Category: Gaming

 

Dasie in Freeport, brandishing the new legendary reward from SoD

Yesterday was a long day. I mean, a very long day. I went out for a bit of it, and then Shadowgeist, Kandrial, and I decided that we’d try to push through as much of the Sword of Destiny chain of quests as we could. We had high aspirations of finishing the entire thing, and with a few guild mates who joined later in the evening (a huge thank you to Panache and Thunderwalker) we completed the entire legendary version of the weapons.

It has 10 less power, and 4 less wisdom then the weapon she was currently wearing. However, it can be adorned (for now) and that means I can add another +40 heals to it, for a total of +115 to every heal. That’s a huge amount on one weapon. The “typical” healer weapon (for lower-end raiders) is the Godking weapons due to the power regen, but the +115 to heals will far out weigh that one, plus the dmg rating is better as well as the power and health. On longer fights it may be suggested that our healers (those who currently use Godking) switch out, if needed. I’d like to see all of the healers in guild with this, though I know quite a few are opposed to questing and I won’t lie, this one is a fairly annoying one. The first portions are not so bad. Some busy work. When you get to the Mistmoore Catacombs portion and the Kaladim portion, you’re dreading it a small amount only because of everyone else crammed into the zone. When you start the Castle Mistmoore portions, you’re beginning to doubt why you even started the quest to begin with. After the first portion which is just running and clicking things through the zone, you’re pretty much pulling your hair out. Then you kill some of the 9 named you need (place holders count) and you are waiting for the x2 to spawn (raids do NOT get updates for this quest except for the one x2 you need).

In the end, is it worth it? Well, in my opinion yes. However I basically did the entire quest in one day, and that is something that I do not suggest for people to do. My group was lucky, we joined forces with another group who was on the exact same parts. We had exceptionally knowledgeable people who lead us around, we took turns each disbanding our raid to go after the named / ph’ers we needed. We died, a lot. It was easily a 45g repair bill night. We used a mendor bot in fact. We were all very seasoned raiders who were attempting this as well.

The quest line is beautiful, the New Tunarian Throne instance was just stunning (I’ll post screen shots of it later) and now I’ve got the ability (if my guild ever manages to raid it) to upgrade to the fabled version by completing the raid instance. I think that will be a while, but in the mean time the weapon is pretty dang nice.

 

 

 

What house is complete without a wonderful fire place…

The dining area, some apples, good ale, a few paintings

The bathing area… gotta have lots of flowers.. soft lights. Tunarian alter sorta fits..

From the front door, you can look up and spot Dasie’s loft, stairs leading upwards

A better view of the loft. It’s got a row of book shelves, and some comfortable seating

The house still needs a lot of work, it needs books and nick nacks to make it a home (every home is that way) but it’s a good start. There’s a small bedroom area with the bathing section, but I didn’t want to flood with screen shots. Plus I’m contemplating moving her into a 5 room home instead of the 2 room, so who knows. She’s already at 150 or so of her 200 house item limit, and two rooms is not quite enough for what I’d like. Idealy, I’d like each one of my characters to have their own homes with items particular to each one.. it looks like I may be able to do that. I love being able to access a carpenter when I need one, I’ve spent so much money on house items in the past. At least now it’s just the rare collectable stuff that I can buy and not the actual furniture items.. (if that makes sense) Misako needs a house yet, and perhaps Goudia and Yamini, I have not decided.

In game, last night raids were cancelled, I was not exactly heart broken over it. The MT and the MT defiler were having huge connection issues, going LD quite frequently. We were also missing a lot of our core players. For the loot we’d have been attempting to get (LoA or Halls) it would just not have been worth it. We would have had a shadowknight main tank (nothing at all wrong with that) and the guild is not used to that. They’d have to adjust on the spot for the different tanking methods each class uses and so I suggested we just call the raids and give everyone a night off to do as they wish. Which meant I worked on SoD. I finished the Kaladim portion and I’m now on the part where I need to kill a few named in the catacombs, and then after that I’ve got to kill a few named in the castle. . . Someone else want to do that stuff for me? LoL. I actually upgraded Dasie’s weapon yesterday and I’m not so certain if the SoD is an improvement. The fabled version of course will be, but the legendary will depend on whether or not they were flagged as ornate.

Today is Canada day, so I’m off for a few hours and then hiding in the house. I live in the capital of Canada (and no, that’s NOT Toronto.. Toronto is just the capital of Ontario) so there are going to be literally millions of people down town for the festivities. Fire works tonight that I’ll listen to since I don’t want to be in the crowds.

 

Why is this person even asking me if I have a guild tag.. of course I do.. it shows up plainly..

I have a pet peeve, and since it’s on my mind and just happened about 10 minutes ago I figured I’d post about it. I have no objections to using peoples real character names in any of my posts, so as a warning to folks, if you say something to me I more then likely WILL post it. Anyhow.

I was sitting in EFP, before getting ready to go out and do some groceries. I get a tell from said person above. Asking me if I was guilded. I do a quick /who all dasie to ensure that my guild tag does show (and you can also look me up on eq2players.com to check for the tag). Seriously, if you’re going to try to recruit someone from another guild at least don’t start off your first impression to them as a moron by not even realizing whether or not they are actually in a guild. In order to see that I am an inquisitor at all they would have to know I was guilded.

Second of all, it would seem like common sense to me that if you’re looking for people to raid with you, you would want to know about the person first. Know what sort of a healer they are or any class for that matter. To insure that they’re not going to ruin your raids horribly. You don’t just go up to random people and say hey, do you want to raid with us. You get to know the person, the player. Find out their play styles. Well. I’ve never grouped outside of my guild and I don’t do pick up groups. I’ve never heard of this person before, never heard of the guild. I have no indication of anything about them. They were not rude, but still.. is it just me who thinks they’re doing things a bit backwards?

