Quick Peek

A short while ago I finally decided to upgrade my house in RoM. I bought a 2-storey mud house and paid quite a bit of money for it. Then the VERY next day, they went on sale for 5 diamonds! Talk about bad timing. Sigh.
Anyway, I really like the look of my new place. It's much smaller than the 2-storey wooden house but I think it suits an independent mage making her way up in the world. :)
The video is a quick, 30 second tour of the house, showing my four chests (all full), my snazzy purple furniture and even, gasp!, my bedroom. You can also see my housemaid, Catherine, all dressed up and looking fine. She is rocking those boots, for sure. But as long as she makes me Luck potions, I don't care what the heck she looks like.

I used Fraps to record this video because for some reason WeGame has stopped working for me. I prefer WeGame because you can take videos that are longer than 30 seconds and they have a nice website to showcase your stuff.

Fancy Hats are a Pain in the....

My latest project has been to craft my very first purple recipe, a level 38 tailoring recipe that creates a Velvet Headscarf.
I started out trying to gather the mats myself but after waking up with my keyboard stuck to my face and realizing that gathering is more boring than a lecture on the benefits of bran, I decided to hit up the auction house and support those players who have more tolerance for mind-numbing jobs.

Here is the final recipe:
2 yew plank (purple)
1 moon orchid extract (purple)
1 Dragon Bear Root plank (purple)
1 Pine Fiber (rare mat)
1 Velvet hood (blue)
1 Disenchant rune

To even make the blue velvet hood required me to make a green hood and a white hood, which also were loads of mats. I think I'm glad that I didn't keep track of how much money I spent in the AH buying the mats. It might have made me (more) crazy.

But I was determined to do this and finally got to the final step. Crossing my fingers and praying to almighty Pasper for a brown upgrade, I hit the Craft button.

This is what I got. Not bad. Gonna pop it in the AH and see if I can make back some of my gold. If it sells well, I might consider crafting another. Then again, I might also consider watching eight hours of the Parliament Channel too. Might be more fun.

Beautiful Places of RoM #3

Got a chance to admire the final room in Treasure Trove while waiting for our priest to run back through and rez us. It's quite a nice looking place for a pirate ship!
In front of the pipe organ is our nemesis, Snow Blake. We did kill her eventually...twice.

At Long Last...

Finally got my 50 elites this morning! Woot! I have been working on them for months now. Who would have thought two cute little dolls would be so much trouble?

When I first started doing them, I was determined to do them all myself and not buy anything. That dream faded pretty quickly when I realized how hard it was to do some of the quests. I STILL can't do IDK50 and I'm level 59. How could I have survived that at level 50 to get Thynos? And all the Memories? I solo'd Blackhorn Hafiz for his Memory, got Ensia's from a PUG, but had to buy Talomo's.
And then the "best" part is that you have to do it all over for your secondary side before you can get either of the elites. Argh!
But now that it's all done, I really like the elites that I got. For my mage side, I got Gift of the Baron. It causes my Kiss of the Vampire to also increase the damage of my next 2 magic attacks by 13%. Sweet. Only problem is that Kiss has a 60 second cooldown.
For rogue, I got Trap Master. Now I can place all 3 types of traps with one click. Very handy. I love the traps and usually place at least 2 at a time, so I will for sure use this skill on the rare occasion I play rogue.
So now my plan is to go farm all the 50 elite stuff and sell it on the AH so that I can make back the millions of gold that I spent getting here. And it'll help all the other discouraged players who are anxious to get their 50 elites and frustrated that it seems impossible. Good luck to all of you and don't give up!

Level 59 - Check!

Reached level 59 earlier today. Very excited! It was a long haul from 58. My XP bar seemed to just be creeping along. Especially with all the death debt I've been getting from dying in Hoto, DoD, SJF, Varanas...kidding on that last one! :)

Today I also completed the Sascilia Steppes minigame for the first time. I had attempted it before but had never gotten to the treasure room. It's really a strategy game, which I like. You have to know when to use your certain skills in order to get past all the mobs successfully. I watched a few good videos on YouTube to help me out. Kinda tricky since most of the videos are in German, but you get the idea.
From the treasure chests I got four pink runes (like Fountain I) plus a bunch of materials to donate to the guild.

Speaking of the guild, KoG reached level 9 today too! Very cool. Now we're going to get a guild quest board and upgrade the gathering buildings and maybe get some new buildings. Need more gold and mats for that. Sigh. Gathering can sometimes be very peaceful, and other times make me want to scratch my eyes out with a toothpick.

Back to the game with me! Half hour until siege...one of the best parts of my day. (Minus the crashes.)