Turgenev

Quick question. Is the 16 entity buff ceiling still live? I'd figure that it would make the Lore pet call a no-go until it was fixed?

Baby lag here but same effect. I fell asleep at the login screen around 11.

Brilliant job all! Look forward to the weekend runs if there's room for me. :-)

I'm happy to share newsblitzing for your runs and mine (hardly "mine" anyway, all I'm doing is sounding the call). No reason for them to be exclusive, and if it meets everyone's scheduling needs, all the better.

Fixed.

Nope. Also read that in the voice of Mr. Garrison from South Park.

OP: I frequent certain cigar and whiskey bars where the decor reminds me wistfully of Lord Nemesis' aesthetic designs.

Only if ya bring da bacon, TJ.

Not anymore. You try fighting the kid for boobie time. Might as well give up now.

Thanks, I'm fairly proud of my Man Cave. What you're not seeing are the multicolored lights framing the back wall that rotate through all the colors of the spectrum (thank you, IKEA). All I need is my lava lamp moved to my desk again and I'm set!

As Necro pointed out: Explores and plaques are easiest to do, and do a lot of the accolade homework for you. Remember, you're red and blue sides are waiting to be found.

Then I'd do the singular badge missions from Ouroboros, just to get 'em outta the way.

I'd do the TF/SF badges at this point, since it'll help you for the next category...

Then I'd work on defeats - going from lowest level to highest, just for speed's sakes. By now you should have a lot of grinding done for most of the badge defeats.

If you haven't gotten them by now at this point, I'd focus on accolades, just to get the free powers.

PVP is your next step. You can do them legit, or you can team with a buddy to grind 'em out. Gladiator grinding wraps into this too.

The next steps are up to you. Ouroboros difficulty grinding is irritating. So's the crafting (although it has direct in-game benefits) grinding. You might wanna just leave those on the side and "get them" naturally, or prioritize other singular badges to get over with (the various Master badges, for instance).

GL, Hush.

Wow. Get your stuff packed now. XD GL! See you tonight, unless MiniCal pops out suddenly!

Waitasec, are you on the verge? Grats, man!

Casa del Turgenevo (click image for full size)


The room is the same as it was when I set it up a few years ago; just upgraded the PC to a Dell XPS 8100, and on the far right wall I have Mark Smylie's "Artesia: Adventures in the Known World" original painting, framed nicely (image is here).

Oh, and I moved the Poang IKEA chair from the corner to the baby's room for now 'til we're no longer bottlefeeding. ...dreading the milk stains on that one. Huzzah. ;P

Timeshifting the EOE harvesting doesn't add work, it just changes the order in which you do work. Not one iota of extra energy is wasted here; you just have the benefit of a 100% guarantee that there are monsters to harvest.

Here's a real world analogy for you. Toilet paper.

You can certainly do both. You SHOULD absolutely be doing #2. When you see a pattern, and it's not in your direct control, then you should take steps to avoid the negative impact of that behavior.

Be proactive. Get that extra roll of toilet paper, and run your EOE harvests after the raid, instead of before the raid.

That's a fair suggestion too, if you have the numbers to lock the Hive and force the 2nd to respawn. Earlier, that might be a problem, tho.

Timeshifting doesn't make you go out of your way, it just changes your order around to your benefit. Set your EOE hunting to immediately after a raid, and you're guaranteed a stock for the next raid. If you gather for a raid and there are monsters? Double bonus right there, but the EOE harvesting you rely on is after the raid, not before.