Category: Gaming

[EQL] EverQuest Legends – Day 1

I’m still not sure what classes I’m going to be playing at the time of this post, I know a lot of people say you’ll swap around depending on the situation. Right now I’m playing an enchanter / paladin – but I’m already contemplating swapping that out to a beastlord / paladin / melee of some sort. The husband and I managed to log in last night, and reached level 6 while bouncing around D4 Nektulos Forest. It was brutal because mobs have the multiclass ability, so we were fighting war/wiz snakes and clerics galore. They also have a huge aggro range, and they love nothing more than to help their friends.

Still, it was fun. It was a nice way to spend the evening. I’ve also created a guild on the Halas server called ‘Nostalgia Inc’ where like minded social but not too social people can hang out if they want. Zero pressure. This is mostly about having some chat channels and nothing too pressing, especially given my incredibly nomadic game play style.

I’m pretty sure I will easily reach my $20 value for making the initial purchase, and we’ll see how it goes from there.

There were quite a few stability issues yesterday as the game opened. I would randomly drop to character select every 30 minutes or so and the D4 zone went down entirely for a while. I know we can create our own instances, but so far I have not bothered. There has never been more than a handful in the instance that I’m in – and even now, this morning as I type this, I am the only person in Nektulos Forest D4. I imagine as players spread out this will become less of an issue, and while I know there is certainly a mad rush to play, I don’t know if the game actually has ‘staying power’ beyond the 30 days that comes with the initial purchase.

I guess we’ll see!

Happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself.

[Life] Blaugust – and AI

This post might be a bit of a rambling mess, I’m trying to string a bunch of thoughts together and it’s hard for me to make sense of it all in my mind as it is,

I don’t know all of the ins and outs about the drama that’s going on re: Blaugust and AI. I’ve stayed out of it and away from it because it (the discord) always started to come across as a club where people were judged for their methods – and as much as I AM against AI (and don’t let this post fool you, I am not a fan of it in any way) I am even less of a fan of telling people what to do with their personal space on the internet – especially when it comes to a made up event that is supposed to be inspirational and motivational and boost people up, not tear them down.

I’m not OK with judging people for their use of AI in their own spaces. I do not think they need to be disqualified for a fictional event where no money or ‘prize’ is on the line except our own personal back pats. If someone writes something interesting it will get read, and if it’s not interesting, it won’t. If you want to take a personal stance against reading or not reading articles that are written by AI then I think that is absolutely viable and I fully respect that – but I do not think we need to focus on the negative and judge people. Maybe after making 5 AI written posts they give it a try and decide they love it, and then they continue writing themselves. Wouldn’t that be great? That will never happen if we just say “NO AI!” right at the gates. The community has already spoken and excluded those people.

What I’d like to see is people taking those perceived negatives and turning them into positives. Being supportive, educating, and being friendly to one another. Why am I against AI? Well that’s simple, I’m an artist and I think people deserve to be fairly compensated. I’m a fan of living on this planet, and I want the environment to prosper. These are my own personal views and morals and it would not be fair of me to judge others by those same views. Do I wish people did the right thing? Of course, absolutely – but at the end of the day, I am in charge of *me* doing the right thing, and that is it. So yes, I can be against the use of AI, and also against the idea of ‘banning’ people from participating if they use AI. We are not better or worse than one another. Blaugust is not a creative writing project. That might be one facet, it might be what it is for you – but it has been about inspiration, motivation, and community, more than anything else. I think it would be better to just leave it open to anyone who wants to participate, in whatever method they choose to participate, and then if YOU want to read their stuff, do it, and if you do not – then don’t. We need to pay more care and attention to what we are personally doing and less care and attention to what random Joe is doing. If anything, hold accountable the huge rich companies passing the buck around – and not your fellow down in the trenches, because that is not where the blame lays.

[WoW] Gold Making Wrap Up (week 30 2026)

OK so I know I just said last week that I was getting into better habits when it came to posting my auctions – turns out that was not entirely true, and I’m still struggling to follow through on my daily posting. I did also start posting to all 20 servers instead of 10, but it really wasn’t paying off in the way that I had hoped, so I’m back down to 10 servers. I’ll see what needs to change as I go along and try to get back into the good habits that I used to have for gold making.

Still, it was over a million earned this week at least, even with my heavy neglect. The sales mostly came in the form of lower cost transmog that has been sitting around for quite some time. I did also sell a grey transmog item or two, that doesn’t happen too often.

Now I just need to get back into those healthy gold making habits. Remember, consistency is actually what I suggest as being key to gold making. I’m sure I can wander my way back to it. It’s just taking me a little longer than usual this time around.

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

[WO] Onward to the Next Goal

I started the week with 83 mining, and finally managed to push it to 90+ so that I can slowly begin the grind of reaching 99. It will take me a few months, every time you level up it takes more and more time, but I’m glad to at least have reached this goal. It took approximately 9,000 slate shards mined to reach 90, and now I want to turn all of those into bricks so that I can use them on the castle I am building over on Deliverance. I have my priest character making bricks at the moment, it gets her some skills and keeps the character busy.

The next goal I’d like to complete is to build a 10 story building. I think I am almost done this one, I do have a lighthouse that is (I believe) 7 floors at the moment. I already have the skill to accomplish this (you need 83 masonry to reach 10 floors so long as they are stone). The rest of the goals I’ll have to pluck at over time, especially missions and rifts. There is a rift tomorrow on the Deliverance server that I hope to attend, we’ll see how that goes.

All in all, I’m pretty pleased with my cape progress so far, and as long as I am making little movements towards it, I’m confident that I’ll get there in time.

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

[WO] Mining.. Mining.. More Mining..

I’ve been plucking away at my cloak progress – and the main thing I’ve been working on so far is trying to get a single skill to 99. I’ve opted to go with mining because it’s something that I can use for my other skills, and something that is fairly simple in nature so long as you have ore nodes around.

I started the week at 83 mining and at the time of this post I am just over 88. I am hoping to reach 89 mining tomorrow, and then of course begins the long (long) journey to 90+.

In the meantime I’m also working on my meditation (I recently hit 60) trying to inch that closer to 70. My priests have been making bricks (so many slate bricks) and working on a few skills of their own. Hopefully before I know it, I’ll have 99 mining (hah) and be able to move on to a new task.

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