Ardwulf's Other Lair

After careful consideration, I am laying out the groundwork to turn my old, dormant EverQuest II guild, The Unfettered Hand, into a real guild at last. I am posting notices in various places including here, starting today. We are on the Antonia Bayle server, and are looking for mature, intelligent and friendly casual gamers.

Recruitment is now open. The guild information page, with a mission statement, guild rules and policies and instructions for applying for membership is… Continue

I'll have about an hour and a half at home tonight before heading out to a family birthday party which will probably keep me off the internet for the night. I intend to spend that time in EVE rather than WAR, which I'm resolved to take a couple of days off from. (I will, however, check in to see if there are any RvR events scheduled for the week.)

When it came time to make a new character, I chose Minmatar, of the Sebastior bloodline, with a focus on fighting skills; soldier over special forces… Continue

After a few hours of play last night, Einfeuer is about midway through level 14 and very close to renown rank 12. I ran the Stonetroll Crossing scenario and hit the open RvR lands toward the end of the night, but most of the leveling progress was made my cleaning up regular quests in Troll Country, and in hitting a couple of PQs.

Public Quests vary widely in difficulty; one Chapter 6 PQ is impossible to complete without a full group including at least one tank (a class that, you'll recall, Empi… Continue

I posted most of what would ordinarily have made up today’s posts last night; I did not get to play much over the weekend, which is not unusual. I did, however, manage to take Einfeuer to Altdorf on Saturday night, and this time I poked around a bit. I didn’t explore the city completely – some parts of it are said to be dangerous!

There’s a lot of talk in various places, including some blogs, about factional population balance in RvR. I think this is a legitimate cause for concern, although I t… Continue

Last night I visited the recently transplanted Destruction side of Casualties of WAR for an evening, finally getting my Black Orc Argazak up and running. The Greenskin area is possibly the best in the game, and it was fun to go through even a second time, hitting Public Quests that I'd missed the first time. When I left him he was rank 6, renown 4, and in the Kron Komar Gap - which has the best Public Quest I've seen so far in the game, the competitive one where you have to out-kill the other si… Continue