November 2006

QoTW: Missing Sister

stargrace November 21, 2006 0Comment

Most Annoying Quest in the World.. Quite Possibly..

This is the current quest I’ve been working on. It is quite possibly the most annoying quest I have ever encountered. Each item that Teriniu’s sister has lost and you have to find, is a little tiny microscopic clicky on the ground. The first one was easy enough, it is a hammer on the ground in Greater Faydark. The second item is an earring located at: -41,25,-795 in New Tunaria. It is a TINY little clicky on the ground partially obscured by some bolders that you have to drop down to see. The third update, is at: -532,70,-1,077 and is a white bracer on the ground. The next portion is to find a doll or a person or something from what the icon shows on the quest, but other then that, and the fact that it’s also in New Tunaria, they give no information.

Now, I’ve been enjoying working out most of these quests on my own, but oh my goodness, talk about hard. One quest has broken already for me, and three others I’m at dead ends with. I did manage to work my way down a quest that has now turned into a level 70 epic quest, the reward, a fabled cloak. The cloak does +25 to healing and damage spells. A slight upgrade over the tunare cloak I’m wearing now, if I can ever manage to complete the quest.

I had my level 44 assassin un-deleted by soe, after deleting them on June 18th. I petitioned and within two hours they’d given me the character back, I was exceptionally surprised. At the time I did not have room for more characters, so I’d deleted her. I now have station access and it’ll be staying that way, so I figured there was no harm in asking if there was anything GM’s could do. Despite the issues others may have with sony’s customer service, I have not had a single issue thus far. A huge thank you to them.

Signature Quest – Corruption of the Faydark ; Ivy-Shrouded Orb of Tunare

stargrace November 19, 2006 0Comment

Server discovery on Lucan D’Lere

I stumbled upon Arloona in Lesser Faydark, who hangs out around the great tree, in Tunare’s section. A priestess who rambled on about shards, who I barely paid attention to at first. Finding myself bored one day, I attempted to complete this signature quest, which was.. very.. frustrating with no walk throughs. I appreciate the work everyone else does much more now.

There are 9 quests to this signature quest, each one fairly easy — if — you know where to go for your updates. A lot of it is running around talking to various npc. The 9 quests are:

Corruption of the Faydark, Making it Manifest, A Champion of the Koada’Dal, Aquiring the Second Frag, An Evening Jaunt, Tracking Down the Necromancer, A Small Testament, A Predestined Fate, The Hidden Crystal.

I’m not going to post a walk through here, but if you do have questions about it, feel free to /tell Lucan_DLere.silverstep and you’ll more then likely find me in game, I can answer questions if there are any. A HUGE thank you to my guild mates and friends who helped me out with this quest, I know you guys must have been tired of hearing me looking for a Satyr.. (who is behind a rock in the Thexian camp for those who can’t seem to find him either! You’ll know what I mean!)

I’m up to 64aa now, and settling into the expansion a little more. Still lots to do, lots to update, but for now, this will do.

Silverstep, wearing her new signature quest item! Ooh it glows!

A follower of Tunare, and a new cloak

stargrace November 17, 2006 0Comment

Silverstep in her home before the alter of Tunare, proudly displaying her new guild cloak

Torrent Knights recieved the heraldry for their first guild cloak two days ago, and I must say I quite like it. There’s also nothing quite as imposing as standing together in a raid all wearing the same unique design (unique to your own server at least). While I don’t typically like the actual bat-man-cape type graphics on the cloaks, they are another form of unity and I do like that general idea.

I had hoped Silverstep would be able to follow Sol. Ro, the burning prince, as her God. However, after looking at the rewards offered. Tunare was really the only way to go for a healer. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to work it into my role play yet, but I’ll find a way. Creativity knows no bounds after all!

The entire Tunare chain was solo-able at level 70, and I had a lot of fun doing it. Typically I am the first one to look for a walk through with any quest I think, especially ones that make me figure things out. I’m just not patient enough with them. However, this was one of those few quests that I took the time (along with fellow healer Mard) to figure out and complete. Well worth it, as the Tunare cloak gives +30 to my healing spells.

I also managed to complete two quests in New Tunaria with Xani, it took us about 8 hours total to figure these quests out though, and we received discovery for completing them. I progressed a level 65 signature quest that I’ve been working on as well, I don’t know what the reward is but they’ve sent me to find some satyr in Lesser Faydark and talk to him about a void shard, very interesting.

