This themed day could easily changed based on my mood, but recently I've been playing an old, old favorite, Diablo 2, out the whaazoo because my internet is super slow and Warcraft isn't an option. This was the first game I ever really got into, spending entire weekends up in my families computer room trolling games trying to grab free stuff for my many level 90+ characters. That was the guy I was back in 7th and 8th grade; leveling up characters to 90 and then using mule characters to get them better gear by going into games titled things like "free stuff" or "free things" or "freeeeeeeeee". I'm sure most people would look down on this way of playing, but dad gum if it wasn't fun. I want to share one particular story that has always stayed in my mind even after I moved on to other games (read WoW).
So, like I said I would level guys up and then troll for free equipment so I didn't have to do a ton of work, but I would also go magic find on my sorceress, Cocourpebbles5 (yes, all my characters were named Cocourpebbles and then a number and my mules were named Cocurmule and then a number). I had everything one would need to be a good mf sorceress...a 125+ def. shako, Tal Rasha's, etc. etc. So one night I was out slapping Meph around in Hell, just completely dominating his crap until I ran into a pocket of monsters while teleporting there that I just couldn't get out of in time. For some reason I decided to put on my decent pvp gear and go after my old stuff, unfortunately I died again on the way there. This ticked me off a ton so I rage quit and created a new game to get my stuff back. Now those of you who've played Diablo will know that when you quit a game after death you get the last body you died in back. Since I had quit after dying the second time without getting my mf gear back I lost it all. Staring dumbfounded at the screen, completely disgusted at how stupid I had just been, I exited out of the game, calmly went to my computer settings and uninstalled Diablo, vowing to never play again.
Well its been quite a few years and I've grown much wiser in my time away, but I gotta say this game stands up even when you can't play online. I was able to push through Baal in a couple of days on a Druid and have been doing a ton of Meph runs to try and get some gear together to play some games on LAN with my newly obsessed roommate. I can't believe how great this game can still be; I mean there's really nothing better than this for a loot whore like myself and playing it so much over the past couple of days makes the wait until Diablo 3 comes out almost unbearable.
Welp, that's all for now. Tune in next time...some time, same place.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
WoW Wednesday-September 1st
Good evening sports fans!
As the title would suggest today we're going to talk about Warcraft, specifically what I've been doing in game during the past week. Now the school I go to is having some internet troubles, which I plan to talk about later on in the week so I haven't been able to log in very much, but when I do I've been working on leveling up two of my alts. I've been playing a Hunter since about two or three months after the game went live and have only once took a class past 20 (a terrible warrior that I quit do to getting ruthlessly ganked in STV). With the changes coming in Cataclysm though I've decided to go 1-80 with a new class to see everything before it changes. This little critter has come about in the form of a, currently, level 23 troll mage named Jofro (I let my 8 year old brother name all my bank alts...the best so far, Priesticles). I haven't been able to really get super into leveling him because it always reminds of how awesome things used to be. For instance, I can remember the days when getting a mount was a big deal and I had to save for weeks to grab my first mount at 40 (which I really got at like 45). Nowadays I get it 20 and it's not even much of a gold sink, especially with an 80 main. I'm sure that if I had to wait for 40 I'd hate it, but I still feel a little cheated in having to go through it the hard way. I also long for the days when Allies and Horde had week long (if not longer) battles in Hillsbrad. I mean these things were EPIC and maybe the most fun I've had in a PVP match (the only thing that comes close is old school AV battles that could last forever). I remember seeing hordes of Alliance coming through the field by Tauren Mill on their mounts and 50+ of us Horde were there ready to defend something that didn't really matter.
Enough of me pining for the olden days when I had to walk up a hill both ways just to get to the AH in Orgrimmar; lets talk about my other alt I've been working on. One of the main reasons I have no money in game is that I love to level up professions. I've gotten skinning, leatherworking, mining, blacksmithing, tailoring, jewelcrafting, and herbalism up to 450 on my main and its cost me a ton of money. With that in mind I decided I would finally level up my DK that was specifically made for RPing purposes for my main (something that I will hopefully delve into later). So I've been taking him through Outland and leveling up his herbalism and alchemy. I think this is the way for me to get my profession fix without leveling up different things over and over again on my main. I've also been working on my mage's tailoring and enchanting (Running old world instances for things to disenchant on my main ftw) and plan to roll a goblin rouge who gets engineering and something else (skinning or mining just for ease of use....or maybe leatherworking/blacksmithing...I can't decide, I might need more alts!). Other than working on getting these guys to max level and slowing accumulating mats with my main (skinning/mining) to help level up engineering on my goblin when Cata drops I haven't really been doing much of anything outside of the random BG.
Speaking of BGs I can't wait for the rated BGs that will come with the Cataclysm. This will be my dream as I'm not really into arena or raiding, but do love to pvp at a high level. This new game mechanic should help me out a lot in the gear portion of the game and I can't wait to get some guildies together on a semi-daily basis and curb stomp some gnomes. I'm really looking forward to the new BGs and hope they can recapture the magic that is AV. Really, there is nothing better than getting together with a healer and a few other damage dealers to get on D and ruin some Allies day. If that doesn't come to happen then I'm also fond of trying to force my team into a turtle and rack up some insane HKs...nothing makes me feel better than dropping 300+ kills in one game, especially if it involves lots of gnomes or paladins.
The last thing I want to touch on is this new mechanic we hunters have called focus. From what I understand this is going to cause my class to be much more frugal with our focus use than we were with mana. Now I'm all for making it a little bit more difficult and requiring players to hit more buttons, but how is this going to effect us on the damage meters? I'm not a fan of checking them much, but other people are and if making me take less shots causes mine to go down will they still bring me to raids? Like I've said I'm not the best player and don't do progression raiding so this doesn't effect me much, but I gotta look out for my fellow huntards. I could of missed something as to how this is actually going to work and would love for someone to explain it to me if they could. From how I've had it explained to me now it seems like we have a high chance of becoming a lower tier damage dealer. As I write this I realize that I've almost for sure missed something because there's no way someone smarter than me hasn't noticed this already, so if you know what's up then tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Anyways, thanks for reading. Tune in next time...some time, same place.
As the title would suggest today we're going to talk about Warcraft, specifically what I've been doing in game during the past week. Now the school I go to is having some internet troubles, which I plan to talk about later on in the week so I haven't been able to log in very much, but when I do I've been working on leveling up two of my alts. I've been playing a Hunter since about two or three months after the game went live and have only once took a class past 20 (a terrible warrior that I quit do to getting ruthlessly ganked in STV). With the changes coming in Cataclysm though I've decided to go 1-80 with a new class to see everything before it changes. This little critter has come about in the form of a, currently, level 23 troll mage named Jofro (I let my 8 year old brother name all my bank alts...the best so far, Priesticles). I haven't been able to really get super into leveling him because it always reminds of how awesome things used to be. For instance, I can remember the days when getting a mount was a big deal and I had to save for weeks to grab my first mount at 40 (which I really got at like 45). Nowadays I get it 20 and it's not even much of a gold sink, especially with an 80 main. I'm sure that if I had to wait for 40 I'd hate it, but I still feel a little cheated in having to go through it the hard way. I also long for the days when Allies and Horde had week long (if not longer) battles in Hillsbrad. I mean these things were EPIC and maybe the most fun I've had in a PVP match (the only thing that comes close is old school AV battles that could last forever). I remember seeing hordes of Alliance coming through the field by Tauren Mill on their mounts and 50+ of us Horde were there ready to defend something that didn't really matter.
Enough of me pining for the olden days when I had to walk up a hill both ways just to get to the AH in Orgrimmar; lets talk about my other alt I've been working on. One of the main reasons I have no money in game is that I love to level up professions. I've gotten skinning, leatherworking, mining, blacksmithing, tailoring, jewelcrafting, and herbalism up to 450 on my main and its cost me a ton of money. With that in mind I decided I would finally level up my DK that was specifically made for RPing purposes for my main (something that I will hopefully delve into later). So I've been taking him through Outland and leveling up his herbalism and alchemy. I think this is the way for me to get my profession fix without leveling up different things over and over again on my main. I've also been working on my mage's tailoring and enchanting (Running old world instances for things to disenchant on my main ftw) and plan to roll a goblin rouge who gets engineering and something else (skinning or mining just for ease of use....or maybe leatherworking/blacksmithing...I can't decide, I might need more alts!). Other than working on getting these guys to max level and slowing accumulating mats with my main (skinning/mining) to help level up engineering on my goblin when Cata drops I haven't really been doing much of anything outside of the random BG.
Speaking of BGs I can't wait for the rated BGs that will come with the Cataclysm. This will be my dream as I'm not really into arena or raiding, but do love to pvp at a high level. This new game mechanic should help me out a lot in the gear portion of the game and I can't wait to get some guildies together on a semi-daily basis and curb stomp some gnomes. I'm really looking forward to the new BGs and hope they can recapture the magic that is AV. Really, there is nothing better than getting together with a healer and a few other damage dealers to get on D and ruin some Allies day. If that doesn't come to happen then I'm also fond of trying to force my team into a turtle and rack up some insane HKs...nothing makes me feel better than dropping 300+ kills in one game, especially if it involves lots of gnomes or paladins.
The last thing I want to touch on is this new mechanic we hunters have called focus. From what I understand this is going to cause my class to be much more frugal with our focus use than we were with mana. Now I'm all for making it a little bit more difficult and requiring players to hit more buttons, but how is this going to effect us on the damage meters? I'm not a fan of checking them much, but other people are and if making me take less shots causes mine to go down will they still bring me to raids? Like I've said I'm not the best player and don't do progression raiding so this doesn't effect me much, but I gotta look out for my fellow huntards. I could of missed something as to how this is actually going to work and would love for someone to explain it to me if they could. From how I've had it explained to me now it seems like we have a high chance of becoming a lower tier damage dealer. As I write this I realize that I've almost for sure missed something because there's no way someone smarter than me hasn't noticed this already, so if you know what's up then tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Anyways, thanks for reading. Tune in next time...some time, same place.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Total Sports Tuesday-August 31st
Good Evening Sports Fans!
Well, like I said I want to try and get some theme days going and since I love alliteration and lets be honest you can't make Warcraft post on any day but Wednesday if you wanna some high quality alliteration I'm making Tuesday the day I talk about sports. First things first, I cannot wait for football to start in two weeks. I know what you're saying, "But Tamu college football starts this weekend." And what I would say to you is who cares? Professional football is the pinnacle of the sport because these are the best in the world destroying each other every week. You can keep your rivalries and your walk-ons, I'll take the thoroughbred athletes who are the best at what they do. It doesn't get any better than watching Adrian Peterson trucking DBs to the ground or Randy Moss snatching a ball outta the air with one of his big mitts. And watching Adrian Wilson come across the middle and destroy someone going up for the ball is the most intense thing I can imagine.
There is one bad thing about football starting, it means that I have to watch Brett Favre contaminate my beloved Vikings. I know, I know he's a pretty good QB and, quite honestly, we probably can't win any Super Bowls with T-Jack as our QB, but let's get real...Favre is a Packer. It makes me want to throw up seeing the one person in sports that I actually hate suit up in the purple and gold. I mean this guy spent 18 some years ripping out Vikings fans hearts and spitting on him and now we're letting him on our team? And happy about it? That's ridiculous...a Vikings fan cheering for Favre is like cheering for Satan; you just can't do it. I would honestly rather go 0-16 than win a Super Bowl with Favre on the team...I totally wouldn't mind if the Saints took some late hits in the first game and broke his femur.
