October 13, 2019 Sunday Meeting
5:00
P.M. Eastern time (-4 GMT aka 9 P.M. aka 21:00)
Discord:
Valar Guild/meeting_place
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Transcript work by Varda.
[times are Central Time from Varda's Discord. Add one hour for
Eastern.]
Attending (and
spoke): (6)
Discord:
Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Falco, Lenwe,
Varda (presiding)
Before-meeting
Meeting begins
Membership news
Web:
New story today
Membership news revisited
Gaming:
General reports by Eonwe: World of Warcraft, Lord
of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic: What did you enjoy about the Silmarillion?
A LotRO report snuck in the middle of the chat
which then resumed.
After-meeting:
More Silmarillion chat.
Discord minor difficulty.
Time changes coming up.
Lenwe's new website, which includes Finnish.
(Also now on the Membership page.)
Flashgaming Reviews by
Ar-Pharazon.
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Before-meeting
VardaToday at 3:44 PM
Aiya : )
Meeting in about 15 minutes. everyone runs and grabs snacks
If you have nifty news about your favorite game, this might be a
time to hunt up that link or figure what you want to tell. If you
think up a Tolkien topic you'd like to have us play with, give a
holler!
ArienValarToday at 3:56 PM
Aiya :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 3:57 PM
Aiya Arien : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 3:57 PM
Aiya all!
VardaToday at 3:57 PM
Aiya Phar! : )
ArienValarToday at 3:58 PM
Aiya phar :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:00 PM
back
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:02 PM
Heya all.
VardaToday at 4:03 PM
Eonwe! Aiya. :slight_smile:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:03 PM
Aiya!
VardaToday at 4:05 PM
Pokage done. : )
ArienValarToday at 4:05 PM
Aiya Eonwe :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:05 PM
Membership:
Huzzah for having made it 22 years! Grats again. Hi from Sauron and
Fangorn on this side of the screen.
Any other member comments? Feel free! Any old thing is fine.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:07 PM
...Huzzah!
VardaToday at 4:07 PM
Yay!
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Web:
We have a new story up, a one chapter by Shirebound. : )
ArienValarToday at 4:09 PM
Great .. uhm i have membership news
VardaToday at 4:09 PM
"A Letter from Home". Aragorn receives a letter from "home".
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/fiction/authors/Shirebound/ALetterFromHome.htm
A Letter from Home
Fanfiction pre-LotR, AU. Aragorn reads a letter
from "home".
Membership
revisited:
Sure, go ahead, Arien.
ArienValarToday at 4:10 PM
It seems its my turn with pc troubles ...
After Fangorn, Varda, Phari its me now ..
VardaToday at 4:10 PM
eep
ArienValarToday at 4:10 PM
The Harddisk of my pc died
VardaToday at 4:10 PM
ack!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:10 PM
Eep! Worst nightmare.
ArienValarToday at 4:11 PM
so i am on my laptop atm and i am on discord via website as it
doesnt like the app it seems
VardaToday at 4:11 PM
Weird. I'm using a laptop right now. Dell here.
ArienValarToday at 4:12 PM
My main games are here and all updated and windows as well , still a
bit catching up .. so maybe once all updates are downloaded it might
actually work
i ve got an Asus gaming laptop so .. i dont know what s the reason
:?
anyways new harddisk is ordered , even an hssd on top so once that
is all here it should be fine :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:14 PM
Maybe like you said, other downloads eating up bandwidth?
O good. : )
Sure glad you could make it and let us know what happened!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:14 PM
I hope you had backups, too.
ArienValarToday at 4:15 PM
dunno and well i got 15 gb left on this harddisk so hehe maybe that
is a reason
important stuff yeah phari and since the motherboard and processor
are still all right maybe some things couild be retained
i ll have to see what s there and what not
VardaToday at 4:16 PM
Good luck! Let us know progress.
ArienValarToday at 4:16 PM
I shall :slight_smile:
advantage is that graphic and souind card here are a bit better
:wink:
VardaToday at 4:17 PM
Nice : )
ArienValarToday at 4:17 PM
carry on :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:17 PM
Okie dokie!
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Gaming:
Eonwe, would you like to do the gaming report for us? Beats us
copy/pasting your work. ; )
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:17 PM
Certainly.
