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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.

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=                      M i n i o n                      =
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(                                                       )
) 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.          (
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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.                                            |
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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!!!