After all the Guild Drama (capitalized for emphasis)  of last week is was quite a surprise to see Shattered Moon’s guild leader return to the game. His return re-enforced the fact that the guild is not going anywhere. A few more people left to join Avic’s raid guild, but we quickly replaced them with new people.

The raiding death march has finally stopped. Five nights a week raiding was to much for me, and was rapidly crossing the line between fun-gaming and interfering with real-life.

The guild is going back to basics, and ran Return of the Light Heritage Quest last night. As you may have read, I love that HQ, and it’s great one for new players. We had two full groups and will probably have to do it again next month.

 We are also looking to do more focused grouping. That is where we pick a dungeon like say Stormhold or Runey Eye, and try to get as many people who need the quests there and just take the place over for a few hours.

We are working on yet another new guild website and this time its with XFire. The officers all were on it last night and were having trouble in Sanctum of the Scaleborn last night. With my help as DPS it quickly became a rout. So much so that after a while we were grabbing 2 or 3 packs at once and just annihilating them.

I was in voice chat even thought I really hate it. It is just to immersion breaking for me. But it was very handy and was great to talk to some long time guildmates for the first time.

A quick update on the Month of Crafting. 17 days in and I’ve made 17 levels.
Sage 77 -> 80 (+3)
Jeweler 62 -> 70 (+ 8)
Alchemist 60 -> 64 (+4)
Carpenter 40 -> 42 (+2)
Provisioner 53 -> 53 (no change)

Ugh, remind me not to try this again. Between the raids and crafting I have done almost no adventuring.

Rock Band update. This weekend I finished Easy for drums and vocals, and medium for guitar. I am just about 11 songs in on expert guitar, and 3 songs in on medium vocal. I purchased Punk Pack 2 and Dr. Love by Kiss. I’ve got a band going with my kids, and its quite much to my chagrin, I really need to read all the lyrics to these songs BEFORE I buy them. Otherwise I will agro the wife.

Lastly, I read zero books last month. Zero. Early on in my MMO days I determined that how many books I read is a good indication of how much time I am spending in a MMO. I should be reading four to six months a month, depending on how big they are and how easy a read. If I read to few, I am gaming to much and will burn out. To many books and I should cancel the game, because its just not interesting anymore. I’ve been keeping track of what I have read, primary so I don’t re-buy the same book. Only during one other month this decade have I not finished at least one book. I think it’s a testament to EQ2 and the Ruins of Kunark that after a year of solid playing I still have so much to do in the game. But still, zero is not good. Worse still is the fact that I have yet to open a book this month.