Personal Log, Stardate: Free to Play
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:58 am
So, haven't played in several years, but thought I'd try out free to play. Below are a few impressions:
Logged in Shiuna, 75 Shaman on Tunare, got messages that 4 bags had been sent to me via the parcel service.
Look at my inventory, only 6 bag slots and just about all my equipment had a yellow background *sigh*.
Went to the bank, still 24 slots (yea!) but shared slots gone (boo!). Looked through my inventory....holy crap, I must have saved everything I ever looted. Did a housecleaning and freed up enough slots for the 4 extra bags.
The parcel delivery system was apparently added with Veil of Alaris: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts ... _id=181140
The guy in PoK is Caden Zharik. He's outside the small bank. Click on him and there's an extra tab for the parcel system. Click on the tab and recover your stuff!
Did some reading about equipment, and found that, for me, all the yellow equipment was caused by the augments. I agonized for a while, then discovered elegant defiant chain and elegant adept equipment. It was selling for 50-1500 plat in the bazaar and was far better than anything I was wearing, and mostly had the focus effects I needed. So, half the yellow stuff got replaced by defiant, and I just removed the augments from the rest. I think I picked up about 2000 hp from the exchange, and all the focuses go up to level 85.
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/itemlist.htm ... iant+chain
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/itemlist.htm ... gant+adept
Found out that Direwind Cliffs was the hot zone for level 75, so buffed up and headed out. Got to Sunderock Springs and found a bunch of dark blue mobs, so thought I'd stop and refresh my memory on combat mechanics.
All my spell sets were gone, as well as my customized hot key bars, so I stood around for a while looking at spell descriptions until things started coming back. As always, spell gems are a premium, 10 slots and 15 spells to mem. Then I discovered that there's a Gate AA now, which frees up a slot....and there's a Malos-class AA, freeing up another slot. They also added two more levels to Mnemonic Retention, but I can't get that until level 80, I think.
With hot zone exp + anniversary exp + lesson exp I was getting an AA every other kill on dark blues...having a blast!
Note to self: don't get used to the exp, it won't last forever.
Edit: You can buy extra inventory slots for your character for 250SC each. If you decide to do this, buy them one at a time. I bought 3 at once, and it only gave me one. I don't know if this was because of a quantity purchase bug or Silver is restricted to 8 slots.
Edit2: I got a couple of augs from trash mobs in Sunderock Springs already. Neither of them were prestige, so don't sweat the augments....really!
petrified bladefin eye: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=80387
spring minerals: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=51925
Logged in Shiuna, 75 Shaman on Tunare, got messages that 4 bags had been sent to me via the parcel service.
Look at my inventory, only 6 bag slots and just about all my equipment had a yellow background *sigh*.
Went to the bank, still 24 slots (yea!) but shared slots gone (boo!). Looked through my inventory....holy crap, I must have saved everything I ever looted. Did a housecleaning and freed up enough slots for the 4 extra bags.
The parcel delivery system was apparently added with Veil of Alaris: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts ... _id=181140
The guy in PoK is Caden Zharik. He's outside the small bank. Click on him and there's an extra tab for the parcel system. Click on the tab and recover your stuff!
Did some reading about equipment, and found that, for me, all the yellow equipment was caused by the augments. I agonized for a while, then discovered elegant defiant chain and elegant adept equipment. It was selling for 50-1500 plat in the bazaar and was far better than anything I was wearing, and mostly had the focus effects I needed. So, half the yellow stuff got replaced by defiant, and I just removed the augments from the rest. I think I picked up about 2000 hp from the exchange, and all the focuses go up to level 85.
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/itemlist.htm ... iant+chain
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/itemlist.htm ... gant+adept
Found out that Direwind Cliffs was the hot zone for level 75, so buffed up and headed out. Got to Sunderock Springs and found a bunch of dark blue mobs, so thought I'd stop and refresh my memory on combat mechanics.
All my spell sets were gone, as well as my customized hot key bars, so I stood around for a while looking at spell descriptions until things started coming back. As always, spell gems are a premium, 10 slots and 15 spells to mem. Then I discovered that there's a Gate AA now, which frees up a slot....and there's a Malos-class AA, freeing up another slot. They also added two more levels to Mnemonic Retention, but I can't get that until level 80, I think.
With hot zone exp + anniversary exp + lesson exp I was getting an AA every other kill on dark blues...having a blast!
Note to self: don't get used to the exp, it won't last forever.
Edit: You can buy extra inventory slots for your character for 250SC each. If you decide to do this, buy them one at a time. I bought 3 at once, and it only gave me one. I don't know if this was because of a quantity purchase bug or Silver is restricted to 8 slots.
Edit2: I got a couple of augs from trash mobs in Sunderock Springs already. Neither of them were prestige, so don't sweat the augments....really!
petrified bladefin eye: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=80387
spring minerals: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=51925