KOL Journal (04/30/2014)

Run 51 is a BIG! run to pick up the level 15 stuff for the AT. Also, the new May IOTM looks like a content thing with possible skills to perm? Info is still sketchy and the ticket from the IOTM will be expensive for some time.

I guess I'll take a break from ascending. I'll go through some old stuff. And meat farm.

I have to make a list of content to peruse while on break.

astral mushroom
tiny bottle of absinthe
llama lama gong
agua de vida
devilish folio
grimstone mask

later ascending:

KOLHS
Zombie Slayer - I do have the bear arms, so it could be interesting
Avatar of Boris
Bugbear Invasion

KOL Journal (04/22/2014)

I'm passively doing hardcore runs, because it's easy for me to do them in 4 days. I have heard it's apparently easy to do them in 3 days, but I don't want to take the time to figure out how that happens, so I'll lazily do these 4 days.

I'm stopping at my 50th run (this is the 49th run).

What usually happens over the four days:

1)
Level 2-8
Ballroom unlock
Spooky Forest unlock

2)
Level 9-10
star key, star hat, star crossbow
daily dungeon, dungeons of doom, wand

I sometimes start level 11 on Day 2.

3)
Level 11-most of 12
12 is Flyers, Junkyard, Orchard, frat side
collect stair items

4)
Rest of 12
digital key
Level 13 (with side trips if I don't have an item)

KOL Journal (04/15/2014)

Doing a couple of Hardcore runs, which means a change in motorcycle upgrades. I have to get the seat upgrade, and I seem to be overlevelling since it takes longer to collect stuff. Therefore, I get the rockets upgrade instead of the stats one.

I ran out of skills to buy this run by level 10. It's really going to be better and better. I cannot believe even hardcore is easy. 

I'm not even perming anything right now. I will stop for Halloween. Then I'll collect some new skills or do some other things I've been meaning to do.

Well... actually, since Flight Rising opened registration yesterday, I'm there instead. Ha. In some ways it's better than KOL. It's like dragon Neopets (at least, the way I remember Neopets, 10 years ago.) 

KOL Journal (04/08/2014)

I chained 5 3-day runs, but since I start the first day on the third day of the previous run, it's more like I did 5 2-day runs. That is too tiring, so I ascended into a hardcore AoSP. Since I started with 16 points, I basically finished most of the first 2 paths. Obviously I have to do without the warscarf, which I always pull every run. I just left the +3 elemental resistance thing on from the check mirror skill. I basically didn't turn on much monster level because I am too lazy to do that. And I had to get the MP/HP regen thing from the motorcycle earlier.

So for day 2, I'll probably get the liver, and finish some quests. And I guess I can try to get stairs stuff. And since I have to get 2 extra keys... I'll have to do the dungeon at least once, and maybe get the wand? I dunno. I'm not going to have a lot of turns anyway.

KOL Journal (04/01/2014)

I managed to get a 3 day done, and I'm trying to get another one done just to see if I can. I'm making good progress on the 2nd day, as I'm done the Spookyraven part and I'm done the annoying part of the hidden city - the shamans. I'm also half way to level 12, so maybe I can put off killing bosses until I get there. I already killed Lord Spookyraven, so I guess the rest of them I'd have to save for flyering. So that's the Palindome boss, Ed, and the spirit from the hidden city. I might be able to flyer others if I manage to level up before I finish the level 11 quest. And if I still have flyering to do, I could flyer the junkyard. I'd rather not have to set up bees unless I have to, and that'll be gone in the future anyway. I'm going to have to cut it out of the strategy soon.

(Note: Use some skeletons next time in the hidden city, get +50% combat initiative instead of the buoyant tank because I'd actually use that all the time)

Right now, I'm thinking about getting a snow machine for next time since I do have a garden. However, I still need to balance levelling with speeding up quests, so I might not get one since it would have limited use without an actual Winter Garden. Mostly it would be the snow cleats, and I already have tons of -CF with muffled alone. In the future, I would have brood so it would definitely be no problem. I don't think I'd ever switch to unmuffled because I don't need to boost CF very often and as long as I finish within 3 days I'm pretty happy with runs.

I'm going to try to remember to use the VIP buffs to increase stat gains as much as possible. In general, I'm not using all the resources I have available (mostly because I'm too lazy to be that careful).