[OOC] Side Quest - Sword Art Online

[Tracyarmav]

@Lightbox I'll keep you posted then.

[Zelosse]

@pockets where you at, Mang. Team needs its designated heavy hitter.
You and Sif make up the powerhouse.

Also for everyone still playing, I would like some further changes to the character sheet.
Please add on somewhere your current level. If it changes, so should the sheet.
Alternatively you can put it IC with your time of day (Ex; day 30 / LVL 25)
If you have changed equipment since the start of the game, please detail it in the equipment on your cs.
If your equipment has bonus effects, please list them on your cs. (ex; helmet/bracers give bonus agility/power/stamina.) limit yourself to one bonus per equipment. Crafted gear has a chance to get better quality gear, I haven't figured out how not to make that broken yet so for now I leave it to you all to be honest and set yourselves up for failure or success respectively.

Lastly; I think we should put a limit on vendor level equipment being sold. It would be white quality goods with little beneficial stats.
Player bought is the way to go.

Questions or concerns?

[pockets]

Post will be up today. Apologies for.the delay, just finished a graveyard shift at work and I needs some sleep.

[DestinyStar]

@Zelosse Around which level would our guild be at, by now? All I can do is guesstimate... 20-ish maybe?

[Haeo]

@DestinyStar, Wouldn't that mean that you gained a level every day? That would be a pretty crazy rate of advancement, even early on. Ultimately it's all up for grabs since we've already stopped using the canon for much more than the most general of guidelines.

As for Tailpin, he was killing a level two monster every one to two seconds from sunset to sunrise every day without breaking for meals or traveling more than ten minutes a day.

I'm curious now. That's 14 days times 10 hours/ish, times 60 minutes/hour, times 60 seconds, divided by two... and... that's a big number and ... I think I want to see how big that is, come to think of it... Ooh, assuming that I did that right... I come to a big old 252,000 monsters dead in two weeks. Oye... maybe I need to recalculate how much loot he saved up. As is, I only gave him about an item per 150ish kills. That's a bad drop rate for level twenty never mind level two.

Bah, segue, never mind all that. Anyway, I'm placing his level at 11 unless told to do otherwise. It feels right to me. But, he was hunting level twos while you were probably up against level three or level fives depending on whether you were in a party or not. The xp split makes trying to estimate harder. So, I guess all of this comes down to my two cents being to go with your gut.

@Zelosse

[DestinyStar]

@Haeo I only said 20-ish because if I remember that's about where Kirito was at after a few weeks in the anime. It can be whatever- I'm just more familiar with the anime/manga than I am with gaming, so now we're getting into technical details I don't know a ton about. ^^"

[BlackPanther]

Thinking of how I level up in online games
Level 20 in two weeks is a bit of a stretch *shrug*
That's just me though

I'm still figuring out Ikanus' level

[Haeo]

@DestinyStar Sorry about the mass of calculations and blah. I guess I was just trying to give you a feel for the numbers/time ratio involved. I think that Kirito got as strong as he did because he focused on completing a bunch of quests as quickly as possible and knew where to train.

Still, as I said, it ultimately comes down to your gut feeling. I forget which floor Kirito fought Kayaba on but I recall a mention of him being between level sixty and level seventy. I can't remember what level he was at when the first floor boss was defeated so I don't have a frame of reference for floor one levels. I'm just having to draw on general gaming experience. Although, I wrote earlier that level two monsters stopped giving Tailpin any experience after he hit level 11. Level fives, like the bears in the forest, could probably get you up to eighteen or so before tapering off if that pattern held true.

[Zelosse]

Everyone should be about level 10. Yes we killed lots, no the monsters aren't giving out buckets of exp. For two weeks worth of work lets ballpark anywhere from 10-15 depending on your paths taken.
Group exp is shared so world walkers is approx 11-12.
That's excluding exp gained solo
Cinera may well be lvl13

[BlackPanther]

ill add ikanus' level now

[Haeo]

Sounds good.

[DestinyStar]

@Zelosse That sounds good. Level 13 it is.

@Haeo No worries. I just don't know much about MMOs. I'm mostly guessing with this based on TV shows and such. xP But that makes sense that Kirito was probably leveling up quicker than everybody else.

[Haeo]

@DestinyStar That's how I figure it. He ran off to get ahead of everyone else and grab the easy quests and good hunting so that he could gain xp faster than the competition. You've had Cinera training extra on her own so she'll gain a little faster. But, there really is a lot of bonus xp to be made if you can complete quests fast enough to justify the time.

I've run into some MMO games where a monster might give you between 15 and 30 xp but a single quest can give you 200-500 plus whatever you kill on the way and a money/item reward. A lot of quest value depends on how fast you can complete the quests.

[BlackPanther]

How I play wow

*accepts a quest gets item forgets about it while does pet quests*
*months later* erm....why do I have a severed head in the bank vault

[Haeo]

I've been in that spot before, though not with WOW.

[Zelosse]

We waiting for me to post? Give @pockets a bit longer?

[DestinyStar]

Hey y'all! Here is my proposal for a new character!

Appearance
Username: ScarletRain (Real Name: Melody Tsukishima)
Current Level: 14
Affiliation/Guild: Solo Player
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Hair color: Auburn
Eye color: Blue
Skin tone: Tan
Height: 4'11"
Build: Petite, Short, Small, Slim but Toned (not muscle-y).
Current Outfit: These Outfits. The one on the left is her battle armor (but the green is actually red), the one on the right is her outfit for traveling around safe zones (but the pink/orange is red and the white is black).
Primary Weapon: Heavy Greataxe (Two-Handed)
Skills: Piercing/Blunt (Bonus Damage to Armored Units) & Precision (Weapons Have a Higher Critical Chance).

@Zelosse @LadyTale Yeah? Is she ok to play? :)

[Zelosse]

can we roll 17 years of age so shes in that rebellious punk phase and deals with the reality of death in an arrogant 'fuck that' kinda way?
If you think it wouldn't work then that is fine. Accepted.

[DestinyStar]

@Zelosse Actually, that's pretty close to what I was going for... But I want her to have more of an immature mindset. I described her to someone else as being "like Silica" in the way that she gets special treatment (and harrassment) for being cute, but she's actually strong (unlike Sillica). She has naively decided she can easily survive/beat this game if she just smashes her way through it on her own. xD

[Tracyarmav]

17 year olds can be as, if not more, immature than the average 14 year old...