Weekend Update 1/31Follow

Took advantage of the double XP weekend by making sure to play each day, and get some Teeks done under Lesson. Also did an HA last night under Lesson. Racked up about 270 AA/char in my box crew for the weekend.

I had earlier tried a different HA yesterday, because it was one of the daily bonus missions (The Hills are Alive - Madaxe). It was my first try, and didn't go very well. Had a couple partial wipes, and I gotta say, the 5 minute timer to revive a merc is a real pain in the butt, especially when the tank merc is the only death you had in a fight. Basically you just sit there doing nothing for 5 minutes, twiddling your thumbs. Not sure what potential issue they're trying to address with that timer. Finally got to the first named, and wiped at 11%. Close enough that I probably could have gone back for another try and maybe won, but at that point I was just mad about wasting over an hour at that point and basically getting no XP... on a double XP weekend. Went back last night and did a Into the Hills under Lesson. Quick and easy, and ~75 AA/char on a double XP weekend :)

Note to self: Don't try new (and difficult) content on double XP weekends!

Tat

PS - to "Aades"... that was my favorite decade ;)


Edited, Feb 1st 2016 1:34pm by tatankaseventh

I'm hoping to get to the point that I don't mind doing more of the "hard" stuff, where XP flows slowly. I've been so far from max level/AA for so long, and finally starting to catch up, that right now I want to stick to stuff that makes me some measurable progress, without just doing the same mindless stuff over and over.

The one exception to the "mindless" stuff is the two top Teeks quests. I can run through both in about 7 minutes, so with Lesson running, it's hard to argue against ~15 AA in 7 minutes :)

Tat

Necro should have gotten AAs. A quick search of http://www.eqaasearch.org/ shows 19 AAs at 71, and 13 more at 72.

Just a quick thought, did you zone at all? Auto-granted AA's only show up once you've zoned or logged out. The other possible explanation is, if you're F2P, you'd be past the 1000 AA limit, so wouldn't get the free AA. I happen to have a level 70 necro, and he has 1487 AAs.

Also, the auto-granted AAs now go all the way through VoA, so much further than SoD :)

Tat

Edited, Feb 1st 2016 8:28pm by tatankaseventh

Oh, missed that you are on a TLP server, hence the reference to SoD. That may also affect how auto-granting works. A query on the DGB forums may answer that.

Earliest posts on ZAM for the Loyalty vendor in PoK are from Sept. of 2010, a couple months before HoT was released. And looking at the earring stats on the vendor (~800-ish HP/MANA), they are just under the stats on HoT T1, so that makes sense.

Tat

I thought it was the previous three expansions?

I spent the weekend leveling many chars on several accounts. It was a fun weekend with one exception. That exception was leveling my 23 SK on Lockjaw to 24. To put is simply, it sucked. I didn't have fun, it was tedious (kill, sit for 3-5 min and on and on.) I came away with the impression that the only challenge on the TLP servers was how to deal with the endless boredom. In original EQ there was the newness. Exploring just to explore etc. There is nothing new for me to see on the TLP servers. Same ole same ole at a snails pace.....

On the live servers I had a blast. Buzzing through the levels, getting new armor, actually seeing progression! Doing the older quests on live servers was fun. There was the frustration of much different spawn situations. The spawns were even different from just a few months ago. At two of my favourite places for low level chars, SoNH and Skyfire, one (SoNH) has way fewer spawns and spawn points. Skyfire had no, zero spawns where I used to sit. This has all happened in the last few months as I had recently leveled chars in both locations. I wonder if the TLP servers are responsible system-wide for this? This severely impacts some of the Iksar quests. Still, I advanced many chars 10 or more levels. All in all a super weekend even though I somewhat burned myself out.

This will be a "lay back" week, perusing the bazaar for deals. With so many chars, on so many servers, platinum is scarce. I need bazaar "steals" at the moment.

Another thing I've encountered as of yesterday is that all the old game cards at EB Games can not be purchased anymore here in Canada. They come up as expired. If I put my credit card on file, then with our wonderful banks up here applying their own exorbitant exchange rate, I am looking at a 35-40% subscription increase. On a very limited pension, it is substantial for me. Every penny counts these days. Eating is not an every day experience any more....

Ah, well, like the man said: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Tomorrow is another day survived!!

Edited, Feb 3rd 2016 11:14am by KC13

Ouch that hurts! I didn't realize the Canadian $ had fallen so much. Maybe you need to pharm plat and buy kronos. At least platinum pieces hold their value throughout the world.