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Doing good, so far

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I am running two reaper toons right now. A Sorcerer and a Cleric/Rogue/Wiz. Just in case a death occurs, I won’t have to start over from the beginning.

My cleric is up to 7 banking 8 with 3 reaper points [11k], the sorcerer has 2 reaper points and is going a little slower. I was running with the top player on the server earlier. Ion is an Aasimar Sorcerer who has TR’d twice and has close to 200k Reaper exp. I had seen Ionie die back in February, so I was surprised to see ’em this far ahead.

My favor guy, Ananzi, is level 10, sitting at 1k favor, and I am debating whether or not to try the level 6s out in The Twelve. I have seen a large number of death notices for those quests, especially the prison break one.

As to my trip to England, I remain hopeful that COVID-19 will go away by June. I am waiting to see if Delta or Norwegian Air decides to cancel my flights.

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I died…again

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I was doing a quick quest before the server went down for a restart this morning.

I got myself killed in Storming the Beaches over in house D.

A balista shot me for 652 damage after 40 was blocked by energy resistance. I failed my save and took a critical hit to the face.

Instant death.

That was on my reaper toon, Gozoh, who was level 22 and had 4 reaper points. I had 16 Tokens of the Twelve and just needed a few more to reincarnate.

This is the Hardcore server, so permadeath applies. I’ve got to start all over again on Korthos Island.

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Hardcore progress

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I have moved into Epics on the hardcore server. I am just bumping around Borderlands right now.

I stayed in the Heroics yesterday while I farmed Dreaming Dark for one of those Vibrant Purple Ioun stones. It took 18 runs to finally get it to show up. I almost completed my Quori monster manual deed in the process. I now have an Unsuppressed Vibrant and a Pale for the 50 charges of Absorb Magic.

Additionally, I reached my 1750 Favor reward and got the Bone Skull Helmet. It looks kinda silly on the Dragonborn, sort of reminds me of a cow skull on the hood of a car. After taking 20, I also received my Season 2 Sash, which is gray and features a skull with the numeral 2 at the bottom.

My favorite toon is all set to go at level 7. I have the full Red Fens gear set on him, and I have decided to level to 12 as a Sorcerer. That’ll get me my Chain Lightning, and then I can take 2 levels of Rogue for evasion and 4 levels of Paladin for the improved Saving throws, which will utilize my high Charisma score. With those splashed in at later levels, I can contend with the rising difficulty of the Elite dungeons, where I may not 1-shot all my targets.

For Gozoh, my Reaper toon, I intend to stay in epics until I have completed the Magister Epic Destiny. Although I do not intend to do an Epic reincarnation this time around. This will just give me time to farm tokens of The Twelve and grab some more gear for the Favor guy, for when he gets to Epics himself.

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Hardcore League 2

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The second season of Hardcore League is approaching. Tomorrow’s update will bring the Hardcore server back with the permadeath feature.

I have two days off from work, which will get me started. I am temporarily ceasing my Pokémon Go gaming to focus on the Hardcore event. The server runs through May, so I will be able to claim a spot before flying out to England in June.

The Anniversary Event is also running, which might have been a distraction. Sensing a possible conflict, I just spent 4.5 hours grinding to get all the gear and the sentient kobold gem I needed for my second account.

I have my builds worked out for both a Favor toon and a Reaper mode toon. I will be reusing the same names as last year’s event. My reaper toon will be Lusongee, and the Favor toon is Ananzi.

Lusongee will be 3 Wiz, 3 Arti, and 14 Cleric.

Ananzi will be 2 Cleric, 3 Wiz, and 15 Paladin.

Both will use Sun Elf for race and will be mixes of familiar classes and have Animal Domain for turning purposes. 

Lusongee will need the arti levels for trapping, as I will likely play solo on her for most of the game, like last year. Ananzi will play sword’n’board, going for heavy defense and using spellsword to fill out his DPS.

I am still debating whether or not to buy an INT tome early on to boost my skill points. I’ll have to give it more thought for now.

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Permadeath (part 11)

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So I managed to kill off another character.

My level 24 Purple Dragon Knight (PDK) died in Thunderholme. I was adjusting the mirrors and foolishly walked through one of the laser beams. Instant death.

This was the toon that wasn’t competing. I was just playing around casually and not taking any chances. Big fail.

I got the Bleeding Eyes and the Red Sash reward from the event.

