Weekend UpdateFollow

Think people will have a lot to tell this Monday, and I think we'll get a lot of DING messages!

Thu: Did two quick monster missions in Freeport, never done them before. Nice to be a pirate and slaughter the guards! The boots rotted two times as nobody had the right class to use them. Dinged 41. Got my new spells, finally spiritual light, yay! Got my tailoring up from 54 to 76 with woven mandrake and picnic baskets.

Fri+Sat: No EQ for me, girlfriend faction all the way.

Sun: Finally some double experience. My friends were busy, so I kited Hill Giants in Rathe for my cultural expert task for about an hour. Took a break and continued at night, watched the simulcast of Superbowl semi finals. GO SEATTLE!!! Nearly dinged 42, only 4% left!

Why's Stromm excluded from the xp bonus? Did they not pop the beta vendors there?

MM's, more MM's.. whole bunch of boring, boring MM's. Got a couple levels (58-61) on the Shadowknight and am three missions away from my horse now.

81 AA's - all in freakin' MMs

Edited, Tue Jan 24 09:48:23 2006 by KriegsmaschineVondentoten

just mad this WE...

first time I soloed Krenshin with my 11 Ogre Shammie. was down to 20% HP and OOM, but made it :-) defense is still only 41 though...:-/

else, mindnumbing MM's. if it wasn't for the "emote wars" with guildies, would have been worse. so at least we had a good laugh once in a while. also, I have to admit, that the HHK one is not as bad as floating around as a feckin fairy...

thus, ping 100 and ding 65... maxxed my crit AA's and now have spell casting subtlety 3

off to ping a bit more tonight ;)

Did HHK MM's with my main and NEK MM's with my alt.

I never want to do them again. The NEK Mission isn't all that bad but the High Hold Keep mission makes me want to commit Harry Carrey.

Getting 40% exp at level 56 was just too much to pass up so I did about 4 of them over the weekend.

I am so glad the double exp thing is over.

Cubs win, Cubs win!

(insert some time in between words to listen to him gasp for air)

I wasn't able to get online until late Sunday evening (midnight EST) and saw one ooc that said Stromm wasn't getting the double xp. Figured it was just my luck, and headed out to Sol B to keep on harassing the kobolds. However, I blazed through the rest of level 47, used the double xp vet reward and two passes through the bat caves had me ding 48. Then I headed to the DL and killed db for an hour or so and when I logged off I had made it to level 50.

Now it was my first time soloing in the DL so I'm not sure how the xp usually goes there. My past 3 or 4 sessions have been spent in Sol B and I noticed a definite increase in the xp last night.

stromm had a server crash on sat night. when the server came back up, it reverted to the default code, ie reg xp. it wasn't fixed till Sunday evening. so as of now, stromm has double xp, but didn't for most of the weekend. lucky us.

Saturday I dinged level 70 on my rogue and promptly went to Bazaar and bought 700 radiant crystals to add to the 330 I had already and bought my self a Light Wieght Parrying Dagger and the Murky Iolite Shard so now I have a 17 damage and 18 delay piercer in my primary. Lots of things are going to die much faster now.

Sunday I got my 300th AA on the above mentioned Rogue.

Edited, Mon Jan 23 11:38:17 2006 by fhrugby

"set" smack loot "ding aa'
"set heal loot "ding 12"
"set" smack loot "ding aa'
"set heal loot "ding 13"
"set" smack loot "ding aa'
"set heal loot "ding 15"
"set" smack loot
"set heal loot "ding 16"
"set" smack loot "ding aa'
"set heal loot "ding 18"
"set" smack loot "ding aa'
"set heal loot "ding 19"
"set" smack loot
"set heal loot "ding 21"
"set" smack loot "ding aa'
"set heal loot "ding 22"
"set" smack loot "ding aa'
create Shammy get him to 10 in 2 & 1/2 hrs
"set smack loot "ding 12 on new shammy "
"set" smack loot "ding aa'
"set heal loot "ding 13"
Sleep repeat as needed

AA= Pally
ding 12-22 cleric alt mainly as buf mule for guild. Have lost
all but two of our regular player Clerics to raid guilds
Son started beastie about 2 weeks ago and I wanted to play with him and wanted a shammy to duo with him he is a 17 so I wanted to get the Shammy to 13 before we went out anymore and fizzle will def be a prob

Edited, Mon Jan 23 12:53:25 2006 by Trablin

Good point, to answer your question for me. This weekend was a memroable exp. I have only done to MM LV things right after I hit 50 I mm the first 6 AAs in one evening then this weekend

Excellent point!

I used this weekend as a push for as much exp as I could get. It started of as fun but quickly eroded into a chore. My goal was to get to 60 (from 56.5) and I only made it into 57 with an AA point. This is a huge accomplishment but pales in comparison to some people who literaly didn't sleep much at all this weekend. It was not fun.

Therefore I ended up turing the game off and starting a toon on EQ2. Also played my PS2 and Need for Speed: Underground for a bit.

I'll go back to eq1 when things get back to normal and the urge for easy xp resides. It was fun but kinda felt like cheating in a way...

I think others answered it well by saying if there is one specific goal you have and this weekend offered a chance to reach that goal in a fraction of the time, maybe it is worth it.

In other cases, I know some people gave up trying to find a regular group and went to the MMs because everyone was there and MMs were better than sitting around PoK, or playing no EQ at all.

In my case, I have no specific goals, so I was able to just poke around, clean the guild bank, and visit codecay for the first time since I burned out on the MMs after about 4 of them. Though, the MMs I did participate in were fun since I had the pleasure of grouping with MentalFrog. It's always fun when our paths cross.

Finally Sunday evening I joined a regular PoV outer group. That was fun. We even got practice avoiding trains as the PoV inner group fell apart a few times.

Edited, Mon Jan 23 14:07:14 2006 by JoltinJoe