April 2007

Say what you want about customer service…

stargrace April 17, 2007 2Comments

Ricotta Is’Gouda, back in the game again

Say what you want about SoE’s customer service, but I have had plenty of experience with them, and it’s been nothing short of fantastic. A few months ago, I couldn’t even remember the exact date any longer, I deleted my 43 ratonga dirge, Ricotta. Why did I delete her? The same reason anyone deletes a character on EQII, it’s typically because we’re limited to 6 characters (unless you purchase station access) and that’s just not enough. Being a very avid alt-o-holic, I had to let someone go, and it was her. She was also a 30 jeweler, I already have a 70 jeweler though, I had started her on another server and moved her to Lucan D’Lere shortly after.

Anyhow. I decided since I have two accounts now, that I’d try to petition and see about getting her un-deleted. I’ve done this in the past. Many times in fact. Once I was told that an exception could not be made, but I re-petitioned and they granted me the character restore anyhow. They’re always prompt with the service, within the day I’d say my character was restored. Today was no different, I petitioned early morning, explained the situation, that I had deleted due to lack of character slots, bought a second account, moved some characters to that account and now had free space on the original account, so I was curious if there was any way to restore Ricotta. A few hours went by, logged in, and there she is, just as I left her. Bank, quests, everything.

I’ve petitioned before, for missing chests, on raids as well as on a nizara run. They were helpful and prompt, I was impressed. I’ve heard people complain (often) about their customer service. But I just can’t see it from their perspective I guess since my experiences with them have been so very good. I’ve had at least.. five characters restored to me, probably more. From as far back as 6+ months of deletion. Of course I was never rude to anyone and I make sure to choose my battles, but still, it was impressive to me.

That leaves me with a 70 Fury, Illusionist, Templar, 53 Conjuror, 48 Assassin, 45 Defiler, 43 Dirge, and a handful of smaller alts who mostly craft. Not too bad. I’d like to get the defiler and dirge up to 70 at least, the conjuror and assassin on the back burner. Of course since I’m so fickle and change my opinion so frequently who really knows.

Something.. just doesn’t look right here..

stargrace April 16, 2007 0Comment

So you say you like to quest..

stargrace April 16, 2007 3Comments

I’m one of those people who just love stats and charts and organizing all of my characters. I figured I’d check out how often / much I quest on each one. I always wanted to be one of those hard core questers who have done everything the game has to offer, but with 8+ characters, that gets.. difficult. So how have I spent my time? The first bit is my three level 70’s.

• Stargrace: 595 Quests completed – 205 Rares harvested – 62 days played – 100 ap
• Silverstep: 753 Quests completed – 385 Rares harvested – 93 days played – 88 ap
• Dasie: 659 Quests completed – 314 Rares harvested – 70 days played – 53 ap

Since it’s not really fair to jumble in all of the alts along with my level 70’s (who have far more levels / experience and what not) I’ll post them below.

• Yamini: 147 Quests completed – 12 Rares harvested – 10 days played – 21 ap – 48 Assassin
• Misako: 77 Quests completed – 0 Rares harvested – 5 days played – 35 ap – 44 Defiler
• Flirt: 19 Quests completed – 0 Rares harvested – 7 hours played – 0 ap – 6 Berserker (24 armorer)
• Faydai: 256 Quests completed – 29 Rares harvested – 10 days played – 31 ap – 53 Conjuror
• Tulips: 19 Quests completed – 0 Rares harvested – 9 hours played – 0 ap – 6 Troubador (20 Carpenter)

Of course these lists don’t include the (numerous) characters I’ve deleted over my 2+ years playing EQII, but it’s a nice representation at least.

• Total Quests completed: 2,525
• Total Rares harvested: 945
• Total Hours played (NOT including crating hours!): 251.6 Days – Remember this also includes all afk time, and online broker time when I used to leave my characters up to sell through the night, not continuous play time.

