Back To The Coast

Posted on May 2, 2009 by heide

I figured I’d try somewhere new in EQ today, so I headed to the areas of the Buried Sea expansion. Unfortunately it’s a lot smaller than I expected — there are two main zones, but then the rest of them seem to be LDoN-ish mission areas that need a group.

Oh well. I picked up a bunch of tasks in the Barren Coast zone and worked on them for a bit, though they were fairly simple ones that only awarded xp, cash, and faction. A few of them took me into the Buried Sea zone and I hunted there for a while to work on one of them, though the xp wasn’t all that great. I did pick up a bunch of miscellaneous items that might be good for twinks, though.

Best of all though, I managed to see a level 76 named basilisk spawn twice, and just barely beat him both times (first time with my animation, second time with a charmed basilisk), and got both of his drops, including a rather nice 33% haste belt with decent stats. My monk will love that when/if he hits level 68.

Damn Kids

Posted on May 1, 2009 by heide

The seasonal events in WoW rolled right into each other as Children’s Week started up today. It’s a much smaller event though, basically escorting kids around to certain locations, and getting some pets as the final reward. There are some achievements relating to having them around with you when you do certain things, but I probably won’t bother with the PvP ones.

And it was the same old AA grinding in EQ tonight, though I’ve started putting ranks into the Jewelcraft Mastery skill, since I should probably resume raising it at some point. The fewer failures I have, the less it’ll cost me.

Chocoholic

Posted on April 30, 2009 by heide

As I’d hoped, I finished off the Noblegarden achievements in WoW tonight, though it took a bit longer than expected. I ran around to various spots looking for a female dwarf, the rarest combination of all in the game, but had no luck for a long stretch. They were probably all in Dalaran, but I still don’t have access to there yet. But I did run across one by pure chance in Ratchet, and finished off that achievement.

The last achievement was just to eat a bunch of chocolates from the eggs, but it turned out to be a multi-tiered achievement and I needed a total of 100 instead of just the 25 I thought it was. Fortunately competition for the eggs was a bit lighter tonight.

And as usual, I popped into EQ for the daily xp period and got yet another rank of the mana regen AA. It might seem unnecessary with the boosted out-of-combat regen rate they added, but when I’m charm soloing I’m usually in combat mode 99% of the time, and my regen rate determines whether I can sustain the charming or if my mana will slowly dwindle towards zero…

Another Day, Another 50 Eggs

Posted on April 29, 2009 by heide

The Easter event continued on in WoW tonight, and I picked up a new set of Spring Robes and a handful of achievements related to the event. I only need two more achievements to complete the whole event set, which would be the first time I’ve ever done so, and they should be fairly easy ones to get.

And in EQ I put another rank into the mana regen AA. Yay.

Bunnies!

Posted on April 29, 2009 by heide

I haven’t done much in EQ the last couple days except use up the daily double xp period (gaining enough AAs for the Persistent Minion skill), but I did get sucked back into WoW for yet another special event, this time for Easter.

It centers mainly around finding eggs hidden around some of the starting areas, and turning in the chocolates inside for rewards or finding other random rewards in the eggs. So far I have the full tuxedo suit (pictured below), an elegant dress, two equippable flower bouquets, and a new pet Spring Rabbit. The rabbit is especially cute in how it does a big leap to catch up to you if it wanders too far away.

Pretend Love Is Better Than Nothing, Right?

Posted on February 11, 2009 by heide

And it’s time to dip back into WoW yet again thanks to another timed event. This time it’s the “Love Is In The Air” festival, and I managed to complete the Horde gift collection part and a handful of achievements tonight. A lot of the achievements for it just depend on random luck in what you get from a gift you can only attempt once an hour, though.

I also still need to track down a dwarf hunter for the rose-petal-sprinkling achievement, but everyone’s staying in their home cities for the event. Shattrath, Gadgetzan, and Booty Bay were all deserted.

Yawn

Posted on February 2, 2009 by heide

I played a bit of WoW tonight, finally finishing off the Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms achievement and doing a handful of Netherstorm quests. None of them were particularly exciting though, and I felt like I was getting a bit bored again, so perhaps my return to WoW was a little premature.

Oh well, there’s still plenty of other games to play. And by plenty I mean way too many, of course…

I Hope It’s Not The Radioactive Cobalt

Posted on February 2, 2009 by heide

Today’s WoW session was a mixed bag of things, starting out with leveling an alt a bit. I don’t really intend to play them a lot, but it might be useful to get them to the point where they can do some mid-level crafting.

After that it was back to the Outlands, where I gathered enough adamantium ore to claw my way to 350 blacksmithing, which later on in the day let me make some nifty new cobalt armour for myself. After finishing off a few quests in Terrokar and Blade’s Edge (mostly in areas I can now fly to), I headed off to Netherstorm and started working on the quests there.

I only got a handful done before I got the itch to try and get fishing up to Grand Master level, so I headed back to Orgrimmar and fished for a bit. I even managed to fish up Old Crafty, for an achievement, so I then headed to Northrend to see what I could find there instead. In the end I wound up with six or seven stacks of good food items, a blue dagger I caught on one cast (no stats or sockets, though, but worth a bit of gold), and made it to 350 skill.

And then it was back to the Plaguelands for a bit, originally just to finish off one quest but I discovered a handful of other quests I hadn’t finished and worked on them for a bit. I’m now only 8 quests away from the Loremaster achievement for the Eastern Kingdoms…

Living Underground

Posted on February 1, 2009 by heide

It was another day spent in WoW, and I managed to clear out three dungeons this time: Sunken Temple, Wailing Caverns, and The Deadmines.

Sunken Temple I actually had to go back and do a second time, since I ran across the big boss but he wasn’t attackable, and I hadn’t realized that something else I did later on made him attackable; I thought I needed to start a quest line elsewhere or something. Ah well. I’d done Wailing Caverns before, but it was so long ago that it apparently didn’t record it as an achievement. And the Deadmines is really an Alliance dungeon, so there wasn’t much to do but rush through and kill the boss.

I also finished off a bunch of other miscellaneous quests, primarily around Blasted Lands. I’m now within 35-45 quests of finishing off the Loremaster achievements for Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. It might still be out of my reach though, if a lot of the remaining ones are for high-end raids or PvP. This list of easily-missed quests should come in handy.

Whodaman?

Posted on January 30, 2009 by heide

Continuing on with the Great Dungeon Cleanup, I finished off Uldaman tonight. There was really only a single quest left, but it was annoying since it required entering the instance twice and flying all over the place in between. At least the instance part is fairly short. I also took the opportunity to knock off a handful of other overlooked quests while traveling around, as well.

Next up, Sunken Temple. That’s probably as high as I’ll be able to go by myself until I gain more levels.

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