Rades Tagged me.. Thankfully, he also tweeted that he tagged me. Well, actually, he didn’t but then he tweeted that he had forgotten to tweet that he had tagged me… Which is way too convoluted. So anyway.. Gnomageddon (re)started the Sixth Screenshot Meme. Here is the info:

Go into your screenshots folder, go into the sixth sub-folder and find the sixth image, then post it! And then you tag six more people.

Now, I don’t subdiretorize my screenshots (yes, that’s a word. well, it is now). So, I did what someone else did and went 6×6 in my folder.. The image above is presented without editing (usually I brighten the images before posting..). It’s Lord Rhyolyth, of course.. This screenshot was taken on July 13, 2011 at 10:07 pm.. So, this is normal mode and we were getting ready to pull (probably AGAIN for the Nth time).

So, there you go.. I’m going to fail at one part of the meme though and not tag anyone.. Well, except for Hydra.. And since she is teaching me to be almost evil like her, I tag her 6 times! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! *cough*.. I really don’t know what that means but it sounded really evil before I typed it.. Good luck all and enjoy the meme.

(on a side note, my Rogue hit 85 this weekend.. I might or might not write a separate post about it..)

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A Sixth of…

Last night my guild had a few people who couldn’t make it to our normal Thursday night raid and so we decided to go into FL to pick up what we hoped would be the final parts and pieces needed for our Mage to get the Legendary! Unfortunately we only started with 8. While waiting for others to login, we cleared trash and then proceeded to down Shannox. While doing so, I noticed that Rilandune was logged in (through RealID) and I asked if he wanted to join us in FL. He only had about 30 min. but he came in for a couple bosses and that was pretty cool to be able to do that. I think it is a great idea to allow this for the older raids now.

After he left, Hydra logged in. So, I asked her “Do you want to come into FL with us, we are on Baleroc”. Eventually… She answered “Sure”. It was a big surprise and I bet she didn’t even remember you can do that now. So, she joined us and that was incredibly cool. I even got a screenshot so it actually HAPPENED! We proceeded to down the rest of the bosses. Unfortunately, the Mage was 1 off so we’ll have to clear the place again next week just to get the 1 and then kill Rag.

Ah well..

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RealID Raiding FTW

Yeah, this is not a WoW post, sorry. I AM still playing WoW, I promise. Just not a lot going on. I’m still raiding and we’re working on Madness of Deathwing.

This is a SWTOR post. In TOR, 50 is max level. As of a couple of days ago, my Jedi Consular (Advanced Spec Sage) is now 50! I finished up his class quest and the final quests on Corellia (which is the final world the Republic visit). I really enjoyed the Consular story. It felt very “Epic” in a “Save the Galaxy” way. I haven’t gotten that feeling yet from my other Republic characters. Trooper is probably closest so far but I haven’t gotten far on my Jedi Knight.

Other than getting the Sage to 50, I also spent time on him at 49 in PvP Warzones. I only did 2 of the 3 warzones (you get assigned to one randomly) but I enjoyed doing them. This is, of course, odd for me because I’m not a huge fan of PvP. We won 2 of the 3 matches I played so that might have something to do with it.

My Trooper has now made it to 31 and is working on Alderaan. I have her specced as a Tank and while it takes a little longer to kill things, I have pretty amazing survivability using the Healing companion. Her AOE is pretty sweet too. My Smuggler is 25 and just starting Tatooine and the Knight is going to be heading to Taris soon.

We don’t have any other 50s in the guild yet and the LFG isn’t a queue type system like the PvP is, so I haven’t done many of the flashpoints (equiv to WoW Instances). I generally was way ahead of everyone else so I haven’t been able to do them at level yet. At 50, you get access to do the “Heroic Mode” versions but I haven’t even done the non-heroic ones! Well, I’m ready to heal whenever. Yes, I’m healing! I know I’m a hunter in WoW primarily and generally prefer DPS over everything else. I do enjoy healing though and I figured it was a good way to start. I can always re-spec to the DPS side of the Sage if I really want to, I suppose.

If you are interested in joining us in SWTOR, we are located on Republic side – Juyo-US. Hit up anyone in Polyjedious for an invite!

That’s about it. Raiding in WoW. Leveling in SWTOR. Don’t forget to listen to my podcasts, Polygamerous and Twisted Nether. Warning: Polygamerous is rated “Mature” even though we are largely Immature (I still don’t get that…).

