thistlechaser | Home from the doctor: Still have all my toes (plus cooking, books)

Long story short: New infection. Doctor had to make new holes in my toe to help drain things. Hurts like heck, but that's fine so long as I don't have to go back to the hospital. It's still MRSA, but it's the "good" (weaker) form of it. On new antibiotic.

In tastier news, I'm going to make this pot roast tomorrow. Looks easy to make, and in my limited use, I've had good success with envelopes of powder. It's all put together in the fridge now, ready to plug in tomorrow morning. I'm a tad worried what the vinegar might do sitting with the onions for 12 hours (I poured it down the side instead of on the meat), but I forgot to hold it off to the side, so we'll see. Hopefully it won't transmute the onions into some form of toxic sludge or something. Cooking, so challenging. (But seriously, how do people learn about things like that? I doubt many people say hey, let's pour vinegar on various vegetables for 12 hours and see what happens!. How does one learn what's a horrible mistake and what's only minorly bad or what's okay? Vinegar is an acid and onions are strong in something harsh, I'd think mixing the two for long periods of time might be bad. Or maybe I'll get pickled onions! Seriously, cooking, so challenging.)

I hate finishing good books. I've been sad all day, knowing there was no more of the Gone series to read. Luckily he's written a crapton of other books, so I'm going to check some of them out. He and his wife are the authors of all the Animorphs books, as well as some Sweet Valley series (not High, a sidebranch of it) -- those aren't going to be the ones I check out, but just evidence of how prolific the two of them are. Though, hmm, I've never read any of the Animorphs book, so maybe I'll check one out?

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I can't get the dailies until level 30, so that could be a bit. Been avoiding leveling as I hate random dungeons. Should lump it and go. I'm already level 29. It wouldn't take long.

Been doing leves for mining and enjoy those, but really don't enjoy the combat leves. Mostly because I'm on Conjurer and that's slow to kill anything. So what should be easy takes forever and a day.

Wish there was an option to do things with crafting classes like the storyline. I'd be happier not leveling a combat class. ;)

Maybe fishing levels count? My archer was 22 or 24 when I started taking them on. I do only the crafting ones though -- like you, I really dislike the combat leves. They're just no fun for me.

If you can, watch the AH for HQ ores (or save the ones you get). When you turn HQ things in for a leve, you get a big bonus of XP as well as (usually) the items back.

Wish there was an option to do things with crafting classes like the storyline. I'd be happier not leveling a combat class. ;)

So very agreed. I find Fates to be the least painful way to level, but then I need to catch up on the storyline quests.

I knew about HQ stuff. It doubles your xp gain, which is awesome. :) Unfortunately the mining leves I've done don't allow for hq options. Fishing sure does though. Tis awesome.

The grand company dailies say it must be a level 30 combat class, so fishing doesn't work. Very sad. Not sure why you could get them and I can't.

That's very strange... You're trying to pick them up from the starter city GC HQ? The only 30+ thing I have is fishing. Archery and leather are both my next highest at 27-ish.

Too bad about the mining leves! I hadn't tried one yet (but want to), I've only done the leather ones and one combat one to see what that would be like.

I didn't join a GC in my starter city, so no, didn't try there. Didn't expect a non joined company to give me quests, so didn't look. :)

Mining leves are super easy, but you mine the quest item during the time limit, and there are no HQs. You can't premine stuff and turn it in. :( WHich you can do with fishing.

Ah ha! That explains it then. Whichever of the three you join will have daily turn-in crafting quests for you, all picked up from the city of the GC you join*. I actually enjoy them, since it's something that gives you XP in that craft (no turning in a level 1 item if you're level 30 that I've seen), and it's one item from every craft, so that keeps it interesting.

(*You can do another city's and get credit for your own, but you get a bonus if you do them for your own.)

I'll see if I can try a mining one tonight! :)

Well, I've been trying to get quests from the GC I joined and it's level 30 combat class only.

The GCs have reps in other cities than the main ones, too. I've turned in crafting dailies in Drybone, and a few other camps.

Getting the dungeons done isn't hard, though if you get a stupid group it can be frustrating. If you're on Balmung I'd be glad to help - 50BRD, and working on GLA/PLD (currently 18) alongside my wife's LNC. Usually you can survive 1 person being a moron, sometimes 2...but with a group that actually knows the mechanics of the boss fights, it goes by very fast. I just ran Wanderer's Palace (lv 50) for the first time, with randoms, and the whole thing took under 20 minutes.

That said, some of the storyline fights are a pain, especially if you're a damage class. I'm stuck on one right now - Westwind. 8man fight, and no one does it outside storyline (most other dungeons, people run them for xp/rewards) so i've sat in the duty finder for hours hoping for a group. Fortunately my FC/LS said they'll help - sunday is their "help people with whatever" day.

I'm still loving the game, though I'm frustrated at a lack of merit point system. 50 BRD, tons of story to do, dungeons to run with lots of trash to fight through...and Xp that serves no purpose. I know I'm aeons behind most people playing - most I know were 50 in multiple jobs before the Realm Reborn thing, which is when I just started.

Ah! I could simply be looking in the wrong place then. :) I'll go poking around.

Yeah, the dungeons aren't hard per se, but I suffer with anxiety. Even when I read up on places I do things wrong that first time, and often get screamed at horribly for it all by other players. Then I agonize for days afterward and it's amazingly stressful for me. So for me dungeons are a place of stress and anxiety I just do not need. And sadly it's all in my head, and there's nothing I can do about it.

It's not the game really, it's me and other players who are jerks about me not magically knowing how to do things 'properly'.

Do have a free company. Should ask them. I angst over asking for help too. :P

Home from the doctor: Still have all my toes (plus cooking, books)

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