Week 30, Day 6 - Sad

Remember the latest "new mage" that I mentioned? Back in the post for Week 29, Day 4. Well, she started a healer character. Within four days of starting the character she made level 20 on it. On day one she made level 9, at which point she asked to become my apprentice--I accepted. On day two she made level 13 while SP-farming. By day three she was tired of SP-farming and got a level 25 to powerlevel her up to level 19. At that point I warned her about the dangers of powerleveling and told her that the low levels--10 to 25 specifically--are best for SP-gain. I explained that it is because at lower levels you can kill monsters faster, and besides that they all give much higher SP than the mobs at level 26 and up. She told me that she would SP-farm during her low 20's. I told her that was definitely a good, seeing that healers seem to need the most SP of all the classes.

It has now been ten days since she started her healer character and she is level 27. At level 20 she battled Great Horn Beasts for a bit, but decided they gave too little XP and moved on to Butchers. At level 25 she fought Pilferers. Now, at level 27, she is fighting Giants. Giants! She messaged me to tell me that the XP-gain from them is great. I agreed--after all, they are level 52..

I am saddened by her powerleveling. She has almost no healer skills, no rez or heal of course, and hasn't even thought about the possibility of getting processing skills. What can I tell her? I have explained everything there is to know about SP and how important it is, and yet she ignores me. I hate to think of it, but I know that she will end up with a high level character who is very weak. I have done all I can to answer her questions and explain things to her. What more is there to be said? It is not my place to be hard on her for ignoring my warnings and powerleveling herself. She will learn, soon enough, that what I have told her is true.

Don't get me wrong, we are good friends. But I just do not understand how someone can be so blinded by their hunger for power that they cast all reason aside and, in the end, actually make themselves much weaker--not stronger. It makes no sense.

On a different note, today I found an Abro Helm (level 42 knight armor) being sold for 10k. I bought it and delivered it to my boyfriend this afternoon. Normally I ask him before buying knight stuff for him, but in this case the deal was obviously too good to ignore. He paid me for it (since the usual price is 100k+, he was happy to only have to pay 10k) as well as gave me back the 3.2mil that I had loaned him. Now I have more than enough to afford a 41+10 staff. I just have to find one for sale again..

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