The Weekend UpdateFollow

Late today, but anyway... good morning everyone!

Had a very nice EQ week, again...I'm enjoying the game more and more (finally that I am able to achieve long-set goals)!

Wed: Finally, finally, finally I got my Worker Sledgemallet! No more factionwork, woot! Austria's national soccer team lost a friendly match against Canada (0:2), shame on us...

Thu: Shopping evening with my girlfriend.

Fri: Day of the premieres:

- First visit to Dulak's Harbor
- First visit to Torgiran Mines
- First visit to Grimling Forest
- First visit to Tenebrous Mountains
Tried to get the strange dark powder in Torgiran Mines for the Malaria spell, but soloing there at lvl 46 without major buffs and a root spell is very very difficult... Grouped afterwards with a friend, we picked up four others (full group) and made two LDoNs, one in Guk and one in Takish. We rocked! Cleared the dungeon, and I got my first leadership point. Dinged 47.

Sat: Shopping. No EQ.

Sun: Played for half an hour and got some Kromrif Heads for the Prayer Shawl quest.

Edited, Mon Mar 6 08:33:31 2006 by bbot

Good day all,

A bloody awful weekend here. Both wife and 2 year old daughter got food poisoning on Saturday mid day, and as of Monday morning wife is still in bed. What a great way for her to celebrate her 30th birthday. At the hospital until about 3 am with her; very thankful our child recovered quickly. Home from work, but the baby is awake (at 7:00, the second day straight with less than 4 hours sleep for me; I'm too old for that now). And to top it all off, my laptop is acting up and I can't get online; see forum if you have experience with laptops and EQ please, I really need a stress-buster!

Here's hoping that I had the worst weekend of all of us, 'cause it could have been worse.

Sometime between Thursday and Saturday night.

Crawled in and out of bed numerous times. Elne Clare and I are fight ing colds/congestion/headaches.
Dinged to 43 on the shamaness. Did a task in gunthak, leveled some with AS mates, spent a brief sojurn in velks, looked up alchemy potions. Did a little shopping in bazaar.
Sunday woke up a bit clearer but still coughing. Muscles very sore from all the coughing.
Logged in just in time to join Aude Sapere expedition to get Seb key. Thankfully I had made some IVU potions before the PoRO changes.
Spent time running around getting ingrediants and sat down to level alchemy. Now at 100! Will,later today I think, get to 106.
Took another task and duoed in Dulaks with guildmate. Then ran invis through luggald caverns, with gate up, to complete it. Made me one yellow from 44, so I them camped the beach at Gunthak for the final bar. After that the guild brougth out all the lower levels so I logged on the 15 rogue Cump (named after W T Sherman.) We went to Najeena, and did well. Killed the froggie named, with only one death. We did have One group wipe due to being trained by a group who were not good enough for the Arachnia mistress. They did shout a warning but only when they reached the room we were in, and we were already engaged in killing a red skeleton. It was no big deal however, a clicky cleric was logged on and in short order we were killing again.
No drop for the paladin however, so his ghoulbane will have to wait a bit more. Dinged to 17. Broke up when it was late, and went back to POK. Cump is now the newest member of Aude Sapere, guild of Povar.
If you are looking for a home away from home AS just might be the place for you.

Sat: did 3 LDoNS. still need about 9 more fer this spell (2.5 k ice based nuke).

Sunday: wiped on Emoush. not enough DPS. only got him down to 83% or so the first time. then two tanks went down within 3 mins (one tank re-engaged mystic, but didn't bring him back to camp. when healer got to tank, he was dead). raidleader called evac.

was fun, as this really was the first time raiding. raidleader did a great job imho too. clear, precise but also witty. well, next time we just need 4 groups :)

Pretty much the whole weekend was spent in Povar with my Iksar warrior alt in Kurn's Tower. Got some good groups, and repeatedly cleared basment. Gained 6 levels and got alt guilded for fun,

Edited, Mon Mar 6 16:43:32 2006 by Deodhlais

Friday Night: Started a Bard to play with a friend who had just started playing EQ.Went through Tutorial and started fighting in BB.

Saturday: Nixed the Bard and powerleveled friend's Shadowknight with my 57 Druid in SRo

Sunday: Grouped with said friend's SK with my 20 Enchanter in SRo on a steady diet of Crocs and Orcs.

Monday: After work (Techincally Tues. Morning) took friend to EK to kill Crag spiders. Spent most of the time doing corpse runs.

Here is my tale of PoR expansion and upgrades.
Friday night: took some friends up and tried the The Colossus of Skylance , As I had watched 12 to 14 people do him the first night of the release. No picnick Started with two groups, finished with 3.5 groups, still no luck.

Saturday: Upgraded my cleric and enchanters armor <boxed Alts> with Breastplate of the Harmonious Soul and Robe of Persuasion , respectively. Lost 10ac on chanter for better stats.

Sunday: Upgraded <boxed cleric alts> clerics legs to Greaves of the Harmonious Soul , then proceeded to upgrade back slot items on my Warrior, cleric, and bard to:
Cloak of the Spirit Tracker
Evolving: Level 1/3 (evolves 1 percent a kill solo)
Slot: Back
AC: 25
STR 15 Sta 20 Wis 15 Int 15 Agi 10 hp 175 mana 175 end 170
SV fire 15 sv cold 15 sv magic 15
attack 20
regeneration 2
mana regeneration 2
rec. 65
wt. 1.0
class all race all
slot 1 type 7



My next goal is to similarly equip bard bp and legs, then head to Devastation and farm for arms and boots.

Friday: Decided to start a new character, something I have never played before and not twink it out. I went with a Barbarian Beastlord. I hit the Mines of Gloomingdeep with a big thud!

Saturday:Still untwinked, I finish the whole tutorial section completing every task and quest. I decide I will do every noob task in PoK and Halas.

Sunday: Still working on completing all noob quests, by days end I hit level 15 and have some decent noob armor. (note to self...noob armor these days is quite decent, not what it was when I started playing 3 years ago)

Monday and Tuesday: Still untwinked, and enjoying the challenge. It is strange how much i enjoy playing this character....

Edited, Wed Mar 8 11:39:51 2006 by shadomen

Edited, Wed Mar 8 11:42:53 2006 by shadomen

Edited, Wed Mar 8 11:43:36 2006 by shadomen

Will we have to rename it the Weeklong Update?

just doing my part to keep it going... heehee