Sunday, November 27, 2011

Haunted Inn Tier 2 Tricky

Zeshac, Colzarak & Apelred attempted the Haunted Inn on Tier 2. We investigated the new areas and found the final page of the journal. We had to rez after a couple of defeats and made it through to the final boss encounter. The bone piles proved a bit too much for us so a change of strategy is required for our next attempt.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Apelred the hero next door

Apelred reaches level 68 by playing a fireman. The post title is based on the theme tune for Fireman Sam one of my little hobbits favorite DVDs.

Apel has since reached Galtrev and is working for the White Hand, not sure I approve!
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Blog gets a new look

After 200 posts I thought it was time for a new look and an increase in width to 1080 now widescreen is so common. I rather impulsively applied a new template, hope you like it. I will work on a improved title screen.

UPDATE - Improved title screen & backgound now installed. The title screen features from left to right:-
Loremaster Florandir, Hunter Apelred, Captain Grimberg, Orthanc Tower

Mighty Grimberg, Agile Apel

After his first trip to Dunland Grimberg has increased his Might by a huge amount to 695, he was on 402 at level 65. This is at the cost of Will & Fate and some ICPR so he is anticipating power problems along with the big increase in damage and healing.

Apelred followed Grimberg and managed to break the 700 mark with agility but his will is woeful, might need some rebalancing!
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Grimberg ready for Dunland with a 2 hander

As expected Captain Grimberg managed to complete the Forsaken Road more easily than Hunter Apelred as his rallying cry heal after crits kept morale well topped up, some heals were over 4k with inspiration! The Oathbreakers were never defeated so he got no 'on defeat' skills. He has completed the epic quest line in Enedwaith so is ready for Dunland.

He has been experimenting with 'sword & board' to see how it goes. He did get more survivability but DPS was noticably reduced so it is back to a 2 hander. Here is a post with some good analysis and discussion about this topic.

Lottery Winner

Being a former Euro server bod I have never had the chance to enter the Turbine Lottery until now. I entered all 7 of my toons and won twice. The rewards were well worth having - 50 blueberry muffins & 2 pieces of nice level 15 jewellery for the lower level toon, 30 Westfold Athelas & Celebrant Salves and a 251k IXP rune for Apel who is level 67. A very pleasant surprise.

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Grimberg L67

Grimberg ventures into the Bewlidering Ruins in search of the wandering jeweller Funi Gem Cutter and makes L67.

Thursday, November 03, 2011

200th Post

A milestone for Apelred and friends, the 200th post of their adventures, prompts a review of the adventures so far.
The blog was started in Sept 2008 as a diary when Apel was level 34, in recognition that he was uber casual and would like to look back on his slow progress. The first notable post was Apel getting his pony, a major achievement back then. Apel quickly realised pictures made posts more interesting and to date has taken over 3500 screen shots. Initially slideshows of edited pics were created but the unexpected arrival of a baby hobbit limited blogging time so a simpler approach was adopted. Here is one of Apels favorites pics showing the Rift.

Which leads on to thankyous to all his friends in the Flaming Halflings and Reconnected and many other adventurers on Eldar who have made Apelreds adventures so enjoyable. And thankyou to all the readers and especially to Sandsons Organic Chickens and On Distant Shores for comments, they are very encouraging. The most popular post by far is Filgogan Caves as Apel managed to create a handy map which has had over 1000 reads.

Fun adventures included Yule be Sorry and A Trap for the Creature, Apel enjoys the fun 'fluff'. Best group experiences were Revenge on Mordirith, Tomb of Elendil, The Rift and Dar Narbugud.

Apelred is a Hunter and Explorer and this proved the ideal combination for a first MMO toon. Fellow adventurers Captain Grimberg and Loremaster Florandir are also questing with the hope that they can join Apel at the level caps as the adventure unfolds. This gives a heavy, medium and light armour wearer for a variety of experience and crafting.

On the crafting front friends have Supreme level for Prospector, Forester, Tailoring, Scholar, Woodworking, Metalworking, Jewellery, & Cooking. Weaponsmithing is coming along, Farming is just too boring. There is a lot of satisfaction in using your own crafted items.





In three and a half years Apelred has ventured into strange new lands, Eregion, Moria, Lothlorien, Mirkwood, Enedwaith and soon to Dunland. How many posts will be made before he sees the Cracks of Doom he wonders?

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

L70 Bow


Apelred has done what he wanted to see of Enedwaith after completing the Huntsman challenges and has managed to get a legendary to level 70 for the first time. Apel used the LI Spender Tool to figure out which legacies to tier up to get the most out of the points. Here is the plan for points allocation. He is now waiting for Grimberg to catch up so they can venture into Dunland.