Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
They see me Cultivatin, they be hatin'
No more WAR means no more cultivation. Goodbye little ones :-(
Decisions
As you may have gathered from the last entry, I was quite enjoying myself in Warhammer. I love how the game feels like you are standing in the world of the boardgame and the way the PvE part (PQ's and such) is being handled. PvP-wise I was enjoying myself a lot more than with WoW. All in all, a thoroughly decent game. Which I'm not going to renew my subscription for.
Why not? Because it's another grind to a point where I'll end up not achieving the ingame goals I've set, simply because my life does not permit me to spend that much time on a game. I've tried to just go with the game's flow and run around like a noob, not caring what skills I used and whether I was "doing it right", just to get back that feeling I had when WoW was still fresh to me, and holy shock was my pull (lulz). But after a week I was scouring class forums and checking easily obtained high quality gear; adjusting my levelling path just to make sure I followed the "optimal" route.
I know where this is headed, and I'm not going there again. So once the sub runs out it's goodbye Warhammer. I will give EVE another shot, and that will probably be it, MMO-wise.
Why not? Because it's another grind to a point where I'll end up not achieving the ingame goals I've set, simply because my life does not permit me to spend that much time on a game. I've tried to just go with the game's flow and run around like a noob, not caring what skills I used and whether I was "doing it right", just to get back that feeling I had when WoW was still fresh to me, and holy shock was my pull (lulz). But after a week I was scouring class forums and checking easily obtained high quality gear; adjusting my levelling path just to make sure I followed the "optimal" route.
I know where this is headed, and I'm not going there again. So once the sub runs out it's goodbye Warhammer. I will give EVE another shot, and that will probably be it, MMO-wise.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Meet Koud Bier
Meet my new pride and joy in the game of Warhammer Age of Reckoning: Koud, the Chaos chosen, champion of the northern wastelands and lover of heavy armor. Also a great fan of the colour yellow.
I've tried almost all classes in WAR up to around rank 8-10, but I think I'll stick with Koud for a while. He is rank 8 now, and I've devised a cunning plan to level him up. Instead of moving through the storyline, doing quests in a certain area and moving on to the adjacent one, I'm grinding Public Quests in all areas of my level (so that's the High vs Dark elves, Greenskins vs Dwarfs and Chaos vs Empire chapters)
Every chapter contains three Public Quests that drop Da Fat Lewtz, and usually I can solo one of them (the easy one, yeah) These PQ's also grant you influence, which kinda works like reputation in WoW, apart from the fact it takes three hours to max one out instead of three months. And no furbolgs are harmed (so far, anyway). These influence rewards are pretty good for their level as well.
So that's how Koud rolls. He also is a fanatical Cultivist, which is like an activist with plants. That's right, big and tough champion of Chaos cares for little plants. He nourishes them to full fruition and watches them grow, and flower. He makes sure the soil is perfect, that the moisture levels are juuust right and that all his little sprouts get the sunlight they need.
And then he rips them out of the ground to grind them up and make potions and dyes out of them. It's how he rolls. He has posters of Arthas in his bedroom as well.When he reaches level -I mean rank- 20, he will venture to the Inevitable City and purchase himself a last name, Bier. From then on, he shall be known as Koud Bier.
That is probably only funny for Dutch readers.
I've tried almost all classes in WAR up to around rank 8-10, but I think I'll stick with Koud for a while. He is rank 8 now, and I've devised a cunning plan to level him up. Instead of moving through the storyline, doing quests in a certain area and moving on to the adjacent one, I'm grinding Public Quests in all areas of my level (so that's the High vs Dark elves, Greenskins vs Dwarfs and Chaos vs Empire chapters)
Every chapter contains three Public Quests that drop Da Fat Lewtz, and usually I can solo one of them (the easy one, yeah) These PQ's also grant you influence, which kinda works like reputation in WoW, apart from the fact it takes three hours to max one out instead of three months. And no furbolgs are harmed (so far, anyway). These influence rewards are pretty good for their level as well.
So that's how Koud rolls. He also is a fanatical Cultivist, which is like an activist with plants. That's right, big and tough champion of Chaos cares for little plants. He nourishes them to full fruition and watches them grow, and flower. He makes sure the soil is perfect, that the moisture levels are juuust right and that all his little sprouts get the sunlight they need.
And then he rips them out of the ground to grind them up and make potions and dyes out of them. It's how he rolls. He has posters of Arthas in his bedroom as well.When he reaches level -I mean rank- 20, he will venture to the Inevitable City and purchase himself a last name, Bier. From then on, he shall be known as Koud Bier.
That is probably only funny for Dutch readers.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
New header
Foshizzle, my wife photoshopped me a new header. I must be the only person on the interblags not to know how to photoshop stuff. The header is some Sisters of Battle looking religious and probably also serious. I'm not sure it is in anyway connected to the blog.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Reverse progress...
...Is not the same as, uhm, regress or degress? I digress. This weblog started out as a sort of report on how my cold-turkey WoW rehabilitation was going to develope. As it turned out, after two weeks of rather interesting entries, the addiction was gone, conquered, defeated. So much for that. I still have very little desire to come back to WoW, or it would have to be to troll the Shattered Halls forum.
So with Wow out of the way, things got boring rather quickly. I rekindled my interest in Oblivion and powered through the first 10-12 levels on two or three characters. I picked up Morrowind, one of my all-time favourites and added some flavour through mods. All nice enough, but something was missing.
Other people. As much as I like to sustain that I'd rather be a complete recluse, gaming online with other people is just...fun. Especially when it's pvp, and they are on the opposite side getting their faces smashed in. Maybe that's not so social. But it does require other people.
So there I sat, one afternoon, tired of Oblivion, lounging in front of my pc deciding what to do. I looked at any software I could delete, just to relieve the boredom. At the end of the list was this program called "Warhammer Age of Reckoning".
Hello. What's this?
I bought the game months ago for my birthday. I had played it too for a while and noticed the potential. But it was maybe a month after it was released, and it suffered from severe graphical glitches. My pc wasn't up to it, and the interference with the gameplay was just to much so I had let my sub run out and had left it at that. Just to see what was going on with the game, I went to the site, only to find out they were offering trial accounts.
What the hell, why not.
So with Wow out of the way, things got boring rather quickly. I rekindled my interest in Oblivion and powered through the first 10-12 levels on two or three characters. I picked up Morrowind, one of my all-time favourites and added some flavour through mods. All nice enough, but something was missing.
Other people. As much as I like to sustain that I'd rather be a complete recluse, gaming online with other people is just...fun. Especially when it's pvp, and they are on the opposite side getting their faces smashed in. Maybe that's not so social. But it does require other people.
So there I sat, one afternoon, tired of Oblivion, lounging in front of my pc deciding what to do. I looked at any software I could delete, just to relieve the boredom. At the end of the list was this program called "Warhammer Age of Reckoning".
Hello. What's this?
I bought the game months ago for my birthday. I had played it too for a while and noticed the potential. But it was maybe a month after it was released, and it suffered from severe graphical glitches. My pc wasn't up to it, and the interference with the gameplay was just to much so I had let my sub run out and had left it at that. Just to see what was going on with the game, I went to the site, only to find out they were offering trial accounts.
What the hell, why not.
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