After keeping a gaming journal for a consistent three years (around 2003/4 until I went into the Army around the end of 2006), I've been horrible at it! Here's another try...
Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall, The (PC): Just a few Mages Guild quests. Slow progress. I know it's fawned over in the RPG community, and there's a lot I like, but it's no Morrowind. Daggerfall offers a massive but empty, buggy world. Everything seems generic and cookie-cutter (outside of the main questlines), and while the gameplay has some really neat aspects, it's archaic, clunky, and, as well, buggy.
Still, it's enjoyable enough. No harpies or lamia yet, hahah.
Resident Evil Revelations 2 (PC): Did the daily (Rachel is only one skill level from maxing out the rocket launcher skill), then did some grinding. No rainbow items this time, alas. I'd really love to get a three star handgun!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did Cinnaris's Draenor flying dailies, grinding out some Saber-something rep in a group, and then brought Obme to Tanaan Jungle and Lion's Watch. And the usual follower stuff on Dyne/Meg/Lit.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
April 15th, 2011
Halo Reach (360): Some decent progress. It's a little repetitive, and it seems like it takes a bit longer to unlock stuff than it should. Then again, there doesn't seem to be as much to unlock as in other games. Still, I'm enjoying it - Tab mentioned playing online with her and her friends, so I might give it a go sometimes.
Halo Waypoint (360): Browsing!
Magic the Gathering - Duel of the Planeswalkers (360): No progress today, just a couple failed matches against Garrok or something. The green guy, like third match in!
World of Warcraft (PC): Grinded Dyne close to 78, then finished later with Teeva in Sholazar Basin. Did all my dailies... still bumming about the Cinnaris situation, but so it goes! Grooming Dyne to be #1, I guess!
Halo Waypoint (360): Browsing!
Magic the Gathering - Duel of the Planeswalkers (360): No progress today, just a couple failed matches against Garrok or something. The green guy, like third match in!
World of Warcraft (PC): Grinded Dyne close to 78, then finished later with Teeva in Sholazar Basin. Did all my dailies... still bumming about the Cinnaris situation, but so it goes! Grooming Dyne to be #1, I guess!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
April 6th, 2011
Dynasty Warriors 7 (360): Unlocked Pang Tong and Cai Wenji, as well as some quick random stages. That's about it!
World of Warcraft (PC): Wasn't feeling very MMO-ey, so just did some dailies across some alts! Knocked out a few quests on Dyne as well. Weird, you can attack non-aggressive Frost Nymphs, even after helping them out!
World of Warcraft (PC): Wasn't feeling very MMO-ey, so just did some dailies across some alts! Knocked out a few quests on Dyne as well. Weird, you can attack non-aggressive Frost Nymphs, even after helping them out!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
April 5th, 2011
Dynasty Warriors 7 (360): Some good progress today! Various random battles to the point where I can access almost every square on the map. Unlocked Lu Bu as well, although his main weapon is currently at the Blacksmith's - d'oh!
Tenchu Shadow Assault (360): Played for like two seconds. It's kinda weird, not sure if I like it. I wish we'd get a Tenchu Z sequel with a more in-depth create-a-character!
World of Warcraft (PC): A bunch of dailies, a random dungeon on Rube, Baradin Hold dailies as Cinnaris, some farming, some questing in Howling Fjord as Dyne. Not bad at all!
Later, while I was trying to add Crimson Scarlet Crusaders to the WoW Model Viewer, I got my arm twisted in doing a random as Cinnaris, which was fairly successful at least. On the Model Viewer note, it took quite a bit of time and some excursions as Omphale in 3.3.5, but I did finally get them all sorted out and added satisfactorily!
World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (PC): Played around a bit as Omphale. Turns out the Scarlet Oracle Demetria spawns through a Horde quest, and it was slow going as a new Hordie, a Blood Elf DK named Ordellia(DKs don't even get to do the starting DK questline!), so I gave up there. Went to go see the Onslaught in Icecrown later into the night with the hopes of confirming Onslaught for the Model Viewer, and, of course, cold weather flying is 50k, and the mobs didn't spawn except for one lone, non-flying Gryphon Rider. What a bust! I might ditch this server.
Tenchu Shadow Assault (360): Played for like two seconds. It's kinda weird, not sure if I like it. I wish we'd get a Tenchu Z sequel with a more in-depth create-a-character!
World of Warcraft (PC): A bunch of dailies, a random dungeon on Rube, Baradin Hold dailies as Cinnaris, some farming, some questing in Howling Fjord as Dyne. Not bad at all!
Later, while I was trying to add Crimson Scarlet Crusaders to the WoW Model Viewer, I got my arm twisted in doing a random as Cinnaris, which was fairly successful at least. On the Model Viewer note, it took quite a bit of time and some excursions as Omphale in 3.3.5, but I did finally get them all sorted out and added satisfactorily!
World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (PC): Played around a bit as Omphale. Turns out the Scarlet Oracle Demetria spawns through a Horde quest, and it was slow going as a new Hordie, a Blood Elf DK named Ordellia(DKs don't even get to do the starting DK questline!), so I gave up there. Went to go see the Onslaught in Icecrown later into the night with the hopes of confirming Onslaught for the Model Viewer, and, of course, cold weather flying is 50k, and the mobs didn't spawn except for one lone, non-flying Gryphon Rider. What a bust! I might ditch this server.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
April 3rd, 2011
Wrestlemania XXVII! ...and a rather lackluster one, at that! Still fun. My match predictions ended up 3-4-1, not very good. The "1" is from the Sheamus/Bryan match that got bumped to a dark match and ended in a No Context, blech.
