Stargrace

[WoW] 100,000,000 Liquid Gold

I finally reached 100 million liquid gold in World of Warcraft. It was one of the goals I set for myself just before Midnight released, and it took a while but I got there. It probably would have been faster except that my Warcraft play time has been at an all time low, and I spent the first part of the expansion gifting a lot of things to a lot of people. What is the point of having all of this gold if I can’t spoil my friends, after all.

So what is the goal now that I’ve reached it? Well, I hope to earn enough to continue paying for my accounts + expansions + whatever else I want without having to dip into the stock. I also want to cap my bnet balance, although right now that takes less than 10 million. I know there are some things from the shop that I don’t have yet, but unless there’s some awesome player housing I don’t know that I will indulge. I just wanted to see if I could reach this goal, and I’m very glad I have. Keep in mind not all of this gold is from this year! I believe when I checked my TradeskillMaster ledger it told me that I had earned 88 million gold over the past 365 days. Also keep in mind that I’ve been making gold in World of Warcraft for a VERY long time. In fact, it will be 10 years using TSM + being a part of the gold making community. My number one tip for anyone who wants to make gold is always the same.

Consistency.

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

[WO] One more Rift Down

I completely forgot that I had parked my character over on the Independence server for the next rift that was going to spawn at 10:20am today. Thankfully, I was only 20 (eep) minutes late. They were on the 3rd round and my only goal was to reach 20+ points so that it would count for my Destinations Unknown – I was afraid I had missed the whole thing.

89 rifts to go.

[EQL] Farming Sky.. Sky.. and .. Sky

I found a website called Loadout Legends that parses your EverQuest game as you play, and lets you keep track of things like – loot from sky (so long as you have /log on, I discovered). A lot of these apps have been around for some time, after all EverQuest isn’t new but with a newfound interest in the Legends version, they’re getting some popularity.

Anyway. I basically spent all weekend in Sky, working on various collections and quests. At the time of this post, I have 15/95 quests completed. Why bother? Well. In EverQuest Legends, this is how you can earn tokens to unlock each class if you don’t want to pay real life money. Each class has between 4-7 quested items, and if you complete them all, you will unlock that class.

The problem is the drops in Sky are random. Most of the ‘rare’ items come from the bosses that spawn on each island, and Sky itself is also no walk in the park. That being said, I was over the moon when I obtained the paladin one handed weapon that I had been trying to get. At least something useful came from all of these quests that I’ve been turning in.

Tuesday is the next big patch day that we’ll see. I hope group experience is fixed then.

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

[EQL] Back to 40.. again

I hit 50 on my main class and then immediately dropped bard and grabbed enchanter – putting myself at level 40. What.

This didn’t last long. I don’t really want to do the leveling game right away after having hit 50 even if I’m not quite sure about the bard. I’m waiting for the patch on Tuesday that will supposedly give a boost to group experience so that me and my husband can play together without it feeling bad (seriously, right now you get about 1/3rd the experience in a group that you do solo… so the obvious choice is .. go solo).

So I played the enchanter combination for a grand total of .. one day, and then I went back to my level 50 characters. I’ll write more about that adventure tomorrow.

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

[Life] Steam Machine Thoughts

I’m going to preface this by saying that this is not an unbiased review of the steam machine. We’ve had a steam deck in our house since 2022, and absolutely love it (for reasons that I’ll get into shortly). It is not a surprise that we also enjoy the steam machine a great deal. If you’re looking for unbiased comments or someone who hates it you’ll have to keep searching.

To start things off, we are a 4 person gaming household. We have two PC, a laptop, and (previously) the steam deck (now replaced by the steam machine). We also have a Switch 2, but that isn’t the object of this post.

Our steam deck handled our (huge) steam libraries, including family sharing, and also hosts our xbox game pass (streaming library). That in itself is a very large collection of games. The steam deck would see daily use, but it had some limitations, not all games work, and some games really needed a mouse / keyboard combination. It has also been a few years now, and I’m not certain if you can upgrade the hardware, it was starting to show its age.

So we discussed whether we would buy a new PC, another laptop, or the steam machine. All of them are expensive prospects this day in age. Eventually we decided to go with the steam machine. I put us in the queue and waited for the lotto – which we did not initially get in.

A few weeks later, here we are.

It was VERY simple to set up. I did also have to configure it to add the xbox game pass to it, but that went without a hitch. I know these days you can also add GOG, Amazon Gaming, and even Epic Games. I haven’t done any of that.

We opted to go with the 2TB version, and got the controller, too. The price could absolutely be reduced if you opt to go with the 512GB version, get an SD card, and forego the controller (you can use a wireless xbox controller just fine). The footprint this machine takes up is TINY, which is amazing. It’s silent, and so far honestly I have nothing negative to say. It has only been a day though, so of course I’ll need to give it more time. Hopefully it holds up just as well as our steam deck has.