VardaToday at 4:18 PM
Thanks : )
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:18 PM
World of Warcraft:
This week's bonus event: Battle for Azeroth Dungeons.
Next week's event: Pet Battles.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:19 PM
Oh, fun, I get to work on my pvp pet family achievements.
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:19 PM
The Great Gnomeregan Run was yesterday.
VardaToday at 4:19 PM
That should have been fun. : )
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:19 PM
Check out what's coming in 8.3 with the Developer Content Update
Preview. ---
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23150415/watch-the-new-developer-content-update-preview
World of Warcraft
Watch the New Developer Content Update Preview -
WoW
Check out the latest developer insight video with
game director Ion Hazzikostas as he goes into what’s in store for
the new Battle for Azeroth® content update and what’s next in WoW®
Classic.
Check out the preview for upcoming Allied Races: Vulpera and
Mechagnomes. ---
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23177594/new-allied-races-preview-vulpera-and-mechagnomes
World of Warcraft
New Allied Races Preview: Vulpera and
Mechagnomes! - WoW
Two new playable Allied Races—vulpera and
mechagnomes—will be ready to join the battle for Azeroth in the next
content update.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:20 PM
Heh, depends on what time you do it. I went for the run with my
gnomette and only saw one other person.
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:20 PM
Lord of the Rings Online:
Standing Stone Games is adding more to the Collector's Edition and
Ultimate Fan bundles for the Minas Morgul expansion: crafting
carry-alls. Check it out here:
http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/announcing-new-crafting-carry-alls-our-ultimate-fan-and-collectors-editions
The Lord of the Rings Online
Announcing: New Crafting Carry-alls for our
Ultimate Fan and Colle...
VardaToday at 4:20 PM
ohhhh!
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:21 PM
Still no soundtrack included.
That's it for the gaming news I have.
VardaToday at 4:22 PM
Thank you , Eonwe. : )
I just remembered I was supposed to collect the last week of gamers
in LotRO. oops. That may have to be appended
to the transcript.
In other LotRO news:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:23 PM
There's still time!
VardaToday at 4:23 PM
: )
The Harvestmath Festival starts on October 15th and runs through
November 4th.
Durin's Day begins on October 16th and runs through October 21st.
Find the secret door of Erebor to take part in the Durin's Day
event.
Hot fixes came out:
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?675769-Update-24-3-2-Release-Notes
Update 24.3.2 Release Notes
Here are the Release Notes for Update 24.3.2,
released on Wednesday, October 9th.
News and Notes:
Stout-axe
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:24 PM
That's one long day....
VardaToday at 4:25 PM
hehehe - aye
It's kind of like the month of Halloween!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:25 PM
To be fair, if they did it accurate to the book, just the last light
of durin's day is a very small window for players to join
:slight_smile:
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:26 PM
When I say that I feel like I should have a painted-on mustache, big
eyebrows and twirling a cigar. (ala Groucho Marx)
VardaToday at 4:27 PM
hah!
Any other games with general news? Eve, Whispers of Time, etc?
Your chance to give your games a plug. ; )
I'll mention that I'm working on putting up "When the King Comes
Back" by Shirebound, 14 chapters. It should be available later on or
at least tomorrow.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:30 PM
"Hey, the king's back!"
VardaToday at 4:30 PM
Exactly my thought! hehehe
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:30 PM
So you know the reference? :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:30 PM
Seen it, yes.
Also in LotRO, Falco just brought his new Stout-axe dwarf into the
Ithil server. : )
in kin, I mean. As a minstrel.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:31 PM
Better not be singing songs about plates.
VardaToday at 4:32 PM
May-be. Although Longbeards pulled that stunt at Bag End.
On to
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Tolkien!
Since we slipped into it a bit anyway!
People say they skip the poetry, songs in Tolkien's books. I enjoy
them. So it was great fun for the movies to bring us the songs.
Then suddenly a lot of people could enjoy them! Songs should be sung
for proper appreciation!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:33 PM
Some skip the poetry, some skip the language notes, some skip the
long descriptions of the environment :wink:
VardaToday at 4:33 PM
Good point.
I dig it all.
But have to admit it took a while to get into the Silmarillion,
because of the number of different names for the same people so
fast.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:34 PM
I have the feeling we derailed already.
VardaToday at 4:34 PM
But being in the Valar Guild with those same people made it much
easier and made it through the Sil with much more pleasure.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:35 PM
heh, that's good :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:35 PM
looks around for the rails
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:35 PM
I almost liked the Sil better than LotR.
VardaToday at 4:35 PM
So lots of people had various problems with the books, but there was
something for everybody!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:35 PM
Must be my love for chronicles.
True :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:36 PM
The Sil was really meaty. After getting past the names at
the start, I enjoyed it a lot.
Then if we skip something, later we can reread and enjoy the "new"
stuff!
The Sil's huge, sweeping tale of creation and how everything
started in Arda pulled me in.
Could call it the story of Aragorn's ancestors. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:37 PM
Heh, it did all come together there.
Maybe Eldarion's ancestors.
VardaToday at 4:38 PM
All in your pov!
Aragorn's tales to Eldarion!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:38 PM
"And this guy died, and then this guy died, and this guy died
horribly. Now go to sleep."
VardaToday at 4:39 PM
Thanks a lot, Ada. Leave the light on after you go!
Ada and Dad look suspiciously like a rearrangement of letters...
I did have a topic earlier today but forgot to note it down. cough
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:40 PM
Was it related to the songs? :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:40 PM
Not at all! You got stream of consciousness there.
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Annnnd got that LotRO gaming report, like Phar said!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:42 PM
yay!
VardaToday at 4:42 PM
Landroval:
Bregalad
Celebrian
Lenwe
Mirabella
Nar
Thranduil
Varda
Ithil:
Dis
Falco
Fangorn
Varda
Anor:
Varda
(Fangorn may have shown up on Anor too, oops) [Note: just on Ithil]
So what drew you folks into the Silmarillion the most? I liked the
creation, the coming together of all the histories to bring us to
what we knew.
And some stories were just so good on their own. Beren and Luthien,
for example.
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Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:44 PM
Well like I said, I like chronicles :slight_smile: The history of
the world in a more objective, chronological form, not so much
focusing on the points of view of main characters but showing events
from different sides and giving information together that should be
together.
Most notably when it comes to rulers, wars, migrations, changes of
territory
Seeing it in great detail like in Lord of the Rings is a
nice thing as well, but really I like for both to be present :wink:
VardaToday at 4:47 PM
The massive happening of events!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:47 PM
And sure, stories like the Narn or B&L are fine too, especially
since they're just the right scale for such a book, like pretty much
their entire lives summarized in a chapter or two.
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:49 PM
I suppose I'd say the fuller picture of the History of Ea was a
major appeal to me for the Sil as well.
VardaToday at 4:51 PM
I enjoy mythology and folklore. This had flavor from both.
It was intended to be a mythology for England, which didn't really
have one in JRRT's estimation.
What gave it the feel of a full mythology to you?
.
For me, it was the creation parts, especially in the first chapters.
Then later, where they interact with the people of Arda.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:55 PM
The Valaquenta, I think. A classical list of gods and their
relationships and domains :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:55 PM
That was major, aye.
If we wanted to put that into guild thoughts, Tulkas would be our
fighter head. Main gamer? : )
Who might be the lore keeper?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:57 PM
I always pictured him as a Muradin-like bruiser from Heroes of the
Storm.
VardaToday at 4:57 PM
Now I have to look that up!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:57 PM
You remember warcraft 3?
Dwarven mountain king.
Though I do know (or think) that he's not supposed to be quite as
short :wink:
VardaToday at 4:58 PM
If you can get past the ads:
https://www.icy-veins.com/heroes/muradin-build-guide
Icy Veins
Muradin Build Guide “It's hammer time!”
The ultimate guide to playing Muradin in Heroes
of the Storm: talent builds, playstyle, matchups, maps, etc.
ArienValarToday at 4:59 PM
I loved the Story as a whole to be honest in the Sil .. The
other mythological things were just a bonus for me :slight_smile:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:59 PM
There he is.
ArienValarToday at 4:59 PM
Especially the Numenorian history i found fascinating
VardaToday at 4:59 PM
A Vala could be gigantic or look like many things, generally
something that went along with the way of thinking. Such as Ulmo
being a great wave, or Yavanna a great tree at times.
Phar appreciates you, Arien!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:00 PM
Now I'm thinking Kultas (...no, Kul Tiras in my head) Tulkas was
more of a Hulk Hogan type of wrestler guy.
