City Sieges and Live Quests

//Warhammer - Night of Murder is not yet over!

Don't Fret! For those folks who haven't had much time to play last week, Mythic is extending the live quest time until 2/20 (Friday) for all the slackers who didn't get to finish the quest. Lately, it's been difficult to get any RVR done since it seems like there wasn't many Destro Warbands around but I'm slowly but surely getting the Live quest done. Also, Red Eye Mountain has had it's first City siege on the Order city of Altdorf over the weekend. I traveled all the way to Reikland to attempt to join in but it kept saying it was either full or I think I am too low level. :( It was rather difficult to get there because I kept getting one-shotted by Order NPC's, so maybe it wasn't such a good idea.. x.x;.

//Final Fantasy XI - Moblin Maze Mongers & FOV



I have been loging on FFXI more often these days since a few friends came back and are now playing and need assistance. There have been some recent updates that have been enticing for me to stay online, such as Fields of Valor and Moblin Maze Mongers. Fields of Valor is the biggest savior when it comes to EXP grinding. Now, you not only can get cheap buffs, but you can get bonus EXP from completing 'training' missions, and it will only take about 15 min or so to complete. Moblin Maze Mongers is another way to get EXP and loot. You can customize your own scenarios by adjusting the level of difficulty and amount of monsters in the maze.



I've been also Notorious Monster hunting. With a help from friends, I was able to get my Ninja a Chakram finally and while I was hunting that NM, I ran into Rampaging Ram, which is the place holder for Steelfleece. Unfortunately, He didn't pop after I killed Rampaging Ram though..

Out of the pan and into the fire

Caption This!


//Warhammer Musings: I've been longing in late and there seems to be a surprising decline in Destro numbers compared to Order. There hasn't been much ORVR activity either, so I've been stuck on rank 28 for some time now. I also wonder how the Russian Launch is doing. I mean, do they get their own servers or what? I would love to play with international people since I do in LOTRO. Hopefully the night of murder event will bring in more people for ORVR. I'm pretty excited about it and the upcoming content expansions.



Tier 4 RVR? - I peeked into the zone really quick and saw that the entire zone is nearly all RVR. That's pretty neat. I'm a few levels away from experiencing it but from what I hear, T1-T3 are the best RVR. We shall see. I need to complete my Devastator set before I got T4 though. I'm not sure how since the rest of the equip is not dropping for me :(.

Night of Murder, here I come!!!

A call to arms!

//Warhammer - Expansion Announcement

Around noon it was announced that there will be free content expansions along with 2 new DPS classes in these coming months. Dwarf Slayer and Greenskin Choppa will be introduced in March. There will be Monthly live events along with a new scenario and RVR area called the Land of the Dead. Pretty exciting news! Check the Herald for details.

If you are in the New York area next week, be sure to check out the Mythic booth at the Comic Con New York. Apparently you can win prizes too. I am dying to go but alas, I live on the West coast...


//Pirates of the Caribbean Online

News hit us at DOS (Disney Online studios) of some layoffs in both the ABC studios sector, Disney Interactive and Internet divisions. I was able to dodge the bullet for now but I have a feeling that Pirates Online isn't meeting expectations. I'm a bit surprised that the game isn't bringing a slew of people, cuz heck..it's free. Some good news is that the New Port Royal redesign is bringing people back to the test server. I'll be on the test server as Jade Seawalker. You can come up to me and chat, friend me and go on quests if you like. I don't advertise anywhere else that I am Disney staff or anything because I am trying to enjoy the game from a guest's point of view. Just trying to keep it low-key. Anyhoo, hope to see you in game sometime. I'm usually on during work hours/lunch time.

Read Kotaku's Article

Pure Pwnage

//Warhammer - Ambush!

I logged on WAR last night at 11PM for 30 min and there was still some ORVR activity despite it being late at night. I joined a half-full Warband of players in Avelorn and was debriefed on the situation. Apparently a large Warband of the Order players were going around and taking the BO's + Keeps in Avelorn/Saphery and the small WB on the Destro side was the only defense. The leader tells us that they will most likely take the Wood Choppa's camp next so we quickly gather behind the log pile to ambush them. I jumped into the water to hide. Sure enough, Order shows up and tries to take the BO and all the sudden we pop out of the woodwork and attack. It was pure..pwnage and annihilation! Not one Order survived the attack. This goes to show that zerging doesn't always win. Large numbers does not always mean victory. When I logged, I felt very satisfied :).

