The Grind

I haven’t played to much EQ2 lately. It is just the solo grind that is getting to me. From what I am reading the Kunark expansion was very heavily geared to solo play. Then there is all the time sinks that I am hitting. I was going to play a little Saturday night but when I sat down and thought about how many zones I would have to go through just to get to Fens I decided to watch a movie instead.

 I tend to log out on the Butcher Block dock that seems to be the best place to me. I can use my “Call of Ro” and sell faction items in the Court of Blades. Then pop down and over to Butcher Block and hit the mender, broker and banker. So when I log in I am on the docks and can check the broker and my mail. So to get to Fens I have to go through SS, NQ, Ant… (Wait on the boat), Kylong and then Fens. SO that is 5 zones with a boat wait and a bird ride to get to the area I need to quest in to level. That is around 20 min of just zoning, waiting and flying.

So I log in Sunday going to work on trying to get half a level before the raid. I spend my 20 mins getting to Fens. Pull up my journal and head to do a quest turn in. Then to my surprise bam I have to have a high enough faction to complete the quest. Ok so lets get to some faction grinding but wait I don’t speek the language of the quest giver. So at this point I am pushing 45 min of game time just to find out I need to go back and get some language quest done.  So I call to Kelethin and head to Steamfont. Once there I get the quest which is a level 35 quest so ne exp for this one.  I spend 2hrs killing gray mobs getting updates just so I can go get more grinding quests.

After that I logged and thought what a waste of a Sunday morning.  With this slump it could take me a while to get to 80.

I didn’t make it

Well I didn’t manage to get into DDO Tuesday like I had planed. But I have decided to take Tayln and Ustice’s advice and play the game for a few months. So having this weekend off I should be able to get in and do some group action. I have also been trying to talk the guys from my old table top days into giving the game a go.

 

I do have a good reason for not making it though I decided to get level 75 on Amirah my Illusionist in EQ2. Only 5 more long levels. Once I do get to 80 I will have all kinds of things to do at that point. Most of if involves working on my epic weapon quest line. I did get a new hat in the Tuesday night raid. It was a nice upgrade for me but the graphic is just awful.  So don’t plan on seeing me run around game with it displayed.