Since my last post life has been kind of busy and as I write this I’m currently sitting at work – on a Sunday, but I guess the extra money will be handy as I plan to buy one of the new Nintendo DSi handheld game systems when they get launched this Friday 3rd April in the UK. I have booked a few short holiday breaks at various places throughout the year and could do with something to occupy my mind in the evenings without going through the expense of buying a gaming spec laptop. Besides – the laptop would not be a good idea as I am weak and would probably want to try 3-boxing in EQ2.
Mentioning EQ2 leads me smoothly into saying I’m back in the game.
Yep – I expected my break away from EQ2 to be longer than just 3 months, and I kinda had visions of not stepping back into Norrath until closer to the next expansion which I guess will be around November 2009 time. During my 3 month hiatus I continued reading various EQ2 related forums, sites, blogs, and listening to podcasts. This helped me realise I still loved the game; I had just lost focus and direction with it. I guess this is what you call a burnout. What did it feel like? Well it was like hitting a brick wall; I would log-in and pretty much just spend my time staring at the screen wondering what the hell to do – even though I knew there is still a huge amount of content there was zero motivation.
Lucky for me I know the nature of my brick wall – it’s the adventure level cap, and once hit with my 2 main adventure characters I lost all motivation to continue questing for achievement points or better armour. What didn’t help was being left with Auberon and Randle – 2 characters that were really only ever created purely for crafting. In hindsight I should have just created a new character but instead I played them because of the amount of time already invested with them in crafting. A bit stupid really to have kept levelling in hope I would grow to like the character classes as they got higher, but I really wasn’t sure I wanted to play any of the remaining classes anyway! – so kept grinding on.
Last week I reopened my main account and created an Erudite Conjuror. I had fun with the class and like the way the pet changes its look depending on the level of your summon spell, and of course the pet types change as you level through the tiers too.
The Erudite race was nice for a test of the class, but I really wanted another Ratonga. Having invested 20 levels into Conjuror and feeling pretty happy with the play style of the class I deleted him and created a Ratonga Necromancer named Hendon. Hendon has already betrayed Freeport and is currently doing faction quests for Qeynos to get citizenship with the city, and because there is no Necromancer class allowed this will swap to conjuror.
Hendon is currently at level 17 and is only using or wearing quested items; there is little point in spending money until the speed of his levelling slows enough that it will not be a waste. When he gets to Qeynos he will probably spend most of the time 2 boxing mentored with a high level Mystic – so I will only really need to worry about spell upgrades and I plan to craft Adept 3’s for pets, I’m sure that quested equipment will be sufficient until he gets out of the base game and into expansions.
