This is my Burynai. His name is Dalnir! When I feed him, he acts like he’s coughing up a hairball, but it’s really collectible items. I got a Crushed Scorpion (ewww) and a Rivervale Scroll from the foods I had on me.
I was so happy to see I could claim him — I just hadn’t looked far enough up in the list.
I took my alts out of my main guild’s alt guild, “E C Bots”. That name is just embarrassing; a joke someone thought was funny, but just try to be taken seriously in a group when you have that name hovering over you. I asked in guild if there was an alt guild I could join my crafters to, since I will be grinding writs and would like that effort to go to leveling a real guild. The guild leader mentioned “E C Bots”, but, um, no. I know that very few alts join that guild. I see people’s alts in half a dozen other guilds, and I was looking for an invite into one of those.
I got a tell from a guildie who had an alt guild *precisely* to avoid being branded a twink, and so I joined all my crafters to that. When I get to leveling my jeweler to 80, I won’t feel that effort is wasted now.
The beta is still running, for some reason. I accidentally logged into it last night. Looking at the guild’s events log, I saw there were several people being buffed to 80 and given the fabled set gear, perhaps to test some things out, so I used the dressing room to capture some of those sets — pictures of them after the jump.
EQ2: Karnor’s Castle — Beauty IS only skin deep.
I have great and fond memories of Karnor’s Castle from EQ1. The experience was decent for its level. Loot was plentiful. And the place was absolutely, friggin’ HUGE. There was really no better place to be for levels 49-54, and if you weren’t hunting there at those levels, you were waiting for a spot in … Read more
What if EvE Online were a Fantasy MMORPG?
What if we took EvE Online, and made a fantasy game out of it — using all of EvE’s mechanisms, as closely as possible? Syncaine claims that EvE has solved nearly all MMO problems. Fine, let’s turn that around. In EvE, you fly ships from system to system, battling, exploring, gathering resources, trading, or any … Read more
EQ2: Rise of Kunark, Day One
Things I accomplished: Leveled to 71, got my Sokokar, got to “amiable” with the Followers of Teren, 103 AAs, explored all of Karnor’s Castle and killed its commander (for no reward), made a server discovery on a tradeskill book, got the new EQ2Maps and ProfitUI running. Things I did not accomplish: Level jewelcrafting, reinstall Windows … Read more
EQ2: RoK Download Delays
Just spoke with my son, and he tells me the patcher is reporting between 12 and 16 hours for the Rise of Kunark digital download. Those of you who were in the beta may be able to just copy some or most of the files over (especially the paks). If you ordered the digital download, … Read more