Weekend UpdateFollow

Saturday I finally found and bought Spell: Demi Lich for less than 9k (though 5K was still half of my cash).

Sunday I finally made the last 4% to level 58. Also found a guy buying Nightmarewood Bow Staves while soloing in PoN. Looted a staff just as he /OOC'd, sold it to him, then informed him that thre was another on my trader, which he bought overnight.

I'm having a hard enough time trying to play my main (a druid) with the group of RL friends I have that enjoy playing EQ, and splitting time with my OTHER main (a pally) in a guild that wonders every once in a while, "Hey, where you been, bro???"

This is NOT to mention the other 10+ toons I have across 2 different servers....sigh...

Fri: Leveled my Ranger to 37 in DSp
Sat: Went camping for the night so no EQ
Sun: Returned from camping and dinged 38 with the ranger.

Well didn't play at all this weekend.

Friday - Concert
Saturday - Moved a friend all day.
Sunday - Lazy but a bunch of us went out to dinner.


As for that first AA, just got mine within the last two weeks after 4 1/2 years. I know I am pathetic but I barely played sometimes for months at a clip.

Now though I have 2 AA's!!!!

No EQ for me, haven't played in about two weeks (getting a little stale)

Haven't been around that much lately

As usually, my weekend starts on:

Thu: First session since 3 weeks ago. Again LDoNs with friends, my first in Everfrost. Beastlord dinged 28. Crap loot this time, no augs, no items, no money (except for some copper...)

Fri-Sun: No EQ, this weekend belonged to my girlfriend.

Mon: We bought a new Notebook for my girlfriend, no more fighting for the computer! Hope to be online much more often from now on (at least my trader will...)

Friday finaly got Necro his last flag for elementals.

Saturday killed 4 Sol Ro minis for what seems like fifth time.

Sunday killed a couple of PoP flag mobs but cant rember what ones. Messed around in Hole solo with necro trying to farm some words to maybe get cleric RGC finaly got a Yaeth pg73 left Doh! so close had bad pull trying break into temple area and died.

Went try and exp grind in fire but had no luck finding my way around zone and eventualy died trying to swim down a lava tunel.

Went to HoH to finish last 2% of level 67 I had put Necro at 90% to AA exp once he had reached 10% into 67 so 88% of 67% came from that 10% so I consider level 68 my free level took me exactly 100aa points to fill up exp bar though had a huge number of deaths and im sure that added allot to total amount of exp needed.

Just as I suspected HoH exp turned to crap once I hit 68 cut in half it seems so all the bakers and young necros that have been buying hero parts and spec ethral spells from me are going to have to find a new suplier.

A friend of mine finaly explains how to use lev to get out of first area in Fire and tells me way to tables exp grind spot. So I head that way die once but make it there on second atempt. Very bad lag once I get there makes soloing harder then it should be but Exp is as good as it been described. Make my 10% real exp buffer into 68 right before I run behind a crate while kiteing a mob and get stuck virtue has just faded and mob catches me and hits me six times for 850. So I run to guild lobby to summon corpse and get a rez before I log. Seems I have found replacement for HoH just in time though.

Log in bazaar mule before I head to bed when I remember I need to buy some runes for my 68 spells pull up bazaar window and type in muramite rune and then get pissed off some goddamn idiot has decided to buy up all the 68 runes in bazaar and jack the price from 3k a rune to 12k.

Same crap happend right as necro was hitting 67 so he had to wait three weeks to get all his 67 spell while person trying to corner market slowly was educated to the folly trying to rig the price on a item that drops in mutipule zone of many different type of mobs. Now it seems I have to wait again for my 68 spells while another fool learns about how supply and demand works.

Fairly good weekend getting close to point where I turn off AA exp and head to level 70.

Very very true. I recieved a great compliment recently when invited to a pickup group in WoS. After the first few seconds of tanking for this new group, the cleric says something like: "This pally is good". Not sure what he's talking about, so I ask. Basically, he says that he's regularly run into level 70 tanks that are harder to heal then I am at level 66. Part of that may be gear (although I'm hardly "uber" by any measure), but a huge part of that is that I've spent the time working up my AAs.

The journey is at least as important as the destination. Those who argue to level first then get AAs are focusing on the end goal of being level 70. But some of us want to have fun along the way, and AAs make that possible. In the end, it's totally up to the player. I personally feel it's a lot easier to get into groups if you pace yourself as you level by getting AAs in between. Gear upgrades work similarly. You don't want to outlevel your gear, so sometimes it's a good idea to stop and AA for a bit until you can pick up better stuff. This obviously matters a lot more for tanks then say casters, but it's somewhat relevant to all classes to some degree.

As to my weekend? Didn't play EQ at all. Darn RL intervening... :(