A Little Advertising, and have I mentioned I love Steamfont?

stargrace April 16, 2007 0Comment

The ability to title your bags – always a lot of fun

Quite a bit of time ago, people were given the ability to place a title on their bags, boxes as well. I love this little handy thing, if only for the fact that when I put backpacks for sale (or boxes made by my carpenter) I can include a little bit of advertising on the label – such as the one pictured above. Does it actually work? Who knows, I’ve never asked, but it’s fun none the less to be able to leave a little bit of myself (so to speak) on each piece I make. Besides my character name at least.

After 5 days of being sick, (what a great birthday weekend…. wait.. no, no it wasn’t) I am finally over it (I hope..) and my Dad’s back from the hospital (who knew kidney stones could be so complicated) and I can get back to regular postings. After having such a good run for a few months I was disappointed that I couldn’t keep up but it was just too much real life stuff to handle.

Silverstep – diligently working away on her Steamfont quest line

I did an Unrest run yesterday, boxing my templar (who ended up being the only healer once the 61 warden had to leave) and my illusionist, nothing of any use to anyone dropped except for a belt with +10 flowing thought on it, which went to the templar. It was a rough run some times, we only ever wiped from adds, so it could have been more painful. Better then the time before when my group decided to leave early after clearing only a few of the named. I spent the remainder of the evening working on the Steamfont chain of quests – I had no idea this was a chain of 20 quests! What fun! One important word of warning though. As you progress this chain of quests, about the 5th quest in I believe, you receive not one but TWO house items. A day log, and a journal.

However. If these items are on you when you go to complete the next portion of the quest, they’re removed from your inventory! So if you’re a sucker for house items (like myself) once you’ve picked up these two items, go place them in your home and return to the quest afterwards, or else you’ll have them removed from your inventory on completion. There is a quest like that in Lesser Faydark as well, where you collect a Thexian log, and it’s a house item. Upon turning the quest in however, you lose the house item from your inventory. So now I’ll have to do these quests on an alt, just so that I can obtain the house items. I wish I had of known that before hand!

The quests in Steamfont in general, are just a lot of fun. If you have a lower level character you can mentor, or if you’re a quest junkie be sure to check this zone out. I’ve been parking my 44 defiler in the zone to mentor for a few named as well as my quest turn ins. Figured it was probably about time my fury reached 100 aa. I’ll have to work on the templar next, which is just going to be annoying since, well, we all know what a lack of DPS the templar has in general. I’ll probably attempt to box her with my illusionist for some added DPS, we’ll see how that goes.

Tinkering fun, and a tally thus far

stargrace April 13, 2007 0Comment

A handy toy that everyone needs

I love some of the little toys you can make with tinkering. Besides the resurrection machine, and the one that feigns death, there is lots of little pets and do-dads you can make. This little Clockwork Manservant is just one of them. I haven’t actually used the item yet, but I’m expecting him to feed me grapes and fan me or some such.

So as an update to where my characters stand – I have the following as of this morning:

Account #1:

Stargrace – 70 Illusionist – 70 Provisioner – Tinkerer, Yamini – 48 Assassin – 50 Alchemist, Misako – 44 Defiler – 39 Tailor, and Flirt – 6 Berserker – 24 Armorer.

Account #2:

Silverstep – 70 Fury – 60 Woodworker – Transmuter, Dasie – 70 Templar – 70 Jeweler, Faydai – 53 Conjuror – 60 Sage, Tulips – 6 Troubador – 20 Carpenter, Rhiksha – 6 Swashbuckler (soon to be weaponsmith).

I have enough room for a few more characters if I want. I wouldn’t even know what to make though. I was contemplating a warlock or a wizard, both of which I’ve never really played, but looking at the two accounts, I have pleanty of characters already. If they’re not a high level adventurer then they’re a higher level tradeskiller in most cases (like Flirt and Tulips). The three 70’s are fairly well geared, though both Silverstep and Dasie are lacking in the aa department, Stargrace being the only one of my three who has them max’d out right now.

So what’s my plan of action? Slowly leveling the defiler to 70, trying to get the tradeskillers up to T7 or some where close to there, and maybe trying to get the rest of my “lowbie” characters a little closer to 70 as well. It would be fun to have two accounts of characters all sitting at level 70. Granted when the new expansion comes out I’d have to do the level grind with each of them and that is really not going to be fun I can already tell. In the mean time, it keeps me busy!