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[EQL] What am I hoping For?

The discord for EverQuest Legends has been an absolute madhouse since it opened, and while I am on the quieter end of things, I do enjoy seeing what everyone else is getting up to. There are a LOT of questions floating around about what sort of game this will be. Very few absolute answers, for now. As we get closer to the release (slated for this summer) and of course the beta, we’ll hopefully get more information.

I did see a few things addressed to some degree. I also took a peek at the ‘suggestions’ section which sort of made me laugh (screenshot above).

People are passionate about their games, especially games that have 25+ years of history attached to them. They also tend to be very vocal about whatever aspect they are passionate about. Some people seem to want ‘original EverQuest’ to which I say it’s right over there. It still exists! The game is still around, there’s still P99 and there’s still progression servers. Go play.

What am I hoping for? I just want to play the game, without requiring a full group. I want to be able to quest, and craft. I don’t have an opinion on multiboxing. Lots of people seem to be against it. I do want to be able to group with friends and family. I’m feeling cautious about the subscription requirement. I think this might hurt them long term, especially because with a subscription comes the expectation of content.

I’m very excited, in any case. I’m hoping I get into the beta so I can help out with that, and I might even stream it or make some YouTube videos in the future. We’ll just have to see.

[EQL] EverQuest Legends? Hell. Yes.

I saw an article about this over on PCGamer, where they said it was an MMO for people who do not have time for an MMO. It reminded me of The Hero’s Journey, which was shut down and then went to court with Daybreak this year – and yes, I played it (and even wrote about it here) but then stopped once the court stuff started happening. At the start I assumed it was much like P99, which had (has?) permission to operate. Anyway, I already know that this is something that appeals to me, because I’ve already played (and loved) a version of it.

I love EverQuest. It is where I met my husband, and I have so many (many) memories – but I’m also a busy grown ass person now and I cannot play like I used to. That’s just the nature of life. Of COURSE I am going to give EverQuest Legends a go. Then I also learned that Linda Carson (also known as Brasse) is also back on the team. I’m even more excited.

WAY back when, Brasse used to work for Becket Massive Online Gamer. She left that and went to SOE to work on their community team and I got her job at Beckett. Eventually I started writing guides for EQ2, and SOE flew me down to California to interview their various developer teams in a whirlwind trip that lasted not even 3 days total.

I may not be part of the content creator portal any more, but I will absolutely be writing about my experiences, and I’m very excited for this.

[WoW] Week 12 Gold Making Wrap Up (2026)

A few sales this week, but not a great one either way. I made around 1.5 million gold but I ended up leveling up a whole bunch of professions and buying a bunch of recipes that I needed, so that’s where 500,000 of that gold went. I took a break from posting over the weekend and just worked on leveling up more characters and working on their weekly activities which was really relaxing and left me refreshed.

I now have 5 characters at level 90, and a 6th over on my second account is at 85 so far. I’ve been using the pet battle trainers in Dalaran to level up, because after completing all of the campaign and sojourner quests one time, I was not quite ready to jump into it again yet.

It took me a bit to figure out how Prey actually works but now that I have, I’m enjoying it more. Think delve-esc rewards for something that takes a lot less time. I did also run through the LFR version of the two raid wings that opened up this week. I wanted to get through the normal versions too but I didn’t make it, so that’s a thing for next week perhaps.

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

[WoW] Week 11 Gold Making Wrap Up (2026)

Another week of sales – slightly over 2.3 million gold in profit. I did end up spending some gold, gotta level those professions up after all, but not much. I think I actually purchased two recipes I didn’t have, too.

The sales were nothing out of the ordinary. A lot of smaller transmog and a handful of recipes, with Area 52 once again being my server of choice, bringing in 1.5 million of that total. The NA token has been dropping in price, and I expect with the start of season 1 officially beginning on Tuesday, that it will continue to drop. Remember it drops when people have a need for gold – and new gear = a need for gold. It goes up when there is no need, or there is a market place sale, or a new item in the market place (like the furniture that blizzard has been pushing). The token almost always drops at the beginning of an expansion / start of a season as people want gold to buy gear / gems / etc.

In any case, I’m alright with my smaller sales. It’s not the 10 million I used to make in a week but again I’m only selling on 10 servers these days instead of 20, so it takes me around 30 minutes each day I post. Before it was taking me an hour, sometimes more, and I wasn’t seeing the returns I wanted.

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

[WoW] How is Midnight Going?

I know I haven’t written much lately, life has been bouncing me around and I have folded inward a little, but I am of course still playing World of Warcraft, even if I’m a bit quiet. I figured I’d do a ‘where do things stand’ type of post.

Number one, I finally settled on a ‘main’ although it took some time to get there. I leveled up my paladin first, doing the Campaign, falling 2 levels short of 90, and then going back and finishing off 2 of the zones completely. When I finally reached 90 the class wasn’t feeling quite right to me. A bit bulky, a bit slow.

So I decided to level the monk up next. I did this through legion pet battle trainers which is my optimal method. I can just multitask and do something else while battling the trainers, and while it is NOT fast, by any means, it is simple.

The monk reached 90, and then I leveled up a druid and a demon hunter through the same method. I have 1 more character to get to 90 (my priest) in order to have my core four profession characters at 90. Granted, they don’t NEED to be 90 to work on Midnight professions, but it helps. I then started re-doing the entire campaign on the monk, because there’s just something in my brain that thinks “well, it’s not REALLY my main if I don’t do everything on her!”

I am not really a quest type of person. I enjoy doing them the first time, I enjoy the stories, but I do not like spending days on end questing. This is why I typically swap over to some other activity. I imagine it will take me some time to get the monk ‘caught up’ as far as the campaign goes, if I ever do.

In the meantime, I’ve been doing all of my daily quests, all of my weeklies, the events that I can, and even some PVP in there. Season 1 starts next week, so there isn’t a lot of ‘stuff’ to do right now. That’s OK by me. I also managed to get my house to level 7, though I’d really like it to be closer to 8. There is a LOT of housing I still need to collect, and I feel like for those players who DO like to collect, Midnight offers a lot of options. I think there is probably a section of players who are a bit bored at the moment though, waiting for season 1. We’ll see what that looks like next week.

As always, happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself.