No9, a CON knight, hit level 52 in February. I interviewed her then, but my notes got lost somewhere in the recesses of my computer until now! :) She hails from Tokyo, Japan and with the help of translator, Reona, the princess of her pledge, I was able to have a chance to meet her.

No9 has been playing lineage for almost 2 years now. She thinks the best place for a knight to hint is Fire Valley, where she takes her two level 27 beagles, Koduck and Musashiv. These beagles aren't hunting dogs, they're actually just very cute potion carriers with 200HP. Why beagles? "Because they're pretty". Yes they are!

No9's pledge is a hunting pledge, and she hunts bosses often. It's no wonder, thanks to a +6 Helm of Magic Resistance, her pair of Immunity to Magic rings, +5 Silver Knight's Shield and +6 Blessed Cloak of Magic Resistance, her MR is at 92%. She also added +1 to DEX at both 51 and 52 and wears an Amulet of Dexterity. She says it makes killing bosses much easier.

When I interviewed her, the reduced XP loss on death was one of the newest updates to Lineage, which is actually quite an important change for her. You see, in June 2002, she was the second person in the US to have a level 50 mage, Kurei3. However, the challenge of keeping a mage alive was enough to have her start No9. Now that you don't lose so much any longer, she thinks she's going to use No9 for boss hunting with her pledge and go back to working on Kurei3.