Moving !

I'm moving over there. This shouldn't see any more updates unless things really get weird :P

Crazy Japan..

Looks like WiiWare is opening doors to crazy ideas, at least in Japan :)

New Toy

Just felt like testing a really wide pic in here, taken with our new toy at home.. We got ourselves a Fujifilm Finepix S1500 yayyy!

KoL Journal: Not Quite 20

I'm 72 substats away from level 20 ! I've switched my setup to focus on stats:

• Hat: Spooky Putty Mitre (+3 substats per fight)
• Weapon: Serpentine Sword (+10 Monster Level)
• Offhand: Snake Shield (+10 Monster Level while used w/ the sword)
• Shirt: Hippo Skin Poncho (+10 Monster Level)
• Pants: Buoybuttoms (+7 Monster Level)
• Accessory: Ring of Conflict (combat rate -5%, get more Louvre)
• Accessory: C.A.R.N.I.V.O.R.E Button (+15 Monster Level)
• Accessory: V for Vivala Mask (+1-3 substats per fight, 4 on critical kills)
• Familiar: Frumious Bandersnatch (38 lbs, act as Volleyball)
  
• Familiar item: crimsillion jub-jub bird (+5 lbs, focus stat gain to Muscle)
• Ur-Kel's Aria of Annoyance: +38 Monster Level
• Radio: +10 Monster Level
• Manor Band: +5 Monster Level
  

So in all I'm fighting at +105 Monster Level with stat gain items in the other slots. I nearly managed to get over level 19 today:

• Advs used: 344 (Woohoo Feast of Boris!!)
• Meat gained (net): 51,907 (better than nothing)
• Substats (muscle): 23,091
• Muscle (base): 364 (Level 19, one away from 20)

Tomorrow... We dive !

Guild Wars Journal: A New Look !!

After over 400 hours of wearing the Ranger Druid Armor (can't remember washing it.. but I've been in many lakes) I finally bought something else: the Luxon Armor!

I'm still hunting with the old one until I customize the shiny new one.. Eventually I'll go for the Elite version, but for now any change is a good change!

Kol Journal: Level 19

Another banking day yesterday, nice day today.

• Advs used: 337
• Meat gain (net): 283,296
• Substats (muscle): 13,020
• Muscle (base): 331 (Level 19)

I have 23k substats to get if I want to be level 20 before the weekend.. That would be around 600 turns using today's average gain -- looks like I'll be ignoring meat gain in favor of stats for the next 2 days. I'm out of UPC Stickers anyway and I reached a level of meat I like (not enough for a Mr. A, but still..) so it's all good.

I'll also be getting to 100k turns played.. I don't know if I should really mention that part? ;)

Large Monsters Fighting with... Debbie Gibson?

Yup, seems to be real, even if its directly to DVD.. Wow.

Kol Journal: Level 18

Another pretty standard farming day:

• Advs used: 243
• Meat gained (net): 209,794 (includes Mafia getting some more Soft Green Echos..)
• Substats (muscle): 11,303
• Muscle (base): 303 (Level 18)

Tomorrow will probably be the first day where I don't level up.. All is still on track to start diving at the end of the week, so I can benefit from the basement stat gains during the two muscle days..

Farming sure makes for boring entries ! It's tempting to just convert $ into meat, but the farming profit is nice so I'll keep at it for a while.. It is eating up stocks of food and booze, which for now I don't really tally, so when I'm out of the good stuff having to buy more is going to show in the numbers.. oh well.

KoL Journal: Level 17

More farming.. Yesterday we were going out pretty much all day so I just had time to get 60k in meat and bank the rest for today, which has nice numbers:

• Advs used: 352
• Meat gain (net): 317,022
• Substats (muscle): 15,413
• Base Muscle: 284 (Level 17)

But it is getting a bit boring.. Tomorrow I'll make Level 18. On Thursday there's the Feast Of Boris. Next weekend we get two Muscle days. I'm thinking I'll farm until I'm Level 20, then start on the basement dive.

KoL: Farming Comparison

Another day of farming, but today I decided to try another location. An official forum thread linked a spreadsheet to help people figure out where they should adventure optimally. Of course it's not perfect, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Turns out it suggested that the Haunted Gallery would be better than the Castle In The Clouds In The Sky for both stats and meat drop. I was a bit skeptical, but why not. This was after all only if I specified that I could sniff out targets with Olfaction (Cubist Bulls).

I spent the day with the same setup as the previous two, same outfit same buffs (+ML went up to 47 since I got to level 16), with UPC Stickers all the time. I did luck out on finding the right Louvre path to get Muscle on the first shot, so stat gains are as optimal as they were going to get.

• Advs Used: 251
• Meat Gained (net): 185,668
• Substats (muscle): 13,917
• Fullstats (muscle): 31 (now at 243, level 16)
  

Looks like I traded 40k meat for 3k substats. Almost 15% drop in revenue for a 22% gain in substats... The main thing to look at is over time: most stats today came from 29 visits to the Louvre adventure. At 300 subs a pop, that's almost 9k of the almost 14k I got. This is the max that it'll give out... I can't remember if I had reached the max with the Wheel adventure in the castle.. Let's see with the wiki.. Max is at 275. Really not that big of a difference..

Let's see.. If my stat gain stayed the exact same as my last two days for a full lvl 30 run, what would be the difference. 53.3 days with the Gallery vs 66.11 days in the Castle. But it would also mean a difference of over 2.6M meat .. !!

Of course, when I run out of UPC Stickers my +Meat% will drop by 75%, reducing the absolute amount of meat difference between the two scenario. And I don't plan on only farming until level 30. So I guess for now I'll stick with the more meat friendly option of the Castle even if it means levelling slower. The basement should really help with stats..