Valar Guild

March 11, 2018 Sunday Meeting

5pm EDT (UTC/GMT - 5)
Discord: Valar Guild/meeting_place

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Varda.

Attending: (7)
    Discord: Anarion, Aranuir, Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (After-meeting), Pallando, Varda (presiding)

Before-meeting
Meeting begins
Membership:
    Finrod
    Arien (during After-meeting)
Web:
Gaming:
    General gaming report
Tolkien:
    Topic: Tolkien Moment: Bard vs Smaug
After-meeting:
    Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Before-meeting
(times are in Central from Varda, so add one hour for Eastern)

Varda - Yesterday at 4:00 PM
Aiya  :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:00 PM
Aiya!
Varda - Yesterday at 4:01 PM
Good ol' time changes, may they go away. :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:01 PM
Yep, it's an hour earlier now than usual for meeting start. We don't get DST for 2 weeks.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:02 PM
Two weeks, wow
Are you in the middle of things?
I'd love to just drop teh time changes. Actually feel the seasons more, like we used to.
*the
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:03 PM
Well, we got heroic Argus down for the first time tonight, so quit early and got our new mounts for it. I've just been doing WQs. But I will head into heroic vault again in a few minutes. [Note: WoW]
Varda - Yesterday at 4:03 PM
Oh wow! Congrats :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:03 PM
Thanks :smiley:
Varda - Yesterday at 4:03 PM
Dis, Aranuir, and I did a couple of quick Court of Seregost runs, fun. [Note: LotRO just before the meeting.]
Mostly checking out the new areas. So much to see!
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:04 PM
ah :smiley: Where is that ,then?
Varda - Yesterday at 4:04 PM
Thranduil's halls and forest, Lake-town, Erebor.
Aranuir - Yesterday at 4:04 PM
aiya everyone
Varda - Yesterday at 4:04 PM
It's rigged at the top level, but a strong somewhat lower level can come too
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:04 PM
Aiya!
Varda - Yesterday at 4:04 PM
Aiya Aranuir  :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:05 PM
Ah, that area, very nice.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:05 PM
Enjoy Heroic Vault! If you're able to toss a word or two this way, cool. :smiley:
Two weeks until your time change. Boy, out of sync that long. Way it goes.
Arien about?
How's the bacon, Aranuir? :smiley:
Happy cooking!
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Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
Membership:
We had an email from Finrod, still around. He said he didn't usually check that email and found one from Valar in it to his surprise. :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:08 PM
Arien poked.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:08 PM
Thank you.
Aranuir is cooking.
That is, he's doing the cooking. Not being cooked.
I'll wait a sec. Arien reply?
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:10 PM
Not yet. Seems she's in raid.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:11 PM
Thank you.
Yay for transcripts for catch-up
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:11 PM
Ah, she's fighting Coven, will be here after that.
Pallando-Valar - Yesterday at 4:11 PM
Aiya
Varda - Yesterday at 4:11 PM
Aiya Pallando  :smiley:
Rough time of day for those not on Daylight Savings Time, kind of like for us where we're still very active in the day.
Reason we don't see more from the actual EST and CST etc
Too early
Any other membership news?
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Gaming:
Here's hard-working Eonwe's latest news on the Gaming world in general. He asks that we email him news from our games so he can put it in in a timely fashion. Literally, since he has a timer.
http://valarguild.org/gaming
The Valar Guild Games Site
Feel free to add what is not on there yet in here.
ArienV - Yesterday at 4:15 PM
aiya folks :smiley:  can be here for a bit until they got the coven down .. died^^]
Anarion - Yesterday at 4:16 PM
Aiya, everyone
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:16 PM
I'll add that the SCII anniversary comes with a lot of free stuff in that game and other Blizzard games. You'll want to make sure to log into D3, Starcraft Remastered, Heroes of the Storm, and later on WoW if you want the items there. Oh, and Overwatch, but I don't have that.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:16 PM
Aiya Arien :smiley:
ouchies
Thanks, Phar.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:16 PM
Aiya Arien :smiley:
Varda - Yesterday at 4:17 PM
In LotRO, AoM run tonight with Irony & Spite. We're not entirely sure if it's going to make due to several major organizers fighting long power outages due to rough weather, crazy amounts of snow. [Note: The Abyss of Mordath raid multi-kin group made, and we ran from the beginning to the end, yay!]
Although locally we have flowers and partly cloudy lovely weather.
Robins have returned, etc.
LotRO this past week in the kin, we've seen:
