Star Trek Online Ship Names

The boyfriend husband (yeah, he was friend and then boyfriend for 5 years! Alarmed me when someone introduced me as his wife the other day… whoa… what! haha) pre-ordered Star Trek Online and has pretty much been stuck to it, LOTRO forgotten for now! All I have done on STO is create a character and of course, Cryptic does an excellent job with character customization (I loved this aspect of Champions Online). I don’t see myself leaving EQ2 for STO at all. But I do watch him play sometimes. And here is his list of amusing ship names/captain names as seen in the game. All credit goes to Amonost for compiling this list!

USS Tribble Express
Captain Leonard Nimoy – USS Point Ears
Captain Pedo Phile – USS I Have Candy
USS Klamydia
Captain Cleveland – USS Steamer
Captain Joseph Stalin – USS R
Captain Sulu – USS Sumyongboy
Captain Gilligan – USS Minnow
Captain Miley Cyrus – USS Hannah Montana
USS Eless
Captain Ivanna – USS Humpalot
Captain Zapp Brannigan – USS Nimbus
USS Enterpoop
USS Hello Kitty
USS *WRONG_TARGET*
Captain Dirk Thickneck – USS Babypuncher
USS ESSESS
USS Evil Sandwich
Captain Ash Williams – USS Boomstick
Captain Stewies – USS Full Diaper
Captain John Q Redshirt – USS Expendable
USS Rainbow
Captain Bigg – USS Johnson
USS Intercourse
USS Nuclear Wessel
USS Donkey Punch
USS Pew Pew Pew
USS MC Hammer
Captain Ship – USS Ship
Captain Fo Shizzle – USS My Nizzle
Captain Turanga Leela – USS Planet Express
USS Beerkeg
USS 1337Ship
Captain Chinese – USS Gold Farmer
Captain Freddy Mercury – USS Fabulous
Captain El Chupacabra – USS Negroe Catcher
USS Bittany Spears
USS OMGZ
USS Wrongway
USS Rustbucket
Captain Luke Skywalker – USS Death Star
USS TurnDammit (Some cruisers can’t turn very fast)
USS Imonaboat
USS Bridge Bunny

Anyone else come across any funny names? If so, do share! Safe travels all!

Thanks Rohawn And Kastle!

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a good week so far. A million thanks to Rohawn and Kastle for helping my wizard finish up her epic quest over the weekend! Rohawn was there every step of the way, even when I was running around for some parts. Kastle’s woodworker helped with me the final step to get it crafted. Thanks guys! *Hugs*

I’m glad to say that we were able to duo Xalgoz in Karnor’s Castle! For some reason I like this zone, the layout is pretty cool. The mobs do hit quite hard, but with Rohawn tanking there was nothing to fear! It does seem like quite a few people frequent this zone. Not sure if they were getting updates or just farming the zone. I try not to rant, but I have to say that I was pretty mad when this group rushed in when we were at Xalgoz and pretty much just stole the mob. Only one of them sent me a tell later to apologize and asked me if I needed help. One of them was downright rude. Most of them seemed to be from well-known raiding guilds. I know it’s a contested mob, but still… We were standing right there, not like we disappeared after clearing some adds. At least some people have the decency to apologize. I’ll stop my rant now! We did destroy him after he re-spawned though!

Apart from epic updates, Rohawn and I made a trip to Castle Mistmoore to see if the sage would drop the paladin set legs. But of course, he decided to give us everything else except the paladin set piece. That’s the only one Rohawn is missing and I’d love to see him complete it. We’ll just have to go back soon!

That’s quite a bit of adventuring, but crafting has certainly not been forgotten. As soon as my woodworker hit level 50, I took her off to finish the Ship Out quest from Moors in order to be able to do the tradeskill instances. When Kastle wanted to group up for an instance, I was happy to join him and we dragged Rohawn along as well. My woodworker gained two levels from that one tradeskill instance! Woot! She is level 53 now. The combines seem harder in the 50’s though, as they are level 70 recipes. Other crafting news - my wizard is a tinkerer and after what seemed like forever, I managed to get from skill 70 to 100. At 100, I can make Loosely Wired Heart Stopper and I was excited to try it out! Waiting to be able to use Call of the tinkerer. Someday soon hopefully!

