Nomadic Gamer

Dasie does Deathtoll… and SoD

stargrace June 15, 2007 2Comments

Hanging out in Tunaria, even the fire comes to life to talk to you

Alright, you’ll have to forgive my title for today, it was the first thing that came to mind, I’m sure it will be recognized. Anyhow, last night was Deathtoll. I’d never done DT on Dasie before ever, nor had I done it with The Inquisition (my guild going on.. three weeks now I think, I keep losing track). Plus it was my third raid as an inquisitor. I was a little worried about how her saves would be vs. cold and heat (those eyeballs are nasty) but she was in the MT group, and did just fine. Our typical templars all decided to go on vacation at the same time, so I was moved to MT group. Not a big deal, after all healing is healing, right? We had one wipe on Tarinax at the end which wasn’t really a wipe but someone had oodles of pets out calling oodles of adds on us as each one died (sighs) so we rez’d up and tried agian. Now, I always mention that each guild does things differently and Tarinax (and DT in general) is no exception. Everyone stands different places, pulls differently, some guilds mez the adds that spawn if someone dies, and some guilds (like I found out yesterday) just wack through the mobs and don’t bother mez’ing. They all work, just different ways of doing it, so of course I’m still in a process of learning the guilds quirks. I think I’ve done pretty much everything with them now raid-wise at least. I spend my evenings helping to level up some bards and warlocks along with the main tank, playing my healers typically. It’s good practice for me, to learn how much the tank can handle and where that “emergency” line is so to speak. To know how much they can handle before they’ll go down. I really do think it’s important to group up and learn how your guild members work.

Aside from the raid, I decided it was about time I did the Sword of Destiny quest chain with at least ONE of my characters. I picked the one I’m actually raiding on since the last chapter is going to involve a new raid zone in New Tunaria (Felwithe) and I’d like her to at least have a chance at completing it. Now, I’ve done the long chains of quests out there. Dasie has her Prismatic 1.0, Arysh has her Godking (Prismatic 2.0) and her Claymore (3.0 pretty much) and this quest was one of the most annoying quests I’ve ever had the pleasure of completing. Not because it’s difficult (though parts of it are) but because it requires a LOT of running around to a LOT of different zones. 47 or so zones in fact. I won’t get into too much of the lore behind the Soulfire (which is the sword) because I don’t want to ruin it for the junkies out there (chances are they’ve already completed this quest when it was first released a few months back) but be sure to read the text and books you get. Very well done. Of course, the main reason I completed it:

A wonderful statue house item, that give 300 rent reduction. Anything is worth having a new semi-rare house item added to my collection. Beside it is the spire replica from the live event a few months back. So, that’s one more quest under Dasie’s belt. There’s so many wonderful quests in this game and I really wish I had experienced more of them, though I’m hoping with time I’ll get a chance to. With RoK just a few months away now and the level cap raising to 80, now is the time to experience some of the older content before it becomes REALLY old. As I made my way through both the Qeynos and Freeport sewers, I didn’t run into a single soul. There are plenty of quests and mobs still in those zones, and yet they’re barely used. I miss stuff like that. I used to remember doing my quest to become a cleric at level 10, and needing those sewers and barely being able to find the mobs I needed because of the others in there doing the same quest. Ah the good ‘ol days.

As a side note, a huge thank you to both Dalthar and Shadowgeist, who helped me run around collecting the 50 statues. It was nice not to have to do all of unrest just for that one update, and Acada was a breeze. Kaladim didn’t like me or Dalthar very much, but at least we got a master out of the deal!

Dasie gets some pretties

stargrace June 13, 2007 6Comments

Dasie’s newest pretty, a pair of shiny gloves from Chel’Drak

So after a little consideration, I requested to be able to play my inquisitor as my main for raids. We didn’t have one in the guild at all, where as we had another illusionist, and I’m a healer at heart lets face it. How anyone can have three level 70 healers (who have all betrayed, so I’ve played both sides of each class) and NOT like healing, is beyond me. Yesterday was my first real test, as we did Labs and Chel’Drak. I knew Chel’Drak was going to be harder this week, we were missing some key players, and Dasie’s resists are really low for poison. It meant that I had to park her at the back of the raid out of AoE range, and joust accordingly. Since I’m the one who calls the AoE’s (I love ACT and my G15 keyboard what can I say) it wasn’t that difficult. Though I noticed that by the end the timers were off by 10 seconds almost instead of their usual 5 seconds. I’ll have to look into that.

We wiped twice. Actually, we wiped three times but the first time some how had Chel’Drak on top of us as we zoned in. The mobs in the hallway were not spawned, so we have no idea how he managed to find us at the entrance to his lair, but smush us he did. He didn’t even summon us to the center of his room, he was just there on top of us in the water. In labs Dasie got herself a pair of new boots, and that combined with the gloves takes care of her two worse slots. Since I know I can use her as my main now, I also splurged and bought her 6 new masters, one heal and a few debuffs and nukes. It leaves me pretty broke, but hey it’s worth it. She is still missing one level 70 group direct heal, and her group buffs, the prices on those right now are out of my league, but for a character I’ve only had a few days after betrayal, she’s coming along nicely. There are things I need to work on with her of course (I made a list). She needs her music box quest completed. It’s an item that goes in charm and is far nicer then anything else I can obtain at the moment. She also needs to complete her +15 wis idol from the Fallen Dynasty expansion. I need to try to get the earring of the bloodlust handler from Valdoons (easier said then done when he never seems to want to drop it) and she needs to work on some resists with some potions on hand.

I also need to work on the Sword of Destiny with her. Claymore, and complete Godking. She’s on the final stages of Godking and no one wants to harvest eyes for access, so I’m doubtful that it will happen any time soon. She really could use a new weapon, so we’ll see how it goes. This morning I worked on my Tunare quests with Stargrace, since I am donating the wolvesbane to guild for future MMIS uses.

It’s damn hot and I’m feeling bleh, so this’ll be a short post. Time to go jump into the shower and try to cool off (again).

Gaming Corner

stargrace June 12, 2007 2Comments

Well, Cuppy asked for us to post pictures of our blogging areas, so this is mine. The coffee tins on the far right are actually filled with coins, I don’t have some obsession with nabob coffee, though maybe it’s more interesting if I do. On the top of my computer are some photographs, the one with the heart is of Shadowgeist (my fiance) and to the left of that a giant coin and some pictures of my friends kids. There’s a teddy bear my mom gave me up there too. Of course my beautiful monitor, G15 keyboard, mouse, and headset sitting on the keyboard tray. Lots of books scattered around and note pads since I spend a majority of my time writing. The cat normally hogs the whole left side panel there, but I managed to take the picture before she snuck her way on. My desk top is a screen shot that I took in game, nothing impressive.