April 12, 2020 Sunday Meeting
5:00
P.M. Eastern Daylight Savings Time
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.]
["slight smile" is the same as we are used to using as a regular
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Attending (and
spoke): (8)
Discord:
Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (Before and After-meeting), Falco, Ioreth,
Irmo (Irm), Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Before-meeting
Meeting begins
Membership news
Web:
Tolkien Site / Stories:
New story posted today: "The
Middle of Middle-earth" by Shirebound.
Gaming:
General reports: Lord of the Rings Online,
World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone,
Overwatch,
Eve Online (special report from Pallando)
Tolkien:
Topic: The idea of the Return
of the King seems quite fitting today. We had more than one
king returning or trying to return. Who were they? Side tangent of
renaming the book title for some of them.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by
Ar-Pharazon.
Blizzard gaming, plus Total Annihilation, Game of
Thrones.
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Before-meeting
Eonwe Valar04/08/2020
Heya. Well, my Dwarf Warrior is now 120, so that's my 5 classes :}
ArienValarYesterday at 10:48 AM
:slight_smile:
VardaToday at 3:59 PM
Grats Eonwe! : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 3:59 PM
Grats Eonwe! and Aiya :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 3:59 PM
I'll be right back. The coffee cup is... empty!
Hiya Phar : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 3:59 PM
Such a lack!
ArienValarToday at 4:00 PM
Aiya , Valarrites :slight_smile:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:00 PM
Aiya!
ArienValarToday at 4:01 PM
i am on a mage and neither too early nor too late :smile:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:01 PM
Didn't even need a poke :slight_smile:
I'm a druid and while I was here early, I'm half in hibernation
:wink:
ArienValarToday at 4:02 PM
indeed :slight_smile: I arrived exactly when i meant to nod
FalcoToday at 4:02 PM
Aiya
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:02 PM
Aiya!
ArienValarToday at 4:02 PM
Aiya Fallco :slight_smile:
Falco :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:03 PM
Aiya Arien and Falco!
Fangorn just blew by, pretending to cool the overly hot coffee. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:04 PM
Just wanted to check in? :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:05 PM
Beats checking out?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:05 PM
True.
VardaToday at 4:05 PM
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Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
Membership:
Happy Easter to all from here, and may your own style of celebration
at this time be great fun for you, from the Passover to Samhain. Be
happy!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:06 PM
Well, my brother and girlfriend came to visit during lunch
yesterday, and.. that's pretty much it!
VardaToday at 4:06 PM
Many of us are getting to be home with loved ones today, when they
often could not.
Oh nice! Glad to hear it.
passes chocolate chip cookies around
I made a lot! Wish they could be more than virtual for folks here,
but here you are anyway!
Scratch. Just the smell is yum.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:07 PM
More for you :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:07 PM
hahaha
Fangorn yoinks the cookie
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:08 PM
Beware the trees, for they have long fingers.
VardaToday at 4:10 PM
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Web News:
We have a new story from Shirebound, 1 chapter for a fun quick read:
"The Middle of Middle-earth"
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/fiction/authors/Shirebound/TheMiddleofMiddle-earth.htm
The Middle of Middle-earth
fanfiction Fellowship of the Rings. "There are a
few important details missing from
Elrond's map." Elrond, Merry, Pippin
Any other Tolkien-related news? cool links?
IrmToday at 4:11 PM
Aiya dear Valarites, just saying Aiya before bed
Pallando-ValarToday at 4:11 PM
Aiya
ArienValarToday at 4:11 PM
Aiya Irm :slight_smile:
IrmToday at 4:11 PM
:wave:
ArienValarToday at 4:12 PM
wave
VardaToday at 4:12 PM
Aiya Thanks for the wave, hehe
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:12 PM
I've got something that's part Tolkien and part WoW :wink:
VardaToday at 4:12 PM
The Tolkien Society says this is their Tolkien Reading Day.
IrmToday at 4:12 PM
Namarie, all be well!
VardaToday at 4:12 PM
Go ahead
Sleep well!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:12 PM
Aiya, and Namarie!
VardaToday at 4:12 PM
and hi to the Blue Wizard!
The Dreamlord going to sleep. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:13 PM
Anyway, for that I'll point you to the latest screenshot in the
screenshots channel, as I've unlocked and created my Kul Tiran druid
at last... and based him in name and face on a LotR character!
