Good morning, AllaK's - 9/17/07Follow

Good morning, happy campers.

Since a complete wipe and reinstall was involved in the process of getting myself back up and running, I spent a good chunk of Saturday futzing around with my UI, getting it all set back up the way I like it for all my toons. Because I had to switch around for this it became THE ALT REVOLVING DOOR WEEKEND!

Baby bruiser - If it wasn't for the name I would delete this toon. Setup the UI and quickly punched out.

Baby fury - Set up the UI and ran about the Commonlands. Finished off some crossroads quests which was enough to ding once.

Baby assassin - Scored an AA off of a collection to turn in. Bought a haircut and spent some time re-imagining the look for this toon.

Baby defiler - Healed for a short-lived instance group. Made some profit off of some foodstuffs I had baked up earlier in the week.

Coercer - Scored an AA for finishing some quests in my journal. This let me put my 4th in the WIS line Magic Resistance. One step closer to Dreamweaver. Good times.

Main (SK of course) - Lent my services to the lowbies of the world. Decided that I really want to knock off the last few AA I need to 100 before RoK. Trolled the lowbie channels and traded my mentored tanking services for quest sharing. Was successful in getting an AA or two. Also scored a ton of low level shinies for distribution amongst my alts. Good times.

How was your weekend?

well, lets see, where to begin. got everything ready so I can transfer some of my toons to Lucan D'Lere server. got a couple new toons created on Lucan, and got them leveled pretty good. finally got my zerker to 20 provisioner (been slacking on that). my necro is now a 20 sage. and just have to get my wizzie to 20 tailor and I will be happy. still have 3 slots left to fill, just haven't decided how I'm gonna fill them. overall, not a bad weekend.

I was challenged by a crafting colleague to level up a crafter to 30-ish and not have her skill well below her cap. It's part of an ongoing discussion on the Official crafting forums between the "skillups are broken" camp and the "learn to use your Arts" camp.

Thus far she's almost 20 and her chosen profession's skill is only one point below her cap...

Other than that I just spent the weekend with a very sick family. I'm actually keeping Kiddo home from preschool today, nasty yukky cold. *I'm* better, but not getting much done (or much sleep) with two sick kids.

It apparently is, we get about 4 posts a week on it on the Official Forums. But I ran through T1 doing the Seeking a Profession quest and just did a tailoring combine every time I needed an extra combine to ding, and had no problem keeping my skill up (proof is in the picture!)

The issue is that learning to use your arts can be a real problem for people. There's really nothing in the game that addresses it atm, although Domino is working on it. If you know how to use your arts from the get-go you're fine. If you're a new player you might only manage to keep your skills up by pure luck until someone teaches you to use your Arts proactively and that you get new ones every Tier.