User:McJeff

Hi. I'm Jeff. This is my user page.

I also have a to do list.

And, having finally gotten a character to lvl 80, I've been spending most of my game time actually... playing the game rather than hunting for screenshots.

And with the new expansion out I'm trying to powergrind to 90.

On this wiki
Well, I decided to get active here a long time ago when I was hanging out in Rivervale and noticed how sparse the content, especially in regards to screenshots, was. I took a few and wrote some articles. Then I had computer graphics problems - see below - and wasn't active for a long time.

What I mostly do right now is write enemy articles and upload screenshots of monsters. Generally I decide to work heavily on one zone at a time. Which zone, basically depends on which one I'm in at the time I get in the mood to do some wiki-writing, although I give more attention to zones where the content is sparse. Kylong Plains for example, had about 10 articles when I started attacking it.

Ruins of Varsoon was the first zone I finished the monster articles for.

Other wikis
I'm a bureaucrat at Bully Wiki, and I have rollback rights at Zeldapedia. Those are the only wikis other than this one I'm active on, although I tend to wikignome on any wikia I end up at. And my work is more or less done at Zeldapedia - I wrote enemy articles there, and I've done 'em all.

My characters

 * Auorali - lvl 80 Barbarian Mystic (Everfrost Server) - my main
 * Tyrana - lvl 32 Dark Elf Bruiser (Everfrost Server) - tied for main alt
 * Leiros - lvl 31 Human Assassin (Everfrost Server) - tied for main alt
 * Laszk - lvl 16 Sarnak Defiler (Permafrost Server) - experimenting with evil version of favorite class
 * Ieros - lvl 8 Human Paladin (Antonia Bayle Server) - I never use this char but I've had it since 2004 and somehow can't delete it

And a constantly rotating crew of newbies who will make it to approximately level five, then be deleted. My current crew...


 * Luthia - lvl 12 High Elf Inquisitor (Everfrost Server) - an experiment in betraying. Here's a hint - don't betray while the creatures in Thundering Steppes and Nektulos are still red.
 * Jeeffff - brand new Dwarf Dirge (Everfrost Server) - because Dirges are in high demand and I'm hoping I can learn to play one before becoming bored to death, which is what happened with my last 3 dirges.

EQ1
I started EQ1 back years ago, maybe around the turn of the century. I started just after the release of Ruins of Kunark. And I bought the original because it was on sale... then since RoK wasn't sold by itself, only bundled with the original EQ, I ended up wasting $20 instead of saving it. Great start to my EQ career.

My first character was a human warrior named Ieros. After getting frustrated playing him as I couldn't find any armor or decent weapons (EQ was NOT newbie-friendly back then), I started a new character, a barbarian shaman girl. And I discovered that I liked playing a shaman much better than a warrior... so that's why Auorali is my main character.

I made it to the rank of Guild Officer in a guild called Nightwatch of Norrath (Saryrn server). Unfortunately when the Shadows of Luclin expansion came out, I had to quit. My computer had a crappy old Intel Celeron processor, the folks wouldn't spring for a new one, and I missed a year and a half. By the time I got back, my guild had imploded, all my friends were 30 levels above me, and I couldn't level quickly enough to keep up with them.

I could never level quickly in EQ1, and I eventually gave up on playing it. The average level was practically the maximum level, and I was next to useless in a group because I would be the only non-twink, with everyone else prepped with gear their lvl 70 alts had transferred to them.

The thing that killed EQ1 for me was spending 1000 plat on a spell that turned out to be useless. It was an "upgrade" of my summon spirit companion spell, that turned out to raise the thing by one level. Grr. I don't remember exactly when this happened, but it was what made me give up on EQ1. And in 2006 I decided to check out EQ2.

EQ2


When I started EQ2, I remade Auorali and Ieros as closely to their EQ1 incarnations as I could. I liked it better in just about every way.

I lost interest in MMORPGs and took a long time off, probably a couple years. The thing that got me back was the Rise of Kunark expansion, and being able to play as a Sarnak. The Sarnak's weren't as cool as they were in EQ1 though, I didn't think.

Then I got a new videocard and it never has worked right. It worked right for about a month, long enough for me to resubscribe to EQ2 and a day later, boom, not working any longer. I've uploaded a screenshot of my video card problems just for the hell of it.

Incidentally the problems started literally hours after I signed up for this wikia, so I may not contribute much after all. I can play EQ2 with the graphical malfunction, but it's not much fun.

As of April 2009, I have a brand new gaming quality computer.

My opinion on LU52
It stinks.

Especially the spell-renaming thing.