Tag: EQ2

Last night was one of the first nights in a while that I managed to play my ranger Willamina again. She’s been sitting at 80 for a short while now, I haven’t made any progress at all on her epic because I’ve been busy playing over on Antiona Bayle. When the opportunity came up to head to a quick Veksar: The Sunken Theater instance run, I decided why not. I had not been there before, and the achievement experience was pretty good for me. Not to mention I managed to snag myself another shard or two, and complete a few quests within the zone.

We also had some pretty good luck with drops, the famous ghost dragon dropped a fabled neck piece that went to the brigand (there was no range crit on it, or I would have rolled) and we also got the legendary healer charm to drop, which I have been trying to get to drop for my mystic with little to no luck. All in all, a good run.

Torrent Knights was sitting at 85% through level 48, so I decided to head over there and try to do a few writs before bed, I managed to inch us over to 90% before my eyes threatened to close, and I imagine we’ll get it some time today, as well as begin the trek to 50. Not bad for such a small guild.

It’s Friday! I hope everyone has an amazing day, and happy gaming no matter where you find yourself. I’ll see you in Norrath!

I finished off the haunted mansion in Loping Plains twice – which allowed me to finally pick up the vampire Lore and Legend book that’s behind the painting at the top of the stairs. The best part of doing these quests is that one of the rewards is a 10 charge recipe for vampiric mirrors, which I use constantly in my houses and the Norrathian Museum I still have in the works. I also completed the haunted house in North Qeynos, which appears to be a one-time only type of quest this year. I was pretty sure in previous years this was repeatable, maybe I’m mistaken.

The most interesting part of yesterday is that Torrent Knights has found itself another guild member. While I never intended to actually lead a proper guild, I am happy that we’re getting a few new members. It always comes with a word of warning, as I am not exactly the same in game as I am on this web site and I always make sure everyone is aware of my nomadic gaming life style, and anything that comes with that. So far it seems to be working out fairly well. I don’t run the guild as a typical guild, it’s exceptionally casual and laid back. Those who don’t feel like they fit in are welcome to stay until they find themselves another home; thankfully it’s never come to that.

The remainder of my time in game was spent working on my claymore quest chain which is still a significant upgrade to my mystic due to the amount that it increases wards by. I’m looking forward to adventuring through Barren Sky today and trying to push the quest further. So far I am on quest 13, I believe there are 29 or so to the series. At least I managed to get the Sanctum of the Scaleborn portion complete, that was always the most difficult part when I was working on it before.

I hope everyone has a fantastic Thursday no matter where you find yourself. Happy gaming!

Hanging out at the waterfalls in Nektulos Forest. I decided that I had the quest ‘glowing black stone’ in my quest journal for far too long and it was time to do something about it. The quest is not complicated, but it does make you return to the Oracle Tower in Antonica a handful of times which can get annoying. Thankfully my recall to guild hall button is on a short recast timer, so gating back home and taking the portal to Antonica is never difficult.

Torrent Knights is inching through level 48, with the new guild members throwing themselves into their own Heritage Quest runs. We’ve already got three amenity picked out, a training dummy, portal to member housing, and a wizard spire. When I can afford it I’d also love to move us over to a T2 guild hall, but we’ll see how that goes.

Further proof that you do NOT need to be uber in order to get things done in game. On a whim Wpus and Ultann and I decided we would attempt Kurns Tower (the group version of course, not the raid version) with just the three of us. Ultann (Shadowknight – though he also boxed his inquisitor), Wpus (Conjuror) and myself (Mystic) managed to clear the ENTIRE zone with just the three of us. I was surprised, and very pleased. Ultann got himself an amazing ring upgrade, although I was really hoping that the healer charm would have dropped. My mystic needs new charms badly. The EA (in Jarsath Waste) charm also refuses to drop for me, figures.

I still need to finish off doing the Nights of the Dead events, the haunted houses as well as the maze another time. I finished off my 25 quests in Sinking Sands last night before bed, and earned myself another achievement. I’m also closing in on 195aa which is the furthest any of my characters have gone to date. One of these days I’ll actually hit 200 on at least one character.

Other then that, it was just a pleasant night of gaming! I hope everyone else is enjoying their Wednesday, and I will see you in Norrath!

