January 2009

Heirloom Tag in EQ2

stargrace January 22, 2009 6Comments

There is a fairly big debate (and a few of them at that) going on in EQ2 about the new Heirloom tag that’s being tried out on the test server. You can read the 7 pages (and counting) of comments over on the official site here. 

Basically this allows players to trade items tagged as heirloom between their accounts to their alts. A fine example of this (and the one in question) is the void shards that people can currently quest for. These items are no trade – and can be seen as completely useless if you’re a hard core raider. There’s no reason for you to collect void shards, the gear is of no use to you. 

Allowing you to trade them between your own account, lets you have a purpose for those shards. You can trade them to alts and gear them up while your main does the instances. 

I’m actually for this change (for now at least). I think giving people a purpose to do those instances is a good idea. I think that if people get any more bored with running them (lack of reason to go etc) then it could prove disastrous for those of us who NEED that gear upgrade. 

Just my two thoughts for now. I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it as it gets tested and changes. It’ll be interesting to see what else is given the heirloom tag. 

(As a note – these items can be placed in your shared bank)

Not Quite There Yet

stargrace January 21, 2009 1Comment

I know I’ve been slacking on my defiler. She’s been level 77 for a little while now, and I haven’t felt “the push” to get her to 80. I’ve mentioned numerous times here how I hate the quest grind and it’s pretty safe to assume it’s because I play a healer class.  I didn’t mind it quite so much on the illusionist, coercer, or troubador/dirge. I dislike it immensely on the warden, templar, and now defiler. It makes me long for the hybrid healer of Vanguard, where unless you’re putting out damage you can’t heal effectively. Sure, you’re not going to be out dps’ing the classes that are meant to do so but you’ll certainly hold your own. 

I did manage to explore a little more of the Moors. I did the crafting faction chain of quests, trying to edge myself closer to the netural line in order to purchase recipes. It was a fair amount of experience, and along the way the defiler also reached level 70 tailor. Sweet!

Later on in the evening the guild gathered and decided we should all do the Daily Double (DD on Najena, MoTD on Kithicor) which was Najena’s in Lavastorm. I’d only been there once before, mentored, and it didn’t go too badly but it wasn’t easy either. The zone starts with a cut scene which is very awesome, and you have to work your way down a spiral ramp and unlock each floor. 

We died. A lot. It was great though, learning to play with one another. The group consisted of an 80 fury, shadowknight, bruiser, conjuror, and necromancer, along with myself (defiler) at level 77. Looks like I can’t get those daily double quests until level 79, but that’s alright. We did manage (after a lot of deaths, I was on my 2nd special repair kit that repaired me to full) to get all the way to the final named. You know the one that requires a million mobs to all be tanked at once? 

I couldn’t remember if my group had done anything special the last time we were there except to tank them all, kill the genie type first. Last night things didn’t work out quite that smooth. I still had a lot of fun though, even when we had to leave the final named up. That’s two shards added to my collection, well on my way to getting the outfits I need. 

On that same note, since my tailor hit level 70 it also meant she could scribe her void armor recipe books. It’s nice to be able to make the armor for myself, and I’m really looking forward to it. I did make my first piece for Wpus yesterday, a brand new pair of summoner shoes.

I want to give a big hug and /wave to ‘Doomcookie‘ who commented on the Everfrost screenies I had posted in an older article. Another EF screenie at the top of this post just for her, really do love that zone.