Saturday, February 02, 2002

EverQuest - Waves goodbye to Avatars of the Ancients

Sigh, well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. AotA is disintegrating, and I'm afraid that I have to add into the chaos by choosing this time to move on as well. Simply put, our first officer left the guild at the start of the week, taking 4 or 6 other members with her. Which has forced me to examine my ties to the guild as well, since many of the people that left this week were those that I had originally joined the guild to be a part of. So after many days of considering the future, I decided that my heart really wasn't in staying with AotA with those people no longer a part of the guild. (And it was also making EQ not as fun to play.)

So I'm off to seek fame and fortune for a while as a guildless cleric (with a very full friend's list).

Labels: EverQuest

posted by Wuphon's at 7:18 PM

Wednesday, January 30, 2002

EverQuest - gah! can I track 3 more conversations at once! please?

Heh, the title pretty much says it all. Basically, when I logged in last night I had to pay attention to the group's battle, down-time chat in the group, while simultaneously handling 3 other conversations in direct tells. Oh, and don't forget keeping an eye on the guildchat and attempting to also read the /ooc and /shout channel. In fact, once I did /random 100 when the other group near us was rolling because I thought I had missed the call to roll on some item drop (sighs, Solarflare didn't make too much fun of me for that). Then there was the random tells asking me to join a group, or "can you experience rez?" tells (I was the only cleric in Frontier Mountains last night).

So if you ever wonder why I'm taking a bit of time to get back to a tell, or asking "um, what were we talking about?", it's probably because I'm trying to juggle too many indepth conversations.

Labels: EverQuest

posted by Wuphon's at 12:19 PM

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

EverQuest - Experience Losses

Half the fun of EQ some days is reading and posting to the message boards (over my lunch hour, honest!). (Having died close to 10 times in the past week, averaging about 1 death per level lately, this topic hits home.)

Why huge exp losses @ death? - this has been a very enjoyable thread. Some people just won't accept the fact that it takes hundreds of hours to play to level 60, instead whining that they can't seem to get ahead only playing 2 hours a week. Basically, these people need to go play something a little more solo-oriented. The other question I have, is if setbacks like lost experience bother you so much, why are you putting yourself on a time-table? Enjoy the journey, not the destination. I've always said, you may not be able to control your circumstances, but you are in full control of your reaction to those circumstances.

Labels: EverQuest

posted by Wuphon's at 9:36 AM

EverQuest - How To Disable the Keyboard Windows Key

Just a quick note for those people who hit that nasty "windows" key while playing EverQuest (of course, crashing you out to the desktop at a most inconvenient time). Microsoft has a article on how to disable this key. All the usual caveats apply of course.

Now, if I could just convince EQ not to let me Alt-Tab out on Windows 2000....

Labels: EverQuest

posted by Wuphon's at 9:30 AM

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posted by Wuphon's at 2:34 AM

Sigh, is it spring yet?

I've the got the itch... to get back and start riding the trails again (it's just a little too cold out there right now). To the point that I actually dreamed I was riding my bike on a road around home (except that the gear shift cable was screwy and I was having trouble shifting). Hmm, maybe some cold weather gear? I really only need to add a pair of insulated tights I think, something to keep the wind off my knees.

Shuffles off to visit PerformanceBike.com. Sweet! They have what I wanted in stock (and in my size too, which is rare).

(Does a quick check of the sunrise/sunset times.)

posted by Wuphon's at 2:22 AM (0 comments)

EverQuest - Life of a cleric

Hooray, finally made it to level 31 (I'm out of the double-experience level.) Hopefully, I'm now quit of High Keep for good (was growing mushrooms on top of my head from being down in the basement for so long). On the plus side, I've finally caught up to a large group of my guildmates so I can start adventuring with them.

Even better is that I have a bunch of new friends from Clan Silvermoon (waves at Ravina, Nomynnya, Shalissa), and a bunch of others on my friends list that I'd love to have in our guild.

Labels: EverQuest

posted by Wuphon's at 2:06 AM