2010

Claymore Progression and Vasty Deep: Labs

stargrace May 3, 2010 1Comment

Last night was a mixture of achievements in EQ2. Torrent Knights got together and managed to take down Vasty Deep Labs, which was fun – except it was also stressful. There’s one in every group (we were three TK members and three PUGS) a player (or two) who think they know how to play their class as well as everyone else’ class better then you play and they’re not afraid to bring it up. Constantly. That was my experience last night as we made our way through the zone. I kept quiet but really wanted to say something to the player about their attitude. It’s not typically like me to sit quietly by while someone rips into the group. There are bad groups and good groups and if you think your group is doing poorly there’s always ways to offer advice without being condescending.

Eventually the zone was completed, my coercer managed to pick up a master spell (which was a M2 choice but that’s besides the point, I changed it to something else so I could scribe the spell. I also got a small ring upgrade, which replaced a treasured one I was wearing. The coercer is still sporting a poor collection of gear since all of the gear I used to have was deleted when I deleted the character.

I also managed to progress Claymore to the point where I need 200 gathering and lets just say that mine is no where near that, so it’s a project for tonight. I’m slowly catching up in achievements, hitting 162 last night. It’s been fun working on the coercer, and I enjoy the class a great deal. I’m still eager to get my fury up there so I can be healing again on Antonia Bayle (currently all of my healers are on Oasis) but I really am burnt out from leveling characters, so questing is a lot more fun.

Hope everyone else had an amazing weekend, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!

Busy Weekend

stargrace May 1, 2010 0Comment

It was a busy weekend gaming, and it was great. I worked on the fury who is now high 70s, did Unrest with guild mates as well as Shard of Love and a few other instances. On my troubador I managed to do all three Vasty Deep zones yesterday which were also the 5 shard (weekly) zones, and ended with 19 shards in total. No idea what to spend my shards on yet, I think I’m going to just save them up for the new gear that comes out.

I also picked up a few upgrades for the troubador, and passed off some items that I looted with greed rolls to the dirge, and casters.

Worked on the guild hall on Oasis some, and all in all? It was great. The city festival is in Freeport until the 7th, so don’t forget to stop by! It’s up the road from the docks, towards the crossroads. While I’m not a fan of the black marble walls (they have more brown then black in them) the floor tiles are amazing.

Safe travels, and I’ll see you in Norrath!

Crowded Times

stargrace April 30, 2010 0Comment

Last night was spent trying to progress the Claymore chain of quests but since Antonia Bayle is a fairly populated server (understatement) there were others in the zone power leveling their alts floor by floor which made it next to impossible to find the encounters we needed. I didn’t feel like spending an evening trying to fight with others for mobs in the zone, so we moved on to something else. As I mentioned in a previous post I’ve been boxing my 2nd account, and created a fury for this occasion. She is now level 67, and quite pleased to be there. I absolutely love this class and were it not for the fact that I eventually developed a case of alt-itus I’d have probably continued to play her throughout the next few years. Ah well, c’est la vie. Instead of fighting with other players for mobs I’d rather spend my time in instances to level up. At least that way you’re not stepping on anyone else’ toes.

The next city festival begins tomorrow, and I am VERY excited. I believe it should be Freeport, which has an amazing selection of black marble housing items to choose from. Stock up on those city tokens in the mean time!

I’ve got some roleplay posts that center around the fury dancing in my head, so don’t be surprised if you see those pop up over the next couple of days. Aside from that, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself! I’ll see you in Norrath.

An Evening Boxing

stargrace April 29, 2010 0Comment

For those who have asked previously, the UI I use in EQ2 is called profit reborn, and you can find it on eq2interface. The main reason that I love this UI is that you can update it automatically with a launcher that runs, and you can customize pretty much every single aspect of it, which is pretty important to me. You can keep windows open or closed, and it also allows you to click to cure, which means clicking on a persons name in the grp / raid window will target them and cast your cure. Allowing you to cure faster then hitting F2-6 and then clicking cure. The UI is also filled with helpful tidbits like walk throughs to all Heritage Quests, and a spell list, and other bits of EQ2 information.

I decided yesterday that I’d start boxing again. I’ve had two accounts in EQ2 for quite some time (approx 3 years), but get into spurts where I want to box them together, and then spurts where I do not. I like the utility of being able to heal and DPS or heal and have power regen at the same time, not to mention the fact that my main account is full of characters that I can’t delete. The second account only has 1 level 80 character (a swashbuckler) and that’s about it. Well, that WAS about it until yesterday when I created a fury on Antonia Bayle. My old raid character used to be a fury, so I’m no stranger to the class. I betrayed her to a warden to better suit the needs of my guild at the time, and instead of betraying her back to a fury I’ve decided that it’s probably just a lot easier for me to create a new character.

The evening was spent running through zones like Firemyst Gully (an instance in Antonica), Kaladim, Sinking Sands (and the instances there) and Clefts of Rujark (as well as the instances there). We finished up in Mines of Meldrath (awesome instance in Steamfont Mountains) and Klak’Anon. Since I was boxing my 90 coercer in the group power was never an issue, and she also obtained a lot of achievements and alternate advancement points. It was a pretty productive evening over all and I had a lot of fun. I’m excited that it’s almost May, and curious to see what that brings to the game.

For those who may be curious, I do still write about and play EVE Online (as well as other games), and you can find my posts over on NomadicGamer. I am also still looking for volunteer writers for that site, so if you’re interested in games at all (they don’t have to be MMO specific) please feel free to email me at nomadicgamers@gmail.com and let me know you’re interested. All that’s required is a wordpress.com account, and just let me know what email is associated with that account. I can add you as an author from that.

Happy gaming no matter where you find yourself, I’ll see you in Norrath.