Cadderly

I was trying to stay away from macro'ing for this purpose, but yeah, that would save me some constant dragging, clicking, repeating. I may revisit that. It's mostly a slog when you're only getting the 10 exp per success until you can upgrade the level of the gear. Much better when 25+ and forward.

I figure I will make a thread to track my 1.29 goals and serve as a place that anyone can find me and message me for friend list addition, grouping, etc... Feel free to say "hi" /w Cadderly. You can also join my guild and leave anytime. The guild is just me (+ 1 other cool New Zealander as of last weekend!) and not intended to be a force on the server. It's a place to house my alts and not go anywhere should anyone want to stay in touch that way. It's easier to chat via /g than /w. I've seen 3 English guilds start and die because the leader and main players quit. This guild will remain, even if it's just me, because I plan to be around a long time! The guild name? It's "Anglais Ingles English" or AIE! for short Lame, I know. I was hoping people would see the name and realize I speak English...but given the amount of Spanish and French I get hit with, evidently not. GOALS | STATUS Raise 1, Level 100+ Cra | DONE! Raise 5, level 100+ enus | DONE! Crafting Professions Step 1 Jeweller to Level 80 | DONE! Tailor to Level 80 | In progress. Gathering ~10k Piwi feathers/seeds now. Shoemaker to Level 80 | Current Level 3x Gathering Professions Miner Level 100 | Current Level 7x Lumberjack Level 100 | Current Level 8x Magus Professions Jewelmagus to Level 100 | Current Level 3x: May level more as a break from gathering. Magus is a pain to level... Tailormagus to Level 100 | Not started Shoemagus to Level 100 | Not started Crafting Professions Step 2 Jeweller Level 81-100| Not started Tailor to Level 81-100 | Not started Shoemaker Level 81-100 | Not started

Thanks! I typically roll kitsous for tailor from 60 to 100, but I'm sure there will be some helmets involved! Hey my man! Yeah, it's like that any time during the "french playing timezone". It quiets some after hours, but there are always multiple groups running 24/7

I appreciate it! One thing I’ve always enjoyed is the pace of 1.29. It’s relaxing to fire up some YouTube documentaries on one monitor and casually play on the other. The pace allows me to do it. It’s relaxing to play, so it’s not hard for me to stay at it. :)

I'll reach out. If you recall, I was in Prometheus, but I saw where it was heading and bailed because it was just going to die (like "English Empire" before it). I isolated myself and have determined to just "go it alone" and focus on my goal of leveling the major crafting professions to 100 (tailor, shoemaker, jeweller). I have leveled these professions on the original 1.x, so I know the grind and have proven I can do it. My overall plan? *Level cra to 100+ for BR dungeon (DONE) *Have plenty of 100+ Turquoise turkeys and ability to breed at will (DONE). PS I can breed mountable ones if anybody needs them. Sell at a discount to my English speaking community *Level 5 enus to 100+ for gathering. Currently have 2 at 100+, 2 in the 80s, 1 in 70s. I expect to have this completed by end of Feb if not earlier. So ALMOST DONE! Woohoo. *Continue to level miner/LJ (at level 66 and 80 respectively). Those professions are high enough to do most of what I need to do, especially LJ. They will level organically as I gather resources. Getting miner to bauxite is about the last thing I "need" for the professions. *LASTLY and after those are complete, hit those professions! Goal 1, all 3 to 65 for maging and pods. Then all 3 to 80 for 7 slot crafts (ancestral particularly), then all 3 to 100 one at a time. I'll be spending a LOT of time farming kitsou's. too much info, I know, but taking a break from work and figured why not provide some in the post.

LOL! I just recently bit the bullet and decided to level the "enu army" (like everyone else seems to have), but I'm only doing it for profession leveling efficiency. Boars for shoemaker, gobs for tailor, etc... Anyway, to further the project, I leveled a cra, put my iop in agi gear, and hit Black Rat with nub enus. Your image is SPOT ON. In busy times, it's always like that.

Since the "English Empire" is now dead (leader hasn't logged in ~20 days, 2nd command longer). There is now a new active (for the time being.... :/) English speaking guild on Eratz entitled, "Prometheus". /w Tensin, Cezx, MikesWildTurkey, Sir-Leuxia, Cadderly, or post here.If it doesn't stick, guess I'll be moving to Henual to join "Under the Edge" because there are so few English speakers here! p.s. I'm not the leader/creator.

