Level 180 Achieved!
Managed to get to Level 180 on my DK yesterday, on 19 September morning. I leveled at a rate of once every 1-2days ever since LHC had been newly "released", leveling from 176 --> 180 for the past week.
It had been great, but now training has gotten slightly boring. Upon leveling to 180, I added my 5 AP into STR (which turned out to be +9 STR after the potential% increment) and had 12 (or 15?) SP.
Since I was 0%, I went to Von Leon. I fought it with a BS, but we did not managed to kill it. There was a bug such that my hits could not target VL. It made the fight really annoying. We gave up after 30 minutes. I don't think I'm going to fight it again with that bug.
So now I am 0.00% and I wonder if I should go and start training. Hmm...the server is very laggy. Maybe I will continue training once it stops lagging.
LHC Training Experiences and Thoughts
Had been training my DK at bearwolves, which is a very nice map with groups of mobs when in a full party. I met a number of nice people and buddied them. Once, I was lucky enough to be able to get slots during 1.5x EXP immediately after logging in. My buddy said he helped me to reserve a party slot - really nice of him.
Before officially training at LHC, I thought we would be able to get a perfect party set-up:
- Combat Orders
- Hyper Body
- Sharp Eyes
- Dark Aura
- Holy Symbol
- Lastly, Speed Infusion (?)
In guild, 5 out of 6 of those skills are achievable. Then I realised it wasn't possible. Right now, I'd be happy to have just Sharp Eyes and Holy Symbol in the party. Most of the time though, only one of them is present in the party I join. Party Leaders seem to just invite anybody at all whether or not they have buffs for the party or not, and don't seem to care about damage from what I've seen - they only get sickened by leechers, which personally, I don't mind since that only means I get the main EXP from the monsters ^^.
Past Level Achievements / Activities
Level 175 - Defeated Mu Gong in MLTC a few times (SOLO)
Level 179 - Defeated Zakum a few times, to help friend's friend a basic book (TT)
Level 180 - Went to Von Leon, but failed
Current Aim
I hope to get to Level 181, because every odd-numbered level (175,177,179...), my second AP will give me 4 STR at the cost of 1 AP thanks to MW19 and potential% which gives me additional STR every 10th STR I have. Leveling to 200 is really tough, and if I do get there, it would sort of defeat the purpose of playing any more. I would like to kill bosses, but then there is no point since reaching the max level ... is the point of the game. No point improving damage any more after that.