And yeah, never forget Numenor :wink:
ArienValarToday at 5:01 PM
:slight_smile:
VardaToday at 5:02 PM
It's the hour, although we might keep on with this in the
After-meeting. : )
the hammer stretches up tall and mighty
the hammerpad grows to meet it
KA-WHUMMP!!
the table rings like a great bell
the gavel staggers back to the shelf
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After-meeting!
So we have a Hulk Hogan, Muradin for some Aule templates.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:04 PM
Lorekeeper might be someone like Mandos?
They do like their prophecies.
VardaToday at 5:05 PM
Interesting thought. He could speak with all the great minds after
they died if human or if they came to him as elves.
what did you mean on your treatise on page 1145?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:05 PM
hehe
A teacher you can't get away from.
VardaToday at 5:06 PM
And like any teacher, a perpetual student.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:06 PM
Or a critic.
Hmm.
He must've been quite busy after some battles.
VardaToday at 5:07 PM
True. Suppose he had his own version of Valkyries or at least
greeters. here, your room is right this way
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:07 PM
"Mandos will have time in his schedule for you in 3 years and 27
days. Don't worry, I'm sure that's only a small part of the
duration of your stay..."
VardaToday at 5:08 PM
But since time doesn't exist in the Timeless Halls, you'll never
notice.
Suppose the Valar of Time find that irritating?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:08 PM
If he ever visited.
VardaToday at 5:09 PM
Might not get to! "Timeless" Halls.
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Been noticing a problem in Discord,
wondered if others have it too...
Other games are showing under the person's name but not LotRO. It
used to.
Discord says it can't even find it now.
Couldn't see that Falco was in LotRO when we were chatting in-game.
Maybe the new, um, Open ALs?
Or do you see it and it's just my settings somehow?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:15 PM
I've got Lenwe playing LotRO.
VardaToday at 5:15 PM
o wow. I can see Lenwe as being in LotRO.
LenweToday at 5:15 PM
Aiya :wink:
VardaToday at 5:15 PM
So it's some setting somewhere.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:15 PM
Aiya!
VardaToday at 5:15 PM
Aiya Lenwe!
ArienValarToday at 5:15 PM
Aiya Lenwe :slight_smile:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:15 PM
Perhaps. I think I've got mine disabled, nobody can find me through
Discord :wink:
VardaToday at 5:16 PM
Fine if on purpose. : )
Mine's not on purpose.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:16 PM
Speaking of, I'll go play my daily Starcraft II game.
VardaToday at 5:16 PM
Wondering how Lenwe does it.
Lenwe, are you on 32 bit instead of 64 maybe?
LenweToday at 5:16 PM
I was wondering if it worked when you said that, that's why I opened
LotRO
No, it's 64 bit
VardaToday at 5:16 PM
Enjoy, Phar!
Hmm. Mine is 64 bit. So it's something else.
LenweToday at 5:17 PM
I think I recently reinstalled LotRO, but I haven't done anything on
Discord to make it detectable
FalcoToday at 5:17 PM
I just re-added lotro via settings and it's showing now
VardaToday at 5:17 PM
O wow.
FalcoToday at 5:18 PM
Most likely due to those switching from 32 to 64Bit
VardaToday at 5:18 PM
And hi and thanks, Falco : )
Mine was showing, 64 bit, then it quit.
Maybe I accidentally bumped something.
FalcoToday at 5:19 PM
I think the latest update probably broke it
I show three different LOTRO in settings and Discord couldn't detect
I was playing
VardaToday at 5:19 PM
It shows as having last played 15 days ago.
hmm
FalcoToday at 5:20 PM
I manually added it
VardaToday at 5:20 PM
Says Lenwe's is in Warner Bros.
ok, I'll give that a shot!
LenweToday at 5:21 PM
Warner Bros now?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:21 PM
Yakko, Wakko and Dot?
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VardaToday at 5:25 PM
Here are Falco's notes on what he's seen of the Stout-axe
on his beginning minstrel:
Stout-Axe Race
Classes Not Allowed Beorning, Captain, Lore-Master, & Warden
Initial Story is good, wish it was a little longer
Several players are pushing to have Captain, Lore-Master, and
Warden classes added
Doesn't appear to be as good as High Elf but time will tell
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:26 PM
Dwarves not as good as Elves? Don't let them know.
VardaToday at 5:26 PM
LotRO is no longer with Warner Bros.
Longbeard dwarves know they are superior to Stout-axes anyway. : )
ArienValarToday at 5:34 PM
ah i have to try that one out :slight_smile:
i am always keen to see new good starting stories
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:36 PM
muhah, another victory for the zerg
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By the way, apparently DST will end in
about 2 weeks here. What's the deal in the US?
VardaToday at 5:37 PM
Me too, Arien. : )
um, time change, ick.
"This year, DST began on March 10 and will end on Nov. 3, 2019. You
will then move your clock forward an hour on March 8, 2020, and the
cycle will begin again."
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:44 PM
Ah, a week after us then.
VardaToday at 5:44 PM
Good to know.
So we get a week of confusion. ; )
#
Lenwe set up a new website, now on
the Membership page:
https://lenw.ee/
Includes Finnish!
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Sauron made a beautiful supper for us. He's quite a chef!
I'll be back around later! munch munch
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:53 PM
Meat's back on the menu!
Eonwe ValarToday at 5:56 PM
Time for me to be off. Take care all, good night, sleep well, and
have fun ;}
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:57 PM
Namarie!
Aftermeeting note, I just started my first soft reset in cookie
clicker since the update, and bought the Fortune Cookie
feature... which gives a 2% chance for the newsticker at the top of
the page to show a fortune, and you have to collect all 20 or so.
There's a new message every 10 seconds or so, and at 2%... yeah,
that'll take a while of just staring at the screen.
Or just dropping by and hope you get lucky. Either way I'm already
annoyed by it!
Imagine staring at your screen for about 10 minutes just hoping for
a 10-second message to appear in green...
And that 20 times :wink:
ArienValarToday at 6:27 PM
Bedtime for me Valarites :slight_smile:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 6:27 PM
Namarie!
ArienValarToday at 6:27 PM
and next week hopefully back from the pc :slight_smile:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 6:27 PM
Good luck!
ArienValarToday at 6:27 PM
Namarie !
Thankies
VardaToday at 6:35 PM
Nighty night and good luck with the hard drive, Arien.
Does sound annoying, Phar.
And namarie, Eonwe.
may have caught up now
And meat on the menu was good. : )
VardaToday at 6:47 PM
Had to get rid of the old LotRO game in the list to make the new one
stick, and it was only detected when first entering.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 7:20 PM
Personal gaming report!
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For flashgaming.. no new games this
week, but this week was fantasy RPG themed and there's a few good
ones in there, including a favorite of mine which I probably link
every time it's up :wink:
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Djugan/hands-of-war is the first!
An RPG, first in a series, with the main features of that series
already available. A grid-based map where you travel from square to
square, several classes to choose from, XP to gain, abilities to
train from class-specific trainers, enemies to farm from certain
squares, many factions to grind reputation with or play out against
each other (you usually choose one of two opposites), and a long
quest story to complete.
Kongregate
Hands of War
Choose your allies and slay your enemies on your
quest to find the broken pieces of the Heartstone in this Classic
Flash RPG
It'll keep you busy for sure, and if you like it, there's more in
the series :slight_smile:
https://www.kongregate.com/games/kupo707/adventure-story
is the second game. Part of the Epic Battle Fantasy series/universe,
but while those are more final fantasy-like RPGs, Adventure Story is
a rather more simple platformer, with various spells, gearsets,
coins and medals to collect throughout the levels. I prefer it over
the rest of the series myself :wink: Though, like the series it's
part of, it also has nice art, fun characters, and enjoyable fantasy
music. Worth a try!
Kongregate
Adventure Story
Explore the world of Adventure Story while
battling swarms of enemies and massive bosses, collecting new
equipment, and learning magic spells.
Oh, and you get to hug a cat at the end of every level. As if you
needed more incentive!
VardaToday at 7:39 PM
hugs cat
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 7:43 PM
https://www.kongregate.com/games/BerzerkStudio/heros-arms
is the third, and that favorite of mine :slight_smile: A Zelda-like
rpg with xp to get and skills to upgrade with them (including a hard
to reach level 21 for each skill, which requires a ton of xp but
practically makes you invincible when combined), gear to buy or
collect from dungeons, and several bosses to defeat. Make sure
you've gotten all you can from world 1 before proceeding to world 2!
