Manaplus 4144 Client

Up to this point I've resisted trying the 4144 manaplus client, but Nard convinced me to give it a try this morning and I found it quite interesting. The auto-target and attack feature is really nice, especially when I came across it by accident (hitting x instead of z). I like the stats it keeps and shows (amount of damage done to a monster).

Nard and I spent a bit of time killing yellow slimes this morning. 

The big news for this Tarq character is that thanks to the assistance of Wayne I managed to brew monster oil and make my Setzer! I also reached level 61. I pumped the points into vitality to take on the mogguns. To this point I haven't put a lot of points into Luck, but it looks like I should be. It may be the point where the other stats are starting to cost too much for the time it takes to level.

Next item goal is the Warlord Plate. Funny enough though I still haven't completed the Noah troupe mask quest. I suppose I should finish it before my next level. I'm also thinking about collecting items for when I become a mage... though the warlord plate will keep me busy enough at a cost of 75 iron ore and over 150 coal... I may end up buying a bunch of coal.

More Mogguns, quests, and red scorpions.

The freshness of the halloween party has already worn off and the event hasn't even finished yet. I got tired of hunting strictly for sweets and decided to keep aiming towards some of the quests, and in the process completed a couple. The Letter Quest, which I'd inadvertently overlooked, but managed to do quite easily. I think even a level 20 might be able to do it. I also collected 25 red scorpion stingers and maggot slimes for Auldsbel (the snake tongues is next and I have all but the mountain snake tongues). In fact I got a bit obsessed with the fact that red scorpions also drop jackolanturns that I decided to keep killing scorpions until I had a few more (7 I think). I also picked up a Perl in the process.

The Setzer Quest seems like it could be in range. 14 more coal for the ingots + 6 coal portion, but I've yet been able to activate the monster oil portion. I'm thinking a requirement of having bought a steel shield may be first. I already have the short sword, so Nicholas should be allowing me to ask how to make my short sword better.

I figured out a strategy for killing Mogguns. I mentioned hit and miss in the past, but I missed something in that strategy. At this point I'm going to hold off mentioning more until I've tested the strategy more fully. The little bit I have tested so far has been successful, though the Mogguns don't seem to be dropping a lot of coal for me this evening: 2.

Mogguns with Knight

This evening I had some big help from a player named Knight who joined me hunting Mogguns -- though it was more like I was joining him, he was much more powerful. Knight dropped 3 Coal for me, which was the same amount I managed to get on my own. He was using lightning, which requires ore. I have lots of iron ore, but only had 3 ore on me. I dropped 3 ore for him. Ore isn't quite as valuable since it's easier to get, yellow slimes are easy to kill, even for me (level 52 now).

Earlier in the day I mentioning being inches from getting chaps. I sold enough from my stash and got the chaps.

Shortly after a player named Mistakes held off spiders, snakes and other monsters so I could visit the chest to the north and obtain the short sword for the future Setzer quest.

Thanks Mistakes and Knight!

Setzer is mine...

The setzer sword quest was a lot more involved than I expected and seems to only be slightly different than the knife, which actually does more damage and was simpler to get. I also thought I needed 12 snake skins for the quest but think I ended up using 2.

Currently I'm half way through level 65. I've completed all the quests on the Wiki Walkthrough. I actually tried magic for a little bit but discovered you really need to be a collector to get it (both a collector of items and spells, so you need to write down everything and go around pestering people for information). But the change did spur me to find another way to have fun, collecting items. My goal now is to collect certain amounts of different items. Yesterday I fulfilled 100 red scorpion tails. I was spurred on to this goal when some new character tried to sell me a couple of red tails and one black tail.... I wanted to repond "I have 100 already," when in fact I actually only had 54.

So I've decided to be a collector of items. It seems pretty sensible to me to collect things like silk cocoons because robes can be made out of them. I thought I might also collect some perls, logs, and cloth. I started collecting small mushrooms. I must have killed 100 mushrooms just to get 3 or 4 small mushrooms, they were not dropping a lot. I'll post some of my collection at another time.

Level 60 - grass snake quest

I already mentioned in my last post that I've jumped to level 60, due largely in part to stack fighting. From the information I've gleaned it's going to be difficult to get the Setzer, even at my level because of my stats. I can reset my stats to arm wrestle for the golden scorpion stinger, but it may end up not being enough.

My current goal is to work up a couple more levels and invest those points into vitality which will hopefully better prepare me to do battle with grass snakes. I bumped into Stooball the other day who suggested that it might be possible at level 60, but that I'd really have to reset my stats and allocate them well.

After steel shield stats...

Annukka sold me a snake skin for 5k, it was the last component I needed to get the Indian to make the leather patch. With the leather patch made I was able to finally get the steel shield made. Armed with the steel shield my defense went from 85 to 98, a big jump! Now I'm going to concentrate on getting the proper helmet, which means 12 more iron ores. I think I'll attempt to fight for these. I still haven't forgotten the Auldsbel snake tongue quest. I'm actually only 2 mountain snake and 5 regular snake tongues away from completing this task. The Setzer short sword seems a long way away. I can't imagine how I ever thought I would get it so many levels ago.

Have thought about creating a magic character, but so far just having fun figuring out the fighter.