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Home Sweet (new) Home

stargrace May 1, 2007 2Comments

Warg quests completed, hope they don’t bite hard!

The SoE site was packed this morning with people trying to transfer their characters. Be it a permanent move like my own, or a temporary one to pick up something on another server at a better price (or something that just may not have been offered at all on the home server). At 7am EST they were still not working, or at least it was hit and miss. By 10am though things were working in full swing. I moved my illusionist first, having already applied to a new raiding guild. I haven’t seen any of the members on quite yet but it’s still early. The server welcomed me (and about 10 other people who just moved) and it seems friendly enough. Prices are comparable to the old server. I moved due to the lack of population and a dire need for a change. The rest of my characters I moved to another server, where my old guild is settling down. I know it’s probably not smart to be playing on two servers — but since transfers are free all week, I figure if I don’t like it by the end of the week, I have a second transfer I can use, and will move everyone to the same server. We’ll see how it goes.

The change thus far, has been very nice. The population is huge. Appealing. It’s the same game with new people. I’ll have to make some new friends, and I’m not exactly keen on that, I’m picky and tend to be fussy. It’s nice to see different people talking in channels then what I’m used to. The conversations are much the same. Picking on Paladins, making jokes, crafters looking for work, unrest groups going every second. People needing healers. I’m nervous, having applied to a raid guild but having no idea what to expect. Well, I mean I’ve raided plenty, I do know what to expect. Just hope I can live up to it!

Looking forward to taking some time to work on collection quests I have. Mostly the house item book ones of course. I want to get that library up and going fully. Just a small post today as I wiggle around and test the water in my new homes, I’ll post more updates as they come!

Where in the World of Norrath

stargrace April 30, 2007 7Comments

Any ideas? One hint.. Rat Queen.

I spent the weekend relaxing before the server transfers go live (which I think will start on Tuesday now, since the EU PvP server merge is a 24 hour ordeal). I took everything out of my shared banks so that it wouldn’t get left behind, removed all my items from broker including the containers, and made sure my characters actually physically own everything in their respective homes, incase anything got lost along the way. I’ve had some issues moving once before and losing a few small house items, so I took care this time around. I’m hoping the move goes smooth. I did join a nice Labs raid, it went well, no wipes.

I also worked a bit on the new library and lore section of the site. It’s something I’ve had in the past, typed out the tomes collected in my library by hand for others to read, also describing where the book came from. Blame my obsession with house items. So once the raids were done, and my banks cleaned, I worked on book quests.

There are three type of book quests really. There are ones that are sold by merchants. The Sage located in the mage towers for Qeynos and Freeport, then there are also mob dropped ones. These ones are the most annoying for me, as I’ve pretty much out-leveled any place that has these drop. Examples would be Obelisk of Lost Souls, where there are at least 7 mob-dropped-only book quests, I tried farming as many as I could with the defiler, she has six on the go now I believe. There are also collection books, where you can find the pages scattered across Norrath, they can drop from mobs as body drops or they can be found on the ground as pages fluttering in the wind, marked by a shiny explanation mark. These ones are just as annoying, as you’ve no idea where to search for the specific pages that you need. My favorite by far are the ones sold by the sages. They’re interesting stories and send you all over the place. I wish that each side could complete the tomes, but since the sage in Freeport won’t talk to my Qeynosians and vice versa, I’ve betrayed characters just so that they could obtain books on both sides.

There are a LOT of book quests out there. I am missing so many of them, it’s sort of an inspiration for me to try to gather more, keeps me motivated. On the down side, I did not play the defiler at all this weekend (though maybe that is a blessing?) and saved up her vitality. I logged her in to make a set of tailored gear for a stranger (who was new to the server, I also gave them a plat to play around with) and that was about it. I need to do more farming for her at some point or another as she’s low on T5 stuff.

Other then that, things are quiet. Look for an rp-related post later in the day hopefully!

** Edit ** News about the transfers here! Looking forward to this.

Strange happenings in Nektulos

stargrace April 28, 2007 2Comments

Hmmm. This looks new. Thexian Gatecallers and a whole lot of.. something.. going on

Yesterday I took my (now) 56 defiler, and decided I’d start claymore. The first few quests were really easy. I managed to get to the SoS ones, and realized I don’t have the druzaic language quest completed. In fact, I have no language quests completed, nor any Lore and Legend quests done. I need druzaic to speak with the ghost in Sanctum of the Scaleborn, so I decided early this morning that I’d head out and start working on that. It’s a very simple quest, run around to four shrines which can be in one of two locations, and click it. While searching for the first shrine in Nektulos Forest.. I stumbled into something.

Wow. What IS that? Surrounding it are Thexian Gatecallers, busy at work. It’s located in the North East portion of the zone, close to where you pick up the Dragoon heritage quest. Anyone have any ideas what’s incoming? I also noticed another strange occurrence that I’d yet to see before, or perhaps I’ve just never noticed it. In Antonica at the spires that take you to the KoS zone, there is a scroll on the ground, next to one of the spires that reaches for the sky. A brown scroll, that pulses with mist. You can’t interact with it, but it looked new to me none the less.

