Well Friday and Saturday night Via Solara ventured into Veeshan's Peak for the very first time. We were able to defeat Kluzen the Protector (1-Pull), Elder Ekron (2-Pulls) and Druushk (3-Pulls). Huge Congratulations to Lyssette, Mariska and Shaides who earned Mythical Weapons.
It was very encouraging to see that we could take on a new zone with such success. There were a few times we lost players due to crashes to character select. The zone seems to have a few bugs to it. But overall I had a blast. I look forward to visiting the zone again. Hopefully looking for a Mythical weapon of my own.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
EQ2 update
Well since returning to EQ2, I've been having a blast. I set goals to level at least 2 of my characters to 80 by the end of the summer and possibly a 3rd. These goals have fallen behind somewhat because of a particularly busy last 2 weeks at work.
Corwin should finally make level 80 either this week or most likely next week.
I started my collection of shards for the heroic armor set. Only 34'ish shards to go.
This week I run my first event since moving to Via Solara. I'm leading a brave group into the Scion of Ice on Thursday.
I've started to research what I need to do for the Guardian Epic and Mythical. It shouldn't take too long to get the Epic, but the Mythical may take a bit longer.
Happy belated 4th of July everyone.
Corwin should finally make level 80 either this week or most likely next week.
I started my collection of shards for the heroic armor set. Only 34'ish shards to go.
This week I run my first event since moving to Via Solara. I'm leading a brave group into the Scion of Ice on Thursday.
I've started to research what I need to do for the Guardian Epic and Mythical. It shouldn't take too long to get the Epic, but the Mythical may take a bit longer.
Happy belated 4th of July everyone.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Origins Gamefair 2009
Origins, is a gaming convention held each year in Columbus Ohio that primarily caters to Pen & Paper RPG's, Boardgames, Miniature games and Tradable Card games.
Due to R/L commitments I was only able to go on Saturday. Unfortunately no games for me this year. I did get to walk the vendor hall to see what was around. Lots of discounts on old RPG's and even some miniatures. Nothing really caught my eye though. But I did pick up a Chuck Norris joke book. :D
My son an I did get to check out the Battletech pods. If you don't know what these are, they are a pod that you sit in with a speed control on your left and a joy stick on your right. You are totally enclosed as if you were in the cockpit of a mech. You battle other players, there was probably a dozen pods at the show. Even though the graphics are highly outdated it's a very fun game.
The attendance at the con was probably down from last year, but not by a large amount. Hopefully next year I will be able to schedule some time to actually play some games.
Due to R/L commitments I was only able to go on Saturday. Unfortunately no games for me this year. I did get to walk the vendor hall to see what was around. Lots of discounts on old RPG's and even some miniatures. Nothing really caught my eye though. But I did pick up a Chuck Norris joke book. :D
My son an I did get to check out the Battletech pods. If you don't know what these are, they are a pod that you sit in with a speed control on your left and a joy stick on your right. You are totally enclosed as if you were in the cockpit of a mech. You battle other players, there was probably a dozen pods at the show. Even though the graphics are highly outdated it's a very fun game.
The attendance at the con was probably down from last year, but not by a large amount. Hopefully next year I will be able to schedule some time to actually play some games.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Rock Band: The Beatles
Wow this looks to be a must get for me, even though I have Guitar Hero: World Tour. I'm a huge Beatles fan and rumors have it that I can use my GH:WT instuments with this! Here's their cinamatic trailer.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Star Wars: The Old Republic Cinamatic Trailer
Wow beautifully done trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Back in EQ2 and having a blast!
I re-subscribed to EQ2 and am having fun. I joined my guild for a Protector's Realm raid on Friday and it was a total blast! Something that LOTRO never really produced for me.
Thinking of betraying my Guardian to Beserker. Still mulling that over.
Should be some good times ahead!
Thinking of betraying my Guardian to Beserker. Still mulling that over.
Should be some good times ahead!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
New System (Update)
Well I received the parts for my new system on Thursday, May 21st. Put everything together and installed Vista Home Premium 64. Initially I had issues with those evil "Blue Screens of Death".
But after checking online I found that some other people were having trouble getting the memory I bought to work at 1333 on other boards. The solution was to turn them down a notch to 1066. I did this and haven't had any memory issues since. This could be an issue with the memory or an issue with the MB itself.
Here's the main guts of the system:
So far, I've played LOTRO and CoD: World at War. Both performed flawlessly. LOTRO at maximum settings was getting 45-60 FPS. While I didn't get the FPS while playing CoD, at maximum there were no problems and the game ran very smoothly.
I'll install more games and test out the performance. But overall I am very happy.
But after checking online I found that some other people were having trouble getting the memory I bought to work at 1333 on other boards. The solution was to turn them down a notch to 1066. I did this and haven't had any memory issues since. This could be an issue with the memory or an issue with the MB itself.
Here's the main guts of the system:
AMD Phenom II X4 810 2.6GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Processor
EVGA 512-P3-N841-AR GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
So far, I've played LOTRO and CoD: World at War. Both performed flawlessly. LOTRO at maximum settings was getting 45-60 FPS. While I didn't get the FPS while playing CoD, at maximum there were no problems and the game ran very smoothly.
I'll install more games and test out the performance. But overall I am very happy.
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