2009

Always Exploring

stargrace December 1, 2009 2Comments

Calreth and I happened to be running through Sinking Sands on our way to an achievement, when we stumbled over someone doing the Rahotep heritage quest. During the final portion you have to spawn the armies of Rahotep himself and then defeat them (and him of course). The heritage quest was a lot of fun back when Desert of Flames was the final expansion, but I haven’t done it since then.

I love exploring in EQ2. These days there’s not a whole lot I haven’t already seen before (and some times, many times before) but it’s always fun and there’s always something to look at. Anyone have some favorite areas that they love to explore? Have a spot that you stumbled onto unaware that it was even there? When DoF first came out I wasn’t too thrilled with the expansion. As later expansions were released, I fell in love with it. In fact I would say it’s my favorite expansion now. My least favorite would have to be Kingdom of Sky. Flying around from island to island as well as having to take a portal up to reach any of the zones just seemed so disjointed to me, and I don’t like how the zones don’t exactly flow from one another.

I’ve been having fun in EQ2, I moved three of my characters over to Lucan D’Lere to be with a group of friends who play there. That does mean that I’m once again playing on three servers (Oasis, Antonia Bayle, Lucan D’Lere) but by now all of my close friends are quite used to me bouncing around and it doesn’t seem to cause any issues. I don’t know how much time I’ll spend on LDL, but it’s a fun (very quite) server to hang out on.

Aside from that, this week is deadlines for work so my time in game is very small compared to normal. This will all fix after the 4th, which I am looking forward to. More later! Happy gaming no matter where you find yourself.

Palace of Ferzhul – Video!

stargrace November 30, 2009 2Comments

Yesterday I was lucky enough to get invited to a Palace of Ferzhul run – one of the most difficult TSO instances there is (group instances at least). This zone is used in Chapter 8 for the TSO chapter quests, and drops some incredible loot. I had a blast tagging along even though I was VERY under geared and died 6 times. We went to the instance with one templar, a shadowknight, swashbuckler, ranger, coercer, and myself as the troubador. One healer in that zone is quite a feat. A huge congratulations to Pennie for keeping us (mostly) alive.

My troubador also managed to score two pieces of fabled gear. One was the caster bracelet (has a matching melee one that makes the set quite nice) and a piece of fabled forearms. Not to mention a lot of achievements and aa for entering the zone for the first time. Hopefully everyone else had a good time too, even if I was quite under geared, hehe. Hope everyone enjoys the video! I must say, I am REALLY impressed with the quality of Game Cam. The files are TINY compared to fraps (about 100MB per minute and a half of filming) and the quality is amazing. Only down side is that there are a few games that it doesn’t work with (ie: Vanguard) so I’ll be attempting to get fraps working once more specifically for that purpose. Of course that means messing with the registry files (again) and I’m putting it off for as long as I can.

Book of the Day

stargrace November 29, 2009 0Comment

(( Each weekend I try to post at least one book from my Norrathian Museum for others to read. So far the collection includes 150 player written books, and you can find it on the Antonia Bayle server under the name of Ellithia, in the North Freeport mage tower.))

Zorgin’s Guide to Being a Nuisance Volume 1 – by Zorgin

This is a comprehensive list of brief tips to being an absolute pain in everyone’s ass.

#1~ Teach your friend’s children to curse.

#2~ if you know someone who wears full plate, get a high-powered magnet. Let hilarity ensue.

#3~ Paint “Ridin’ Dirty” on the side of their mount.

#4~ Say a friend’s name sensually over and over again through Guild Communications.

#5~ Shout, “Party at ~Soandso’s~ house!” Insist the party take place. Do not clean up afterwards.

#6~ Fill their home with random pets. Make sure they all have eaten beans beforehand.

#7~ Eat all their food. Insist they were sleepwalking and did it themselves.

#8~ Talk like a Ratonga for no reason. If you are a Ratonga, resist your lisp and speak like a scholar for a day. When questioned, revert back immediately and barrage them with insults.

#9~ Spend the day walking on your hands. When questioned, slap them.

#10~ Fill your friend’s adventuring flask with Laxatives.

#11~ Line your friend’s armor with itching powder. Insist pixies are responsible.

#12~ Matter of fact, insist pixies are responsible for -everything-.

#13~ end every sentence with the word “Penguin”.

#14~ Insist you teach everyone the Harpy language, Screechsong.

#15~ Shove people off of Kelethin.

#16~ Shove people into the pits of Neriak.

#17~ Shove people into the Executioner’s Pit in Freeport.

#18~ Shove people into the Qeynos Moat.

#19~ Shove people off the top platform of Gorowyn. Help them back up by telling them to use every wrong lift.

#20~ Try to speak Tik-Tok.

#21~ Go to a public gathering. When spoken to, shriek “SPIDERS” at the top of your lungs and punch the person speaking to you in the nose.

#22~ Pester your friend while out adventuring to come by your place afterwards for a drink. when you finally get there, announce you’re out of things to drink.

#23~ If you have a ranger friend, remove all the tips from his arrows. Scatter them around his bedroom floor that night, and in the morning, listen for the screams.

#24~ Go to a less-wealthy Guild’s guildhall. Ask them for obscure amenities, and when they tell you they don’t have them, act all haughty and say, “well, OUR guild hall has it…”

#25~ Go to another guild’s hall, shriek at the top of your lungs, then take a portal anywhere. Repeat every day at the same time.