Dynasty Warriors 7 (360): Really got into it tonight, and rather accidentally! Made a ton of progress in Conquest, got the gorgeous Lian Shi as my "Sworn Ally", and ended up genuinely liking her character. Made quite a bit of progress across the land. It's no Empires, but it is a fun enough mode!
World of Warcraft (PC): Not much at all. A daily or two on Dyne, and that's about it!
Dynasty Warriors 7 (360): Really got into it tonight, and rather accidentally! Made a ton of progress in Conquest, got the gorgeous Lian Shi as my "Sworn Ally", and ended up genuinely liking her character. Made quite a bit of progress across the land. It's no Empires, but it is a fun enough mode!
World of Warcraft (PC): Not much at all. A daily or two on Dyne, and that's about it!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
April 2nd, 2011
World of Warcraft (PC): Another Executioner sold! Did several runs as Rubescent, mostly in the Scarlet Monastery. Got some Seaforium plans and various other things to transfer over, like mithril that was selling for far more Hordeside than Allianceside. Rube's got FA capped and Engineering close, with charges to blow up chests now. Yay!
WWE All-Stars (360): To some effort, but I finally finished up my unlocking by defeating Kane as Jimmy Snuka in a cage match during Fantasy Warfare. Should be ready for Sunday, yay!
WWE All-Stars (360): To some effort, but I finally finished up my unlocking by defeating Kane as Jimmy Snuka in a cage match during Fantasy Warfare. Should be ready for Sunday, yay!
Friday, April 1, 2011
April 1st, 2011
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some TB dailies and a random dungeon as Cinnaris. The tank did not have Righteous Fury on, and it took a good three fourths of the run and me taking roughly equal damage as he did (it was like 34% to 32% between him and myself!) for us to get him to use it, which took me finally saying, "Know what's a good Paladin ability? [Righterous Fury]." Even better was when Tavia initiated a vote to kick him, and the vote failed, implying that the other two weeniesaurs were entirely unfamiliar with the issue.
We also beat up Isistet! She was a brick house. Get it, 'cause she's all big and stoney and stuff?
Helped a random person smelt some Hardened Elementium, did some dailies on Dyne, transferred some stuff to Rube, then did some Scarlet Monastery runs (poor Trainees!), then Tam got mad at me for using my own enchants. Even though hers weren't what I wanted, and I wasn't thinking about that anyway. -_-;
Did a couple more dailies at TB Peninsula as Cinnaris, and that was that!
WWE All-Stars (360): Just working on finishing unlocks. Got Kane, Drew McIntyre, Shawn Michaels, and the Miz unlocked. Attempted getting Snuka done, but ended up giving up and unlocking Sgt. Slaughter, leaving only Snuka.
Started playing in the Randy Orton storyline as Ultimate Warrior, as well, and made it a few matches in. It's weird, but playing as Warrior, I feel like I've gotta make them squash matches, and feel confident I can do it. And so far, that's exactly how it's gone!
Also received the dreaded Red Ring of Death for about the half-dozenth time! It worked fine after that, but this 360 as it is is out of warranty, and already replaced once.
Lemme think how many I've had... my original 360 bought at GameStop was DOA, and I sold the replacement. Bought a second one coming out of Basic from a friend, and that one died, replaced for free with the current one downstairs. Bought an Arcade system in Cuba, and that one died (and I sold it to Bevis on the grounds that he could get it replaced for free, but he never got around to it - why do I feel bad about that when he knew the conditions going into it and never replaced it on his own free time, of which he had a lot of?).
So if this one dies, that makes it four. Eek.
We also beat up Isistet! She was a brick house. Get it, 'cause she's all big and stoney and stuff?
Helped a random person smelt some Hardened Elementium, did some dailies on Dyne, transferred some stuff to Rube, then did some Scarlet Monastery runs (poor Trainees!), then Tam got mad at me for using my own enchants. Even though hers weren't what I wanted, and I wasn't thinking about that anyway. -_-;
Did a couple more dailies at TB Peninsula as Cinnaris, and that was that!
WWE All-Stars (360): Just working on finishing unlocks. Got Kane, Drew McIntyre, Shawn Michaels, and the Miz unlocked. Attempted getting Snuka done, but ended up giving up and unlocking Sgt. Slaughter, leaving only Snuka.
Started playing in the Randy Orton storyline as Ultimate Warrior, as well, and made it a few matches in. It's weird, but playing as Warrior, I feel like I've gotta make them squash matches, and feel confident I can do it. And so far, that's exactly how it's gone!
Also received the dreaded Red Ring of Death for about the half-dozenth time! It worked fine after that, but this 360 as it is is out of warranty, and already replaced once.
