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Maths Based Action!

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).

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