Did my first two instances yesterday as well, one is located on the top of Crushbone Keep, in Greater Faydark, and was about the same difficulty as the KoS zone “Nest”, but more unique encounters with interesting twists. I also did the new Obelisk instance, completed a quest for that zone as well. All in all, pretty fun thus far. With the ravamp though I’m not exactly overly enthusiastic about raids tonight.

Oh, also got to 17 in tinkering. I’ll rant more about that later, the craft from hell. Not quite as difficult as transmuting though, which I keep hearing horror stories about from Eleyn. More ranting to follow I’m sure.

EoF is here, and .. wow..

stargrace November 15, 2006 0Comment

No pictures to post quite yet as the last 24 hours in game at least has been a whirlwind of quests, discovery, more quests, shinies, and various other tid bits. So here is my first general impressions since the expansion has gone live, and what I think.

New Tunaria.. is.. oh my goodness. SO beautiful. It is perhaps the most beautiful zone I have ever seen before. I love it. Granted, the mobs in the zone don’t like me, nor me them, but uh it’s still so pretty. Expect some screen shots to follow.

Quests. Are EVERYWHERE. A few that I’ve started, two signature quests, a few new heritage quests, my deity quest for Tunare (I’ll have to do some fancy rp’ing to wiggle Silverstep into that one since I had every intention of going the Sol Ro rout until I found out Tunare rewards). Learned the new fae language, and have yet to make a fae. Lots to do.

Lesser Faydark horse stables ROCK. These are like griffin flight paths, but instead you mount up on a horse and take off across the zone. SO MUCH FUN! Spent some time having Faydai mentored as well and farmed some named in Steamfont, which brought back so many memories.

Klak’anon hurts at level 49!

The expansion was up ahead of schedule, there was no down time at all last night, and while they are understandably patching this morning, it seems to have gone off without a hitch. I still have not created my fae character yet, but that’ll come today perhaps. I’ve decided to go with a ranger. Other random tid bits.. they’ve combined the markets, not sure I care for that quite yet, means a LOT more competition between players. Tinkering, fun! Transmuting.. EXPENSIVE. More thoughts once I’ve slowed down some. Prayed to my Tunare alter and stocked up on God status points. Miracles inc!

Careful, crafting can drive you insane.. Godking raids, and manastone 2.0

stargrace November 10, 2006 0Comment

Silverstep diligently crafting away, trying to reach that elusive next tier

Finally, ding 59 woodworker. Out of all the crafters I have, or have ever had, the woodworker has got to be one of the worst ones out there. The provisioner was pretty bad as well but I managed to get by and hit 70 before they removed sub-combines. The woodworker, is lucky if she gets two new recipes a level. Level 55 rewarded me with one. So to keep some sanity I’ve been grinding out those wonderful tradeskill writs, working my faction with the Ironforge Exchange. I think I’m at about +3,000 now or so with 11 more levels to go. Thankfully, I’m out of vitality, and I use this excuse to end the madness.

With EoF just around the corner, I’ve been busy getting collection quests ready for turn ins, and playing my alts some. Raids as usual and generally keeping to myself and avoiding the horrendous drama that is known as Lucan D’Lere Server. Managed to pick up a few pretties last week in labs, go figure I had been hunting for a new hat and breast plate forever, well, since betrayal at least. Low and behold BOTH dropped on the labs raid. I passed on the breastplate having already won a very nice belt and the relic hat.

Relic leather hat (Fury) and the Sash of Perdition

The guild also decided that we would farm eyes over the past two weeks, and do the Godking raid, which is the final mob needed for prismatic 2.0 as well as manastone 2.0. I had already completed my prismatic quite some time ago, but I had neglected to do the manastone as the named I needed wasn’t up. So this was a good opportunity for me to finally get it done.

Manastone 2.0

I use this constantly on raids, even the non-legendary version that I had for almost a year now. It can be a life saver when you’re low on power. It does have a recast timer of 30 minutes though which is slightly annoying, but as long as you know which fights to use it in and when to save it, it’s still very nice. You turn into a wraith type mob when it’s used. Over all a pretty slow week, but I’m actually enjoying it. The bardling snagged level 41, though she’s still an exile and hanging out in Haven until I manage to get her to level 60 or so. No point in going troubadour quite yet!