Where to begin?

[jdotmi]

I have been so bad at posting lately. I know, I've been a boring LJ user. I can't help it! Well, okay, I could help it, but I haven't really cared to. I have been reading LJ (perhaps a bit too much), and occaisionally replying to people at least. I'm one of those people who reads without comment about 99% of the time.

So, what have I been up to lately? Well, it's been pretty much more of the same for me. Working during the week, playing video games and watching TV when I'm not at work. Dropping the entire contents of my desk onto my dinner. Well, okay, that part was unusual. That was Tuesday night. Much fun. I should probably clean my desk since it never happened after the cleaning frenzy from the other day.

I don't know what it is about this week, but I've been completely klutzy. I managed to break the water dish we use for our cats by dropping a cutting board on it, I nearly dropped the lid for one of our casserole dishes, and I've just had a series of random acts of butterfingers all over the place. Fortunately, it's calmed down since Tuesday's desktop-in-dinner fiasco.

So, in other news, Letalli finally became a Paladin in EverQuest 2. Yes, you read that right. :p

See, we bought EQ2 when the game launched. We played it for a month and promptly abandoned it. Apparently, a lot of people did that. Anyway, I was feeling antsy, and WoW-burnout was threatening to set in, so this past weekend I did something impulsive and reinstalled it and reactivated my account. 5 hours of patching later (HOLY FUCK!!), and I was gleefully logging Letalli back in to the game.

When last I had left her, she had been smack dab in the middle of killing 500+ gnolls to get the people of Qeynos to love her. Back in the "old days" of city betrayal and class changes every 10 levels. There have been a lot of changes since then. For example, she was now a Shadowknight instead of a Crusader and she needed to hoof it on back over to Freeport and pull juvenile pranks on the people of Freeport to get the people of Qeynos to love her. That was rapidly successful and she became a shiny new Paladin.

Sadly, nobody I know from Back In The Day™ still plays. Fourth Wall made a half-hearted attempt at getting into it, but most of us bailed fast. I know a few stayed for a while, but even they've since left for newer pastures. I'm not going to get to play tonight because I have a Karazhan raid to attend in WoW.

Well, there's more I could post about, but I want to do something on my Lunch break other than stare at the journal entry page on LJ.

Comments

[lilin.livejournal.com]

EQ2 has improved tremendously since launch. I've been playing it off and on (off currently) for the last two years or so. It's fiddly, and I never cared much for the art/environments, but for various reasons (guild levels/status rewards/faction rewards, mentoring, crafting, raiding pretty much entirely optional) I enjoyed it a heck of a lot more than I ever enjoyed WoW. Each time I cancel my sub I've done it with the full intention of picking up the game again at a later time, which is something I've really not done with any other MMORPG.

If you haven't yet, go into your options and check out the "alternate models." I personally like them a lot better than the originals for the most part, and felt they improved my gameplay experience tremendously simply because I wasn't cringing in horror at everybody's characters all the time, but opinions differ widely.

If you find yourself enjoying the game, definitely head to a store and pick up the Echoes of Faydwer expansion. That will give you access to all three of the retail expansions that have been released so far (Desert of Flames, Kingdom of Sky, and EoF). EoF is an outstanding expansion, especially if you played EQ1 (which I know you did) -- it's a re-imagining of the continent of Faydwer after five hundred years of isolation. The artwork and music is nostalgic while still being fresh, and it has content for all levels 1-70.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

I'm enjoying Kelethin, actually (yes, we picked it up). I'm playing a half-elven Monk in there. I will say, though, that I'm not sure on the Fay being the ones in control of Kelethin. I get it, they had to make the new race important and whatnot, but seriously. The things that you had to KILL REPEATEDLY in Greater Faydark are now your best friends? Eh, whatever. :-p That said, the entire "no taking falling damage EVER" thing is cool for them.

Tradeskilling is far too much fun, though. :-p

[badbob.livejournal.com]

I play, Ru, as does ol' man Talonus. We're in WHAT on Unrest, with the rest of the SA guys. If you're ever on (while I'm on, naturally) look for Keraselin. Tal is, as always, Tal. No bard this time though. Still Grumpy.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

I'm on as, well you know me and Alts.

Ruann (warden)
Letalli (paladin)
Andrialan (illusionist)
Ezrick (monk)
Medras (conjurer)
Jarez (guardian)
Vesla (wizard) (very rarely, my only evil toon left)