November 12th, 2007 by Missy

Is it sad that I’m dreading the release of Kunark tomorrow? I’m sure that new zones to play in will be fun.. more AAs is always great.. but I just can’t work up any enthusiasm to level to 80. And I love leveling — adore sitting in one spot grinding xp… It’s just like, I already feel like I have enough trouble with agro as it is, and like my tank really just isn’t up to par. And there is SO much money sunk into her gear.. at 80, all of her gear is crap. And I guarantee that whatever the Kunark legendary set is, which is probably the best I’ll be able to get her, it won’t be better (comparably per level) to what she’s wearing now. And replacing all of her master CAs with new master CAs is going to cost a fortune. A fortune that I really just don’t have. So, of course, she’s going to end up with Adept IIIs. Not that there is anything wrong with Adept IIIs, but they (quite obviously) are worse than masters, and agro is already hard enough. Just.. blah.ÂWhy the hell do they have to raise the level cap? And by TEN LEVELS.ÂWhat would have been wrong with five?

November 9th, 2007 by Missy

I know, I know.. I’ve fallen off of the face of the earth. It’s been forever since I blogged or logged onto EQ2. My apologies to anyone who actually cares :p As a quick summary, I’ve just been feeling burned out lately. Too much EQ2, blogging, Bowflexing, obsessions all at once and I needed a break. Kind of stagnating in EQ2, feeling like there isn’t much else to do until Kunark comes out. Not that there isn’t anything to do, I know there are still things to do, but.. can’t shake the feeling anyway.

A few days falling off the world has been helping. Dan and I have been playing a little bit of LOTRO (very fun, actually) and now I’ve got a Lord of the Rings obsession (who could have guessed, right?). Can you believe I’ve never read the books before? I’ve read the Hobbit, but my dad decided that the Lord of the Rings was like.. devil-worship-evil-bookness and forbade me ever to read them while I was growing up, and it never really seemed to cross my mind once I was out of the house and could do what I liked. I’m about halfway through The Two Towers now, and greatly enjoying the books. I imagine once I finish reading them I’ll get started in on the Silmarillion, probably be too bored by how dry it is to finish reading it (I did try once back when, but I don’t think it’s the same if you are forbidden from reading The Lord of the Rings).. and be back to EQ2. Never fear, I do promise I shall be back. I just need.. a short break. I can’t imagine I’ll let it go any longer than the release of Kunark since I won’t want to fall behind in the grind to 80. I love grinding ^_^

Anyway, this blog is already longer than I had intended. I’d best get to sleep! My father is having a work party tomorrow and I’m sure I’ll be expected to help my mother clean her house for it, and attend, so.. no staying up reading until all hours for me. Not that I really could anyway, since tomorrow is a school day for Anya and I have to get her ready.

Good night world! And anyone reading this ^_^

October 19th, 2007 by Missy

As promised, my blog about Castle Mistmoore (not that anyone likely cares or would hold me accountable for not posting about Castle Mistmoore since I don’t think anyone really reads this :p). So yesterday, not being a schoolday (yay, as opposed to today being a schoolday — boo), I finally managed to get into a group around 2:30. Our goal? Camping Sage in Castle Mistmoore~! After a long time spent clearing up through the Catacombs with my nice slow group, we finally made it to the back door of CMM (commonly known as Stairs). With four members. Because the rest deserted us on the clear up. Leaving me the only healer. So my oh-so-intelligent group recruits a SIXTY-FIVE mystic for like.. the meanest single group zone in the game. At least in my opinion. Man CMM is nasty. Shit hits like trucks, respawns sooo fast, has nasty AEs..

So anyway, this obviously didn’t go well. We wiped like five times in the first hallway, everyone said screw it and bailed. Luckily another group who was already camping Sage (wish I’d known it was camped when I started clearing with the other group) was on the lookout for a second healer and CoH’d me right in. I looked at the tank with sadness (Zatar, 70 SK) and realized that he was using a 2h instead of a sword and board for what I consider to be a very difficult zone (obviously). And then I doubletaked. Permastun? WTF? Apparently the Voulge of Endless Lamentation is a drop from one of the Epicx2 in Shard of Fear. Unfortunately Zatar couldn’t remember the name of the mob (clearly not an EQ1 player) and said it was something like Agony or whatever. While I don’t know for sure which epicx2 are in the zone, I’m going to guess it was Terror? Since I thought only Terror and Dracoliche were there as epicx2. Anyway, despite the broken weapon of uberness we managed to wipe right after I was CoH’d in.. I’m guessing they spent too long looking for a replacement second healer that the spawn cycle got off, and everything in the room basically popped on us at once. At this point the conjurer and wizard left, leaving us with SK, mystic, 66 dirge, and me. We grabbed a 70 swash and a 67 conjurer and got going. We cleared back into the room, made a few kills, wiped again, got back to stairs, and the tank had to leave for a raid. When the tank had to go, the mystic took off as well. This was very sad. I wanted my pants. The conjurer (Vezstran) provided us with a new tank — a 70 pally whose name I can’t remember other than that it started with an A and was totally awesome — and I provided us with a new backup healer (he’ll kill me for calling him backup when he stomped me on the healparse), Dan!

