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24
Jan
2013

Happy Birthday – to ME!

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I don’t do much for a year. Most diets last a couple of weeks. Keeping the house spotless lasts about 2 days.

But, Caela’s Corner is now a year old! And I think there was a post made every month. Some months were a little light – but here we are a year later and I’m still updating the blog. Probably helps that I’m addicted to EQ2 :)

One of the things I’ve really enjoyed over the past year is improving the blog.  New themes, new features.  One of the coolest features is the EQ2U pop ups.  Right after EQ2Wire started using them, I was able to add them to my site.  Check it out – Flea’s new Secondary Slot item – Steward’s Compendium of the Arcane.    Another new feature I’ve had fun with is broadcasting the posts to Twitter and Facebook.  The Fizzletoes have their own Facebook and Twitter accounts – it’s been a lot of fun connecting with the EQ2 Community.  Feel free to follow the Fizzletoes!

So, thank you to the four people that read the blog – you know who you are :) And thanks to all the visitors that come by and get information. Popular pages such as the Faction Guide for Crafters and the Refining 101 have gotten a lot of visits. And I hope the information was useful. Most of the time when I posted information like that it’s because I went looking for the info and couldn’t find it.

Here lately I’ve gotten a little lost on stuff to talk about – so I’m going to do a feature on each toon.  First up will be Jumjumm – the Halfling Defiler!

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11
May
2012

We interrupt absolutely nothing at all happening….

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To bring you a halfling house!

Found this image on the SOE forums about a new halfling house.  This is from Cloud Rat of the Test Server.

I know I’m doing absolutely nothing in game right now.  I haven’t even logged on in a few weeks.  I actually thought about this past Monday and Tuesday when I was home sick, but it didn’t happen.  I even bought station cash cards for the triple station cash – I claimed them via the website instead of logging in.

And then there are the forums.  I used to read the forums all the time.  And news sites such as EQ2Wire.  But more and more it’s just people complaining.  I’m not sure if there is really something to complain about, or if just the complainers are more vocal.

When I’m playing EQ2, I have very few complaints.  For the most part it’s fun and there are few bugs in my experience (there are a few, more annoying than anything else)

Oh wait… I got off on a tangent… Anyway, I found this house!  It’s a SC house – and I don’t know all the details except it’s supposed to be small, and has some land with it.  Just what JumJumm needs!

There is a lot of house decorating I want to do.  Maybe I should log on and do that.  I really don’t have time for a group right now, but I could do a little decorating and get my houses all pretty.  I’ve been getting home each day around 8 or 9 at night, and little time on the weekends.  But hopefully that will wind down in June.. ok, July.  And I can get back to playing.

Though I’m contemplating playing Guild Wars 2….  I would jump at it except for that pesky third person view problem…  I play the way God intended – in first person.  Neither I or my toons were born with eyeballs floating behind our head.

So, now that I have shared the wonderful halfling house that I MUST have, we can all go back to our regularly scheduled nothing at all.

Oh – we have a Facebook page for Caela’s Corner.  Yeah.  I don’t know why either.

 

 

 

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18
Apr
2012

GU63

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Meh.  I really really really wanted to be excited about this GU.  But so far, I’ve been hit with a wall of  meh.  Not really about the game though.  I was on all of about 10 minutes.  It’s the entire logging on that has me in a standstill.

Spring time at the Fizzletoes is very busy.  Add in that we just moved, and I’m trying to get more exercise, and I don’t have time to eat dinner much less play EQ2.   I’ll have another post about some exercising and dinner strategies that have been working for me.

I did manage to get into the game last night.  Logged on and got an achievement – and I didn’t even really look at it, so no clue what it was – maybe it was for AA, as I went from 271 to 306 – yeah, I know partaking in some of the double xp on Easter Weekend would have gotten me a few more AA and I would have been at 320 – but I’m busy these days!  The AA bump is nice – now I have some 35 AA I need to spend.

I headed off to Withered Lands – it was easy enough to get there because I had read up at EQ2Wire how to get there.  And then I started doing a quest here and there.  Didn’t finish any of them except the first one that is basically just go there, talk to the guy.  I got a whopping .8% xp for a discovery and the quest turn in.  I think xp is going to be pretty slow.  Which means I may be lvl 90 for the next 6 months :)  I did see several players that were already 92.  No one in my guild – everyone was still 90, but we are a working man’s guild – most of our members don’t get on until the evening – so I don’t think they had much opportunity to level up.

So, here are some handy links I’ve found about the update – I’m hoping to be able to play some more soon.  But kickball is taking up a good amount of my time these days.  I usually go straight to the fields at 6pm every day, get home around 8pm, and then walk 2-3 miles until 9pm every day.  Just doesn’t leave much time to do anything.

EQ2Wire GU63 FAQ

EQ2 Zam’s Withered Land Quest Series

EQ2 Traders GU63 Crafting Info

 

I wish I had more time to check it out, I really do.  I also canceled my recurring sub.  However, I have enough station cash to cover the sub when I decide I have enough time to play.  Or I can just charge the card again.  I know I’ll be back by June.  Things should settle down – unless of course I decide to coach the All Star team – that will keep me busy through July!

 

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23
Feb
2012

Sorry SOE

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Normally, when it’s double/triple Station Cash weekend my husband and I will buy a bit.  We admit to really liking the fluffy things (and server copy/transfer tokens) in EQ2.  Caely is very vain, and needs new outfits on a regular basis.  Donald was even poking fun at how vain little Caely is the other day.  I admit it – I want my pixels lookin’ gooooood….

But this time, even though it would be easy to stop at Gamestop, I’m not going to buy the Station Cash cards.  Hopefully if enough EQ2 players do it, it will send a message to SOE that we don’t like their business decisions.

Having said that, it does appear that SOE may be softening on the ProSiebenSat.1/Alaplaya fiasco.  (and what kind of name is ProSiebenSat.1 anyway???  What was their mother thinking!?!) By the way – click that link – it goes to EQ2Wire, who has been following this thing very closely and has a good grip on what’s going on.   Hopefully SOE can undo what it has done.  I’m not sure it’s something that can be undone though.

But I have nothing to do with the whole European thing.  I’m born and bred Texan, playing on a US server, and no one from my guild is European.  But I want to support those players that are going to be screwed – both the US players that will soon be kicked off European servers, and those current European players that will be forced to choose between playing on their current server but not be able to get friends to play with them, or switch servers and never be able to play with their current server.  So, no Station Cash this time.  And to my three readers, please consider supporting them as well by not buying SC this weekend.

 

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10
Feb
2012

I was gonna burst!

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I thought I was gonna burst if the guys at EQ2Wire didn’t release their EQ2U soon.  It was becoming increasingly harder and harder to not want to post a link to my profile.  So now I can!

 

Take a look at Caely!

 

Now if I can just get them to make a signature generator!

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