This past week ...

Since I work 8 hours/day, and hang with my girlfriend and the guys during the evening, I don't have a whole of time to play lately. However, I have been making the most of it when I'm on by making sure I'm hunting and having fun.

Djinn Tower:
I've been gathering blue cloths for my friend Guerreiro Revoltado lately so he could complete the oriental outfit along with his full brotherhood outfit, wizard outfit, etc. The other day I looted 8 blue cloths in a little more than 2 hours at the djinn tower. When sold 3k a piece, it's no wonder I profit here. Also, I've been hoarding up small sapphires that drop there, and I realized I could get 25K per 100 small sapphires to the NPC, which is another source of income at djinns considering they drop quite a few. Yes, I'm green djinn, so I annihilate blue djinns. :) If you're going to hunt here as a Mage, the Magma Set will save you a TON! I don't have the complete set, but I wear some when hunting djinns. All you need to profit at djinns as a mage is a little bit of fire protection, frigo, m-wall, dwarven rings, and some avalanche runes for over-lured suprises. With this, you won't need mana shield if you're of sufficient level (80+ for skilled players, 90-95+ for intermediate). Let the good times roll. Contrary to popular belieft, its not that great of experience. Djinns are low hp/high attack creatures, and do a bit of dmg for giving relatively low experience.

Demona:
Several nights ago I was hunting Demona with Lord Knight of Demons via explosions and sioing while he only uses melee. I had been to demona quite often pre-xmas update sioing friends before shared experience and it was a lot more economical then; though, I didn't get exp then. We looted only 3 skull staffs & 2 Holy Orchids in almost 2 hours of being there. The experience was great for both of us though averaging around 90k/hr late at night when spawn was indeed a bit slow. I got level 88 during that time.

Hero Cave + Demon:
Dooms was running the Hero cave the other night -> 3x, main 1x, 1x w/ pries, and 2x wlc spawn, and I took it when he finished. I had never realized how annyoning the magician and apprentices were when I was running from spawn to spawn! I had a blast running around killing 3 spawns of heroes, though trash made it rather annoying, which is why I cut out the main 1x in my run. I was bored so I decided to stair-hop a couple demons. To my suprise I did it rather cheaply. 7 runes of SD, and not even 2 bps of strong mana potions. I estimated about 5k costs per demon. Trying to get 100 in a bit here to camp demon hell sometime and try my luck. Compared to the old days, 5K expenses per demon is nothing!