Weekend Update, Dec. 19, 2011Follow

I'll start this off early and append to it if I do anything else "noteworthy" tonight.

Fri: Had great fun with my Pally's duoing partner...in "another game." (Not sure what the rules are here on naming competition.) A game I never thought I would play, never wanted to play, but agreed to at least try. I had gone into the game on my own earlier in the week and gained a few levels, but having my friend come in to show me "the ropes" and better ways to travel than by foot *grins* was an IMMENSE help in addition to tons of fun! I've heard people speak of this game in comparison to EQ but now seeing it for myself, it's not really an "apples to apples" type comparison.

RL - Landlord came to switch my dryer cord from a 3-prong plug to a 4-prong plug to fit the 4-prong dryer plug at this apartment. I read up a bit on how that should be done prior (and apparently in the US the standard was changed in 1996 for dryers to go from the 3 to 4-prong plug ins as an added safety measure) and saw a lot of warnings about making sure the ground wires were placed correctly since, if they were not, one could be electrocuted while using the dryer!!! Landlord assured me he had done this many times, although, according to him, most people rent the already in place washer/dryer set for the apartment. My set is relatively new and of better quality than the ones here, so I had them moved with me.

To make a long story a bit shorter, I knew I was in trouble when the landlord started saying to himself, "Hmmm, I wonder where this wire goes." Ack!!! It got to the point I was reading instructions to him from my PC until he finally said, "I'll call our electrician." Whew! Didn't know they had an electrician on call, but great. Electrician comes in, rewires the cord in about 5 minutes and is out the door. Later, I thought to look at the instructions in the manual for my particular dryer and wasn't sure what I saw was what the electrician did because it was done so quickly. Contacted my step-father, who was an electronic design engineer and built some little box thingy that went up on one of the first space shots. He came over armed with his voltage meter, checked the wiring, and said it was all perfect with correct voltage coming from each terminal. I felt MUCH better.

Sat: I have been logging into EQ daily for the "12 Days of Holidays" items. They're actually pretty cool items. There is a numbering theme going on a la "The 12 Days of Christmas" song. Today's gift (they are free on the day offered and can be purchased afterwards) was an augment that will fit any weapon and turn it into 5 spinning rings. The demo picture looked like one was wearing spinning brass knuckles.

Besides that, I have found myself logging in with my Druid and Pally, staring at the screen, and logging back out. Although I have things I'd like to do, I am just not motivated for some reason at the moment. Spent most of Saturday back in "the other game" and still enjoying the novelty of it. Late Saturday night I logged into the Fippy server as info from the last patch said the leveling speed had been increased a bit on the progression servers. Purchased the spells for my level 3 Druid, then spent about an hour working the Leafrunner Armor quests and making it about halfway to level 4.

RL - Now having a means to dry my clothes safely, I prepared to do some laundry. Turned on the washer and...nothing happened. Arrggghh! Now what? Then I noticed the water outlets from the wall had spigots on them so I turned the hot water one and...water spurted upwards from the back of the washer instead of going into the machine. I quickly turned it off. From what I could tell, I think the hose that attaches to the dryer was not tightened all the way by the movers. The cold water spigot worked fine. I'll work on addressing this issue tomorrow.

Sun (thus far): I attend a church in SecondLife. (Since it's not a game, but a virtual world, it's not direct competition to SoE.) Today was the Christmas Lessons and Carols service and I had been asked to read (via voice) one of the lessons. Thus I spent a good part of today in SL, chatting with a friend I hadn't seen in awhile due to being in EQ lately, then selecting suitable holiday attire for the occasion. I think I came up with a nice look.



RL - I had a particular scene from an old movie musical in my mind, so looked it up on YouTube, which led to an hour and a half trip down memory lane watching some of my favorite movie scenes. I LOVE YouTube!

To be continued...maybe.



Edited, Dec 19th 2011 9:50am by Azalysa

Edited, Dec 19th 2011 9:53am by Azalysa

Nothing in-game still, but planning on renewing in the next week or two (hopefully before Frostfall is over, since there are many toons that want the ice goblin illusion ... no wobbling while fighting, and pretty small; one of the few illusions I really like).

snailish, in general, it's how you described, but they do vary it from level range to level range for raid gear, if I remember correctly. It's been a while since I looked at raid gear, and none really from UF and beyond. The defiant lines definitely made it alot easier while leveling up to 80 to know what focus will be where.

Also, have you found the Blackfeather Roost hotzone aug yet? It's the only one missing in the wiki page atm.

Azalysa, nice story on the landlord and electrician. Also, you make Second Life sound interesting (better than the few ads I've seen). I may have to check it out sometime.

