After getting settled in the tower, We returned to the OF and took down the barrier. Sonoura called Jr and waited fro her mana to charge a little, as usual, before entering eagle's Nest to face Lord John and Lady Kara. (BTW two of my favorite NPCs) Bad move at first. Jr was shut out by the barrier over the hatch and I got a little button happy. Calling Dino and canceling him almost immediately. Leaving Sonoura with her arse hanging out and a low lvl Rex. Between doing her dodge/jump routine and spamming pots like an addic, she was able to survive the cooldowns of Jr and Dino. Once they made it in, things turned around for the better. LJ and LK were immune to Blind and Charm, so the boys were on their own. Sonoura stood by the cage making goo-goo eyes at the female champion.
With that out of the way, a little pat on the bum of the released champion, and the Damian Duo set to trade upstairs, we went back to the tower to restock the pots.
Returning to the OF, we talked to Laura. I thought the MR from her gave a skillbook. It said "gained new insights", but resulted in XPs and no book. Hmmmmm... not sure what's going on there...
After Laura, we went into see Barnabus. Dropping in on him, he sumnd an Abomo and hit Sonoura with a magic shot that dropped her health down about a third, while she called Jr and Dino. Occupied with the fellas Barnabus never fired another shot. With a quick hit of charm, the Abomo turned on it's master. A few shots later and Jr's hands glowed with warning. BAM! Killing blow of 700+! Leaving the Abomo's Charm to time out and he went down. With the XPs from that, we were a few K from lvl 24.
Having already started the seed quests from the statues in Prim Cave, before facing Lai, we talked to Siemeon and went to see Charlie. He was so damn strong, Jr's health went down rather quick, even having Hps approaching 2000. O'Charlie was, however, affected by Blind and with Dino pounding on his head, it was over shortly after that.I figured from the very few XPs gained from him, after the MR, and the Xps from the quest of Yagg, we should break lvl 24. We did.
I went ahead and turned in the quest for Siemeon, although I probably should have waited, and returned to the tower for a little one on one w/ Herm. WOW! WOW! WOW!
With a now rather calm and satisfied Sonoura, I decided to respec her skills and use the 15 I had in reserve to max them out to lvl 24. I was tired of constantly swapping out jewelry. Still having those lvl 10 stats, and 52 pts in the bank, I turned her into a pure Priest with no magic skills and no added Dragon skills. She currently only had 1 in ea of Mag Mis, Fir Bal and Un Arm. (with very little use if any) So I used those to help max out the Priest as much as I could.
These are her current lvl 24 stats/skills and armor w/ 52 stats in reserve.
HP----367
MA----332
VIT---15
SPR---9
STR---9
DEX---7
INT---23
WEP DMG---36-43
MEL RES---16.84%
RAG RES---17.03%
MAG RES---16.45%
COND BDY---11%
HGT RFX----7%
IND WIL----28%
LOK PIC---5
SUM UND---9
FEAR------4
CHARM-----4
SUM MST---3
CURSE-----7
BLIND-----3
SUM DEM---3
OROBAS BRAC AND OROBAS LEGGINGS
Along with various jewelry to add +1 or +2 to each skill used as well as maxing MR and WIS to 5 as needed. Oh, and a +1 Hide n Shad for an emergy.
For now, it's farming for Dia,to drain the one-shot-stop traveling merch near the harbor for his 50K in gold.
