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s when you dress a cleric in something other than plate armor i have a bard she has eyes and wings and hair of brilliant green and a pair of flashing blades and when she fights she swoops and darts behind foes to cut them down before they even realize where she went she believes that things happen for a reason to the point where she s developed way more of a chaotic neutral streak than i ever intended she joined a guild that hailed from halas back when that was merely a name in the history books things happen for a reason remember and now that guild hall is such a part of her identify that i don t know that i could transfer her to the free to play server even if it would save me money her name is lyriana and she is a bard the weird girl in rift who kills stuff by throwing musical notes at it is what us lotro players call a minstrel of all the other characters in all the other games and all the time and money i ve spent on mmo s there isn t a single one anywhere else that has as much backstory as my level 20 crafting alts in eq2 that for me is what soe has accomplished with eq2 i m actually paying them money because i missed a character that is what is at stake if they can t find a way to make their situation work i m pretty sad that the job just got that much harder posted by green armadillo at 9 20 pm 7 comments labels business models dcuo eq2 my characters tuesday march 29 2011 a fae s view of chronoportal lore the following is lyriana s take on the eq1 anniversary event in eq2 which has added a few mini instances containing some famous mobs from the original game the devs have stated that this event has no ties to the lore so lyriana decided to help out with a little retcon work any glaring lore errors are due to my extremely limited knowledge of norrath if you think you catch me making not so subtle references to a certain other game you ve been reading too long did i get that about right lyriana asked as she finished attempting to repeat the gibberish that the erudite chronographer had been spewing at her for the last ten minutes other than completely mangling terminology that has been carefully crafted through hundreds of years of arcano temporal scholarship the mage retorted in an inpatient voice yes i suppose that will do so you ll help then not even if you tore my wings off lyriana exclaimed angrily we have chrono porto things sending people back hundreds of years into norrath s past and you d like to send an invasion force of adventurers through to try and best the toughest champions history has to offer back from the grave all so you can analyze what the planar energy does to the old platinum coins no thanks i have a strict policy that if someone comes to me with the s tupidest idea i ve ever heard i say no and you just made the bottom of the list lyriana stormed off muttering about crazy erudite plans under her breath like it s my fault that i asked one of them a simple question about how to absorb the power of a mythical weapon and they turned around to develop a technique that would allow some crazed dragon god thing to absorb world threatening powers off of the signature blades of qeynos and freeport and now oh dear gods a talking otter hail to you adventurer the othmir said raising a paw i have come to take the chosen ones of norrath to velious lyriana cupped her hands over her nose and mouth and took two deep breaths let me guess she began exasperated you came through some sort of chrono rift from hundreds of years ago when people actually went to velious and now you re going to establish some sort of time foothold thing the othmir looked at her puzzled what is a rift i assure you velious is real and still in the world today if that s the case lyriana asked skeptical why hasn t anyone seen the place in centuries how are you proposing to get us chosen folks there anyway easy the emissary exclaimed pleased to finally have a question he could answer we shall ride on the back of the mighty lodizal the legendary giant turtle that adventurers used to fight centuries ago lyriana asked incredulously that s the stupidest she thought about it for a minute and sighed you see i have this policy about world threatening stuff and apparently this whole rift thing has gotten to the point where it s not at the bottom of the list anymore so i ll tell you what i m going to go try to deal with that and if this doesn t send all of you crazies back to whatever age you came from we can talk not a death rift posted by green armadillo at 10 16 pm 2 comments labels eq2 fiction silly game logic monday march 28 2011 a pink pig tail finale today is the end of an era in wow blogs as larisa announced the finale of the pink pigtail inn larisa has played a non trivial role in the life of this site so i feel it only fitting to pay her tribute i started my blog a bit after larisa started hers but mine was an intentionally soft launch though my first post was in april 2008 i viewed those early months as a warm up for july when i would actually have time to write on a regular basis i made a few posts had the occasional comment but things here were pretty quiet i eventually ended up on rohan s blogroll at blessing of kings and then one day out of the blue i got a comment on a random post expressing appreciation but pointing out that i did not have a contact email on my page this wasn t really something that had occurred to me previously as the idea that a reader might want to get in touch simply hadn t come up regardless i dutifully sent this larisa character an email and added a gmail address to the site in case anyone else was similarly inclined i hope that she will forgive a bit of skepticism in hindsight usually when someone emailing you is supposedly female and from sweden the odds aren t that great the truth is that larisa turned out to be friendly supportive insightful and thought provoking to this day the ppi is still one of the top traffic sources to this site and i m pretty much certain that i have larisa to thank for the fact that sweden is the number six country on my traffic by country chart i don t know where the road is going to take this particular pink pig tailed gnome mage and i ll be keeping her spot in my blogroll in case she changes her mind in the mean time until we meet again i wish her all the best and good luck on her journey posted by green armadillo at 8 24 pm 2 comments labels housekeeping sunday march 27 2011 eq2 epic complete always fun to get a personal grats from a dev thanks domino lyriana has been working on her epic weapon for over a year now i completed the fabled version in late january 2010 and started working on the quest to upgrade it after hitting the new level 90 cap in june unfortunately i ran into a wall that took a lengthy hiatus from the game and a server merger to overcome mythical history the upgraded mythical epic weapons with sometimes class altering abilities have been in the game for over two expansions now and they were causing a bit of a design problem classes had been balanced assuming that they had the epic abilities but the only way to earn the weapons was to complete kunark era raids from 2007 2008 once you had your weapon you were never willing to use anything else because it would mean losing your epic abilities neither of these conditions was tenable in 2010 s sentinel s fate expansion soe added a new quest that allowed players to drain the energy from their epic weapon gaining the powers that the