Dinged AA 72, MGB, and the Elder title on Friday night. Didn't MGB upon returning from BoT since there were only 30 people in PoK at the time.
Had to work on Saturday, and played D&D that night. Don't remember what I did in EQ after that, but it didn't involve an MGB, since I wanted the first time to be "special".
On Sunday my family guild raided Overlord Ngrub in Torgiran Mines. This guy is a PITA, the first thing he does is proc a mana drain and then a feeblemind. He also translocates pretty much anyone he hits. I got my first MGB usage right then, doing Paragon of Spirit so that we could recover some mana. We actually got him down to 35% before wiping/retreating...only 2 tanks in the raid (including me), which contributed to it I am sure. We've been way too caster-heavy recently, for some reason. In any case, CR went smoothly, our highest rogue recently got SoS which the Overlord can't see through, which was nice. Seems like we need some classes that can Remove Curse with an AA ability to remove the Feeblemind to have a chance on this guy.
After that I MGBed Spiritual Dominion (kitty crack) in PoK and had a good turnout. It was awesome...really, so much fun! I wish I hadn't taken so long to get it, hehe. I logged off to take a rest, came back on in a few hours and found out that AA ability timers continue to count down while you're logged out! That's very nice, I really had no idea. A cleric announced an MGB of Virtue so I added my own to that one. I think I'll be MGBing as much as I can...see if I can get other people to MGB at the same time, hehe.
Duoed in Grieg's End with a wizard friend after that. I decided after saving up 9 AAs for MGB I'd spend some time getting some eye candy AAs, so I got Combat Fury 1, so I can crit now, and I'll get the first levels of the pet flurry and pet crit AAs after that. The dps increases are actually relatively minimal, but it's fun to see, so I think they're worth it. Anything that keeps me amused...
Did a LDoN with my guild after that, kind of a letdown because the average level was under 63 so very little experience and only 34 points instead of 51. But I got an earring which was actually an upgrade, lost some resists but got much better HP, AC, and stats. Worked out well, but nothing compared to the thrill of a 65 high risk one, hehe.
The chanter was 13% away from level 60 after that, so he and his druid wife and I went to the Crypt of Decay to see if we could get some good experience. I died upon accidentally pulling the Greater Corrupted Pusling, and then he died on a 2-pull where root broke (his mez wasn't powerful enough yet to get these guys). We both got rezzed, but although I can tank the gargoyles in BoT, they can be slowed...not these Greater punks. So we moved to the tunnels in PoJ, where the experience wasn't nearly as fast but everything can be slowed and mezzed, and the druid barely needed to heal me. (Still, after I finish with my eye candy AA's I'll be going all into defensive. Well, I might get Suspend Minion too, I've really been wanting it several times recently.) Anyway! Chanter dings 60, scribes KEI and casts it on us, and we get the hell out of there, because it's damn late and I'm at work right now (although more or less a half day).
Kind of an aside--I've been saving up plat to buy a Rotting Eye Mask, to upgrade my Mask of Flourishing Fungus. I finally got enough last night (I keep buying other things, or lending people money), and then I realized that I'd be spending 20k on an item that really isn't
that much of an upgrade! I'd be better served getting a LDoN face item, it seems, although I have 3.5k points worth of items I want to buy and only 800 points saved up, so it's going to be a long time before I get to that. Still...it made me realize that I'm really reaching the point of diminishing returns on my gear. I was going to wait on upgrading some of my really crappy stuff until I got the LDoN items, but then I changed those plans to go the weapon path instead. I'll upgrade my slots that don't have any +hp on them, but that's about the farthest I'll go. I might take some plat down to Sol A and buy some of the 100% WR bags.
Ack, this is probably more of a journal entry than a Weekend Update. Sorry about that...I get verbose when the boss isn't around and I'm supposed to be working.
Game on,
The Oneiromancer