Lemme think how many I've had... my original 360 bought at GameStop was DOA, and I sold the replacement. Bought a second one coming out of Basic from a friend, and that one died, replaced for free with the current one downstairs. Bought an Arcade system in Cuba, and that one died (and I sold it to Bevis on the grounds that he could get it replaced for free, but he never got around to it - why do I feel bad about that when he knew the conditions going into it and never replaced it on his own free time, of which he had a lot of?).
So if this one dies, that makes it four. Eek.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
March 31st, 2011
Dynasty Warriors 7 (360): Finally got a chance to sink my teeth into it! It's nice to see the old combo style again. Camera seems a little closer than would be preferable. Conquest Mode is alright, kind of Empires without any sort of city management.
I also lolled after I beat Lu Bu and got the achievement "OK, you can pursue Lu Bu", a reference to Yuan Shao in DW3 incessantly reminding players, "Don't pursue Lu Bu!"
I'm really torn, because it's been quite a while since my last DW (6 didn't do a ton for me), but it's really hard to go back after playing Empires. Samurai Warriors 2 Empires is still my fav "Warriors" thus far - was hoping for a Warriors Orochi Empires!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some tanking Hordeside as Rubescent. First time tanking, and with Warrior, a class unfamiliar to me having spent most of my time playing Paladin. It's harder to do than Paladin right now (but that could change as I get more abilities) and not a ton of fun, but I might keep at it. It's a nice, quick way to get a dungeon, having a healer and a tank already.
I also lolled after I beat Lu Bu and got the achievement "OK, you can pursue Lu Bu", a reference to Yuan Shao in DW3 incessantly reminding players, "Don't pursue Lu Bu!"
I'm really torn, because it's been quite a while since my last DW (6 didn't do a ton for me), but it's really hard to go back after playing Empires. Samurai Warriors 2 Empires is still my fav "Warriors" thus far - was hoping for a Warriors Orochi Empires!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some tanking Hordeside as Rubescent. First time tanking, and with Warrior, a class unfamiliar to me having spent most of my time playing Paladin. It's harder to do than Paladin right now (but that could change as I get more abilities) and not a ton of fun, but I might keep at it. It's a nice, quick way to get a dungeon, having a healer and a tank already.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
January 23rd, 2011
World of Warcraft (PC): Archaeology on Cinnaris, then moved on to Dyneamite where we finished up the Badlands. Got a neat little dragon whelp summon, so I'll have to do the quests on Cinnaris and get a "Delphyne." Then we did most of the Searing Gorge, but really only because we wanted to take on Chambermaid Pillaclencher and get some nice slowfall pillow trinkets! This tall dwarf lady - as tall as a human - was easier to beat this time around than it was on Cinnaris and Tamberly.
Had some frustrations early on as the Wikis - first WoWHead and then WoWWiki - mislead us on just how many quests we'd need to do to get to her. We ended up having to do just about all of them up till that point, including a bunch of allegedly optional ones!
We moved from there to the Blasted Lands and got a couple more levels to get us ready for the Outlands, but before going, I stopped to use "Enslave Demon" for the first time, on six-armed Shivan/Shivarra demon Shahandana. D'oh ho ho.
Did some Outlands from there, making it a few missions into Hellfire Peninsula. Good progress, but at last our triple Refer a Friend bonus ran out, having hit L60. Bummer! Additionally, my newer summons are only for a minute before they poof - so after the Felhunter, unbeknowst to me, I wasn't getting any more permanent minion choices.
"Enslave Demon" is missed potential, alas. You can only control a demon for five minutes, and it gets harder to re-enslave the same demon each successive time, and they also replace your currently summoned minion. So not only are minion choices limited, but Enslave is virtually worthless pre and post-Outlands, and your enslaved demons are only temporary and have their attack powers decreased.
I'd greatly prefer Enslave Demon to work like Hunter's Tame ability, and allow you to get a permanent, renameable minion. That would make it worth something even in the mostly-demon-less pre and post-Outlands areas, and give you a ton more variety. You CAN enslave Elite demons, which is nice, but I'd trade an occasionally super useful ability for a constantly useful and more permanent deal!
Had some frustrations early on as the Wikis - first WoWHead and then WoWWiki - mislead us on just how many quests we'd need to do to get to her. We ended up having to do just about all of them up till that point, including a bunch of allegedly optional ones!
We moved from there to the Blasted Lands and got a couple more levels to get us ready for the Outlands, but before going, I stopped to use "Enslave Demon" for the first time, on six-armed Shivan/Shivarra demon Shahandana. D'oh ho ho.
Did some Outlands from there, making it a few missions into Hellfire Peninsula. Good progress, but at last our triple Refer a Friend bonus ran out, having hit L60. Bummer! Additionally, my newer summons are only for a minute before they poof - so after the Felhunter, unbeknowst to me, I wasn't getting any more permanent minion choices.
"Enslave Demon" is missed potential, alas. You can only control a demon for five minutes, and it gets harder to re-enslave the same demon each successive time, and they also replace your currently summoned minion. So not only are minion choices limited, but Enslave is virtually worthless pre and post-Outlands, and your enslaved demons are only temporary and have their attack powers decreased.
