The Weekend Update-- its called Good morning Allak Here?Follow

As I said in my first post on these boards, longtime Eq player... So I am used to the "weekly updates the forum regulars post" sharing their Fri-Sun ingame (and beyond) adventures. That features seems a bit more sporadic here on EQ2, if I have in fact identified it correctly.

Anyways, I converted my trial account to the real deal. Fae templar is now 22 and I think I have nearly exhausted the Gorowyn quest chains. This is good because I am getting worked up to betray.

Dinging level 20 and gettting the armor appearances window made my day --a feature I have wanted in all my mmo travels. I splurged on a bunch of weird-looking cloth and leather to give me a decidedly not-templar look.

Oh, I hated Spirocs in EQ1 and that has only deepened in EQ2. The sarnaks on the other hand are almost compelling in their manipulations of the conflict around them. Loving the game so far.

A weekend update and I actually have something to add... can this be? Or is it merely the 7th sign of the Apocalypse?

Oh, well... no matter, I have returned! I re-upped my subscription, installed the expansion, sat through a multi-hour update and finally (at around 1AM Friday morning) was able to re-enter Norrath.

Once in-game I paid the rent, fed my Burnai, deleted about a thousand out dated guild emails, answered about a hundred tells (xyz says HUH? you're back???) and finally made my way to Ykesha in order to get the feel of the place and run through "ship out".

I took a couple of stupid deaths before getting used to the game again (why do blues hit so dang hard?) but eventually managed to complete the quest and I am now authorized to work in the TS instance (YAY ME!!!)

I finally logged out at around 6AM and was wasted all Saturday but I did have fun!

I try and do a what's up post at least once a week, but I'm not good at remembering. Feel free to beat me to it any time!

I spent the weekend farming Erollisi Day infoz. I thought I was totally burnt out on world events after the plethora of them last year (it's exhausting getting the info for Zam before they launch, then managing to do them on my Live toons), but I have rather enjoyed this one. ATM the evil side is bugged - or was before tonight's patch, I haven't checked yet.

That's a spoiler-free link, btw. You have to click through further to the spoilers.

Let's see... rolled an evil toon on Test 'cause there's not enough population on Test Copy at my hour to finish the second Erollisi Day quest, lol. It'll be interesting at level 7, but I think it's doable.

Today I went cross-eyed doing wiki tables. I hate wiki tables (html tables too!). I have a hard time visualizing what I want and translating it to code. As noted in another thread, I decided it was beyond high time for a Status Loot Guide. This one's from scratch as most the guides I found out there date back to DoF (or earlier). The work-in-progress is here: category:status loot (eq2).