Monthly Archives: February 2010

Weekend of WoW

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It was a long weekend, and I spent pretty damn near all of it in WoW, trying to get caught up. I did manage to hit level 80, a bit sooner than expected, and finished up the quests in the Zul’Drak and Sholazar Basin areas, also opening up the dailies there. We also did some more Utgarde Keep and Nexus runs, with it being my first time in the Nexus. We’re still a long ways from doing heroics, though.

And speaking of dailies, I should hit exalted with the walrus-guys in the next couple days, so I’ll be able to focus on other dailies instead. It takes a couple hours just to get through the current list of dailies, which gets a bit tiring.

I’m almost done with the Love Is In The Air event, with only a couple more achievements to go, but these ones require a fairly tough fight and entering places like Naxx, which I might not get to this year. The Lunar Festival event also started and I spent some time yesterday gathering the tokens for those, including in the Alliance home cities. I had a bit of trouble getting into Teldrassil for the elder there thanks to continually running into level 80s at the Darkshore docks, but I logged in before work this morning and managed to sneak in when no-one was around, and got the exploration achievement as well. I’ll have to do that again for the Draenei area, too.

Damn Gnomes

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Yesterday, our regular EQ2 group was short a member, so we decided to go do something different and visited Steamfont for the first time. We worked through the first handful of quests for the zone, mostly involving beating up kobolds, but didn’t really get anywhere too exciting.

One of the quest chains there has 20 parts though, and my quest log is full now, so I’m probably going to have to delete all the quests for there and come back for them later on.

Freedom!

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Tonight I’d only intended to get halfway through level 76, since it’s a workday and time is limited, but I actually wound up making it all the way to 77. That, of course, was cause for celebration as I could finally pick up Cold Weather Flying. Having to ride on the ground around places like Grizzly Hills and Zul’Drak was driving me nuts.

Speaking of which, I finished off most of the rest of the quests in Dragonblight and moved on to Grizzly Hills, starting with the Hold in the west this time. I also popped into Zul’Drak briefly just to do the intro quests and open up the daily there, so I can start doing that.

Yeah, Um…

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It’s kinda been a while…

EQ2: Not much happened over the Christmas holidays, but since then our group has mostly been working in Zek, finishing off zone quests and venturing into Deathfist Citadel once so far, getting my mystic to level 42 in the process. We didn’t complete everything there, since we got stomped by the arena champion, but we’ll be back… We also stopped by the Enchanted Lands one week when not enough people were around, doing a bunch of the zone quests there, but it’s not part of our official schedule right now.

I worked on a bunch of tradeskills, especially over one weekend where there was a 40% xp bonus, and I’m up to level 42 jewelcrafting on my illusionist and level 41 alchemy on my mystic, with a few minor gains on the other lower alts as well. I started a provisioner as well, so I can make my own food and drink without raiding the guild’s stocks.

We also completed a few more HQs recently, including Hadden’s Earring and the dark elf mask. Now that we’ve gained a bunch of levels, more HQs are open to us, but we haven’t really started them yet.

The new expansion is out soon, but it looks like there’s absolutely nothing in it for characters around our level, so I can wait on it for a while yet. There’s a collector’s edition, but the bonuses are laughable for the $30 extra they want for it.

WoW: Still missing that last crocolisk on my warrior. But that’s not what’s been taking up all my time, as I’ve kinda pulled my old priest, my very first WoW character, out of retirement and transferred him to Borean Tundra, where some friends are.

He was still level 66 from when I’d last played him, and I quickly worked my way through the remaining Nagrand and Shadowmoon Valley quests (skipping Blade’s Edge and Netherstorm for now), got him to Northrend, and then went through Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra. He’s now level 75 and about halfway through Dragonblight.

I had to spend a bunch of gold getting him caught up on getting a flying mount, dual specs, missing skills, and alchemy (now up to 405), but now I’ve got some breathing room to build up some savings before I can get cold weather flying. I’m finally homed in Dalaran now, so I can more easily do the various dailies, at least.

I switched to a shadow spec for levelling up, and it’s fairly powerful indeed. I’ve set up the second spec as holy, but haven’t really gotten much practice doing actual healing yet. I should probably do some pickup groups just for practice, especially with the new Dungeon Finder, even if PUGs do tend to suck.

Borderlands: I haven’t played it in a while, but we’ve finished up in the first area and moved on the to Dahl Headlands, though we haven’t done much there yet. I might have to go back and farm Sledge a bit for loot, though.