Rise from the Ashes

Greetings, my friends! 

As you may or may not have heard, OGP is dropping Redstone, which is bittersweet news. Bitter, since this server is where I got my start and met so many amazing people and I won't lie, I'm sad to see it fall instead of cared for and nurtured as it should have been. Sweet, though, because of this amazing news.

Sorry if it looks odd, I'm on mobile, so can't see true sizing.

Hopefully, with any luck, we will not be passed off to another third party company that doesn't give a damn but instead given a home that respects and cares about its playerbase. 

Another thing I'm hoping for is a server wipe. I know a lot of people are very adamantly against it but think about it not on a single scale but on a game wide scale. For every gear and level you worked hard to make, spending countless hours and currency to achieve, there are ten hackers out there who have made even better gear and higher levels in a huge fraction of the time and no cost. There is no GvG, no working together to achieve goals, no challenge to a game whose sole point is to be a challenge. How can a game like that be fun?

This is coming from a person who spent countless days working to get my levels and my gears, many days grinding eighteen plus hours to level and having those little bursts of excitement when a unique item dropped. Now I don't even have to leave town to get my dream gear.

So if there is a server wipe and we get a company that actually shows that they care, then I can't wait to play again, especially if we get all the updates! I will be starting my own guild on the new server but may not use the same name. I will keep you updated on here, though! 

So, until the next newsworthy update for us, good luck and happy hunting!

Farewell

Hey, guys.

I know it's been a really, really long time since I've posted and for the few who still visit my blog, I just wanted to kind of give an explanation as to why I haven't been around.

Jigg and I have officially quit the game. We did a while ago but bowed out quietly, so many didn't really realize that we just aren't really around. We didn't PvP much and didn't really make a big name for ourselves, so I'm sure not too many have missed us. To the few that may miss me, I'm sorry to have left so abruptly. I just basically threw my hands in the air and said, "Screw this, I'm done."

I guess you could say it would inevitably always lead up to that point, though frankly, I'm kind of happy that it happened sooner rather than later. The big event that led to this was the event with Golden Boots. Now, I didn't enter, as I knew other people could benefit more than me and it would be really shitty to get them and turn around and resell them. But my friend Buns did and the whole way it was run just showed me how little management cares about this game.

I don't blame whoever won, I'm actually happy that they did, so don't think that I am crying "Boohoo, my friend didn't win so I'm gonna take my toys and leave". Far from it. I am just sick of playing a game with a sarcastic and sometimes extremely rude GM who has shown just how little he cares about the majority of the community.

If the game was better run or even turned over to an entirely new company, I think I would come back. Maybe. But as is, with hacked gears, favoritism, and too many bugs to count, I don't want to drain any more money into a game that gives me nothing in return. It is frustrating and what is the point of playing a game that isn't even enjoyable?

I will miss a lot of you and I am sad that I didn't get to be friends with many of you. I did love many in the community and felt blessed to meet some pretty amazing and wonderful people in the short 9 months that I did play. My archer will always be beloved it to me and it was a ton of fun to be one of the first on the server to show off how awesome Knowledge Archer can be as a support role. I regret that I never did get to try it out with my Blue Velvet but maybe someday, if the game ever becomes popular once more and sits under better management.

I have started playing WoW with Jigg, since a bunch of his coworkers play, and it is pretty enjoyable. So if you want to find me, just PM Faethful on Spinebreaker (Hoard). I'm the Druid who loves to AOE! If you don't play, you can always leave a comment on here or if you have a Tumblr, inbox me here. If I don't see you anymore, then let it be known that I wish you the best of luck with whatever you do, in game or real life, and I hope you have a fantastic life.

As always, good luck and happy hunting.

Yay for Questing!

Good morning, all you wonderful people!

Hope everything is going well. Last Thursday, Jigg got a new computer, so now we can both play again!

And there was much rejoicing.

So I started this weekend at level 672 and my goal was simply to get 675 so that I could do daily quests and try and get the 680 Lancer weapon pieces. I achieved this goal within hours of grinding, though, since both GD experience and the experience I get at turtles is very nice. 

I then tried the daily quests and, wow, are they a ton of fun! I really enjoy questing and sometimes wished this game had more significant quests. So to have 7 daily quests is just a blast for me and it doesn't hurt that they give a ton of experience. 

Also started running the 681 SD with Jigg, Flash, and Gawain, and that SD is also a ton of fun, and relatively easy once you get the hang of it. Just need lots of panacea and a smart witch (which, thankfully, my husband is!).

So by the end of the power hour, I almost reached 700 and Jigg passed it by a long-shot.

Unfortunately (well not really), we just got a new puppy, so that plus my business, I won't be able to play as much during the week, though I will try to pop on for those fun daily quests! As a bonus, here a couple pictures of my babies! FYI, my dogs are named after the Avengers, because I'm a giant nerd. Bruce (Banner), the German Shepard mix we just got yesterday and Captain (America) who is a year and a half old Husky-Malamute mix.

Bruce sleeping after a long day of playing with his older brother.

Captain a couple weeks ago when we hiked the Manoa Falls hike in the rain.

Okay, that is all I have to report for now! Thank you and I hope each of you has a wonderful day. Happy hunting, my friends!