We cleared back in to Sage immensely successfully and plunked down for a camp until 11:30 that night. We got two Novum Tectums (whee), one for Vezstran and one for myself (even more whee). We also got a set of legs for the dirge, then a set for the swash. Shortly after dirge legs dropped, the dirge “had to go” and my old friend Prophit came out to play! This was a double bonus as A) I like Prophit and B) Prophit already has his legs). During our downtime camping Sage I ran Keth out to CMM and had Vezstran CoH her into Sage room in case we needed more summonings after Vezstran left, since his girlfriend was harping on him. We got another Sage spawn, conj legs dropped (of course :p) and then Vez had to go. We replaced him with a Yadinal (who I texted to bring him running, he’s always so reliable!). After this, we managed to get another Sage spawn and get some legs for our tank. This, of course, meant that everyone had legs, except for me, since Yad and Ven already had theirs. But, of course, Sage decided that he didn’t like me and didn’t want to spawn and drop more legs for me. Around this time, Xivali had to go and Prophit’s time was running short. When Xivali left we invited a troub out and set to. Prophit took off, we grabbed a monk in his place. The troub, who managed to somehow be slow as hell despite having Selos, arrived at the same time as the monk.

CoHing was had by all and camping continued apace. You will note, however, that neither troub nor monk had pants. This made me sad.. no more guaranteed pants for me. Not that it mattered, since Sage only spawned once more during the night and dropped a wooden chest (that bastard). So, in short, everyone who camped Sage for more than an hour got pants except for me. And I camped them for longer than anyone :p Ah well, such is life. I’m glad I got my Novum in any case. And I will get pants damnit >.< I just wanted them so badly because then I wouldn’t have to worry so much about trying to box Garanel. Not that he’s particularly nasty, but since the fury is on the same account as my tank, it makes things rather difficult. Boxing to Priest of Fear for the hat is no issue… boxing to Garanel without Selise *is* an issue. I just hope I manage to get my six set bonus *before* RoK comes out.

On a more positive note, Rith reinstalled EQ2 last night and was able to log on for a bit and chat with us. Guild chat was full of discussion of Scarlett Johannson’s breasts, Firiona Vie, and Scarlett + me porn. Life was good.

Link of the day: Everquest Movie

October 18th, 2007 by Missy

More inc about stupid sage camp in the morning. I’m too tired right now. Suffice it to say (for now) that after… 8ish hours? Everyone got their pants except me. And I was there longest ;-;

October 17th, 2007 by Missy

So, we decided to do a Shard of Fear run tonight, check out the new zone.. yeah, didn’t go so well. To start off, when you first zone in there are “scarelings” flapping around. They look like cucuys from Unrest, have an enormous agro range, and like to agro you as you’re standing at the IZ still waiting for the healer to zone. Very reminiscent of Plane of Fear, at least. So after one death (well three, if you count Selise, Syslik, and Kethryveris), Venovia zoned in and was able to get us rezzed, and things progressed apace. There’s a little dead dooder lying on the floor and you get a quest from his journal to find some glasses. After wandering around for a bit, we found his goggles and got a quest update, commanding us to destroy the bone towers.

The bone towers are guarded by level 73^^^ fetid fiends, and encounters of 3 72^^ fetid fiends. The single 73^^^s aren’t bad, but once you have to fight one of the encounters, good lord! They have a 10 second stun and they like to chain cast it. We definitely spent at least 40 seconds stunned at one point. Obviously, this makes them very difficult to defeat if you don’t get a resist on your healer or someone who can cure your healer, because they also hit pretty damned hard as well. Anyway, when you kill all of the fiends outside of the tower, it spawns a named (who drops no loot, the bastard) and once you defeat him you have “destroyed the tower”. We destroyed two bone towers, and spent a little time hunting named.

