Author: Stargrace

Last night Wpus finished his conjuror epic, which was great. I was so glad to be a part of it. We headed to Chardok with a mish mash of guildies (Ultann tanking and Craw for some dps along with me as 78 defiler healing) and an assassin from an alliance guild. After all that was done, I suggested that Ultann, Wpus and I trio Vault of Eternal Sleep so that Wpus would have a chance at the guard that drops from the final mob. Nice proc for a mage class. It did take a few attempts on the final named to realize that the conjuror epic we just worked so hard to get for Wpus was actually breaking the roots we needed on the two skeletons that spawned, but we completed the zone fairly easily. I was happy – even though no guard dropped. Ah wells. 

We were going to head to Shard of Fear to trio that instance and give some payback to the three epics within the zone, but alas my internet decided otherwise for me. 

I was up early this morning and headed to the government building in Quebec, bulging folder of papers in hand. This has to do with ‘the news’ that I haven’t officially announced yet because I’m not sure if it’s going to work out. I’d hate to jinx myself, even though I am really looking forward to things. I find out new bits of details every day, and every time I clear one hurdle that’s in my way it seems like another shows up so before I can make any official announcement I have to clear the new hurdle as well. Needless to say this has been one of the most exciting and yet also stressful weeks ever, and if all goes well… well. We’ll just have to see!

I noticed in the craft forums there are postings with pictures of the new Erollisi day house items – really looking forward to that! Some grass fixtures, and beautiful scrolls along with new beds. A huge thank you to the dev teams who work on adding that new content for us eager players.

I apologize for the lack of content in the posts lately, I’m still working on getting my schedule figured out and with the mass of general ‘stuff’ going on, something had to give a little. In a day or two things should be calmer, and I’ll be able to focus (slightly). See you in Norrath!

There is a fairly big debate (and a few of them at that) going on in EQ2 about the new Heirloom tag that’s being tried out on the test server. You can read the 7 pages (and counting) of comments over on the official site here. 

Basically this allows players to trade items tagged as heirloom between their accounts to their alts. A fine example of this (and the one in question) is the void shards that people can currently quest for. These items are no trade – and can be seen as completely useless if you’re a hard core raider. There’s no reason for you to collect void shards, the gear is of no use to you. 

Allowing you to trade them between your own account, lets you have a purpose for those shards. You can trade them to alts and gear them up while your main does the instances. 

I’m actually for this change (for now at least). I think giving people a purpose to do those instances is a good idea. I think that if people get any more bored with running them (lack of reason to go etc) then it could prove disastrous for those of us who NEED that gear upgrade. 

Just my two thoughts for now. I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it as it gets tested and changes. It’ll be interesting to see what else is given the heirloom tag. 

(As a note – these items can be placed in your shared bank)

I know I’ve been slacking on my defiler. She’s been level 77 for a little while now, and I haven’t felt “the push” to get her to 80. I’ve mentioned numerous times here how I hate the quest grind and it’s pretty safe to assume it’s because I play a healer class.  I didn’t mind it quite so much on the illusionist, coercer, or troubador/dirge. I dislike it immensely on the warden, templar, and now defiler. It makes me long for the hybrid healer of Vanguard, where unless you’re putting out damage you can’t heal effectively. Sure, you’re not going to be out dps’ing the classes that are meant to do so but you’ll certainly hold your own. 

I did manage to explore a little more of the Moors. I did the crafting faction chain of quests, trying to edge myself closer to the netural line in order to purchase recipes. It was a fair amount of experience, and along the way the defiler also reached level 70 tailor. Sweet!

Later on in the evening the guild gathered and decided we should all do the Daily Double (DD on Najena, MoTD on Kithicor) which was Najena’s in Lavastorm. I’d only been there once before, mentored, and it didn’t go too badly but it wasn’t easy either. The zone starts with a cut scene which is very awesome, and you have to work your way down a spiral ramp and unlock each floor. 

We died. A lot. It was great though, learning to play with one another. The group consisted of an 80 fury, shadowknight, bruiser, conjuror, and necromancer, along with myself (defiler) at level 77. Looks like I can’t get those daily double quests until level 79, but that’s alright. We did manage (after a lot of deaths, I was on my 2nd special repair kit that repaired me to full) to get all the way to the final named. You know the one that requires a million mobs to all be tanked at once? 

I couldn’t remember if my group had done anything special the last time we were there except to tank them all, kill the genie type first. Last night things didn’t work out quite that smooth. I still had a lot of fun though, even when we had to leave the final named up. That’s two shards added to my collection, well on my way to getting the outfits I need. 

On that same note, since my tailor hit level 70 it also meant she could scribe her void armor recipe books. It’s nice to be able to make the armor for myself, and I’m really looking forward to it. I did make my first piece for Wpus yesterday, a brand new pair of summoner shoes.

I want to give a big hug and /wave to ‘Doomcookie‘ who commented on the Everfrost screenies I had posted in an older article. Another EF screenie at the top of this post just for her, really do love that zone.