2013

New Missions, New Friends, Old Guilds #EverQuest

stargrace May 26, 2013 0Comment

This weekend is double exp weekend in both EverQuest and EverQuest 2 – and I made sure to take advantage of it. My enchanter started out most of the way through level 95 which I have been for quite some time. I was finding that level long than any other level I had come across so far. Thanks to some great friends and some fun times, she is now level 98. I may actually make it to 100 before the next expansion comes which would be something I haven’t done in years.

The beginning of the weekend was spent making new friends. Wolfrik is a friend of Xoxox and plays a handful of characters but I know him best as his ranger. Meeting new people in EverQuest isn’t the easiest of tasks for me. I tend to get annoyed, I don’t like being on vent all of the time, and I’m old fashioned. In this regard Wolfrik is a kindred spirit, which is a blessing to the play style of myself and Oger.

We headed to Veil of Alaris missions to start with. We got a lot of achievements and I came across the most annoying mission yet. You spend your time riding around on an airship taking down mobs with items given to you by the NPC (unless you’re ranged, in which case you can at least use your own spells). That in itself is not the annoying part. What’s annoying is that the airship you’re on is incredibly bugged, it doesn’t look like it but it secretly seems to bob through the air so you’re constantly having LOS issues (line of sight). Your pets (and auras, since they are invisible pets) are useless for the mission, as well as mercenary, because they can’t actually do anything while you’re on the airship bobbing around. So you fly around between a lot of towers, slowly using a ray gun or your ranged spells while doing so. Eventually bombs start flying at you. You can DPS these down or hopefully have a healer that can take care of it. During another portion you drop bombs down below and kill a bunch of mobs too.

If it wasn’t for the bugged airship this mission would have been a lot of fun. As it is though it takes a very long time (you don’t control the machine or where it’s headed) especially because it seems to spend half the time unnecessarily roaming around the air with no destination in mind. I think it’s a neat attempt at making a different type of mission (and in fact VoA is filled with these types of unique missions) but it wasn’t implemented quite as well as one would have hoped.

Oger and I also decided to head back to our old guild (one that we run, there’s a few other members but they haven’t been around since 2007). While Pak’cafan members were nice they were also incredibly quiet and prefered to do things on their own. I have no issues with that but it defeated the purpose of joining a guild to begin with. Now that I’m making some out of guild friends, the desire to be a part of a guild like that has lessened quite a bit. Especially since I just purchased that new guild hall for the smaller one.

All in all it has been a fantastic weekend so far. I’m very pleased that I’m closing in on level 100 with the enchanter, and I’m having a lot of fun running through VOA and now ROF content. I hope everyone else had a great time this weekend too! As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Bring on Bertoxxulous #EverQuest

stargrace May 21, 2013 0Comment

This weekend was a holiday weekend for me, Victoria Day here in Canada, and of course I took full advantage of it and gamed most of Monday with Oger in EverQuest. The enchanter is almost level 96 but I find experience VERY slow, and like I’ve mentioned before, playing by myself is almost impossible. Yes, I can charm kill but it’s incredibly risky not to mention lonely to play that way. I’ve tried LFG but my game time hours are not always optimal for everyone else. So I try to squeak some time in here and there.

In order to combat this I decided to make a magician. They’re a ‘solo’ type class, and since I do have two accounts and I typically do box, I figure it will be a good combination. The leveling has been very quick so far, I followed my way through most of the hot zones from level one and up and after yesterdays adventures, Anastatia is now level 72. This means she can group with my ranger without any issues who is 86, and together they can happily head shot mobs over and over.

One of my favorite events out of the numerous ones I participated in was fighting Bertoxxulous. I have a warm spot for this Norrath God because it was the first “raid” I ever went on, so many years ago. I was in awe at the hundreds of players who showed up. Everything seemed so much larger than life back then. Now you can take the Gods down solo, which is both good and bad.

The magician is nice but it still hasn’t replaced all of the hard work that I’ve got on my enchanter. Still, a back up for the times when no one is around is appreciated. As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Missions and Achievements #EverQuest

stargrace May 14, 2013 1Comment

I haven’t had a lot of time to game lately, the weekend was filled with purchasing a new entertainment unit and then helping to bring that thing home – and then I got a really bad tooth infection so I’ve been pretty out of it on painkillers and antibiotics. I did get a little bit of gaming in though. Fremder, Oger and myself managed to make our way to a VOA mission or two, and they were quite fun! In the one pictured above we had to move some objects over so that we could kill the Avatar of Steel, he would send earthquakes out over the land and cause a ruckus. We didn’t have to do too much for this mission, but the next one made up for it.

In the next mission we decided we would try to complete the achievements as well. This involved killing a bunch of different creatures in the instance, as well as defeating all of the hunters that were down one path. The mission itself was quite neat, we had to follow an NPC down a path to a cave area, and while the NPC was not aggro to anything, we sure were. Plus everything sees invis. Once we made our way there, we had to open a crate that had a mommy dog in it, and then she attacked us, so we had to kill her. We opened the rest of the crates and found other pups in those which we had to collect and return to the NPC. It seems like those pups were being stolen and shipped out illegally! Who would do such a thing!

I like missions that have a story and have more to them than just simple killing. Although we had to re-start the second one because we didn’t get the updates properly. Experience is quite slow now, my enchanter is almost 96 but not quite there yet. With everyone busy finding a group to gain experience with is something that doesn’t happen all that often. I’ve been thinking of delving into WoW again for a bit as a nice ‘relaxing’ no brainer game, but we’ll just have to see.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!