These guys must play every day for HOURS!!!

Some of the same people that I was playing with the past few days were on again tonight. I grouped up with them again in The Deep. I logged in level 41, but they were between 44 and 51! I played more this weekend than I could imagine EVER playing. Heck I was on vacation from work, that's the only reason I played so much... What do they do, sit around and play EQ all weekend? Hmm... sounds kind of nice, actually... :-)

In any case, Buthar is up to level 44 now. Still haven't done any spell shopping and am a good 5 levels behind on spells now. Better get that done soon...

I'm now a Temperence wielding healer!

WOOT! I got it. Wasn't NEARLY as hard as the online guides made it out to be, either. First mob we killed dropped the emblem, and the ghost was up when we zoned in, so it took next to no work and about 10 minutes of running around. I finally got it though! Thanks to those that helped. I'd like to say that they made it easy, but I think it would have been easy none-the-less. So, thanks to those that made it fun!

Had an eventful day on top of that. Played Buthar all day long. Had an in-guild fishing tourney at Abysmal Sea, which I somehow managed to win, despite falling in the ocean while I was drunk and ducking, which resulted in a nearly 15 minute swim back to the dock I fell off of. Racked up on the Tuna and Crab meat though. Anyone want any? I'll let Lullaan have them. He's the cook in the family.

Did a little XPing today too. Was headed to Dawnshroud Peaks when I found out the group was moving to "Velks". Well, I'd never been there before, so after I asked for directions, I met up with the group in PoK and followed someone the rest of the way. I did find out later that I was in Velious and it marked my first ever trip to the continent. You know, I really should stop being surprised everytime I have a first. It offends me a little to think that I've been playing the game for almost 4 years now and haven't done so many things, but then again, I've never had a character over level 33 until this week... Anyway, it turns out we were in a zone that was made for slightly higher level adventurers than ourselves. Luckily our camp was near the zone line so we could run quickly if needed. Made level 41 before quitting for dinner. Then when I came back I went for Temp.

Wow. Guids are great. And hot zones aren't too bad either...

Logged Buthar in for a while today. Started at level 31, wound up at level 39. Moved over to Dawnshroud Peaks with a couple of the people that I grouped with yesterday. It was the first time I'd been to the zone, but it played well. Even with the hot zone status, I never more than 10 people there, but at least we could keep a full group the entire time. I had a couple of different people in the guild ask me when I was going to do my Temp quest. They're very eager to help me with it. (I hope it's not as hard as they're making it sound... I went and bought the spells that I could find up to level 40, but I need to find the missing few. I started to look up the Temp quest,but Allakhazam was down today, so I'll have to save that for another day. I'm not sure how much play time I'll get in tomorrow, but I'm still hoping to break the 40 mark by week's end.

Let's see what this guild does for me...

So as previously stated, I joined a guild. I logged in today to see what I could do with them. Honestly, I was a little surprised to see that there were 24 members logged in at 1:00 in the afternoon. Buthar hung out in the guild hall for a while working on skilling up his casting abilities before I finally decided to go XP. I noticed that a couple of guildies were in Castle Mistmoore, a current hot zone. I logged in Zunban and joined them there and made 2 or 3 levels in an hour or so. I think we did get wiped once, but only because Dummerboy wanted to take a look in the crypt... Of course he fell in and brought the whole zone training out on us. We never made it inside the castle itself, as the group kind of broke up after only a short time. I logged out for the day and decided to try the next day for leveling up Buthar. I've wanted to get him to 40 for a while now so that I can get Temp. He's currently level 31, and if I can stick to the hot zones, I should be there by the weekend.

I finally joined a guild

So I broke down and decided that if I was going to make any real progress at all, I was going to have to join a guild. I did. After an hour or so of going through forum posts and checking the in-game Guild Lobby, I narrowed it down to two choices. I spoke with members from each guild and decided on Haven of Spirits. They seemed to match my playstyle while offering a lot of room for doing pretty much anything in game and still being able to find a group to join. There were about 15 characters in the guild logged in at the time, and they were spread over ALL level ranges. I went ahead and put all 8 of my characters in the guild and can't wait to get started grinding out the XP.