VardaToday at 4:14 PM
Grats on the unlock!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:14 PM
Thought it might be a fun share, he's not too hard to guess :wink:
But if guessing's not your thing, continue :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:18 PM
Let's see. How many characters had a beard...
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:19 PM
Ah, that's the shadow. He does not have a beard, merely a mustache
and sideburns :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:20 PM
ok
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:21 PM
*checks https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/character/eu/argent-dawn/calimbar
* yep, no beard
World of Warcraft
Calimbar - Character - WoW
Calimbar (Argent Dawn) ❮The High Guard❯ - 20 Kul
Tiran Feral Druid, 12 ilvl
VardaToday at 4:23 PM
Butterbur?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:23 PM
Yes!
VardaToday at 4:23 PM
Woot!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:23 PM
His first name is almost an anagram :smile:
VardaToday at 4:23 PM
Neat trick
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:23 PM
I know he's bald in the books but I wanted to go for the movie
version. Too bad Kul Tirans aren't curly.
VardaToday at 4:24 PM
Good enough that you got me to guess right!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:24 PM
:smile:
He does! I like him.
And the Kul Tiran druid forms are great too.
Sometimes I just log on to him in Stormwind to swim around a lake in
his drust aquatic form.
VardaToday at 4:26 PM
Ahh, playing. In a game. What a concept!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:26 PM
hehe
VardaToday at 4:26 PM
Happy swimming!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:26 PM
There's questing and leveling and instances and all that stuff but
sometimes you just wanna swim around and enjoy yourself.
VardaToday at 4:26 PM
hehe
Speaking of gaming:
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Gaming News!
Eonwe kindly keeps on posting it for us, even when he's stuck
working and can't be with us.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:27 PM
Very thoughtful.
VardaToday at 4:27 PM
And just because.. Starting with
Lord of the Rings Online
We had a Producer's Letter come out. I was nervous that it was going
to be something like "so sorry but". Instead it was all good stuff
they are coming out with. : )
https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/lotro-producers-letter-look-2020
O yes, there's a new Challenge server. Not another server, gahhh.
Temporary. Beware when Sauron's glare makes everything suddenly
harder!
I will probably see about setting up something there for us to
gather to if we want, not required at all, especially temporary.
I don't intend to hang out there much, sorry, but in other news
The big upcoming event is the wedding of Aragorn and Arwen. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:31 PM
I actually drew the Eye of Sauron yesterday, as a guess for a
silhouette of an upcoming Kongregate kongpanion. It was a circle!
VardaToday at 4:31 PM
We also get the War of Three Peaks with new content for everybody,
and at all levels.
Neato, Phar. : )
and the long-rumored Rohan housing is coming out!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:32 PM
stables?
VardaToday at 4:32 PM
Yes!
Stables. : )
Also custom lighting hooks, heh.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:32 PM
ooh
very.. Rohan?
VardaToday at 4:32 PM
Aye : )
Lots of rumors floating around that we can put some of our personal
horses in the stable. : )
Unlikely they can take all of my main character's horses, as that
would be insane. : ) But even several would be very cool.
FalcoToday at 4:34 PM
lol I have 18 per character
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:34 PM
I'd like a WoW zoo for all my mounts...
all.. 360 of em
VardaToday at 4:34 PM
Maybe they'll let us rotate out a few? And our goats and elk?
I may have to count all my mounts someday.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:35 PM
and our dragons and turtles and sabers and wolves and... oh wait,
those aren't in LotR :wink:
VardaToday at 4:35 PM
We do have a huge pet collection. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:36 PM
I have... 1133 pets. Over 1000 unique :wink:
VardaToday at 4:36 PM
I just got a flying fox this week.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:36 PM
Ooh :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 4:36 PM
Way to go, Phar!
We can make the servers crash.
Well, better let these other games have some screen time too. : )
World of Warcraft
Some of you are in there right now. At least three people show it. :
)
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:38 PM
and one who doesn't!
VardaToday at 4:38 PM
This week's Bonus Event: Cataclysm Timewalking.
Check out the recent announcements for things coming in the
Shadowlands expansion in the blog World of Warcraft®: Shadowlands
News Round-Up.
(And those in LotRO that don't show in Discord unless they rig it
carefully on purpose)
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:39 PM
More than that going around too. The first alpha is up and there's a
ton of datamining on various websites.
VardaToday at 4:39 PM
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23380362/world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-news-round-up
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft®: Shadowlands News Round-Up -
WoW
There’s plenty to learn about World of Warcraft’s
next expansion, and we’ve rounded up the latest news for you here to
help you stay on top of it all.
