Searching for a Halfling Home

This week I created a new character over on the Maj’dul server, and joined a small group of friends who are going through some older content. I decided to go with a Halfling coercer – sometime between when I played last in 2016 and now, they moved enchanters over to the ‘neutral’ category so that you could be either illusionist or coercer with any race available. In the past, coercers were limited to evil races. Illusionists were limited to good races. I love coercers. It’s my favourite class. I also love halflings, they’re my favourite race. It made sense that I went with this combination.

I made it to level 30 pretty easily and that’s where I turned all of my adventure experience to AA so that I could stay at this level for a while. I also decided to go down the jewel craft line for crafting, and I made it to level 55. That lets me get some mount quests out of the way and unlocks some things that would be unavailable unless I raised my adventure level.

Next was to find a home. I’m using my second account for this character, so I don’t have a lot of the bells and whistles that my main account has. I did have a few veteran bonuses to claim, and after touring through a number of different prestige homes, I settled on the Isle of Refuge.

I plan on creating a farm / garden type home for my halfling coercer, and refurbishing the basement that comes in the mage tower into some sort of bedroom. These days there are tons of building blocks and other items you can use to completely build your dream home from scratch, and I’d like mine to be halfling sized. There’s also an editor you can use to make sure your items get placed exactly how you’d like them, flipping and rotating them and all that good stuff. The homeshow channel (/join antonia_ bayle.homeshow) is as active as ever, with competitions and events being posted on the forums, and once again I’m reminded of how hands-on this community is (and how much I love it). For now, there’s very little in the home, but I’m sure that will change with time.

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

Sims 4 Legacy Day 1 (again, again)

I know I’ve done quite a few sims 4 legacy start ups over the years, but I’m attempting it once again. I’ve never actually gotten past the third generation, I always end up giving up and I’m not going to promise that this attempt will be any different, but it should be a lot of fun.

I’m starting on a 64×64 lot on the map for the latest expansion, Cottage Living. I bulldozed the property, moved the old family out, and shuffled in my Legacy sim, Velours Legacy. Yes, that’s her last name. I moved the evicted family to a new home but aside from what was mentioned above, I haven’t touched the map.

These days the legacy rules (using that term loose here, rules for legacy Sims are whatever you make of them) let you start with $1800, so I put down a one room shack to protect me from vampires, and was able to afford a toilet, sink, and a cot. Oh, the room has a door, too. No windows, no fancy walls or floors, it’s pretty bare bones.

My legacy sim wants to be an artist, so she picked up a job as a painter. That should come in handy. I haven’t played with cottage living at all but I did almost spend all of my remaining money on a cross stitch bundle for the sim instead of, you know, food.

Let’s see where this takes us! Hopefully I can make it past the 3rd generation this time..

Leveling up a Berserker

I recently started (another) new character, this time a gnome zerker on my second account. I tend to power level using my husband’s 120 zerker, and I follow zones that I’ve done for years now. We start in Commonlands, head to Wailing Caverns, then go over to Enchanted Lands, Runnyeye, and then Feerrott and Cazic Thule. This time when we showed up Venekor was there waiting, too. Even mentored at level 45 he posed zero threat, and dropped a nice bunch of fabled gear along with a handful of master spells. I am not sure if that stuff sells any more, but I put it all up on the auction house in any case. The zerker is now level 46, and I’ll head to the Sinking Sands to complete the dungeons there some time tomorrow.

I know the popular method of leveling these days is to run Agnostic Dungeons until 96 when they become pointless (and at 100 you can no longer run them at all) but I love exploring the ‘regular’ zones.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

TAAT Progress – Update 5

I’ve been working on these socks off and on since February, and normally it doesn’t take me that long to knit a pair of socks but these ones seem to be dragging on. That being said, I love the simple pattern and I know they’ll be worth it in the end. I’ve also been distracted by other projects, having completed 9 so far for 2021 (my goal is to complete 12 projects, one per month, no matter how big or small). I know splitting my time between other hobbies as well as gaming (which I suppose is a hobby) cuts into all this time I could spend knitting, but my hands honestly couldn’t take all of that anyway.

Just a few more rows for the leg, then a nice 2×2 ribbed cuff (through the back loop to keep it tidy) and a stretchy bind off – I’m confident I can get these done in August at least. I also plan on charting how much yarn I purchased for 2021 vs. how much yarn I actually used – I want to have more yarn going out than coming in (ideally). Plus who doesn’t like to track things. I probably spend more time making spreadsheets than anything else in my life, lol.

Happy knitting!

The Specifics

What have I been up to since I’ve returned to game? Well, to start it off I do have three active accounts – these were the same accounts I had active on EQ1, since station access grants all access across games, I just continued playing them. I’m used to the alt-tab method of boxing, and since EQ2 has a spell queue system, it’s pretty simple. I spent a little time deciding what I wanted my group to be and settled on my coercer/carpenter, fury/sage, berzerker/woodworker for the main group – along with two mercenary. That leaves me with room to invite others to play, or to use the mercenary depending on whether or not I can find a group. Next came leveling. The berzerker and the fury are already 120, but the coercer is(was) sitting at level 100 from when I played last and was leveling in Skyshrine. I’m not sure where to level these days, most people say that questing through PoM is the way to go, and then you can get from 110-120 in about three hours of pre-blood of luclin questing. I’m not quite at that point yet, but I did take the coercer to the Plane of Magic to quest, and she’s sitting at level 105.

Next was to work on their crafting. I’ve been trying to get them all to at least 100 crafter, and then working on the tradeskill quests to raise them further. Right now the sage just hit level 51, and the woodworker and carpenter were already at 100 from last time I played. I have them training their mounts, training their mercenary, training familiars, participating in Overseer – and that’s pretty much where I’m at so far. I’ve been doing two solo dungeons in RoS (current content) but I haven’t continued the timeline yet because I want that coercer to be able to quest as well, and for now she’s too small.

When the summer event starts next week (the 10th is the reported date) I’ll have three more 120 boosts (one per account) and I plan on using them to boost up some alts, not only for the 20% bonus they provide for having max level characters, but also to give me some options if I don’t feel like using the static group. I’ve also been participating in the Festivals that are ongoing, the Tinkerers Fest ends tonight at 1am and the Kelethin city festival is going on right now. With all of the writs I’ve been doing I have a lot of city tokens to be able to spend. Speaking of which, the guild is inching its way towards 95 in which case I MIGHT actually upgrade the guild hall to a T4 hall instead of a T3 one (I can’t actually remember if it’s 95 for this or 100). I know it’s just me actively playing right now, but my guild is compromised of a few real life friends who haven’t played since 2016 and I find the status and plat requirements fairly simple these days.

In any case, that’s where I’m at and what I’m up to! As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.