May 2007

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.

Yamini Mineymo – Ranger of Qeynos

stargrace May 23, 2007 0Comment

Yamini is my halfling assassin ranger, who just finally came home to Qeynos. Her name means night, though I forget where I got that from now. I always have such an issue coming up with character names. She’s also my alchemist. She’s level 48, and will probably stay there for quite some time, I’m in no rush at all to level her. She’s a 51 alchemist, and I love being able to make my own potions and poisons, a very handy trait. Her home is Baubleshire.. err.. well it used to be, I think I forgot to relinquish the one she had in Big Bend, go figure. I love the ranged attacks, and the class is a nice change from my typical healers and mages.

Making it Manifest, and the quest count rises

stargrace May 22, 2007 0Comment

Qutey posing in Nettleville Hovel, waiting to speak to the constable

101 quests completed, and the little monk has hit level 15, almost 16. She’s also 98% through her 7th aa, almost hitting 8. I’ve been having an enormous amount of fun with this new character, just doing my own thing and attempting quests that I haven’t seen in a very long time in zones that are pretty much deserted now even with the server being as populated as it is. How many people remember the making it manifest quest in the crows resting place? With the sword of destiny series in game it send you there, the home of Fippy, but the instance itself has been around for quite some time. The quest rewards you with a pretty nice legendary tunic that was actually a slight upgrade from my mastercrafted leather.

I haven’t delved into too many quest zones with her yet, she’s played around some what in Antonica doing a lot of far seas requisitions and some of the easier ones, but a lot are too high yet. I did take her around the Down Below, and did a few quests in there (including the tunic one). Went out last night and watched Shrek3, that was a lot of fun, looking forward to seeing Pirates3 next weekend. The weather is beautiful and days are wonderfully sunny.

Crafting and other characters have pretty much been on hold while I relax and play my monk. I’ve been setting aside all of the coin she’s made from questing and loot in her bank, seperate from the coin she carries around daily. For some reason I want to keep track of how much coin you can make in this game just from simple questing. She’s up to 21g and some change so far, not too shabby for just getting started. Of course she is very nicely geared up but most of what she’s fighting is green anyhow. Qutey also finished the gnoll language and is almost done the lore and legend. Her home got a few more pretties, a pet cage and a few more books. More updates as the day goes on I’m sure!

A different type of grind

stargrace May 21, 2007 3Comments

Qutey, fae monk.. think she’s 7 here, floating her way over the cliffs in Butcherblock

I decided to start a new character yesterday night, wow what a surprise. I went with a fae monk, I absolutely love feign death and I wanted something that has solo capabilities because I don’t plan on grouping with her at all. At level 7 I left Kelethin and headed to Qeynos, knowing from the start that it was not where I wanted to spend the majority of my time. I learned a few new things. Well, I already knew fae had glide. I realized how much I love it though. I made it through Butcherblock with no agro and no deaths, floating down to the water off of the cliffs that have killed many of my other characters. You can see the docks off in the distance, much fun. I also learned that there is a Kelethin / Qeynos citizenship quest. If you’re from Kelethin and want to live in Qeynos (obtaining the call of Qeynos spell and the bind point spell) you do not have to betray. . . This was news to me, I had no idea. It also works the other way around if you want to switch your home from Qeynos to Kelethin. Apparently there will also be these sorts of quests for Freeport to Neriak and vice versa.

The quest reminded me of the end portion of the regular betrayal quest. I had to go pick up garbage from the Antonican Highway. Once I’d finished that I had to speak to some guards, and then speak to a few more people, and then pledge myself as a citizen of Qeynos. I worried about what would happen with my call spell but it was replaced for me and I also got the bind point skill automatically. Very nice feature. If I decide that Qeynos is no longer the place for me, I can move back home to Kelethin with the little monk. In the mean time, Qeynos will do.

Getting to level 10 was easy enough. I hung around the Peat Bog and Forest Ruins, and did every quest I could get my hands on. Once I hit 12 I turned off my combat experience, I decided when I made the monk that I would do a different type of grinding with this character. I gave her a set of mastercrafted gear, some rare dollies for the charm slots, rare weapons, and a bandolier. I also upgraded her skills to adept3, after all what fun is an alt if you can’t completely twink them out. I then set off to quest. Leaving my combat experience turned off. She hit 5aa easily enough, and is now level 14.. not bad at all for someone who doesn’t have combat experience on. She managed to get feign death, leaving her at a comfortable spot. I’ve completed about 70-80 quests on her, which is not too many yet. I want to finish off the few she has and then venture into the sewers to do more, on both the Qeynos and Freeport sides. I also want to take her back to Kelethin (damn it why didn’t I pick up the druid portal bush when I was there!) and complete the quests that I skipped over on my hasty departure to Qeynos.

I typically level up all my alts very fast. They hang around in the 20’s and 30’s long enough to farm RoV and CoI and RE, and then I boot them up to the 50’s with Obelisk. I box almost constantly on them. I don’t want to do that this time. I want to explore the content a little more in depth and play along quest lines that I’ve never seen of or heard before because I’ve been busy on my “main” characters. Will the monk ever get anywhere? Who knows. For now, she’s settled into a nice 1 room Inn located in the Baubleshire, some books and other knick knacks (a lab flask, what a wonderful quest that was!) scattered about, half unpacked. We’ll just have to see how things go.