Category: Gaming

Back to my Comfortable Wormlife Freeport

Despite not blogging about it for some time, I am still playing EVE Online, though my in-game time has been reduced while I wander through Legion Remix and everything that comes with that. I was recently kicked out of my corporation due to my lack of in-game time, so I added all of my characters back to my own corporation instead. It’s not the first time this has happened, and I understand the reasons for these types of rules – but it also sucks, because life happens, things happen, and I’ve never really been one to just play one game steadily. Anyway, it is what it is. That’s usually why I end up creating my own guilds / corporations where I don’t have to be concerned that I’m going to get kicked out for some inactivity.

With that taken care of, I decided to put my main character back into the Wormlife Freeport I frequent, but the HS exit I scanned down was 44 jumps from my ‘home base’ so the goal is to keep scanning each day until I find one a little bit closer. I don’t mind taking a long trip to get there, but things have been busy IRL lately, and I’d prefer to make 10-20 jumps and not 40 plus.

In the meantime, I got started with PI again on the alts. I know the values have been decreasing lately, but that’s alright, we’ll see how it goes.

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

Gold Making – Week 41 (2025)

You can see the exact moment that Legion Remix released on my gold making chart. For the past few weeks I’ve made a pretty steady amount of gold – but as soon as remix hit, all of that changed. Some of it is my fault, I didn’t post auctions for two days of the week and it’s hard to get sales if you’re not even posting. A good chunk of the lower sales is simply because everyone is off doing legion remix, and there’s not as much demand on the market right now. That’s OK, we’re here for the long haul.

A handful of transmog were the ‘big’ sellers this week (if they could be called that) and I suppose some sales are better than none. I think things will slowly start to climb back upwards as the rush of Legion Remix wears off and people start to wander between the versions of the game. Remember, gold making ebbs and flows. It’s constantly fluctuating and there’s all sorts of influences. Just because it’s a bit of a slump right now, doesn’t mean it always will be.

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

The End of Streams – Again

It seems like no matter how hard I try, I just can’t get live streaming my gaming sessions to stick. There’s a number of reasons and some things are unavoidable like health problems, and being married to a first responder, being primary caregiver to two high needs kids, and keeping any sort of schedule just sort of flies out the window. I need schedules.

Some of the issues are within my control, but I can’t do anything about them. Things like my energy level, what time I stream, what I stream. It seems like every few years I try to make a dive at it again, manage for a few weeks, and then give it up for whatever reason it is that time around.

I used to write about video games professionally (back when magazines still existed). I used to work for a video game company (You remember Carbine Studios? NCSoft?) and I desperately cling to trying to do and be something besides just ‘mom’. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what I do, but there are many days I feel lost and very alone.

What’s the solution? Well, besides professional help and working on ‘me’ the only real solution is to just keep trying – but trying and growing in different ways that make sense given my situation. What does that even mean?

In my very specific case, that means I’m not going to try to live stream to twitch any more. I am going to try to record and post content to YouTube, on my own schedule, when I can. I can record sporadically throughout the day here and there when I have the moments, and do the audio at night when the house is a bit more quiet. I can learn how to edit, and still scratch that scheduling itch. I also want to continue to grow with my art, and I’ve been posting to Cara and Instagram, and doing a little bit of drawing every day. I’d like to get back on track with my reading journal, and posting updates over on my book blog. I have a lot of FOMO when it comes to streaming. I watch a lot of twitch streamers throughout the day while I do other things. I see their enthusiasm and love for their games and community. I see them get sponsorships, I see them get noticed.

Why write it all out here? Well. I just wanted to get it out, honestly. It was too long to put on Mastodon, and now I can just move forward.

Legion Remix – It’s Happening

At the time of this post, wowthing.org is telling me that I’ve got 51 out of 168 items that I want from remix – which is pretty great considering I’m not max level yet, nor have I completed all that much. I know a lot of my friends are already 80, and I’ve seen people begin farming the bronze tokens required to make all the purchases – but I’ve been going nice and slow.

Some of that is my own choice, some of that is because for most of the first two days I couldn’t really play. The game was having a TON of issues and then my main character was inaccessible and locked when trying to transfer the bronze to another character went horribly wrong. I think it’s mostly all sorted now (or at least my character is released from the void, so that’s nice) and last night I was able to make a bit more progress.

I’m also still trying to poke around on retail, I did NOT get the brewfest mount this year (at the time of this post there’s 4h left of the event) which was a huge disappointment considering how much I tried. I think Blizzard’s decision to try to reduce the pressure by only letting you have one attempt each day just increases the pressure for those of us who didn’t get it, RNG has never been a friend of mine.

Are you playing Lemix (the name I’ve seen it called lately) and if so what class have you opted to go with? I’m probably going to create at least one of each class, but for now I’ve got a 56 Demon hunter, and a 30 Death knight. We’ll see what else makes the list.

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

Gold Making – Week 40 (2025)

It was a great week for sales, but that might have also been because for once I kept up with all of the auctions and reposted them properly. Or tried my best, at least. So the gains for this week were 12 million, and I did about 90k worth of purchases. Mostly crafting materials which have seen a sharp increase ever since the Midnight recipe components started floating around.

Most of the sales were smaller items, a lot of transmog, less pets this time around but I think that’s because all of the ‘good’ deals I had going have already sold. The Blackrock Bulwark sale is especially nice, almost 1 million gold from that alone. I also worked on my own recipe collection a bit, and overall, it was just a great well rounded week while we wait for Legion Remix to begin. I’m interested in seeing how that affects the market, will sales go down as the masses move off to the newest shiny, or will collectors decide it’s their time to shine. We’ll just have to see!

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