Comments on: Nope. I can’t do it.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:34:16 +0000

I do tend to focus on games that aren’t WoW because, I agree, that game is hardly starved for coverage. But people write about the games they enjoy, and for most people, that’s WoW. Those of us who are not current WoW players get a little drowned out, but I expect it to lose some of its glamor with the new games coming out.

By: Taymar

Taymar — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:27:54 +0000

It definitely sounds like you are trying to take on too much all at once – even though it’s what you love.

I will say that it’s only your presence on Massively that keeps me there – getting very tired of the “WoW is the greatest game, now let’s discuss X” attitude of a lot of the articles.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:39:09 +0000

And, I’ve caught up on my writing, am playing the betas I am supposed to review, it’s great!!!

By: Wydow

Wydow — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:58:53 +0000

*hugs Tipa* It sounds like you have way too much on your plate, so I think you have made the write decision to cut back on raiding, 6 nights of raiding a week is a big demand.

By: Einhorn

Einhorn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:40:48 +0000

If you don’t take time for proper sleep you could turn out like….LIKE ME!

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:27:40 +0000

Definitely try to take time for sleep. I’ve seen studies saying that a prolonged lack of sleep has negative health effects. I can’t remember exactly what, I’m not a doctor, but I know that I go without proper sleep too often. I wonder how many of us are tempting fate by playing late (or writing late!) night after night and waking up exhausted the next day, and doing that month after month.

Not for nothin’, but I’m glad you’re picking writing over raiding. I enjoy your contribution to my gaming RSS feed :)

By: Einhorn

Einhorn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:10:08 +0000

It was for the Eyepatch of Plunder quest, and I completed it!

I camped out for 47 hours without sleep to get Stormfeather. It was most wise to save the Stormfeather and Lodizal parts for last because (at the time I did it) there was a Chinese Necro soloing Lodi with kiting. The first 20 hours I spent trying to communicate with the guy, then the next 10 I spent trying to ask him permission to loot a map piece of Lodizal he was destroying. He wasn’t letting them rot, he was looting them one at a time and destroying them.

He finally agreed, and my last 17 hours were spent cursing at the sudden flood of invisible white cats which had ruptured my door and burst into the room. I was clearly very sleep deprived, because I didn’t own a white cat, nor a flood of white cats, nor any cats. Also, at some point I saw my whole room as having purple walls (they are white). I really messed up my brain camping Stormfeather.

I decided I would turn my monitor towards my bed, put on headphones, turn off ambient noise (polar winds), and try to sleep with the volume turned up in hopes of being woken by the sound of feathery wings flapping. In the next 17 hours I tried to sleep, I was woken a total of 68 times by marauding cougars. I’d wake up to the sound of “MAAHHRRAARRR!!!” and have to leap out of bed to fight them off.

Daylight came, I groaned and stretched. It was time for breakfast, but first it was time to pee! I hadn’t left the computer in a very long time. When I returned I accidentally kicked the headphone jack out of the port – the volume was louder than usual for the headphone sleeping experiment….and my room filled with a deafening “WHAP..WHAP..WHAP..WHAP” noise.

My brain exploded! I was hearing…wing…flapping! I looked around in a fever! HE WAS HERE! HE HAD TO BE! He had spawned in the 15 second window created by my leaving to use the restroom! I bum-rushed him and slaughtered him with my trusty Windblade. The most satisfying kill of my entire EQ career. I celebrated, cheered, and then realized he dropped two map pieces exactly the way Lodizal did. I sold the other map fragment for 5K (huge at the time) via /shout.

Then I turned in all the pieces and slept for an unholy amount of time. It was forever to be known as my “Stormfeather Torpor”. One of the best and worst times of my entire EQ life.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:40:10 +0000

Yeah, it was a pretty sweet item. You had to get a map piece from Lodizai, the bit from Stormfeather, mm I think something from a named cat in the area and something else. I never managed to complete it on my rogue; I had the Lodizai bit but I was unwilling to camp Stormfeather that long. I did do it for several hours stretched over a weekend but he didn’t happen to pop then. I was also unsure if I’d be able to kill it anyway :/ but it never did come to that.

If you want to try out a guild moving really slowly through content… :)

By: Relmstein

Relmstein — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:33:21 +0000

I actually have two college roommates who tag teamed camping stormfeather for about 40 hours straight I can’t even remember what item it gave you except I think it was haste buff oriented. I tried getting back into EQ when the classic servers first went live but I think some old school guilds basically powered level through the content and just kind of ruined the experience for most people. Plus they had changed a lot of things. I kept getting lost in freeport which I used to know like the back of my hand.

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