Good Morning, AllaK's - 1/22/08Follow

Good morning, happy campers.

Lots of playtime this weekend as the wife caught herself a minor MySims addiction. *rubs hands together evilly*

Started out in Jarsath Wastes. Knocked out every last solo quest and finally scored my Worker's Sledgemallet. Oh the nostalgia. This also marked the conclusion of SOLO-QUESTAPALOOZA! Every single solo-marked quest in RoK has been beaten. Starting at 70 at release, this left me just shy of 80 (about 20% into 79). Not too shabby.

Solo questing done, it was time to check out some of these dungeons. First I did Charasis: Vault of Eternal Sleep. Fun stuff. The pit traps were quite frustrating, but once you noodled out their locations they were easy enough to avoid. Knocked out the Keepers of Dreams and Nightmares, as well as the Guardian (dropped the plate Sanctification helmet for me!). Got stuck on the final guy though (Steve the Phylactery Keeper was his name, I think). We had two rooters to handle the attendants during the fight, but our necro was using some soul siphon life thing AE that kept breaking the roots. After a few deaths we decided to call it.

Later on I get invited to tank Crypt of Agony. /Getting/ to the crypt was a bigger challenge than the crypt itself. Jus the worst luck. Everyone is invis, but forgets about the see invis frog pather who sees us in the middle of the mezzanine frog platform - wipe. Everyone is invis, walking up the path to the crypt when the pathing golem named who sees invis spawns - wipe. Everyone is standing right at the door at the top of the platform just waiting on one person to catch up, the big static golem named up there pops - wipe. It was uncanny. Anyway through much effort and patience we finally got everyone in there. Once inside it was pretty smooth sailing. No great loot drops. Wooden chests from every named. Worked our way to the last guy with very little effort. Then came the last guy. He demolished us. No way around it. The healer couldn't keep up. I couldn't lifetap fast enough. He'd hit me with a good 10 second stun during which I couldn't taunt or cast. 3 wipes later and we threw in the towel.

So 2 instances, 2 failures on the final guy in the zone. I needed to make myself feel better so I got involved in a Castle Mistmoore group to advance Soulfire. Knocked out a few nameds and got the book from the basement. Got 3 of the pages I needed before the group decided to split up. Afterwards I joined in on a Fire & Ice raid. Main tanked it and cleaned up. Drayek killed me with his dumb 'knock you back into the ice which is an instant death lol' attack. Aside from that it was all smooth sailing.

So good times all around. How was your long weekend?

our guild had a lot of players who needed quests done in COM last night, so we formed up 2 groups and playfully raced each other to see who could finish said quests first. It was a light hearted fun night, with each group in their own vent channel, bantering back and forth, playful KS's on mobs that respawned very quickly. Lots of AA xp for those of us who were 80 and great regular xp for those who have a couple more levels to go. Our group won btw

Decided to have a go at transmuting, so dragged my L20 defiler / L80 armourer over to BBM to speak to the master & get books. Rest of night spent harvesting everything in the Graveyard, making M/C stuff & breaking it. Over and over.

Transmuting now 11/400. Nearly there! lol

Niami just put up a really great transmuting guide at EQ2 Traders Corner!

Yep, I linked Niami's guide in my guide. It's important, I think, to have more than one way of explaining things!