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AiA: Noike Entry 1

Journal Entry 1 - Noike - Sunday 24th October 2010

Decided to return to my home server of Draenor, this time I've created a female night elf druid who will be Feral spec'd.

8.34pm
Just sorting out my user interface which won't take so long since they took out most of the skills now thanks to 4.0.1.
Ok done, going to start questing

8.37pm
Ding! Level 2
I see they changed how frequent the skills can be learnt now, feels odd having nothing new to learn like in the past

8.45pm
Ding! Level 3

8.48pm
So boring, done this area so many times...spiders, grells, cats and boars...

8.51pm
Ding! Level 4
taking a break to get some drinks for tonight

8.58pm
Right I'm back, getting on the with quests again, faster i get on, faster i can get out of this area
Finally picked up Moonfire and Healing touch, whoa mark of the wild is level 30 now.

9.09pm
starting area is too easy, run through cave, pick egg up, kill one spider for ichor and done
what happened to the huge fight way through

9.13pm
Ding! Level 5
still no shoes! come on drop a grey named shoes please
just learnt thorns and finishing off the last quest, well just starting it, one where you gather the moonwell water

9.18pm
Well that's the quest finished and Shadowglen all done, onwards to dolanaar

9.24pm
Made it Dolanaar, plenty of quests to pick up and some to hand in. Also got the Hallow's End event so theres a few quests for that and hopefully some achievements too!

Also going to pick up my professions, this time I'm going for Alchemy and Herbalism, i love the flask that will turn you into a drake in cataclysm and some of the potions look amazing. Might have to go back onto chamber of aspect and starting leveling my priest so she can make the potions for iznic

9.32pm
Achievement Unlocked! Sparkling Smile (10pts)
Had a mini break while browsing through wowwiki and the europe forums for info on alchemy and feral druids, just did a trick or treat and got the tooth picks.

Going to log off for a minute while i do trick or treat on my other characters

9.36pm
I'm back, just set my hearth stone and now picking up the quests and getting my new professions and going to hand in the two quests i got on the way here
Achievement Unlocked! Trick or Treat (10pts)
picked up herbalism and got the lifeblood skill, haste buff with minor healing looks good, picked up alchemy as well.

9.38pm
Bags starting to fill up, got food quests with items which take up way too much space. might have to invest in a new bag which would be the first time Ive bought a bag from a vendor.
Just learnt cooking and spiced bread recipe :) and now short on cash lol

Right I'm ready to start again, got eight quests in total to get on with so some serious leveling

9.45pm
just ticked up off rabbit for the /love achievement
had to do a run back since space is short, so sold some rubbish and picked up some silverleaf

9.52pm
Finished off Zenn's Bidding so that's freed up some space since it had three quest items needed
Ding! Level 6

10pm
Just spent pretty much all my money on buying a 6 slot bag
Just buffed my spellpower by 6 with one of the hallow end sweets :) loving the candy buckets
boots!
Dropped the earth quest off down by Lake Al'Ameth, guy is proper lagging lol

10.06pm
Add toad to the list for /love achievement

10.09pm
Ding! Level 7
Not long now for cat form, currently doing the timberling sprouts and seeds quests. long and boring. Deer to the /love achievement list

10.14pm
Just went back to dolnaar to make some room, bag space really is a problem. Did pick up entangling roots while i was there and now heading back down to the lake to finish those quests off

10.30pm
well the lake is done for now so going to go do the twisted hatred quest and hopefully level 8 from it and maybe loot another bag

wrong side of the cave!

Just got attacked by a rare grell called Threggil, dropped a white named sword (nothing amazing). Anyway got melenas' head, lifeblood saved me in the fight since also pulled a grell as well

10.33pm
trick or treat time again
Achievement Unlocked! The Mask Task (10pts)
right logging off again for a few minutes while i go onto my other characters

10.36pm
I'm back, put on the blood elf female mask :) one of the two missing ones i need for iznic, gutting!
Just handed the quest in for Twisted Hatred
Ding! Level 8
picked up cat form but cannot afford anything else

10.44pm
at starbreeze village working on a couple of quests and trying out catform without any skills lol other then default attack

Another rare, Uruson and dropped some leather white named pants
just hearthstoned back to dolnaar and handed the quests in so now can afford to pick up the skill claw. Right got one quest left in Starbreeze then i should be finished the east side of Teldrassil

11.01pm
well that was annoying, killed the 7 mystics like i needed started to head back only to realise the tracker was onlying counting 2. so had to wait for respawns and start over, least got some good exp for all of it

right handed the quest in and hit honored with Darnassus, going to call it a night. Been one long day of warcraft and i need to do a little more tiding of my room so i can get into my bed lol



Total:
Levels Gained: 8
Achievements Gained: 3

Mini Update

Thought I would do a small update with everything that's been happening with my life and the gaming world. Well last week I spent a ton of money on games and now wondering will I actually get the chance to play them. Started off with the week before with Medal of Honor (Xbox 360) which I did complete the single player campaign but not touched the online yet, then at the end of that week I picked up the Borderlands GOTY edition. Started playing it but not touched it for several days since thanks to work and WOW.

