I'm a Noob

My time in Taborea didn't go so great tonight. I feel like an idiot!
Here's the story. One of my guildies wanted to go to Clops and so did I. He was finishing up some stuff, so I started the group and got some really great high-levels to join. Great looking party, nicely balanced, everyone good to go.
Except that I'm a dummie. I have never been to Clops before and I got lost on the way and DIED. How embarrassing. Level 55 and dead. One of the party members actually came and got me and opened a portal for me. Wow, did I ever feel embarrassed!
Then, we get to the Clops entrance and, duh, I'm not keyed yet. I thought I was but apparently I had to go to some pink crystal and get The Mark of Uguda. So they had to wait for me some more.
But my bad luck doesn't end there. I finally get inside Clops and I bend down to loot a corpse and ... I get stuck! Freaking STUCK. Can't move, can't turn, can't jump, nothing. OMG, I was furious!
So I logged off and logged back on but of course I was not the instance anymore, that would have been too easy. I was way out at the resurrection point. So I port back to the Clops entrance, cuz at least I was smart enough to mark a transport point there, and then the stoopid door won't open.
Yes, friends, I had to abandon the quest and go back to ... wait for it ... the resurrection point to restart it.
So I just told my patient and tolerant party members to go on without me. I was so upset! I actually wanted to cry. Silly, I know. But I had been trying for so long to go to Clops and I finally got there and I messed it all up. I was mad at myself and mad at my computer and mad at the game and just plain old mad.

But I took that anger and frustration and tried to make something good out of it. I went and helped lower levels with things I knew how to do, things I do well.
I killed Wattken for two nice girls. I got a huge raid together for Giant Fruit Cactus. And I helped another guildmate with his quest line so he could be ready for Clops too.
It made me feel a little bit more like an experienced player and not some silly noob who is a drag on her guild and her party.

P.S. Please vote on my new poll. It's over there on the right --->

The Binpikes

So I joined the raid on the Binpikes, Lynn and Worr. Don't they sound sweet? Noooooo. They are big, gigantic, humongous, huge, enormous, large, and otherwise un-small minotaurs!

The group was very nice though. They told me pretty much right away that I was "90% going to die".

I lol'd. Seriously! Out loud. Thought I might wake the BF.  :)

But our beautiful and insanely geared tank, Sintress, showed those overweight cows who's boss. That's right, Lynn and Worr. You got your butt handed to you on a plate by a GIRL.  Nyah-nyah-nyah.

In other news...I died.

Ha! Well I lived through the fight with Lynn but then totally got stomped on, like literally stomped on with HOOVES, by Worr. Jerk.

But then I actually got a purple drop from him. A completely useless purple drop, a 2H hammer, but still, it was nice to get a prize.

As Taborea Turns

I love getting to a new level. It's so fun to get new stuff! I have a few new 55 pieces including a blue rarity Prayer Robe with 106 dura. I've plussed it to 6 and tiered it to 4 and added stats of Defense X, Energy X, Stamina X, Acumen X, Energy X and Spirit XI plus two runes, Triumph IV and Mayhem IV. The defense of the robe is now just over 1000. Pretty cool. And it looks nice too!
Of course upgrading gear caused me to run through the little money I had left after the whole Gasha binge so now I'm selling whatever I can get my hands on.
After all that, I did some dailies and turned them in on my Rogue side, which is level 52. I tried to defeat some of those Naga elites but got my butt kicked. I was a teensy bit closer to killing them than I was at level 54 though! There is hope. 
Went to the Spirit of  Tempest Heights event outside of Obsidian Stronghold and had some fun. I actually solo'd a beetle!  Woot!!  It was a tough fight though and I used a lot of pots. Wasn't really worth it if I just looked at the loot. The chests just gave me mats. But I feel all strong and 55-like cuz I killed one. :)
I think I'll have to jump on Sister Agatha and get her to whip up some of her special Deluxe Seafood for Spiral. Yummy! Nothing like fresh lobster drenched in butter to make you feel like a million bucks. (Oh and increase your magic power by 20% too.)
Yikes, just joined a raid on the Binpikes. Never done them before and probably going to die again but I'm going for it! Wish me luck. 

The Day Has Finally Come!

Tonight the Academy of Roleplaying Game Heroes (ARGH), would like to present the award for “Most Excruciating Journey to Reach Level 55” to…SPIRAL!!

OMG, Oh-em-GEE. I can’t believe it! Me? Wow! Thank you so much. Hey, this statue is heavier than it looks. Oh, gee. Whew. I can’t believe it. Speech time, Okay.
I’d like to thank Frogster and Runewaker for creating RoM, a game that is more addictive than crack.
I want to thank my guild, Medieval - WOOT! - for helping me when I needed it and for having a library when I was too stubborn to ask for help.
A big thank you to Borrofar. I know we had our differences but it was so great to work with you. I love you!
Oh, let’s see…thanks to Spazzy, the best reindeer ever. Thanks to Snoops, George the Mayor, Krodamar and Krodamon, Daily Quest Manager, Ancalon, Phil August, that crazy clown…what was her name?…oh, yeah, Malatina. I’d like to thank everyone I’ve ever partied with – you know who you are! And also…

Is that the music? I’m not done! Two more seconds!

I wanna thank the big G, and by that I mean the gigabytes of RAM in my hard drive. I want to thank the makers of Advil. Thank you to Juan Valdez and his little donkey – Hola! – and my cat, Willow, and … oh gosh. I said I wouldn’t cry!

Most of all I want to thank my BF for not getting too mad at me for disappearing to another land for an entire year. I love you and I promise I won’t…what am I saying? You know I’m not going to stop playing!

Thank you! Thank you so much! WOOT!

Getting There...

Really busy with work so I haven't had much time to play or RoM or blog.
But the good news is that I am finally making some progress towards reaching level 55. I went to Aoutulia Volcano, however it's spelled, and learned how to do the "Dinos". I had heard people shouting about it on the zone chat but didn't know what they were referring to. I even tried to look it up on the RoM DB but there are no "dinos". But then my guild leaders took me there and showed me where to get the quest and yes, it does involve killing dinosaurs.
The nice thing is that groups of level 54/55s get together and do this daily quest all at once. You just have to kill 12 of the dinosaurs for one daily. That's it. So a group gets together and runs in a loop killing 12, then going back to the quest receiver, turning in, then doing it again. There are so many 54s and 55s trying to get XP that there's almost always a group running.
To be honest, I thought it was odd that people were being so cooperative. I've found at the higher levels, you're expected to be able to do things yourself and finding help is hard. But I suppose everyone gets frustrated with never reaching 55 and that's why people group up. It's still self-serving. As soon as people are done their own dailies, they leave the group. I don't think anyone sticks around to help the others once they're finished their own.
Whatever. It's fine. It's just good to be seeing some progress on my XP bar.