Weekend updateFollow

Congrats!....though I missed it.

Not too much EQ as I'm prepping for incoming in-laws, arriving today and staying for a week and a half. YIKES.

I did get on for a quick DoN raid sat. night. It was pretty uneventful. But a couple short soloing stints in the Steppes got me level 72 and, finally, the Runed Diamond aug from the Ancient Tomes quest.

My EQ is on hold for 10 days. I'm getting jittery already.

Fri-Sat: No EQ, went outside the super market with my BBSQ on Saturday and Friday and spent the day singing.

Sun: Got the beast to 29 (He's coming along quickly for a new server, no cash char!) And upgraded a few equipment slots.

Dinged 75 on my shaman.

Congrats!

Friday: Joined a guild on Stromm with my Warrior, owned the **** out of Neth Lair and went from lvl 19 to lvl 24.

Saturday: had to work so I stayed on the other side of town.

Sunday: Had to work but got home with enough timre to play for a couple hours before my subscription expired. Got to lvl 26, went and checked out Dalnir and decided that I really didn't like it.

So what guild did ya join?

My step son and I just finished Dalnir and thought it was ok. We just moved on tot CC.

Legends & Legacies



Of course I'll be back, I just didn't have any money to put on my reloadable "credit card" at the time. I'll be back by next Monday at the latest.

IIRC the thread was started by Bbot. If on the rare occasion he doesent start a new one on a Monday morning someone else usually will.

I allways looked at at as a nice community chat thread about our different going ons.

This is the earliest weekend update I found with a search. They've been around awhile. Usually one person picks up on them and will be the weekend updater for a bit, but they certainly belong to no one.

I like reading them too. It's one of my 'back-to-work' Monday morning pick-me-ups.

Yes, Stromm has had 2 random crashes this past week. Oct 02 and 03, both after I had done much casting to get my baby Ranger's unused ABJ, DIV and CONJ skills up. Had to rinse and repeat both times /cry.

Since coming back about 2.5 months ago and finding that my mains on 7th Hammer server were no longer fun as their weapons and armour were good, but nowhere near the standards required by the latest expansions, I revived an old char on Stromm and created a basket full of new ones, now all in their mid-twenties. I spent most of the weekend upping skills and trying to upgrade armour on what I have found to be one very pricey server. I cannot believe the prices charged on this server. My only saving grace may be the fact that I managed to loot the Hatred card and a Legends booster pack. time will tell whether these will sell for enough to gear up whichever char I may choose to become the main if I remain in EQ. At the moment, I'm using the 56 BST to help get some drops for the others, but as I already have a hi level BST on 7th, I doubt I'll push this one much further than 56.

I am as yet unguilded on Stromm, and my current game card expires on the 11th. I have also been notified that I may be deploying to Afghanistan later in the year, so there is much up in the air at the moment. Resubscribing is on the edge of my plate at the moment.

Well. Better late then never I suppose.

My weekend (and a couple sessions this week) have been consumed with my ongoing quest to collect my level 69 and 70 spells. I ran into a nice chanter who makes spells for living (ok, maybe not a living, but he does it). Given the ridiculous rarity of the no-drop runes for those spells (very rare in WoS, and just try getting a group in MPG or RSS these days. They're both "bring your own group" zones now), I figured I'd give him a try (cause I made a good sized bundle selling LoN drops).


Turns out that level 70 spells are easy and relatively cheap. However, the level 69s are much more difficult. There's a rare component that usually sells for a fair amount (he said often 15k or higher), and the combine is very difficult (bout 50/50 on success with maxed everything). Uggh. See, this wouldn't be a problem except that the one spell I *really* wanted was the paladin level 69 HOT. It doubles the heal over time from the previous version and is seriously needed for me to be able to solo a damn thing in this game. Of course, it's number four out of four on the list of stuff you'll get turning in runes...

After his first attempt failed, I embarked on this quest (see! It is EverQuest afterall!). I scoured the bazaar at all hours of the day and night seeking this rare component. I even brought a group to one of the zones in TSS where it drops (didn't get it of course). I had *one* Greater Rune, but saved it, figuring that way if I found any of the other spells in the bazaar (which they do occasionally appear), I could buy and mem the first three and then get the one I wanted with the rune I had. Over time, I managed to pick up the number 2 and 3 spells (Armor of the Champion and Hand of Direction), but it was a race to see if I'd spot the first spell or the component first.

Well. I finally spotted the component I needed (for 5k! :) ). Snatched it up. Contacted the chanter and he met me to combine it. Success! Yay! So now, I've finally got all those spells and can go back to having fun. I dinged 70 during this time period as well, so I'm all set for awhile (gonna grind some AAs for a bit, specially the next ranks of SU). And with all my spells (ok, I'm still missing some quest ones, but I'll worry about that later), I'm feeling good.


Quest Accomplished!

Ill add my congrats as well gbaji. Always like to see paladins do well.
Probably could have done your update sooner if you hadnt been getting all that attention in the asylum.

Hehe.. I looked up the first full Weekend Update (as opposed to a link to the uBB) and apparently I was still in Halls of Testing way back when I played on Saryrn.

Wow, that takes me back. I remember tanking that wyvern on my bard, too