This resonates with me. I used to spend time getting the "next set" together so I could make my character(s) stronger. It was thrilling finally hitting that +ap, +crit, +range set that you were gathering for. I also remember being low level and trying to put together the kwak set or scara sets. Then looking ahead to other sets and playing towards them. Was a lot of fun (and very social) to work on these gear items because they required mat hunts with friends or other valuable dungeon runs to earn enough kamas to buy the gear. It used to be like that for high level stuff too because the bosses could be beaten with friends even if they didn't know the "mechanics" of defeating the boss (i.e. they weren't any really complicated mechanics). Now the bosses are rule/logic based and the recipes require pebbles anyway, so boss mats aren't thrilling. You'll get them with achievements anyway. Admittedly, I'm probably looking at it through the lens of a guy who has been around the game too long.

I don't play anymore. What made me loose interest are: the restrictions. I like games where you can become uber powerful with enough time/effort/fun. Some probably think that's grindy, but I enjoy it. A little grind here, a little grind there...if you stick with it, a few years later you kick some real butt. Gives you something to strive for. boss vulnerability logic in the name of tactics. Slow and inconsistent game play - i.e. if Johnny doesn't make an exact move from a to b and hit using x during the battle-you will never win. To point 1, I like games where I can become powerful enough to overcome boss tactics with enough time/effort/fun. Now my time doesn't matter as much, it's about Johnny, Suzie, and Carlos doing exactly what they're supposed to do exactly when they're supposed to do it. I just don't find that enjoyable. pebbles in recipes. I missed trying to spend time to create gear when ready to upgrade my characters gear. Now the mats are easy, it's always the pebbles that are a pain and those aren't something I can just go do a hunt and collect. Granted you can hunt other things, sell them, then buy pebbles, but I get hung up on the principle of that idea, I don't like it. More or less, all the things I enjoyed are gone. Hack-n-slash/grind, gear building, limitless power. All of these are just MY preferences. Plenty of people feel differently obviously, glad you still find Dofus enjoyable.

WB (not really)

My story I suppose. I had a $350k (USD) house built in late 2006-early 2007'ish right before the recession hit. Fantastic timing *sigh*. I sunk $60,000 down in it, and that was all my cash at the time. In hindsight, I consider it one of the worst decisions I've ever made. The high payment + expenses of owning a home (A/C issues, repair issues, etc..) + maintenance (large lawn,pressure washing, painting the outside trim, etc...) + timing/economic factors hurting value, We even had a small kitchen fire that left our hardwood damaged, and so on, etc...The house has lost all it's appeal. Back before this housing bubble burst, houses were an appreciating asset from day 1. As someone mentioned it was the "right thing" to do..and maybe it still is LONG term. I mean VERY long term. Houses used to be a good investment even short-mid term. I got an appraisal in 2011 and the house appraised at considerably less than what it initially appraised for. Less to the point where I didn't have the extra cash to make up the difference for a refinance. So I missed out on the 3.25% and less rates. I'm now in a better financial situation and could possibly refinance it, but rates are around 4.25% now and my current rate is 5.0%. The numbers aren't quite working out anymore. Instead, I'm overpaying the principal each month to help offset the 5% that I appear stuck at for a long time. Likely forever. Now I'm simply "stuck". I MIGHT be able to sell the house and move, but I wouldn't make any money (realtor fees involved). So buying a house simply locks you down. All in all, I'm in favor of families buying homes, but keep them home as simple and inexpensive as possible so you can dump them and break even at least. If you're young, coming out of college, etc... rent. At least in the states, if the US ever removes the tax incentive for owning a home (aka. the Mortgage interest deduction), everyone will dump their homes and we're going to see huge rent increases and home price plummets. Gov't has talked about it before, but I don't think it will happen anytime soon.

Yeah, this system has been in place for a while. Back when I subbed with money (been a long time), if all the subs expired and I needed to start again, I would sub 4 with CC. Then I would get gouged and buy ogrines for the other 4 so I could play 8 right away. I was willing to do that just to get the first sub "set" going. However, after that, I staggered my subs by a week. I would sub 4 3 weeks out, then sub the other 4 the following week. This way the block never affected me beyond the first sub.

I've been struggling to get into dofus, but I could SURE as hell get into that.

The street I live on is named "Hearthstone Court". Does that count? What games is this?

dude! Got you taken care of. inspiration: and the HOOKUP: