Crusty Mage contemplating resurrection

[Danille]

hey xalmat

[Jaytee]

Xalmat how the hell are ya! Log back in goober so we can fire up some mercs and kill, well anything!

Good weekend, dinged 83 - finished Bayle Aug and got ally in OGH - finished Blood of the Fallen and almost to ally in Kith. Finished all but Library in FoS progression, Picked up several T5 essences and augs/loot at 4 way in old CoD. I even surpassed 800 AA!

[Zacatac]

Good weekend, dinged 83 - finished Bayle Aug and got ally in OGH - finished Blood of the Fallen and almost to ally in Kith. Finished all but Library in FoS progression, Picked up several T5 essences and augs/loot at 4 way in old CoD. I even surpassed 800 AA!

Sheesh, you'll probably catch me by the end of the year, and I didn't take a break from EQ.
The AAs will slow down a bit now though. They had a bonus built in for players to get the first 1000 AA done faster. Once you get to 1000, it will be normal AA rate.

[Sillaen]

Even an old foggie like me remembers Jaytee.

Now there's a name I haven't seen in a while. You still tinkering in EQ2?

[Jaytee]

They had a bonus built in for players to get the first 1000 AA done faster

Guess that means I should get 999 and then 30 banked before I spend that 1000th AA.

[Falino-Luclin]

The bonus decays gradually though, not all at once, so there probably won't be a noticeable difference between your 998th, 999th, and 1000th AA. There will, however, be a noticeable between say, your 800th and 1000th AA.

[Jaytee]

I see, well can't have the AA train run forever I suppose. Anyway I found a link to my magelo profile from May 23rd 2007 right when I stopped the last time: http://eq.magelo.com/profile/26797

Stats:
12,457 hp
13,577 mana
9687 end
1441 ac
911 atk

456 AA
Regen of 66 HP/20 Mana per tick
0% Haste

316 STR
365 STA
365 AGI
362 DEX
395 WIS
415 INT
365 CHA

394 PR
462 MR
399 DR
378 FR
329 CR
15 COR

33 Weight

[Xalmat]

Haha, hiya guys. Not gonna steal Jaytee's thunder (I've always looked up to him back in my younger days). In fact he inspired me to renew my EQ1 account after 5 years. My god have Mages gotten upgraded since my day \

Still kicking it around in EQ2, making a name for myself as one of the experts on Conjurors, the EQ2 equivalent to Magicians. Pretty much never left EQ2 since the Beta back in Sept 2004.

Once a pet class, always a pet class, I always say.

Alas I simply don't have time to play EQ1 all that much, EQ2 takes up all my time.

But if you guys wanna catch up for old times sake, shoot a tell to Cazic.Xalmat or EQ2.Permafrost.Sess

[Jaytee]

Get your sorry butt transfered to luclin so I can box you with JT!

Had another productive evening last night - ~70% into 83 with 2 MM's to claim. Got two essences from FoS and made blue arms/feet. FINALLY a fire focus without buying the arms from the old man. I'm trying to save brews for some of the augs. I got the essences off Jazra the Feral and Darkcoil the Constrictor while the Demented guy dropped nothing. I have to say Jazral was an interesting fight - bastard had killed me three times before - he just has badass melee for a EM 2 pet to handle. My Tier 3 merc was having issues with healing him and my 85 cleric Duregarr's Tier 5 tank would wipe out real quick on him.

So I had a new strat last night - I dismissed Duregarr's tank merc and got my cleric a Tier 5 healer merc. Yep my cleric has a cleric merc. So now I box with 3 healers and I pull Jazra the Feral last night and got him to about 7% and he wiped the pet to enrage which I wasn't expecting, then I get summoned/wacked and Duregarr his merc and my merc are standing there for that half second while the mob moves on from my death to his next hate list target - Duregarr's merc healer. Now that merc was able to heal/tank him long enough for me to res JT on Duregarr, get enough mana to summon a pet and re-engauge while the 2 merc healers still had 50% mana! I had both healer mercs on "reactive" and the T5 one still had no problem with mana.

Now that was a F'd up fight but fun as hell. 3 clerics for the win! Anyway the named in FoS that are melee based hurt but are doable with a full burn and now that I know to watch for enrage on Jazra I should be ok next time too!

My magelo has been updated for the first time since early 2007: http://eq.magelo.com/profile/26797

Just did a comparison of my old and new magelo:

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Stats:	May-07	Nov-09	Increase
HP	12,457	18,675	49.92%
Mana	13,577	20,034	47.56%
Endurance	9,687	13,702	41.45%
AC	1,441	2,149	49.13%
ATK	911	1,218	33.70%
			
AA	456	813	78.29%
HP Regen	66	57	-13.64%
Mana Reg	20	20	0.00%
Haste	0	42	
STR	316	422	33.54%
STA	365	438	20.00%
AGI	365	430	17.81%
DEX	362	420	16.02%
WIS	395	481	21.77%
INT	415	503	21.20%
CHA	365	436	19.45%
			
PR	394	448	13.71%
MR	462	598	29.44%
DR	399	572	43.36%
FR	378	491	29.89%
CR	329	551	67.48%
COR	15	15	0.00%
			
WT	33	31	-6.06%

[Jaytee]

Ding 85, ping 850, welcome to Void E, and my apologies to the gnomes but Meldrath has fallen before me!

It's been a fairly quick run up to 85 and have been fortunate to have some great folks from the past and present help me out. It has been a great little run so far and I am looking forward to enjoying the game again.

Oh and FYI don't be a goober like me and get all excited about upgrading your gear in Void E but forget to remove you augs. I lost Blood of the Fallen and Nak's aug that way =(

Fortunately my petition for restoration was successful!