Alpha of what?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:40 PM
Not just story spoilers, but also a lot of models and icons and
stuff.
Shadlowlands.
-l
VardaToday at 4:40 PM
ahh ok
Also with people at home so much, lag everywhere from the massive
number of games at all times!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:40 PM
Speaking of mounts... I know Ardenweald has some gorgeous mounts I
want.
VardaToday at 4:41 PM
They will surely be yours in the future. : )
StarCraft 2:
Blizzard has posted a Starcraft Story Primer.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:41 PM
https://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2020/april/ArdenwealdStagMount2.jpg
for my favorite, just want to link :wink:
VardaToday at 4:41 PM
https://starcraft2.com/en-us/news/23331587
StarCraft II
StarCraft II Official Game Site
Wage war across the galaxy with three unique and
powerful races. StarCraft II is a real-time strategy game from
Blizzard Entertainment for the PC and Mac.
Nifty-looking, Phar.
Don't let it whop the side of your helmet!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:42 PM
Yeah, I saw the story primer. Interesting. I wondered if it was
going to close up some retcons but they were mostly small enough to
be skipped over entirely.
I am curious if it's leading up to an announcement for something.
Still, it's a good overview.
VardaToday at 4:44 PM
must quit reading it
Heroes of the Storm:
Check out the PTR patch notes.
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/heroes-of-the-storm/23367312/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-april-6-2020
Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes - April 6,
2020
Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit
the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting until
April 13.
I was reading it. : )
Hearthstone:
THe Ashes of Outland expansion and Demon Hunter hero are live this
week.
Overwatch:
Check out the announcement on changes coming: Refining Hero Pools
and Retiring Map Pools.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:46 PM
coughs you are not prepared!
VardaToday at 4:46 PM
You found out!
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/23388102/refining-hero-pools-and-retiring-map-pools
Overwatch
Refining Hero Pools and Retiring Map Pools
Since the introduction of Hero Pools & Map
Pools, we’ve heard a lot of great feedback from players on both of
these systems - and now, we're making some changes.
Any additions to the main reports, or other game news? Eve maybe?
Other?
Pallando-ValarToday at 4:47 PM
Yeah
VardaToday at 4:47 PM
yay!
Go for it!
Pallando-ValarToday at 4:48 PM
Eve Online:
Eve has a patch with quite a few changes hitting soon, called
"Surgical Strike".
VardaToday at 4:48 PM
ohhh
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:48 PM
Ominous.
Pallando-ValarToday at 4:49 PM
They're nerfing all resistance mods by 20% across the board, as well
as restricting Fax to a single cap booster, taking away
support fighters from Supercarriers, and nerfing heavy fighters
VardaToday at 4:50 PM
Bet there is much yelling.
Pallando-ValarToday at 4:50 PM
They're also adding 10% hp to all t1 battleships and nerfing the
eagle, legion, loki, and muninn slightly while giving the deimos a
slight buff
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:50 PM
a million voices just cried out..
Pallando-ValarToday at 4:50 PM
finally, they're adding 15% damage across the board to all t2 short
range ammo.
The overall thrust of this is to heavily reduce the ability of
supercaps to fight without support, reducing the ability of FAX to
tank entire fleets, and increase the ability for brawling ships to
kill things when they get ahold of them.
There is of course much wailing and gnashing of teeth over this,
with many people feeling there's going to be deleterious second- and
third-order effects on the very things CCP is trying to boost with
this, but we'll see once it's rolled out. Go live is the 15th.
VardaToday at 4:53 PM
It sounds as if they did some thinking there, though. So maybe it
will work out.
https://www.eveonline.com/article/q8f2l8/surgical-strike-coming-15-april
EVE Online
Surgical Strike – Coming 15 April | EVE Online
The quest for a healthy Capital ecosystem
continues!
Pallando-ValarToday at 4:53 PM
CCP has a record of more miss than hit with this sort of thing if
we're being honest.
But I'm... mildly hopeful.
They're willing to make changes they've put off for years. Hopefully
it's not too late.
VardaToday at 4:54 PM
You'll be in the middle of it and can tell us!
Here's hoping it will be good for your game play.
