Even though I really like our guild Robynn, I have learned not to rely on
them for anything. I realize your not saying that you do...but if I find
myself grouped with a guildmate its usually because of coincidence. No one
from our guild has ever come to my aid because I asked, only if it was
convenient. I tend to just try and make as many casual friends as I can as I
wander about and the ones that remember me later are usually the ones that I
remember too...I have lived all the way to 35 on utterly random pick-up
groups.
I just wanted to mention that even though lots of folks here say the lambent
is mostly attainable at your level, it really wasn't meant to be, IMHO. At
level 28 you have a heck of a lot more pieces than yours truly. Take a
break from the lambent questing, do other things...be flexible when you log
on and don't make it your sole focus to pursue the armor every time - most
everything that comes my way does so because I am in the right place at the
right time...sort of like real life ;-)
Not preaching...just kindly words of encouragement from a concerned fellow
bard and guildmate.
cheers!
Faras Tar'Linedhel
Half-Elf Bard
E'ci
______________________________
"We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful about
what we pretend to be."
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katy Westerman [mailto:katyw@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 1:22 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Twinking Causes a Crisis of Faith
>
>
> From: Katy Westerman <katyw@...>
>
>
> > It really make me wonder what I am putting all this work
> into. While for the
> > most part I still have fun, on the nights when I join up
> with the world's
> > most inept group or worse can't find a group I begin to
> think about hanging
> > the lute up and calling it quits.
>
> This is my biggest problem with the game. I'm level 28 and up until
> this point, my boyfriend and I could just go around and hunt in a pair
> and make decent exp. Together, we have acquired a full set of crafted
> for him and an almost complete set of lambent for myself (I'm missing
> the helm, bp, and boots right now). Yes, for some of this, we joined
> a larger group or, in his case, bought 2 or 3 pieces that we couldn't
> get ourselves. Lately, we've had a wizard from my guild join us, so I
> basically have a regular 3 person group. This is not enough to do
> much of anything anymore. At our level (my 28, wiz 28, bf 30) ,
> there's not much to kill outdoors and breaking into a decent spot in a
> dungeon requires a full group. So, here's my little grouping
> mini-rant. Two nights ago, we took over the Permafrost king room from
> a level 50 who was looking for a cloak. I sat in a preacher room
> group until the rest showed up; the rest being my 2 regulars and a
> friend of the wizard who had grouped with us a couple of times before.
> We waited at least 2 hours to take the room over, not counting the
> time it took them to get a teleport from Unrest to North Karana and
> run to Permafrost. Once the room was secured, we were fine. An honor
> guard spawned with a 2 hander and we let the wiz's roll, since they
> had helped us out before and hadn't really gotten any of the good
> stuff. The non-regular won, and shortly thereafter, deserted us while
> we were trying to find his replacement. Note to self: my regular
> group is not enough to hold the room. The high priest spawned and
> killed all 3 of us, starting with the nuker. After corpse retrieval,
> with the help of a really nice level 47 druid from my guild, it was
> 12:30am and I was back where I started for the night.
>
> This is typical of my experiences lately. Either we can't find enough
> people to take a room in a dungeon or we can, but can't find a room to
> take. And once we finally take the room, someone has to leave so
> we either have to find a replacement quickly or leave the room
> ourselves. At least most people who have to leave warn us enough
> ahead of time that the new person arrives as soon as they disband.
> I've started to feel like I'm wasting my time playing. Sure,
> occasionally I'll have a really great time (Gnomestock was a blast,
> and once I was in a group killing the diplomat in Permafrost which was
> great), but those times are few and far between now. Even being in a
> guild doesn't seem to help much...Does anyone have any ideas on how to
> make this feel more worthwhile?
>
> A very discouraged Robynn Merrilin, on E'ci
>
>
> --
> Katy Westerman Don't lick something unless
> katyw@... you really mean it.
>
> http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~katyw -Advice from the Naked
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