First update in 15 months?

What an interesting 15 months its been.  Levelling wasn't so bad.  I did get to 50 in classic on both my bard and cleric, and to 60 in kunark.  I skipped the VP key.  Raided the shit outta everything else, but Kunark raiding kind of sucked.  There was like..no loot.  I was just banking DKP.  my new guild <Venerate, Inc> which morphed into <Mess> has no DKP decay.  Velious was a glorious time for loot.

Made tons of gear, got to Luclin, VT key sucked, got it done, emp key not so bad.  Ended Luclin in sweet gear, and Pop was awesome.  Been raiding PoTime for 5 months+ now.  Kind of over it.  Only need 1 more item though, I'll be 100% time/elemental geared.  And most of that is time geared.

LDON drops soon.  I pretty much only play to raid.  I do need about 200 more AA(have 140ish), but I just can't stare at Fire mobs any more for 3-5AA/hour.  I'd rather watch another season of Quantico or play Crisis in the Kremlin or something.

I haven't payed cash to play in a while, just kind of selling everrything I find to fund a krono a month to keep my 1 account open.

Staying motivated to keep levelling

Once I hit 46, I sort of lost interest in levelling.  I've been on a half-dozen raids since then, and only 2 xp groups.  I did get myself to 47 this morning.

47 is a good level because I get the 90% rez.   I felt like a major asshole giving people 75% rezzes on raids.  I have been able to solo for xp in lower guk.  Its slow, but not slower than a bad group. A little risky.  2 or 3 light blues can totally kill me due to stun issues.  And wizards chain casting lightning bolt really sucks, that spell has a stun component and casts faster then my heals or nukes.

Level 46 and first hate raid

Levelling:  The Hole and goblins carried me to 46.


Plane of Hate:  I was there for 2 hours in a raid of 15 people.  I got the Prismatic Shield.

I like doing open world hate.  Just need to get enough people up there to keep multiple instances up.

More Aqua Goblins? Really?

I thought I'd seen enough of these guys to last 10 lifetimes.  40-43 at Goblin Isle.  XP is slower because memorial day xp is over and because post 40 is just slower.

My guild has been raiding, and at 43, I'm close to joining them.  I'm sure another cleric will be a welcome addition.

7 days of everquest...level 40

Today is 5/30, and the server has been up for almost 7 days.  I'll be taking today off from playing to rest up and work on wife faction.

I did 11-29 unrest, and 29-40 in lower guk , with a brief 2 level interlude in solb at 35-37.

Its been too fast, to be honest.  1-40 in less then a week, with a job, and 3 small kids is pretty much rapid.  Its no wonder they killed the Gods already.  Neckbeards can certainly get much further along, and if they get together, yeah, no wonder naggy died 3 days into server.

Its been pretty good so far, I know that 40-50 can be slow due to low # of camps available.

I'm going to try a kedge group out.  I think I'd like to try that.

First 2 days.

Well, opening day was a blast.  We got to wait for about an hour to get logged in safely and get started.

It was nearly impossible to make a new char and get going, so I did not execute my plan to do erudin to qeynos mail quests to get smithing money.  I went with the slower armadillo questing.

I levelled my cleric pretty hardcore to 17, and my bard to 5.  The bard is doing all my smithing, and is up to 112.  I have several hundred platinum.

I slept 3 hours Wed and 3 hours Thu.  Today is Fri, and I'm tired.  Might not play tonight at all.

Levelling timeline

Here is my super optimistic plan

5-24  14th level
5-25  23rd level
5-26 27th level
5-27 32nd level
5-28 36th level
5-29 38th level
5-30 40th level
5-31 42nd level
6-1 44th level
6-2 47th level
6-3 47th level (Raiding)
6-4 48th level
6-5 49th level
6-6 50th level

I'm going to get extra patience from my family for the first week, and after that, its kind of a "only when they're all sleeping" thing

Looking at this, I do wonder about playing a cleric. It would mean each time I login I should a group fairly quickly.