On to which other Valarites have we seen in our games this past
week. : )
Lord of the Rings Online:
Landroval server:
Eonwe
Fangorn
Hurin
Irmo
Miriel
Nar
Nimrodel
Varda
Ithil server:
Dis
Falco
Fangorn
Varda
Anor server:
Fangorn
Varda
Starcraft
that I know of had Fangorn, Eowyn, and Faramir (plus non-member
Ciaran, who is a whopper of a 6-year old up and coming player of
many things).
Anyone else like to mention Valarites from their own games?
Any other suggestions, requests, comments, or requests to knock it
off with adding all the sleeping pigs to the kin house?
It must be safe then. rubs hands together in anticipation
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Tolkien!
Feel free to mention that you have a question, topic, or Tolkien
Moment!
I already know what I think and would love to hear from others.
The idea of the Return of the King seems
quite fitting today.
We had more than one king returning or trying to return.
Who is the most obvious, and the one the book title is probably
about?
You all know this one cold. Must be off eating chocolate eggs.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:05 PM
sorry, was in timewalk, catching up
Anyway, earlier question, Fladrif was online this week :wink:
But yeah. The obvious is probably Aragorn.
I don't think Witch-king returning to fight was that central to the
story.l
VardaToday at 5:07 PM
Good to hear about Fladrif. : )
That could be another king we can mention for our list!
Aye to Aragorn.
He was the Chieftain of the Dunedain, so he was already king in the
north.
His line protected the people there, both hobbit and humans as those
in Bree.
He worked towards becoming king in the south, as his ancestral line
had done, making him High King.
So, Return of the High King?
This would unite the kingdoms, bring in allies of elves, dwarves,
and hobbits, and make the free peoples able to stand up against
Sauron's forces.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:08 PM
...exactly what kind of pipeweed was he smoking for that state to
return? :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 5:09 PM
heh - nicotine will get you if you don't watch out!
He even had an allied hobbit or perhaps hobbit force of four, to
handle the destruction of the One Ring.
Maybe destruction of the enemy by pipeweed as they all fight over
getting more of it.
How about Sauron as a returning king?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:10 PM
He certainly saw himself as a king at some point, but I think he was
mostly known as a lord or master :slight_smile:
And he was slowly returning to power, and the history of war.
VardaToday at 5:11 PM
Sauron had been a king, before some Numenoren guys sailed in.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:11 PM
How dare they.
VardaToday at 5:12 PM
but by the Lord of the Rings time, Sauron was going for
total dominance again and looked likely to get it. So the Istari had
to be sent in to help push the Free Peoples before he did. They
could still bomb out, but they got a nudge.
He was the absolute ruler, or king, who wanted to spread his
darkness and total control over Middle-earth.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:12 PM
Maiar to fight a Maia. At least somewhat balanced.
VardaToday at 5:13 PM
Aye, at least in having some idea of what they were up against. They
were only supposed to advise.
and lost a lot of their power, and maybe not so good, also lost part
of their memory.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:13 PM
But when they started to fall apart, one ended up more empowered,
which was useful :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 5:14 PM
I wonder if Saruman might have had more hope if he had kept more
memory?
That needed done, aye, to replace what was lost.
How about the dwarves?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:14 PM
King under the mountain!
Thorin's return and subsequent death and succession.
VardaToday at 5:15 PM
The Attempt at the Return of the King1
Might not sound quite right?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:15 PM
Well, he was back. For like a day.
VardaToday at 5:15 PM
yay?
Then later, one of his number came back to Moria with help.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:16 PM
better to die a king than to live a... hobo?
VardaToday at 5:16 PM
The dwarves tried to return to Moria and set up a new rulership.
No word came back.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:16 PM
Drums in the deep.
VardaToday at 5:16 PM
Aye : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:16 PM
Still, legend has it that a few generations later, some dwarf called
Durin the umpteenth did make it to free up Moria at last
:slight_smile:
VardaToday at 5:16 PM
The Fellowship discovered that the dwarves attempt did not turn out
well as not only Sauron's forces were there, but the balrog remained
along with other nameless horrors.
yay for the Return of Durin the Umpteenth!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:17 PM
Huzzah!
VardaToday at 5:17 PM
These titles just keep getting wilder.
Then we have those elves.
Mostly they were doing the Leaving of the Kings and everyone down to
the Janitor.
Did anyone buck that trend?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:18 PM
I suppose Ea(Ae?)rendi(e?)l was technically the heir to several
royal lines, and he did make it back.
