Asherons Call: Orion - Developer's Diary, Part the Second

Stats:

Strength 110
Endurance 120
Coordination 210
Quickness 200
Focus 140
Self 80
Health 160
Stamina 220
Mana 150

Spec Skills:
Arcane Lore 200 (around 250k to raise)
Bow 275 (Expensive at 900k+)
Melee Defense 280 (Still cheap at around 150k)

Trained Skills:
Alchemy 225 (180k ish)
Fletching 225 (180k ish)
Magic D 180 (390k to raise)
Item 165

The Wumpus comes back from a smoke break and says okay let's do this he rolls up to 54, wears some GSA.

str: 120
end: 180
coord: 60
quick: 120
foc: 210
self: 210

hp: 201
stam: 300
mana: 301

life: 265
war: 265
creature: 217
item: 217
item tink: 140
jump: 160
loyalty: 58
magic def: 165
mana con: 183
run: 250 (uber)
staff: 65 (uber)

He buffs with 6's and banes up. While I spawn some loot armor to see what the fates have in store. I luck out with a +110% Bow with +11% BD4 Coord 4 and Minor Bow. My BP is 188 with Imp3, Quick 4 and Minor Invuln. Boots ate Al 227, vambraces are 212 with str4 and Imp 6 aluvian only (WooHoo!) My helm is the helm of the simulacra. Pauldrons are nice prots lower al (160ish) and have imp 5.

Time to make arrows. This costs me a fair bit but in the end I have enough peas on me to surive in the field for a long while. I am making deadly arrows at about 80% but elementals are coming through a lot less (40-50%). I wear a Focus 4 hat and equip the coord item, also luck out and get Fletching 4 gloves. Wearing these I am able to suceed at 50-60. Not optimal and hella expensive but I can survive provided I make enough in the field.

All tests are with accuracy bar at 100%

First stop Kara, The Wumpus attempts to buff me. I am angered and slap him silly! Granted we are hunting as a team but I want to see what I can do without his buffs. I dispel myself (via an internal command) and rewear my items. I hate this cause I need to do the arcane enlightenment dance. Cap on focus ring on, now wear arcane 5 item wear other items and voila I am ready again. Now for the hunt.

We portal in and there are wasteland rats waiting for us. He starts casting. Sees resists at about 10% of the time. I am launching arrows like a man possessed I am easily hitting them at 60-70% for around 27. (Rat is Lvl 79)

Clear spawn. Gigas Raider is next. He casts. Resisted, cast, resist, cast, lands. Cry of joy! I launch and hit 85-95%. Easy fight, moving on now to tougher creatures (Lugian is only 61.

Putrid Moarsman:

Shoot, miss, miss, hit, hit, hit, miss, miss ,hit. Reasonable as Moarsman weighs in at level 95. He tears me a new one with acid and fire. I live though through healing and team work.

Sephal Niffis(67):
Easily 90% hitting and for fair damage. Resisting his spells about 50%. Mage lands no problem.

Shadows: (Umbris 85, Lieutenant 61, Panumbris 79)
I am 95-100% on Lieutenants. 80-90% on Panumbris. Umbris are a drop to about 65-75%. Wumpus is wailing away and mashing keys keeping the Oak Golems off of us, he is amazed to resist a couple of the Umbris spells. I only resist one of their but handle the Lieutenant about 40-50%. Panumbris closer to 30%. All in all a much more comparable fight and right where I want the mid level shadows.

Oak/Obsidian Golems (70 and 61):
Archer does better than the Mage but not by much. Easily handling these bad boys at about 80-100%

After about 1/2 hour craft more arrows, until now using primarily deadly fire. The switch to normal deadlies is here as we are in the field. Fight revenant he drops good loot. I end up with a Bow +120 +8% BD 4, Def 4, Strength 5.

Revenant was tough was only hitting about 50% (He's only 61 must be those missing body parts that give him his limber nature.) Mage does much better against him.

Scary things happen when we face Sclavus. They come running with shields and UA's they swing fast and hit pretty hard 4-6 through full banes on the mage. I'm evading so no biggee! OW!!! 36 on a crit. Thankfully that is a normal hit from me.

Faisi (85) about 60-75%, Ulu (70) about 85-95%

Altered/Augmented Drudges (85/85) About 50-70% Hard to gauge they still die fast. Especially when Wumpus vulns.

45 minutes are gone. We tally XP nearly 800k Not bad at all for landscape hunting.

Time for Dryreach, only staying there abou 10 minutes want to see how the new Tumeroks look and feel.

Well then.

Tumerok Gladiator (74)
Hit him very reliably (80%+) he's got fair loot and mucho xp 14k+ certainly worth the 4 arrows.

Tumerok Major (79)
Argh! Noticably tougher. I'm only hitting him about 40% but he is worth much more, loot is comparable to gladiator but xp is about 18k

Tumerok Priest (Level 70!!!) What the heck is that? He's a giant push. Yikes no he's not. I am 80% on him and it's interesting and fun.

Tumerok land is fun amazingly, and though the loot is much lighter we pull down 250 k in about 15 minutes. One thing to watch out for is their missile attacks 11 through the banes on Wumpus' GSA and I was getting tagged by three at once for anywhere from 10-33. Owee!

One last thing for today. Time to see what a couple of 50's can do when buffed with 6's. Time to get crazy. We buff fully with 6's and head to the northwest around Stonehold. This is now High Level area. We are smack dab in the middle of Midlevelville this will be a challenge.

We're not going to have much time as Wumpus has more to do and I need to start squashing bugs and write this up for you guys.

I get crazy and see a Pyreal Golem. Craft a 50 Deadly Acid's and begin the assault. With full 6's I am 60/40 on him (60 is hit) he is level 105. I solo him to 1/2 when the Wumpus joins in and debuffs him. That's right I said Wumpus debuffed him. No resists here though his spells are cutting me to ribbons and I need to use the landscape to escape his wars. Heal and jump in on him again.

We kill him and move onward. Coral Golem is much the same. No resists for me here. But at 90 I don't expect to resist him often if at all.

Banderling Enforcer/Thrasher Camp (105/105)

Ugh! I'm only hitting them 50/50 with level 6 buffs XP is nice and all (more than double the Tumeroks but I'm hunting above my head here and it is obvious.) We take the camp down. He's landing about 75% fully buffed.

Last attack is on a newcomer so we won't mention it here.

Finally I see a spawn of Olthoi Warriors. Hmmm. Should I? Should We. We try. Bad move. The 5 of them come running. I'm not evading and their 7-36 is adding up fast. I hit twice from close range for 50 a pop but I got 12 shots off...not a very good ratio. I die despite Wumpus healing. He runs off he was able to land on them abou 1/6 spells.

Conclusion:

It's still there for the player that wants to hunt out there in the wilderness alone. It's going to be quicker with a friend or two, this hasn't changed. My loot was more than enough to cover the cost of my arrows including the failures. Granted I wasn't going to make 400k in that hour and twenty minutes but I had a lot of fun and there was some danger on the creatures that could hit me.

When I am hunting things that are around my level I am doing very well and even the Lithos Raiders 22 damage from a boulder is avoidable. I'd rather face them then the Extas chucking for tens, because I am hitting that Lithos a lot more.

We ended the session after earning about a quarter of what is needed from 50-51 for me. Roughly 1.2 million after a session of 80 minutes.

Tomorrow: