Kibbles and Bits

I can barely play one character with any degree of skill, so I can't imagine the mental gymnastics required to play two characters at the same time. There are some psychotics -- like Neyla's taru adoptee Pandorda -- who could skillfully play three at once. That way lies insanity for mere mortals.

Today

The Beastmaster gigas were problematic.

Neyla and I helped Sneakypants get his other character Kibble through the dragon fight for Rank 3. I'd logged out in the desert, so it seemed best for me to simply run through Korroloka to meet them in Bastok. I almost got killed along the way when one of the gigas Beastmasters noticed me and attacked. It wouldn't have been so bad, but his pet spider linked the local wildlife. I managed to survive, but it was touch-and-go for a few minutes. I got attacked by another gigas near the end of the tunnel, but he was far enough away from the other spiders that it didn't matter as much.

The dragon fight wasn't too bad. Sneaky and I were on Monk, which gave us a definite advantage. Neyla tanked the dragon for us. Unfortunately, it opened with a nasty breath attack and Sneaky wasn't so great at healing other people while controlling multiple characters. We were KO'd, but we'd done enough damage that he was able to win the fight. Conscious or unconscious, I love doing that fight.

Late-Night Desert Dwellers

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Beetle evasion kinda sucks.

gaming is still sporadic at best, but Neyla and I have carved out small bits of regularity from our new evening shift. We're basically hopping online around 1 a.m., depending on what time we reach our respective homes. I've popped on a few mornings as well, but it's hard to get into a game when the shadow of work hangs over you. You go into it just knowing that you'll have to leave soon. It blows, but it's better than being unemployed.

At any rate, we've been hitting the desert and working our way through the Field Manual training regimens. We started out killing spiders, moved our way up to beetles and the anticans clustered near the Titan entrance of the Quicksand Caves, and then started roaming to kill dhalmels.

The desert is a busy place at night, that's for sure. There are always people killing things near the Korroloka Tunnel entrance, but we rarely saw them roaming out very far.

The only time we came close to dying was when we fought a Sabotender. It was a little green pushover until it decided to hit us with the dreaded 1,000 Needles attack I'd managed to forget it had. He knocked us into the red, but we recovered quickly. As I've said so many times, fighting as /DNC is almost like cheating.

When we finished tonight's two-round session, we were about 2k away from hitting 44. It won't take long to finish that off. I haven't checked to see what the other Field Manual pages require, so I don't know if we're high enough.

In

Anticans make for entertaining battles.

other leveling news, Neyla started working on Ranger the other day. He bought some lowbie gear from the NPCs in Port Windurst and shot arrows at monsters in West Sarutabaruta until he'd reached Lv. 11. He knew Ranger defense was lousy, but now he's realizing just how bad it is because he can't take a hit worth a damn. If his Ranger teams up with my Warrior, I'll definitely have my tanking work cut out for me.

We're off work Wednesday, so we're going to help Sneakypants' mule get through the low-rank Dragon fight before heading off to see Wolverine.