Lynxounette
A summoning life
From lvl 1 to lvl 72
Hiya everyone,
Here's the guide which tells how i have raised Lynxounette, my Phantom Summoner character from lvl 1 to lvl 72 through Prelude to Chronicle 3. I will split my "story" in one part for each patch (very important in the way to play the summoner). One important thing to know is that i really did only solo to level and i spend 10-12 hours a day fighting the same mobs for months. A summoner in C1-C2 is really a pain to level compared to the other classes. (Sorry for my bad english if there is some mistakes ;))
The main thing to remember is I don't played at all to "rock", i really play the character that i like and i really want her to be lvl 75 :o). I do hate mass pvp and i love farming.
Most of you know one or more of my videos of each Chronicle. You can see in these videos my own way to play a summoner.
First Part : Prelude
I started to play Lynxounette the 17th of May 2004. The name "Lynxounette" is composed by "Lynx" which is a feline animal and "ounette" is a cute suffix in French.
I started to play mage from lvl 1 to lvl 26, in a very standard way. Nuking, rest, nuking, rest, nuking, rest etc...
At lvl 26, i summoned a first summon.
Things to know : In prelude, the summon lasted 15 minutes. You could summon it again once you reached lvl 20 without any delay at all. That means from lvl 20 to 40 you could play summoner if you want.
In prelude, low level summoning (20-40) was very very expensive. I think i remember it cost 7 Crystals D at lvl 25 (the crystal cost was about 580-640a in last prelude on Lionna). The main advantage of the summon was : no xp malus. (like the -30% in C1, C2 and C3 ;))
When i saw, after killing a few mobs, that my summon could handle every white mob, i found this way to level very very cool. I didn't need weapon with this summon. C1 was about to come out and I really dreamed a lot about the karmian on DE female *_*. So i decided to rely on my summon to save money from my weapon.
From lvl 26 to lvl 39, i did white mobs very very fast killing near the full D grade equipped farmers which can't kill as fast as my summon and Lynxounette in no grade stuff :o).
The only bad point was ... no money at all. The summon was so expensive that from 26 to 29-30, i did about 100 adena per summon :o).
One thing very interesting was to see everyone looking at my summon, wondering what it was, trying to fight it.
At lvl 32, a mean guy came to see me and asked me to leave the spot. He started to yell at me, flaged and went on hitting in order to kill me. I was totally taken by surprise, i clicked on him and aura burned him. 3 aura burns later he was dead. -> Here's my first and only pvp point ;).
I finished lvl 39 with :
- Cursed set (first D mage set)
- Single-edged Jamadhr ~700k (an orc fist, very funny ;))
AND
1M for my karmian <- i was very happy about this, all i dreamed about from lvl 26 to lvl 39 was that cute karmian :o)
I played really a lot in this part of the game, i did from lvl 1 to lvl 39 without starting with adena/equipment in 2 weeks.
Then, at lvl 39 i did all my quests for becoming the first Phantom Summoner of Lionna (lots of others classes where 40+, but summoners were so rare, I never saw a summon except mines when i was 40-).I took 6 days to do my 3 quests... (60-70 hours). My computer is really bad and traveling is really a pain ;).
Once i reached the level 40 and finally became a phantom summoner, i leveled from 40 to 43, east of Sea of Spore at leto lizardman shaman and overlord lvl 39-40. The summon finally started to become money maker.
At level 43 i had :
- Single-Edged Jamadhr
- Karmian
- no grade jewels
Second Part : Chronicle 1
From level 43 to 46, I did the first part of SoS with Fungus, wyrm and some eyes. (level 40, 41 and 42).
At level 45, I bought a D Grade book for 1.5M adena. The summoning started to become a true part of myself. By this i mean i rely only on the summon, I knew where to place my summoner so she can't be hit, how to fight mobs who root to minimize the root on the summon etc.... I only know how to play summoner but i did a lot and a lot of summoning.
From level 47 to 51, I switched between Forest of Mirror (my first video was there) and formors/gargoyles. At level 47, i bought all D grade elven jewels. At formor, i had lots and lots of drops. I started to understand what a summoner can be. Only solo, all drops for me, in my whole life i've seen more than 25 drops > 1M only for me.
At level 50, I started to look for a guild. Most of the people I knew were in clans and some clans started asking me joining us. But the only thing i wanted was a very very kind clan with no war at all, with every people i could like. All big clans are not that at all. It's more a gathering of people who want to be the strongest :o).
At level 51, i was farming at formors when a tiny group of persons, all lvl 40- started to fight formors/gargoyles. There were apparently looking for spellbooks so i gave 2-3 spellbooks i just dropped to them (these kind of spellbooks goes at the NPC anyway :o)). And then i discovered they were french people (like me). I talk with the leader, Ehina lvl 37, elf wizard and she invited me to their bloody queens raid. (another dream i had (like the karmian) was to see and fight bloody queens, the legend mob for clan lvl 3 quest). At the end of the BQs raid, I was member of Equinoxe, the dreaming clan for me.
