There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills!

It was fairly late by the time I got around to logging on last night… right around 9:30.  I typically try to be in bed no later than 10:30 during the week… especially since I generally have to read for at least an hour or two after crawling into bed in order to fall asleep.  So, I knew I didn’t have time to do much.

I decided to try to get some roots from The Sinking Sands because I’m running low on my jeweler.  I logged on Rao and off I went.

There are a few consistent spots for roots in The Sinking Sands.  They have a chance to spawn on any grassy area, but there are 2 spots that have ruins on them and then the Oasis closest to the docks all consistently spawn the roots.  I hit those locations first and grabbed what was spawned and then started running my circuit through the zone grabbing up shinies while I waited on the respawn.  Probably 99% of the shinies that spawn in SS I have already, but most sell fairly quickly and there is always the chance that I’ll pick up the few that I’m missing that seem to be quite rare.

I’m not sure exactly what was going on last night, but I was grabbing up rare shinies like the zone had just won the lottery.  I was able to finish 3 collections that I’ve had for months and added at least 1 item to another 4.  Most of the others that I looted were also rares but rares that I had just happened to luck into previously.  In addition to that, I grabbed up just under a stack of roots to send over to Fuzz for crafting.

During the course of that activity, I got to chatting with a friend who informed me he was thinking of looking for a new guild.  Our guild is good… recently downgraded from great… but it is somewhat restrictive.  He has a toon that he loves playing and quite a few that he likes having around but that he doesn’t really want to play actively.  He was informed last night by the officer corps that he would not be allowed to play the toon he enjoys as his main if he wanted to raid.  They would never allow him to take the toon he enjoys to raids… even if they are short on people.  This was similar, although more hard-edged, than what they told me when I let them know I was shelving my dirge.

I realize that with the small number of raid slots available in this game that there are some slots that have to be reserved for certain classes, but geez.  Here’s a thought… you want to tell me what character to play, you are more than welcome to give me your credit card information so that you can start paying for my account.  Otherwise, go screw yourself.

Anyway, thanks to their kind and understanding reaction, he pretty much did tell them to go screw themselves last night when they were forming up to raid.  He tracked down an old EQ1 friend of his and asked him about his guild, and then he went raiding with that guild on the character that he actually wants to play.  He is going to spend a few days deciding if he wants to leave our guild and go join them.  Quite frankly, depending on his report, I might end up following.  I haven’t decided yet.  I take guild affiliation very seriously and it takes quite a bit for me to detag once I join someone.

While I was harvesting around last night, some poor soul came over the top of the hill and dropped down the other side… not realizing (I guess) that Terrorantula was up.  He was also low enough level that the normal terrantulas still loved him too.  He ran past me with one massive 8-legged horror of a train on his ass screaming in /shout “RAID!  RAID!  MY KINGDOM FOR A CAN OF RAID!!!”

I couldn’t help but laugh.