Don’t forget to visit Gorowyn for the city festival, which started on February 1st and runs through February 7th. Also, Erollisi Day is back! It’s starting tomorrow (February 4th) and it’s expected to run through February 16th. EQ2 Traders and EQ2 Decorators have wonderful writeups and images on both events. Safe travels all!

A Trip Into Karnor’s Castle

Hope everyone has had a good week and as always I’m glad the weekend is here! I’m happy to say that I managed to get my fourth Chardok update and it didn’t take us too long. Camping in a safe spot actually saved a lot of time, instead of clearing all the way to the required mobs. And my wizard was finally glad to leave Chardok and get some fresh air after living there for 3 days! A big thanks to Rohawn for helping me with Chardok and he’s still helping me with the rest of my updates. It has certainly been an enjoyable game week for me!

Last night, we headed into Karnor’s Castle to kill Xalgoz. Not having ventured there much at all, I didn’t quite know where we were going. But we made it to Xalgoz’s study somehow! Sadly, we didn’t kill him because I didn’t remember the levers that heal him. I only killed him once on my paladin and I vaguely remembered something about levers… Unfortunately, after a wipe, the respawn point is the entryway. And it was quite late, so we decided to go back another time. Hopefully tonight! It was still a good run and that was the only wipe. Hope Xalgoz is duo-able since there are 3 levers. I guess I’ll find out soon enough. We did get a warden master off some trash mobs, the nameds dropped legendary items which Rohawn never rolled on… well, he never takes any of the loot. I thought I was smart when I set round-robin loot options but he is smarter and invites me to the group these days and then he just sets lotto. It’s war! If anyone has any ideas, please let me know .

Have an awesome weekend and safe travels all!

Level 80 At Last And Some Epic Updates

Last weekend, my wizard hit level 80. Finally, I have a second level 80 adventurer! Oh, and a third, as my warden is 80 as of last night . The xp changes helped, but I think I would have quested away anyway till I got there. On Saturday, my wizard got into a DD group that Kitara happened to be tanking and totally stole his charm… It was Befallen: Cavern of the afflicted and charm of the lost happened to drop. Luckily, I was able to petition it and they gave it back to him… whew! I would have felt super bad otherwise. It’s an awesome tank item. I’ll have to take my paladin there more often to try and get one.

After 80, I wanted to get the epic quest starter for my wizard. Figured I’d take my wizard and warden first and attempt it before trying to find a group. I got destroyed by the first yha-lei I tried to pull. Things go bad when a wizard’s root gets resisted heh. For some reason, I thought maybe the abyss lurkers would be easier. And by some miracle I got the quest starter from a small chest off the first abyss lurker I killed. Good thing the lurker didn’t resist my root! It did seem like some AE went off, but my warden managed to keep us healed. I had to go talk to someone in New Tunaria and then he sent me off to Chardok… Chardok! Noone ever wants to go there… I was always glad my paladin didn’t need updates in Chardok, she pretty much lived in Sebilis for epic updates. I did see some folks heading there and asked if I could tag along. Well, I thought the updates were frequent but apparently they are not! After killing a ton of Gorowyn mobs, no updates. And the group I was with got their updates and had to leave. I decided to camp by the queen and try and kill Gorowyn mobs later with my warden maybe (if they could handle it). One of Rohawn’s favorite items happens to be Orb of summoning. So, I asked if he could help get my warden to the right spot. I didn’t think of giving her Orbs of reconcilliation. Late realization! But of course, he’s such a sweetheart always, he came to help me get my updates. I still feel bad for dragging him along, they are not frequent updates . After 2 days, I have 3/4 updates and I got all 3 yesterday. Woot! And I’m glad I camped there, for I don’t have any gate keys and the palace is quite far in. One more update to go! It’s always nice to have friends around for company, updates or not. And I really appreciate the help. Glad to be blessed with awesome friends!

On the crafting side, my woodworker gained a few levels and she is almost 50 now. There are different handy totems made by woodworkers. I like the invisibility totems and power totems the best. The speed totems are nice too if you don’t have the epic crafter earring – earring of the solstice. The group missions are a good way to level after level 50, especially now that they award guild status.

