User:McJeff

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 started with was writing monster 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 probably will be the first zone I finished the monster articles for. All it needs are two named monster images.

Recently I've been focusing more on equipment articles. The SF raid zones are somewhat under-represented, and Frostfang Sea needed most of them. Plus, I discovered that the tradeskill recipes mostly haven't been updated since GU52 changed them all.

So basically I have wiki-ADD and I work on whatever I feel like when I start working.

By the way, 99.5% of the images I contribute are done in MS Paint. Copypaste is a wonderful tool for those who are too impatient to learn photoshop.

Oh yeah, I have a Sandbox and a To-Do List.

My Ten Thousandth edit!

My characters

 * Auorali - lvl 90 Barbarian Mystic (Everfrost Server) - my main
 * Leiros - lvl 44 Human Assassin (Everfrost Server) - main alt
 * Jeeffff - lvl 37 Halfling Conjurer (Everfrost Server) - backup alt
 * Tyranna - lvl 32 Dark Elf Bruiser (Everfrost Server) - sucks but I've had her too long to delete her
 * Auoric - lvl 30 Barbarian Inquisitor (Everfrost Server) - powerleveling an inquis on a free2play account
 * Raykor - lvl 23 Ratonga Dirge - because everyone always needs a dirge
 * Laszk - lvl 20 Iksar Coercer - because everyone always needs power regen
 * Ieros - lvl 20 Human Beastlord - because Beastlord

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

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. Long story short I got a new computer.

Socii Equitis era
In the late spring/early summer of 2010, I made my guild's main raid force by complete accident - a dramabomb had half the raid force leave and since I was max level I got put on the raid force. Knowing absolutely nothing about how to play a raiding char. So as I was climbing my levels I ignored all the potency, crit mit and crit bonus gear because I didn't want to lose Bane Warding from my T3 shard armor. So I got moved to low priority backup raid force for sucking. And then put on the alt raid force. And then the alt raid force closed because the guy who was leading it quit the guild without telling anyone why. So I worked really hard and improved my reliability and made a few friends and finally made main raidforce in mid October 2010 after one of the four full time raid shaman ragequit in the middle of a Waansu pull and I got his spot. Then I almost lost it again because an old guildy returned, but he decided he'd rather be MT Shaman on our second raid force.

Currently I'm the caster group shaman, and our troubador loves me because a well timed Ritual of Alacrity and Stampede of the Herd and he's usually around #6 on the raidwide DPS parse.

On November 15, 2010, we made our first hard mode kill, putting Waansu down. It was an insane rush, but... let's just say that we've got a lot of work to do before contemplating getting a flawless over him. Next up, Maalus Imbued. We dropped him on 12/1. Penda & Kendis United and Toxxulia both down sometimes in late December/early January 2011. Also, flawless victory over every easy mode mob except Theer, Perah'Celsis and Haraakat the Seer got Haraakat in Jan 11. As of February 11, moved into Underfoot Depths and have dropped the first three (Ritualist Squilak, Master Syfak, Rathgar). We got Uthgar and co a few days later, and on the last raid of the expansion got 3 Sages Hardmode.

Destiny of Velious raiding turned out to be kind of boring. We cleared all the easy mode stuff, and haven't been able to make much headway into hardmode because we're having trouble with raid attendance and raider turnover. And as of late September 2011 I had to step down from active raiding because real life is being stupid and annoying. Full time again as of early 2012.

Primal Vengeance era
I decided to take a try at hardcore raiding. Surprisingly I've been provisionally accepted by Primal Vengeance (currently #5 on the server guildprogress rankings, #66 worldwide). So far I'm still on sit duty but I get to run the alt raids and I'm racking up platinums and achievements.