Several health and mana boosts can be easy to miss.
Kongregate
Hero's Arms
Hi all!
This is our new game, which is kind of a good-old
Zelda-like adventure game.
We made it very retro-fashioned on purpose, to
bring back the “magic” of t...
And if you like, hunt down all the species of monsters in the world
to complete your bestiary. Several are difficult to find!
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Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 8:02 PM
Blizzard gamign:
(ng)
Starcraft II:
Started phase 3 of the war chest! First tier already complete, and
halfway through the second. It comes with the third chapter of the
comic as well, which seems to complete this story-arc, though more
might be coming in the next chest, who knows?
Hearthstone:
A few more classes halfway, and a few stragglers a bit further
progressed. Brawl this week is part of a 3-week story, with this
first part having you choose a member of Team Evil and making your
way through a dungeon, with the Headless Horseman at the 8th match.
Luckily I completed the brawl on the first go without a loss,
clocking in at 48 minutes... giving me the under an hour reward, but
not under 40 minute reward. That would require under 5 minutes for
every fight, with deckbuilding also taking up that time... and I
don't think I'm up for spending a lot of time trying for that.
Doesn't matter, since the reward would be craftable (or even
gettable from a pack) anyway.
I chose the priest "hero" for it, who was most behind in xp at the
start, but after completing the brawl, is now at least three
quarters in towards the last level. Those brawls can give a lot of
experience! But also take up a lot of time, so eh.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 8:12 PM
Oh, and I got 2 new legendary cards as well this week. An
interesting neutral card from the Rise of Shadows set, Barista
Lynchen, and a rogue hero, Anka the Buried. Good for respectively
battlecry and deathrattle cards, so a nice contrast.
Heroes of the Storm:
1 new level, to 372. It was Stukov, who I ended up playing in one of
the brawls, getting him to level 2. As the only healer choice in the
entire team, I decided to give him a go, and it wasn't too bad. Got
a nice ranged build made. For one of the other brawls I ended up
playing Sonya the barbarian, who is also not one of my active
roster... but for which I got an interesting build improvised,
including an aoe stun Heroic ability which really helped in getting
us the advantage in that game.
I'm almost done with the event quests! 41/50 takedowns for the 8th
out of 8 quests. Should finish it tomorrow. For the 7th quest,
requiring 5 matches with a friend, I contacted an old friend from
WoW who also plays regularly, and we had quite a bit of fun playing
6 matches in a row, rather than the usual 2 a night I play
:slight_smile: Made the quest a lot quicker than I expected it to
be!
WoW:
Raiding still going! We killed heroic Azshara for the second time,
after having to extend the reset. But after that we reset the raid
anyway, and cleared the 7 bosses before her again for more loot.
That got me a new chestpiece and trinket, very nice :slight_smile:
For the first time in some years we're at least looking into trying
Mythic difficulty, but it being fixed to a 20-man raid makes things
difficult, and it's not going to happen unless we get at least 18
people available each time. So maybe it'll happen, maybe not.
Finished the battleground weekly, and got the achievement for 30000
honor gotten from battlegrounds, making rank 3 of several more
essences available. Including the best feral dps essence, so now all
the essences I have in use are rank 3 :slight_smile:
The weekly for this week, mythic dungeons, sent me into a few
dungeons again I hadn't seen in a while, Tol Dagor and Siege of
Boralus. Fun places to go, but I seldom have reason to go there.
Siege has a nice cutscene at the end as well!
And that... might be it? Didn't get much new this week, and with a
lot of wowhead news to catch up on and being a bit ill the past
week, I didn't get do much extra either. I think I got my necklace
to level 68, though, only 2 more to go for the current cap.
I will say, though, that of the news from the upcoming 8.3 patch,
I'm happy with the announced allied race, mechagnomes :slight_smile:
I had already designed a female mechagnome arcane mage when it was a
possibility for them to arrive as a new allied race, so it's nice to
get it confirmed. Fun racial abilities and jokes as well!
And that's my report for the week!
VardaToday at 8:36 PM
Thank you, Phar. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 8:42 PM
namarie!
VardaToday at 8:42 PM
Namarie!
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