LadyCrimson

I got bored of the stupid chain mail armor look that almost never changes. The bottom skirt of the Founder dress outfit flares up every time you go down steep hills/stairs...which was amusing for a while, but then I got bored of that too, heh. The game really needs more clothing options (that don't cost $16 in zen to buy). Just dyeing something doesn't do much for me.

Patch loaded. Going to take a bit to get used to all these new graphic icons. Blah. My current fave farming instance for lvl3ish runes/enchants (meaning I never finish the quest/kill the guy at the end of it...) has been left alone, yay. Faster time for combining runes is the awesome. My lvl27 panther used to do about 60-70 avg dmg. and 120-130ish crit dmg against lvl46 enemies. He now seems to average about 190-200 dmg. with 290-300+ crits. I assume they're crits. Could just be his pounce skill bonus for all I know. Anyway, it's better and he could kill a single mob dude on his own, but still slow so it's not much of a difference in a real fight. But he did pull aggro a tiny bit faster. And I don't think he did the below animation before when he pounced. He'd just crouch-land, not fall into a super arched-back pose. Kinda weird. Didn't test him on lvl27 enemies.

Yeah....I'd do things differently if I was focused 90% on only one chr. Just one doesn't give me enough obsessive-task orientation, tho. Hardehar. I keep making new clvl 10 alts to create more workers (and nothing else), too, so I don't have to use up slots on the others just for that. I'm so sad. Patch 66%....

99% of the time it's Deeper Dungeons...the official levels or my own "goofing off" maps.

First half of patch went fast. Second half of patch going sllooow. Sigh. ...and on average I currently pull in about 175k-200k AD a week between all my Leadership's and the occasional AH'd prof. worker/other small items. More or less. I'm trying for 400k a week (eventually). Sadly there seems to be a built-in limit to how many of each type of prof. task you can have going at once. I don't know if it's a bug or what, but after starting 3 of the same diamond-generating task, that task disappears from the available list. But there's so many with 800, 1200 and 1600 per task (that can be done twice a day) that it doesn't matter too much. It is a bit irritating to buy zen in dribs and drabs from each alt but it all goes to the combined exchange account so no biggie. ....annnnnnnd now the patch is going even slowerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....................(edit) and now I think it's stuck at 62%. Great.

I can't help it....I keep watching "Wicked Attraction," despite the cheesy re-enactments. I tend to find true-crime shows interesting. The profiling of deranged minds or forensics. Used to read true-crime books from the library...these days it's TV shows I guess. I tend to prefer stuff like "Forensic Files" but I watch a bit of everything in that vein, now and then. Wish they'd reduce the usage of filler re-enactment stuff tho...for any reality/history genre show, not just crime. That aspect of TV just get worse and worse...

Taking a short break from NW:Online (well, outside of occasional Gateway use). Fired up some Dungeon Keeper, because slapping imps to death always makes me happy for an hour or two.

Chris Pine as Jack Ryan?

I've noticed some people's spider mounts, when idle, would sway back and forth and mine didn't. I wondered why. Then I found out it must be when you hit lvl 50, because now mine does it. Got bigger too. I still need gold to buy the occasional thing for all my alts profession gearing, so I haven't done the horse/AH thing. I seem to make a fair bit of AD as it is ... never enough of course, but it works. Goes in spurts. I still find the only use for AD, in my case, is trading for Zen. Generally seems like what I want (and how much of it I want), I'm better off trading for 300zen booster packs then spending multi-millions of AD on specific items one at a time. And the occasional lockbox key for the t. bars. Edit: so many lvl 60 purples for super cheap on the AH, I've bought a few of those. Sitting in mailbox for when I'm 60.

Yeah, that was kinda my thought/wondering. I know about horse-blinders, but they're usually a lot different (well, modern ones anyway). More like two flaps that block side vision. Those big spiderweb, metal coverings of the pic look like they'd interfere with forward vision (metal stripes would run across vision) somewhat, as well as not really blocking side vision very well. Then again, there are horizontal slat type anti-glare glasses and such, so perhaps while they interfere some, it's not that bad. And I'm certainly no expert on horses. Just seemed curious.

Hubs fairly new Weller soldering iron (which he still doesn't like as much as the 70's Weller that broke...) apparently can reach 9000 degrees! .... to which hubs muttered cursing of this odd behavior as he hastily turned it off was "I think it #@!#@ broke already." Not much going on around here outside of that. I've been out of the house a lot recently, however...mostly family stuff. Then I come home and snooze.