Then this week I picked up the following over two days:
* Lego Harry Potter PS3
* Legend of the Guardians The Owls of Ga'hoole Xbox 360
* Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 Collectors Edition Xbox 360
* Atelier Rorona PS3

And of course Swordfish (Bluray) and 2,100 Microsoft points to take advantage of the October 800 points refund deal. So right now I got a ton of games to play and I'm thinking no time, especially with lovefilm sending me Morphx (Xbox 360) as well. Oh and lets not forget Fable 3 and Star Wars is out this week, work allows me to get the games in advance so I'm up the creek right now without a paddle lol.

Currently playing Lego HP and trying to finish Batman AA on the PC, so going to stick with them for the time being. Going to try and get back onto Borderlands, put some time into it since I've started off really well. Think Fable and Star Wars will take over next week though

Other then that not much else as happened, actually that's a lie I have been spending a lot of time on Warcraft. Got the headless horseman's reins yesterday, very happy gamer! but other then that just grinding out reputation and doing old quests to get ready for the expansion.

That's it for now
~Iznic


P.S. Forgot, also bought Trinity Universe for the PS3 when i picked up Borderlands

AiA: Yosho Entry 5

Journal Entry 5 - Yosho - Sunday 17th October 2010

4.36pm
Another great start, crashed back to the login screen with a disconnect error.
Right finally in, think its time to finish off Stillpine Hold quests and leave this island.
Just found a chest while i was killing ravagers, nice silver bar for my trouble

4.42pm
Ding! Level 12

4.44pm
All done with the ravager hides, drop rate sucks really bad but least get some decent exp

4.48pm
Right last few quests now involving the hold it self

4.56pm
Last quest, kill the kurken
Got to say the templars verdict sucks. I've tried it with one, two and full three holy powers and it does barely any damage. Hopefully it works better as you level, i hope!

4.58pm
Couple of copper mines and one dead kurken, not a bad job
Ding! Level 13
Put my talent point into the crusade so it increases the damage of my templar verdict, crusade strike etc by 10%, hopefully start to see a difference now.
Well that's the hold completed so hearth stoning back to the watch, ah great another disconnect

5.03pm
Picked up my new skills, rezzing (woot!) and a righteous fury to generate threat for tanking.
Those moonkin in the hold where great, dropped eggs and linen so now making some herb baked eggs for cooking and linen bandages for first aid
Right I'm off to the exodar :)

5.08pm
Just handed the orders quest in and now heading to bloodmyst isle

5.20pm
Just finished the kessel run quest, always makes me chuckle at the reference

5.28pm
Almost done with the Kessel's crossing, bit boring to be honest but did get a new uncommon two-handed mace :)

5.31pm
About to save Princess Stillpine lol
Just made a rough weightstone to increase the damage by 2 for mace, draw back is they take linen cloth to make which i need for first aid but not leveled any blacksmith yet so it helps in the end.
Ding! Level 14

5.37pm
Just killed the naga warlord and the templar verdict came through, taking out 55% of the things health. Now that's what I'm talking about for a skill

5.44pm
Well that's all those quests done, on wards to Blood Watch. Got to say I'm flying through these quests, the npcs seem little threat so far thanks to the changes

5.51pm
Right logged off in the Inn for the night, well I might do some more later but more likely play on my xbox and watch a blu-ray.

AiA: Yosho Entry 4

Journal Entry 4 - Yosho - Thursday 14th October

Well 4.0.1 as landed yesterday so logging onto Yosho to see what the damage is, of course starts off well with a disconnet from the server.

10.04pm
Ohhh fancy new bar under my name, guessing thats the holy power thing I keep hearing about. Well lets reset my talents, good thing only just started so not had chance to get into anything really. I do like the new eye for eye talent, think I will take that first.

Seem to have lost my healing spells and the only one left needs holy power to use, lost pretty much all my buff spells as well. Hmm might as well forget everything I've learnt so far really. Going to pop onto the forum and see what the stats that are needed now, hopefully the same.

Well after 10 minutes of reading the forum I give up, way too much whining going on right now. Going to check out wowhead and wowwiki.

Found nothing but did stumble across Retributionpaladins.com and found strength and agility still up there. Wonderful I can now get back to actually playing a bit

10.31pm
Off to Stillpine Hold and just had the local defense warning going crazy for there, come on seriously? horde attack tonight. Guess no questing for me today

10.34pm
Just arrived and everything seems in place, no bodies anywhere so i guess they left

10.41pm
Achievement: 50 Quests Completed - 10 points
Going to call it for the night, did two quests and found not much difference really with how the fighting works with the new skills. Guess since I've only just started Paladin it won't effect me so bad

Review: Shrek Forever After

Another game to add to my 1k list thanks to lovefilm rentals. The game was a lot better compared to the last one (Shrek the Third).

This time around the camera was overhead and you can now control upto four characters that you can switch between with a click of a button. Most of the game is spent working out puzzles by moving blocks, switches etc to progress through the levels followed by several fight scenes then on some levels a boss fight.

Its an average game and it won't make anyone cry out "game of the year" but I did find myself enjoying it. The controls where easy to use, the puzzles where not that hard just time consuming and the game only takes around 4-5 hours including replays for missing collectables so you not going to be spending ages on it.

Story wise, it's pretty much on par with the movie with just a few things changed. If you want a quick 1,000/platinum trophy then this is the game for you.


Shrek Forever After (Xbox 360)
Score: 6 out of 10
Gameplay: Average
Graphics: Average
Story: Average
Length: Decent
Controls: Average

AiA: Yosho Entry 3.1

5pm
Found two 14 slot bags on my alts so that should help alot for the time being until I can sort my mage character out and make some 16 slot bags.

5.13pm
Just did the huge long totem quest which takes you across the island, found two copper mines and a chest for my trouble (chest had a silver bar in it, that was all of value)

5.19pm
Just freed the stillpine captives and got myself half way to level 11, also looted some linen cloth finally so I can now start leveling up First Aid. While I was buy fighting I've decided to hold off PVP battlesgrounds for a couple of more levels so I can do some damage to the level 18/19's next time. Being this low means all my attacks are just useless and its quite boring just dieing and rezzing.

I've also decided to go for all the sets, pvp level 60/70 etc and the Tier stuff for dungeons. I'm going to do it properly this time around since I didn't get that chance with my main really

5.25pm
Ding! Level 11
Just picked up my new skills from the trainer and Hand of Protection does not seem that good, 6 seconds just doesnt seem long enough. See how it goes I guess

Going to have to call it for now, the batter for my wiresless mouse is very low lol forgot to put it on charge last night and have been raiding all morning on my main.

Aia: Yosho Entry 3

Journal Entry 3 - Yosho - Sunday 10th October 2010

2.59pm
Well I'm back, wish I had a mount since I need to run back to the human landing camp (Odesyus' Landing) from Azure Watch. But was worth hearthstoning back to have some rest experience from the inn.

3.03pm
That's the venture quest done and dusted, cant wait for Cataclysm so i can play the goblin race. Thinking either a shaman or a rogue as my main goblin character
Ah finally found my first copper mine! score

3.06pm
Plenty of quests waiting for me at the camp, need to go find some night elf relics which reminds me of how i cannot wait for archeology in Cataclysm as well, the new pets/mounts look awesome.

3.10pm
The trees company quest was one of my favourite quests when the Burning Crusade came out now its just another ok quest, think the spark as vanished now.
Oh yeah just smelted the two copper ore I got from the mine then picked up a blacksmith hammer so I could make copper bracers for myself.

3.12pm
Ding! Level 9
Also another copper mine with a tigers eye this time

3.17pm
another copper mine, love the coastal area since there's plenty of spawns. Bags keep getting full though so going to do tree quest then head back to make space before doing anymore killing, need the junk loot for cash

3.26pm
Back from a small break, need a cupa of tea and got a quick cuddle of my puppy

3.28pm
skill level 10 for smelting and made some copper chain pants :)
Right lets take care of this gnome traitor and get my new mace
Just had my first duel with a level 9 shaman, was long winded but i won (go me!) got my first achievement as well so very happy about that.
Achievement: Duel-icious - 10pts
Also picked up two new cooking recipes from the trainer, spiced bread and spiced wolf meat

3.33pm
Again another copper mine right next to the camp with a tigers eye. On my way now to the naga again to finish off the quests here, need to pop over to the small island of Silvermyst to find the missing night elf fisherman

3.35pm
one more tigers eye from another mine, forgot they changed it from the old days where had to mine away for ages and now its all in one attempt.

3.43pm
bag keeps filling but finished the naga quests, going to take a breather in a sec and go on my mage. I'm sure she can make bags or as spare bags in the bank that I can use, going to head back to Odesyu's Landing first though to hand in.

