Ainz Progresses a Poor Ranged Attacker

This gave me a real good chuckle, ty Chris

 

Greetings!

I have a new idea to continue this journal (shocking, right?) inspired by recent forum discourse.

Introduction
Whether the subject was a 'wall' players fear hitting or complaints about the inability for a ranged class to progress without resorting to 'dirty' or otherwise undesirable tactics such as multimaging, there seems to be an idea that players struggle to advance their characters.
Combining this with a recent urge I've felt to play and improve my NL, I felt compelled to start a new chapter (though, a very suboptimal one...)
After all, some might say I have been running my mouth for a while now about how their struggles to progress simply stem from 'skill issue', so I suppose it is time to put my money where my mouth is.
Tldr; I'll try to demonstrate that a (weak) ranged attacker definitely has means to progress. To do so, I'll be handicapping myself a fair bit.

The Setup, Rules, and Goals.
Like I just mentioned, I will be handicapping myself a good deal to (hopefully) demonstrate that I can do what I've told so many others to just do.
For the purpose of this journal, I will pretend to be a generic, struggling upcoming attacker. No mages, no buff mules, no unrealistic amount of previous funding.
That last point warrants further explanation. Obviously I won't be slapping billions worth of gear on the character, but I think ~500m in gear at lvl 140 isn't unrealistic.
Without further ado, meet Accuse:

The precise stats of the character and the gear I'll be using will be revealed later. I figured I would write this post ahead of time to leave some room for discussion on whether or not the rules are fitting.

I'll be starting the char with 5m in raw meso, some affordable stars, and not much else.

Additionally, I won't be relying on any of my other characters. While having a bishop to sell low level leech on isn't particularly difficult to get for any new player, it defeats the purpose of this journal and will be avoided.

The goal of the journal isn't to show my full road from zero to hero, as I think everyone knows I'll never get there. I'd rather not see my intentions be disregarded because I don't sustain them over an extended period of time.
As such, my goal for this journal is moreso demonstrating (through logging my efforts) that progress is certainly possible. To do so, I hope to find multiple streams of income that are possible with just 1 (ranged) character.



To sum it all up, this is what I'll be working on for the coming weeks. Do you think the rules are fitting, should they be stricter or less strict?
Is 500m realistic for a lvl 140? Feel free to discuss.

 

Good point! I was also somewhat on the fence about this, but I believe party play is fair as long as it's realistic.
E.g. duo grinding is fine, but 'duo grinding' with a lvl 200 mage in 5-6 is a different matter.
Tl;dr, I want to keep my options realistic. Joining guild zakkies is fine as well, duo rav seems a little finicky because it could be considered leeching if I duo'd with my stronger friends. I'll have to think about that one.

 

Haha I don't have those

 

It seems my description wasn't very clear, sorry. Let me clarify.
The NL will start with roughly 500m worth of gear and an initial 5m to spend on pots/stars/tp scrolls/taxis etc etc.

I have no set goal as for what amount of meso I want to reach. Moreso that I want to explore a wide variety of single-char friendly meso making avenues.

On the subject of Nightghosts (big shoutout to raysinz5 of course), I do consider this probably one of the top contenders for best mesomaking strat given the context.
I do thoroughly hope I can find some other competitive maps, as I would not be happy with a result of 'just go nightghosts lol'.

 

They definitely do by the point of reaching lvl 140 :')

 

While I'm equally intrigued with the challenge you posit, I don't think it's realistic for me to raise the expectation of continuing this journey that far.
Not to say that it is impossible or that I shy away from the challenge. It is just that I do have the character infrastructure that allows more efficient gains and my time to play is very limited.

As such, this journal will focus on exploring various options and (hopefully) result in multiple income flows that, when repeated over an extended period of time, allow someone to progress their attacker without resorting to playing one (or multiple) mage(s).

Whether or not I then proceed to sink hours into these options means little to the validity of the outcome.

Tl;dr, I don't intend to set a goal of getting x equips, I'll just try my best to find (and log) options that will allow others to do so.