I'd greatly prefer Enslave Demon to work like Hunter's Tame ability, and allow you to get a permanent, renameable minion. That would make it worth something even in the mostly-demon-less pre and post-Outlands areas, and give you a ton more variety. You CAN enslave Elite demons, which is nice, but I'd trade an occasionally super useful ability for a constantly useful and more permanent deal!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
January 22nd, 2011
Watched one of the four "Film Crew" episodes today. Funny stuff, and I like how they have actual skits! I LOVE Rifftrax, but I do miss the skits from MST3k. (On the other hand, Rifftrax Live is the perfect combination of past and present!)
Beach Bubbles (360): Played around for a bit without much success! Oh well!
World of Warcraft (PC): Archaeology on Cinnaris, and we discussed how trolls are constantly the bad guys, all over the world, followed by humans, and that Draenei are almost never random bad guys, followed by Tauren. Wonder why?
Beach Bubbles (360): Played around for a bit without much success! Oh well!
World of Warcraft (PC): Archaeology on Cinnaris, and we discussed how trolls are constantly the bad guys, all over the world, followed by humans, and that Draenei are almost never random bad guys, followed by Tauren. Wonder why?
Friday, January 21, 2011
January 21st, 2011
Beach Bubbles (360): For some odd reason I bought one of those dumb cheesecake games that involves puzzles to reveal pretty anime girls, and immediately regretted it. The puzzles are half-decent, involving moving a poorly-animated girl around the screen to pop bubbles while avoiding enemies, but the girls are, as they always are (allegedly, this is my first game of this nature!), but it really was not worth the three dollar price of admission. I mean, the girls are cute, but it's stuff I could find in seconds, for free and of comparable quality, on Deviantart.
Ah well, I actually unlocked a couple pictures, we'll see if I finish up all eight!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some farming and archaeology on Cinnaris, checking out Kalimdor for the latter. Did some more duoing on Dyne in Tanaris, then we skipped over the Southsea pirates and headed for the Badlands. Caught wrasslin' on TV, came back for some farming, then hit the Badlands again.
Did a couple quests I thought were really fun, unlike most of WoW's lately, and Tam of course hated them, jokingly implying I'm trying to be contrary. /sigh Ah well, did make good progress. Oddly, Eric the Swift followed us when we warped back to Stormwind, and didn't seem to want to go away! We even kept our helmets, hah.
Ah well, I actually unlocked a couple pictures, we'll see if I finish up all eight!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some farming and archaeology on Cinnaris, checking out Kalimdor for the latter. Did some more duoing on Dyne in Tanaris, then we skipped over the Southsea pirates and headed for the Badlands. Caught wrasslin' on TV, came back for some farming, then hit the Badlands again.
Did a couple quests I thought were really fun, unlike most of WoW's lately, and Tam of course hated them, jokingly implying I'm trying to be contrary. /sigh Ah well, did make good progress. Oddly, Eric the Swift followed us when we warped back to Stormwind, and didn't seem to want to go away! We even kept our helmets, hah.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
January 20th, 2011
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Hit PGL L20! Slowly but surely!
Vindictus (PC): Gave it a little go, creating a character that was Natsu-esque who I for some reason named Omphale. Oops, wasn't thinking, no wonder it didn't seem right! Anyway, the game seems neat, but I have two major complaints thus far.
First, and worst, it's a Nexon game, so it's free to play, but many of the little things cost. For example, your character creator only has about 1/4th of the total number of items available, and you've got to purchase the rest individually. Worse yet, you can't simply "buy" the game and have everything available. I haaaate stuff like that - let me just buy the game as a whole and have everything available!
Second, the controls are really weird. With the settings I choose, one of the two defaults, you move around with the keyboard and mouse, and targetting is weird. You have to swing the camera behind you to attack in a given direction. That is, you can't just turn your PC and make them attack in a given direction, they always attack where the camera is facing, not where the PC is. But this assumedly will get better with practice and tweaking, would love to use a controller for this!
Anyway, graphics are gorgeous and conducive to making a Natsu, so I may give it another shot soon!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a quick quest on Dyne, then hit up Obme and did some of the newer deals in Darkshore and did up to where I had to kill a few Darkscale Priestesses before I threw in the towel there. Did some brief farming on Cinnaris and got an Elementium Geode, a lil companion thingy I have yet to use. Tam's kinda wanted one - maybe I should send it to her?
Later, after some FFXIV and Vindictus, I did some farming as Cinnaris, then checked out Tol Barad. Did a quest or two, but rather failed at the objective, directly attacking the Orc encampment instead of the individual locations. Whoops!
Hung out with T, she had some potions of illusion that turned her into her target or something, so Cinnaris got to dance with himself, hah. Did some more archaeology, scouted the Scarlet Monastery (even the Scarlet Converts are gone from Tirisfal!), and it turns out you don't need a key anymore to get to the next two areas, which might save some SC death later!
Sadly, I still need 3x Scarlet pieces, and a tabard!
Hit up Dyne, and we went to move to Kalimdor, only to find I can't do the Thousand Needles quests like Tam can - she apparently did some quests to lead up to 'em that we didn't know we needed to do! So I swam down to Tanaris, and we did a couple quests there.
Vindictus (PC): Gave it a little go, creating a character that was Natsu-esque who I for some reason named Omphale. Oops, wasn't thinking, no wonder it didn't seem right! Anyway, the game seems neat, but I have two major complaints thus far.
