I first conceived of this blog as a way to express my view point of MMORPG’s after 8 years of nightly playing. And I still intend to do that. But I’m also going to use it as a personal log of my nightly adventures in various games.

First, an entry for Tuesday, April 24, 2007:

EQ2 L58 Fury - Silverfur: LFay Questing

Lord of the Rings Online ended Open Beta last night. There was a glitch with my pre-order code and I couldn’t log on. I headed over to World of Warcraft but didn’t feel motivated to quest grind with my feral druid or my new dps shaman alt. I decided knocking out a quest or two in Everquest 2 and going to bed early would be the best choice.

Playing an MMORPG for just a few mins. What was I thinking?

EQ2 has been on the back burner for a few months for me. Since WoW came out with the Burning Crusade Expansion in January, I had been playing nothing else. And just when I was burning out on WoW, the LotRO Open Beta came along and knocked me off my feet with its immersiveness. I had been logging on to EQ2 just a few mins a day to do a Tears Grifter instance to keep the experience rolling. Two more levels and I will hit L60. Then many new zones become available to me.

So I logged on with my Fury and headed over to Lesser Faydark to knock off what quests I could. I still had 4-5 group quests for that zone and figured I would have to write them off. But after spending an hour finishing the solo quests I had there, I joined a group and we were able to knock off 3 group quests I had in the Thexian camp.

It was a good night for experience (2 AAs gained and almost hit L59) and I was able to clear out a good chunk of the quests I had left for that zone.

I was going to wait til L60 to hit the new zones, but I could probably start at L59. Or I could clear out the rest of my Pillar of Flames quests as well. We’ll see if I feel like quest grinding or exploring next time I log on, but I think I already know the answer.