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Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on May 22, 2013 by theerivs

orion-girlSo I logged into Star Trek Online, and here are a couple of thoughts.

The Queue – Was ridiculously long, but on one hand I’m a little pleased that means people are playing again, and that means killing Feds will be a lot easier. This is my #1 problem with this game so far.

Character Creation - I really like it now, more choices, or you can just pick what they give you. Some of the beginning uniforms are nice too. Like the Klingons get some TOS style

Space Combat – I always loved STO combat, but now it seems the UI is a little crisper. like it showing the arcs of my weapons on my HUD.

Ground Combat – ALOT…ALOT smoother. I actually like it so far, way better then in the past.

Storyline – I only started a Romulan, I like it so far. A race trying to pick up the pieces of their once mighty empire. I actually feel bad for them, and I usually don’t feel anything…I’m a little dead inside. I’m looking forward to the Klingons.  The tutorial was pretty good, but it probably will make Alting hard.

Overall – I really like the game now, it feels like how STO should of been. I might actually spend some money on this game, cause there’s a lot of cool ships. I’m really looking forward into getting into some PvP, and get my revenge on the Feds. For revenge is a dish best served cold….and it is very cold in space indeed.

 

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They Task Me!

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on May 21, 2013 by theerivs

jolene-blalockThey task me…and I shall have them. That’s Jolene Blalock btw she play T’Pol in the show Enterprise. Only Star Trek show I never really watched…I don’t know why. I sat through Deep Space Nine, and I wasn’t into that. As with shows my adventures with Star Trek games were not always delightful.

So when I first started STO, I bought the collectors edition, and I was ready to rock and roll. Things went down fast after that, and I felt like I was marooned on Ceti Alpha Five.

Fast forward a tosh,  and Star Trek Online is starting something new. You can play as Klingon or Romulan from level one. That’s pretty cool idea…hey why didn’t they do that from the get go…Oh wait I might of enjoyed that.

I did have a Klingon toon that I made it to my 30′s, and had a couple of ships. I loved my Bird of Prey.  So I decided lets go check out the changes. Oh wait my account is fooked up, and I have no toons anymore. Despite my anger, and I was so angry I wanted to bury someone alive…..alive….Kirk.

Ok to be honest, after seeing the new video with Spock…I got a little hyped up. I love Klingons, but I also love the Romulans ever since the TOS episode “Balance of Terror”….Tell you the truth I did love the space combat of STO a lot.

So despite having lost my toons, I decided to give it another shot, so with my last breath….I spit at thee.

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Weakly Lagout

Posted in MMORPG with tags on May 17, 2013 by theerivs

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Well still playing WoW. Just working on my Tiller stuff with my mage.  Found a hole in my Healing spec on the Pally, I went for the Shield, I should of grabbed Eternal Flame. I have a busy weekend ahead which includes some Golf. I love golf, but I suck at it.

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Werit has been around a long time, and it is with some sadness I heard he quit WAR, and now his future is changing. I wish him the very best in his new adventures, but  I hope he doesn’t leave blogging behind in this day and age of bloggers falling to the wayside, that would make me kinda sad. Back in the WAR days me being a staunch Chosen advocate, and him a staunch Dwarf  I respected him a lot, and even saw him on the battlefield a few times, which was pretty awesome. Werit and I chewed a lot of the same dirt with WAR, and for that I always have much love for him and his blog.

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Weird! I was just thinking about Card Games today, and how I was missing Magic.

Here’s a comic about Hex.

Original Comic Here.  Which is hilarious..

With that…

MY PING SUCKS, AND I’M GONE…SEEYA

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I Feel Old

Posted in Gaming, MMORPG, Writing with tags , , on May 17, 2013 by theerivs

kellylebrockweirdscience_0Sorry folks for being a few days late, and several dollars short, but last year, Syp a mentor and old school blogger started up his Newbie Blogger Initiative …I would say it was a success if even one new blog came out of it, and kept on writing.

So I seen a couple posts, it’s been a year since the NBI came about and other bloggers did a way better job covering it then I did…Hear is a few.

Casual Aggro – A great round up, and he himself is going strong

World’s End Tavern – Another great round up.

Avatars of Steel - Has a great post.

Ravalation –  Another blogger wrapping things up and going strong.

Healing the Masses – Did some wonderful work, also posting up blog posts that help bloggers.

Ancient Gaming Noob – Compiled a bunch of Data. My eyes they bleed.

MMO Melting Pot -  They even showed some love.

 

Check these blogs, and many more….A big Congo Rats are in order. Keep on chugging folks…but you do make me feel old. Cause we did something like this many…many moons ago…in a far away place.  Syp led us before in a movement to get new bloggers, and I was a part of it on my old blog, Way of the Chosen, back in 2009. A lot of great blogs came out of that, and are still going strong even today, that makes me proud that I had a small hand in that too.

 

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For The Love of Money

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , , on May 15, 2013 by theerivs

sexy1They say the love of money is the root of all evil. I find it to be true even in WoW.  Why do I say this, cause I’m doing all that stupid Farmville WoW stuff, cause its getting me gold, a pretty good amount of it, 2 weeks ago I was down to 500 gold. Now I’m looking at 10k.  Sure I’m not the fastest gold maker by far, and I probably won’t be hitting the gold cap anytime soon, but I’m still proud of myself….and a little ashamed of myself at the same time.

My Secret…

1. Plant Stuff

2. Make Stuff.

3…..

4. Profit

That’s all there is to it. What? Think I was going to tell you how to make gold…piss off wanker. LOL!

Anywho said to say making gold is really the only pleasure I’m getting from WoW these days. With Patch 5.3 coming down the pike my motivation is at an all time low, which is sad to say affecting my blogging.  I need something to get the juices flowing again, and Camelot Unchained is a long long time away.

 

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Weakly Lagout

Posted in MMORPG with tags on May 10, 2013 by theerivs

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With all the changes going on with 5.3, I don’t know if WoW is really going to be in my future all that much. Neverwinter, even though a nice game I don’t think will hold my attention much either. Help me Camelot Unchained you’re my only hope.

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Camelot Unchained – I’m so looking forward to this game, and it’s not too late to donate.

High Latency Laugh -

We need more Sharks…

With that…

MY PING SUCKS…PEAS OUT!!!

 

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Neverwinter Thoughts

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on May 8, 2013 by theerivs

pic_poo1So I downloaded, and played a little Neverwinter last night. Thought I would share some of my meandering opinions about this MMO. I know it’s Beta but there are some things I don’t like about this game, but I’ll go over that in a bit. I did like ALOT about this game too.

What I liked –

Graphics – Clean, and Crisp. I didn’t see that many bugs and my machine is not top of the line at all. I was also impressed with the detail, what I saw of the city, landscape and dungeons I was really impressed.

Combat – I really liked the combat, it was smooth, quick paced, and exciting. I really liked some of the combat animations, like magic missile. It’s what I dreamt magic missiles were when I was growing up playing D&D

Gameplay/Quests – It was fun I have to admit for what I saw, the quests weren’t tedious there was a flow to them, and the gameplay was fun. NPC interaction didn’t take away from the game.

Forgotten Realms – I love the Forgotten Realms setting, I grew up on it, ever since I read my first Drizzt novel, and played Pool of Radiance. This place is my second fantasy home.

Character Creation – It was fun, with a bunch of choices, like arm thickness, and the classic dice rolling for your stats…yeah I rerolled ALOT!

What I didn’t like -

Classes – There weren’t any classes that really spoke to me. Control Wizard has a little orb floating around him/her…really? Where are the classic D&D classes such as Ranger, or Paladin.

Alignment – Part of D&D fun is you get to play with ethical and morality stuff, I wish there was more dynamic in this game. Where’s my evil choices, and my lawful evil alignment?

UI- Perhaps I just need to get use to it, but the UI seems to me to be smooshed, and cluttered.

Overall -

For a Beta, it worked pretty smooth, I was impressed. I like the game, there’s a lot of fun stuff there , but I think once you get past the fluff, and pretty stuff the game just is missing stuff I would love to see in an D&D MMO. Namely playing a cool evil Necromancer. I’ll still dabble with it, and see if it gets better.

 

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Hardcore No More

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on May 7, 2013 by theerivs

Sexy_Adult_Womens_Halloween_Costumes_Black_Wet_Look_Madame_Mistress_Dominatrix_Costume_Theme_Party_Outfit_1_LargeMy guild is hardcore PvP. All my guildies are obsessed with RBG’s, and pushing their rating.  Which is awesome, and I got their back whatever they need. Here’s the thing RBG’s to me are like the hardcore raiding of PvP. You need to be available certain time, commit to something, and be there for a big chuck of time. Right now in my life I can’t do that. I don’t have that type of time.

It’s hard for me cause a part of me feels like I’m letting my guild down. I want to do RBG’s, but I am too inconsistent in my schedule, and when they ask me it’s usually when I don’t have much time left to play. I can join random people’s RBG but I feel I really do suck so I don’t want to join a team of people I don’t know, cause they will not me as forgiving as guildies towards my suckitude.

The guild’s grown a lot too, and sometimes when I log in, I don’t see anyone I really know. Lately I just log in, do my Farmville, and maybe work on my Mage’s rep a bit so I can make some new recipes, and then call it a day.Perhaps maybe I’m a little burnt out too on WoW in general, the sucky thing is I don’t have time to play anything else either.

I know I’m an adult now, and I have a lot more things going on in my life, but a part of me misses the days when I was hardcore playing everyday for 4-6 hours a day, just a small part…but a part nonetheless.

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Weakly Lagout

Posted in MMORPG with tags on May 3, 2013 by theerivs

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Man I don’t think I’ll ever find time for Age of Wushu, now Neverwinter is around the corner me..oh my. Still finding time to eek out a few dailies in WoW, and of course doing my Farmville on WoW too. I just might take a hiatus day….just maybe.

 

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I had a ping back on one of my posts for the New Blogger Initiative from a lil while ago from Healing the Masses. ALOT of good memories from those things, and a lot of good bloggers came from those. Go to HTM, and show some love.

 

High Latency Laugh –

This is my toon selection process kinda as well..

With that…

MY PING SUCKS, AND I BE OUT!!!

 

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Tale of Douchemagery

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on May 2, 2013 by theerivs

bianca-maxim-100So back in the day of 40 man raids, we had a group of core mages that would run together, this was when I played a mage on Thunderlord, on Alliance side with a guild called Kindred Spirit.

Yes I know I did some time playing Alliance, but is with a bunch of dudes from work at the time, and it was pretty awesome. Hell they use to call me Heatscourge at work, and that was my toons name…pretty awesome name for a mage. amiright?

Anywho we were raiding BWL regularly and one piece of Netherwind kept alluding me. The boots, so when they dropped a fellow mage, Raist (Gee a mage named after the Dragonlance mage in WoW. no one ever sees that, amiright?), well even though I had the DKP to do, instead of passing on the boots, Raist rolled on them, and got them. Bastard didn’t even need it. I wasn’t put out of place, Raist was a friend and we joked about it all the time. We joked about how he stole those boots from me, and he always said he was going to disenchant them in front of me.

Well a year later I saw Raist in the flesh, and we we’re joking around, but I kind of forgot about the boots.  He said, he had something to show me…he logged into WoW on his mage. Went to his bank, pulled out the Netherwind boots, and Disenchanted them in front of me live.

What a douchemage!

I did get him back though, he got real drunk and I wrote on his back in perm marker, “I love PvEnis”

 

So maybe I’m the one full of Douchemagery.

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