Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Hello Fellow Gamers, It's Been Too Long
Minion here (fraNk).
I've been very busy playing World of Warcraft.
I'm currently still in the military.
Bought an ecodiesel pickup in November 2016.
Got blasted from behind by a drunk in a Jeep in June 2023
Picked up an even nicer ecodiesel :)
Still have my old SRT4 and she's still a blast...
I hope your world is going well, to each and every individual who reads this here!
- fraNk / Minion
Monday, March 19, 2018
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.
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.
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.
Monday, March 12, 2018
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.
Friday, March 09, 2018
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.
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!!!
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!!!
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Friday, February 13, 2009
I just trained another 40 blunt, so I am now at 1362 blunt. My current skills are as follows:
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:
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.
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.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
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:
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:
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.
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.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
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
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
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.
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.
Experience Differences Using Lightning Cloak
With lightning cloak, unique bracers, black plate, black shield, black boots (shimmering), ring of nature, rose crown, gloves of the bear, rose necklace, and rose bracelet. Wielding: A tainted knife. I killed five gnolls in Darkmoor Swamp.
41359 per mob
41822
41513
41715
41825
19735700 overall exp
19777522
19818543
19860056
19901771
19943596
Now with no lightning cloak, everything else the same:
41828
41830
41822
41823
41828
19985895
20027723
20069553
20111375
20153198
20195026
Now same gear, lightning cloak on, using stabs to kill:
30403
34530
30579
32459
28833
20236850
20267253
20301783
20332362
20364821
20393654
Use of stabs (guild commands) severely limit your experience gathering.
With lightning cloak, unique bracers, black plate, black shield, black boots (shimmering), ring of nature, rose crown, gloves of the bear, rose necklace, and rose bracelet. Wielding: A tainted knife. I killed five gnolls in Darkmoor Swamp.
41359 per mob
41822
41513
41715
41825
19735700 overall exp
19777522
19818543
19860056
19901771
19943596
Now with no lightning cloak, everything else the same:
41828
41830
41822
41823
41828
19985895
20027723
20069553
20111375
20153198
20195026
Now same gear, lightning cloak on, using stabs to kill:
30403
34530
30579
32459
28833
20236850
20267253
20301783
20332362
20364821
20393654
Use of stabs (guild commands) severely limit your experience gathering.
Monday, December 18, 2006
10,000 ATTACK!!
Well, by today I'm actually at 10057/2043 attack. Santa gear of course is helping me along in that respect. Pointed is at 9150/2002.
I'm currently doing blackjacks to try and raise my sneaking, and there's been a lot of question about whether the staff of good or staff of banana is more powerful. My blunt is at 676/544. So I took both staffs and headed for darkmoor to do a little testing of my own. I killed five gnolls using the staff of good, then five more with the staff of banana, one by one. I started each attack with a blackjack.
The results were interesting.
Staff of Good
1) 37 (time in seconds to kill)
2) 41
3) 47
4) 48
5) 37
Average = 42 seconds
Staff of Banana
1) 42
2) 40
3) 38
4) 38
5) 36
Average = 39 seconds
I was actually surprised how quicky I was able to kill gnolls with a blunt weapon. The staff of banana is 3 seconds faster by average but I would have to compare them more to really see any difference. From the results I'd say there isn't really that much of a change between using one staff of the other. I'd say the staff of good was likely designed to have the extra hit that it used to have, and that made it better than the staff of banana. But now that it no longer has that extra hit, there isn't much of a bonus to having the SoG over a SoB, in my opinion.
I also killed five gnolls with the tainted knife.
Tainted Knife
1) 33
2) 46
3) 36
4) 38
5) 34
Average = 37 seconds
Interesting how having more than TEN TIMES the amount of pointed than blunt, and there is little advantage to using the knife over either of the staffs.
Well, by today I'm actually at 10057/2043 attack. Santa gear of course is helping me along in that respect. Pointed is at 9150/2002.
I'm currently doing blackjacks to try and raise my sneaking, and there's been a lot of question about whether the staff of good or staff of banana is more powerful. My blunt is at 676/544. So I took both staffs and headed for darkmoor to do a little testing of my own. I killed five gnolls using the staff of good, then five more with the staff of banana, one by one. I started each attack with a blackjack.
The results were interesting.
