2006

Adventurers rejoice, no more crafting heritage quests!HooT!

stargrace December 8, 2006 No Comments

When the new commission system came out I was a little bit leery of it. Seemed like a complicated way to having things made. After all if you don’t trust your crafter, or you’re worried about being ripped off, why would you hire them to make you anything? I like to feel that my ‘clients’ so to speak, trust me when I say I’m going to make something for them. For those who don’t know what this commission system is, it works this way.

Target your client, and hit N (this opens your recipe book), find the recipe of the item you’d like to make for said person (this includes tinkered no-trade items, such as the level 12 stilts). Right click the picture of the recipe, and select create. When you do this, it opens a new window, your commission window. It allows players to drop items (or coin) into the window, when they’ve supplied you with whatever the agreement was, you click accept, they click accept, and if you’re at a crafting station, you can start crafting away.

When the item is complete, a transfer automatically occurs, their items for the end product you’ve just created. They can also watch you as you craft, and can see what type of produce they’re getting, if you botch the combine, they’ll know about it.

The unique part of this, is that the commission system allows you to ‘trade’ no trade items. For example. You’re a level 70 adventurer, and you’d like to complete the wurmslayer heritage quest. Which requires a crafting level of 50 to scribe the recipe, 60 if you’d like to have an easier time of making the item. The ingredients are some wood, and some no-trade oak shafts.

You can find a level 70 crafter, and commission them to make this for you, so long as they themselves have scribbed the recipe for the wurmslayer. You insert your no-trade heritage parts into the window, they click accept you click accept and ta da, you’re crafting away. Once the item is completed and it’s in their inventory they recieve the update for the quest. Is this an overlooked factor? Nope, apparently it’s supposed to work that way, as dev’s have posted here.

So adventurers rejoice, no more grinding up those pesky crafting levels for your quests if you really don’t want to.

Tailoring, Tinkering, and Questing

stargrace December 5, 2006 No Comments

Misako, my little mystic armourer tailor

There are always a few crafters I get bored of, and then end up deleting their character counterparts and have to re-start. Tailor is one of these. I had a level 12 dirge who was a level 52+ tailor. Deleted the dirge, so I had to start over. Then I went through a phase making various characters who I eventually got bored of, and deleted them to clear room for more characters, effectively deleting the crafting portion of them too of course. SO! Misako started out as my supposed armourer and after some contemplation today I decided at the last minute she’d go tailor. Why tailor? A lot of my characters wear leather or cloth, plus I can always use bigger bags, arrow satchels, and the wonderful + stat dollies, of course now since EoF, there are also cloaks to be had. Granted it will be quite some time before I land myself an enigma of the tailor volume 3 (when cloaks start) but one can hope. They are body drops after all. The little tailor made it to 20. Good enough for now.

Tinkering, I decided to give up on for now. It just requires far too many raw goods at this point in time. So I’ve moved to transmuting on Silverstep, very very slow going. Which is the way I’d rather it actually. I don’t need to be one of the first people up there. Guild members are already T7 and if I really need something made I’m sure I can talk to them.

Quests! Well, I’m not even sure what direction to go with these lately. I feel some what restless, I blame it on the holiday season approaching fast. I wanted to get Silverstep’s quest count up higher, and get her more aa if at all possible by mentoring down for turn ins. So far, I’ve floundered about the zones and accomplished nothing. Perhaps I’ll head to Everfrost and work on the few quests I have there or something. I tried to clean my journal out a little, I only had room for 5 more quests. But anyone who tries this method knows it’s futile, as you just end up picking up more quests to fill up those you’ve completed. I think I have a whole array of Cazic Thul quests that I could work on.. Hmm…

Oh. Also. Sighs. Read today in the patch notes that the adornments which previously supplied nice amounts of health and power, are getting “adjusted”. What sort of adjustment exactly? Well. The previous 400 hp / 400 pwr adornments are being reduced to 100. That’s right. 300 less. The 150 ones are being reduced to 75. Sighs. So much for breaking 8k power self buffed! They’re replacing the adornments (old ones) with the new ones, and giving compensation of “market value” of the adornments. What I want to know is what exactly is market value? Is it the vendor price of said item? Because that’s not what they sell for in the market. They’re worth a good chunk of plat. At least the ones I’ve seen for sale are. Meh.

Another weekend of raiding.. Clockwork Menace DOWN!

stargrace December 4, 2006 No Comments

Server discovery by Silverstep, from Emerald Halls

Friday night we traveled to Freethinkers, took down the first two named on the very first pulls, no issues. Learned that the wolves you spawn are actually for the Hand of Glory quest. Which of course has been bugged since release of EoF so I’ve neglected to work on. It’s fixed now. Apparently. I can’t recall what the second raid was we did Friday, but I’m sure it was something… Saturday, Chel’Drak fell the second pull and then we wrecked havoc in Inner Sanctum. Sunday, we defeated the Clockwork Menace, whose loot was just… laughable almost. Plate breastplate, which will only be used for resists. The encounter is actually pretty simple as soon as you learn the tactic for defeating this mighty foe. Was done that in less then an hour even with the long waits as guild members showed up (don’t even get me started on that rant).

