Well I figure it's about time I said something on behalf of DArk Age of Camelot. I've been doing some things, but posting my thoughts on the game have been on the, "lets not bother with it tonight."

As with all things, I've made Legendary in Alchemy, which was a high mark. My ranger has made Level 50, making it my third level 50 character. Got his epic armor and is able to use his bow now, that was hampered by the level restriction.

Beginning Tuesday the 14th, the new expansion will be released meaning there will be a log jam as players load up files. For those not in the know, it is called Labyrinth of the Minotar. I'll most likely get it, but am in no hurry atm to buy it.

With that I'll end this small blog and say bye for now.

I haven't said much in DaoC lately due to the fact that I have been working my way slowly to LGM for alchemy. At this point in Foremond's crafting he finally got as far as 965, That is more then I have had in a long time. It puts me at only 34 points from getting 1,000 which is the LGM tag mark for crafters.

By no means is it the end since there are higher alchemist items, but at least I can slow done again after I reach the LGM mark. The timer is what is killing me though. Each crafted item is running between 72 - 75 seconds to make. If you fail seven or eight times in a row, that eats into your playing time. As things stand, Mythic is making another expansion which is slowing down the patches to correct problems in the crafting system as it stands. Oh well, what can I say.....

Well, the patch went live and people are all ready drooling over the changes to the crafting area. Some of my guild members want the new bows, since they have elemental properties.

We have new potions increased to 3, 6 , and 9 charges meaning we can carry a lot of the different ones now without them taking up space. New tinctures and reactives to apply to player made armor and weapons are among some of the add ons. Even timers have been extended on potions to make the effects last longer.

New armor that can be made are among a few things that are making people happy. head on over to Camelot Herald for a full read on what is instore for this patch.

The title says it all! For the last few days I've just been leveling or playing a bit in frontiers, nothing much has been going on. anyone who plays online games knows what I mean, when things get a bit dull and you really don't want to be on, but you aren't ready to quit yet.

About the only good news was I finally leveled my ranger to 48. this will make just two more levels to finally make this my third level 50 character. It tells you that I have no life.

I figured I'd better give DAoC some equal opportunity blogging time. In this case I've been crafting with Foremond and finally got his alchemy to 903. Only 96 more points to go till LGM, yea!

My ranger Dualle is leveling and killing Xithiar to get body parts for his lower level characters. This would be in the range of level 38 to 44 which would just be right for my valewalker. I also got my Fools Bow to level 2 which gives me a 3% increase in bow speed which is nice to have. I guess I'll need to find armor with strength increases since my strength should be higher then it is currently is for his level.

There isn't really much more to say then I'm doing boring stuff to level the bad boy for frontier work, and raising money to do his crafting skills.

Last night was a trip! I logged in to get credit for trial 5.10, went on ML6 and 7 battlegroup steps. Well after three hours I finally had enough and logged after the last bg trial in ML7. That one broke my camels back as it took 45 minutes to complete. I could have been crafting there instead of just standing around. Thank goodness my computer can handle all of the graphics now, otherwise I would have lagged out with 50+ players all in one area.

I've one more step in ML6 to complete, I think 6 in ML7, another 3 in ML5, and 9 in ML4 to catch up to ML8 which is complete. That leaves ML9 and ML10 after that. We'll see what happens there.

I finally made it to Grandmaster status last night! After many months and on and off crafting I hit skill level 900 for Alchemy. Now the uphill crafting really begins since the last 100 points is the really expensive one!

I've stored 172 of the rare components so that's no problem, it's the store bought ones that are going to hit the pocket book.

Oh well, off to some more play time for me.

Things have been a bit slow of late. I've been mainly hitting the frontiers area to get my realm rank abilities. It's been slow since most of the points have been from heals and rezzing others. When it comes to combat I might as well give up. When you get hit for 400 to 500 points of damage compared to my measly 50 to 100 points in return, you don't last long in the battle.

I've noticed as well that the stun affects on some of the combat styles don't last as long as claimed. I'll probably have to send feed back on that as a question to Mythic as well.

About the only other thing going on has been a cosmetic upgrade to the guild website and forums. I had spent nearly a week working on everything and I'm happy with the results.

Well that's about it for Foremond at the moment. Have the good hunt fellow players.