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17
Nov
2012

Febbi is not amused

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Febbi is now a newly leveled 95 Provisioner.  After finding the perfect tradeskill UI she set about leveling up from 92 to 95.  Wasn’t hard.  At all.  And there are no tradeskill quests in this expansion – so that’s a little disappointing (Insert “I miss Domino” here).

But I was excited to see what new food Febbi can make.  Turns out Febbi can make new food, but why should she?

 

I made some mage food – Febbi knows she has lots of magey sisters and they are hungry!  Comparing the stats above – the “Fancy Food” (the food from the apprentices – lvl 90 are all Ambrosial) has better stats.  But it’s only 30 minutes long.  The other two are regular provisioner food – and 5 hours in duration – and all are examined by a lvl 92.  The Fruit Basket will not getting any better, but the Fruit Pie should get a little better on stats at lvl 95, but I don’t think it will get to the Fancy Food level of stats (I’ll revisit this if Caely ever gets to 95).

The Fancy Food also wins on cost per duration.  The two regular 5 hour foods cost the same – 4gold, 50 silver – or 1s,50c per minute of duration.  You can find these foods on the broker selling for nearly that cost.  The Fancy Food?  It costs just 26c per minute of duration.  But they sell for more on the broker…  Go figure.  Best bet – be nice to your local provisioner and see if she’ll make you some Fancy Food.

SOE also made the Fancy Food examine window just slightly smaller…  maybe that’s where the cost saving is from.

So, I’m not seeing much reason to level up.  Except for a personal sense of satisfaction.  I can now make 1000′s of food items in one combine – but really don’t see the need, you certainly can’t make money on the broker, and the normal combines make 10 at a time, which is really good enough unless you have an entire army to feed.  I’ll be using an AA mirror to swap into a spec with the harvesting goblin – that way I can do both.  But you can get that goblin without leveling past 92.

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30
Jul
2012

Snowilla saves Qeynos!

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Well, at least that’s what she thinks she’s doing.  She’s a little Arasai with big plans!

There is a little less than a month until Guild Wars 2 launches – and hubby got bored.  So he decided to dust off his “free 2 play” account.  He has a ton of toons on it.  A lvl 90 conjuror, a lvl 79 paladin – a lvl 76 beastlord…  the list goes on and on.   He logged on one of his toons and quickly realized he wasn’t going to be able to wear any of the gear he had, and most of his bag and bank slots were blocked.  So he decided to start a new toon.  He really liked the beastloard class, so he rolled another one – and Arassen was born.  He spent most of the morning getting him up to lvl 20, and once he did, I joined him on Snowilla.  I made him some fancy food – but he couldn’t even equip it.  SOE did give him a little message to try an unlocker – which he did – and it wouldn’t work – I guess you can’t use unlockers on consumables.  I ended up making him some nice non fancy food, which I think was just as good at that level.

Snowilla and Arassen ventured into Qeynos to see what was up.  We really had a great time doing the core story quest line.   We took the time to read all the quest dialog, and found the story very entertaining. Little Snowilla is ready to kick some butt!  If only she knew how to be an actual coercer…    I can’t wait to get Snow up to 40 so that she can continue it.  I’ve got to know what happens!  Yes, I know I could do the whole story line on any number of my toons, but I think I may just save this one to savor.  Hubby has a theory in how this story will progress, and I hope he is right – but we are going to try not to be spoiled.  We went through the entire lvl 20 line without using a guide (of course the big blue dots on the map helped a lot, and there wasn’t much to figure out on our own), and I hope we can continue that as we progress through the story.

Snowilla continues to not get any help at all from her older siblings who have the cash and rares to gear her up…  She got some journeyman spells though, and a couple of adept that dropped off dead things.  She has a few treasured/legendary items she doesn’t need – wondering if she should save them to squish, or sell them on the broker.  She only has like 16 gold to her name – so selling them would really boost her financial position.

After we finished that quest line up, we decided to try our hand in Crushbone Keep.  A lvl 20-30 dungeon in Gfay.  We had two mercs with us – a healer and a swashy.  We did ok until we got to the yellow mobs, and well, by that time it was time to watch some Olympics and Newsroom.  I highly recommend both – not the dying to yellow mobs – the watching the Olympics and Newsroom part.