Staff of Good
1) 37 (time in seconds to kill)
2) 41
3) 47
4) 48
5) 37
Average = 42 seconds
Staff of Banana
1) 42
2) 40
3) 38
4) 38
5) 36
Average = 39 seconds
I was actually surprised how quicky I was able to kill gnolls with a blunt weapon. The staff of banana is 3 seconds faster by average but I would have to compare them more to really see any difference. From the results I'd say there isn't really that much of a change between using one staff of the other. I'd say the staff of good was likely designed to have the extra hit that it used to have, and that made it better than the staff of banana. But now that it no longer has that extra hit, there isn't much of a bonus to having the SoG over a SoB, in my opinion.
I also killed five gnolls with the tainted knife.
Tainted Knife
1) 33
2) 46
3) 36
4) 38
5) 34
Average = 37 seconds
Interesting how having more than TEN TIMES the amount of pointed than blunt, and there is little advantage to using the knife over either of the staffs.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Working Towards 2000 Block!
I know, I haven't posted in some time, oh well. I'm at 1940 block right now and moving on up, I hope to have 2000 before the Santa mobs arrive this year. I totally missed out on them last year which was quite disappointing, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how my improvements affect my performance against them.
I think I'll avoid being killed by Banger, that is for sure!
I know, I haven't posted in some time, oh well. I'm at 1940 block right now and moving on up, I hope to have 2000 before the Santa mobs arrive this year. I totally missed out on them last year which was quite disappointing, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how my improvements affect my performance against them.
I think I'll avoid being killed by Banger, that is for sure!
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
I now have the highest stealth sneaking inside at 1012. I'm not sure what Metallica has. I am thinking about continuing to raise it up, no one really has that high of stealth sneaking, and it determines the rate at which backstabs do or do not land. With 1500 each inside and outside I don't see how I could miss them. Unfortunately, I really need to start raising up my ot.st again to get my hp higher.
So, anyways, I was really pissed off after my last death, lost a LOT of exp, stupidly too. So now that I've had a mandatory wait period for being that angry, here's the death statistics:
Last Death
Died to: Angelic Protector
Time: June 2, 2005
Reason for Death: I dragged about 10 of them into the entryway to Valley of Light, then I was in an argument in another window on Alamak and I got banned, so I was trying to find a proxy address to get back into the chat and not paying any attention to the Tharsis window and right as I clicked back over, I died. Someone had gone into VoL and now I had all 18 VoL mobs in the room. Every one of them was at least at wounded, and I had two Staffs of Ginor that I hadn't even used BAH!!
Exp Lost: 136,000,000
Stat Lost: Int
Coins Lost: None, church, drank a few potions I had been saving, went back right away to get my gear and coins.
So, anyways, I was really pissed off after my last death, lost a LOT of exp, stupidly too. So now that I've had a mandatory wait period for being that angry, here's the death statistics:
Last Death
Died to: Angelic Protector
Time: June 2, 2005
Reason for Death: I dragged about 10 of them into the entryway to Valley of Light, then I was in an argument in another window on Alamak and I got banned, so I was trying to find a proxy address to get back into the chat and not paying any attention to the Tharsis window and right as I clicked back over, I died. Someone had gone into VoL and now I had all 18 VoL mobs in the room. Every one of them was at least at wounded, and I had two Staffs of Ginor that I hadn't even used BAH!!
Exp Lost: 136,000,000
Stat Lost: Int
Coins Lost: None, church, drank a few potions I had been saving, went back right away to get my gear and coins.
Sunday, March 06, 2005
I've been focused on raising stealth sneaking again, to further upgrade my backstabbing abilities. Metallica has 1100 or so, and his opinion is that it doesn't make much of a difference, but because the backstab is such a valuable asset to a thief, I'm going to raise it to 1000. Right now:
sneaking 853/ 611
inside 833/ 604
outside 873/ 618
My next 40 is roughly 60 million, so you can see, it's going to be an exp-ensive goal to reach. I think our thieves get screwed when it comes to landing backstabs anyway, considering, but hey, you already know my feelings on that haha.
sneaking 853/ 611
inside 833/ 604
outside 873/ 618
My next 40 is roughly 60 million, so you can see, it's going to be an exp-ensive goal to reach. I think our thieves get screwed when it comes to landing backstabs anyway, considering, but hey, you already know my feelings on that haha.
