Weekend Update - January 9, 2012Follow

The Coldain Prayer Shawl Quest and trade skills were the order of the day - or weekend. Before I returned to EQ I had completed Shawl #6 so work began on Shawl #7. This one had me working on pottery, brewing, and fletching trade skills. All three are now in the 172-180 range. Fletching was by far the easiest since I could sit in one location and purchase all supplies from a vendor. The other two included some farming during which I visited Crystal Caverns, North Ro, Siren's Grotto, the Western Wastes, and Eastern Wastes. I never spent any time in SG or WW back in the day; SG was especially fun.

By Sunday I was ready for the last trade skill for this Shawl - jewel craft. From doing some reading it appears to be a potentially expensive skill up. (Level 172 needed for the Shawl combine.) I've never quite figured out how some people make so much plat in EQ; I'm assuming some is by selling loot from higher level zones. I set up my trader overnight on Friday and Saturday and made approximately 2,000 pp. Not a lot, but something.

Instead of beginning jewel craft yesterday I decided to organize my bank. It was totally full, much of it with trade skill supplies. I patiently looked up each item I had and got my bank well-organized. I was amazed how much stuff I had that I no longer needed. I was very pleased to free up some much-needed space in my bank.

(Edit: While researching info re: Shawl #7 I noticed there is now a Prayer Shawl Quest 2.0. Nothing in EQ ever quite "ends" - lol.)

My monthly Station Pass expired last night. I may give EQ a bit of a break...or not...lol. At the moment I am downloading WoW, having decided to purchase it after about a month or so of playing the trial.

My weekend pictorial - I was farming zombie skins in North Ro and running up to each mob and giving it a couple of whacks when I realized this was not very time effective, so I did a low-level version of what I think SK's now call "swarming" and what druids have always called "quad-kiting" (although now more than just 4 mobs). It's such fun to gather up a bunch of mobs that don't harm me then plow them down with an AoE.

This screen shot reminds me a bit of one from "Has Anyone Here Seen My Corpse?":



This group of undead shortly became dead...again:







Edited, Jan 9th 2012 7:43am by Azalysa

Didn't do too much in game this weekend. Need to find a new place to set up camp, since the rockhopper/tribal caves in Dawnshroud is popular because of those dang shards.

Had the pleasure of meeting Yther in game though. Highlight of my weekend. 8-D

I built up Servant of Ro some. I xp about 45% into level 65. Sunday I had 2 minor muramite drop in Noble's Causeway. I made about 4k pp in trader mode, first time trading in a long time.

Have a great week guys!

There are entirely too many people there deathly concerned with any little achievement of theirs being trivialized by someone else having a more convenient time with anything in the game. I post there once in a blue moon but honestly have a hard time bringing myself to make a serious, well reasoned post.

Most threads devolve into mindless argument between people too biased against other posters, classes, or player types to have an honest discussion with each other, such a waste. In the end it just leaves more muck for a developer to dig through to try and address any issues and concerns, and hinders the whole process. Needless to say, I understand your frustration.

Edited, Jan 10th 2012 8:49pm by Saeel

Too true.


I didn't even register for the O-boards until TLP, because I saw how decisions on TLP were being swayed by forum discussions.

Most of the players of this game are more casual. True they aren't getting near as far in the content, but they get to it eventually. Casuals need the raiders pushing on ahead of them in the sense that you want progress to aim somewhere. As much as I would love and xpac solely focussed on the level 1-75 game, I don't see that happening.

So I try and be a reasonable voice of "I don't do hardcore raiding, but I often play more than the typical silent on forums casual"

I definately prefer talking with people on these boards. :)

LoY remains one of the greatest ideas, poorest implemenations in EQ. I remember levelling up when that was newest content... the zones weren't busy outside of LoY spell questers because they were way too hard for most to level in, and lucrative (for the era) for higher levels to farm. So you'd have level 65's killing the Dulak boats...

I agree on TSS being top 3. Kunark and Velious are there for me too. Others might have been in the past, but they haven't aged as well to my not wanting to be tied to the computer (i.e., Ldon, PoP).