From level 51 to 52, i did Vanor Silenos chieftain, north of Aden. Here i looted 11 Enchant Armor C Grade for my karmian :o). Here i looted lots of stuff, including an Heathen's books which i could sell for 8M. (It was a very great weapon in this time ;)) Then i bought a Sword of Whispering Death (cool style).
From level 53 to 56, cemetery (my 2nd video was there :o)). Servitor haste lvl 2, the summon becomes more and more powerful compared to the mobs, in C1 it's like the summoner apogee.
At level 56, finally i succeed to fight and win against a guard (video). I really wanted to see if it was possible to solo a guard with selfbuffs.
Level 56, last skills level for mage in C1. The second most boring part of my summoning life (the first one is after ;)). No upper summon means only bad xp :'o(.
From level 56 to 61 i did thunder wyrms & succubus in Dragon Valley (level 54-55) and harit lizardman matriarch/shaman because of the impossibility to do higher mobs. Moreover, the sleep from lvl 35 (Dark Wizard) started to become useless :o(.
I switched to theca at lvl 57 as a summoner from Korean server told us it could be better to tank a bit for the summon. That was totally true thanks to corpse life drain.
At level 57 i had :
- Dual Katanas + 4
- Theca Set
- C Grade Jewels
Ehina, my "cheffette", (cute french name for "female leader") couldn't handle the SP cost for the clan in this part of the game and as I haven't anything to do after the 56 then i took the in-game lead of the clan, only to gather SP (Ehina is still the leader).
From lvl 59 to 61, i gathered enough money to buy the Blue Wolf light set before C2.
At level 61 i had :
- Duals Katanas + 4
- BW leather set
- BO jewels
Third Part : Chronicle 2
Thing to know : Beautiful patch for summoners. Apparition of Cubics, more areas to solo, Special abilities on Weapons.
I always considered that the better stats for a summoner are the WIT (for casting speed) followed by the CON (for hps). And that INT is the most useless stat followed by STR. My tatoos will be : <+4 Wit/-4 Int>, <+4 Con/-4 Str> and <+4 Men/-4 Int>. (lol i hate INT ;)). I acquired all these tatoos in the first month of C2.
Hehe, the weapon wondering :o).
I truly wanted to go for SA Health since the beginning, i totally fell in love with this SA. But the main point is, I don't like to be like everyone else. It was clear that the AOBA will be THE most used weapon over healers/buffers/dwarves/summoners. So i decided to go with a "cute" look weapon with SA Health. My choice stopped on dual spirits + 4. The output damage from the summoner is really not very important compared to summon. Moreover, the cubics are very useful. With summoner, duals are the weapon which deals more hits/sec. There was better duals (B grade) that had SA Health, but i don't find that different swords for duals looks cool ><.
I started to xp at Devastated Castle making the Crystal quest for SA. During the first week, i did 5 cyrstals stage 8 per day (i could sell each one 2M !!). I also looted in this week my best drop ever, a keshanberk, that i sold for 22M. First week of C2, 50M :oD.
From level 61 to 65, i went around devastated castle and forbidden gateway. Fighting trives, falibati and DK (my C2 video :o)).
From lvl 66 to 67, i started to go to ToI. The hp*4 mobs are really great because once the debuff cubic (poltergeist) is gone out, the mob is debuffed for all his short life :o). The really bad point is fighting stronger mobs than normal hp is really really boring, but i couldn't find any mob normal hp > doom knight lvl 65 (it didn't exist in C2).
From lvl 68 to 70, i did messenger angels in ToI. As the server went down every day, it was "easy" to reach the spot. In fact, i took 16.000 Crystals D and i stayed all the week farming angels. Here i did great great money because not many mobs dropped Leather doom design & BW Leather Armor texture. When i came back to town (every week ><), i gave all the parts i had to my alt who sold. I could do between 10-15M a week.
I decided to overenchant my BO jewels as i have more money than needed. I lost between 15 and 20 jewels in order to overenchant my BO at +5 ;).
Middle lvl 70, the server wasn't down everyday, no more ToI messenger angels possible as i couldn't foresee the down ><. Then i did some Hallate commanders again, bad xp, great money (BO parts was expensive ;)).
At level 71 i had :
- Duals Spirit + 4
- BW leather set
- BO jewels + 5
I didn't played the last 2 months of C2. It was the most boring part of the game as i can't xp at all.
Fourth Part : Chronicle 3
C3 has just started, i will do this part later, maybe when i reach 75 ;).
At level 72 i have :
- Duals Spirit + 4
- BW robe
- BO jewels + 5