Anarion
Arien
Dis
Ecthelion
Eonwe
Fangorn
Gorlim
Luthien
Nar
Nimrodel
Orome
Thranduil
Varda
StarCraft 2:
Eowyn
Fangorn
Eowyn's now 4-year old.  ^^
Any others care to mention Valarites seen this past week in your games?
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:20 PM
Spotted Arien in WoW :smiley:
Varda - Yesterday at 4:20 PM
Yay :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:20 PM
And Fladrif's still around too. [Note: Hearthstone]
Varda - Yesterday at 4:21 PM
Cool  :smiley:
I suspect Pallando was in Eve Online.  :smiley: [Note: Yes, and Arien too.]
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Web:
Still working with the older computer to do webwork. My main (laptop) has clicking in the hard drive again, even after taking it in and wiping it with a re-install of Windows as recommended. Intermittent problems are hard to spot. Suggestion was "burn it down".
So you can still send in your stuff and have it put online. Don't worry.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:26 PM
Isn't that the answer to everything?
Varda - Yesterday at 4:26 PM
Restart is the answer to everything unless it's 42?
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Tolkien:
Quick game maybe? We won't have folks for long.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:27 PM
No, "burn it down" :smiley:
Varda - Yesterday at 4:27 PM
oh, hah. Only in D&D?
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:27 PM
Possibly in politics too!
Varda - Yesterday at 4:27 PM
heh - hope not.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:28 PM
Right, vault time.. but I'll try participating when I can :smiley:
Varda - Yesterday at 4:28 PM
Guess no alphabet game then, heh.
Good luck!
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:28 PM
No, it's fine!
Varda - Yesterday at 4:28 PM
I'll do a Tolkien Moment. Comment on it when you have time. :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:29 PM
we could do that, and then game when Arien and I are free?
Pallando-Valar - Yesterday at 4:29 PM
yeah, I am. I am running a fleet in eve right now, in fact. :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:30 PM
IF it helps, I'm in a really fast group :wink:
Varda - Yesterday at 4:30 PM
Nice :smiley:
This is Bard in the Hobbit. What a name for an archer. :wink:
"The flames were near him. His companions were leaving him.. He bent his bow for the last time.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:31 PM
Quite confusing in a D&D game.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:31 PM
Aye  :smiley:
"Suddenly out of the dark something fluttered to his shoulder. He started -- but it was only an old thrush. Unafraid, it perched by his ear and it brought him news. Marveling he found he could understand its tongue, for he was of the race of Dale.
"'Wait! Wait!' it said to him. 'The moon is rising. Look for the hollow of the left breast as he flies and turns above you!'
"And while Bard paused in wonder it told him of tidings up in the Mountain and of all that it had heard.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:34 PM
All while the flames were creeping up to him?
Varda - Yesterday at 4:35 PM
"Then Bard drew his bow-string to his ear. The dragon was circling back, flying low, and as he came the moon rose above the eastern shore and silvered his great wings.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:35 PM
Talking is a free action.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:35 PM
(Just says the flames are near, not coming at him.)
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:35 PM
True.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:36 PM
"'Arrow!' said the bowman. 'Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the mountain, go now and speed well!'"
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:37 PM
gonna have a hard time recovering it now
Varda - Yesterday at 4:37 PM
"The dragon swooped once more lower than ever, and as he turned and dived down his belly glittered white with sparkling fires of gems in the moon -- but not in one place.
"The great bow twanged. The black arrow sped straight from the string, straight for the hollow by the left breast  where the foreleg was flung wide.
"In it smote and vanished, barb, shaft and feather, so fierce was its flight.
"With a shriek that deafened men, felled trees and split stone, Smaug shot spouting into the air, turned over and crashed down from on high in ruin.
"Full on the town he fell. His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes. The lake roared in. A vast steam leaped up, white in the sudden dark under the moon. There was a hiss, a gushing whirl, and then silence.
"And that was the end of Smaug and Esgaroth, but not of Bard."
./end quote
Anarion - Yesterday at 4:41 PM
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome?from=Main.CrowningMomentOfAwesome
TV Tropes
Moment of Awesome / Sugar Wiki - TV Tropes
An index page listing Moment of Awesome content. A moment when a character does something for which they will be remembered forever, winning for them the …

