A Little Deluge

I’ve been using a squall to haul planetary interaction components around high sec, but I wanted something with a little more protection because lately the gate camps have been hot and heavy – so I picked up a Deluge. The biggest difference (besides straight up hitpoints) is that I can warp while cloaked. With the Squall I was using the MWD + Cloak trick each jump, which is fine, but is also quite hands on. The Deluge does haul less than the squall which I also find a bit annoying, but I can deal with that. The high sec static out of my wormhole today happened to be only 5 jumps from my home system, so I decided to take an impromptu trip and brought everything out. Normally I do this just once a week on a specific day, but it’s always nice to take advantage of a close connection.

The Legion expansion released this week, and while I haven’t looked into it that much, I did notice that the AIR Career rewards have been bumped up so that there is an Alpha reward channel and an Omega reward channel. If you had already completed the AIR Career path, you got to retroactively claim all of the goodies, which is pretty nice. My main character is currently sitting on almost 2 million training points because I’m just not sure what I want to spend them on. I do have a skill queue going but nothing in it is essential, so I continue to hold onto those points in case there’s something that comes along that I NEED to get immediately.

I’m not sure what I want to work towards / do in game these days. My signal cartel character can finally fly a Tengu, so I’ve been getting situated with that. I’m currently training all of the subskills and whatever else goes along with that particular ship so I can do it well. My ‘main’ has been able to fly a Tengu for quite a number of years, and it still continues to be one of my favourite ships because it can ‘do it all’ as far as things I enjoy doing in game. Anyway, hopefully I decided what I want to do, and then I can write about it here, we’ll see.

As always, fly your way!

Finding Motivation

I think this has been the longest I’ve ever been away from World of Warcraft, and it’s not really because of the game, but it is because of my lack of community within the game. I used to have some very good friends playing, and now none of them play. I have nothing holding me to the game, I’ve got as much gold as I could ever possibly want, and I’m not interested in the gear grind.

The things that keep me playing EVE Online, or Wurm Online, is the players. I don’t necessarily need to DO things in game with others, but I do like the social aspect of it. I’m also awkward, and don’t know how to act around people very well. Having generic goals in these games is simply not enough for me. HOW to go about finding a guild of like-minded people is another issue. It was just so much easier when I had a static bunch to play with, and I miss that dearly.

This rambling post is for nothing other than solidifying my desire to return to World of Warcraft, and the first step to me doing that was to jump right back into the goblin side of things and get my characters selling again. I’m keeping it more simple than in the past, while I do have two separate accounts with auction house characters on each, I’m only posting with one account for the time being. I have no idea how far behind I am, or what I’ve missed. Or where I should be. All of that is a bit overwhelming to think about. I’d like to move my characters to a roleplay server, and find a suitable community before player housing comes out. I used to love attending roleplay events, and I think I’ll have a better chance of finding ‘my people’ that way.

We’ll just have to see. Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Wurm Online – a LOT of Rifts

Wurm Online is one of my absolute favourite games of all time. I’ve been playing it for over 13 years on a fairly steady basis. I’ve never really done the whole skill grinding thing that so many others have done before me, but I do have a total of 5 characters, 4 of those are priests (one for each deity). I’ve been wanting to obtain a bracelet for myself that comes from rifts, this bracelet is charged up with energy so that the next “moi” (moment of inspiration) gives you a guaranteed rare item. Normally if you get an MOI there’s a chance the item you’re working with WON’T be rare. It sucks. It happens to me often.

I’m not even sure about what I want to use this item on yet, because there are so many options. My knarr? My wagon? A tent just to have it sparkle? Unsure. There are also 2 shoulders I want to purchase, dragon shoulder pads, they cost 1,000 rift points each. At the time of writing this, Faralithe, my Libila priest – has 1300 points (give or take). Stargrace is at around 500 points, but they don’t transfer between characters. I used to have a lot more points on Stargrace but I’ve purchased an item here and there.

Anyway. Right now I have Faralithe doing rifts (since they show up on each server I can attend them fairly regularly) and then Stargrace and three other alts are currently parked at a holy site, a mag fissure, on Exodus. This fissure spews archaelogy fragments into your inventory once an hour (so long as you’re premium) and I always try to attend them when I can. I’ve gotten some pretty interesting bits from doing it so far and it’s a lovely way to gear out the alts with good tools.

Anyway. I know I’ve been quiet lately, but I’m still here, still gaming, and occasionally posting. You can find me in Wurm Online as Stargrace, or Faralithe – happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Moving Items Around

A few weeks ago I needed to move both a tengu and a helios out of nullsec, and the helios had about a billion ISK worth of industry BPO and other smaller bits on them. So I found myself a WH, followed the chain, and jumped out at the first high sec system I stumbled into. Unfortunately it was 19 jumps from my high sec home, but that wasn’t a big deal.

The bigger deal was that there are random ‘lawless’ systems that seem to float around, and they turn regular high sec systems into low sec systems, no concord. I was not about to risk a billion ISK on the gate camp I absolutely knew would be there, so I decided to be patient and wait for the lawless system to change back – they take about one week.

Once it was back to a regular system, I jumped to where I had stashed the helios and the tengu, grabbed the helios since it had the more valuable loot, and jumped effortlessly to my home, everything safe and sound. I noticed that there’s a new POS in my high sec home that offers manufacturing for .05% taxes and I plan on taking advantage of that.

A Rift (or two)

Wurm Online still remains to this day one of my ultimate favourite comfort games, and even though I haven’t been writing about it, you can still usually find me in-game (as Stargrace). This week I participated in a few Rift events, which are massive server wide ring events where you defeat waves of mobs, earn points for defeating them, and then use those points at a special shop that gives you some pretty decent items. One thing that I’m saving up for is a bracelet that let’s you automatically succeed on your next rare roll. I’d really like to turn my knarr rare, or my tent, or wagon.

I’ve been working on my priest alts, I have a Vynora/Libila/Fo at 100 faith and a Mag priest at 94. A few subscriptions are lapsing, which is fine as I rarely use all of them. My main deed, Quail Cove, obtained a new building. I call it the archives, and it holds all of the ‘collectable’ stuff I’ve gathered over the years. The inside isn’t set up yet, but it will get there.

There are a few more rifts coming up this week that I want to attend, we’ll see how close to my bracelet goal I can get. You need 2500 for the bracelet. Last rift I earned just over 300 points, so it does take some time to earn.

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