First, and worst, it's a Nexon game, so it's free to play, but many of the little things cost. For example, your character creator only has about 1/4th of the total number of items available, and you've got to purchase the rest individually. Worse yet, you can't simply "buy" the game and have everything available. I haaaate stuff like that - let me just buy the game as a whole and have everything available!
Second, the controls are really weird. With the settings I choose, one of the two defaults, you move around with the keyboard and mouse, and targetting is weird. You have to swing the camera behind you to attack in a given direction. That is, you can't just turn your PC and make them attack in a given direction, they always attack where the camera is facing, not where the PC is. But this assumedly will get better with practice and tweaking, would love to use a controller for this!
Anyway, graphics are gorgeous and conducive to making a Natsu, so I may give it another shot soon!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a quick quest on Dyne, then hit up Obme and did some of the newer deals in Darkshore and did up to where I had to kill a few Darkscale Priestesses before I threw in the towel there. Did some brief farming on Cinnaris and got an Elementium Geode, a lil companion thingy I have yet to use. Tam's kinda wanted one - maybe I should send it to her?
Later, after some FFXIV and Vindictus, I did some farming as Cinnaris, then checked out Tol Barad. Did a quest or two, but rather failed at the objective, directly attacking the Orc encampment instead of the individual locations. Whoops!
Hung out with T, she had some potions of illusion that turned her into her target or something, so Cinnaris got to dance with himself, hah. Did some more archaeology, scouted the Scarlet Monastery (even the Scarlet Converts are gone from Tirisfal!), and it turns out you don't need a key anymore to get to the next two areas, which might save some SC death later!
Sadly, I still need 3x Scarlet pieces, and a tabard!
Hit up Dyne, and we went to move to Kalimdor, only to find I can't do the Thousand Needles quests like Tam can - she apparently did some quests to lead up to 'em that we didn't know we needed to do! So I swam down to Tanaris, and we did a couple quests there.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
January 19th, 2011
Saw the Warrior's Way today with Mom, and it was surprisingly good! Considering the reviews it received and, more importantly, the brief time it spent in theaters, we weren't expecting much, and while the line we were chuckling about (when the grizzled cowboy, played by Geoffrey Rush, says seconds before an ambush, "Damn... ninjas."), it was surprisingly neat. Really inspired setpieces during the final battle, and the Asian/Old West hybrid music was pretty inventive.
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Did a few more leves, including all three level twenties, which is a good feeling! Unfortunately, the level ten quests seem to have worn out their worth, so in the future I'ma just warp around to do all L20 missions. No levels today, but I'll definitely hit PGL 20 tomorrow!
World of Warcraft (PC): Some farming on Cinnaris, some questing as Obme and saw the ruins of Auberdine, also getting her high enough to use an L22 shotgun. The sound is pathetically weak, and it changes with each shot, so it's disappointing. Got Cinnaris' smithing to 525, capping two professions, something Tam had only done on a single character before. Neat.
Eventually did some questing as my warlock, Dyneamite, in the Plaguelands. Actually remember doing the first few quests in EPL before as Cinnaris, but this was the most of both Plaguelands I've ever done.
I threw in the towel when we reached a quest where you're supposed to help the spirit of a young girl find her doll. I love stuff like that, helping ghosts on the other side find rest, and I also like how there's no controversy, one of the few WoW quests where you're a) not killing anyone, and b) there's no potential for moral ambiguity.
But apparently other quests that involve killing without discrimination over trifling matters are easier to swallow for some than ones that are unarguably morally upright and entirely noble. <_<; Welcome to the mentality WoW fosters, I guess!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Did a few more leves, including all three level twenties, which is a good feeling! Unfortunately, the level ten quests seem to have worn out their worth, so in the future I'ma just warp around to do all L20 missions. No levels today, but I'll definitely hit PGL 20 tomorrow!
World of Warcraft (PC): Some farming on Cinnaris, some questing as Obme and saw the ruins of Auberdine, also getting her high enough to use an L22 shotgun. The sound is pathetically weak, and it changes with each shot, so it's disappointing. Got Cinnaris' smithing to 525, capping two professions, something Tam had only done on a single character before. Neat.
Eventually did some questing as my warlock, Dyneamite, in the Plaguelands. Actually remember doing the first few quests in EPL before as Cinnaris, but this was the most of both Plaguelands I've ever done.
I threw in the towel when we reached a quest where you're supposed to help the spirit of a young girl find her doll. I love stuff like that, helping ghosts on the other side find rest, and I also like how there's no controversy, one of the few WoW quests where you're a) not killing anyone, and b) there's no potential for moral ambiguity.
But apparently other quests that involve killing without discrimination over trifling matters are easier to swallow for some than ones that are unarguably morally upright and entirely noble. <_<; Welcome to the mentality WoW fosters, I guess!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
January 18th, 2011
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a lot of skinning as Obme, reaching seventy-something, and did some leatherworking as well. From there, did some leveling as Megumii, my Priest, along with Tam's Paladin. A bit of a change of pace, but increasingly more fun! Tam hooked me up with some Elementium, got smithing up to 524, one short of max, then did more skinning as Obme, hit 110 or so, and knocked out a couple quests in Kalimdor.
Back to Meg, got her to 20, and we nabbed her a mount, then briefly hit up the warlock! Fairly productive!
Back to Meg, got her to 20, and we nabbed her a mount, then briefly hit up the warlock! Fairly productive!
Monday, January 17, 2011
January 17th, 2011
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Botanist 12, PGL 19, Physical Rank 20! I then did my first L20 leve, only to find myself struggling on the second (which involved human opponents, a rarity in the FF MMO style!). Without MP, it woulda been tough to finish, and I had no way to restore it. Tarryn hopped on, but didn't have the camp warp, so I warped to her and killed the level, oops! Something told me it porting was a bad idea!
So we tried my third leve, and after a few mobs, I got lost and went too far away, ending that leve! Ack! After that, Tam officially quit, and for the third time within a year, I was left alone in an MMO world! Alas.
World of Warcraft (PC): Briefly assisted with some PvP when the Horde attempted to attack the front gates of Stormwind and briefly again in Old Town, then hit up Dyne and did some Plaguelands questing there with Trinta. Zen'Kiki the druid was kinda awesome, turning into a cat and then leaping all over, shouting, "Leap! Meow! Attack!" and such, all the while not even looking at the mob. Ended up L39 - not bad at all, as Dyne's getting without shooting distance of Litian, my second-highest character, a Death Knight, at L58.
World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (PC): Got on for just a few minutes, saw I had my 10k gold that was supposed to come with my Silver VIP package (yay, fast and polite service!)
So we tried my third leve, and after a few mobs, I got lost and went too far away, ending that leve! Ack! After that, Tam officially quit, and for the third time within a year, I was left alone in an MMO world! Alas.
World of Warcraft (PC): Briefly assisted with some PvP when the Horde attempted to attack the front gates of Stormwind and briefly again in Old Town, then hit up Dyne and did some Plaguelands questing there with Trinta. Zen'Kiki the druid was kinda awesome, turning into a cat and then leaping all over, shouting, "Leap! Meow! Attack!" and such, all the while not even looking at the mob. Ended up L39 - not bad at all, as Dyne's getting without shooting distance of Litian, my second-highest character, a Death Knight, at L58.
World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (PC): Got on for just a few minutes, saw I had my 10k gold that was supposed to come with my Silver VIP package (yay, fast and polite service!)
Sunday, January 16, 2011
January 16th, 2011
World of Warcraft (PC): After the insanity described below, hit up real WoW, and Tessana gave me a ride up to the Hinterlands using her multi-rider elephant - pretty neat! Then I "Friend Summoned" Trinta and we did a couple missions, with Dyne ending up at L34. Not bad!
World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (PC): After some playing around, failing to properly connect to Eternal WoW, and then again to Neverendless WoW, I finally got connected to an instant-80 server, Mond. It's not quite instant 80, as it took me a chunk of the day to hit 85 (yes, 85, on a pre-Cata sever!), and it's also incredibly unprofessional. The people are friendly and helpful, but spelling errors abound, new equipment is horribly unbalanced, there's a warp stone you have with no cooldown that takes you just about anywhere, and the "new" content is gaudy, poorly-laid out Christmas stuff and oversize mobs like "Double head dog[sic]".
But I liked it enough to pay $10 for Silver VIP Membership for Omphale (this time a Human Paladin), which has the first tier of insanely overpowered weaponry as well as dual-wielding for every class. So I hacked away through various instances, usually only having to kill a handful of mobs before I'd level.
Luckily, the vast amount of the world seems to be relatively untouched, only the big cities have changes, so this is what I want: easy, overpowered, and I can explore pre-Cata Azeroth. It culminated in a L85 Omphale, with more than a million HP and almost double that in MP, taking forty minutes to solo the Horde "Santa Claus," a giant Blood Elf female in the sexy Christmas outfit, a mission tasked me by a giant gnome female in a similar outfit (but red instead of green).
So I eventually defeated the 250 million HP Bad Santa and got an insanely overpowered ring, and learned the quest was a daily! Pure insanity, but the server should fulfill my desires to have a pre-Cata reference I can easily explore.
World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (PC): After some playing around, failing to properly connect to Eternal WoW, and then again to Neverendless WoW, I finally got connected to an instant-80 server, Mond. It's not quite instant 80, as it took me a chunk of the day to hit 85 (yes, 85, on a pre-Cata sever!), and it's also incredibly unprofessional. The people are friendly and helpful, but spelling errors abound, new equipment is horribly unbalanced, there's a warp stone you have with no cooldown that takes you just about anywhere, and the "new" content is gaudy, poorly-laid out Christmas stuff and oversize mobs like "Double head dog[sic]".
But I liked it enough to pay $10 for Silver VIP Membership for Omphale (this time a Human Paladin), which has the first tier of insanely overpowered weaponry as well as dual-wielding for every class. So I hacked away through various instances, usually only having to kill a handful of mobs before I'd level.
Luckily, the vast amount of the world seems to be relatively untouched, only the big cities have changes, so this is what I want: easy, overpowered, and I can explore pre-Cata Azeroth. It culminated in a L85 Omphale, with more than a million HP and almost double that in MP, taking forty minutes to solo the Horde "Santa Claus," a giant Blood Elf female in the sexy Christmas outfit, a mission tasked me by a giant gnome female in a similar outfit (but red instead of green).