Of course now I’ve got to get Arassen and Snowilla up to 80 to finish the Qeynos story before GW2 starts -because then I’ll never see hubby in EQ2 again.  Watching him play the GW2 beta was fun – and I tried to play – but just couldn’t do it.  The controls are all wrong, and I can’t play in first person, which as it turns out, is a deal breaker for me.  I felt so disconnected from myself.  And forget being able to control my movements.  Plus, my reaction skills just are not fast enough for that game.

In other news – since I have not made a post in like forever, I’ve been working on tradeskills – and I’ll make a post on that later.

 

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26
Jun
2012

Finished Underdepths!

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Last night the guild group hit up Underdepths again.  This time, with some toon swapping, we were able to finish it.  The last mob was really cool, and despite dying repeatedly, I enjoyed it.  I even got a new cloak.

With such poor parsing by my wizard Caely, despite having 320 AA, and a good many mastered spells, I’m thinking it might be time to hang her hat up.  The guild already has a great wizard, so many of my buffs and what not are fairly useless.  And the fact that I just don’t have the dps that is needed.

I think the nooblet troub Caelila might be a good addition.  We normally run with at least one mage in the group.  But she still needs a lot of work.  Some 59 more AA before she can even start to level to 92.  That just seems like a long road to haul, but I think it would make our guild group better overall.

Not much else was done last night.  I didn’t even watch the Rangers lose to the Tigers.  Maybe tonight will be better with Yu pitching :)

 

 

 

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04
Jun
2012

I really miss Domino

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So, I have been playing a bit, an I’ll get to Domino soon, but just hang on for the ride….  I’ve actually crammed a lot of doing in the past few days.  Friday I was up at the fields umping a game, and then headed over to our good friend’s house to help with graduation decorating.  Our friend’s daughter graduated high school at 8am in the morning!  I’m not sure who thought that was a good idea.  So Saturday morning we got up bright and early, and left the house 1 hour before we needed to be there.  The ceremony was in downtown Fort Worth – a 20 minute drive from our house.  So we should have gotten there plenty early.  Nope.  The highway was shut down due to an accident.  They eventually routed us to another highway going the opposite direction, so we had to turn around.  We ended up being 15 minutes late.  We were in the car over an hour.  After the ceremony, we were trapped in the parking garage for an hour.  I had had my fill of being in a car all before noon on Saturday.

But I did eventually get home on Saturday and started playing EQ2.  I bribed Donald to do a quest for me.  Scale Break.   Yeah, I’m not proud (well, a little that I figured out how to get past the quest using my womanly ways… ok, it involved making queso…)  The quest involves sneaking past some guards.  It’s best to do it in 3rd person.  And well, I don’t do 3rd person.  At all.  But Donald does, so all was good.  I was then able to proceed with the quest line and ended up getting my Empowered Cloak of the Lucianic Mage.  I know, I’m a bit late.  But it’s a better cloak than I was wearing.  And at my current level of participation it should last me a while.

I then took some time off the game and watched part of Hatfields & McCoys on the History Channel.  If you get the chance – watch it.  It was very good.  Then do some googling and get the facts to go with the fiction.  History Channel did a pretty good job, and I understand they had to compress some stuff and combine people, but the feud makes some good reading.

On Sunday, I played again.  This time I was going to work on the Withered Lands quests.  But I realized I had no food and drink.  So thought I would hop on Febbi and make some fancy food.  But then I got side tracked and thought I should go ahead and do the tradeskill quests on Febbi.  That took about an hour.  The tradeskill quests for GU63 are anemic at best.  It took me more time to find a list of Tier 10 food and drink than it did to do the quests (Here – let me save you the trouble… Tier 10 Food and Drink on EQ2Traders - Niami Denmother has it mis-linked on her website and I had to really dig for it.)  Six quests.  That’s it.  Maybe the time and effort went into the tradeskill items.  Though food and drink is pretty much just food and drink.  But I’m sure Domino would have had a much more lengthy quest line – something more engaging.  Something that took longer than a half hour.  And I got a silly cloak that won’t knock me out of the sky – yeah, really.  I have no need for that.  I don’t see me going back there.  I don’t even see me getting to 92 – what’s the point?  Maybe as they increase the levels past 92 we are in for some good stuff.  I can hope anyway.

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01
Mar
2012

The Intertubes have failed me!

