News, views and experiences from the world of MMO’s
Personally, i’ve been looking forward to this for ages, but at long last LEGO UNIVERSE BETA IS STARTING SOON!
Click here to head to the beta sign up page.
Looking likely to be a blockier version of Second Life with much less filth and more JOYOUS HAPPY BLOCKS OF WIN!
Sorry, just loved Lego as a kid.
.. back to EQ2 it seems.
Been playing a good few hours of the beta, and I’ve already cancelled my pre order.
So after a fair bit of time when the hardest thing I was tanking was Crucible, with the occasional Protectors Realm “social” raid I have finally started tanking proper raids again!
I first had to find me some raiding action, and had been getting /tells from my offtank from when I was the Main Tank for a raid alliance called Avit to come join his guild, and to be honest, I hadn’t been getting on with the Tank regime at my old guild, so I jumped ship to get me on a more regular, and more importantly, interesting raid spot. Continue reading ‘Getting back into the swing of things…’
Last night, after many weeks of questing and, grabbing updates, sneaking onto raids, I finally got my Mythical, The Truth of Marr. Now this is was going to be a post with some screenshots of the big scary dungeon that is Veeshan’s Peak, all the wiki’s, various EQ2 websites only have rubbish low rez ones, but alas, I forgot to take screenshots… (Well, I got one from in there.)
Anyway, on with the tale…
Ok, so I’ve finally sorted out my PC (which rather spectacularly went the way of eggs in microwave ovens) and after 18 hours of patching joy, I’ve finally got back into my MMO of choice, the behemoth that is EverQuest II. After much fiddling with UI, working out how to switch multicore support off, and generally waffling about, I went into the big bad world of Pickup Groups.
Today I picked Scion of Ice, a nice easy instance to ease my way back into doing what I do best; annoying mobs and taking a damned good thrashing. First mob down, no problems, moved onto the next, then… Lo and behold! A parse dump in group chat! Apparently I am 1900 or thereabouts, not fussed on wether that is good or not, whearas a squishier person, today that role is a warlock (don’t even get me started on amends) was around 4000. This continued for the duration of the instance, every few mobs, the numbers returned, boredom sets in, my number goes down, dinner is almost ready, heads back up, food is postponed, down it plummets… (aggro, meanwhile, is unaffected, of course).
There I was, logging onto EQ2, as you do, and then a popup appeared, with some nice shiny pictures to grab my attention. I clicked the link, and had a quick look at the website (Here) and dismissed it as something for the “ebayer” friendly station exchange servers.
Obviously this wasn’t the case, it happens to be on all the servers.
At this moment in time, the items range from the pointless (fluff pets) to the unfair (exp potions), so as it stands, not really affecting game balance all that much… but this is quite possibly the start of something else altogether.
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