Rift! No. EQ2! No. Champions! No. Wait...what's my pw again?

This time last week I was (a) whining about having to move and (b) all excited about starting back up in Rift.  I even went so far as to buy the one year sub so I could get the free expansion dealie.  Things were going great, I was smashing faces with my mage, and then...

...and then I went shopping with my friend, and she saw an old collector's edition of EQ2's Sentinel's Fate expansion for ten bucks.  Full game (to the old level cap, anyway), plus a month time, plus free station cash, plus a swanky new mount and a pewter battlecat that has already replaced her dog in the Monopoly set for only ten dollars was apparently too awesome to pass up.  This time, anyway.  I'd talked her out of it half a dozen times before, because we were playing WoW and running a guild and all that good stuff.

So now I'm playing EQ2, and trying to mentor a True Newb to a game that's gone through eight years of developmental dickery, after something like two years away.  I reactivated for a month towards the middle of the last expansion, but only played for about twenty minutes.  (Part of it was that I got robbed of 20aa on my illusionist because I hadn't resubbed when I logged her in the first time, and apparently lost all credit for stored xp.)  Ever since the game went Free to Play and, more importantly, Rift launched, I've been fooling around Anywhere But There.  They hadn't introduced mercenaries yet, let alone introduced prestige abilities or the Choose Your Own Focus Effects tab, or any of that good stuff.  Stats have been changed and changed and changed, they've introduced reforging...

I just spent three weeks getting reacquainted with Rift, and now I have to jam on the brakes and shift gears to get caught up with EQ2.  I've been staring at my monk's AAs for something like four hours now trying to figure out how to not do it wrong, and concluded that everything I set up when I logged in was most definitely doing it wrong.  It also turns out that I've got to wait a week to transfer said monk to the server I had my friend roll on because Butcherblock, my old server, is populated by quasi-sentient dildos.

And to top it all off?  My usual fallback fansite has all but died for lack of drama.  /mourn EQ2flames.  You will be missed.

But seriously!  I have epic game ADD any more, and it seems like just when I finally make a decision to commit, someone comes along with something shiny on a string and drags me somewhere else.

So...I'll be bouncing back and forth between games for a while.  Actual content to follow soon, I promise!