I am looking forward to transferring this guy over to the normal server. I managed to unlock 3 filigree slots on his sentient maul.

I also got a +8 Wisdom tome and a +6 Strength tome from gold rolls on this fella.

His crit rate while buffed is 35% with a multiplier of x7.

I usually see 500pt and 700pt crits, and using Exalted Smite, I have seen it go as high as 3,500 damage. It should go higher once I complete the sentient weapon.

My maul is Cormryn from the Eveningstar challenge vendors. I got lucky and pulled a Good Blast of Improved Paralyzing. There is a 3rd effect on the maul, but I don’t recall what it was.

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Permadeath (part 10)

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I died. Again.

Just 12k reaper exp away from getting my 10th point and the nice reward. I had been running everything on R2 during my second life and was quite confident.

At level 14 and holding rank 56 on the reaper leader board, I got taken out by a group of rats in “Invitation to Dinner.”

I don’t feel like there is enough time left before the event ends for me to recover from this upset. I will head back to Cannith and farm the Mabar event.

I also play Forge of Empires and Pokémon Go, which also have Halloween events running, so I have lots to do.

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Permadeath 9

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Well, things are proceeding smoothly. I have reached level 20 on my reaper toon and am currently farming tokens to TR. I reached 6 reaper points and am about 2.5k away from the 7th point.

My next life I will reach the 100k reaper exp and claim that prize. I may try for the Favor reward or if the reaper exp comes easily I may try for the full 20 reaper point reward.

I have decided on Drow as my race for the next life. I will also take two levels of Rogue for the Evasion feat and the trapping skills. I really missed out on a considerable amount of loot from locked chests and exp from quests with nasty traps.

I have had abysmal luck with named gear from Sharn this go around. I ran the Sharn saga on Normal, Hard, and Elit,e earning 3 skill tomes. I then repeated the individual quests till I had ransacked them on Hard mode. I only managed to get 4 of the named weapons.

Not a single set item showed up. I ran the “Welcome to Sharn” quest on normal with my monk on Cannith server twice and got set items both runs. I am convinced the drop rate is lower here on the Hardcore server.

I also tried the Soul Splitter chain on Normal, but no luck with gear. On the “Members Only” quest, I did manage to do it on Reaper mode without any reapers spawning and got a piece of the Dreaderkeeper necromancer set. So I have one item now from a high-level gear set for the next life.

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Permadeath 8

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Well, all worked out. I got the cosmetic cloak for reaching level 20. I only have around 900 favor on my character and 3 reaper points. For the leader boards, I will use alts to reach the top. I decided not to TR my main and have passed the RL gear down to other toons.

I have for the favor ranking a Purple Dragon Knight that is going 14 Paladin and 6 Fighter.

On the Reaper ranking, I am using a 17 Warlock with a 3 Paladin build for hefty saves using Divine Grace, moderate PRR/MRR with Sacred Defense, and quick heals from Lay on Hands.

I have decided to just go for the 10 Reaper point prize to make things easier on myself. I’ll get two more points this life and then TR and reuse the build the next life. I then just need to repeat all the same quests and I will have the 10 points by level 13.

I have seen many TR’d players running around. I need to catch up.

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Permadeath (part 7)

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Success at last.

This last build works wonders and survives well even on Elite. 9 levels of Bard and 11 warlock.

I am up to level 17, and I am banking level 18 while I finish the Gianthold Saga.

I’ve tried a Normal mode run of the Sharn Saga but found no gear. I’ll have to bump it up to Hard to get something good.

I am up to 830 Favor and 2167 Reaper exp. Now I am debating whether or not to TR when I hit 20.

Dying after Reincarnating would be embarrassing.

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Permadeath (part 6)

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Well, I certainly am doing good with the bard warlock build.

I just hit level 10 and am starting to farm Ravenloft for gear. I expect the RL quests will get me to level 12, and then I will go straight to Sharn and then maybe Necro 4 or Vale.

Level 20 doesn’t seem so far away now.

I did buy the Greater Tome of Learning upgrade from the shop and also a Sovereign XP potion. So the experience is flowing in, even on the lower-level stuff.

With the Bardsong on my hireling and its summon, I can mostly sit back and let them handle the aggro.

I got the Barovian Scepter from the NPC in the entrance area. With just 2 levels of Warlock, I do good damage.