Tag: EQ2

On November 2nd (which is coming up faster than I had expected) I’ll be participating in Extra-Life, raising money for local children’s hospitals. My hospital of choice is CHEO here in Ottawa, it’s the Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario. While I don’t personally have children of my own, many of my friends and their kids use these hospitals on a daily basis, and I wanted to be able to help.

I’m taking donations on my fundraising page, and I’ll also be livestreaming the 24 hours of gameplay on my twitch channel for the duration of the event. I won’t be playing EQ2 for the full 24 hours, but I will be playing it for the majority of the time. I’ll be starting my livestreaming at 4am EDT on November 2nd until 4am EST on November 3rd. That’s right, there’s an extra hour in there due to daylight savings – which gives me an hour ‘break’ to spread out through the day for stretching and bathroom breaks and what have you.

A huge thank you to everyone who has sponsored me this far, and who has provided support. I’ve really appreciated it. November is a pretty busy month, I’ll also be participating in NaNoWriMo and writing a 50,000 word story, in December I’ll be publishing my second book, and also running the 2013 Gamers Secret Santa (look for details regarding that to follow).

Other games I’ll be streaming during the fundraising include Sims 3, Civilization V, Terraria, Hearthstone, and some smaller titles from my steam library. I’ll also be tweeting about my gameplay on my twitter account, so there are plenty of ways to get a hold of me and show your support or suggest a game for me to play!

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

It’s no surprise that I love running through older content, no matter what character I use. There’s just something about it that I find refreshing. Perhaps it’s the fact that the zones are typically less crowded (the exception lately being the areas that the new 85 heroics start at) or the neat stories I come across, or the memories of completing the zones back when they were much more difficult.

My second account has been around for years now, but until recently I never bothered to level anything up on it. I had a 77 fury who had patiently been waiting for me to start boxing again, and since rediscovering the account, start again I have. The account now has a 95 fury, 95 beastlord, 87 paladin (hopefully my next 95) and a level 30 coercer (that I may delete and start with a different mage, I’m not sure yet). This weekend I worked on the beastlord, since she was level 91 and still needed alternate advancement.

Ibeogur and myself ran through all of the old Sentinel’s Fate zones, completing the quests for each one. I completed the puzzles to the Vigilant zones which were a LOT of fun, and zones that I had probably not explored much because they used to be really hard to complete. This time I had no issues. I was also rewarded for my time with a lot of house items, something that’s never a bad thing. The beastlord doesn’t have a very fancy house yet, but when she does, it will be decorated up properly. It was a great relaxing way to spend a weekend, and I earned a lot of achievements for it too. The best part is that the guild dinged 68, which means we’re only TWO levels away from being able to purchase a T3 guild hall – that has been one of my dreams for a very long time now. When the guild only has three active players, this is a big deal.

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

I’ve been exploring around Cobalt Scar, which is (at the moment) one of my least favorite zones. Well, portions of it in any case. The zone is quite difficult, especially if you’re trying to solo or “molo” (soloing with a mercenary) named. They’re not your typical pushovers. The zone itself is also difficult at least in the zombie othmir portions which are the sections that I simply do not enjoy. They’re annoying to navigate through and having zombie othmir from 100 feet away suddenly start shuffle towards you is just not fun.

Still, the quest rewards are pretty nice, and you’ll want to play through the story line none the less. I haven’t been able to complete the Siren’s Grotto instances as a proper group yet (I’ve done the advanced solo versions numerous times) because it’s just too hard. Maybe once ToV releases and it is old content I’ll have a better chance of staying alive during the instance.

Have you explored Cobalt Scar yet? What are your thoughts about the zombie invasion? How does it compare to the old Cobalt Scar from EverQuest? Let me know in comments!

(Side note, the screenshot has nothing to do with Kael, it’s Kingdom of Sky, one of my other favorite expansions). In a rare moment last night, everyone in guild was logged in (almost, we were missing one). Armed with our newly created level 85s we headed to Kael to get a little experience before one (or all) of us would have to log for the night. It wasn’t exactly an evening of astounding gameplay, but it was quiet, fun, and productive. Ibeogur has been leveling up a wizard and managed to level from 85 to 88 in our two hours of playing together. Ultann has a new templar who also dinged 88, and Zerrek (a new player all together) inched his way to 89 with his defiler. I decided to play my beastlord, a character I created on my second account, and she is now resting comfortably mid-way into level 91.

I’ve been having fun playing the beastlord, although it does take some time to get used to. The level 85 heroic characters start with a grandmaster bear pet, I’ve been leveling up a wolf. There’s a lot to keep track of with special hotbars all over the place just for this class, but I think I’ve managed to get the hang of it now. I’m looking forward to having a second 95 on my second account, after that I’ll have to decide who to level next, either the paladin or the coercer I created on the account. I’m going to (try) to limit the account to four characters in case I should ever drop from gold, we’ll see how that goes.

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