3.46pm
Ding! Level 10
Achievement: Level 10 - 10pts
Woot! I can now do pvp, might actually give it a shot. Might suck really bad but least I can have some fun. ohhh talents finally as well, starting off bying putting a point towards increasing my parry chances

3.48pm
Joined the que for Warsong Gulch and going to head to the silvermyst isle while I'm waiting in the que.

4.16pm
hmmm well that was not what i would call fun, most of the teams where level 19/18 who stuck together. Some very friendly comments from my team as well, we got defenders who where are higher levels who then expected just one high level and all low levels to go zerg the flag...idiots.
Oone point i was fighting near are flag and my team stood watching, I died they then got zerged and lost the flag which then lost the match. If they had joined in, the guy would had been too busy killing me so they could had got a few pot shots onto him before being countered and probably would had won the match.

oh well got 92 honor with 63 kills...doubt it though, think you get kill count for just getting a hit in lol Picked up some new achievements as well
Achievement: Grim Reaper - 10pts
Achievement: An Honorable Kill - 10pts
Achievement: Know thy enemy - 10pts

4.25pm
Just completed the missing fishermen nightelf and hearthstoned back to Azure Watch, going to take a break then go on my mage and find those bags to make life a little easier.


Note: Image above is Yosho at level 10 just several seconds after he dinged

AiA: Yosho Entry 2.1

Journal Entry 2.1 - Yosho - Wednesday 6th October 2010

7.14pm
I'm back and having a quick read I found strength seems to be the one true stat needed

7.17pm
Right time to go out and do some questing, I need some money for my new skills and professions

7.30pm
All that time for two quests, the drop rate for the trapper vine is saft

7.32pm
Ding! Level 7
Got some cash from the quests and junk loot so picking up Mining for one of my main professions. Thinking of getting blacksmith to go with it as well, also picked up first aid.

7.44pm
Just looted a 6 slot bag, quite chuffed since im short on space. Anyway done a few more quests (kill some buck, gather some plants etc) and now Honored with the Exodar, need to head south to the alliance landing. Also found out the blacksmith and cooking trainer is there which is quite handy for me

8pm
Ding! Level 8
My first looted gem as well, Malachite lol

8.08pm
Right I've now got all my professions (just added blacksmith and cooking), also it means I can learn the recipe moonglaze tenderloin. Got it as a reward earlier and its wasting space lol

8.13pm
Got some eggs and tenderloin meat in my bags so going to boost my cooking up a few points. It's brought me upto skill level 15 and I can new learn few new recipes but going to hold off since money is 0 pretty much thanks to all the professions.

8.19pm
That's it for tonight, did one more quest and decided to end. I need to do some stuff on my main then going to play some Halo Reach with the guys from work, catch you all later!

AiA: Yosho Entry 2

Journal Entry 2 - Yosho - Wednesday 6th October 2010

Image below is Yosho at level 5 on his way to Azure Watch

6.26pm
Well I'm back to continue my journey with my new alt, was just on my main doing a few dailies and sent over my artifact gear for my alt. So need to make the journey to Azure Watch, wish I had a mount.

6.32pm
Ah the fable Inn quest, every starting zone as one. Someone who cannot deliver the package for some odd reason and now you have to do it, just so your introduced to the inn keeper.

Hmmm making a pit stop, fishing quest and trainer. Always pick up my professions up at level 5 so I can start early.

6.39pm
Just been rewarded a fishing pole for catching a few fish and killing some Murlocs (I want my deathwing murloc pet!), so I've picked the fishing profession up. The vendor as one strong pole in stock, so going to get my skill up to 10 and buy it. Although that's pretty much all my money gone lol

6.45pm
Right after catching no fish and just weeds, finally got to skill 10 and picked up the strong fishing pole (increases fishing skill by 5 while using). Had to be said, I really do not like my characters hair so need to pop to the barber shop for definite when I get to the city. Anyway back to the trail and onwards to Azure Watch!

6.50pm
Slight delay, putting a curry in the microwave :-p

6.52pm
Ding! level 6
Just arrived at Azure Watch and dang I've got quite a bit of mail to go through, hmmm might have to open the pet ones later since some usually leave a item in my bag and I've only got a bit of space. Did equip my artifact gear though, Polished Spaulders of Valor and Polished Breastplate of Valor, 10% experiance gain from both and stats increase with my level...sweet!
I am assuming strength and agility is for DPS Paladins? hope so anyway

7.03pm
Having a break while I have my tea, going to look up to see what I need to know about dps Paladins while I'm eating

AiA: Yosho Entry 1

Journal Entry 1 - Yosho - Monday 4th October 2010

Well this is the first entry for the "Adventures in Azeroth" and I'm starting it off with my new Paladin alt. For a long while now I've wanted to do a Paladin and so I thought why not, something I can jump onto when I want a break from the rep/dungeon grinding of my main character. Now I'm not sure how the journal entries are going to be written, they might change each time.


