Farming in the Burning Coast

Is it me or there are actually a lot more items and coins being dropped now at the Burning Coast?

There was a time when I headed off to Slifmoor when I wanted to stock up on health potions and Essence of Combat. Now it seems that I get more stuff when I do my farming at the Burning Coast.

I'm now at my six batch of Essence of Combat and have 16 Better Health Potions.

I definitely like!

Komikero: Back at Grimford...maybe for Good?

When at least 15 new missions were announced with Release 53 for Levels 36-38 at the Resistance Command Center, I was forced out of retirement and I had to leave dear sweet nasty Mina behind at my retirement home, Grimford.

I blasted through all the new missions rather quickly, eager as I am to go back home. If you've seen Lord of the Rings, Grimford is the closest thing one has to Hobbiton in this place.

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It's just a very nice place to settle down.

I got disappointed though. As much as I like getting some Andermants for completing the missions, the total XP rewards of all new missions (which amounts to upwards 75K) were not added to my XP at all.

My XP bar did not move, nor did the numerical value of my experience points rise even one point.

Now I know that there is no more Level 41, so why look for XP at this point? I would like, at the very least, for the XP bar to move from the very beginning of Level 40 (or the left most point of the bar) to start moving towards the end (the right most point of the bar). If the XP bar reaches that point and goes no further, then that would make more sense. Because right now there's just a gaping XP void at the bottom of my screen and it drives me nuts that I can't fill it.

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I figure Drakensang owes me those XP points.

It makes taking on future quests rather pointless if I'm not going to get any XP for them at all. As much as I was anticipating the new Level 40 quests, I think I'll stay in retirement this time until such time as when XP points shall be rewarded to Level 40 players again.

New Quests in the Resistance Command Center

Release 053 finds Prince Aldred summoning heroes from all over Duria willing to face the fiery fiends from the darkest corners of the Anderworld (Levels 36-38) in 8 new series of quests (15 total individual quests).

There's also some minor bug fixes (nothing on the Spellweaver Mana cap I'm afraid) introduced with this release.

Check out the full details here.

The Evil Miller

If you find yourself in the Resistance Command Center (RCC) pay the Evil Miller over at Stonekeep a visit if you can. It’s going to be worth your while though I’m sure he’s not going to be too happy to see you seeing as you’re there to, you know…kill him.

This particular trick was taught to me by Ysa Arce (in-game name: Xvii) who learned it from one of her party mates during one of her quests. The Evil Miller apparently gives high rewards in terms of XP points (assuming you succeed in giving him the boot).

The place is easy enough to get to from the RCC. Check out the map below:

It's just a short run from the RCC to Stonekeep but make no mistake: there're going to be Level 32 Dragons barring your way. It's probably best to party up with a few other characters to stack the odds in your favor but, if you're an experienced prudent warrior with a Level 32 rank or higher, you can probably fly solo if you wish.

You can opt to teleport instead if you got Andermant to burn. It'll set you back 40 Andermants however so I opt to just walk the whole way and slay a few dragons in between.

Once you reach Stonekeep, you'll find the Evil Miller at the following location:

Dispatch the unholy creature and see your Experience Points rise!

UPDATE: Vanslaugh, Community Manager for Drakensang-Online just informed me that the massive amount of XP for killing the MOB was given to the players by mistake. The MOB was bugged and gave a wrong amount of XP to the player. This bug was fixed with today’s server restart.

For those players who managed to strike while the iron was hot, consider yourselves lucky!