EQ2: New clothes for old tailors

Just a taste of the new low level crafted outfits. They add bunches of colors for all tiers, and some real choices for leather and cloth wearers — up there are some of the choices, including some vest styles for even more options. You won’t have to be look boring if you’re a caster. Lots, lots more!

August 16, 2008 · 1 min · 57 words · Tipa

More on the Fan Faire

On the way to the EQ2 expansion panel, stopped by the room to upload some pics. Attended the Living Legacy feedback panel, more notes later, but it sounds like it or something like it will be coming in the future, perhaps as soon as the tenth anniversary celebration next spring. A new progression server is a possibility (for EQ). Talked with a guy from Matrox for awhile, angered some VG players, and ate lunch at Quarks.More later! ...

August 16, 2008 · 1 min · 85 words · Tipa

First expansion reactions

I’ll be seeing these live hopefully later today, but here’s my first reactions to the expansions. EQ2: The Shadow Odyssey So, we’re getting Lost Dungeons of Norrath, EQ2 style. I don’t know if this means the return of the Wayfarers, but I kind of hope it doesn’t, as the Wayfarer’s led into the ugly Gates of Discord and Omens of War expansions, which kinda broke the whole fantasy feel of EQ with their SciFi aliens from across the 8th dimension, a mistake finally corrected with Dragons of Norrath. ...

August 16, 2008 · 2 min · 333 words · Tipa

Lost in the Shadow of Destruction... or something.

Long,LONG day. Son wakes up with an ear infection. Go to work. Do some work. Find doctor. Take son to doctor’s.Wait forever. Doc says, hey, ear infection. I /sigh. Go to pharmacy. Wait there forever. Go home, give son meds. He goes to sleep. It’s 1PM. I opt to do some laundry before we leave. Give the cat a huge bowl of water that scares her,it’s so huge she may drown. Go to airport. Remember in the security line that I brought a full sized tube of toothpaste. Expect to be arrested immediately, but they let it through. TSA, my teeth thank you. Thunderstorms in Hartford delay the flight an hour and a half. We barely make the connection in Cincinnati. Try to sleep on plane, but it is SRO. Get to Vegas Slots everywhere. Shuttle to Hotel. Registration guy wants to talk about EQ and WAR for fifteen minutes, which is weird. He’s in the WAR closed beta Lucky. ...

August 16, 2008 · 2 min · 293 words · Tipa