Abellio the loremaster has reached level 27 as of last night. He managed to finish quite a few quests in the lone lands and is now making friends and ending lives up in the North Downs. I had the chance to join a very solid pick up fellowship and kill a lot of elite orcs in nan wathren while completing the black fire chest quest. We ended up reaching the southwestern encampment and one of our adventurers fell off the side of the cliff…it was most unfortunate because even though the person was a burglar she couldn’t sneak back to our location for whatever reason, I thought to myself that maybe she needed some refresher training on how to sneak, since I successfully made it through many highly populated areas undetected while playing my burglar. So, after 5 minutes of waiting, we decided as a group to go fetch her. But, due to no action on my part as we crossed the bridge one of our members aggravated a group of three orcs who proceeded to defeat our champion, then it was like watching dominoes fall one after another, next was the minstrel then another, then myself…Once you die in that area you are sent to the revival area in kingsfell, making it quite a long jog back to our fighting grounds. But, after much killing we finally made our way back to the final location and finished the quest.
After this I partnered with none other than the novice burglar who come to find out is actually very good at performing as a competent burglar, as far as being a guide for completing quests that is another story. I ended up using all of the available enhanced experience points gain I could via the destiny points, come to find out the system allows you to use it a maximum of 5 times at one time, then it regains charges one every 24 hours.
On a side note, I have become increasing more proficient at managing my movement in the world with my pets, I try to find a path that my pet can follow me by and perhaps with level gain my bear actually gains some intelligence.
I decided to level up my crafting skills and bought a lot of barrow iron ore and made ingots, reached expert level in prospecting and I picked up the quest for jewelcrafting and need to get some mould down in the lone lands from an evil dwarf, sounds kind of suspicious to me. Sounds more like a wild goose chase than a quest, but who am I to question their judgment? I am finding the auction hall more useful as I gain levels. Abellio is quite well outfitted with light armor from various quests he has done, but sometimes Abellio is left lacking with suitable armor for certain parts of his body, I try not to buyout an item unless I really like the stats on it, so the majority of the items I win are from making one bid on it. Being miserly in my actions has afforded Abellio to acquire 2 gold in his pockets, halfway to the 4 gold cost of a horse once he reaches level 35. I don’t think it will be a problem to get that much gold by that level, the quests rewards combined with the silver given for each one has steadily been rising in conjunction with the level and difficulty for each one.
I have been trying to catch up with my friend, Dagfinnr, who is now level 34, but at the same time I am trying to not rush up in levels too fast and enjoy my time in the game as much as I can. It is a careful balance between grinding and having fun, sometimes the grind is all I can focus on and reaching that next level is all that matters, but then I will stop and see I need to slow down a bit. That is when I map back to bree, work on some crafting, go to the auction hall, sell my undesirables, repair my dented up equipment and snack on roasted pig left over from the last fight I was in. I do really like burning the evidence of my last kill, I usually finish my fights with a pile of burning embers to completely cook and dispose of any essence of evil. The remaining pile of burnt ground is the only sign there was a murder, which I am sure fades in time like all things do.
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