Now on to some other things. One thing I can't understand about this year's fantasy drafts is why are people wanting to take Chris Johnson over Adrian Peterson. I realize Johnson went for over 2,000 last year, but how many times has that happened? 6? Do we really think this guy is going to do it again? Plus a lot of his yards came on long runs, which you can't guarantee will keep coming from him. Now they might, but if you're trying to win a league don't want the sure thing in AD, who has produced well for three years, instead of the guy who had one big year? Let's remember the year Ryan Grant had a monster season and people were taking him really high and then when teams started keying on him his production went down a lot. Grant is a solid number two back, but not the number starter he was made out to be back in the day. We could also look even further back to Shaun Alexander, Larry Johnson, and Priest Holmes. These guys all had big years and went high in drafts the next year and came crashing down. I'm not saying Johnson can't come back and have another monster season, but if I were you and had the number one pick (I had the number 3 in mine, but I still got AD, hooray for my friends loving QBs) I would much rather take the sure thing over the guy whose had one good year, is pretty small, and could easily get worn down.
Some good news came about in the world of basketball. The US picked up another win against Brazil in the world championships. They were led by my man from the OKC Thunder (yes I'm from Oklahoma, no I've never rode a horse), Kevin "The Durantula" Durant. Homeboy dropped 27 and had a mad block that got me outta my seat. Now, I'm usually hard on Durant because he doesn't play the best defensive on our team, but after watching him play internationally it's obvious that he can play D, but on the Thunder (a young team who plays hungry D) he needs to focus more on scoring and give up a little on D. I also want to point out some other players who came through pretty big. Chauncey Billups brought some leadership to the table and had 15 points and Andre Iguodala had 5 steals, while Derrick Rose chipped in with four. However, the game wasn't all roses and daisies. It was a close game that almost slipped away if not for a missed shot at the end from Brazil Leandro Barbosa, who had 14 points and 4 steals. Brazil's big man Tiago Splitter really put our guys to the test and showed a lack of depth as well as our current struggles with the pick and roll. In the end though we got the W and that's what matters; plus I have this crazy idea that when it comes time to defend the Olympic gold we might be adding a super man in the form of Dwight Howard.
That's all I got for sports this week, join me next time, some time, same place.
Well, like I said I want to try and get some theme days going and since I love alliteration and lets be honest you can't make Warcraft post on any day but Wednesday if you wanna some high quality alliteration I'm making Tuesday the day I talk about sports. First things first, I cannot wait for football to start in two weeks. I know what you're saying, "But Tamu college football starts this weekend." And what I would say to you is who cares? Professional football is the pinnacle of the sport because these are the best in the world destroying each other every week. You can keep your rivalries and your walk-ons, I'll take the thoroughbred athletes who are the best at what they do. It doesn't get any better than watching Adrian Peterson trucking DBs to the ground or Randy Moss snatching a ball outta the air with one of his big mitts. And watching Adrian Wilson come across the middle and destroy someone going up for the ball is the most intense thing I can imagine.
There is one bad thing about football starting, it means that I have to watch Brett Favre contaminate my beloved Vikings. I know, I know he's a pretty good QB and, quite honestly, we probably can't win any Super Bowls with T-Jack as our QB, but let's get real...Favre is a Packer. It makes me want to throw up seeing the one person in sports that I actually hate suit up in the purple and gold. I mean this guy spent 18 some years ripping out Vikings fans hearts and spitting on him and now we're letting him on our team? And happy about it? That's ridiculous...a Vikings fan cheering for Favre is like cheering for Satan; you just can't do it. I would honestly rather go 0-16 than win a Super Bowl with Favre on the team...I totally wouldn't mind if the Saints took some late hits in the first game and broke his femur.
Now on to some other things. One thing I can't understand about this year's fantasy drafts is why are people wanting to take Chris Johnson over Adrian Peterson. I realize Johnson went for over 2,000 last year, but how many times has that happened? 6? Do we really think this guy is going to do it again? Plus a lot of his yards came on long runs, which you can't guarantee will keep coming from him. Now they might, but if you're trying to win a league don't want the sure thing in AD, who has produced well for three years, instead of the guy who had one big year? Let's remember the year Ryan Grant had a monster season and people were taking him really high and then when teams started keying on him his production went down a lot. Grant is a solid number two back, but not the number starter he was made out to be back in the day. We could also look even further back to Shaun Alexander, Larry Johnson, and Priest Holmes. These guys all had big years and went high in drafts the next year and came crashing down. I'm not saying Johnson can't come back and have another monster season, but if I were you and had the number one pick (I had the number 3 in mine, but I still got AD, hooray for my friends loving QBs) I would much rather take the sure thing over the guy whose had one good year, is pretty small, and could easily get worn down.