We killed one named spider who wasn’t that difficult, although he did have a nasty AE (but after the first try we just kept everyone but my tank out of range). On the second pull the named went crazy and like.. ran away (pathing bug, I’m sure) and ran through a bunch of other spiders and brought them back to us. Third time’s the charm, of course, and down he went, dropping his crappy cloth hat (congrats Yadinal, though if you wear it I’ll have to kill you :p) Continuing along, we got a few random drops from random mobs. Notably, Dawnfear the Reaper, which went to Syslik, much as I wanted some cowbell for myself, I’m afraid I never use 2h.

Next up on the list was Fearmonger, a gorilla with a fear. Pretty straightforward and easy, went down easily and dropped crap for loot, whee for wooden chests. After that, we decided to go after the named monkey on top of the tower, Kyr’Tok, who will henceforth be referred to as “Assrape”. On our first pull of Assrape, I went to the top of the tower and jumped off with him in tow. I’m pretty sure that I died before I even hit the ground. Pull #2 consisted of the same thing, but with reactives up and my 30 second mit buffs running. This time we managed to drop him to about 40% health but Assrape has a massive knockback and was very fond of blowing me out of heal range. As well as blowing everyone else around while they were trying to cast. So then we figured hey, lets go inside the temple and pull him into there, that way we can corner him and not worry about knockbacks. Unfortunately, this resulted in my death before making it into the temple. Our next attempt was to have Syslik pull with DA. The theory here was that he would make it into the temple at 100% health with his uber DA running, Selise would grab agro, and we would perform some assraping of our own. Unfortunately, Assrape’s AE ignores the z-axis and managed to hit everyone inside the temple while Syslik was pulling, as well ignoring DA. At this point I had had enough, decided it was late at night, didn’t feel like using my third repair kit, and called it a night. More Shard of Fear to come tomorrow. Hopefully the ensuing post will be a bit more pleasant.

All in all, I had a pretty good time despite all of the deaths, but I am very much looking forward to understanding the layout of this zone better. I am not particularly fond of exploring things on my own, I would much rather have a walk through. And a map. I am capable of getting lost in my own driveway, let alone in a brand new open zone with no map. Ah well. The trials of being female, I suppose. Dan does not seem to be troubled with this affliction. And by affliction I don’t mean being female. I am very certain that Dan is not female. By affliction I mean the complete and total lack of directional sense. Or any sense, he might tell you :p Anyway, I do believe it’s bed time!

October 17th, 2007 by Missy

You aren’t supposed to hate school when you don’t even go. But I do, I hate school. That being, I hate when it is a school day for Anya (Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12:30 to 3:00). It seems like, by the time I wake up (yes, I am a late riser), get the kids up, get breakfast into the kids, get the kids dressed, check my e-mail, etc.. there is no time to do anything before it is time to take Anya to school. There definitely isn’t enough time to get into a group and do anything, and if I tried to wake the kids up early enough that we could go to the grocery store before school time, they’d be furious with me. And cranky all day. Then, to top it all off, by the time I drop Anya off at school and come here, there still isn’t time to get into a group and do anything. Although I could use that time to go to the grocery store. Going to the grocery store, however, means that Alex gets no nap, means that Alex is cranky for the rest of the day, means that I am irritated for the rest of the day. That leaves — after I pick Anya up from school. Which also means that there is no time to get into a group and do anything because Dan will be on his way home shortly thereafter. Not that Dan would be upset if he came home and I was in a group doing something, but I like to have dinner made for us, spend some time with Dan, group with Dan, etc.. so if I’m in a group when he gets home it either: A) pushes dinner back which pushes back when Dan and I can get a group going together (and he has to get up for work, so) or B) means that he signs onto EVE as soon as he gets home and I lose him to deep space for the night.

So, in short, I hate school. Especially when GU39 was released today, meaning that Shard of Fear is open. I want to go see the new zone, dammit! I don’t want to wait until tonight when Dan gets home ;-; And yes, I know that it’s mean to hate school when Anya loves it so much x.x

Word of the day: mean (since I used it about 700 times)

October 16th, 2007 by Missy

OMG sometimes I really hate grouping in EQ2. And by grouping, I mean PUGing (pickup grouping, as in with people I don’t know). So today I get a CoV (Crypt of Valdoon) group on my fury (68 at the time, 69 now — no thanks to those tards). It’s me, a 70 guardian, 70 coercer (not a tard), 70 monk, 66 necro, 64 conjurer. The guardian, monk and necro are all in the same guild. Apparently it is a guild of retards. The conjurer is in a different guild, but really much too low to be running CoV since the mobs are 70+ and it’s like.. impossible to hit them at 64. As it turns out, the coercer and I are the only ones who have been in the zone before, so we figure hey — it’ll be a good idea to tell people what we know about the zone to make things go more smoothly / quickly.

