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| Thursday, March 24th, 2011 | | 12:52 pm |
Suddenly annoyed
at FF4... I think I'll like it in the end but I hate when buttons and stuff I use all the time moves. | | Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 | | 1:01 pm |
34
What an insignificant number... It's not divisible by 10 or 5. It's not a prime number (it's even) (17x2) The only thing about it is that it's the 10th number in the classical fibonacci sequence.(0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34) so MEH :P | | Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 7:24 pm |
We'll keep this hypothetical for now
lets say I was actually thinking of getting an iPad. I don't own an iPod or an iPhone and I've forgotten my login to iTunes... if I ever had one. So we're talking about blank slate here. So hypothetically if I got one, what would be the purpose? what killer apps would I want? I know about Angry Birds :P and I know about Secret of Mana but other than that all I know about is just a bunch of random junk clutter that my dad uses which doesn't interest me very much. So? | | Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | | 10:00 pm |
authenticating
I wanted to uh... peruse more of the sale between now and new years on Steam. I also wanted to hook up windows live messenger and look at sites like the crackbook. I've managed to get most of the sites to accept me even though I'm a province over to the left. Facebook did it's freak out thing, Livejournal didn't even sneeze and the new Windows Live Messenger is the devil (bastard mix between twitter and FB? whut?) but I managed to sign in today. I even managed to buy a couple more games that I won't be able to play till Dec 31. Then I went to gift another game and Mastercard refused... I think they might have freaked out between purchases. Now I can't do what I intended until I hear back from Valve... Which will be after a couple days worth of sales. I didn't intend to log on to webmail to do this correspondence but I did. So Merry Christmas all, hopefully this won't be the last you hear from me for a week, but we'll see. | | Thursday, December 16th, 2010 | | 2:41 pm |
Splitting Hairs
I've never been very good at splitting my attention between 2 or more games, that goes double for MMOs which can take on a life of their own. I pretty much stopped playing FFXI when XIV came about. It's a long standing pattern that's repeated itself for years, from back in the AC days to EVE to WoW to FFXIV with a whole slew of other dead corpses in between. So now I'm wondering if I can maintain two MMOs and still keep my sanity. (or according to Cas what's left of it :P) And how do I decide when to play which? Cause traditionally Tuesdays and Fridays were raid nights. Now that they've nerfed raids so you "can't" do them twice will that hold up? I don't know. Add into all that a busy season that's hit with a vengeance leaving me with much less energy and willpower to do things (laundry will suffer :P ). We'll see in the summer time. | | Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 | | 8:22 pm |
No love for UPS
So UPS finally delivered my copy of Cataclysm yesterday while I was in the shower. Luckily someone was around that could take it. I got my account all upgraded and going around 9. I logged in only to realize I was in the middle of doing Westfall quests. So instead of trying to figure out all the new and shiny I finished that. I think I like the directed way they're going with the questing now. It's more cinematic and full of story and stuff. Vanessa Van Cleef is as much of a villain as her father was. oh I guess I should say *SPOILER* or something. After finishing off the zone I decided to go through regular Deadmines. The scripted way quests can just pop up without even talking to an exclamation mark is kind of nice. The graveyard right outside, the repair person right inside and the addition of teleporters is a nice touch. Streamlined indeed. I'm going to have to poke around the other old dungeons to see how they've changed as well. So after that I went around Stormwind and asplored a bit. I ended up buying all the current skills so I can grind my way to 525 in them. The way people are all crazy and sniping nodes for the dailies is silly especially Druids who are op in that they now don't even have to leave flight form to interact with the world. So they swoop in and take all they need and swoop out again lickety split. I did the two dailies in SW (Fishing and Cooking) and then remembered to train flying and archaeology. Flying in the old world is... interesting. It's definitely fast especially when you have a 310% mount with the guild perk of +5% on top of that. After fiddling for a while I decided to look into the whole Archaeology thing. At first it is horrible, not so much as a tutorial or anything. If I hadn't looked on wowhead ne tankspot video I'd probably still be here scratching my head over it. Basically to start 4 "nodes" across each pertinent continent pop up and you can go to each to search for artifacts. so 1 could be in EPL, 1 in Burning Stepps, 1 in Swamp of Sorrows and 1 in Stranglethorn. It's obvious to me that this shit is for 80s+ cause I'd not want to even try doing it without a fast flying mount. Even with a fast mount you could spend 10-15 minutes just flying from one node to another. After you're done one node another pops up somewhere on the continent. It could be in the same zone or it could be on the opposite side of the continent. Once you land you can "survey" the area. What happens is a surveyors' telescope pops up with a blinking dot. If you're close it blinks green, if you're far away it blinks red. The business end of the telescope points in the general direction of the artifacts. Once you narrow it down the artifact pops up instead of the telescope and you can click on it for artifacts. You can do this 3 times per dig site. It's pretty much a Marco Polo mini-game. Once you have enough artifacts you can research them for more archaeology points and eventually some pretty nice rewards. (gear, mounts, pets). I can see myself getting into Archaeology more and more. The ironic thing is that it forces you to fly around the world looking for stuff; when I have more time I can gather from all the mining, fishing and gathering points around Azeroth. Now that you can have multiple types of stuff show up on the mini-map sometimes I'm surrounded by yellow dots that nobody seems to care about. The OCD part of me goes nuts if I let it. On the plus side archaeology is not bad xp, probably not as good as questing and dungeon delving but decent enough. They've also added xp from gathering and mining but I'm told that the competition in the new areas is fierce. I'm probably going to putz around and not bother much in the new areas much yet. I can still do that shit at 85 especially when things cool down some and the assholes can go back to pestering the SW AH or Crossroads or whatever assholes do when they're not leveling. I've also got 525 levels of archaeology to do. I hear you also can only get skill points from researching after a point so it'll be a bit annoying later on. I won't have much time to explore before the new year but I definitely want to get to 85 by January cause I know some guildies are itching to raid again. I don't want to get toooooo far behind. | | Monday, November 29th, 2010 | | 10:31 am |
so the xp bonus was a nice surprise.
I do like how it does even out though it's a bit puzzling when a CON artist can get more SENse out of using a shield than someone who's GLD to be there :P Pun is punny. I was worried that I'd be too far ahead but when we are together I get less rank points + needing more to level means I won't get too far ahead unless I grind out a bunch. And honestly these days with so little free time I'd rather grind out a crafting job or gathering job than a combat job. With combat leves being at least 5x as efficient as pure grinding I can't see why not. I just need to get everything from BOT and MIN and stop doing gathering leves for those classes for now unless they start to fall behind again. The fact that you can do 6 per class now per level range means I could just do fieldcraft leves and not pick up any combat leves but that's not fair to the group. I think once we get to 23 we should start looking into level 30 leves. I don't think we should before though because I know there's level 30 versions of the hard leves and I don't think we want to spend all our time getting whooped by wights and the like. I still need to sit down and just grind out some BSM and CRP levels but that's so meh right now. I'm having a hard enough time doing 10-16 leves every 36 hours. On the plus side I hit TAN 14 and CUL is almost 13 (last one at Rank 12) so 14 is my current goal for all the other crafting classes through leves. I'm sort of wondering if I shouldn't do some low level TAN and WVR leves to get repair mats since I'll be able to repair everything I use currently soon™ even if I can't make all the repair mats yet. I laughed the time I got velveteen fents though, since I won't be wearing velveteen for a very long time. I'll leave gear for another post. | | Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 | | 3:09 pm |
FFXIV goals, what goals?
I do have a few goals for this month and next but I always make them more ambitious than I can possibly do reasonably. It doesn't help that I'm not really concentrating and only going where the leves lead me (which is everywhere but grid ironically). I want about 14k more gladiator guild marks before I start other combat classes because then I wont have anything to buy with them till 30, and by then we'll be on level 30 leves so I won't have diffusion issues hopefully. (unless I bring something else up to that level) I'm not actively trying to level GLD right now as I don't want to get too far ahead but I'm still doing a few leves here and there so it's still climbing even if it's climbing very very slowly. I'm also on a bit of a hold as my inventory issues haven't alleviated at all, in fact I'm hovering around 75/80 and 80/80 right now. It got so bad I vendored my last few pieces of limonite, iron sand and iron ore. I'm not low on nuggets, trust me, as I have 7 stacks I'm not sure what I'm going to do with. I'd like to get to CRP 25 and BSM 25 while getting the others to at least 16 (currently they're all hovering in the 13 range, a few lower and one higher). but that could take me till the end of the year (when incidentally I'm going AFK for nearly two weeks [hold me!]). Not to mention I might forget about FFXIV like I did FFXI when FFXIV came out (if that makes any sense) if Cataclysm is better than I think it'll be (whole other post). so I guess immediate goals: bring all my crafting classes to 14, bring alc to 15-16, CRP and BSM to 22 (21 and 20 currently) BOT and MIN to 22, FSH to 15 and GLD to 20. | | Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 | | 2:49 pm |
WoW: bit of apathy
since I knew it was very unlikely that I'd get a baron's mount or either of the zulian mounts I felt very little pressure to even try. After I tried the "For Gnomeregan" 5 times unsuccessfully I kind of went meh on that too and before I got enough willpower to try again it was no longer possible. Then the elemental invasion started but honestly I didn't care enough to participate. I know a bit of that was burnout and a bit of that was FFXIV being new and while kinda broken still shiny. It's over now that patch 4.0.3a is upon us and the new borken wrold awaits. I do plan on playing Cataclysm. I even pre-ordered the CE edition from Amazon. (going to be 3 days late because of UPS but I can handle that) I want to start a gnome priest, a worgen druid, a tauren paladin and a gnome something or other. I just don't know if it'll grip me like TBC to Wrath did. And if it doesn't I'm actually kind of fine with that. I think I'm happy that I did loremaster with my DK because I got to see all the content pre-wrath even if I didn't chronicle it like I sort of wanted to. | | Monday, November 15th, 2010 | | 3:04 pm |
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| | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 | | 10:30 am |
Another early morning short one: How I hate ruby sanctum
So last night in spite of my horrendous ping (600+) one raid leader cajoled me into raiding. And of course it was Ruby Sanctum 10 Heroic. The fight on normal is not bad, it's a bit tricky to learn as there are 3 phases and you have to move. On heroic it's all that + splodey bits and an extra rotating beam of death. On regular in p2 and dark side p3 there is a beam that occasionally cuts the circular playing field in half. Literally in half, if you touch the spodey beam you might as well be staring cthun in the eye. (with similar effects) Now on heroic there's a second beam that pops up that cuts the playing field into quarters so you have to avoid two sets of beams. Did I mention the beams spin clockwise while they're up? no, well they do, and they tend to catch anyone who hasn't died to standing in the wrong spot if they're not fast enough running away from the walls of death. All the meanwhile the tank must spin the dragon so he doesn't die to the walls of death either. Did I mention the boss is a dragon? no? well it's a dragon and it does dragony things like fire breath (death to non tanks) swipes (death to non tanks) and tail whips (stuns and death to walls of death). So you must run around the dragon on it's sides, if you're stuck in front or in behind you must stay waaaaaay out from the dragon otherwise death. But the spinning means you have a very hard time keeping up from the spinning walls of death. On top of this one person in the raid gets hit with consumption. This is a dot (oh did I mention there's a constant dot on the whole raid dark side too? so people constantly need healing) that when dispelled creates an ouchy void zone on the floor. The caveat is that the longer it takes to dispell the larger it gets. Also anyone caught in it's radius is instantly pulled into the middle of it and that can cause death if the people sucked into the void are not healed while they get out. So the person with the debuff needs to run to the outer wall the second they get it and a healer then dispells the nastyness while they're healed on top of everything else going on. Oh and the voids put a slow debuff on you. so if the cutters are up it's death. So in short it's a fight that requires split second timing, good situational awareness and some fancy footwork. In other words, something we have yet to accomplish even months later. My favorite is when there's just two of us left and we dance for a minute or two before calling the wipe (which is usually a foregone conclusion after the third death anyways but I digress). It is the last raid of the expansion, and this is the hard mode so I expect it to be hard, just not quite this hard. On the plus side my ping finally settled into a nice 250 ping rhythm which is acceptable to me as I'm used to that crap. Though the random disconnects that everyone and their dog seem to be experiencing are still going on, yay new patches. | | Monday, October 25th, 2010 | | 10:26 am |
Early morning short one: honest
I can see myself spending a stupid amount on RB3 stuff over the next year or so... I really can, but for now I'll hold back. Cause 3 plastic guitars, 2 unused mics, and 2 plastic drum sets just ain't enough. amirite? I think I need to purge everything other than the GH3 guitar and the RB2 guitar. 84 more songs (on top of the 200 I already have for the RB series) + drum set with cymbals + real light up guitar + 22 key keyboard... yeah. Conversely I hate Activision, and while GH3 got me into this whole genre I can't imagine spending more than bargain bin prices for any further GH products. But that's just me. | | Thursday, October 21st, 2010 | | 10:38 am |
| | Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 | | 10:35 am |
Ok short and sweet... maybe: Goals for this week: FFXIV: Botanist 16 (14), Carpenter 16 (15), Gladiator 15 (13), Miner 15 (13), Blacksmith 15 (13), Conjurer 12 (9), Alchemist 10 (8), Weaver 10 (6), Puglist 10 (4), Fisher 10 (5), Leatherworking 6 (0), Culinarian 6 (0). Storyline quest #4. Source materials: Iron Rivets x 6 Brass Square x 6 Brass Plate x 12 Iron Nails x6 Brass Ingot x 6 Brass Rivets x 12 Undyed Canvas x6 Bronze Chaser Hammer Head x 6 Build stuff™: Chocobotail Saws, Copper Alembics, Bronze Raising Hammers, Birdsbeak Hammers, Bronze Chaser Hammers and some Bronze Hatchets. Too much? Too little? I'll find a balance eventually. I'm still making Carpenter my "main" right now but 12k rank xp is a loooooong way to go (at 5k now) and I'm low on wind shards from pushing to 15. WoW: Uh figure out my gear and specs for my two 80s, maybe do a few heroics to see how messy healing and/or tanking is nowadays. RL: Go shopping, which I hate to do. But this time it's for necessities like clothing and a new mattress. I'm starting to get tired of the broken spring digging in my side. So there's the boring ass things I intend to do over the next week, barring any serious interruptions. | | Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 | | 10:27 am |
Lets see, how did I do.
WoW: Tried for GNOMEREGAN! on Kalaooke Friday evening after the raid that was not to be. It bugged out 4x before I gave up. Didn't get to do those last 20 quests for Loremaster or do any barons runs. Not so good. RL: Ate Turkey <3. Did 6 loads of laundry, 3 left to do. Not bad. FFXIV: Carpenter 15 (late Monday evening) Botanist 14 Gladiator 13 Miner 13 Blacksmith 13 Goldsmith 10 Armorsmith 10 Conjurer 9 Alchemist 7 Weaver 6 Got me a nice new Pickaxe due to Meow Chow Got a dagger and cane searching through the wards, nothing special but still better than what I had. Got some mats for the rest, still need to go hunting though for some of those harder to get ingredients. I went nuts with purging my retainer Monday afternoon, I mean everything that doesn't involve the jobs above below level 15 was gone and even if it was that didn't stop me from vendoring it. Got some fire crystals <3 but now I'm low on Wind, Fire and Lightning shards from the above activity. I'm stalling Goldsmith and Armorsmith for now, going to work on getting ALC and WVR to 10 and BSM to 15 while still plugging away at CRP. Going to get Botanist and Miner to 15 soon™ too. I just need to continue to be ruthless in purging, which is hard for me being a packrat and all. I hope Squeenix implements the ability to get more retainers soon™. I've been going very slowly on the classes of mass murder though it seems to me if I want actual crystals killing shit seems to be the way to go. Unfortunately genocide is kind of boring. At least I know I can get more crap for Classes down the road if need be all it takes is a bit of mass murder and some industrial logging/mining. Verdict: I may not have quite reached my goals, but I guess they were a bit unrealistic to begin with considering I must have spent 18-20 hours in the pursuit. Next post: goals for this week. (I'll try and keep it realistic considering 4.01 dropped in WoW ^^;) | | Thursday, October 7th, 2010 | | 1:50 pm |
Goals for this weekend.
WoW: Finish Loremaster on Kalaooke. 20 quests in Kalimdor left. do the Gnomeregan event x 2. fit in as many baron's runs as I can muster (likely 1-3), but my heart doesn't seem to be in it lately otherwise I'd do 4-5 runs a night... FFXIV: Get a class to level 15. This is likely going to be one of Gladiator, Carpenter, Miner and/or Botanist. (all 12 currently) Get blacksmith and conjurer to 12 (10 and 8 now), get armorsmith and goldsmith to level 10 (6 now) Get some better weapons and crafting implements (still using the starting ones) maybe trying to make some myself if I get my carpentry high enough. This'll mean hunting through the market wards some. Make some money, saw some wood, make some copper and bronze stuff. Get more fire crystals. Unload junk I'm not likely to use any time soon. Do the next storyline quest. DQIX: Get further, ignore quests, find those last 2 fyggs ideally. RL: Eat turkey. Do laundry. | | Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 | | 10:39 am |
On retainers and bazaars.
To make room I've been bazaaring a bunch of stuff that is only sorta important to me. I've put them up at what I consider to be very high prices but apparently the market is still in flux as I've been selling things left and right. Some things still don't sell but hey an extra 10 slots where I make a chunk of coin on the side, who's to complain. Granted most of them are mainstream things like some ores (yellow copper though doesn't sell well), high grade sticks, and semi random odds and ends. What hasn't been selling is foodstuffs. +1s mostly and not for much more than vendor price, maybe 50% more, which in most cases comes out to 50-75 gil. I figure if I sell something for more than vendor then the whole system benefits as stuff gets used or traded instead of junked. I'm starting to refine my stocks a bit too, so while I still only have a maximum of 40 slots empty at any one time I'm rarely overwhelmed. I can't help but think I should learn every craft and use up the raw materials now so I don't end up with 4 types of every raw mat that I may or may not use. But that's a large time commitment and well I can't help but feel that I'm starting to fall behind, it's an idiotic thought as the game is 2 weeks old but hey sometimes I can't help myself ^^;. | | Monday, October 4th, 2010 | | 8:27 am |
Dear Squeenix
WTB: More retainers! MORE MORE MORE. More bagspace (see above) Housing Faster Leve resets. KTHXBYE. | | Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 | | 1:18 pm |
Guess it's about time: FFXIV first impressions.
( FF game is FF game )Even though it's still in a retail beta condition it's still not bad. There's nothing so bad I want to quit over and there's a lot to like. I wouldn't have spent 20 hours over the past 4 days with it if I outright disliked it. It's a diamond in the rough, lets hope a master gem cutter gets to polish it out. |
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