So I eventually defeated the 250 million HP Bad Santa and got an insanely overpowered ring, and learned the quest was a daily! Pure insanity, but the server should fulfill my desires to have a pre-Cata reference I can easily explore.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
January 15th, 2011
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Hit PGL 18 and did some shopping for some pinks! Too bad my leggings cover up my pants, making it look like I'm wearing assless chaps and pink underwear, hah.
World of Warcraft (PC): Started my orc, Omphale, but only got to level two before switching to Dyneamite. Hooked up with Tam's character Trinta to abuse our 3x Refer-A-Friend bonus, did some of Duskwood, some of Stranglethorn, and made it up to L29. Later, after church and dinner and hanging out watching Most Shocking, came back to duh internets and we did a few more Strangethorn missions to hit 33.
Got my Felhunter dog thingy, with the dumb auto-name of Khuufum, and called it a night!
World of Warcraft (PC): Started my orc, Omphale, but only got to level two before switching to Dyneamite. Hooked up with Tam's character Trinta to abuse our 3x Refer-A-Friend bonus, did some of Duskwood, some of Stranglethorn, and made it up to L29. Later, after church and dinner and hanging out watching Most Shocking, came back to duh internets and we did a few more Strangethorn missions to hit 33.
Got my Felhunter dog thingy, with the dumb auto-name of Khuufum, and called it a night!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
January 13th, 2011
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some Twilight Highlands quests and... hit 85! I was behind Tarina, so she hit 85 several quests ahead of me, but I finally managed it myself. There were some interesting missions, including leading some troops and protecting dragonkin, but it was nice to finally hit 85.
Made some new armor for myself, and can continue doing so, just need more Elementium! D'oh!
World of Warcraft 1.12.1 (PC): So I'm playing WoW vanilla on a private server, Feenix. I guess I'll title these entries "WoW 1.12.1"? I really just want to see how WoW was, as well as see the earlier world, in this case, all the Scarlet Crusade stuff. I've actually got another server downloading, a 3.3.5a WotLK server, but I thought it would be neat to see WoW from the very earliest.
Started off on the Midrate server as a human, a Cinnaris clone, and ended up getting dueled immediately by some doofus who lost the first one, won the second, then immediately quit. Okay. Switched over to Highrate, leveled a bit, made it to Goldshire and Stormwind, and then it was just becoming too difficult to keep up playing WoW and 1.12.1 at the same time.
Then I moved on to a female orc, my first Horde play at all, and she looked fairly cute all things considered - and had nice abs! So I floated to Booty Bay, trying to get to Tirisfal Glades to do the opening quests, then decided to come back, only to have some big and bad Alliance gnome kill me a few times en route back. Me, a L2 orc! Oh well.
I got back, did some leveling figuring I'd rather be overpowered after all, I WANT to be strong enough that I don't have to kill any SC, then finally just threw in the towel and hit up the Forsaken.
After making a tolerable female warrior, I started off doing some of the quests, then figured, duh, I might as well level first (the server is like 8x EXP, might even be 15x), then blast through the initial quests. I had some issues, eventually making it through the awkward Undercity after dying and appearing there, and think I hit about L8. Finally found the low-level SC guys - not the LOWEST level, but the missionaries and stuff, so that's cool!
Slowly but surely!
Would be neat if Tam would play, but ah well, we've discussed before, she likes progress and rewards, I like exploring, so I think, having just hit 85, her interest in playing anything but official WoW is about nil.
Made some new armor for myself, and can continue doing so, just need more Elementium! D'oh!
World of Warcraft 1.12.1 (PC): So I'm playing WoW vanilla on a private server, Feenix. I guess I'll title these entries "WoW 1.12.1"? I really just want to see how WoW was, as well as see the earlier world, in this case, all the Scarlet Crusade stuff. I've actually got another server downloading, a 3.3.5a WotLK server, but I thought it would be neat to see WoW from the very earliest.
Started off on the Midrate server as a human, a Cinnaris clone, and ended up getting dueled immediately by some doofus who lost the first one, won the second, then immediately quit. Okay. Switched over to Highrate, leveled a bit, made it to Goldshire and Stormwind, and then it was just becoming too difficult to keep up playing WoW and 1.12.1 at the same time.
Then I moved on to a female orc, my first Horde play at all, and she looked fairly cute all things considered - and had nice abs! So I floated to Booty Bay, trying to get to Tirisfal Glades to do the opening quests, then decided to come back, only to have some big and bad Alliance gnome kill me a few times en route back. Me, a L2 orc! Oh well.
I got back, did some leveling figuring I'd rather be overpowered after all, I WANT to be strong enough that I don't have to kill any SC, then finally just threw in the towel and hit up the Forsaken.
After making a tolerable female warrior, I started off doing some of the quests, then figured, duh, I might as well level first (the server is like 8x EXP, might even be 15x), then blast through the initial quests. I had some issues, eventually making it through the awkward Undercity after dying and appearing there, and think I hit about L8. Finally found the low-level SC guys - not the LOWEST level, but the missionaries and stuff, so that's cool!
Slowly but surely!
