Oooh, hothothothothothothot!!!

I spent some time in Lavastorm last night. 

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Lavastorm since EQ1.  It was one of my favorite hunting spots when I was leveling up my wizard back in EQ1, but it never ceased to piss me off at least once per hunting session because the elementals hit hard and my wizard was squishy. 

I wasn’t actually hunting there last night though.  I had intended to do some hunting there with my ranger since I haven’t hunted there with any other toon.  I thought with the revamp, this might be a fun spot.  Unfortunately, before I even realized it, I had out-leveled the zone.

Over the weekend, I grabbed the quest for the miner’s hat that you need to see a shiny in Deep Forge to start some HQ.  Since my ranger didn’t exist in the days leading up to the TSO release, he didn’t get the miner’s hat the easy way.

So I am on the eternal quest for an ebon cluster.  I can go to other zones and snag an ebon cluster after a few harvests, but not in Lavastorm.  My luck there runs low.

That’s okay though.  I am addicted to (and determined to complete) all the new shiny collections that sprung up with the revamp.

I also have a personal goal to some day, sooner or later, visit that zone, pay freaking attention, and quit walking off a cliff into the damn lava.  That may not be as glorious or glamorous as other goals that I could have for myself, but hey… to each his own.

The upside to spending so much time harvesting there is that I am building up my rare collection again.  Some weeks ago, I spent every copper I had to my name so I brokered most of my rares to rebuild my bank account.  Without thinking, I stuck all of my t5 rares up for sale… forgetting that they were needed for the tradeskill epic.

I had enough t5 rares banked to take an army of toons through the tradeskill epic and still have leftovers.  It wasn’t until this past weekend, when I finally decided to start working on the epic with my jeweler and sage, that I realized my error.

I’m nearly ready to wrap those two up now though.  1 more ebon cluster and I’ll be able to finish them off.

And if I can only manage to quit taking lava baths, my chances for getting that ebon cluster might just improve.