I am quite pleased with myself today. I made a full 15% of my level and maxed out two skills--with only three hours of hunting, too! The skills I maxed were my passive skill called Fast Spell Casting (151 SP) and then my general skill called Energy Bolt (43 SP). Energy Bolt is actually the level 1 attack skill that all mages get. I've just never had a reason to max it until now. I started off with 135 SP and now have 2 SP left over, so during my hunting I earned 59 SP. Not bad at all for three hours. That's 20 SP an hour, or one every 3 minutes. I can live with that.
I also earned 3.4 million gold, thanks to some Blood Frenzy pandoras. Five pandora boxes spawned close to me as I was SP-farming, so I opened them up and fought whatever was inside. Out of the five boxes that I opened, three spawned pandora beasts, and two of the beasts were Frenzys. I used gold boosters on both, of course. The first dropped 1.2mil and the second dropped 2.2mil. It's hard for me to believe, 3.4mil gold just like *snaps* that! Ah, that brings me up to a total of 31 million gold now. 18mil of that is dedicated to buying myself a 41+10 staff, another 6mil is for getting my 41+3 wand up to +6, and whatever's remaining (7mil right now) is for upgrading my level 40-42 armor set. I'd say I'm doing pretty good.
I got invited to two Egeha parties today. During the the 2x XP APAC Happy Hour, Egeha seemed to be the place to go. Both of the people doing the inviting were on my friend's list, of course, so they IMed me in-game. Both wanted me because I have all my buff skills, as well as most of my passive and general skills, maxed out. Apparently there is a shortage of mages with maxed skills. Can't imagine why. >.>
I turned both of my friends down. Told them that I am avoiding Egeha until level 47 or so because I want to max out all of my skills--not just the mage ones--first. I've told them that before, but they are convinced that if they ask me enough I will change my mind about it. I really do hate to turn people down, however I also understand that I can't please everyone. And if "everyone" doesn't want what I know is best for me--or in this case my character--then I for sure won't be pleasing them.