Would be neat if Tam would play, but ah well, we've discussed before, she likes progress and rewards, I like exploring, so I think, having just hit 85, her interest in playing anything but official WoW is about nil.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
January 12th, 2011
I'm bidding on some of Dane's games up for sale on eBay, just to be silly. He insists he'll make me pay shipping. Pff, yeah right!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Got Cinnaris to PUG 16 and his physical level to 19. Slowly but surely! Did some leves outside of Ul'dah, just for the change of pace.
Mirror's Edge (iPhone): Did a brief run of a few levels. Pretty fun, actually! A fast action side-scroller, seems to capture the same feel of the game. Maybe I'll keep at it, but it's hard to focus on portables!
World of Warcraft (PC): Not a whole ton. Actually did not do Argents today, but did several quests in the Twilight Highlands, opening the portal to and from Stormwind, as well as getting over 50% toward L85.
There were a couple isolated Blackscale naga quests that we picked up, and despite my initial attempts at getting out of doing them, Tam actually started, and only killed the males, even retreating from female naga aggro. Since Tam was nice enough to try and meet me halfway on the whole naga thing, I assisted in defeating the males (even though she insisted on doing an extra one to make up for the one I missed), and again assisted in putting the females temporarily to sleep to allow for our escape.
So not a bad deal at all, and pretty thoughtful of her, even though I'm half-tempted to just abandon the quests entirely, tee-hee. We'll see what happens when we get to the next set of naga quests here!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Got Cinnaris to PUG 16 and his physical level to 19. Slowly but surely! Did some leves outside of Ul'dah, just for the change of pace.
Mirror's Edge (iPhone): Did a brief run of a few levels. Pretty fun, actually! A fast action side-scroller, seems to capture the same feel of the game. Maybe I'll keep at it, but it's hard to focus on portables!
World of Warcraft (PC): Not a whole ton. Actually did not do Argents today, but did several quests in the Twilight Highlands, opening the portal to and from Stormwind, as well as getting over 50% toward L85.
There were a couple isolated Blackscale naga quests that we picked up, and despite my initial attempts at getting out of doing them, Tam actually started, and only killed the males, even retreating from female naga aggro. Since Tam was nice enough to try and meet me halfway on the whole naga thing, I assisted in defeating the males (even though she insisted on doing an extra one to make up for the one I missed), and again assisted in putting the females temporarily to sleep to allow for our escape.
So not a bad deal at all, and pretty thoughtful of her, even though I'm half-tempted to just abandon the quests entirely, tee-hee. We'll see what happens when we get to the next set of naga quests here!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
January 11th, 2011
Today was Chinese and Design Concepts for Websites... interesting, but Chinese is hard! Lots of weird overlap with Japanese, but in an arbitrary way. Like the same symbols mean "man" in both languages, but the pronunciation is entirely different. Then, the word for tea uses a different symbol, however, this time the pronunciation is the same! Argh!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang bells, then did a leve on Cinnaris. Went to get a second Retainer, and in typical SE-asinine fashion, different templates appear in different cities. So I had to warp to Ul'dah just to get the one I wanted. I took a Duskwright Elezen with gray skin and named her "Lamianumbertwo." D'oh ho ho, XI humor!
Oddly, Tam said the Raimille template looked more my style - a Wildwood Elezen with dark skin and blonde hair and goggles, almost ganguro-style. Hmm...
Mirror's Edge (iPhone): Just did the very first area, having discussed Mirror's Edge with Patti earlier! Eventually I'll play through the console one. Really neat to hear the theme song "Still Alive" playing. I'm still getting used to hearing CD-quality audio, music and voice on portables!
World of Warcraft (PC): Finished up my Argent stuff for Exodar, then hit up Uldum with Tam. There was a Katamari-esque rolling ball quest that ended up causalities in the quadruple digits for the bad guys, and some more Jones-esque Schnotz (read: Nazi parody) quests that weren't too bad. I saved another Blood Elf much to Tam's chagrin, too, and Icon, the guild we're gonna leave, hit L3, and before crashing after WWE Raw I got Master Flying, which really isn't as much of an increase as I had hoped. Oh well!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Rang bells, then did a leve on Cinnaris. Went to get a second Retainer, and in typical SE-asinine fashion, different templates appear in different cities. So I had to warp to Ul'dah just to get the one I wanted. I took a Duskwright Elezen with gray skin and named her "Lamianumbertwo." D'oh ho ho, XI humor!
Oddly, Tam said the Raimille template looked more my style - a Wildwood Elezen with dark skin and blonde hair and goggles, almost ganguro-style. Hmm...
Mirror's Edge (iPhone): Just did the very first area, having discussed Mirror's Edge with Patti earlier! Eventually I'll play through the console one. Really neat to hear the theme song "Still Alive" playing. I'm still getting used to hearing CD-quality audio, music and voice on portables!
World of Warcraft (PC): Finished up my Argent stuff for Exodar, then hit up Uldum with Tam. There was a Katamari-esque rolling ball quest that ended up causalities in the quadruple digits for the bad guys, and some more Jones-esque Schnotz (read: Nazi parody) quests that weren't too bad. I saved another Blood Elf much to Tam's chagrin, too, and Icon, the guild we're gonna leave, hit L3, and before crashing after WWE Raw I got Master Flying, which really isn't as much of an increase as I had hoped. Oh well!
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