Another early start - I am eager to crack on with this level. This, however, is not to be the case as I just cannot get logged in! It will eventually take about 3 hours to do, although, I do watch some TV in between. Finally...


Another charge of my Empress Ring is used and the EXP shoots up past 400-500 again. I end up gaining over 3000 EXP in 34 minutes when the Dedication effect comes off. Same pets and monsters as yesterday:

PET: Worker Pephredo and Soldier Pephredo

ENEMY: Puk
Attacks: Crosswind (Front Attack), Zephr Mantle (Shadows), Wind Shear (AoE knockback and damage), Obfuscate (Flash)


Sanction runs out at a good time so I head beak to the AH in Whitegate to pick up a new Reraise Gorget and some Accuracy enhancing food: these VT cause lots of misses, so it takes longer to gain EXP and reduces chances of chains.


The Jack-o-lantern is great and really improves speed of kills against VTs, so long as my pet has hate already, otherwise it has a tendency to turn to me. At this point I am now 12,700 TNL - I am past the half way point of this level. I am keeping Reraise up presently but I am much more accustomed to this camp now - I don't think it helped taking a lot of time out with THF but I feel much more in my stride now.


I take another break and crack on now - certainly, this does get repetitive but it does keep you on your toes - lots that a BST has to be aware of.


BSTs can be very silly, plus greedy - instead of taking the 30% cut and getting some EXP, we would rather Leave our pets to risk full EXP. This costs us, as it has just done me, with a death - I'm just thankful that Reraise 2 was up - my EXP loss was only about 500, instead of being closer to 2,000. Within two mobs, that I let my pets attack whilst I rest, I have made back the lost EXP. Really, the worst thing about this is the loss of my 3 hour food - I shall have to return to the AH again at some point.


I close off the early evening with no more deaths and only 5,413 TNL. I have returned to Aht Urghan to pick up a new Sanction effect and purchase some more Jack'o'lanterns for consumption. I will go back out this evening so I have at the most 3,000 EXP left and then I can use my EXP ring from 04:00 to take 66. We'll see what the later evening brings, however.


I am back on and have cleared Paul's Delivery Box, so I can put more stuff in it but I actually end up just sending crystals back to myself. I check the prices on the AH for the drop items from these dragons I have been killng (they're not birds - my mistake) and there is not much Gil in them at all. This has been a very expensive month and I've barely made much against May but then, I don't spend much either on equipment - BST is good that way, I guess.


My Protect and Shell fade so I call it a night at 3,162 TNL - without death, this is doable in 45 mins tomorrow morning. One thing I have noticed about these mobs is that if you cast an elemental spell the same as the current day on them (i.e. Dia on Lightsday) they get 1 free TP move immediately. This point here was the first time I leveled during Lightsday to find this out. What a cool thing to have in a game - it doesn't affect me so much but it would mean you would be hard pushed to do a Distortion skillchain on Iceday, lol.