I took yet another shot at getting the sludge in EQ this morning, and it took about five or six hours, but in the end I actually wound up with two sludge samples. The quest for the research trophy was easily completed, leaving me the spare to sell, and hopefully its rarity makes it somewhat valuable.

I figured I’d also try for the jewelcrafting trophy, and it was much easier. The hardest part of it is making grandmaster spyglasses, and I’d already done that long ago and it let me use my existing one rather than having to make a new one. The rest was just a bunch of simple combines, except for a few that needed a reinforced jewelry kit. I didn’t have one and had to do a little quest to make one, but it didn’t take too long, and before long the trophy was mine.

That’s it for crafting trophies for now though, since those are the only two I really intend to focus on anyway. And along the way I picked up enough AAs to buy both ranks of Suspended Minion. Now that my animation is actually fairly strong, getting those and Persistent Minion will let me pop it out prebuffed whenever I need it.