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So last night was my one night this week with nothing going on.  I was planning to play EQ2.  But several times during the night, we ran out of the internets.  This started happening as soon as I got home – which I got home late because I went to get my tires rotated and balanced – and instead spent over $200 on new tires – apparently I need an alignment.  Ugh.

But the interwebs was all wonky.  Cutting out several times.  And Micaela was playing the YouTubes and it would cut out last and start back up first.  We knew we had internet back when her YouTube video would start up.  Apparently the interwebs is made up of tubes… the YouTubes…   It was rather humorous.

But I logged into the game, early enough to get in on the guild group.  We went to Pools to get an update for a guild member.  But I kept having this horrible lag.  It would kick me out of voice and people would just stand there – and then all of a sudden the mob was dead and everyone was in a different part of the zone.  It was pretty bizarre.  And then it kicked me out completely.  Could not log back in.  I decided it was a good time to go to bed.  Only I didn’t.  Luckily I had already played the lottery – booby prizes all around – real booby too – I think I got eel and tea leaves.  Not even something good like bamboo shoots!  Which reminds me I need to be more on top of changing the laundry in the guild hall – we are running out of bamboo shoots because I make so much fancy food.

I thought I would catch up on American Idol – the fine tv program that is.  I saw the guys sing, and fast forwarded through the vast majority of them.  And then I did some computer work for the sports league – including fielding a call at 11pm.  Luckily I was still up.  Wait – I’m not sure luck was involved.  Maybe bad luck.  I could not turn my brain off.  Which has been happening a lot lately.  The brain keeps going long after the body wears out.

Which brings me to my next point – I’m trying to get organized.  I’ve got a Toodledo account now to keep track of all the things that are stuck in my brain.  Well, not all of them I guess – maybe just the stuff I need to do.  But that brings up the whole stuff stuck in my brain and no where else – like how to pay the electric bill.  If I drop dead tomorrow, in a month the electricity, water and phones will all be shut off as no one in my family has an inkling on how to pay them.  And things like Social Security numbers, and who our health insurance is through and I’m sure there are other things.  So, I’m looking into the whole “Getting Things Done” thing. But the sad thing is, I may never get around to looking into the “Getting Things Done” thing…

This weekend is crammed pack with stuff – board meeting and practice tonight, practice tomorrow night, Coach Clinic and parent meetings on Saturday – then heading down to San Antonio to see Hannah perform, and then a District board meeting in Austin on Sunday.  I’m pretty sure my body is going to give out pretty quick, and my brain will be left on for hours this weekend.  I don’t see EQ2 being a part of my activities this weekend.

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23
Feb
2012

I may have a gambling problem

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This past week has been crazy busy, stressful, depressing, etc.  I have had no desire at all to play.  I completely missed out on the Moonlight Enchantments, and missed out on finishing some Erollisi stuff.  And barely took advantage of double xp.

But what did I do?  I played the Lottery.  Booby prizes.  Well, actually I did get a rare and some potions – but at this point, they are all booby prizes.  But I can’t resist logging in to play the Lottery and hoping for the big payoff of a colossal reactant!

I’ve logged in the last few days as soon as I get home from work, and check the broker to see how low fancy food is selling for, make new, and play the lottery.  Then I log off and lay on the couch and watch tv.  Or deal with issues from my youth sports league – way too many issues with that!  I am pretty much caught up with tv.  I only have one episode of American Idol left ;)

Maybe things will settle down and I can get back to playing more.

Oh yeah, – Free Feldon!

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03
Feb
2012

You’re on your own kid!

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I played very little last night – maybe a half hour.  Got on Caely, blew up two mobs in Kurn’s Tower and made 2 plat.  Can’t beat that!  But my evening was fairly stressful, and sometimes, killing things help.  And it did.  Caely go BOOooooOOOM!

I then played the lottery – got a potion and a booby prize – 20 eel or something – eeewwwww.  I’m not sure I would call eel a prize.

Then I hoped over to Snow – err, I mean Caelli.  I may have to rename her to some variation of Snow – because when I think of her, I call her Snow.

I have decided that I’m going to play her as if I didn’t have any other toons.  Except for extra shinies and L&L parts – because other wise, those things take over my shared bank.  But they are not going to give her rares or money or hand me downs or make her fancy food.  (they might give her faction earned tradeskill books – we’ll see how much I want to pull out her snow white hair :) ).

