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  • Warlords of Draenor Progress

    Posted on by suguay Comment

    A quick update on my progress in Warlords of Draenor. I finally have my main to 100. Yes, I know a lot of people have been there since a week or two after it came out. I just don’t have that much play time. But I finally made it.

    To be honest, it snuck up on me. I new I was in the range but I was busy trying to finish up quests in Spires of Arak so I didn’t realize how close I was. I killed something and the next thing I know, boom there’s the big anouncement that I’m at 100 and all these new dungeons are available.

    Yippy.

    As soon as I finished the quests in Sprires and got the follower that comes with that, I headed off to my bank. I had several items as rewards from missions in my bank that I couldn’t use until I hit 100. So off to get those and boost my ilevel as well as all those other great stats. My highest item is my staff. It’s crafted and as soon as I can get the rest of the materials together, I will upgrade it. The upgrade will also be crafted.

    I also got the quest to upgrade my garrison to level 3, which I did. And I promptly put in a salvage yard and a
    Warmill. I don’t generally do raids but I would like some of the gear and I have read that with those two buildings I can get and send followers on raid missions, some of which award raid level gear. I will be doing this.

    It looks like I will need to do something about my battle pets if I want the Menagerie working. I don’t have any high enough to challenge the ones running around my garrison. I haven’t been doing the pet battle on my main, I have an alt that mostly does that as I am leveling her. It works better. But she’s only level 50 or so which means my pets are only about level 16 at most, maybe 18, I don’t remember.

    I still have questing to do. I’ve just barely started Nagrand and while I did pick up the daily in my garrison that has me attacking something there, I haven’t done it yet.

    Progress and yet there is still so much to do, so much to do.


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  • Getting Playtime or Not

    Posted on by suguay Comment

    I can’t say that I have been getting a lot of play time lately.

    I know for certain that I have been neglecting my association with the really cool people in the corporation I joined in Perpetuum. That has me a little disappointed. I have also been neglecting the new expansion in Rift. I started it and my main is in some underwater realm some where but I haven’t gotten very far.

    About the only thing I’ve managed much time for has ben World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor. I’m made it to 98 with my main there and I’m managed to get my garrison to level two with a few level two industries so I am making progress. Though, I will be honest here, most of my WoW time is maintenance. I log in, pick up the garrison supplies in the cache. I pickup the finished missions and send my followers out again. I also do the mining daily to get the supplies and create the work orders. I do the same for inscription since that is the profession of my main. I was really happy to finally get the herb garden so I pick the plants and set the work orders there as well. Most of the time I don’t even leave my garrison. This is how it is most of the week. If get a chance I try to do the fishing quest. But I don’t even get this done daily.

    I’ve got a few other things going right now so getting in that play time is a challenge. I would like to think it will get better in the new year. I know that’s not true. I suspect it will get worse.

    But just for a quick look at some of the stuff I’m trying to get around to: late to the game I know but I got Minecraft over the summer and have not had much time to spend on it since. I would like to get back to that. I would also like to get a bit more time in with Perpetuum. I’ve heard there are some cool changes for Planet Calypso (Entropia Universe) that I would like to check out.

    There’s one more though. It was just recently released to early access on Steam. I’ve been reading about it for two maybe three years now. I’m really excited for The Repopulation. This is a game that looks really cool. I haven’t picked up the early access yet, though that may change soon. This is one that will take a bit of time to learn and as it is early access, I’m betting there will not be many resources to be able to look up recipes and figure out how to complete quests so it’s going to a lot of play time and patience.

    I have no doubt that I have missed something that looked really good and I want to try. Or that there are old favorites that I have neglected for so long I’ve forgotten. Which, yes, is sad. It’s just that without a lot of play time, it’s a little hard to keep up.


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  • This Could Be a Problem

    Posted on by suguay Comment

    World of Warcraft, Warlords of Draenor has been live for just over a week now. The really cool new feature in it is Garrisons. I think it’s cool anyway. It may also be a big problem for me. Talk about a squirrel.

    One of the things I like in online games is when you can set something to be happening while you are logged out. That could be skill training and manufacturing like in Eve Online, or in Perpetuum there is the manufacturing and earning ep to go into different skills and in Ever Quest II there is the upgrades that can train or research while you are logged out.I think it’s really cool and enhances game play.

    The biggest downside to these offline processing features is that I want to keep checking on them. If I set something that takes only an hour to do, then I want to check back in an hour and see how if it’s done and how it turned out. When Eve Online created the skill queue where you could stack skill training so that if the one skill was only going to take 20 minutes to train another would start right after, that was a huge help. With Warlords we don’t have that option with missions. At least not yet, or not that I know of. And so I find myself logging in to see if something is complete so I can send out another mission.

