TSO Journal – Part I (Introduction)
stargrace 
October 2008
Now Where Did I leave Off
It took me a long time to get my addons straightened out. They’re not even really fixed yet. What I should have done was deleted the entire addon folder and then reinstall the ones I wanted using the curse client. Sounds easy enough, right? Well since I had already spent a few hours moving hotbars around I didn’t do that. I just went through and updated or un-installed the ones I had with curse client and it made a mess of things. So I spent a few more hours last night fixing everything up on the pc.
All of my characters are currently on two servers. I used to have more but I think I must have deleted and moved them all. I have 4 on Uther, and a few on Ravenholdt. Uther is a ‘normal’ server, where Ravenholdt is an rp-pvp server. They’re both fairly nice, Uther is quite populated from what I’ve seen. I do have one friend who plays with me on Uther, so I’m not completely alone. He spent the evening last night patching, there may be a chance that I switch servers to play with someone else too. We’ll just have to see how that adventure goes.
Once the addon situation was finally fixed, it was time to play. Or at least, attempt to play. It’s been so long since I’ve been in game I had no idea where I left off, or what I should do. Looking at my gold (180g, ouch) I figured I could stand to do a little farming, and I have a hunter I use specifically for that. Arysh is level 49, with a giant serpent who follows her around named Flirt. I stopped by a few inns and grabbed a handful of candy from each one that gave some fairly nice experience (and something to nibble on later), peeked at my quest journal and gave one of those puzzled frowns because I didn’t have the slightest idea where to go at level 49. After a few minutes of searching, I decided to just pick a random quest and work on that.
I had one quest that sent me to Un’Goro Crater – which I had heard of since level 47 but had no idea where it was or how to get there. Looked it up and off I went. Along the way I saw these huge space-ship looking islands that made a lot of noise and seemed to suck things up into it, or maybe they were shooting, I couldn’t really tell because they were swarmed by things far bigger then me. I’m sure it has to do with the expansion due out, but I’m still just getting my feet back into things, so I could be completely wrong.
It was nice to wander into the jungle again after mucking my way through the desert. Until that giant dinosaur decided he’d like to step on my head, of course. Screen shot of me Feigning Death on the ground before he finished me off. I managed to pick up some crystals along the way that I thought may have been for the new inscription tradeskill (Hey, give me a break I’m new!) but later found out they are used in a quest given at the flightpoint way way North in the zone (of course I came in from the South). I did get about 50% of my level, so that was really nice. Who knows, I may actually hit level 50.
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TSO – Crafting Teaser
If you’re a crafter in EQ2 (and lets face it, I most certainly am) you’re going to be VERY excited with the newest expansion, The Shadow Odyssey, scheduled to come out in November. Be sure to check out the Village of Shin if you’re an experienced crafter for a few new quests, including one where the reward is the cloak pictured above (and below).
One of the interesting points of this new expansion is that it sends adventurers out into older zones – not exactly re-using them, but at least getting them out into Norrath a little more. The Village of Shin came out in The Fallen Dynasty adventure pack, and crafters as well as adventurers have been sent there off and on to complete new quests. A lot of the new content will work the same way, you head through an older zone (such as Lavastorm) to reach the new content (like the new scaling dungeons).
There is of course brand new overland content too, with the Moors of Ykesha which I’ll go into more detail about tomorrow.
The Shadow Odyssey NDA LIFTED
It happened a little earlier then I thought it would, but the TSO NDA is lifted as of today.
I’ve got a bunch of journal-like posts I’ve been storing up with information from the beta – so look for future posts headed this way very soon.
Dabbling in WoW (again)
No, I’m not leaving EQ2. Or EQ1 for that matter. I’ll still be partaking in the Friday night Nostalgia, and still playing EQ2 (though lately that has been less, I simply don’t have anything I feel like doing right now. I’m eager about the expansion and looking forward to that). You can blame my re-kindled interest in WoW on a few select people, whose blogs I read daily. With NaNoWriMo coming (two days away!) I wanted a game that I think of as on a ‘lighter’ scale. Where I can dip in for an hour or two and feel like I finished something. Right now (for me personally) that game is not EQ2. Don’t read into that though! I’m not going anywhere and Sony knows they own my soul.
So I patched (for three hours?) and then moved WoW over to the laptop. Grabbed the curse client and fanangled my way through add-on city. Finally I was ready.
A few changes happened while I’ve been away. I haven’t been away *that* long.
Achievements. I LOVE this. They remind me very much of the knowledge book in WAR. I’ve always loved being able to look at my characters and KNOW what they had done. It gives me something that WoW had always lacked for me (due to easy leveling, and cheap server transfer costs) PRIDE in a character. I don’t have the slightest idea what the points are used for (if anything) but I’ve only finished off a very small percentage of the ones available.
I’m low level, no where near end game. My highest characters are level 47 (I have a few of those) but I’m looking forward to exploring and getting back into things. We’ll see how long it lasts this time around.
Oh, another thing I know nothing about. Glyphs. I have a glyph page. I don’t know how you make them, or what they’re used for (something about enchantments?) so if anyone has some resource out there I could read, send it my way! I read everyone else’ sites about WoW and what fun they’re having but a lot of the technical bits are still in some foreign language to me. I’m not too worried (yet), but I know I have a lot of catching up to do!
No, I won’t ever be the big end game player like others I read about. I’m sure I’m too far behind, but I will have a lot of fun learning and relearning everything I need to know.