EQ2: Of Interagents, Vindicators and Glowy Things

I’ve done the D’Vinn’s Throne Room instance (a level 30-35 instance within Crushbone Keep that starts the plot completed in the 60ish instance Acadechism) a couple of times, but didn’t get a chance to get a good picture of Vindicator Crush when he arrives at the call of Emperor D’Vinn. Because I’ve been healing it with my defiler, Etha, and when you’re healing, in EQ2 as in all other MMOs in which I’ve healed, all you see is health bars.

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EQ2: Five “Easy” Alternate-Rules Zones

The alternate planes of existence haven’t been opened yet in EverQuest 2. In EQ1, there was really no difference in the planes from any other zone, aside from there being a god or goddess lurking about. Some of them erased your levitation buff. Plane of Water (and Kedge Keep) required you had a water-breathing buff … Read more

Health insurance is for the weak

My son told me yesterday, after I got home from work, that he had a pain and an ache in his mouth; he thought it might be his wisdom teeth coming in, and the people he’d asked in our EQ2 guild had told him it might well be. Ah, the new millennium, where actual family … Read more

I need you to go find the little gopher

Surya does its business via phone and email, and our email has been overwhelmed by spam. Last week, I trained SpamAssassin on one of our sales manager’s spam folder and set it loose over the Thanksgiving weekend. It blocked well over a thousand spam mails from reaching people’s inboxes. Instead, I sent them to mine, … Read more