Weekend Update June 20th, 2011 - Post Pappa's Day EditionFollow

Friday night played the 87 druid, did the gem collecting task in Pellucid Grotto for some more AA's then moved on to Erudin Burning for the rest of the evening.
Saturday morning was the usual group with a buddy on night shift and a pair of Australians, got part of the progression tasks done in Al'kabor's Nightmare while wiping to the Queen Klaknak (logged in the 90 ranger to help take that one down, helluva nasty dot).
Hit the store soon after that to beat the Saturday rush then played the 84 sk a while in Oceangreen Village.
Had a nice long nap then did Murdunk's Final Stand mission in Korascian Warrens with the ranger for some friends, 2 monks, 2 rangers, 2 wizards and a mage... geez we ran out of mobs and were running around trying to pull more between reinforcements spawns, go go wizard tank!
After supper logged the druid again and joined friends in Kaesora Library for an xp romp then back to the ranger for Saturday night raid.
Raid started with Fippy in Brell's Rest for a win, then on to the Cooling Chambers for the Beast Below raid which kicked our butts 3 times in a row before we called it a night.
Sunday morning again on the druid with the "late night" group in Al'kabor's Nightmare then an afternoon session in the Feerrott camping nameds for armor drops then a long break to make a roast beef dinner for Father's Day.
After supper was more Feerrott camping and watching the /ooc fights over named spawns, was very entertaining.

I understand that feeling. Sometimes a break helps, sometimes an alt helps... well at least for me.

Friday: logged in my level 1 tlp wizard, did a few kills in gfay. Man... no mana pool is lame (lol). Logged a FV alt on because I heard there was LoN "makeups" to /claim. I had 24 packs of freebie cards waiting... got a divine aura potion pack and the undead-elephanty looking illusion. Not sure I will ever claim either onto a character but free is nice.

I'm not sure what to claim with the "choice" LoN makeup with the masks and mounts. Most of those items have no discussion on Alla, and the Dragorn war mask sounds broken/nerfed or something based on the official boards threads on it. Stopped trying to figure it all out when a RL friend called and we went out.

Saturday: no eq.

Sunday: played long enough in the afternoon to get the TLP wiz to level 2.

Monday: heard Kunark opened on Vulak and most of the raid kills have already gone down in the first hour. --if Velious isn't stalled a bit this could choke off my interest even more (it's been lukewarm of late) as I want to do Kunark content as upgrades and grouping (I've already done most of it solo with no one else in the zones).

That's not bad actually. I could probably dabble happily in Kunark a bit longer than that, but it's not rushing me too much either.

Thanks for projecting it out.

Rolled my Iksar today (had a named saved since Vulak launch). Decided to go warrior (since max/min types will avoid that combo for several xpacs) and I have never really played much melee in EQ.

I have been surprised to find solo levelling through levels 1-2 much faster than my elf wizard in gfay --its the downtime, even after I gave my wiz a couple of drops from my necro (mostly +mana) he was still slow.

The warrior is wearing all stuff from cabilis vendors and is breezing through even con kills. No point killing yellow/red cons and dark blues give 1% vs. 2%, at least in FoB there is a steady supply of mobs. There was 18-22 in zone, most of them lowbie Iksars on the edge of EST primetime.

Anyone thinking of giving TLP a try this is a great entry point, the next one being Luclin (with Vah Shir & beastlord rerolls) which will be late fall at the earliest I would think.