EQ2: Betraying Qeynos

Even the in-game items mock me! I could put this book in my home… if I had one… but let me backtrack to… two days ago. Spending so much time in the Kingdom of Sky expansion grinding out the levels. Dina was 55 last weekend; 58 this one. But I hate the grind, and when … Read more

Widescreen Gaming

So what does having a 1650 x 1050 monitor get you these days? It's a Viewsonic 2025wm, and I've been droooling over it for awhile. I didn't buy it for gaming, really – I bought it for doing everything that isn't gaming. And it is very very nice for that. But for gaming… well, in … Read more

Nektulos Forest (Re-)Revisited

I'm not a fan of what they did to some of the old classic EQ1 zones with the Depths of Darkhollow and Prophecy of Ro. What possibly reason is there to take the old cities and forests we loved for all their faults and simplicity and make them crushingly dark, ugly and depressing? Nektulos Forest, … Read more

Dark & Light

An MMO I’m not going to play… but it’s hilarious… a released MMO with such HORRID misspellings and syntax all through it… I felt a little epileptic just reading the combat log… and the Auny’Ainah of Life? That’s a low level pig, the kind you find all over the Dwarf/Gnome newbie grounds in World of … Read more

EQ2: Bringing a Knife to a Fyst Fight

No EQ1 raiding yesterday, and of course I totally forgot to hunt up my City of Heroes disks and check out Paragon City once more. I logged Nashuya in to sell and repair prior to finishing up the Cauldron Hollow access quest needed for the next fight in the Restoring Ghoulbane heritage. Heard in the … Read more