I went through the usual camps in EQ today and got the first 16 AAs towards the amount I intend to bank, but I also wandered over to the other side of the island and fought the aqua goblins for a while. They’re a bit more annoying since most of them are underwater, but there were enough nearby that I was able to get the named guy there to spawn twice, got both possible loot drops, and completed another quest back in Barren Coast. I’ve also started collecting the fingerbone rewards from the quests, since I discovered that they can be combined into a final, single augment with very good stats.

Later on I also popped into WoW and completed a small handful of quests in the Netherstorm area, but I spent most of my time fighting lag. My cable modem connection was extremely flaky today, with high packet loss and latency leading to numerous multi-second pauses in combat, stalled looting, and so on. After resetting the cable modem a bit later on, things seem improved, but overall quality of the connection has been down for the last couple weeks now. It’s been noticeable in EQ as well, with casts often exhibiting high-lag symptoms like the audio not starting until the cast is nearly done, severely delayed fizzle messages, or mobs ‘teleporting’ straight to me. If it keeps this up, I’m going to have to complain to Shaw.