Hope everyone is having a great week and safe travels all!

Late Rewards?

Last weekend was bonus xp weekend in EQ2 and my wizard and warden were on a quest to get as close to level 80 as possible. Just trying to get to 80 and some decent gear before the expansion. The bonus xp ended with them both at level 77 (Yayy! New armor!). Come Wednesday morning after the patch I logged on and decided to finish up a quest in Jarsath Wastes and to my surprise they both ding’d level 78 after just one kill. Um… ok, what just happened? So am I going to be 80 in 2 more kills?!? heh. Well, I thought they would roll back the servers or something and I’d find myself back at level 77, but that hasn’t happened so far. I finished up a few more quests that morning and the wizard got to level 79 pretty quickly. Did they reward me late for all my weekend work? I heard quite a few people mention it in level 70 chat as well, some people gained even 2 levels with one kill. I do notice a huge difference with the xp gain while turning in quests now, even past level 75. Levels 70 – 80 should be a breeze now compared to before. I do know the experience change details due to this forum post, but a level with one kill was quite an adjustment (Of course that happened only once)! I’m hoping to start working on the wizard epic sometime this weekend.

Have an awesome weekend and safe travels all!

And The Drink Of The Day Is…

Iced Pomegranate Ambrosia! I did not know that this existed in EQ2 until Rohawn was kind enough to hand me some. Now my level 80 provisioner is very lazy and does not make food unless she is forced to so I tend to run out of food/drink every so often. Reminder to self – need to make food and drink this weekend! This drink typically lasts 5 hours and 34 minutes (a little longer if you have the racial trait to extend drink duration) and at level 80 it adds 26 to stamina, intelligence and strength. The provisioner is a low-level adventurer, but managed to get all the Kunark faction recipes since they are heirloom. After a lot of searching, the recipe simply refused to be found. Even the broker didn’t have any stock of this wonderful drink… Though someone was selling a book called Provisioners’ Secrets: Pomegranate Passion Recipes for 10 plat. So it’s a secret recipe… Next stop was Isle of Mara to see if it was a Far Seas faction recipe and sure enough it was. The best news is that it’s tradeable, especially since all my crafters do not have the required faction and certainly not the provisioner. It requires 30 K faction with the Far Seas Supply Division to purchase and costs 1 Far seas trading token and about 20 gold. The fresh pomegranates required to make the drink are gathered from Shard of love.

Also, for all the Star Trek Online fans, they are offering a lifetime subscription for a limited time only. It is only valid if you pre-ordered and all the details can be found here. I am quite apprehensive about this after the Champions Online fiasco… we’ll see I guess.

Have an awesome weekend and safe travels all!

Lots Of Instances And Lots Of Fun!

Last weekend in EQ2 turned out to be pretty eventful! I’m glad to say that Rohawn and I finally completed “The Book of Thex” so you won’t be hearing me talk about that quest again for a while . We saw a coercer looking for more people to kill Kizdean Gix and so, gathered our weapons and off we went! We managed to get a full group and he went down on our first try. Power feeds are awesome! Now to find another quest to work on. After some debating, Dark Mail Gauntlets was the winner. But the quest starter is in a dangerous spot with a lot of mean froggies. Rohawn thought we could get there, so our little trio headed to Guk: Halls of the Fallen. I’m glad Galya was able to join us, she did a wonderful job healing! We were nowhere close to clearing the entire zone but we all got the quest starter! Woot! Just need to find common free time to work on the quest together. I have never been to any of the Guk zones and it was pretty tough, might have been easier with a full group I suppose…

Also, congrats to Rohawn for getting his Kyle Bayle armor piece from Unrest! We have been there quite a few times with no luck, but it finally made an appearance. I know it’s armor from a few expansions ago, but we still like to collect old sets . My under-geared wizard died in there a few times, which I expected. She can’t take any hits! My tailor is ready to make the level 77 faction armor, just one level to go and better armor – here I come! Somehow, the wizard managed to get him killed while he was AFK, which was comical. Of course, it was unintentional! /cough cough

Monday was PUG day, it’s always great to meet nice people. These folks were all fun and we also managed to clear a couple of zones, which is a plus. The healer, Raspberry (I think) did an excellent job keeping us all alive! I was up all day and was tired at work all night heh. I have been having trouble lately switching schedules back and forth. Since I work nights, I am up week nights and then try to switch back to staying up during the day on weekends. Ahhhh… maybe it’s time to go back to day shift! Or maybe not, I think I’d rather stay away from all the politics. Tough call. Enough of my ramblings, have a great day and safe travels all!

