I started leveling again in EQ tonight, but it’s going more slowly than expected, and after a couple hours I only gained about 26%, putting me 59% of the way to 77. I guess it’s going to take me a few more days…

I got bored of the exping though, so I figured I should actually spend some of that money I’ve been saving up and worked on jewelcrafting for a bit afterwards. I quickly got up to 282 with vendor gem combinations, but after that you need dropped gems. Fortunately, since the server had been up for quite a while, the ones I needed were readily available on random vendors, with a bit of searching.

It’s getting expensive, though. After spending about 40k plat (knocking me down to 70k left in the bank), I’m up to 288 skill now. Those last 12 points are going to be annoying, since at this point all of the gems and bars are quite expensive, the salvage skill doesn’t kick in quite as often as I’d like, and you can easily chew through 5-10k plat without a single skill gain. I think I’ll leave it at here for now…