Some good news came about in the world of basketball. The US picked up another win against Brazil in the world championships. They were led by my man from the OKC Thunder (yes I'm from Oklahoma, no I've never rode a horse), Kevin "The Durantula" Durant. Homeboy dropped 27 and had a mad block that got me outta my seat. Now, I'm usually hard on Durant because he doesn't play the best defensive on our team, but after watching him play internationally it's obvious that he can play D, but on the Thunder (a young team who plays hungry D) he needs to focus more on scoring and give up a little on D. I also want to point out some other players who came through pretty big. Chauncey Billups brought some leadership to the table and had 15 points and Andre Iguodala had 5 steals, while Derrick Rose chipped in with four. However, the game wasn't all roses and daisies. It was a close game that almost slipped away if not for a missed shot at the end from Brazil Leandro Barbosa, who had 14 points and 4 steals. Brazil's big man Tiago Splitter really put our guys to the test and showed a lack of depth as well as our current struggles with the pick and roll. In the end though we got the W and that's what matters; plus I have this crazy idea that when it comes time to defend the Olympic gold we might be adding a super man in the form of Dwight Howard.
That's all I got for sports this week, join me next time, some time, same place.
Inaugural Blog Post
As the first post of this, my new and really first blog, this post probably will be slim on content, but should give a decent idea of what I plan to do with this bad boy. Not that I expect a lot of people to be hitting this up, but if you do come across this you should at least get a mission statement so to speak. In my head I'm planning to update this thing a few times a week at the very least, hopefully everyday. I also want to have certain days that have a theme every week, but what you should know in coming to this is that you're going to be getting a blog mostly dealing with video games, namely World of Warcraft. With that said, don't be surprised if you get some weekly posts on sports or music as I plan to keep this thing semi well-rounded.
So now that we have a mission statement so to speak, let's get down to the nitty gritty, what you should and shouldn't expect from this blog. First, don't expect some expert theory crafting. As my name says I'm not going to come out claiming to be the best Hunter or WoW player in the world, but I will attempt to give you the funnies and maybe a different perspective than what you usually see in people who make blogs. Now I'm not a complete Huntard and I know my class fairly well, but I'm no BRK and that's fine, we need the casual players to go along with the hardcore. So if you're looking for a blog for the casual player you've come to the right place. Next, this isn't a WoW blog even thought I spent the past few sentences telling you about Warcraft. While there will be quite a bit of content on WoW, don't not take a look because you don't play because I'm fairly well-rounded on games and other things and will try to give my viewpoint on many different games. And finally, come in here ready to have a good time. I like to laugh and try to make people laugh so hopefully you can come in here and get some good info as well as a bit of a chuckle.
So with the rules done let's get to blogging! Hopefully this thing can do what I want it to and maybe at least one person out there will enjoy it.
So now that we have a mission statement so to speak, let's get down to the nitty gritty, what you should and shouldn't expect from this blog. First, don't expect some expert theory crafting. As my name says I'm not going to come out claiming to be the best Hunter or WoW player in the world, but I will attempt to give you the funnies and maybe a different perspective than what you usually see in people who make blogs. Now I'm not a complete Huntard and I know my class fairly well, but I'm no BRK and that's fine, we need the casual players to go along with the hardcore. So if you're looking for a blog for the casual player you've come to the right place. Next, this isn't a WoW blog even thought I spent the past few sentences telling you about Warcraft. While there will be quite a bit of content on WoW, don't not take a look because you don't play because I'm fairly well-rounded on games and other things and will try to give my viewpoint on many different games. And finally, come in here ready to have a good time. I like to laugh and try to make people laugh so hopefully you can come in here and get some good info as well as a bit of a chuckle.
So with the rules done let's get to blogging! Hopefully this thing can do what I want it to and maybe at least one person out there will enjoy it.
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