KOU Black Gear vs Ksehn (ranger) stat gear
I have been using ranger stat gear for quite awhile now. A big problem is the difficulty to kill Ksehn. As a thief, I am at a distinct disadvantage because I have no ability to heal myself. I would guess it takes me about 8 rounds to kill him, and that means landing at least half of my backstabs, something that is especially tough with him.
With 1500 block, KoU is actually easy to kill now. I never thought I'd be able to say that. I have him bleeding after one round, then most often I end up killing him with my hp at about 1000 in the second round. I finally solved the... quest, if that's the right word for it, to get the piece you have to find to get to KoU, so my big concern now is this: do I use KoU black gear or ranger stat gear?
Black gear is black boots (shimmering) and the black plate for me. I don't use the black shield because Irongrip's shield is a light source. This is another toss up for me, do I use Irongrip's for both my shield and light source and just deal with the lower defense, or use the black shield and carry a light source. I believe the weight of the black shield and light source makes up for any extra weight the Irongrip weighs. Stat gear is jerkin of the raven, boots of the fox, gloves of the bear, and armour of the ox.
Black gear has significantly higher defensive value than does stat gear. When combatting cammy guards, VoL mobs, etc, I don't lose near the hp that I do while wearing ranger stat gear. However, this defensive bonus does not seem to matter against big mobs like Savendra, Kehlgarand, and mobs of that level. For mobs like that, the stat bonus ranger gear gives seems to allow you to last longer while combatting them. Any mobs under that level though, such as KoU himself, guardian of the ancients, old crazy man (banana), I can last longer wearing black gear while fighting them.
I imagine my best bet is some sort of combination of the two, but that would mean killing both ranger and KoU, a stout task for a thief. Unless I have 6 hours or more to play, going after ranger sometimes just isn't worthwhile. And after playing a few days with KoU gear, I actually think the defense bonus for just doing exp'ing and stab runs is better than the stat bonus from ranger. Of course this is all a work in progress.
I have been using ranger stat gear for quite awhile now. A big problem is the difficulty to kill Ksehn. As a thief, I am at a distinct disadvantage because I have no ability to heal myself. I would guess it takes me about 8 rounds to kill him, and that means landing at least half of my backstabs, something that is especially tough with him.
With 1500 block, KoU is actually easy to kill now. I never thought I'd be able to say that. I have him bleeding after one round, then most often I end up killing him with my hp at about 1000 in the second round. I finally solved the... quest, if that's the right word for it, to get the piece you have to find to get to KoU, so my big concern now is this: do I use KoU black gear or ranger stat gear?
Black gear is black boots (shimmering) and the black plate for me. I don't use the black shield because Irongrip's shield is a light source. This is another toss up for me, do I use Irongrip's for both my shield and light source and just deal with the lower defense, or use the black shield and carry a light source. I believe the weight of the black shield and light source makes up for any extra weight the Irongrip weighs. Stat gear is jerkin of the raven, boots of the fox, gloves of the bear, and armour of the ox.
Black gear has significantly higher defensive value than does stat gear. When combatting cammy guards, VoL mobs, etc, I don't lose near the hp that I do while wearing ranger stat gear. However, this defensive bonus does not seem to matter against big mobs like Savendra, Kehlgarand, and mobs of that level. For mobs like that, the stat bonus ranger gear gives seems to allow you to last longer while combatting them. Any mobs under that level though, such as KoU himself, guardian of the ancients, old crazy man (banana), I can last longer wearing black gear while fighting them.
I imagine my best bet is some sort of combination of the two, but that would mean killing both ranger and KoU, a stout task for a thief. Unless I have 6 hours or more to play, going after ranger sometimes just isn't worthwhile. And after playing a few days with KoU gear, I actually think the defense bonus for just doing exp'ing and stab runs is better than the stat bonus from ranger. Of course this is all a work in progress.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
UPDATED MY SKILLS PAGE!!!
THARSIS PAGE!!
You can find several pages of my progress thru skills there.
GO
NOW
READ
or DIE
THARSIS PAGE!!
You can find several pages of my progress thru skills there.
GO
NOW
READ
or DIE
Monday, January 10, 2005
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.
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.
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