September Weekend ThreadFollow

WoW: not logged in. Playing Wildstar :p Been PvPing and farming. Not much to really do at cap. To raid in Wildstar you have to do this long 12 step quest. It is suppose to be there to filter out "bad" players, instead it filters out casual players. The population is taking a nose dive so fast (because people get to cap, find this quest line to be stupid and boring) that their grand idea to bring back 40-man raids won't ever been done on most of the realms. It is sad. The game is killing itself via it's end game

RL: Sept 11 is when the doc said I start therapy for the broken ankle. I get to return to work, and hopefully I get to start walking. These last 2 months have been so flip'en boring. I've never broke a bone before, so missing out on so much sucks :p

Well Wildstar uses an action action bar. So you do not have to target, the target, just aim abilities. Mobs do the same, so you can step out and dodge the big instant-death moves. Also each class gets 1+ "stun" abilities. The key is to learn what boss moves can be "stopped" and cause the boss to be stunned for a bit (during this time, there is an increase to damage it takes).

I've done 0 raiding, as I find the attunement quest to be pointless in teaching me how to "raid".

I would assume the Tank tries to keep the boss pointed in on large fan area, that way s/he can dodge. The rest attack from the sides/back. Healers have to run around.

It sounds like a cluster ****. They also have a big 40man PvP thing called Warplots. Not even sure if people are doing them.

oh. you can change the display of that. I only see mine, mobs, and healer marks (green).
Only time my ground is red all over is during PvP.

I just don't remember what menu it is in. There is also an addon called frienemy that blocks Exile/Dominion marks while in PvE.

Blah to full time. I hate it.

Hey all!!

Gaming: Been playing wow again. Broke down and bought the Xpac. Used my boost to 90 on Ravencrest, where a lot of my friends play now. I was wondering why Dalaran has been dead for a while. So getting caught up with some old friends again is nice. Made a 90 NE druid which is fun so far. Ran a few LFRs and what not got some decent upgrades from the boost gear. I plan on playing this guy till WoD release along with my main horde hunter on dalaran.

RL: nothing really going on this month, just had vacation down the shore(jersey) which was nice with the wife.

Still trying to decide if I'm going to come back for WoD or not. I found some RL friends that I play Pathfinder with who still play WoW, and they're casual questers like me, so I might jump in with them. I will also probably just reactivate my old account rather than starting completely over.

I picked up Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition for PS4 this weekend. The game is a lot of fun so far (playing a demon hunter). If anybody is playing DIII, or plans to play Destiny, on PS4, feel free to send me a friend request. PSN ID is the same as my username here.

Tried out D3 again yesterday, got a few goblin rifts which was fun and full of cash. Spent 3-4 hours farming for a hellfire necklace and it was junk, so time to start over on it.

Was a quiet weekend with a birthday party (cleaning before and after) and then D3.

Ironically, I just got a WoD beta invite. Might as well see what that's like.

The one WoW beta I got to be a part of (think it was LK), I realized I was just going to have to do all of those quests over again when the expac launched, so I stopped playing after about an hour.

Just got my beta invite to WoD myself. Was playing a bit of GW2 the last couple of days then figured I'd log into WoW and checked the drop down and low and behold.. Beta: Warlords was an option.. checked my email and yep they sent me an invite. (they must have noticed I had started to play another game for a few days and went "oh, snap, we better send him a beta invite. took us a year to get him back last time..." LoL

I have to say, I'm disappointed in the new models. Very disappointed, actually.

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Honestly, though, I wouldn't be nearly as disappointed if they didn't make horrible design choices with the hair. I'm guessing they decided to make a sort of homage to the old models, by making the same awkward gaps and edges in the hair styles as before... But the thing is, those gaps and edges were 100% the problem with the old hair styles. They did NOT age well. They were acceptable 8 years ago, when technology was the limit, but the low texture res of the hair was never the problem.

Now we have a higher texture res, and a better polygon count... but they kept all the same weird affects of the style. And it just looks terrible to me. I mean, I actually think it looks worse, because now it's weird and anachronistic in the worst ways. And they desired to do that thing with a bunch of separate polygons working together, which I just always thinks looks awful if you're not running a system with physics.

I'm sure I'd adjust to ignoring the hair, as always. But we waited so long for the revamp, and it's one thing I was actually excited for... and it just looks terrible to me.

Orc hair isn't so bad, but you can definitely tell they actually bothered to branch out artistically there, probably because of all the new Orc NPCs.

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That said, the Dwarf beards are glorious.

Edited, Sep 13th 2014 1:00pm by idiggory

Got back to D3, trying out seasonal HC (harcore = 1 life only) mode is not fun, kind of stressful actually.

Did some cleaning and rearranging of the game room, cooking, relaxing. Wasn't a bad weekend.

Wait, what happened to your ankle?