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50 Summat

I’ve been playing a lot of SWTOR but that doesn’t mean I’m not playing WoW. I’ve been raiding still with the guild and we’ve now gotten all but Madness down on 10man DS. We gave it a night of good tries last week and hopefully we’ll get back there and get him down this week!

In the meantime. Here are some screenshots from both SWTOR and WoW.

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A Gaming Gallery

Just because this is a “WoW” blog doesn’t mean I always talk about WoW (just a disclaimer).. On that note, I’ll start this post talking about.. WoW..

Last night was the start of our 3rd week in Dragon Soul. I’ve talked with a few of our guests on TNB about the raid and the difficulty level and we’ve heard both ends of the spectrum. I think I’m somewhere in between. I find, with my raid group, that the first 4 bosses are, apart from implementation quirks, pretty easy. I don’t find this to be a problem. I enjoy killing things (in game) without too much banging my head against a wall. That said, I was very happy to pick up my shoulder token last night which brings me to 2 pieces of T13 or whatever number we’re up to. Last night we got through the first 5 bosses. Ultraxion, while we were able to get him down in the second week and last night too, is still not a “cake walk”. Part of the issue is relying on a mechanic that can get completely hosed up due to lag. Since not hitting your button at the right time, or the server not thinking you hit your button at the right time, is instant death, this can quickly cause us to call for a wipe and reset. In the end, everyone stayed alive even in the end and we got him down.

The boat boss proved to be a little more difficult to get a handle on for us last week. This week we only did 3 tries but on the 3rd and final attempt, we got to Phase 2 finally! I’m hoping tonight we’ll get through that fight and finally get to start on Deathwing! I am having a blast in this new raid and think that Blizzard did a great job with it, personally.

Moving on to the next Dragon… Skyrim.. Yes, I have been playing Skyrim quite a bit (although that has now changed for reasons you’ll read about) and love the game. I’ve been playing for over 110 hours so far and my character is around level 56 (maybe 57 .. I can’t keep track ). I finished what some would deem to be the “main” quest, at least one of them, but then ran into a bug in the Imperial quest-line right at the end. The final confrontation with the Stormcloak King and while I can beat him to the ground in about two hits with my Uber Bow of the MIghty Death Killing, it won’t trigger the NPCs to do their thing and finish the quest. I’m hoping for a patch soon for this (PC version). Since I can’t get past that, I’ve been working on Thieves Guild quests and more of the seemingly infinite number of side-quests, etc. I am sure I still have more shouts to pick up so maybe that will be my next endeavor.

The Force.. I was invited to the first day of Early Access for Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO by BioWare. I played in the beta a bit over a couple weekends and it was great getting back into the game and finally being able to make “permanent” characters. This, of course, is the reason my Skyrim playing will be waning. I intend to continue to play WoW (mostly raiding right now) and also play SWTOR. My first class I’m working on is the Jedi Consular. The Consular is the ranged DPS version of a Jedi Knight. There is still plenty of lightsaber fighting at least in the early levels though. At level 10, I’ll probably pick the Sage advanced class and spec into DPS at least for leveling. At some point I might respec to healing for Flashpoints and Operations (instances and raids). Our guild Polyjedious is created and ready for people to join us over on the Juyo server. So if you are interested in joining a pretty casual Republic guild on a PvE server, hit us up. My Consular’s name is Ra-Mos.

That’s it for now. I’ve been having fun with all these games lately and I’ve got a bunch of PS3 games I’m getting for the holidays too (no idea when I’ll have time to play those!). Keep an eye out here for possible exciting news coming up.. But don’t get too excited, it might just be nothing..

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Dragons, Dragons and The Force

Another post? I know! Ok well, we didn’t get Ultraxion down last night. We did get him to 8% on one try, but no luck. The end of that fight is just insane. I’m really glad I’m not a healer! We’ve got the mechanics down, it’s just a matter of buffing DPS a little bit more to get over that last hump.

After calling it, I decided to join a guild group and head into the new 5-man dungeons. We had time for 2 of them and did 2 randoms. We got End Time and then Well of Eternity (I think it did that on purpose since I hadn’t been in either).

