More pearls of wisdom from the slime yard

7 Pearls after 541 Sea Slime Kills

This evening I spent about another 30 minutes or so hunting sea slimes on the coast. My goal really was just to accumulate more oranges and red apples so I could heal when I ventured back to the graveyard to face Skeletons, Lady Skeletons and Poltergeists. It turned out to be a pretty good run. When you set artificial goals like 1,000 sea slime kills you sometimes forget you're also gaining experience (however little). In my case it felt like quite a bit for half-an-hour. I'm almost half way to level 69.

In the time spent this morning and this evening I racked up 541 sea slime kills. The total pearls they dropped were 7. This brings the percentage of pearls to kills up to 0.012939002%, closer to the 0.02% the web site suggests the drop rate sits at.

And for those with keen eyes, yes I have 53 green presents just waiting for next Christmas.

Giant Cave Maggot(s) - Iten quest

One of the lower-level quests in Tulimshar is to kill 1 of 2 Giant Cave Maggots. Both maggots don't always spawn. I've been up and down looking when people spawned the giant maggots and often it's only one. If you've already done the quest you cannot respawn the giant cave maggots. I mentioned this quest before, but never got a good screenshot of the maggots, just the "iten" they drop.

The giant cave maggots look very similar to giant maggots with a slight colour difference. Don't let this fool you, they are stronger - though at my current level (62) not even close to a match. Rumour has it that the Halloween event has interrupted this quest and that the cave maggots currently are not dropping the iten. Not sure if this is true or not, but I've killed quite a few spawned by other players and seen nothing.

In other news, still trudging along towards 75 iron ore and 150+ coal for the warlord plate, but it's slow going. Gold seems to be accumulating a little easier, and in the brief time I spent in the northern Hurnscald mines I turned up another Ruby - nice.

I mentioned in a forum post that at my current level there's a lag in action. I'm still too weak to battle skeletons (even 1 on 1) but I've finished all the non-magic quests right up until the "Letter"/50 bones part of the quest. Taking the letter was easy, but bones are expensive and skeletons, even 1 on 1, seem to critical my butt. Naturally I've been upping my "Luck" stat lately hoping it might help not only with skeletons, but other monsters to come.

New areas of The Mana World

The main server of The Mana World has added a new area filled with undead creatures. I'm not terribly fond of the mist which is extremely bright. The skeletons are difficult to kill, even at level 68 I almost got my but kicked. The reward for killing a skeleton was almost 5,000 experience, but they can do almost 350 hp damage if they score a critical hit, a couple of those will wipe out most characters. Poltergeists were much easier to kill on their own, and the experience was similar, but don't even attempt to attack a Poltergeist in an area swarming with them, you'll due in seconds. One might do 1 point of damage, but 15 can knock you down to nothing pretty quick. I haven't tried attacking Will'o'Wisps yet. I did a little wandering around but haven't found any kind of town in the area. Skeletons and Lady Skeletons will attack you on sight, and they move quite rapidly. Most of the other undead won't attack unless you attack first.