So now I’m short and stretched horizontally? Richard Simmons, I need you NOW!
So, it’s been a while. How you all doing? Good, thought as much. The twenty-second version is basically: overloaded at work/new computer at home/complete reinstall needed/Vista a bit of a pain but not so bad once you get used to it.
Thus my EQII’ing has been limited to the brief lunchtime office session and watching the ‘Estimated download time’ indicator on the home PC’s launchpad window run through its bipolar dance of random number generating. Only two hours to go? Great… no wait, four hours twenty five minutes… no, nine hours and seven minutes. Wait, now it’s down to one hour fifteen, oh, no, wait, seven days, three hours and thirty-four minutes… wait, two minutes twenty, no, it’s done. Oh, no, sorry, it’ll now be finished sometime within this year, early 2008 at the latest. Wait, now it’s saying I have to actually travel back through time to 1773 and re-install from the original discs…
Anyway, we finally got there and now my dwarven monk (I know, odd choice but then have you ever seen a little fella kick off in real life? It seemed the natural way to go somehow) is back in business on a glorious top-end ‘ninja’ PC, fully-Vista’d to the nth degree, dual-core’d to a degree somewhere just beyond that one, and sporting a snazzy widescreen display to boot. And Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick, if it doesn’t look pretty damn tasty as a result.
Quest-wise, I’m mostly through with all the Vermin’s Snye, Scholar Demini and Rask Heltsot (or however it’s spelt) stuff so far and I’m now bristling with tasks that will ‘introduce’ me to Thundering Steppes. I also managed to see off the accursed pwn machine that was Renux The Undying who’d been laughing off my attempts to kill him in much the same way as Rotweed had in my early teens.
Seriously, unless I can start getting my grouping thang into groove (big daddy), I seem to be stuck in the loop of having to wait until these big name bad guys are just grey to me before I can stand a chance of getting near them. Unless there’s some great combat tactic I’m unaware of – entirely likely given my inability to really be able to explore the 20-30 side of the game in any depth lately. I know I need to work on my heals. All I’ve got is the next-to-useless Mend right now, which is like trying to stave off the effects of having your head decapitated by taking a couple of asprin and going for a bit of a lie down. Maybe potions of some sort?
Also, along with just about everyone else it seems from the straining noises emanating from SOE’s server room in San Diego, I sucummbed…
Pretty, but one gust of wind and I’ll end up miles away.
I’m still surprised to this day that I managed to nab the name Faewray for my Fae templar before some other wag got in there. Nothing so fancy here though (SOE’s filter-o-tron was ridiculously effective against all my childish ‘arse’-related name choices), so I just went with my daughter’s name instead (and no, it isn’t my password for anything anywhere). Only a level 2 coercer, since I hadn’t ever tried that, but if you see me on Kithicor, say hello.
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June 20, 2007 at 6:49 am
Kilanna
Welcome back
I am envious of your new PC 
I don’t profess to know an awful lot about this game but perhaps I can help you with describing my own experiences.
Almost 2 months ago now, I joined a fantastic and active guild. This is the easiest way to have a community of folks that you have the chance to get some groups happening.
Before that – I was a majority solo kind of girl.
My main is a Templar, but I also have a monk girl and have found them to be a fantastic solo class personally. And even still i think you have to be careful what you pick on solo.
OK my Monk is being bankrolled by my main girl and so she is twinked – but here is what I do with her:
1. She wears mastercrafter player made armour and weapons
2. She has as many of her spells as she can at Adept III
There are probably many that will have had different experiences but here are mine: She can take on con blue Heroic ^ and maybe Heroic^^ but my experience has been con green Heroic^^^ only, and groups can be tough solo even when they are almost greyed out to you. Feign death is my friend.
I do have a friend who is a lvl 70 inquisitor with aa set up for dps – he can take solo lvl 69 heroic ^^^ but that is with lots of aa spent, raid gear and master spells.
If you have not chosen a tradeskill class yet – you could try alchemist. You can make your own Adept III’s and also potions for increasing and regenarating Health or power among other things. You might also sell a few poisons for rogues and bards – nothing to make you rich but maybe a little bit of an income.
Upgrading your combat arts to Adept III will be a big help – only problem is finding or paying for the rare loam to make them with
I have spent a lot of hours harvesting for my girls cos the prices were too steep for me 
June 20, 2007 at 9:19 am
Prezzer
Thanks for the pointers. That all sounds like good solid advice. You’ve pretty much hit the nail on the head with the player-crafted stuff and upgraded CAs. I’ve really just been lazy on that front and letting the game buff me up as and when it felt like it.
I really should be more active on that front but I guess I’ve been seeing how the game itself rations things – it’s the games reviewer in me. I can’t see a mechanic without wanting to see if it breaks.
I had chosen scholar originally but I’ve kind of let it slide too in the happy pursuit of questing and being distracted by real-life work. I might wait for the crafting respec thing to hit (GU36 is it?) and switch over. I have been pursuing the crafting path pretty hard with my Arasai though.
Guilds, you say? I’ve always been trepidatious on that front as I’ve never felt I could be online long enough to be of value to a group of others and would just end up being a drain on their resources. Maybe soon.
June 20, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Kilanna
Hope that relaying some of my own experiences will help enhance your fun. I have to admit that while I enjoy my game I am not always very good at making the best advantage out of all my characters.
On the tradeskilling front at level 20 scholar gets to chose between Alchemist, jeweler or Sage for specialisation, so you are well set
June 21, 2007 at 9:11 am
Prezzer
>On the tradeskilling front at level 20 scholar gets to chose between Alchemist, jeweler or Sage for specialisation, so you are well set
You see, that’s the kind of stuff that I really should know already, given my position.