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THARSIS PAGE!!

You can find several pages of my progress thru skills there.

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Santa Gear is GONE!

And to be perfectly honest, I was getting burned out from using it. Thieves don't really use their GP for much, so I was doing all stabs the entire time, then doing a few backstabbing runs thru Elfrea.

What did all this get me?

4 Hp
11 Gp
8 levels
24 glevels
283 pointed
337 attack
25 edged
6 sneaking
6 sn.inside
6 sn.outside

Oh, my block is at 1414 or something like that, I raised it about 40 by randomly training from Issac and Metallica anytime my exp got high enough, I just didn't want to lose it to any Santa mobs. I didn't die during christmas this year, that was good.

I hate dying haha!!

Last Death

Died to: Savendra, child of nature
Time: November 6, 2004
Reason for Death: I let myself get below my limit of 600 hp, and at 557 hp, Savendra caught me right as she died, dropped me to around 300, then got pixie blasted.
Exp Lost: 20,000,000
Stat Lost: Dex
Coins Lost: None, Poeun went in and got them. 4.9 million coins.

I was just thinking that I might make it to one year without dying. Well, I was wrong. Oh well, I'll train this dex up!!

I saved up 200 million exp and trained block from 1150 to 1306. Of course, I don't notice the difference, but that's normal I guess. I sometimes wonder if I should be spending all my exp on ot.st instead of anything else. I wish they would integrate 'hiding' into something that would help us, after all, thieves are suppposed to be stealthy/sneaky, and that should account for something in combat shouldn't it?

Right now I'm at about 25 million exp and I don't really have any clue what I'll spend it on, which is sort of odd, I've always had a plan up till now, so I'm just gaining exp without a real idea of (what) or when I'll spend it (on).

With 4500 pointed and 4700 attack you would think that I'd be able to kill things faster than I do. I think about the only way a thief skill could equal the storm L shield is if thieves had a 'stop combat' or something. L shield is just crazy.

Okay, well, I've been saving up information on a little sheet of paper here on my desk for some time now, listing my pointed and attack, etc, so I can keep track of how I'm doing. This game is basically a collection of statistics anyway, so I figured, hey, what the hell, I'll put it all on Excel, and this is what I came up with:

Excel Stats

Oh I can hear it now "WHAT?? YOU MADE A GRAPH?" Yes I did, so blow me!! I enjoy stats, so much so, that I went and did a little research project...

I took the four basic pointed weapons that are mostly used:

Tainted Knife, Glittering Dagger, Dragonlance, Stone Dagger

And using each one, I killed 5 gnolls, timing each gnoll I killed. I came up with this graph of results:

Pointed Weapons Comparison

I dropped the highest time (red) and the lowest time (green) off, leaving the middle 3, of which I took the average of.

The tainted knife, being the most powerful 'combat' weapon (without gcommand or special's use) was given the top score of 100, which, for comparison purposes, can be called a percentage. The other weapons are given a number that is the overall percentage of power that the tainted knife has. Hence, the stone dagger is 35% as powerful as the tainted knife, for a power rating of 35.

I don't really have enough edged (see above) to do this test with edged weapons, and I know damn well i don't have enough blunt at all. But I know a lot of the newbie players question what weapons are best or worst, etc.

I will hopefully update this graph with sky dagger, flash dagger, ice dagger, demon spear, and perhaps even shortsword, spear, and plain ole' guild dagger, if they will ever kill a gnoll.

4000 pointed and attack, finally!!

Okay, actually it's 4003 pointed / 4162 attack. I wasn't really paying much attention, I had godly armour on so I was more intent on getting stats. Look out Metallica, here I come!!!

I am STILL training sneaking.  At this time, I have:

stealth sneaking: 702/ 554
inside 687/ 548
outside 718/ 561

I'm going to keep going till I reach 750 st.sn.  After that, who knows? Maybe more block?  I need more, that is for sure.  What stinks is that, even with decent backstabbing skills, I seem to still miss my bs's all the time.  I wonder how successful backstabbing percentages compare with successful lit percentages for storms.  Something tells me that storms don't miss lits nearly as much as thieves miss backstabs.  Oh, but that's okay, storms have l-shield so it all evens out. Wait, whaaa??? Okay, enough about that.

I think people get way too upset about losing strength when they die.  To be quite honest, a diligent person can gather 5 million coins in about a week of regular playing, if they are really working at it.  Now, I understand that I'm better at it than some people, but even so, it's not all that hard to travel back and forth from VoL to Shadow Realm and gather up coins using gcommands to kill mobs, then go around and exp in your regular areas till your Gp builds back up.   I don't let anyone borrow coins, because that's just foolishness, people can gather their own and be better for having done so.

I solved 2 quests at one time, wish I could actually talk about them here, but for obvious reasons, I can not.  I'm the only person to ever solve these two quests (in the last 6 months, but hey, who's counting?). They are as follows:

Not Afraid of Shadows
Initiate of Peace

Now, with the first one as my quest title and my guild title combined on 'who', this is what it looks like:

(149)       Minion the Shadow, Not Afraid of Shadows, Captain Hilarious

So, basically, I'm not afraid of myself, which is a good thing.  Far too many people fear themselves, I'm sure of it.  At least, I believe that is a major problem these days.  I know Pyro is afraid of himself, he blabbers a lot about it.  Well, I'll post this now and get to bed, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is on, and they rock!!!

Sneaking is up, from 323/376 to 534/496. I've been training that exclusively. I'm going to get it up to 600, after that I'll decide if I want to go higher or train block some more. Part of me wants to earn 200 million exp next and train block again, but wow that's freaking tedious. Killed ranger, Kehl, and Savendra last night, by myself, for the first time. Took a little while but was a lot easier than I thought it would be. At least I know it's possible to do, if I ever have a full day to play, which seems few and far between. Well, anyways, I'm off to party at a lake. Hope I don't get confused while I'm there and backstab someone with a plastic picnic knife. Ciao!!

GREETINGS!! One month has gone by, just a couple of days ago I achieved my goal of 150,000,000 Exp, and I used it all on block. That gave me 150 block for a grand total of 1150. Now I'm just playing and saving up Exp and for once I really don't know what I'm going to be spending it all on. My stealth attack passed up my pointed for the first time ever, it's odd really, you can look at my skills site and see the progress as attack slowly crept up and finally surpassed my pointed over the last few months.

I tried using all my Gp for backstabs, but that's pretty damn tedious. I went right back to doing stabs to use up my Gp, I get more aa's, although they are probably useless at this point, with 3300+ pointed and attack, I doubt any more will make all that much difference.

My guess is I'll get Metallica to train me in stealth sneaking a couple times, to upgrade my crappy backstabbing abilities.

Gp: 1001/1001

Tried to get to exactly 1000, but alas, gained 2 at 999 from training 1 level of st.po. Oh boo hoo.

Now time to gain a LOT of exp for some block.