3/30/11

           Well today was another big day in EQ for me. My guild and I managed to take down inny for what is now my second time. This time though, I managed to grab a few screen shots! Posting them now. I must say even though the EQ raid bosses are all world bosses, well they all are up until after PoP anyway i think. But, what im tryin to say is i love the fact that it can be an hour wait or 12hour wait for a certain raid boss to spawn. For some reason, that is just what is fun to me. But anyway, here are the Inny pictures!

           Well after the raid we were clearing some trash in PoHate and we stumbled upon a Disciple of Innoruuk wearing a peculiar vest. We killed him and come to find out it was the Hauberk of Harmony. So we all rolled on it and I managed to win this bad boy for myself. It is like only my second clicky ever and for this current point in the game, damn is it useful! No mana cost regen thats better than chloro = win. Anyway, here is a picture i took of my new lewts.

3/29/11

           In my last update I just mentioned my coming back to EQ and starting out on the new progression server Fippy Darkpaw. Well, now I happen to be level 50, which is max level at this current point in EQ and I have joined one of the top raid guilds on my server. We've taken down all the targets in classic EQ thus far and I've been there to see every one except from Cazic Thule and Nagafen. It's been an amazing experience, actually being able to see PoHate and other zones at the levels where they used to be "the shit". Lguk is packed, literally, all day every day at all hours of the day and night. Usually 50-120 people there every single day. SolB and SolA are both jam packed as well, and my favorite farming spot Rathe Mountains has like 20-30 people there at all hours of the night too.

           Needless to say the population is definitely healthy and from what I have seen so far they are all generally happy too and experiencing old Everquest how it was always ment to be seen. I'm having a ball and Kunark is still 8 weeks or so away. I've been working on all of my tradeskills so I can start making Misty Thicket Picnics and Qeynos Afternoon Teas for some income, which will improve even more in Luclin when I can run my trader!

           Above is a picture of some of the "zomg" gear I've gotten so far. It's so bad in terms of what you could get in modern day EQ for that slot but then its so amazing at this point in Classic EQ. Gonna cut this paragraph short, it's 2am and im getting tired. But I hope to get some videos up of some bosses or get some screenies or something. I'm having a ball in EQ atm and I wan't to take pictures to always remember this! haha

           Oh yeah and one more thing, I found a great guide for the progession server leveling. It's got all of the zones compiled into one and documents which camps are good for which levels and stuff like that. It's really great, click here to check it out.

3/16/11

           So, I was browsing the internet the other night and i stumbled upon information of a new EQ progression server, called Fippy Darkpaw. I read further into it and discovered that it is actually going to be a Time-locked Voting Progression Server. Which the biggest turn off last time on The Combine when I tried it out was the fact that it was unlocked so quickly. So I thought about it for a bit and finally caved into reactivating my subsription. I'm now enjoying it as much as i enjoyed old EQ back in the day. It's taking me forever to level up but each and every step is just so thrilling and rewarding. I must say the nostalgic moments are definitely here.

           Well onto other updates and what I've done in WoW, I managed to get my second Baron Rivendare's Mount, well now I guess its more Aurius' mount huh? Kinda messed up they changed that instance around, it was one of my favorites.... Scholo too, i almost cried when i went into scholo and i wasn't getting runecloth anymore i was getting mageweave. Well I got some pictures to /boast about so I'll go ahead and post them next.

(Dreamweaver crashes every time i go to open a file and post it and i cant figure out how to fix it so no pictures for now =( .. The best I can do is post links to them..) I figured it out!

           Aside from getting Baron's Mount on yet another one of my characters I managed to break 300k on my Paladin! I found that running around to grind old reps/do achievements on all my alts to be quite profitable the past few weeks and I plan to continue to do it. I'm hoping to reach the new gold cap of 1mil somewhere around the end of the summer. Right now it may sound like an impossible feat but I'm hellbent on doing it! =D

3/1/11

           Well, I've still been pretty busy with getting things done and have been rather slow on updates with my website. I've also taken everyone's opinion into consideration and have considered playing Rift but I'd like to hear some more reviews about it first. I've watched numerous videos of PvP and Instances as well as just random questing but the Character models and UI look REALLY sloppy to me and look like they just don't belong in the world. It looks like a combination of AoC, EQ2 and WAR meshed together, all three of those games I didn't totally care for. I'm sure people will read this and instantly disagree with me, but that is why it's called an opinion ;) ... Anyway, in the meantime I managed to beat the first and second Dead Space games, which was an amazing series and I recommend it to anyone that enjoyed Resident Evil before they started making them all gay. And also, another big announcement, my newest book should be coming out sometime later this month! It is called Drylor The First Artifact, and will be the first installment of the Drylor series that I plan to write. If you'd like to hear more about the book below is a tidbit:

When a man wakes up inside a cage that is being carried through
an underground city, he has no idea where he is or what has
happened to him. As Von, a victim of amnesia, is taken to a jail
cell to await his fate amongst elves, humans, dwarfs, gnomes, and
halflings, he is told he is a member of the Royal Guard of Genisus.
It is not long before he is transported to the palace where he
meets an impatient king who eventually returns him to his jail
cell while deciding his destiny.

As Von’s memory slowly returns, he discovers that he is the only
one who can protect Drylor—a world that abandoned him—
from its greatest evil, his own brother. Through his journey to the
truth, Von meets an unlikely group of friends who are willing
to sacrifice everything to help him stop his brother Scarlet
from annihilating the only world they have ever known.

As Von’s past becomes clear and reveals his future, he soon
realizes the only way he can end his brother’s heartless
massacres is to find him and kill him.

           Sounds good, right? I know, I wrote that shizz! =P .. Well, that is about it for now. To leave you on a good note, below are picture of the front and back covers of my new book! I hope you enjoy them!