The Weekend Update for Monday, October 20th, 2014Follow

My weekend woes were entirely non EQ related. It was the two days I fear every two to three years when it comes time to search out a new cell phone contract. I rarely travel any more, so I settled on a company called Wind Mobile. They offered $40 a month unlimited calling and data. Well, they turned down my credit for some reason and besides no longer had the phone I wanted (HTC One M8). Went to try Virgin Mobile, got my credit approved in less than a minute, but didn't offer the phone. Stupidly, I settled for a phone of lesser value. 12 hours later after fighting to set up the phone, missing several calls and texts when the phone didn't vibrate, ring or do anything to signal incoming calls or texts, I took it back and cancelled the contract. Do not walk, run away if anyone offers the HTC Desire 510....

Next, I got my credit approved at two other suppliers who actually offered the phone and had it in stock and proceeded in the back and forth negotiations for deals. Got one to reduce the phone by $70 and contracts were similar, so I went with them. Another few hours of setup and good to go.

I now have two years to get my blood pressure under control before the "quest" begins anew.

Not much EQ for me this weekend - I was working. But I had one funny experience about being Free Player
My main is on All Access account, but my pocket mage is'nt.

I was working on my mages 1.5 epic - farming stuff.
Then I had to rise brewing skill above 100.
I went to brew barrel at PoK, opened it, hit Search Resipes... and nothing. I inserted "Fettid Essence" - nothing. "Fetid" - still nothing. "Essence" - nothing again.
Then i tried to place ingredients into the barrel - it did'nt let to.
Hm...

I started to realize that maybe I can't use this new fancy crafting system because of Free Player status.

So I hit Experiment button which opens alternative barrel window and worked it up in old way - placing ingredients one by one, hitting Combine and so on till my skill was 122
Fortunately there was only two ingredients in this recipe.

So I had a very old school afternoon

Welcome back


BTW, I had the same story with my former main shammy. I was away 7-8 years and when I came back I just could'nt "connect" with him anymore - I leveled him a bit, but I was'nt... motivated. I did'nt saw SK as my main either, so I started a necro and having lots of fun again.
So I let my shammy rest - he has done enough , but my alt SK is still in game.

What about others in this forum - did this happened to you too?

Use your stuns. They generate massive amounts of agro, are cheap, and even if you don't grab agro, they stun the mob, thus preventing it from running after your wizard (for a few seconds at least). Of course, the wiz can still out agro him if he goes full nuke. And at the level range you're in right now, it's honestly probably not a huge deal anyway (not worth slowing down wiz damage to keep damage on the pally). But later on, you're likely going to want to find a nice balance between damage rate for the wiz and agro holding for the pally. And yes, paladins do get some additional agro-only spells later on, but honestly I still mostly just use stuns. Oh. And there's a line of AA stuns that later splits into a "do more damage" branch and a "generate tons of agro" branch. Good stuff!

I caught Venril Sathir, so I have done most of the "never done or even seen" targets on my EQ Bucket list thread.

I definately agree that playing something different is often a good way to come back.

I had to quit my awesome job to get a new poopy 9 to 5 job that pays more, because I couldn't live off my old job anymore :/

And I logged in to kill Trakanon because he was the only jerk that was up on my rare list.