January 3, 2007

Bone-clasped girdle ? Check, and wow do I hate pink

stargrace January 3, 2007 3Comments

The newest Frostfell book, tucked away in Stargrace’ room

Managed to complete one thing on my list at least – the bone clasped girdle heritage quest is done. Very simple too, two other guild mates needed it done so we collected our bones, trained to the forge in SoS, crafted the piece we needed (I crafted for one through commission), ran back to the npc, killed Do’dragon in Bonemire, back to the npc, did a quick race to three islands, and back again to kill the final level 70 ^^^ who has a nasty kick back. At level 70 it’s a pretty quick and painless quest, even with 4 of us in the group. The guild status was nice, I’m sitting at 70k with Stargrace, after losing my 124k with Silverstep, I’ve got a lot more HQ to complete, so it shouldn’t take too long (hopfully) just depends on how much time I spend slacking.

Those who know me, both in game and out. Know I have fairly little tolerance. I have no patience for stupidity, especially in game. I hate people who speak for others, who generalize concepts about minorities (or majorities), I can’t stand egocentrism, and a number of other comments that people make. It makes for very quiet playing time, because I’d rather solo my way around then have to deal with people in a lot of cases. Those who are my friends though, are friends for a good long time. I’ve known people in game going on 5+ years now, and they’re some of my closest friends. It just takes a bit for me to open up. Anyhow, as I was reading some blogs today, I realized that goes for everything. There are some people who generalize about others, who make rude stupid snide comments (and posts) and expect others to listen. I had to rant that out. I tend to avoid rants but gah don’t you just get so frustrated some times?!

Raids tonight, simple x2 raids. Roost is locked still until tomorrow, so that leave crab, and maybe I can get into a Nizara group and complete the quests for my rings before we do Chel’Drak again. We’ll have to see how it goes. Not in a rush to finish my class hat since I won the circlet in courts, but the tinker bag would be nice. Speaking of tinkering, I’ve been stock piling my leaded loam up so I can start working on that. It takes massive amounts of resources, but I figure it’ll be more fun for me then adornments, which Silverstep is already doing.

Simply Charming

stargrace January 3, 2007 0Comment

Stargrace, lounging in Qeynos Harbor

It seems my ‘to do’ list in gaming is growing by the day, and very little of it is actually getting accomplished. Though I have having a blast, so what does it matter, it’s all about having fun, right?

Tonight was Labs, we wiped on some silly trash stuff that shouldn’t have killed us. It seems the more we master a zone, the more we actually tend to slack off on it, and then we die foolishly. We had an easier time in Deathtoll then labs, because deathtoll people still concentrate (some what) for. The raid was over in less then two hours. Fastest I think we’ve ever done it and we only had three groups.

Yesterday, we killed for status, and the guild hit 55. Slow going, but we’re not exactly trying. Courts is always fun to raid. We also killed a contested silver dragon in Pillars of Flame, a zone I remember well on my templar and even the warden, but had barely ventured into with the illusionist, not even completing any of the KoS quest content. Then with the silver and gold scales that drop in poets palace, we took down the dragons in Maj’Dul, They didn’t give aa, or status, so it was just for fun. I actually got a hat upgrade from courts, the circlet of living fire. How could T6 stuff possible be an upgrade? Easy.

If you’re a caster (a mage or even a bard) class, you live for proc’s. Triggered items are your best friends. Bards love them because their skills are not combat arts for the most part, they are actual spell. So those trigger procs that go off when you cast a hostile spell, go off when a bard plays one of their many songs. I tend to keep synergism on the troub. in my group, and they’re parsing close to 1k on every encounter. So anyhow, this circlet, has a fire proc. It’s great for me, I can synergism myself, have the fire proc from the hat, as well as the proc from grizzfazzles staff (spelling on that, it’s been a while) and I’m missing some claymore quest line proc’s (that I’ll get eventually) and an earring that can proc.. as well as my bone clasped girdle. You add all those proc’s up, plus the bard’s mastro and a wizard’s proc, with my perpetuality aa line.. well.. it’s fun, lets just leave it at that.

I also (shamefully) spent about 3p on collection pieces today, for two collections. One rewarded me with a chess board for my house, the other a torture chair.. pictures to follow soon as I find a better section of the house to place these items in! I adore my house items. Speaking of which, I hired Mishanna from guild to make me 11 more rare items for Stargrace’ 5 room.. it may not be as nicely done (yet) as Silverstep’ place. But it’ll get there with time!