Caelli managed to get a level – maybe two last night – did a  few quests. I think I was lvl 5 or 6 when I started, and she’s lvl 8 now.   She killed a couple of names – they both dropped treasured chests – I think the mobs were level 5.  And then, she killed a trash mob and got an ornate chest.  Go figure. And level 10 items came out of the chests.  That is just so wrong.  Why can’t I get gear that I could either wear or squish.  At level 8 now she hasn’t had a single item she could squish.  Transmuting is going to be a bear with no outside money/help.  I really think SOE needs to revisit under level 10 transmuting.  Or, they could put gear in chests that are the same level as the mob you just killed, instead of 5 levels above it.

 

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31
Jan
2012

Ten Rings to Rule Them All

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Is that how it goes?  Ten rings to rule them all?  Guess I’m mixing up my franchises….

I learned about the Coldain Insignia Ring series the other night.  So Caely went about starting it.  Completing the Copper Coldain Ring finished an HQ for me, and got me an achievement.  Pretty cool for just harvesting some ice.    It highlighted the fact that I have done precious few HQ’s.  The achievement I earned was History Buff – complete 5 HQ’s.   So I think I need to go back and hit some HQ’s.  I have one retired toon that has done all the HQ’s that were in the original release.  Hmmmm – that reminds me, I hate long ass quests.  And that’s what HQ’s are – long ass quests.  But they usually have some pretty good rewards.  The Manastone is something everyone should have – earned by completing Stiletto’s Orders Intercepted  – getting the quest is the hardest part.

The guild is working on the Kael Dominance quest – and we went into Throne of Storms last night.  While waiting for a guildmate, we headed to Eastern Waste to get my pelt updates for the Coldain Ring.  Was able to get them pretty quick with the help of the guild.  I had been out there previously, rooting, nuking, getting hit, nuking for quiet some time and had not seen a single pelt drop.  Having a group go slaughter the beasts made pretty quick work of the task.  So now I’m on the Platinum Coldain Insignia Ring  – it takes a group to go into Tower of Frozen Shadows and kill the first mob.  I think there is another guildmate on that quest now.

We did eventually make it to Throne of Storms – and for some odd reason, I topped the parse in a fight or two.  I told the group the parse was obviously very wrong – I didn’t even have my fancy food equiped.  Apparently, everyone else was slacking :)   I got a couple of very nice jewelry pieces that were upgrades.  I got Sash of Utter Destruction, Vorkin’s Ring, and Blood Pearl Ring.  I’m going to have to head over to Dethdlr’s Adornment Calculator and figure out some new adornments.

I played The Lottery on the Feb’s – booby prizes all around.

All in all, The Lottery withstanding, it was a good night.  Hopefully I can finish up the Kael Dominance quest this week, as I am in desperate need of shards.

 

 

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25
Jan
2012

All the Coffee You Can Drink!

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Apparently Febbi is not too bright.  Or maybe she is, and she just likes to play favorites.  Or maybe she doesn’t like Caely and Flea – although, Flea is letting her crash at her place – rent free – and letting her use up all her materials for her personal harvesting depot.  Yeah – Febbi is not too bright.  She’s the same girl that sold the only colossal reactant we’ve seen.  And yes, played the lottery tonight and got the booby prize.

Of all the foods and drinks that Febbi could have had her research assistant make, she chose… wait for it…  In a family of almost ALL mages except for one lonely scout and a couple of healers… Febbi made – you guessed it – scout food.  Not mage food.  Scout food – with Agility.  How bright was that?  She didn’t just do it once either.  She did it twice.  Well, the other food was priest food.  So, she wasted a month of research doing food the vast majority of her sisters wouldn’t touch.

But she wised up. And as of this evening, she can now make all the Ambrosial Coffee her magey sisters can drink – and I’m pretty sure they can drink a lot of it.  Luckily, her twin Febi started researching the mage food and will be done in a couple of days.

But here are all the “fancy food and drinks” that a lvl 90 provisioner can make.  The increase in stats is 77 at lvl 90. Febbi can personally make the Pie, Cake, and Coffee – and if you are on Butcherblock and leave me a comment on this post, I’ll have her email you a stack to say thank you for visiting Caela’s Corner (be sure to tell me the character name and what you want).

 

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