Good morning, AllaK's - 12/11/06Follow

Happy Monday, folks.

Finally downloaded the EoF expansion. After being without my gaming PC (bad power supply) since right before the expansion release, this weekend was all new to me.

Loping Plains instant review: Hey devs, cool it with the mob placement density already. Light can't get through the space in between mobs in that zone ffs.

Decided to pick up tinkering. Seems odd to me that they created a "walk-away" tradeskill like that. Skill-ups come on combine completion whether you pass or fail and the quality of the item created is no different from the second tier up to pristine. Plus there are no events to counter You stock up on items, grab a seat at a work bench, hit combine and walk away to do other things. Glance back every minute or two in order to hit "repeat" and you're golden. I haven't decided if I like the hands-off feeling or if I'm disappointed in the lack of interaction.

Did the first couple Innoruuk quests. I'm not big on "running around" quests, but the stories behind them were fun and I'm looking forward to doing the subsequent ones. I'm not sure I completely get the point of tribute/sacrifice points for those skills. 2 uses? One at a time? Meh. As they are they are far too powerful to allow people to have unlimited use of, but I think I'd prefer having unlimited charges of much weaker abilities than a couple charges of big bombs. I just started with the expansion, but so far I haven't seen any permanent benefits to diety alignment.

Started on the MMShield HQ. Stuck on the silly transmuter combine requirements for it.

I hate hate hate that they combined the brokers. Really, are they even trying to keep up the illusion of enemy cities any more?

Attention cloth robe wearers who also have their cloaks visible: /showcloak. Use it. You look retarded.

Went to the Eagles v Redskins game down at FedEx field. A disappointing loss to a divisional opponent, but an exciting game none the less. The second half comeback made it a cheer-worthy game, even if we petered out in the end and couldn't quite get it done.

Spent a ton of time clearing out Mistmoore Catacombs (Go go LDoN!). Neat zone. Very fun.

How was your weekend?

Overall I am enjoying the expansion, if not the accompanying patch .

Mistmoore Castle/Catacombs is great. Challenging and huge. Also fun, ran it last night with guildies and it was nice to be pulling with surveil. For a long time that hasn't been necessary. It is easy to just do loops around the place and farm it. Also the ring event in the castle isnt too shabby.

Crypt of Valdoon is entertaining. Couple nice traps and the text for the end boss is highly amusing.

Obelisk seems blah.

Acadechism is a cakewalk, which is nice if you want easy masters. Not complaining though gives mid lvl 60 chars something to do other than KOS.

I enjoy Loping Plains. Lots and lots and lots of quests. plus a town outside of a city. Haven't seen that since the Thundering Steppes. Of course I have stealth so navigating the zone is easy enough.

I think I have been having the most fun in Lesser Fay. All lvl 50-60 content so it's green but the quest lines are fun and give nice gold bonuses, as well as trash loot for diety altar.

The casual raid guild I was in fell apart.

So I had to find a new one. Other than that lots of work.

Pre-grats on the kids, DSD. First? Second? Ninth?

The EoF instances sound like a blast. I need to get into a good single group that wants to do the round-robin of group instances some time soon so I can see them all. I've really missed out the last few weeks.

LFay feels too linear. I think I'd enjoy it more if it were more open and had less horse stations.