LadyCrimson

It's probably going to be a little while yet before I hit 60. Wouldn't take long if I put the pedal to the metal, but every time I gain a level or two, I feel like I have to take a break from combat for a couple days. I'm still not sure I'll be doing any dungeons/grouping. Really not my thing. I do occasionally like running randomly into others who need help where I might toss out some spells or heals as I pass by, but that's different.

I think people need to come up with a better nick for this console than XBone, which reads more as X-Bone than Xbox-One. @Chippy - while I'd agree I'm not fond of a lot of MS's seeming messages about gamers/gaming, I do have to idly wonder whether someone wanting their Xbox during submarine duty really equals a valid complaint in the first place. Seems more like a time for a Gameboy or something...course, maybe the Gameboy requires the internet these days too ... I wouldn't know.

Lately I've been of the opinion that there are no good movies being made anymore. Y'know, the ones that make you go "Oh yeah, I have to check that out!" ... I surf and surf 100's of titles, and always go "meh, maybe on a rainy day." More likely, my tastes have changed plus all the actors/actresses I grew up liking are mostly gone or semi-retired and I just can't quite get into the new crop. So I ate my Chinese food tonight watching the birds in the trees instead. We have a lot of small song birds, crows, bluebirds, robins, etc. Plus racoons, squirrels, neighbor cats, possums, butterflies .... it's not exactly looking out your window to see deer in the forest, but hey, for the cheaper suburbs, it's not bad.

Well...with the devolving to a bit too much potential racial, sexual preference and gender profiling remarks vs. actual arguments, I'm thinking this incarnation of man vs. woman in gaming has run it's course. I could edit and prune a bit but since it's only 100 or so posts away from post limit and I'm sure the topic will come up again in one form or another, I'm laying this one to rest.

Well, we let it run a while, but I think it's time to close this one for length. Love may never end, but forum threads eventually do.

Looks a bit like he's got his arm around the woman (ppl standing on top of each other at the Bank). Just thought it was kinda funny, for some reason...

Well, I'm glad I'm a skinny elf then....maybe he won't think it's worth the time to hunt me down! The highest prof. I have is lvl 17 tailor (almost 18). The rest of the non-Leader ones are about 16. Highest Leader is 15...which has been 15 for seemingly days. Getting close to 16 now. Other Leader's are between 10-13. Also....if more quests were interconnecting/revisited throughout the game, like this guy's, it would be...a more interesting game to run through. But the early Linkletter stuff was the only time I felt interested in any chr/story aspect. The poor Linkletter's.

Oh, Michael Shannon is Zod? He can be a mixed bag actor wise. Good in some roles, not so good in others. I'm not really picturing him as Zod....didn't realize they were going to deal with Zod in this one right off the bat. And nobody beats Terance Stamp....nobody.

Heh, I was going to come in and ask if you've resisted temptation. I'm waiting for that Winter Wolf! I did get my main Cleric to 54, and her panther to max lvl-30. His last skin is basically ... even darker. Finally close to black rather than purplish. Also, finally had to switch from Sunburst to Astral Shield since it's better in tighter quarters. I still prefer Sunburst (with its radius dmg. + knockback) but I wasn't giving up Healing Ward in the hotkey bar. Strange how all the Lolth "bosses" are the easiest ones so far...I guess because of no adds. Some of the clusters of drow assassins/priestess were tougher than "Daughter of Lolth."

Hurlshot's RV trip threads are becoming one of the best "annual traditions" of the forum.

Farmed for runestones in NW:Online off and on for a few hours. Sat outside in the sun. Did some joint stress/strength exercises (so boring...). Watched hubby try to take a broken Kindle apart (someone at his office was going to toss it)...he likes to see how things work, or if maybe he could fix them. He's like a little kid taking apart his parents phone, sometimes. Now off to make some supper and then maybe find a movie to watch.

Yeah.... ...decided a lvl7 enchant/runestone is not worth the trouble. You'd spend oodles of diamonds/zen on either type of ward to get to the highest rank (lvl10?) - or lose oodles of enchants if you don't use wards. Lvl5 or maybe lvl6 is the highest I'd go, even with wards. Totally insane. I lost a lot more p. wards than in that pic, going from lvl4's...with the end result of 2 lvl7 enchants and some lvl 5's and 6's left over. I'll stick to the professions. My cleric is almost lvl53 now, wiping the PvE quest mobs around. Outside of the instance bosses w/their adds, it's almost boring. But I'm sure I'd suck duck in group dungeons.

I saw that before I went to bed. Skill node farming for me all weekend! Enchant heaven! Don't really understand the special town under attack thing...is that a group thing? ....and tell me about it. At the least it's tempting to buy a few respec tokens each for a few chrs. and a whole bunch of preservation wards. Or just horde Zen from the bonus sale until they have something I really do want ... like a panther or white wolf mount (not worg...). ....I'm still not spending $15 on a stupid dress, however. But if bags, profession packs and more actual services ever go on sale, I'd be in serious trouble.

Oh NooOOooOO! Alchemy resources/assets? In prep for a new Profession for the upcoming new race/class? Just what my obsessiveness does not need.

I've been going for defense because it helps with every single hit, where I think Deflection is only a chance of 50% dmg. reduction on a hit? Being solo with everyone hitting me-only (they almost never attack panther), the former seems more sensible? Altho I'd guess Deflection, when it procs, works well with the big red circle attacks. Cleric's reached the point where with 4 Divine pips she hardly has to use the action-point Divine Powers. Only if completely mobbed or on the "bosses." Sunburst/Daunting Light/Healing Wards/Astral Seal/Sacred Flame. She takes a lot of dmg but heals for so much that most of the time she survives without needing a pot. The bizarre camera swinging angles that can occur when close-targeting in narrow places still "mess" me up sometimes tho.

That looks like a good place for a concert.

I'm wondering what y'all think about Deflection vs. Defense. Seems hard to get a lot of both, if you also want lots of Power, Life Steal and whatnot. So far I've been going with Defense and Life Steal on the Cleric (about 11% LS, 22% defense now). Regeneration seems useless, especially for a Cleric...so Power/Defense/Life Steal with a bit of other things. Critical Strike is nice but don't seem to need it super high for cleric soloing (I have it at 16% at the moment).

Sure.

A Mac with a built-in espresso machine would sell billions.

I look at them now and then but always come to the same conclusion: I wouldn't (yet) buy enough games on the console to make it worth the extra gaming purchase (to me). If hubby was interested in one for his occasional living room gaming vs. PC, we'd get one anyway, but he's not, so... Gaming gets enough of my money as it is anyway.

Alternating between in here on the 'net and in the living room lounging around in a t-shirt whilst a cat keeps trying to lick my knees. He's a weird cat. Any word on the "why?"

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.