How well do horses actually see through eye coverings like that, I wonder?

The flood/swimming pool pic is freaky.

*looks at the hollow space in the middle* ...the first computer that can perform double duty as a trash can?

Alas, poor Gorth! ... I knew him, forumites: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ... The Gorth With No Name ?

I forgot to add my "disclaimer" that while I've read a lot of posts about the game series here and there, I've yet to play any of the previous Witcher or DA games, so there's no built-in anticipation (or antipathy...) for me in that regard. I'd probably respond better if more game trailers had elements of humor or were more subtle...something other than the overly dramatic "ultimate evil/ultimate hero/ultimate action/look at this handsome hero/heroine" fast-cut/bangbang movie trailer type thing that has become so blase over the past decade.

Why oh why must I be the sort to obsess over things like leveling professions/commerce meta-games? I get so sucked into this crap. *shakes head* I'll think I'm getting closeish to that area. What's so terrible about it? So far I'm still largely having no trouble outside of the bosses w/their cheesy adds. But then, I'm a cleric. They really are the solo-EZ. Divine Power/AoE whammo. My rogue kicked butt for a while but at 35ish she's starting to gobble potions like mad if there's more than 2 or 3. Course, I don't tend to keep upgrading the gear much lately. Some of her gear is still lvl25ish. Heh.

This. I'm not actually that impressed with either trailer, regardless. Which isn't to judge the game potential itself...only the trailers. Fancy official trailers these days all blur together anyway...and are usually largely meaningless for wondering if I want to play/buy it.

Yeah, I'm not interested in the chests. Getting Leader to lvl10 doesn't take too long (endless Explore Area's and 100's and 100's of local maps!) but after that it does slow down, especially if you want the rewards so everything takes 2+ hours. Helps when you have 5 Adventurers. But if one's main objective is to get the diamonds, once you're 13, who cares how long it takes to get to 20. Can use the other professions for the 3@20 goal at some point, if one wants. I forgot, too...I think at 20 you can get the 1600 diamonds without any resource at all, just sword/armor. Depends on why you normally dislike MMO's. If it's cause you typically like to do things solo, it's plenty doable solo. However like most MMO's, the "end game" if you're largely a loner isn't going to be super exciting ... not with the way the Foundry currently is. If that ever gets better then one could do a lot of those at the end, but right now it seems like it'd be a bit repetitive/not enough variety. But there are some changes planned and things planned to be added, so one might want to wait until the game is a little more sussed out before trying. Then again, it's free to try, so....

That's the beauty of it....Leadership makes its own resources via the tasks. So first you make lots of the blue scroll thingies as a start (it's a regular task, not a "special" one), then alternate between the diamonds when it shows up and more blue scrolls. At lvl 19 there's something similar, only you also get a purple random "treasure chest" along with the diamonds.

Strong poison = lack of need for giant pincers? There's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm too lazy to think of it. And scorpions (among other things) are why I'd prefer not to camp out in the open in the desert. Knowing me, I'd forget to shake out my shoes in the morning or something.

Ya can't run from da internet stahkurs! That's always a bit disturbing. Also, it wasn't me. All my bodies are decently buried in the backyard where they're supposed to be.

Hm. 1600x4 (worker slots) x 7 (total chrs) x7 (one week) = 313,600k AD per week (and 1000+ zen a week/exchange). And you don't even have to have Leadership at lvl20. If more slots available, even more. ...screw making workers or items to sell on the AH at the whim of demand and the high AH posting fee. That's good enough for me. (edit: you do have to keep an eye out for when that one special task appears, but that's no biggie via the Gateway)

I don't think even I quite got to 1000 hours in FNV. But I did probably get up around 700-800 by the end. It's not recorded on Steam however, since I play Steam-offline.

What's the max level of rune/enchant that drops from enemies? Lvl4? I'm 48/in the snowy area and lvl3's fall pretty constantly now. I've been trying to take advantage of the skill nodes that appear close to quest instances, before the patch maybe removes/nerfs a lot of them. Mostly for that small chance of the blue crafting assets. Does get boring doing the same 20 feet of area over and over and over... And my panther is finally lvl25, so all six of his gear slots are open. Not that I'm ready to put anything fantastic in those slots yet. His ring/tailsman/necklace etc. are all "white" so it costs nothing to remove them. His runes are lvl5 tho.