Midwinter Equinox

Midwinter Equinox

By Rebellion

I began playing almost a year ago. It was the first week in November in 2005. Not a month after that I joined Midwinter Equinox. I had made a few alternate characters and had played around with the various classes but I loved being a rogue and going to Verity Isle into the Tower of Riga.

Rogues have the best questing and tourming skills: track, snare, peek, steal, backstab, dagger, hook, sneaking just to name some of the best. Rogues get decent hit points that when combined with backstab allow them to mob in higher leveled areas. I’ve often got the statement, “I didn’t know rogues could tank so well,” or “I didn’t know a rogue could solo so well.” Having only second attack (three attacks with haste) as opposed to third attack can be a slight drawback to betters though. It takes more kills to get a better than a player who starts out with a class that has third attack (four attacks with haste).

Elggs was a second classer then and had done a ton of quests. I was poking around Tellerium and talking to people and being annoying. Somehow I got to talking to Elggs and we talked about Midwinter Equinox. I had seen Elggs before with my alts and knew that he had done around thirty five hundred quests back then. I was interested in practices. He talked to me about doing one thousand quests and about Midwinter Equinox’s clan hall.

I wasn’t sure what I wanted but I did think that doing one thousand quests first class was insane. I didn’t even know if it was possible. I began to do my quests in Templeton and the more I did the more I liked them. I joined Midwinter Equinox because of Elggs and because of where the clan hall location was.

I began doing a round of quests (a round is the five quest limit in six hours) and then between rounds going to the Tower of Riga at Verity Isle. I loved Verity Isle and have often called it my second home. It’s peaceful with a lot of mobs to kill. You get good scatters along with tourmalines to deposit for use with multi-classing or to sell. A tourmaline is worth a thousand gold pieces. That was my routine. I would quest a round, go to Verity and load up on tourms, and then quest another round, and go back to Verity.

I found scatter after scatter that were mostly manuals and the rare orb of vandemaar. I never used the manuals or orbs as I preferred to sell them for gold. By the end of my one thousand quests first class I had enough gold to pay cash for my home in New Rigel, buy the decent first class equipment (necronomicon, eye of kraken, spell book of the wizard of focault) and have a good chunk left over.

I began to climb in rank in the clan. I began to recruit people with a lot being new players. Some have stayed and have become clannies. Others were like shooting stars that streaked across the sky and off to other adventures. We have been rebuilding the last few months. We thinned out some of the alternate characters and have booted some of the inactive characters. Some of the new players have multi-classed and are putting on muscle. Some of our new players are fleshing out as first classers. Some of our inactive players have started to become more active again. My multi-class is coming soon and Elggs has recently dived into fourth class.

I’ve been luckier recently to get some good recruits. Geeze, an old friend and hero, has joined Midwinter Equinox. I’ve gotten some promises from some other higher leveled players as well. I have a few spots open and have talked to both higher leveled players and newbies about joining.

I think a lot of players underestimate Midwinter Equinox. Daulf, Elggs, and I are all ranked players with rank being not easy to achieve and maintain. The clan hall located at the bottom of Lake Martoon is primo real estate being both important to first class Templeton questing and to last class activities. We like to socialize and see each other grow and progress. We help each other when we can or give advice (sometimes good and sometimes useless) when we can’t actually help.

I was very fortunate to join Midwinter Equinox. It has helped me to see that I am more than just another player in the mass. I am a leader. I could have gotten where I am now on my own yes, maybe, but having clannies to lean on has helped me to grow more than I knew I could. Having someone to depend on me and my information has given me a good boost of confidence as well. I have faults and can be a braggart at times but I’m accepted here and I cheer when my clannies brag on their characters. I hope they all become heroes.

Contact me (Rebellion) in-game about joining Clan Midwinter Equinox.