Most people who know me realize that I play on two servers in EQ2. Oasis, and Antonia Bayle. I try to split my time between them but I pretty much just play where I want when the mood strikes. As if it wasn’t bad enough that I play on two EQ2 servers, I also play a lot of games. This can create issues and hurt feelings when it comes to guilds that I join, since there’s no real guarantee that I’m going to be there playing or that I won’t just leave to another game for a few months, or another server. It also creates some hardships between friendships (online ones in any case) for those who want to play with me, constantly feeling as though they have to follow me from game to game which is not something everyone can do. What I’ve learned over the years to do to combat this is to just make my own guilds, if friends want to play and join that’s great, if they don’t then that’s alright too. Hence I have my own guild on Oasis, and one on Antonia Bayle. I belong to Safe Haven in Vanguard but they are an ultra casual guild who are very used to my coming and going as it’s been years like that. In most other games I stay without a guild, though I did join the Nostalgia branch of Free Realms and I’m in Casualties of War in the Lord of the Rings Online. It has taken a lot of time and effort to figure out what sort of guilds will work for me and my nomadic play style, but I’m happy with my choices.

On that note – Torrent Knights (the guild on Antonia Bayle) managed to pick up two new guild members yesterday. We tend to be an eclectic miss matched bunch, a rag tag team from all walks of life – outcasts even at times, which is probably why we all get along so well. There is myself, Tipa, Calreth (via alts only these days), Kasul, Wpus, and Ultann plus the two new members from yesterday bringing our total membership to 7. I couldn’t be happier.

We also managed to ding level 48, which means we are two levels from new amenity as well as the ability to purchase a T2 guild hall which is something I’ve dreamed about for quite some time. Not bad for such a little guild. Especially since the guild only had two members until level 30 and then grew from there.

Yesterday was an amazing day of game play, for all members of TK. Wpus, Ultann and myself decided to work on the Shattered Lands achievements – specifically the raid achievements. We headed to each and every raid zone using chronomagic to lower our levels to 60. The three of us managed to defeat every one, though we at times did have some issues. We gathered a lot of achievements and a good chunk of fabled loot that we can sell or pass down to alts depending on our mood. Afterward we noticed that there was a contested epic x2 up in Zek, so we grabbed the two new members and off the five of us went to take them down. It was a long fight, we were defeating it at the appropriate level after all, but in the end we were victorious once again.

Once that was done I worked on my baby shadowknight a bit, who hit level 20 with a handful of aa. She’s a lot of fun, a relaxing character to go along with the others that I have. Hopefully I can continue to quest with her and rack up the aa. When she hit 20 I logged over to Stargrace (the illusionist) and helped Ultann out with his baby dirge he’s been boxing. We headed to Nest, Vaults (the one in Barren Sky) and then Halls of Fate for some massive experience and a good time was had by all. In the end it was a very busy day, but I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Days like that just can’t be beat.

I remember back 10 years ago when someone asked me what my ‘game of choice’ was I would have answered EverQuest, easily. I barely ever dabbled in another game, and before that I was playing a MUD called Redemption with a bunch of friends from high school. It was rare I ever had more then one game on my plate. Oh how times have changed, and it’s certainly not just for me that things have changed. These days if you ask someone what MMO they play you’re likely to get a handful of answers. Ask them what MMOs they have played in the past, and the list can get longer the Santa’s naughty and nice list. Right now I’m actively playing EverQuest2, Vanguard, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Aion as ‘main’ games (the ones I spend the most time in, not always for pleasure), and then there are a lot of smaller games that I dabble in for whatever reason. With the incredible selection of games that are available these days, HOW do you choose what to play? How do you make room for more? How do you fit console games in there?

Is scheduling involved? Is it just whatever mood you happen to be in? There are plenty of MMORPGs out there to keep me busy forever, but some times I just want to sit back and play Fable 2 on the XBox, even though lately those times are rare.

I love being able to experience a large number of games simply because it reinforces what I like and don’t like about each and every game. I know exactly what sort of gamer I am and what appeals to me. I also love exploring content that’s always fresh, and learning about someone else’ passion. On the down side it is also a very expensive and time consuming hobby, and you have to draw the line some where. How do you decide what to play?

EQ2 was a LOT of fun this weekend. Wpus and I decided to make little alts and play those instead of the plethora of other characters we already have. We ran around Neriak and managed to level to 15, before making our way to the guild hall in South Freeport. Upon entering I saw a new gift that Calreth left there for us – the guild hall trophy of the headless horseman. I wish the trophy had a little blood or gore along with it, but it stands in our main entrance and balances out the other trophies we have. Thank you Calreth for that gift!

Speaking of which, Torrent Knights on the Antonia Bayle server is slowly making its way to level 50. I’ve been thinking of upgrading to a T2 hall, but I’ll need to do some farming first and earn some status. With new characters on the rise this is easier to do, as we both have a lot of Heritage Quests to complete. We’ll be level locking at 20 to gain achievements and alternate advancement for a few months or how ever long our attention stays. I’m looking forward to it. At level 20 there’s a lot of content that can be explored and completed, and it puts us in range for a few dungeons and instances as well. I had adept3 combat arts created last night which should help make things easier.

I hope everyone else had a fantastic weekend, no matter where you found yourself. Happy gaming!