Speedos…

I think I have gotten out of the habit of writing this blog…  about time I started up again though…

I’m all Night of the Dead’ed out now – you don’t want to know how many times I ran that maze to get hedges for decorating (this is hedges for our guild hall as well as my own decorating projects :O) its shocking… just shocking…  I just need to summon up the enthusiasm to grind out some more tokens from the live event to buy the things I may need in the future and that’ll be that…  I have a crazy amount of decorating projects on the go – suzita’s house (a couple of the rooms I am now happy with… the rest need that WOW factor badly…), Asirra’s house in Maj’dul (not been working out the way I want…), Pickle’s house in Neriak is now almost done (thinking of changing the stone I’ve used & seeing what turns up at Frostfell as she has a Fire & Ice theme), a house in Kelethin yet to decorate, Saraya’s house is now done aside from some table settings…  I’ll have to get some screenies up (and 1 of the guild maze ) oh and I’ve started on Lanegan’s house in Gorowyn

Have also been adventuring lately  I’ve been working on Suzita’s achievements (those I can do solo) but have mainly been taking Saraya out on guild groups as we are slightly lacking healers at the mo.  Its been great getting more healing experience though  Last night was one of the funniest nights I’ve had in the game  - the few glasses of wine I’d had probably contributed to that too…  We went into Nizara, had a ton of comedy wipes (people being kicked back all the way to the water at the beginning of the zone, Dimzad even got kicked back through a wall… I know dwarves are stout but that’s gotta be a joke?) Dimzad hates The Forgotten City / Nizara as he always gets lost, so we just ran around randomly killing things (and being thrown about in a superhero fashion) and we managed to collect our pages for The Rift quest and kill the named needed.  We decided (and I’m not sure I was the only one drinking here ) that clearly that tonight we were UBAH and decided to try out the epic zones.  The x2 ended up being a no-go as not all of us had done the access quest so we thought pfft let’s go give that turtle dragon a kicking instead  Oh did I mention there were 5 of us (Dimzad zerker, Eduthooha guard, me Saraya Inq, Woodyelf monk & Kajen speedo wearing swappy).  We read the strat after a couple of wipes  and realised that having no mage was a very bad idea and in fact that having at least 2 of each class might help our chances somewhat  Was very funny though.

After the wipetastic turtle dragon event we needed to get back our mojo and decided that Anathema would do just nicely.  We invited along Chingus another zerker and Dimzad switched to his coercer Glarim.  The zone went very smoothly (well fairly smoothly considering I was quite tipsy and I started getting spinny halfway through the zone – we only had a couple of wipes )  I can’t remember exactly what we were talking about (swashy speedos did lower the tone of the conversation it has to be said, and there was a lot of teasing of rangers/tipsy inquisitors ) but I don’t think I have giggled so much for a long time  Thanks guys – was a hugely funny evening

The speedos in question:

(lol sorry Kajen that clothing bug is just too funny though )

Our halfling is teething at the moment so tonight I just did some decorating / tidying of houses and sneaked onto test (omg! some of the new house items coming in are just so cool!)

Holiday :)

am away on holiday this week

happy hunting all!

and… more decorating!

I finished decorating our Guild Hall’s tradeskill area, I’m really pleased with it and the response from the Guild has been lovely – thanks all  My aim was to make the tradeskilling area an interesting place to be, keep the item count down in the area to try and avoid lag, keep the npcs nice and accessible and still allow people to run through from the entrance way to the merchant area with no obstacles…

Entrance

Entrance 2

Forge area

Overall view of ground floor

View of the ramp to upstairs

View from top of ramp

View to left (upstairs)

View to right (upstairs)

Looking through to the bar

Aside from that I have been helping with lots of guildy’s epic updates as we’ve had a fair amount of returnee’s and new people join the guild – so welcome all  Hopefully going to be getting an update in deepest Seb with asirra tonight (yep definitely half heartedly working on her epic )  she is still retired though…

decorating :)

Poor baby has a horrible stinking cold with a dose of wheezing thrown in…  which means not much sleep or anything else at the moment   I did get a couple of hours respite last night and managed to plan the items needed to re-decorate our guild’s tradeskill area (this was before I realised myself and Dimzad would be up for most of the night, otherwise I think I would have done something more useful… like sleep lol)

While I haven’t been blogging, I also finished Pickle’s house (until they bring in the new room anyways…) half finished Saraya’s house (she will now be moving to a bigger house) and redone Suzita’s main room with a view to move things around when the new room comes in.  I will get some screenies up when I have time

I’m looking forward to the guild hall decorating, now I have the idea in my head I am itching to get it done!  We are completely revamping our Hall as we ended up at 996/1000 items and so not be able to put in any seasonal decorations.  We ended up closing down the side rooms in the basement and moving a few things about.

anyways!

Back!

Well I haven’t been away from EQ2, have just found it hard to keep up my blog and I got out of the habit of it I think.  Hello all again

Still been having lots of fun playing, been out doing the usual instances.  We found out in Emporer’s Atheneum if you /rude at the crowd, they attack you…  Our swappy Kajen did this and we found it so hysterically funny that we all had a go  Kalyyn added it to the wiki as an ‘interesting effect’ to try after you have killed the named there  Was a very funny night, though we still haven’t killed that final set of 4 nameds in there – need to have a serious effort with them at some time.

My carpenter has now crept up to level 60 but I haven’t been levelling anyone else recently, either adventure or tradeskill.  I have been playing on test too (in a slacker fashion) since June.  I have a little shadowknight, ranger and fury and they are all in their teens adventure and crafter level  I’m not part of a guild at the moment – its been quite fun and a challenge levelling and travelling without the support of a guild and its amenities…  I had forgotten how easy travel is now compared to how it was.  Not to mention the lack of money  Though transmute fodder seems to sell well and I now have the sum total of around 40g!!  (yes very rich )  I play very erratically on there so am um-ing and ah-ing about seeing whether there is a guild out there which would have me…  Talking of test – the stuff coming in GU 53 is fantastic!  I’m really looking forward to the achievements addition, the Nights of the Dead event & Shard of Love (gotta get those wings!)  I’m less enthusiastic about the racial trait changes…  They seem a bit bleh and I’m still a little miffed that so many scout abilities are being ‘given out’.  I guess though it does make sense but some races seem to have very useful stuff (e.g. dark elves & teleport, those with tracking) and others are bit less useful (arasai & glide, half elf/wood elf with infravision – who uses infravision?! unless I’m missing something cool about that lol).  Anyway Feldon at Eq2wire has done a very nice guide.

I’ve not been raiding with our allied guild for a long time.  Baby is still too unsettled for me to be able to do this.  Its a shame but hey ho.  They’re doing well and progressing nicely.  Kalyyn and Glarim are still raiding with them and racking up death debt and phat lewtz

We are looking to do a little raiding within our own guild though (as I can go afk at need here).  We can 1 group the trash in Shard of Hate and think we should be able to do at least the first 4 nameds in Protector’s Realm and hopefully start sticking our noses into WOE (though we know we won’t get very far in there at the moment )   Will be fun hopefully