I think they did a really good job with these instances. They are varied, the boss fights aren’t too technical but are fun enough. We had one non-main dps and the healer was a non-main also. We still had generally no problems with the bosses or trash fights. Hanging out with Illidan in the second one is pretty freaking cool. It’s nice to see some of the story unfold in these.

Given my gear level, nothing that dropped was an upgrade. Same for the quest rewards. I almost wish they would do the quests in such a way that they were something more than just “complete the things you have to do for the instance anyway”. Maybe even make one a randomized repeatable (either daily or for each time you run the instance). You can decide if you want to do it or not, but it takes you a little out of your way and awards some additional gold.

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End Time of Eternity

Yes, World of Warcraft Patch 4.3 has finally dropped, which you already knew, of course. Us being a particularly raid-centric group in my guild (at least the 10 or so of us that are raiding…) always seem to rush into the new raid, when there is one, on day 1 (being Tuesday…). I was very impressed that the patch went generally well which has been the norm for the past few patches now. I did have some addon issues that I solved by turning all of them off and then back on a few at a time. A few people have reported to me that they just disabled all their addons and were able to enable them all after a few restarts adding them back in.

The Dragon Soul raid, so far, has been fun, but generally easy. We only raid for about 2 1/2 hours a night and have done so for the past 2 nights. We got the first 2 bosses down on Tuesday and then the next 2 on Wednesday.

Morchok was the first to go. We actually 1 shot him! Given our gear level and generally knowing the fight somewhat beforehand helped. We did, however almost have a wipe on the trash before him.  I managed to stay alive and down the last mob, but it wasn’t easy. Morchok didn’t drop anything for me, but I can’t say the same thing for Warlord Zon’ozz. He wasn’t the “push-over” that Morchok was mainly because you have to learn a “ping-pong” mechanic. Most of this fight is bouncing a ball of energy back and forth between the melee and the ranged to build up a debuff on the boss (after it finally hits him). We got him down pretty much on the last try for the night and the Horrifying Horn Arbalest for me!

The next night we came back in and started with Yor’sahj the Unsleeping. It took only a few tries (maybe 4?) to get this one down once we figured out the ooze mechanics. We knew the order of which to try killing first and the healers did a great job keeping us all alive. Last but not least, so far, was Hagara the Stormbinder. She has a few trash packs but then her fight isn’t bad either.

So far, all the bosses we have faced have interesting mechanics, but I have to say that geared as we are, the normal mode bosses, so far, seem to generally be easy. Not easy like “steam-roller” easy, but more that with a good understanding of the mechanics, we were able to get them down without a lot of hair pulling.

Before we logged out for the night, we gave a quick look at Ultraxion. His mechanic is knowing when to switch back to the “normal “ realm. We gave him about 3 tries before calling it for the night but I have to say that his trash is particularly annoying.. You have been warned!

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Gotta Have Soul

This is not a World of Warcraft post. If you are uninterested in games other than WoW, you can stop reading here..

Ok. Now, the rest of you.. I’ve been playing a little game called Skyrim. For the 2 or 3 that don’t know, it is a single-player open world RPG. It can be played in first or third-player perspective and allows for a great deal of freedom on how you play and advance your character. I’ve been having a BLAST with this game. I’m already over 30 hours into the game and I almost feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface (and I am pretty sure that really is all I have done). It’s a huge, beautiful world and I’m loving every minute I spend in it.

I’ll attach a couple of screenshots I’ve taken so far. I am playing the PC version and only had 2 crashes to desktop so far. The sound is great, the graphics stupendous and the gameplay, to me, is fun and varied. I definitely recommend getting this game (It’s out on the 360, PS3 and PC). Warning if you get motion sick from playing games, this might not be one for you.

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Top Of The World

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Blizzcon 2011 – Photos

I’m pretty excited for this year’s Blizzcon. Seems like there are a bunch of people that haven’t gone before that are planning on being there and our meetup this year should be bigger and better than ever. I think we are supposed to hear about the new expansion for WoW and maybe they will even let us know more definitely when Diablo 3 and the next installment of Starcraft 2 is coming out.

I might even stand in line this year and play Diablo 3 (if I don’t get into the beta before it).

If you are planning on heading out to Anaheim this year for the convention or to just hang out with us, let me know here in the comments! What are you most looking forward to even if you aren’t going?

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Two Weeks