    Missions are not the only thing that keep me logging back in while I’m trying to clean my home. The workorders are just as bad. I find if I log in to see if a mission is done then I also have to check the garrison cache to claim resources and I need to make sure I have picked up any work orders.

    I really do like the offline processing, it’s just cool. I would like a way, maybe through an app, to do these housekeeping things remotely. That would be really awesome.


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  • Quick Update on My Games Status

    Posted on by suguay Comment

    Here’s the thing. I, like a lot of people, have limited time to play games, though I enjoy them. Because of the limited time I don’t have a lot of patience for letting a game mature. Or letting for devs to work out the bugs and things like that. Now, if it’s a really good game that really catches me and pulls me in, then I can be patient. But if it doesn’t then I don’t give it a lot of attention. I also find that if it takes too long to do something in the game, I lose interest as well. I know for people that are really into their games and really dedicated, I am one of the noobs they do not want to see. Or I would be if I whined about it in chat, which I don’t.

    With that little introduction it will probably not come as a surprise to you that I have chosen to abandon ArcheAge. I have uninstalled it from my computer and I am just not going to bother. I did ready a nice article at Massively where they interviewed Trion about Hack Shield. Which you may recall I was unhappy about it being on my machine. Trion provided an explanation that I could understand and accept. I still find Hack Shield an annoyance and I will now have to go ‘hack’ it’s supposedly innocuous files from my machine.

    World of Warcraft and Warlords of Draenor beta. Ok I’m still doing this. I did finally get to the garrison thing in WoD. I think it will be cool when starting it at 90. Starting it at 100 is a little challenging as all the quests to go to different places that open up with levels are available so I’m not entirely sure whether I’m coming or going. But I think it is going to be fun when starting them as they are meant to be. So that’s a good thing. And sadly, or not, I did not do much with Brewfest this year and I wasn’t on long enough yesterday to check if Hallows End has started. I did log in and spend the few Valor Points I had before they go away on Tuesday with the new patch.

    I got on Perpetuum last week and had a good time. I found out that I was using the wrong weapons and armor for the type of robot I use and for the level of robot control that I have. So I started the process of changing that out. Think that’s going to mean I will want to change up what I can make but I’m not too worried about that right now. I just need to get some better gear.

    Isn’t that always the case. I think a lot of our time in various games is spent in getting better gear. Better weapons, better armor, higher level mats. Oh well. Hopefully we enjoy the story and the scenery along the way.

    So that’s my wrap up for the week or so. I’ve got a few other things that I played, started or tried over the summer and I’ll get to a point I can give you a bit of a run down on some of them. Some are old friends and some are potentially obscure things but hey, you never know when that buried dusty game turns out to be a gem. And though they did dig up a bunch of E.T. Nintendo cartridges, this is not one of the games I was ever into.

     


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  • WoW…WoD

    Posted on by suguay Comment

    I am very pleased that I got an invite for World of Warcraft’s Warlords of Draenor beta. I did have to go check my battle.net account first to make sure the email was legitimate. Happily, it was ans I proceeded to download it and log in.

    I chose to make a level 100 Warlock since my main is a Warlock. I  figured this way I would have some idea of what things were going to be like for me. Which for the most part, it’s not bad.

    I can’t say I have done a lot in the beta, at least not yet. I’ve done some questing in a couple of the zones and that has been fine. I’ve found a few of the random treasure caches. Those I like. They encourage curiosity. “Oh look, shiny. Let me click on it.” Some of them come with unexpected surprises. That’s fun.

    I have not gotten to the one thing that seems to be the big cool thing in this expansion. Garrisons. I have some garrison supplies. These were obtained either as loot or as quest rewards. I don’t know what to do with them yet.

    I will have to make a point of trying out the garrisons. Hopefully I will get to that sometime this week.

    For the most part I’m pretty comfortable with the changes in the expansion. At least what I have seen so far. There are only two things that I am not sure about. Probably because of starting at 100, I could not tell which way I was supposed to go. I wandered around a bit at first, until I found a flight path. The other thing I’m not entirely happy about are the changes to my spells. I don’t have as many and that feels odd. And the one that lets me cast certain spells while moving, where previously (meaning now) this was passive and required no additional action on my part, now it appears to require I click it first. That’s annoying. To be fair, it might have to do with a glyph I have on my main, I haven’t checked. If not, it just seems like more clicks. Maybe it is to make up for not having as many spells to click.

    Overall, I think I’m going to like Warlords of Draenor. And since the release date has been announced and is now only a month and a half away, I guess it’s time to pre-order.

    Now, who do I boost to 90?


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