Zam-wise, I've been working on the AAs over the weekend. I got all of the ones the macro missed put up. I'm almost done adding the spell effect ID info to the spreadsheet for the ones that were missing, other than a few I still couldn't find or narrow down. Some effects are not the same name as the AA, and some have many IDs with the same name, but only one or two are the actual AA ranks, and finally, but I usually figure these out, some are spelled differently or typo'd. I had also done a little more of the catergorizing, but probably won't do much there until I finish with the effect IDs and get that information posted.

Real life was rather strange the past week, but at least it seems to be going well, and looking very hopeful for the future, despite the situation.

In-game or out, have fun everyone!

Yther Ore.

Edited, Dec 19th 2011 8:20am by Yther

Edited, Dec 19th 2011 8:58am by Yther

Saturday, I was killing hoppers in the Dawnshroud caves when I got an invite for Velks. So I headed there for a while, and dinged 46 on my shaman. Yay. New pet at 46, so that was awesome. Took the new pet (I'll call him Murray) and we headed down to Rathe for some HG action. In a short time, I built up a nice 1000+pp hoard. That was nice. Replaces the 1300 or so I spent gearing up my warrior.

Sunday, took said warrior and unsaid cleric to Netherbian Lair and killed for an hour or so there. That was fun. Both dinged a level. Logged off the War and took the cleric around to pick up some new spells (new heal and new HoT spell.) Was in a guild group in Karnor's for one of the guild members, but he was having connection issues, so that really never got off the ground.

That's about it for me. Next weekend will be little play time, since it's Christmas Eve and Day. But hopefully, I'll get some time in during the week.

Oh, almost forgot. I did pick up a station cash card for each account at Walmart. $15 for a 1500 card with a 500 exclusive to WalMart bonus and that all tripled to 6000. Well worth it. Didn't spend any yet though.

Awww...thank you for your nice comment re: The Landlord, The Electrician, and The Step-Father. Hmmm...could be another sequel to the Narnia Chronicles. :)

SecondLife is amazing! It is a virtual world where literally any activity you can imagine most likely exists there as well as any type of hobby or interest. Everything from dancing at any type of venue one prefers (jazz, 1940's themed clubs; 1920's speakeasies; Medieval Castles; Victorian dances complete with filling out dance cards) to literary clubs, ballet, any sport you can imagine (I've gone downhill skiing, surfing, tubing, swimming, boating - some people own rather impressive yachts and then belong to yacht clubs) - the list is endless. Although not a game, there are games *within* SL - all manner of role play themes from Star Trek/Star Wars/Apocalyptic/Medieval, etc., etc. games complete with health meters much like our health bars in EQ. There is also a role play sim called Everwind. Hmmmm...sounds familiar. Very much patterned after LoTR...orrr EQ. One can be any kind of avatar they choose. I prefer to be a virtual representation of my RL, but I also have a dragon avatar (there is an entire dragon culture on SL), a 6" teeny anthropomorphic cat, a normal sized anthro cat (called "Furries" - another culture in SL), Neko, and a variety of oddball type avatars. I have an elven alt that I keep wanting to take to Everwind, but I also build and sell my products for lindens (the SL monetary coin) - that can be converted to RL USD!!! (Some people make decent part-time job money there.)

I could go on and on, but there is soooo much to SL. If you ever want to check it out and would like a "tour guide," let me know.

I would really like to get this illusion as well. Checked out the database for the quest and it says it needs a GROUP to complete...and looks like an 80+ group at that. Anyone completed this yet and have any suggestions/info, etc?

Thank you in advance :)

Shrouding allows you to get it at any level, with a group of 70s+, especially if you have a good Enc in the group, which will greatly reduce the number of others needed (basically a tank and healer, although I've seen some Enc be able to solo it as well).

I can't remember how it's done exactly, and since some quests need to be done one way or another, there are some differences in the shrouding is used to bypass a task's level span limit.

Yther Ore.

Anyone else thinking of Linus?


/hugs

Me, too!

I'm guessing Plane of Disease, since the PoTranq portal to get there looks like a sewage spigot.

This sounds like a cool game. Where can I download it?

I was wondering if they had any placeholders. Depending on where I read, I have seen that the asps used to spawn in S. Ro, N. Ro, and the Commonlands, but now only in S. Ro; that they are on a 20-minute timer at the Derv 2 camp in S. Ro (but I've spent 2 hours at a time there and only saw one...so much for that theory), etc. I think I will do the massive snake/bug kill.

I did go over and whack some SGs to break up the monotony. Not bad plat, even for a level 80.

Thanks for the info, Jonwin.