Thursday, September 29, 2005

Furious 40!

Terenius the Fury is now level 40!

I must say, it's getting quite boring to see everyone wearing the same armour at lvl 40-50, because by this time people would normally have enough money to buy the best armour and the best weapons, and since everybody buys the best, everybody wears the same!

Anyway I think I did make Terenius pretty rare, if not unique - he wields a wand instead of a regular weapon. See, first of all I have never had any character wielding wands before. Second of all, I figure that having a wand with an activatable spell is so much better than hoping for a 5% chance of a proc for gleaming strikes, so I went with the wand for Terenius.

Also at level 40 he got 2 new spells, but only one has NPC vendor selling the APP2 version. I guess the other one must be a new one from the DoF expansion. Dangit, that means I have to wait until somebody finds an Adept 1 drop or make an App4.

Monday, September 26, 2005

New Music Video!

Yes! I made my 2nd music video! Check it out here!

This time I did everything faster than the first time around... about 2 days all in all, including translation of lyrics from Mandarin to English.

I think I did better this time around as compared to the first time. Well you tell me.

In other news, my alt, Terenius, by some good fortune, completed 2 Heritage Quests yesterday. Foomby's Stolen Goods and Training Is A Shield, both completed, yay! Even better news is - the shield can be used by Terenius next level! Yes indeed! So now I have to go look for a 1-handed weapon (preferably Legendary tier) to use, or I might end up like yesterday, unable to attack Emperor Fyst because I do not have any legendary weapons on Terenius.

Ah well I better log in to Chenyu and get his tradeskill up to level 30 before they remove the bonus tradeskill xps! It should be removed today or tomorrow I think.

Friday, September 23, 2005

Tranquility of Calm?

Ok I bust my butt to get to level 51 and what do I find when I get there? Just a combat art to increase attack speed. It's not even as good as Wisdom Of Zephyl which I got at lvl 25 or so which I elected to turn into a Master 2 spell.

So get this - my level 25 spell costs LESS to activate, and works BETTER than my level 51 spell that is supposed to be an "upgrade". Also, along the way, this "line" has been upgraded twice before, once in the 30s and once more in the 40's. Both times, I didn't use the 'upgraded' version because my very first version, the level 25 one, works better.

Here I am, at level 51, and with an upgrade that I probably won't use again. There has to be a way to get the Adept 1 of this spell that costs less than 29 gold. Geesh, the people in Qeynos really do not know the concept of "fair pricing".

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Hot In The Desert

After much hand-wringing and breath bating, Desert Of Flames expansion of Everquest 2 arrived in Singapore on Saturday. Eagerly I loaded it all up and signed on.

How's the expansion like? One word - Wow! I like it. I love it. Without really seeming to "work" or to "grind" I am now 3 bubs into 50, and it's only been like a few hours since I first went into the new zones. Pagan, Brenu and I grouped for a few hours last night, and we were running around in the Living Tomb. Nice place for xps, might wait for Kaladun to come online for my next foray into that place tho.

I'm still itching to try out Harclaves to see if any Monk adept 1s will drop in there for the new levels (51-60). I probably should before my vitality runs out on Chen.

Also, I should load up FRAPS soon and grab some video footage of Chen zooming around on the magic carpets. Might be able to use those footage in an upcoming video I might be making. Current candidates for the next vid is Dragonstea Din Tei (Numa Numa dance) and Turn Back Time. I just need to get some inspiration to see which I might actually embark on.

That's all for now. I might log in on Terenius later to see if he can survive the beaches of Ro.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Maj'Dul - this weekend

Ok yesterday the servers were down for most of the day for the new expansion Desert of Flames. Today, about 3pm or so, the servers finally became stable enough for me to log on and try out the new changes.

Overall the Fighter changes were ok... Chen no longer felt gimped and can actually kill faster than normal now. Terenius suddenly got 2 new "nukes" - got 2 new spells that hit for well over 600 damage...

Thus far, I only had time to test up to Liereth. The number of spells changed in Leireth's repertoire was ALOT. I could not recognise half my spells and the other half was weakened. Terenius's heals suddenly went down half in duration but twice as powerful.. gee, wonder if that will work.

Anyway I need to log in to Leireth later once the servers come up (they went down suddenly today for maintenace without warning!) and get him out of Orc territory. Then I will log in to Grrrik and Dakarth for the final 2 checks.

In any case, Singapore will only get the expansion this weekend, so I can only see Maj'Dul on Saturday. Then again I'm going out shopping this Saturday too.. might have to wait till Sunday to finally see Maj'Dul...

Sunday, September 11, 2005

My First EQ2 video

Yay I made my first EQ2 movie!!

Thanks to Dava for playing Carrieann, the lvl 21 Bruiser. Bruisers have a nice kata which can be made to look like a fight between Chen and Carrie.

Dava did say though that if we waited a few more days we could have done /DUEL thing for PvP and fought for real.

Anyway, I personally thought that the final fight sequence was done pretty well if I do say so myself. So far nobody noticed anything different :)

Oh yeah, go here to download the movie.