Anyone who knows me knows my favorite rock band… Blue Oyster Cult. My kids love them, too, because growing up, what choice did they have? My daughter claimed “Hot Rails to Hell” was her favorite song when she was little; my son still sings along to “Godzilla” (and guess what song ALWAYS has to appear on my Guitar Hero set list?) Via EQ2 Daily, this interview with lead singer Eric Bloom about Saturday Night Live, more cowbell, and EverQuest 2. ...
Live Update #25 is bringing new tailoring recipes to EQ2 - casual clothes, just for looks. I am all about looking good. It’s why my defiler alchemist has a special robe for brewing potions, and why Dorah has a new robe every day. I just can’t wait to get my crew in stuff like that below. Nashuya in particular is going to look fantastic. Just have to get my tailoring up. I have been grinding it… from 22 to 27 in the past couple of days… limited only by belladonna roots. The new crafting system just makes them vanish. I have plenty of the boiled leather I need to get to the next tier, but it seems to take about 70-80 belladonna roots to get through each level. I have toned down the grinding on cloth armor a bit, but as backpacks (which use two roots, and haven’t got much spam in them) recede in level, they give me less and less experience. ...
Freeport loves that whole “I am the MASTER, you must OBEY!” vibe, and to show me what that meant, they had me train a war dog captured from a Qeynos soldier. His name was Buddy; he was the cutest thing. I had to feed him and pet him maybe a hundred times before he would trust me, and then patiently teach him to sit and play dead. He was the best dog EVER! But Matthias made me give him to a lonely orphan, who promised to take good care of him. I showed the little tyke that one spot on Buddy’s neck that he really liked to get scratched. With a tear in my eye, I bid Buddy farewell, but I knew he would be happy in his new home. At peace forever. ...
MMORPG.com has an interview with an EQ producer about the new progression server. There’s more talk about what players might expect when they join, and they announce a second progression server, The Sleeper, to launch alongside The Combine. I’ve been sitting on the fence about restarting on the progression servers. I already restarted on a new server once, with my EQ1 cleric Dera on the last no-transfer server, Stromm. And I had a really good time - but I could spend the time online to keep pace with the pack. ...
Commonlands, at last. It took many days to earn the right to come here. That inky in Antonica had me going into Qeynos more than I ever did before I became an Exile. Some of those missions are far easier than others, but you don’t know til you try. I eventually settled on just one mission to grind out the majority of the 12 5000 point missions to make myself welcome in Freeport. ...
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 the pickup raid channel came alive with news of raiding Cazic Thule to free the frogloks, I had to join. See, actually, they have been freed on my server, Befallen. I was hoping we could convince Venekor, the dragon who sometimes calls CT his lair, sweet lair, to take them back. ...
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, in particular, was transformed into a maze surrounded by fake forest you couldn’t even walk through. ...
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 40s channel (oh yes, our dear Shadow Knight is 40 now) that people were gathering to kill Emperor Fyst in Deathfist Citadel. ...
In Lavastorm, working on some bits for the Lost Legend of Lavastorm, when I came out of Maiden’s Gulch and saw this… what a money shot… Dina… bard… conqueror of the world… There was to be a pickup Deception raid to finish off some folks’ prismatic weapons, and I was scrurrying around Lavastorm desperately trying to even start the very first quest in that chain, To Speak Like A Dragon. Because if I couldn’t speak to the legendary Lord Nagafen in his lair beneath Solusek’s Eye, he couldn’t send me off to solve his little problem. ...
There’s this web page that generates EQ2 signatures… wonder what it looks like! They don’t give a preview, so adding it here. Wow, that’s spartan. I’d add a picture of Dina on there, but for some reason I can’t contact my home computers from work. Probably the router reset and changed the dynamic IP address… I’d get a static IP if I could afford it. The phone company would consider me a BUSINESS if I asked, though, and vroooOOOOOMMMM up go the monthly rates. ...