//The Lord of the Rings Online



I finally archived Rank 6 in Monster play due to the help of a fellow guildie by the name of Logitech. He logged on his Freep character and let me kill him a few times so I can get the last missing points to get the rank up. Thanks Logitech, You rock!

Warhammer - LULZ!! dorf ROFLcopters

I yoinked this image from the web cuz it's hard for me to take a pic of a Dwarf on their mounts without dying in the process.

As you can guess from the picture, the discussion today is about Warhammer mounts, specifically the Dwarven Mount. All other races have interesting, powerful and menacing mounts such as the raptor-like Cold Ones for the Dark Elves, midnight black steeds for the chaos and the mangy wolf for the goblins. What do the Dwarves get? They get a comical looking contraption called a Gyro harness which the players have lovingly dubbed the ROFLcopter.

I mean..it is kinda cool in a way, since no other MMO's have this but still, I think it breaks the lore a bit. The Gyro harness still seems not as cool as it could be since it only hovers and does not technically fly. Other people suggested that the Dwarves be given a less comical mount such as a ram, pony or *lol* a beer tank. I have to agree on this since whenever I see a Dwarf on their mount, I think it's quite hilarious. There's a entertaining thread on the Gyro harness here:
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188747

The mounts in the game are not that spectacular, aside from riding around on the dinosaur which I think is why I rolled a Dark Elf. I wish there were more ways to customize our mounts though. It's annoying that everyone has the same colored dinosaur as I do. It's like buying a car not being able to customize it.

I hope this year that we'll be able to get this feature in the game. Mythic - Pretty please, with a cherry on top?

{ AFK }

Sorry guys, I haven't been posting lately due to craziness in my life. Anyway, back to Warhammer babbling....

When Mythic did a hotfix to tweak the UI, I think they altered some of the keyboard shortcuts along with it. Finally got my screenshots button to function properly. Now the only thing that bothers me is the lack of a zoom in / out button shortcut. I play on a laptop so there are some limitations, but it's not that bad despite some lag during keep seiges (mainly in the lord room) and lag from AoE spells. I have 2 gigs of ram but my video card is pretty ancient.

// Late Night ORVR - Order V.S. Destruction
I've been logging on late at night but the server is still bustling with ORVR activity - many warbands were on the move, conquering keeps, one after another. Lately the Order have been putting up a good fight and even managed to display tactical prowess by flanking and surrounding our WB while we were taking busy attacking a keep. Inside the keep, half the Warband was stuck on the bottom floor for a long period of time since the doors/gates closed us in. We made a long last stand until Order decided to come down the ramp and zerged us. Despite losing, I still felt pretty satisfied because the Order actually fights back now instead of turning tail and running away at the sight of any Destro.

// Looting system broke?
It seems like it's a hit or miss, random, broke system. I basically didn't do that much one time and I still got a high roll and another time I really gave it my all and I ended up 21st. Another annoyance is that whenever I get the massive loot bags, it turns out that I have that item already. I only have the Devastator Helm and Body piece, yet I keep getting the SAME DANG thing every time!! What gives??

Final Fantasy XI - Back to the Noob Dunes

Hope everyone had a nice long holiday. I'm back at work today, sadly.

I've recently been logging back on FFXI but still stuck at level 70 since I can't beat Maat and get past the level cap to get to level 75. I'm 0/2 now. He always uses 2 hour and pounds me to oblivion whenever invincible wears off. I need to get a better sword so I can increase damage output and defeat him before the 8 min mark.

Since some people from my Linkshell (Kupoknights on Valefor) came back to FFXI, we decided to level our lowbie jobs using the level synch tool. I'm leveling my Ninja to 25 so my Warrior wouldn't be gimped when I'm subbing NIN. SO far it's been pretty good since we have someone Duo-boxing to heal us or raise us if we're in trouble. Current camps are at the Oasis and white-bone beach. level synching really helps and we get great EXP from doing skill chains. I forgot how annoying figuring out the Weapon skill order. x.x; I was looking at the chart and it didn't make sense to me..I haven't done a real EXP party in a long, long time so I've done some noob things like accidentally hitting the wrong macro or getting aggro from not being careful. I'm also too cheap to buy a ranged weapon to pull with my Ninja ;). I seriously have just 80k gil. The Avatar battles and Maat fights are costing me a pretty gil.