So did Galadriel, who would be A QUEEN
NOT DARK BUT BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN
cough
VardaToday at 5:20 PM
She was sure thinking about being queen on the way back to
Middle-earth, and there was the One Ring. oboy
hands Phar a glass of water
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:21 PM
Thank you.
VardaToday at 5:21 PM
You don't mind a dab of starlight flavoring in it, by any chance?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:21 PM
My insides feel shiny.
VardaToday at 5:22 PM
hehe
How about Thranduil?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:22 PM
I suppose he did leave for war. And came back.
But his father died in the battle I recall, so he did return as a
king.
VardaToday at 5:22 PM
All the other elven kingdoms had Rings to help them and lost them!
They pretty much decided to leave Middle-earth afterwards.
True, that.
About the only way to become a king was a disaster happening to
one's father.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:23 PM
And Thranduil's like, who needs Rings, I never had one and I'm
staying right here!
VardaToday at 5:23 PM
Aye!
He was already king in northern Mirkwood, to which his silvans had
been pushed back, but in danger from Dol Guldur and constantly
fighting.
So he didn't have nearly as much as before, and could have lost it
eventually.
With the aid of Celeborn's fighters and Galadriel's magic, the
horror at Dol Guldur ended.
Thranduil's people fought the fires and the less magical forces.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:25 PM
And I have it on good authority that there was a pack of cleansed
wolves keeping the northwestern part of Mirkwood safe, but that's
for later in the RP...
VardaToday at 5:25 PM
hehe
Although Thranduil allowed much of Mirkwood that he was not already
holding to go to others,
(and all of the Lorien elves in south Mirkwood went West after a
time and Lorien failed),
his own kingdom throve.
Mirkwood became Eryn Lasgalen, meaning the wood of green leaves.
They even had an expansion, when Thranduil's son built a colony in
Ithilien's woods.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:26 PM
Return of the Kingdom.
VardaToday at 5:26 PM
There you go!
We keep coming up with new titles. : )
That one kind of works for Aragorn too.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:27 PM
Ah, yes. For Arnor at least.
VardaToday at 5:27 PM
How about the Hobbits? We talked about most of the others.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:28 PM
All 4 hobbits did rise to power. The biggest authority would be
the... eck, can't come up with the title
VardaToday at 5:28 PM
Thain?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:28 PM
Thank you! I thought Thrain, and then no, that's a dwarf...
VardaToday at 5:29 PM
Return of the Thain!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:29 PM
then there were the master of Buckland, and the mayor of the Shire
there you go!
Return of the Mayor!
VardaToday at 5:29 PM
More than one Mayor too. Frodo and Sam were both mayor.
yay! What a great title. : )
The hobbits had their thain, Peregrine, over a hobbit land
recognized by the new High King.
They prospered in the new peace and with the great alliances.
So that pretty much takes care of most of the kings I can think of
for that last book. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:30 PM
Hmm...
ArienValarToday at 5:31 PM
ah .. it is bed time for me now i fear .. geting tired :frowning:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:32 PM
Aw
ArienValarToday at 5:32 PM
and its not evewn midnight here yet
VardaToday at 5:32 PM
We're about done anyway. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:32 PM
Tired weekend?
VardaToday at 5:32 PM
the spiked hammer bounces self-importantly to return to the
hammerpad
ArienValarToday at 5:32 PM
just normal early workdays :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 5:32 PM
and trips
whomp!
the hammer returns woozily to the shelf while the hammerpad
puts up crown-spikes on its edges and chuckles
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After-meeting!
You made it to the end of the meeting, Sunshine. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:33 PM
return of the hammer
just like Thor
ArienValarToday at 5:34 PM
grin .. retrurn of the Gavel :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 5:34 PM
: )
ArienValarToday at 5:34 PM
Happy Easter all and enjoy the rest of it :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 5:34 PM
Sleep well, Arien. : )
Thank you!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:35 PM
happy easter!
IorethToday at 5:35 PM
Blessed Easter
VardaToday at 5:35 PM
Happy Easter!
ArienValarToday at 5:35 PM
Namarie :slight_smile:
VardaToday at 5:35 PM
Ioreth!
Aiya : )
ArienValarToday at 5:35 PM
:slight_smile:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:35 PM
Aiya!
