May 23, 2007

Home Sweet (new) Home..Neriak Style

stargrace May 23, 2007 1Comment

Misako gave up the drab inn room in EFP and moved her belongings to Neriak

Wow. That’s the only word I can use to describe the new homes in Neriak. A part of me is wondering if they’re going to “change” them. Right now, you can purchase a 5-room for a little under 2p, and it has a 7g a week upkeep. No guild level required, no guild status required. Compare this to the Freeport and Qeynos homes that require both guild status and guild levels in order to purchase them, and you may have some pissed off people. Especially Qeynosians, because let me tell you, none of the houses on the good side compare to this one at all. The screen shot is from the front door. Stain glass windows don’t seem to let any actual light in, but uhms we’re underground so that’s fine by me. There is an upstairs and a downstairs from the main level, spiral staircases lead to each. There are two sets of staircases leading up in fact. It’s beautiful and makes you feel like you’re living in a castle of some sort.

It’s a shame that only one of my main characters is evil, I can see myself betraying just for these homes. There is a very fast citizen ship quest you have to complete before you can move to Neriak if you’re from outside the city. You need a sponsor, and you can use the guards to find each one of the npc you hail (and then promptly kill) which makes it easier. There are of course also teleports throughout the zone, you have to complete a level 10 quest in order to access them.

I also made my level 1 Arasai Warlock, but after taking note of the 100+ other fae and random evils running around the zone, I quickly relogged. I’ll just sit that character for a bit and work them up when the zone isn’t just a mass congregation of wings.

The new moving crates, are an EQII godsend. That’s the box parked on the floor in front of the door in the screen shot. They really needed these a long time ago, and they work wonderfully. I half expected to unpack my crate and find it filled with items from someone else’ home, alas that was not the case. They did a very nice job with the new homes. I just wish the older ones looked as nice.

Qutey’s Money – PartI

stargrace May 23, 2007 2Comments

When I decided that I was only going to level my character through quest experience, and I’d keep regular combat experience turned off for the duration of my play time, I also decided I’d play a little bit of a money game. I wanted to see exactly how much coin you could make through random drops, quest rewards, and treasured items that would come your way. Now, I realize that it’s a little off key since I did twink the character out, and I did also give her 3p spending funds. But everything she makes on top of that, gets stashed away in her bank. So what are the results so far?

As of today, at level 18 Qutey’s bank holds 1p 50g 78s 1c

None of this is from any masters (she’s not sold any yet) or any crafting, or any rares for crafting. No farming at all. In fact her harvesting is at 0. Now, where does the coin come from? The 1p was really more from luck then anything else. Someone wanted some help creating a guild. Yes, I would have helped for free, but the person offered money from the get-go, 1p to each who helped. Was I wrong for accepting the cash? Not in my opinion, I didn’t force them to pay people to help form the guild, and as I said, I’d have helped even if they were offering nothing. Anyhow, I used two of my characters (they were aware that both were my characters) and helped out, earning a plat for each one who helped. So maybe that 1p shouldn’t even be counted, but well, it was something Qutey earned on her own so to speak, so it’s in the bank.

The other 50g and some change comes from her quest rewards, and random treasured drops from 1-18. She’s gotten quite a few chest items as she’s quested along, and I’ve priced them at a range that means fast sellers, 1g each. Average adepts are going for 2g-4g each – mostly due to tinkering. Treasured items with no stats (there are some attuneable quest rewards like this, they’re no good to wear, but you CAN transmute them) sell for 1g each, junk items that people would never consider actually wearing, all sells for 1g-4g each. Not about to complain at all. The making it manifest quest rewards you with two attuneable leather tunics. One she’s wearing, one she sold for 10g which was a lot of coin for one item. Doing the quest chain from Oakmyst forest from the treants rewarded me with a legendary chest drop, a club that sold for 5g.

So if you take your time, even without any crafting or farming to speak of, you can certainly be well on your way to making coin in this game, even at low levels. This post piqued my interest since I had already started going on about how easy it was to make coin in game before it came out. The people who ramble on about having no coin or how hard it is to make (especially at the end game levels..) have obviously never done the Lesser Faydark quest lines.. you can easily make a 3-4 plat doing those quests alone. A little more if you’re a goodie since the Fae Court won’t talk to those who come from Freeport (Or Neriak I’ll assume). There’s just so many options out there without having to dedicate your life to farming named or running instances. Though that certainly helps. In fact on servers like AB where there is a huge concentration of lower level characters, I’d say the end game players would make more from doing level 20+ quests with attuneable rewards then questing at their actual level.
I’ll update once a week with the coin situation, and see how it goes. For now though even at these low levels, it’s easy to come by.

