I’ve continued to be busy in EQ2, of course, even though I keep forgetting to update here. Last weekend I started a dark elf SK alt and got him up to level 16 and 20 armoursmithing. Melee in EQ2 is definitely more involved than in EQ1, mainly because of the huge number of attack cooldowns you wind up having, and from trying to use Heroic Opportunities effectively. I still don’t really have a good pattern down for the SK like I do for the mystic.

Speaking of the mystic, I got his alchemy up to level 30, and that’s about as far as I can get without gaining more class levels. He’s still stuck at level 19, but I took the opportunity to wander around to the Commonlands and Greater Faydark and do as many newbie quests as I could. There weren’t many I could do in the Commonlands since I can’t enter Freeport, but I’m still working through them in GFay. I’m up to 33 AA points now just from all of these extra quests and exploration.

My money problems are also temporarily solved after finding a quest chain on the island of Mara that only required gathering materials, for a reward of over 17 gold each time. You have to go to higher and higher level areas each time though, so I’m stuck on the fourth stage of it for now, but I earned enough to buy myself some 22-slot backpacks for the shared bank, at least.