VardaToday at 5:37 PM
I need to help with some paperwork and Easter dinner. : )
But will definitely check out anything else typed here!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:37 PM
enjoy!
doing some gaming, then will give report
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 6:09 PM
Purrrsonal gaming report
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 6:33 PM
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Flashgaming: 3 flashgames! 2 fun old
ones, 1 fun new one :slight_smile:
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Jiggmin/effing-meteors
is the first! Click the mouse to create a gravity well and get
meteors together to build bigger meteors, then use those to crash
into the world in each age to complete your goals. Lot of fun, and
the final boss is pretty good :smile:
Kongregate
Effing Meteors
Discover why the dinosaurs went extinct!
VardaToday at 6:51 PM
Looks fun
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 6:51 PM
https://www.kongregate.com/games/KingDotCom/mushroom-madness-2
is the second game! The second part of a series of upgrade/defense
games where you have to defend your mushrooms from wild animals,
collect money, and upgrade your stuff to do even better!
Kongregate
Mushroom Madness 2
Mushroom Madness 2 is finally here! Protect your
#39shrooms from the onslaught of hungry animals.
VardaToday at 6:52 PM
Defend your mushrooms from Frodo!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 6:52 PM
Haven't seen him around ;D
VardaToday at 6:52 PM
: ) Good defenses!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 6:53 PM
https://www.kongregate.com/games/RawEgg/dumo
for the third game! Short puzzle platformer, 20 levels wherein you
have to switch between 2 characters in different rooms to collect
all the gems. Use switches and keys from one room to open up
barriers in the other, and the other way around.
Kongregate
DUMO
Dumo is a puzzle platform game where you need to
switch characters in order to pick up all the gems.
Not too hard, mostly figuring out which switch unlocks which barrier
and then seeing which order you need to step on stuff or place
blocks :slight_smile:
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Blizzard gaming:
Heroes of the Storm:
From 397 to level 400! Nice milestone, and upgrades my portrait
frame from purple to red :slight_smile:
Got Auriel and Sonya to level 5, and Sergeant Hammer to 14.
Event has been standing on "less than 1 day" for over a week now,
and I'm still completing quests for it and getting loot chests. So I
guess the timer's not functioning correctly. Regardless, it could be
over any day.
Brawl went less well, I'm pretty bad at Jaina still :wink:
Hearthstone:
Indeed, expansion and new class arrived! Starting at level 20, I've
been working on leveling the demon hunter most of all, and got him
to... 21! Well, first match, which was a win because the starter
deck you get is actually pretty good, got me to 21, and the other
matches through 21. So 22 is close :slight_smile:
Brawl this is one where the legendary power from kael'thas is always
present: every third spell you cast in a turn is free.
Rather more strategic than I like, but got pretty far with a mage
deck with a ton of cheap spells and some very expensive ones. Can
get some early burst down more easily that way.
WoW:
Raiding is going quite well! After defeating bosses 8 and 9 on
heroic last week, we went for Ilgynoth as the hardest of the 3 final
bosses of each side wing.
Took us a bit, but we got it eventually, and then steamed on to
clear Carapace of N'Zoth in 2 tries. Nothing much new there, but
everything hits harder of course.
So that's 11 bosses down out of 12. We've since then spent some time
on N'Zoth himself, the final boss, but that's tricky. Not much
margin for error, and a lot of dps needed in all phases or you just
get overwhelmed. Or the sub-boss enrages, which is a quick loss as
well.
Overall not much more complicated than on normal, though, so we're
sure to get it soon, and then we can farm stuff for the rest of the
expansion :slight_smile:
Could leave the emissaries again this week, since the weeklies is
timewalks, and have been doing some of those instead. We've also
made plans with a group to spend each monday evening doing Horrific
Visions, working our way up to 5 masks, since I'm a bit too squishy
in cat - and too slow in bear - to make that on my own at this
point. But together it should be quite interesting. I've got over a
dozen runs saved up, as well.
Finished the faction assault achievement, by completing the Nazmir
assault. Fun one, where the final objective has you torpeding horde
ships with a submarine.
Though it took me a while to find the ships all the way in the
northwest corner... at first I was targetting some ships that didn't
seem to do anything until I figured out those were our own
:slight_smile:
One new pet, from the Gnomeregan pet dungeon! Had enough gizmos
collected to buy the Leper Rat.
VardaToday at 7:15 PM
yay?
Shouldn't they pay you?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 7:15 PM
Despite its name, it seems to be intact! But it is undead type, so
there's that.
Just looks a bit.. green in places.
3 more gnomeregan pet dungeons to go until I can buy the last pet
from there as well!
For other projects, I went through the unlock quest for the Kul
Tiran allied race, the result of which you've seen :slight_smile: I
also bought Calimbar that Champion's Treadblade mount for 100k, so
together with the mount you actually get for unlocking them, the Kul
Tiran Charger, that's 2 new mounts this week!
After that I started the 8.1.5 war campaign, wrapping up the
aftermath of Lady Ashvane's escape, and joining Jaina and Baine
Bloodhoof for the Proudmoore reunion with Jaina's lost brother. I
really like the cutscene!
Excellent writing.
The next part is dropping in on a horde meeting in Stormsong Valley,
but that'll have to wait a while; for now I'm trying to catch up a
bit on Wowhead since all the datamining set me back about 7 pages
:wink:
And that's it for Blizzard gaming!
In Total Annihilation
I've gotten to level 24, the last defensive mission of the Core
campaign, being surrounded and damaged on a plateau. But it appears
to be less difficult than the previous one, which had me restart
several times because of powerful attackwaves and at one point a
long distance cannon that started tearing my base apart.
On the winning try I upgraded my own defensive structures just a bit
and kept a fleet of gunships ready to snipe the long distance cannon
with a fast aerial strike. Which worked!
But I'm pretty secure in level 24 now, unless they send everything
at me at once, but it all seems to come in small waves. And then
only one level awaits to complete the campaign :slight_smile:
Oh, and my latest Warcraft book arrived, the class manga Mage. Not
counting any books still to be released, my collection is now almost
complete!
And that's my report for the week!
VardaToday at 7:31 PM
Thank you, Phar : )
Grats on the book.
Total Annihilation fun?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 7:32 PM
Thanks :slight_smile:
Yep!
A bit more difficult now, but as long as I can get my gun-planes
(rapiers) going I can usually tear through the enemy base :smile:
Rather more scared of the expansion campaigns, though. Lot more
complicated units and I think there's a heavy focus on naval combat,
especially in the early levels.
Might have to make a bit more use of walkthroughs/strategy guides.
But that's fine, it's why they exist!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 7:45 PM
And oh, yes, Game of Thrones
game is going fine :slight_smile: Just got my main building to the
maximum level of 25, and with most of the other buildings at 24,
it's time to max them out too, though it takes like a week per
building now. But at 25 they all have special bonuses which are
quite welcome!
VardaToday at 7:58 PM
Nice
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 8:00 PM
namarie!
VardaToday at 8:02 PM
Namarie : )
Eonwe ValarToday at 8:25 PM
Heya all.
Or what's left over everyone :}
Happy Easter :}
WoW:
Since I finished my 5 classes, I've been PvP farming to try and get
my Shreds of Insanity. Up to 122/200. I'm still sane though :} Got
Wrynn's Vanguard to exalted, so now I just need the Marks of Honor
to get the mount, and I'm now Honor Level 55. I'll more than likely
get 200 Shreds of Insanity before I hit Honor Level 80 :}
VardaToday at 8:29 PM
Aiya Eonwe!
Eonwe ValarToday at 8:29 PM
Heya :}
VardaToday at 8:29 PM
Happy Easter : )
May Cthulu remain far from you.
Eonwe ValarToday at 8:30 PM
:}
Eonwe ValarToday at 8:38 PM
I find it easier in Ashran to farm for Shreds of Insanity, even
though we lose alot. People are more willing to stick together so
we're more likely to get at least a few of the enemy, heh.
Plus it gives me a chance to try and get the Bloody Coins for the
MoP PvP mount. I'm a ways away from that though, so I may end up
with Honor Level 80 before I get the 500 coins needed, heh.
VardaToday at 9:08 PM
Guess I should assume that Eonwe, Gorlim, and Ioreth are all on
different WoW servers
Eonwe ValarToday at 9:11 PM
I'm on Lothar, of course :} Aye, Gorlim and Ioreth are on different
server(s).
VardaToday at 1:25 AM
Good night : )
Eonwe ValarToday at 1:44 AM
Sleep well :}
Eonwe ValarToday at 2:08 AM
Time for me to be off. Take care, good night, sleep well, and have
fun :}
VardaToday at 10:09 PM
Just one more thing I'd like to mention on the topic of the Return
of the King. The final line in the book. Sam comes home to his
comfortable hobbit hole with his wife and children:
He drew a deep breath. "Well, I'm back," he said.
Endquote.
Oh, when he says it, he's sitting in a chair.
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