Questing along..

stargrace May 23, 2007 0Comment

Qutey hit level 18 this morning, and 127 quests completed before I logged out in preparation for the newest GU (game update) today. I find that even with combat experience turned off, she levels quite fast. Not a bad thing, but not exactly a good thing either since I’m trying to complete a number of quests before they turn grey to her. As you can see by the list, she’s really not delved out too far, besides the smaller towns, the sewers and Antonica. There are still a huge number of zones and quests that I’ve skipped along the way already. I’m considering going back for them though, some were just far too frustrating to want to complete.

I do plan on making an evil fae (I know I know that’s not what they’re really called) today. However, I also know there will be a million other people making their evil fae and running around Neriak, so as I’ve stated a few times, I’ll create the character and then play someone else, I’ve got no desire at all to wander around with a bunch of others all trying to kill the same mobs and level at the same time. I’m thinking of moving Misako to Neriak depending on what the city is like and the housing. I do believe that they were supposed to implement a citizenship quest much like the one from Qeynos / Kelethin. I suppose I’ll look into it another time.

Another thing I really like about having my combat experience turned off is that my vitality does not go down at all. So I can quest away and then if at a later time I want to grind off a level, I’ll have the vitality to be able to do that. At level 20 I also have my armor quests, which they’ve downgraded to all be solo quests. I’m looking forward to that as it’s one of the main reasons I made my fae monk. I’ve been collecting “Gi” for my monk to wear. They start with one white one initially, and there is a quest in the Forest Ruins that rewards another white one. I know the level 30 player crafted DFC gear is also a dark red Gi. There’s also the raid set that’s fabled, and very pretty (which I know my little Qutey will never obtain) and a purple set. The armor quests at level 20 is a light yellow if I remember correctly. I really like the look of them (and leather in general) so that’s what I’ll outfit her in. I know it would probably be handier to outfit her in the T3 rare leather armor, but I’ll save that for the slots that AQ’s don’t cover, as well as her weapons.

Only.. 2 more hours of down time to go! *twitches*

Stargrace Le’Reveur – Illusionist of Qeynos

stargrace May 23, 2007 1Comment

Stargrace is my “main”, one of Three four that I play quite frequently. She’s betrayed in the past from illusionist (at about level 10) to coercer, and back to illusionist (at level 70). She’s level 70, 100 aa, 70 provisioner, and my tinkerer. She’s wearing mostly raid gear from both KoS and EoF. She’s completed uh, a number of quests. EQII players is down right now so I can’t check specifics, she hasn’t done too many though. She’s completed the major chains like MoA and uh wait no she hasn’t finished claymore… (ew for casters except for the symbol reward, second last). She’s 100% dps spec’d aa wise, and she can do more then her fair share. Not to mention she’s got all of her spells at master quality except for one (dang you T6 spells!) and I’ve taken a lot of care with the character. She also owns a 5-room house in South Qeynos, 4 bayle court if you’re ever wandering through. I’ve gotten my fair share of compliments on it. Role play wise, she’s the twin sister of Misako, who betrayed to Freeport. Stargrace is the “older” of the two by two minutes, and she tends to hold that over Misako when she can. I love playing the illusionist no matter what the group make up is. She has a lot of utility and can hold her own just fine. At times I contemplate betraying her back to a coercer, but it would take a lot of prodding from a raid guild I wanted to join I think in order for me to actually make the change. I also slacked a lot on this character, she’s barely a year old, she has a whole lot of lore and legend books to complete, and a lot of unfinished heritage quests. I pretty much grinded her to 70 and forgot to take time to smell the flowers along the way. Bad habit.

Faydai – Conjuror of Qeynos

stargrace May 23, 2007 0Comment

Faydai is my gnome necromancer conjuror, currently level 53 she’s not played very often. She’s also my level 62 sage, which is where I get the most use out of her. I liked her better as a necromancer, so I’ll probably betray her back in the future. For now though she resides in the Baubleshire. I’m not sure why I even made a gnome, I think I liked the glasses and the hat she’s wearing. I typically group up with her, she’s done a few quests. Her name used to be Willamina on Najena, and I’ve transfered her a few times now from server to server. I miss role playing with her, she used to be quite.. unique. She’d talk to her undead pet and raise a lot of eyebrows. Again it’s been some time though, so I’ve sort of stuck her on the shelf in the mean time.