To start, when you get to the first named it’s like 700x easier to pet pull him, because then you don’t have to kill all of the adds standing between you and him. It took six tries. Count them. SIX. Because the guardian didn’t really want to pet pull, so he figured he’d just stand there and stare at the wall in protest. Finally the coercer tagged the named as it came in and kept it mezzed until retard decided he actually wanted to participate in the group.

As you go down the next hall, skeletons pop out of the floor. Therefore, it is imperative that the entire group:

1. Stay behind the tank.
2. Stay against one side of the hall so you don’t pop skeletons from the other side.
3. Assist the tank when every idiot in your guild goes to the other side of the hall to spawn adds.

I told the idiots no less than four times that crossing to the other side of the hall would spawn adds. Yet they all still managed to do it. And the idiot monk wouldn’t assist the tank because “he was attacking the same mob anyway”. Which explains all of the mezz breaks, I’m sure. Finally I told him that I wasn’t going to heal him again, and that I would be keeping my heals off cooldown so that I could heal the coercer when idiotmonk broke mezz. Again. And again. He still broke mezzes, but that’s why idiots have feign death.

After many trials and tribulations with shitty pulls and mezz breaking, we make it to the second name. That goes off fairly well and we evac back to the IZ, and head back to clear to the last named. Once again idiot guild is informed by both myself and the coercer that they must HUG THE RIGHT WALL or more skeletons will spawn. I bet no one will ever guess that we ended up clearing both sides of the hall anyway, because idiot guild couldn’t manage to stay on the right wall. Mind you, this isn’t a hard task. It’s a nice wide hallway. All you have to do is.. stand still.. then run in a straight line forward.

Next we come to a room with three mobs in it. I give idiot tank directions to go in the door and hug left on the doorframe, which will cause the mob (monster, bad guy, whatever) marked as 1 to come out by himself. Of course, idiot hugs the right wall and pulls mob #2 first, which, of course also means that mob #1 comes with it. Whatever, anyway, life continues and we get into the final named room. We go through the crappy little script without a hitch (although here the tank insists that the necro pet pull for some reason that was completely beyond both myself and the coercer). Anyway, we get down to fight the last named. Group is warned about all of the adds that will spawn. Coercer and I inform everyone that once the named dies, we’ll pop the chest, loot fast, and then evac out to avoid fighting all the adds. So — named dies, we pop the chest and it’s the class wrists for necro/conj. It’s the only thing that dropped. This should, of course, make things nice and simple. The necro and conj in the group roll, everyone else declines and we evac out happy. But no, someone (and I don’t know who, but I’m guessing the necro) took so long to decline or do whatever that the timer on the chest ran out (that being a minute) before it finally got looted. And all the while the adds are spawning, coercer is frantically trying to mezz, and the guardian and monk are frantically trying to break all of the mezzes. I’m very happy to say that the conjuror (who wasn’t an idiot and wasn’t in idiot guild) won the lotto on the class wrists and we evacced out. At this point, the necro and guardian start bitching and whining about how they didn’t even get a chance to roll on the loot! First off, idiot guardian, you can’t wear it. It is NECRO or CONJURER only. Secondly, idiot necro. You put out less DPS than EVERYONE ELSE IN GROUP EVEN THE 64 CONJ WHO WAS TOO LOW LEVEL TO HIT THE MOBS. So I really don’t care if your stupid ass was too stupid to hit “lotto”. You clearly weren’t so busy DPSing that you didn’t have a chance to click lotto. I would imagine you were so busy being AFK during the final named fight that you weren’t able to roll.

To top it all off, idiot guild then starts going off on the coercer and myself, like it is somehow our fault that idiot necro didn’t win the wrists. Needless to say, I do not see myself ever grouping with someone from “Lost Souls of the Decayed” ever again. And here’s to Prophit, the non-idiotic coercer. My hat is off to you (not that I am wearing one) and I hope to group again!