---ITEM-------------------------------DONOR---------
     5    A ring of nature                   Minion
     7    A stone of Weightlessness          Minion
     2    A Staff of Ginor                   Minion
    23    A Tual-masok                       Minion
    37    A tainted knife                    Minion
    21    A black shield                     Minion
    21    A pair of black boots [shimmering] Minion
     5    A gloves of the bear               Minion
     5    The Rose Crown of Andor            Minion
     6    Rose necklace                      Minion
     8    Rose bracelet                      Minion
    10    Cloak of the Gleeman               Minion
    22    Bracers of Speed                   Minion
     1    A godly armour of fire             Iori
    36    A helmet of Ksehn                  Minion
     5    A staff of good                    Minion
     6    A demon spear (bloody)             Minion
    22    An ancient blade                   Minion
    20    A black plate                      Minion
    21    The Crown of the Ancient Kings of Hel Minion
     6    A sturdy crowbar                   Minion
    16    A glittering dagger                Minion
     6    Pair of Rose gauntlets             Minion
     4    Pair of Rose boots                 Minion
     5    A Great Serpent ring               Gabriel
     5    A boots of the fox                 Minion
     5    An armour of the ox                Minion
     4    A jerkin of the raven              Minion 

Results From Using Santa Gear 2006

So this boot, Santa gear is gone for another year. Had I known it would be the last day I would have gotten about 6 sets for the box, but as it was we only had one set, and of all the people or guilds to have a piece of santa after boot, it was Lionpaw and the storms, he had one pair of Santas Mittens. Oh well.

I spent the vast majority of my time doing blackjack runs in Elfrea, Newbie Academy, Nazi Lab, and Bat Caves, and at times running around Tolnedra. Then I would go on period stab runs thru Shadow Realm, Valley Of Light, and Riva.

I'm sure what everyone wants to know is: How did I improve THIS holiday season?

26 Hp
41 Gp
17 levels
56 glevels
412 pointed
541 attack
42 edged
102 sneaking
103 sn.inside
101 sn.outside

I probably gained about 20 blunt or so too, maybe more, but I've been training it, so far up to 864/615, so I wouldn't know exact numbers.

Oh, I died to Ms. Claus. I had set up stop;s;e to leave the room, but I was in the wrong room to use that set of commands, so I got stuck in the room with her and she caught me with a couple of big hits.