Is Neriak on it’s way back to being rebuilt? What are those Thexians up to? I tried to prod Silverstep for information (my dark elf fury) but she was reluctant to say anything. Personally, I don’t think she knew what to make of it.

I’m glad to be almost out of the dreaded T6 with the defiler. Though it’s going slow and even slower with no vitality. Using one of her 54% exp potions yesterday for an hour only netted me 30% experience over all. I figure I’ll just keep grinding and questing, it seems to get more experience over all.

It’s a slow slow grind, but I’m getting there!

stargrace April 27, 2007 2Comments

Misako grinding the level away in Pillars of Flame, her home for a few more levels

Level 55 and counting. I’m going to use a leveling potion tonight in the hopes that I can get to 56.. and then over the next few days, I’m hoping to be out of the dreaded T6 and into T7 with the defiler. I’ve been doing a few odd quests here and there, yesterday Silent City access was completed, and today since Pillars of Flame was relatively bot-free, decided to do some of the easy quests in there. It worked out fairly well. A lot of the ease of leveling has to do not only with the 70 shadowknight I use to mentor (though now my defiler can group up with 70’s and get quest credit finally! That’s a huge bonus) but also to do with the 56 ranger who’s been coming with me on all my adventures. It’s great company and the dps is a blessing.

Last night I also took the defiler through Poets Palace. Things there are level 65, which means they’re red to her, but she got the discovery and the ap points for the named none the less. The zone is fairly easy for any level 70. One down side is that she can’t quite cure the dots that mobs use, nor can she cure the awful traps that get set off from treasure chests, but she does have her 55 rare that she can use every 2 minutes and removes impairments up to level 74. Better then nothing I suppose! I haven’t progressed the Godking quest any further yet, nor have I progressed Claymore, but those are on my “to do” list. I imagine I’ll start more once I’ve hit 60.

I also did a quick nest run, which was a lot of fun. I took the illusionist, no healer. A master dropped and ended up getting transmuted, it was only selling for 2p on the broker, and that’s pretty much just change now. I love what Gaff has been doing lately with adding old screen shots and having people guess where they’re from. There is also a WoW site that does that called AFKGamer, so I think I’m going to have to swipe the idea, once a week. I’ll post a screen shot to some location or an item some place (hopefully unique.. I can’t promise though!) and see if people can guess where it is.

I found this post interesting, where Ogrebear talks about their dislike of people solo’ing poets. I made a reply to it, because I didn’t agree. There are plenty of people out there who can solo things that I can not do. Be it due to my gear (or lack there of) or some other factor. I don’t expect people to do things exactly like one another. It is a combination of skill and other randomness. I don’t hold it against those people either. It would be almost as if I complained about a level 70 crafter making more money from their crafting profession then I did at mine. At least that’s what I relate it to.

It… drools?

stargrace April 26, 2007 2Comments

Stargrace, sporting her new warg, which I’ve named Spit. For obvious reasons.

The new update went in yesterday with very little issues at all. I headed to Loping Plains (along with the majority of the server) and did the quests for the new wargs. Easy, simple, fast quests that paid some coin and a lot of ap experience. I did the quest on all three level 70’s, and I’ll head there and do it with the rest once they hit 55 (which is the lowest level you can be to get the quest). All you do is run around close to Somborn and charm three types of warg, you can complete it in less then five minutes. The wargs cost 5p each, and are 45% speed. So they’re slighty faster then the free carpet you can quest for, but slower then the guild level 60 mounts (which also cost status, and 14p each). There was a note on the forums stating these will not be the last wargs you see, nor the fastest. More will come.

They’re… interesting. The run graphic seems to be a bit off for my liking. They also drool. A lot. I do like the jump graphic. I decided to trade in my two 50% mounts and purchase this new warg, saving myself 5p on the return of my old mount, as well as getting the status back. Not that I need status for anything, but it’s always nice to have a little extra coin in my pocket.

Misako got level 54… I quested a little, and decided to do Hidden Cache with a friend. She also almost hit 52 ap, I’m heading down the int line for some nice debuffs.

With the new update yesterday was also a better chance for useful items to drop on your instance runs. Some people were complaining, because it does not seem to be 100% chance for a useful item to drop. More like 90% chance. I did Obelisk of Blight, where shadowknight boots dropped (and the tank was a shadowknight from guild who could use them, thankfully) and I also did Valdoons, where ranger forearms dropped, and low and behold, we had a ranger in the group who could use them. I had Dasie tag along on all these runs in the hopes that a piece of templar gear would drop… of course it didn’t happen that way but oh well I’ll just have to keep trying. I’m looking forward to being able to bring the defiler on these adventures.