weapon previously held as a permanent buff to your character the good news is that this only required single group dungeon content from the new expansion the bad news is that this quest was now nigh mandatory as you would always be behind the curve no matter what weapons you obtained in the future if you did not have your epic buff looking for server i m in a small guild called the halasian empire from the lucan d lere server so it wasn t possible to just strong arm guildies into taking me through the content meanwhile ldl was desperately in need of a server merge due to low populations but it did not receive one until this past february because it was an rp server and there was no rp server with room for additional players this made it nigh impossible to find a group for the epic questline the big dungeon i needed was a zone called cella and i once spent an entire evening asking for it in the lfg channel on a day when it was the daily dungeon quest without success this had gotten too frustrating so i finally gave up ldl finally got its server merge into a regular pve server called crushbone earlier this year the improvement is dramatic it still took about three days to find a group to run cella which is now previous expansion content and was even less attractive this weekend with the eq1 anniversary event running but i was finally able to get a pug to complete the dungeon last night two of the players in the group even accompanied me into a non instanced dungeon area known as the hole to kill the last few relatively weak but not quite soloable mobs i needed and i was able to claim my epic prize epic group finder as rohan said in his rift wrapup it s hard to overstate the impact of not having a dungeon group finder i actually enjoy single group content when i can actually get a group the thing that i don t enjoy is having an entire night feel like a waste because i spent the whole time plaintively looking for a group and failing to find one there were a lot of problems with wow s wrath era heroics most significantly that blizzard intentionally packed them with overgeared raiders but a 15 minute queue time plus a 30 minute dungeon run meant that i could actually do group content whenever i wanted to last night s session ended up taking over four hours and running to about 1 am fortunately i was able to find a group on a saturday because i m not young enough to pull those kinds of hours off on a work night anymore overall i enjoyed the actual content and i look forward to taking lyriana s new toy for a spin over the next few weeks that said it s somewhat problematic that the logistics kept me from finishing for so long in an era where group players are increasingly feeling that they re being pushed to the side in favor of solo play studios need to do a better job of helping people who actually want to make the jump from solo to group content do so blades blades everywhere posted by green armadillo at 11 40 am 5 comments labels eq2 my characters pvd social wow friday march 25 2011 rift elf panties for psychochild previously in the comments at psychochild s place green armadillo wrote i d like to believe that my cleric s current armor is bugged and missing its texture because it sure looks like she s just wearing panties psychochild wrote oh my i assume you re in plate got a screenshot to shame the artists with my original theory appears to be incorrect if i remove my character s pants altogether her underwear is a different color i suppose it s possible that they wanted the crotch colored black metallic and were going to add legs later but forgot at the moment though it looks like the leggings have indeed vanished into some extraplanar space of course maybe this is all ferrel s fault going back to old school dnd and eq1 rules where clerics get to wear plate armor he argues that clerics do not wear chain mail unless it is under plate maybe trion decided to listen to him cause it sure looks like you could get those leggings under some plate if you don t mind the chafing anyway posted by green armadillo at 9 36 pm 7 comments labels rift silly game logic thursday march 24 2011 rift fails public group accountability five evenings ago i was riding my collector s edition turtle across scarwood reach when i came across two players a lumbering non hostile robot and the rift public content ui i d never seen this ui appear without something to kill right next to it so i stopped to read the text i had just figured out that it was an npc escort quest when the window closed up and the loot icon flashed on top of my screen the robot had reached his destination and my presence for the final seconds had flagged me as a participant i had just accidentally completed a quest for a four digit chunk of exp and a blue sourceshard i don t think i ve logged into my main character since victory through attendence in hindsight reflecting on this one incident brings into focus something that i ve been trying to put into words for over a week now the problem with rift s cooperative public content system is not merely that you get tired of seeing the same events destroy your quest hub yet again though that does start to happen the problem is that in many cases i m left feeling like victory or defeat would have happened regardless of my participation and i just happened to be along for the ride and the loot now that i m running with a dedicated healing spec i can state objectively that this impression shouldn t be true there have been several encounters where judging from the amount of damage the tank was taking and the amount i personally was healing them for the group would probably have wiped without my actions then again in that case they would have respawned and eventually more people would have shown up to heal the team to victory moreover even when it is actually true that my presence decided the encounter it does not feel that way when i m one of two dozen players spamming away at a mass of players and mobs when i m solo or in a smaller group i can tell how well or poorly i did but in a massive public raid my contribution disappears into a sea of numbers outlook the bigger issue is that the public content is my reason to play the game or possibly not as of next week yes there is solo content it is reasonably polished and the soul system lets me all but re roll on every trip to my class trainer without having to start over at level 1 yes there is group content though i haven t been able to do much of it because of time constraints yes there s pvp which i should probably try at some point but the thing that rift does that none of the numerous other games i could be playing instead does not is public content rift is still easily the best mmo launch in the last four years and it will almost certainly be the fourth mmo that i cap a character in as of right now though my outlook on rift is that i should probably give trion a few more months to iterate posted by green armadillo at 7 47 pm 4 comments labels pvd rift monday march 21 2011 f2p lotro version 2 lotro had its update 2 patch this evening adding in some long awaited group content major revamps to the ui and some existing content and significant changes to the game s store back in september when the f2p model was newly introduced i was underwhelmed with the game s non subscription model today the premium free to play option is far more attractive especially for infrequent players and tourists but the higher end of the 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