Qindaar is still spelunking in Velgrad. Many quests to do down here and waiting to see if one of them involves the huge dragon at the bottom of the pit of doom.  Time will tell.  Right now he is after a book that he has ran across many times in the past, but now that the book is needed cannot locate it anywhere.  Qindaar thought this would be an easy in and out task.

As you can see in this picture, the mine is filled with these huge Golems, they are not difficult to take out but they do pack a wallop if they hit you.

Back to the search for the Ancient Tablet

As Qindaar ventures deeper into the mine, the difficulty is picking the MoB’s off in a group he can handle.  Been finding lately that his manna pull is running out midfight, causing him to activate spells to capture manna from surroundings, this takes time and the MoB starts to regain life. Qindaar is learning to manage his manna pool better and to get close in for that melee with his Heroic Rod of Adept and the Heroic Dream Weavers Rod that diseases the attacker with a three hundred and sixty life loss point each strike.

As Qindaar expands his travels through the mines in Sunderdock, he happens across the Temple of Zek deep in the mines.  To progress any further in he has to locate the piece of shard to transform into the key to move the giant stone statue.

After killing many miners and slaves he gets the shard, transforms it into the key and enter the Pit of Doom.  This is where he left off for the evening, we shall soon find out why it is the Pit of Doom.  He did float down to the bottom and found a huge dragon awaiting him, from there he evac’d out to tackle this another day.

Qindaar set out yesterday to finish the “Disrupting the Mines” task for the Hero’s Progression.  Had to collect four turtle eggs.  No big deal collected two yesterday right off the bat so getting four would be no problem…three hours later and only two in hand…five hours later finally had four.  Qindaar cleared the zone at least eight times during that period.  Got great XP, even though it was all green and light blue, but it was still XP.

Qindaar made several AA points, have 23 stacked up waiting to apply, just unsure what would be worthy of the application, again, research is needed.

Missed Vmalice last night, noticed he was online, but AFK, maybe tonight…Still waiting to see if my friend here in PS loads up EQ and brings Derevan back to life.

Qindaar also had to wade deep into Direwind last night to Ashengate. Encountered two huge Stone Guards at the gate entrance.  Qindaar was invisible but checked to make sure he was not seen, but yes they could see invis and yes I was an enemy.  Managed to take them both down and the nice thing was they were both Dark Blue which meant they were only one to five levels below me.  Great XP there!

To finish up this Quest, Qindaar needs to venture deep into the Vergald Mines, so far nothing in there sees invis, but we shall find out today.

Qindaar is really progressing up the chain of progressions, advancements etc. Starting into the level seventy plus stuff now and is leaning more on his mercenaries.  Not so much for the named MoBs but for all the little stuff that comes along with it.

Just finished up a chain of task for the little guy above and venturing deeper into Direwind.  Still have a mapping exploration to finish up before delving into the harder things.

I had a second account on EverQuest so I ask a good friend if he would be interested in tagging along.  If he decides to, then maybe between us we will have enough to do some missions, I believe they allow Mercenaries to count. I hope he decides to play, I think between Qindaar, Vmalice and Valmantia we can get that level sixty six up to our levels or even better, if he enjoys the game we can pitch in and get him Heroic status to level eighty five, but first he has to try the game out. It would be great to have a real cleric in the group so we can use more hard hitters and not worry as much about dying.

Last night Qindaar was fulfilling a quest by collecting unusual parts from ancient beasts. The “Turtle” above was fun, while casting on it, it thought the best way to do away with me was to swallow me whole.  I was laughing so hard trying to find my way out, finally found that by casting on the tongue he would regurgitate me.  This was humourous, trying to take out Skyrake was not, Evac’d out and went to bed after that battle.

While working his way through the progressions towards Hero the Quests are now becoming a little more difficult.  At times Qindaar would have to use his Mercenary on occasion to to take down a group.  This is great since he is also starting to get a little XP towards the kills.  No more clearing the zone with one fell cast, now it takes several.

Ran across the guy pictured above the other night, conned green to Qindaar so I figured a named MoB must have some good stuff on it.  Qindaar started casting spells on it and hitting it hard but it was making no difference.  After several minutes of blasting it, it was only down 2 points so Evacuate was used to disengage and later looked up the creature on the internet.  Found out the it has a million and a quarter hitpoints, would never had been able to take it down, would have ran out of manna long before.

Qindaar yesterday ventured into a new zone Sunder Hills and while running around like a madman trying to find the creatures he was supposed to kill he crested a mountain peak and saw to moon rising above the mountains on the other side of the valley.  Sometimes you need to stop the fighting and enjoy your surroundings.  Many hours of development went into this game to make it visually pleasing as well.  Never mind the drive to level, venture out and enjoy the many different zones and scenery that the game has to offer.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Qindaar, Vmalice and Valmantia went exploring and questing in Tainted West Karana last night.  Qindaar was able to loot three collectables??? Have no idea what they are, need to research.  We polished off one quest and just about ready to finish the second when Vmalice bit the dust. It was late so we decided to call it a night.

We managed to eek in three daily’s as well last night, with Qindaar managing a forty percent increase in XP, an AA point and a Merc AA point.  Overall a good night.

Hope to get in some XP over the Thanksgiving weekend.  EQ usually does double XP over holidays, I hope this holds true.

Qindaar’s progress over the weekend was hindered by my inability to play do to a slight illness, been under the weather for the last few days.  Sorry Vmalice and Valmantia for not being there for you.

Qindaar continues his progression through the Steppes on his way to completing the Hero’s Achievement.  Hope to get in a lot of game play over the long Thanksgiving weekend.