Ding! (Vanguard)

Ugh, twelve hours of downtime for Vanguard maintenance today! I have a lot of RL things to do today anyhow, hopefully I get a little time to play this evening though. Last night I managed to hit level 20 with my disciple. At 20 you gain the ability to purchase a faster mount, I picked up a camel mount. He's pretty cute and I was happy to have a faster mount. While it feels pretty fast there are others that are much faster, as you level you gain access to other faster mounts which is pretty nice. This sort of gives you a little something extra to look forward to as you progress through the game. The next mount I want to work on is the Unicorn mount which I hope to start soon. I killed a few of the mobs that start the quest but I didn't have any luck, I was also in the process of finishing up another quest so I'll put this on hold for another few levels.

I had to take a break from the 20+ armor quest line as the mobs I need now are four dot mobs, generally most mobs for quests are two dot mobs, so you can imagine these are quite tough. I could most likely take them on if they didn't come in pairs, it's tough I'll admit so I'll have to wait a few levels. For now I am working on the URT quest for armor and hopefully a weapon. These are pretty easy but long chains, I have enjoyed doing them because they have taken me to places I've never seen. The world of Telon is full of so many beautiful places with such different feels in atmosphere, it is great to travel around and explore them.

Some days I feel like kicking myself for not playing this game years ago, on a more steady basis. Then again I think about how much fun I am having now and I'm sort of glad I get to enjoy it now when I am so burnt out on the same ol' same ol', I appreciate it as it should be. It is refreshing and immersive, I suppose sometimes you have to grow a bit to find just what you really want. I am so very glad that this game is going F2P instead of closing it's doors. I'll say something selfish here- I actually like playing a lesser populated game, even though I do want to see more people playing it- I enjoy smaller communities. I enjoy making a name for yourself, not being some random person in a dungeon but building friendships and those having value and worth. Same with EQ, I suppose that is where it all originates from- my MMO roots.

Anyhow, I thought I'd share some pictures of my travels. I need to change the ways the files save, the quality isn't as high as it should be, and on top of this uploading compresses the files even more, I am able to share them full size at least ($$$ but worth it to me). I keep forgetting to change the format they save in plus last night I had driver problems that caused some corruption and had a nice long battle with my machine. Hopefully I show it who's boss and it starts behaving again ;) My disciple's name is Angel if you'd like to say hello in-game.