Once the Clockwork Menace was down we had a few options. Go to Deathtoll, which has been getting little to no attention since EoF was released, or head to Emerald Halls, a zone we’ve previously avoided due to numerous bugs and the fact that the zone is filled with 200+ trash mobs that you’ve got to clear on your way to certain named. Fun. We did manage to down the Mistress in there, and she dropped Silverstep’s new shield. I actually didn’t put in for it as loot, but it appeared to be fury loot, so I said if no one else was going to take it that I would. The power on this shield is unfortunately *really* low. But for those times I’m using a 1h and a shield, or my godking weapon (which I use on occassion when I need the power regen) it comes in handy. Plus if the rest of the set drops, it would be nice to have that +5 to ministration as well as the 2% crit heal chance. We’ll just have to see how it goes. I’ve been patiently waiting for a breastplate to drop with no sign of it happening any time soon.

Faydai hit 50 sage, Yamini hit 50 alchemist, I made a baby fae monk, Vivacious. Deleted a baby bruiser and a wizard. I’ll re-make those into something some other time. I get bored and restless and then end up re-making quite frequently.

Also finished (finally) L&L Siren, and Centaur. They’ve been in my books forever. So that was four new house items. Oh. Silverstep also changed her Deity. My Rp notes were all about how she was going to follow Sol Ro, and then when EoF came out I was woo’d by the heals of Tunare. But upon further contemplation, she’s decided to head back into the waiting arms of Sol Ro, the Burning Prince. For both Rp purposes, and for the benifits of the miracles and blessings. As a fury with 600 int yesterday, she crit on the Clockwork Menace for 32,000 points of heat damage. Which, come on now, for a healer, is pretty nice *grins*.

Found out that world wide, I’m 7th for over all power. Not too bad!

Ranking 7th world wide for highest power (on a fury)

A small pet peeve

stargrace November 30, 2006 No Comments

So I have one small pet peeve (ok who am I kidding, I have many) in eq2. Specifically on my server Lucan D’Lere, which is a role play server. I think one of the most constant questions I hear asked, on every single channel is…

“what god should my character follow?!”

Why does this frustrate me? Easy. In my day to day life, I’d never go around asking which deity to worship, which religion was the right one for me. If I was interested in changing my faith or picking one to begin with.. I’d do research, and not just blindly go by what other people (strangers at that) were telling me. So every time I hear this question asked (at least 20x a day) I cringe a little. I know it’s a silly thing to cringe over but I’ll do it anyhow I think.

Working on the staff of the observers HQ. Had to learn a new language, much fun. Did the Dwarven Ringmail HQ yesterday, level 15 and ended up battling away hoards of baby fae all running around doing their own thing. Eventually moved to Greater Faydark 2 just to be able to complete it. The house item (almost all HQ can turn into house items when you right click them and examine them which is the main reason I do them) is a very ornate looking gold and red chest, like the ones you find in Crushbone, I adore it. The Raincaller bow is quite awsome looking as well. I’m looking forward to adding the staff to my collection of weapons. No raids tonight, last night we did a few guild status raids, unfortunately I sat most of them out as I was just simply not in the mood. I’m sure we’ll be hitting EoF raid zones this weekend as per normal. More ranting later!

Ellithia, Fae Ranger Down!

stargrace November 29, 2006 No Comments

Finally gave in and started my first (may not be the last!) fae character, Ellithia, a new ranger. I didn’t bother sticking around to do the fae quests, because there are 4 versions of Faydark up, and 99 people in each one. So with the help of friend Llen, I headed to Qeynos to play around in those zones instead.

Roost last night got a new upgrade for Silverstep, some leather bracers bringing her to over 8k self buffed power finally. She could still stand a few upgrades, especially with the new EoF fabled sets, but they can wait. I’m pleased with the progress thus far. Raids tonight, not sure what we’re going to be doing yet though. We typically save the big raids for the weekend when we have everyone around. Turn outs have been great lately. We also recruited 4-5 new members, who are settling in. I’m about to break 100k guild status which is a first for me, I’ve never actually been in a guild long enough to accumulate that much status. Torrent Knights is certainly a nice home.

Just a short post today, as I’ve some other things to attend to, but incase people have missed it, I owe a huge thank you to Xani for helping me with quests in EoF this past week, as well as the group who helped me and Shadowgeist take down the level 60 x2 in Loping Plains last night, we both managed to finish the raincaller bow HQ, walk through on Ogaming made it pretty simple and we were done in less then two hours. Guild dinged 52 from some status items Xani turned in, and I’m back up to 2.2 million personal status, which I’ve not decided what to do with yet, either buy a new level 60 mount since I have been riding my carpet forever, or buy a workbench so I can do more adornments in my house. We’ll just have to see!