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Player of the Week: Grolyn Blacknife 
Real Name: EricAllakhazam Name: Grolyn Character Name: Grolyn Blacknife Character Race: Vah Shir Character Class: Beastlord Deity: Agnostic Server: Maelin Starpyre Guild: Awakened Into Darkness Guild Rank: Member Length of Time in Guild: Several months Real World Location: Michigan, USA Career / Employment Industry / Current Level of School: Finished school; in between jobs Hobbies: Computer, EQ, books, EQ, camping, EQ. Family? No, still single and prefer to stay this way. Your Website: http://personalpages.tds.net/~wilykat/ (nothing there anyway) A short bio: Grolyn is my first character and is still my main to this day. I started out on the Vazaelle server and my first guild was Knights of the Green Mist. Then just before the server merged with Maelin Starpyre, I left EQ and I didn't return to playing Grolyn until about December 2006. When I returned, I found KGM had been reduced to a skeleton with only 2 or 3 regulars and its raiding ability was limited to dust bunnies. I went through a few guilds before I finally joined Awakened Into Darkness. Besides EverQuest, what other MMORPGs have you played? I've only played WoW and while WOW has better graphics overall, the players seems more immature compared to EQ players. Like going back to high school :p How did you find out about EverQuest, and when did you begin playing? My brother introduced me to EQ, oh, about early Fall 2003. I've played a lot since then. Do you know anyone in real life who plays EverQuest? A few, but I've never met them in person. How did you come up with your main character's name? Random name generator. What factors affected your choice of race / class for your main character? I'm a big fan of cats so Vah Shir is no surprise. As for beastlord class, I guess it's the appeal of having a pet tiger. About how often do you play EverQuest, and how long is a typical playing session for you? Varies, there have been time I've gone 18-20 hours a session. Nowday it's about 4 to 6 hours a session and a few nights a week How do you spend your time in game? Mostly tradeskilling, soloing old world content, and quests. When not playing EQ, I have the barter and trader up to make money. What other class/race combinations have you levelled past 35? Ogre warrior, Iksar monk, Barbarian Beastlord, Dark Elf Cleric, and that's about all. I have a few more in level 20's range. Approximately how much of the EverQuest world have you experienced? Hmmm.... going by EQAtlas web site, all except Veeshan's Peak. Alas, EQAtlas is old and very outdated. I figure I have explored more than half of the entire EQ. Maybe 3/4 of it as I haven't explored much of TBS or SoF. What is your favourite expansion? Luclin because of Vah Shir :p *meow* What is your least favourite expansion? I would think Legacy of Ykesha is my least favorite overall. The only good thing I got out of that expansion is the extra bank space. What is your favourite zone? I'd go with Plane of Tranquility, there's an area that looks like an oversized garden of Zen near Plane of Earth zone. Stillmoon Temple also a good one for the water gardens. What is your favourite NPC? I don't think I have any specific favorite NPC but I do enjoy teasing Palav and Rajyk by /saying "play dead" to them. :) I'll bet after this gets posted, many would head to Shar Vahl to play with the cats. If the war between Firiona Vie and Lanys T`Vyl erupted again, which side would you take? Probably Firiona Vie. Describe your most memorable moment or proudest accomplishment in game. I'd have to go with the most memorial moment: A big oops at the start of a raid. The raid party was about to take on Emperor Ssra when someone went LD going in, causing a train and wiping out half the raid. Since then whenever they go to the raid, a few people remind the raid to put root, snare, or something on that player. What is the largest amount of platinum you have ever had at one time, and how did you go about accumulating it? Over 5 million platinum. I got them through wheeling and dealing in the Bazaar using barter to buy cheap and trader to sell high. I average about a million a month. Most of that gets spent on tradeskilling and sharing with my poor brother. He has 3 accounts and not much time to farm platinum. What are some things you would change or implement in order to improve EverQuest? There are too many things that need to be implemented, starting with backlog of old and unfixed bugs like the Ring of Fire event in AC. It was disabled just before I started EQ and I would have liked a chance at it. Also some epic 1.0's are a major time sink because often time a plat farmer kills the needed mobs for other rare drops like Amulet of Necro. Oh yeah, putting the old Bazaar back -- I didn't have as much trouble finding traders in the old Bazaar as I do with the revamped Bazaar. Plus the revamped Bazaar is too large with too many small rooms -- wastes time running around :p What types of spells, skills, disciplines, and/or alternate abilities would you like to see added to your class? An improved version of beast ferocity. The last one is more than a few expansions old. Also, I'd like to see tracking ability added to beastlords. They are supposed to be master of nature but only iksar beastlord gets tracking. If you were responsible for organizing and running a GM event, what would it be and how would it play out? Hmmm... How about a speed raid through Vex Thal? That zone takes an average raid hours to go through to reach Aten Ha Ra. If I was to organize a GM event, it'd be to time how fast a raid can clear Vex Thal to Aten Ha Ra, and the reward would scale based on how long they took. Let's see if a full raid of well-geared players can storm from start to Aten Ha Ra in under 1 hour. If you had to start over from scratch, what race/class combination would you choose? Most definitely a vah shir, but probably a shaman because they have an excellent line of buff spells. Plus they have the alchemy skill. How do you describe EverQuest to your coworkers or computer-illiterate friends? What friends? :p Just kidding, I just tell them it's a very big computer game. What is next for you in the world of EverQuest? To finish all of my tradeskills to 300, all trophies to level 7, and to get my rogue's poison making skill maxed as well. ** Pick the winner in a battle between... Qeynos vs Felwithe - Felwithe probably Innoruuk the Prince of Hate vs Cazic Thule the God of Fear - Fear would win Giants of Velious vs Akhevans of Luclin - Akhevans Muramites of Discord vs the Drachnids of Darkhollow - Drachnids Tradeskilling vs Questing - Questing... there's always more to do Instance Zones vs Static Zones - Instance zone: Never be bothered by jerks who intentionally train and steal. Monster Missions vs Project M (PvP as Monsters) - Neither. They are a waste of time IMO. Soloing vs Pick-Up Groups - Soloing can be done any time but if you get group, usually xp flows faster so I pick group. Guild Raiding vs Grouping With Friends - Friends. GM (real people) Events vs Scripted (computerized) Events - GM events: Less chance of things going wrong due to bug. Arena Royal Rumble vs 1-on-1 Duel - Royal Rumble Faydwer vs Odus - Odus Kunark vs Velious - Kunark Planes of Power vs Gates of Discord - PoP... at least Quarm is fun :p Depths of Darkhollow vs Omens of War - OoW Bard vs Enchanter - Chanty Monk vs Rogue - Monk FD FTW Paladin vs Warrior - Pally, they have LoH so theorically they can outlast warrior Allakhazam vs Illia - Allakhazam |