Varda - Yesterday at 4:42 PM
That was indeed a Moment of Awesome.  :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:42 PM
"Darnit, thrush, if you'd told me all this on his previous swoop I could've done it with a normal arrow and not wasted my lucky one."
Also, Vault done in about.. 12 minutes? Not bad.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:43 PM
Grats! :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:43 PM
Still didn't get my recipe, gotta go in again tomorrow... but eh, it was quick.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:45 PM
The bones of Smaug

This is a screenie from about an hour ago in LotRO.
Wasn't sure this would work. Nifty.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:45 PM
Ah! Any quests to search the skeleton for the arrow? :smiley:
Varda - Yesterday at 4:46 PM
Fighting before the bones of Smaug

Shows the head a bit better
Here's my last try for the head:
Smaug no longer looks on the fighting.

The elf in the green dress is me, the one with glowing hands is our Dis.  :smiley:
Protection during a screenie!
Can you see the pictures ok? This is in the nature of an experiment.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:49 PM
Yep, it looks nice!
Varda - Yesterday at 4:49 PM
O good! Thank you.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:49 PM
And there's an option to click for the original too.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:50 PM
Shows it a bit larger when clicked.
Any further business, suggestions, etc?
If not,
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:51 PM
not up for the game you had in mind, then?
Varda - Yesterday at 4:51 PM
the hammer shoots from the bow-string and hits the hammer-pad
thonk!
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:52 PM
Ooh, hammer-shot.
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Varda - Yesterday at 4:52 PM
After-meeting!
Did the Tolkien Moment instead, since folks are mostly in raids.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:52 PM
If dwarven archers were a thing...
Right.
Varda - Yesterday at 4:52 PM
hehe
Gimli did fling axes. Sort of close.
Surprise! Varda uses a bow.
that can shoot hammers.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 4:53 PM
Hmm, and Warcraft dwarves have rifles. But it's not the same as firing a hammer from a bow. But I still think I've seen that somewhere before...
Varda - Yesterday at 4:53 PM
Probably. I did make it up on the spot, but it's surely done somewhere. :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 5:01 PM
Right, let's start the gaming report then!

Flashgaming!
First game has.. apparently had the link changed from when I played it earlier in the week, but here it is on another site. http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/safe-haven/
It's about surviving in a safe house in an alien-infested forest, unlocking stuff, growing your own food, etc.
While fighting off aliens at night.
Aranuir - Yesterday at 5:09 PM
lol
sounds like a blast actually
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 5:10 PM
Quite fun, yes :smiley:
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/get_1000 is the second game! Combine numbered tiles to get the right tiles to the center, increasing the number, and trying to get to 1000 before you run out of turns. Needs some luck and probably some planning ahead, the furthest I've gotten is 400.
Get 1000 - OneMoreLevel.com

ArienV - Yesterday at 5:12 PM
sorry  for trhat folks :smiley:
normally they finish at half past
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 5:12 PM
DST's a pain sometimes :wink:
ArienV - Yesterday at 5:12 PM
aye
killed up to Aggramar but failed on Argus :)_
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 5:13 PM
On normal? Not bad.

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/heart_box for the third game! Action platformer where you have to click squares to make them disappear and guide the box into a crate of sorts. After completing a level, if you're up for it, you can repeat it with harsher conditions such as timers.
Heart Box - OneMoreLevel.com

Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 6:02 PM
Blizzard gaming!
Hearthstone:
5 classes at level 53 now, the other 4 are quite close, will get them next week :smiley:
Brawl is an oldy, with Ragnaros vs Nefarian. It feels like Ragnaros is at a disadvantage, with less mana and seemingly weaker minions, though there is a synergy to be gotten, and his second hero power is quite tough.
Still, failed twice as Rags and then won as Nef, so maybe it's just me :wink:
Anarion - Yesterday at 6:10 PM
Nah, its not just you, Nef was definitely at a significant advantage when that brawl first came out(edited)
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 6:16 PM
Sounds about right :smiley:
Heroes of the Storm:
Level 257 now, I think that new level came from Kharazim. Brawl this week is Mage Wars, with the choice of random casters, increased mana regen and damage to buildings, and shorter resurrection timers. Lot of explosive fun, and had a really close loss and a rather easy win. Always enjoyable.
Diablo 3:
Level 65 now, halfway through chapter 2. Still powerful enough on master difficulty, though the legendaries I got earlier have gotten a bit outgeared. I hope I'll get some new good ones at 70. Got a new pet there from the SC anniversary, a sort of infernal battlecruiser, looks very nice!
Also logged Starcraft II and Starcraft: Remastered a few times for the rewards, but otherwise didn't play them.
WoW:
No new pets from the old raids, though with the Surger gotten last week we could skip Firelands, and were done with all the raids in less than an hour total. So that's progress, frees up time for other stuff!
Current raid: We cleared heroic difficulty Antorus at last, killing heroic Argus tonight :smiley: Result: Achievement, and new mount from a questitem to give to Khadgar. Violet Spellwing, medium-sized purple bird, very fancy.
Weekly this week is pet battles. As usual I tackled all 5 wins needed for the quest in the old garrison, since that counts for the 2000 WoD pet battle achievement, and I got the achievement for winning 10 pvp pet battle matches with undead family as well. Guess I'll have to find another family for next pet week :smiley:
Reward battle stone used on Hogs, the Darkmoon Faire pet, which is one of the last pets to be useful for multiple Argus match-ups that I still had to level. Yay Hogs!
Making good progress gearing up my class hall champions; I needed 5 more sanctified armaments for them, and that's been reduced to 2. Soon I'll be done, and then it's probably just some relaxed gold and reputation missions from there on.
Still working on the same side project, though, fishing for artifact power for the artifact fishing pole. It really needs a lot of rare fish. I suspect the last trait alone will take about 4 hours of fishing, and I still need 6 traits before that. I'll just keep working on it though. Newest addition to the strategy is using Arcane Lures, buyable from Margoss at Dalaran, which double the chances of getting the murloc which gives the rare fish. With that, I've made some good progress. But I still think it'll take a few weeks more.
Oh, and on Argus I've gotten the last toy from Instructor Tarahna, leaving just the 2 vigilants to check a few times a day for a shared toy between them. So that'll save a bit of time as well!
And I'll finish the report by saying that when it comes to BfA allied races I was looking forward to making a dark iron shaman, but for a long time it was unclear whether they would get shamans at all. But this week the totems were uncovered from the beta, so it's pretty likely that they will :smiley: If it all goes through I'll reward blizzard for that by purchasing a lil' Ragnaros pet and the Shu-zen mount, which will fit that new DI shaman alt really well!
And that's my report for the week!
Varda - Yesterday at 6:35 PM
Thanks, Phar
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 6:36 PM
Oh, and if we do get Kul Tiran allied race, I think I'll model mine after a certain LotR character... but who that is, will be a surprise until then :wink:
Varda - Yesterday at 6:36 PM
To be continued!
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 6:36 PM
Right!

ArienV - Yesterday at 7:18 PM
Well shortly from me :
In Lotro
i got down to chapter 5.1 in the Black Book
and in WoW
  we managed to get to the second last boss in  the Argus  Raid :smiley:
was a bit late and small numbers to get him  down :smiley: but things went well over all
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 7:21 PM
Well done!
ArienV - Yesterday at 7:21 PM
Thank you , Master Raider :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 7:21 PM
Aggramar shouldn't be too hard on normal if you get the tanking routine right.
ArienV - Yesterday at 7:22 PM
that was one of the smoothest fights funny enough
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 7:22 PM
It is!
Quite fun too.
ArienV - Yesterday at 7:23 PM
was a good team , biggest trouble with the Coven .. but once you get the walking adds sussed out not much of a problem
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 7:23 PM
Oh yes. That's pretty much the key on heroic as well.
Druids with mass entangle talent are good for that :smiley:
ArienV - Yesterday at 7:23 PM
hehe
will pass it on :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 7:23 PM
Sure :wink:

ArienV - Yesterday at 7:25 PM
Namarie for  now :smiley:  oh .. and a personal news that i should have mentioned when i was  busy .. I am 11 days on holidays again :smiley:
using up annual leave :)#
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 7:25 PM
Enjoy!
ArienV - Yesterday at 7:25 PM
Namarie :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 7:25 PM
namarie!

Eonwe Valar - Yesterday at 9:32 PM
Hello. Just popping in to say I hope all are doing well. Take care and good night.
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 9:32 PM
Aiya! And  Namarie, I'm just logging out :smiley:
Eonwe Valar - Yesterday at 9:33 PM
Well sleep well too :}
Ar-Pharazon-V - Yesterday at 9:33 PM
goodnight!
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