July 2008

Ching Ching

stargrace July 15, 2008 1Comment

Every morning (typically) when I wake up, I log into EQ2 and like some sort of wierd tradition I log Stargrace in to see how sales have gone and replenish her food and drinks for sale. For the last week or so without fail she’s been sold out, every day. Now granted, I don’t make a great deal to put up for sale at one time, I make a stack of 20 of three specific types, each of them the special recipes you get with faction from RoK.

The recipes cost me 75s to make one, and as you can see, I sell them for 4g each. Cheaper then the next person by 1g. I could probably also sell them at 5g each but I think that 4g is just right for these 30 minute food and drinks. Oh, that’s right. They don’t last nearly as long as the ‘other stuff’.

So why the mark up in price? Aside from the obvious factor – the work I went through to get the faction, there’s the quality of the food itself. This food that’s selling out every day is mostly the +2% parry food. It’s either a 2% parry base, or 2% parry + 16str or 16stam. Great for those tanks out there.

I do check to see if anyone is reselling the food and drink as well, though it wouldn’t bother me if they did, I still made a huge profit where as they’d be making 1g profit if that. Sure, 1g is 1g, but there’s far better ways to make money out there.

After creating so many new alts (defiler, and monk) and spending roughly 30p between them for gear and levels (via collections) it only took me a week to make that back – from food products alone and from Goudia’s two days of harvesting. Transfer that into something worth while that makes coin, such as farming the named in Jarsath wastes who have a chance to drop legendary chests (and if you’re really lucky you’ll get trooper scale boots, which still sell easily for 50p here on Najena) and you can quickly see how making coin in EQ2 (end game at least) is really simple. Not to mention the trash that each mob drops sells for roughly 20g (we’re talking the set pieces of armor that no one wears).

Still doesn’t mean I’m going to spend 100p on a master, but hey, it’s fun.

Electric Guitar Ramblings

stargrace July 14, 2008 7Comments

It’s finally done.

After much harvesting, and killing, and generally running around in some sort of chaotic dance, yesterday I finished my second epic, the troubador one. Doesn’t it look shiny? The last parts were actually the easiest for me. After the xegonite fiasco (did you know this quest doesn’t even take those from you? So you’re left with the 10 xegonite after.. why couldn’t they just have wanted the 33 I had in my bank!) I had to go feed the flame in Jarsath Wastes. Did that and then it was off to Sebilis. Thank you to Albrta and Eyenstein who trucked down there with me and Shadowgeist (again, we’d already all been there for my coercer epic, as well as Albrta’s templar epic.. but hey what else do we have to do) and killed some named and place holders. Once we’d gotten our fill there we headed to CoA. The group was one of the oddest I’d been in to date, it was a troubador, dirge, templar, inquisitor, shadowknight, and warlock.

We plowed right through though with no issues at all.

Once that was done it was off to Maidens for my final bit. We had one death on the first named (the tail-lashing one who ports) but everything died smoothly the second time around. The group changed after that CoA run, and we went with a coercer, assassin, templar, mystic, troubador, and shadowknight. Drusella fell with no issues, and – if I read the quest right, I was supposed to click on the four instruments scattered around Drusella’s room in the corners – and then fight a level 82^^^ and THEN get my fabled.

At least, that’s what I read.

Which was wrong. I had the group stand around after the kill expecting to have one more kill. The coercer didn’t pay attention and gated out after (oh well) and we stood around some more while I frantically searched for musical instruments, apologizing to the group for the wait.

After a few minutes, I noticed the glowing instrument close to the door, I clicked it expecting to see three others, and before I could even turn around I was holding my epic.

WOOT!

The epic quest for troubadors is one of the best if only because you get a HOUSE ITEM upon completion. That’s right, that sparkling bit just behind Goudia in the screen shot is her newest pretty, and it plays music notes *squeels*. It also has 400 rent reduction. I really wish each of the epics came with a house item. The coercer could come with a statue replication of the chick who spends the entire quest stuck inside your body. That would be awesome.

Aside from completing my epic, I didn’t have a chance to spend any more time in game yesterday, or in any game for that matter. I have been playing around with Daz Studio a little bit, which is a 3D rendering program, and I’m having fun with it. You can see my first few attempts over here. Hopefully as time goes on I’ll get better at it. I took a little break just before 10 to go relax, and before I knew it I was waking up and it was midnight. Crawled into bed and called it a day.

Hope everyone else had a fantastic weekend too!