Now, the server may have a lack of inquisitors and perhaps that’s why they send me the random tell, but some how I doubt it. There are always plenty of folks around. I’m sure most people wouldn’t have an issue with this sort of tell, but as a raider, it just irked me.

 

 

A knights sconce, very pretty new house item added in the last LU

Servers went down this morning but I had a little time to play with the dressing room feature in game and create a few new house items. The one pictured above is one of my favorites I’ve got to admit. There are also some new plants, an actual wine rack, some pillars (for those of us that adore making gardens in our homes and what not) and some other odds and ends. A friend has let me use their carpenter, which I’m ecstatic about since I’ve never managed to level one of my own to 70. You’d figure with all of these alts and crafters I’d have done so by now.

A thank you to Shadowgeist for helping get my site back up and working. I didn’t actually think I’d burst into tears over losing 300 or so posts, but I did. I have back ups now, so if anything goes wrong again I’ll be better prepared.

Raids today… uhms. Not sure what we’re hitting actually. There are some key people missing, so I don’t think we’ll be doing Freethinkers, which is our typical Saturday raid (I think.. maybe we do that Thursdays.. my brain is a bit muddled). I’d love to see Dasie get some of her set gear but it seems a little out of reach for now. Nothing wrong with that, I’m still working her up. I want to get Misako some levels, I’ve got masters and gear stashed aside and I miss playing her, especially since now I’ve respec’d her aa line.

Sword of Destiny…… I had Kandrial (assassin from guild) read ahead a bit on the quest for me.. and decided that I am just not sure I want to do it. It requires a whole lot of named in Castle Mistmoore, and is also flagged as an epic quest. You have to go into the x4 area upstairs. Not looking forward to any of that. The +75 to heals would be *REALLY* nice, but it’s only got 20 more power then my current weapon, and 8 less wisdom. I’ve got a +40 to heals on the weapon to begin with, so I’d basically be doing all of this work for +35 to heals and 10 power. Of course it does lead to the fabled version, but I’ve got no hopes at all of accomplishing that for quite some time. Maybe when RoK comes out and I’ve (and the guild or whomever) got a few more levels to me. We’ll just have to see how it goes. With epics being released in RoK to begin with I’m wondering if there’s any point anyhow, seeing as I’ll have 10 more levels and possibly a new weapon to work on. Who knows, that’s a long ways away.

Gothun seems to be enjoying himself on AB which I’m glad to see. Kilanna and I have been chattering as always. An old friend of mine from Najena and Albrta (also from Najena) and I chattered yesterday, we have a channel in game so we can do the gossip thing from across servers. One of our friends has been away for quite some time, so it was really really nice to see her ducked in for a bit. I had missed her.

I like the changes to aa, for shaman at least. I love it for enchanters. Being able to weild something in Stargrace’ secondary hand will be nice. Not that I’ve filled the slot yet. I haven’t played her much. Dasie’ aa line are staying as they are, no reason to change really. I wish her EoF line gave her more in the lines of healing but I suppose they leave that to the templars. I boxed Stargrace and Dasie in DFC last night and got a few of the bloodstone ores, to make level 37 gear with. I was contemplating making a set for Ishbel (my 37 coercer) but she’s really just a bot that I drag around and get exp by chance with. I always liked the idea of having both a coercer and an illusionist.

Other then that things are fairly quiet in game which is how I like it. Hopefully I’ll get a little more accomplished this next week but I’m not holding my breath! With the site down the traffic has been slow and I’ll have to get some good posts in to make up for it.

Site back up and running.. complete with back ups this time.. we’ll see how it goes..

In good news, Dasie was promoted to Tactics Officer in guild. What does that mean exactly? Well it means that when I have something to say about a raid or a class or a group, maybe people will listen a bit more. I was asked if I wanted to be a recruitment officer, and declined. Anyone who knows me understands that I have very little patience, and have no desire to interact with people more then I really have to. Guild members are different most of them are wonderful. Raid Officers on the other hand, know their classes (and many others) inside and out. They know what needs to get done and by who. They understand the parses, and can see those and see where things are going wrong. It may seem odd since my guild is still a “casual raiding” guild to see all of this going on, but they’re eager to get beyond the simple KoS stuff we’ve been taking down and move on and progress in EoF (even if it is a little later now). I’ve played every healer class to 70 (except mystic) and I’ve raided with them all (except defiler). I suppose betraying was a good thing in that regard, I have raided as a fury, warden, templar, and inquisitor. I have a defiler who’s almost raid level but I doubt I’ll be playing her very often. Maybe on off nights I can sneak her into some pick up raids. I was leveling her up to be a MT defiler before I joined my current guild, and set her aside since she’s not needed.

GU36 went live yesterday, I’ll make a separate post about that once I get myself settled with this blog some. Yesterday was a DT raid, which just was… not what I wanted a raid to be. I mean, we didn’t die a *whole* lot, but come on, it’s DT. We should not be having any issues at all with the zone. We didn’t do the splitting drake, we in fact knew we wouldn’t be able to for once. We wiped on Tarinax twice. We did not attempt Cruor, which is a mob I miss doing. The encounter is not difficult, but it does take co-ordination, and there are actually at least 3 ways of killing the mob that I’ve personally done, each one worked, it depends on the guild. To be frank (and not intending to be rude here) The Inquisition just doesn’t have the discipline that’s needed to be able to co-ordinate encounters like that quite yet. Doesn’t mean they won’t get there, they will. But it’s going to take some time.