Festivities Are Always Fun

The weekend was good game time! Work has been busy this week with long hours, so I’m glad the weekend is right around the corner. If you haven’t checked out the world events, they are worth checking out. Especially, if you like titles and house items. The Qeynos series starts with Royal Librarian Brinn in Qeynos Harbor. Completing the series gives you the title “Champion of Bayle” and a Qeynos Claymore replica. The Freeport series starts with Sir Tallen Yevix in West Freeport. Completing this series gives you the title “Champion of D’Lere” and a Soulfire replica. The Freeport quest series seemed shorter/quicker to me. And I discovered that you can do both quest series regardless of whether you are good-aligned or evil-aligned. Most people probably already know this, but it was certainly a discovery to me! I’m not sure how long these events will be around, so hurry!

Rohawn and I have been working on “The Book of Thex” for a while now and we were on the part to kill the proto-ravager in Obelisk of Azhkul. We decided to duo it over the weekend. It took a while since it was just the two of us, but I had a great time and we also got the quest update. Just Kizdean Gix left to complete the quest. We’ll have to bribe Keocia into coming to help us, he proved a little too tough for us.

My wizard worked on some Frostfell quests and got a good amount of AA and experience. Every year during Frostfell, I park all my alts right next to the gift-giver. And of course, I log them all on everyday to get the daily gifts . I must say that I miss the snow globes. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t find any of the gifts “that” exciting this year and if I remember right, it was the same last year as well. I wasn’t playing when the gifts were musical boxes, but Keocia was kind enough to give me a music box a while back and I was sooo excited about it! Frostfell needs to bring back some more fun gifts!

Have an awesome weekend (well, it’s almost here) and safe travels all!

Happy New Year!

I’m back! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and got a lot of wonderful gifts. Can’t believe it’s the end of the year already. Have an awesome new year and may all your dreams come true. And be safe if you are out partying! My break was good but super-hectic. Getting married is a lot of work .

It’s good to be back on EQ2. Frostfell is my favorite event and I finally checked out some of the Frostfell quests and made sure all my alts picked up the daily gift. I’m such a pack rat! Also, I’m excited about the following parts of the update. The fertilizer components and status items stack to 200 now. Woot! That cleared up a bit of bank room (for now). And the bag sizes are bigger. Also, looking forward to checking out the crafting missions soon, it’s awesome that they award guild status points now. As for the guards who knock you down in Freeport, my little inquisitor did not like that at all… 

Thanks to everyone who has linked to my blog and all of you out there who read my ramblings! Have an awesome weekend and happy new year again! Safe travels all!

Live Events And A Short Break!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with lots of good food! If you haven’t checked out the EQ2 5th anniversary events, it’s worthwhile to do so. You can get a lovely painting of Venekor (he looks a little menacing!) and a Qeynos claymore replica by completing some quests. And you get a tapestry by completing a collection quest. I found purple shinies all over N Qeynos and S Qeynos, not sure if they spawn in any other locations. There are also a couple of other quests for fireworks and food (They are repeatable with a 1 hour cool-down). For good-aligned, all quests start in N Qeynos.

Also, Champions Online is going to be free this weekend. Too bad I’m going to be busy. So if you missed it last time, this is your chance.

I am going to be taking a short break from EQ2 and expect to be back right after Christmas. I might log on now and then if possible, but won’t have too much time so I most likely won’t make any posts till I’m back. Going to be busy with RL for a bit . I’m going to miss all my EQ2 friends and reading all your blogs, but I’ll be back soon! Have a wonderful weekend and safe travels all!