Anyway I've always liked the cinematic for the Burning Crusade of the Draeni Paladin, so I've gone with a male Draeni named Yosho (yes I'm a Tenchi Muyo fan :-) ). I keep being told to go Retribution and to use two handed weapons, really looking forward to playing this class and maybe have a proper alt which will be used more then once a year.

9.45pm
First thing I've done is setup my action bars and spread out my heals and buff spells. Really need to change the hair style or colour, just doesn't seem right looking at him. Also to have got plenty of mail waiting for me, probably all the exclusive pets I've got from the collection editions.

9.48pm
Doing my first quest and I really miss my Druid, being able to cast from a far without having to get up close is great. Right now I'm just running around chasing the mobs lol.

9.52pm
Ding! Level 2

9.56pm
Love the animation when you Gift of the Naaru, the Draeni symbol on the head looks awesome. Also got myself a 4 slot bag lol reward from a quest, I remember when you did not get a bag at all from quests and only had a small chance of looting one. The good old vanilla WOW

9.59pm
Already starting to see why people say Paladin's are overpowered, I'm level 2 and already got two buffs lol plus a racial buff.

• Devotion Aura +55 Armour
• Seal of Righteousness +2 Holy Damage
• Herois Presense Chance to hit +1%

10.05pm
Ding! Level 3

10.09pm
Man they really made the starting zones easy, health and mana regenerate back at stupid speeds and everything is non agro.

10.18pm
Ding! Level 4
Another buff that increases attack power and the judgement spell, blimey attacks will give 2% health when judgement is casted on the enemy. Think I will like playing Paladin after all

10.27pm
Just been given a few potions for a quest reward, I keep forgetting there are some nice potion buffs out there that can stack. Need to start using them more on my main when doing dungeons etc

10.39pm
Ding! Level 5
Well that's Ammen Vale finished with, going to call it a night for now

Warcraft Overload

Well its official, Cataclysm is out on the 7th December. Just this morning I really thought it would get pushed back to next year (January), really glad its December and not November because of the amount of games coming out in that month and in October. Just a small breathing space before Warcraft takes over my life completely.

My plan for the new expansion is to get to level 85 first so I can get on the band wagon for heroics before it becomes "gearscore" or "achievement" required. In the past I usually mess about with the new races or play on my new alt's, of course I will do that but not a much as in the past.

There is so much in Cataclysm that I cannot wait for, new pets, mounts, professions. Going to be so busy, ohh and I need to work on my alts professions since there is a lot of new goodies for some of them. Mining as a pet they can find, alchemy as a potion that turns yourself into a dragon mount.

If you cannot tell I'm very excited lol


Anyway originally this post was mean't to be about recording my Warcraft adventures, I once tried this in the past but did not get it off the ground. So hopefully I will put some time in and get it up soon, so watch this space!

~Iznic

Gamer Challenge Ended

Over the last few month's I've kinda realised that setting year long challenges as taken the fun out of gaming, I mean right now I keep thinking how I'm going to get the next 17k gamerscore by christmas or I need to clock this many games on this system. There is a ton of new games coming out that I want to play and enjoy, I don't want to be thinking "cannot waste anymore time on this game, i still need x amount of gamerscore".

So I'm scrapping my challenge altogether, I will keep tracking the score and maybe do smaller goals like when i set my challenge to get 5k by my birthday (that was more fun) but nothing huge any more.


~Iznic

Army of Two 40th Day Review

So I finally sat down this week to work on my latest game rental, I've had this game on my desk since the end of August and I've got to say I was disappointed. Army of Two had a great idea for a game and when the first one came out I was really dead excited to play it, of course it turned out to be average and nothing special.

With the sequel coming once again I had my hopes up they would had took all the bad things from the first and make a great game. But instead they made a worse game then the first one.

The game felt very short which to be honest was a blessing really with how poor game this was. The story I kinda get but I did not feel like the game explained all the reasons and if they did then I must missed it when I was trying not to fall asleep.

Its an average shooter and only worth a couple hundred gamer score unless you want to do the higher difficulty, vs mode and collectibles. But I could not force myself to waste any more time on this game right now, maybe one day in the future but for now its being sent back.

Won't be getting my hopes up if they bring out a third for this series that's for sure.


Army of Two 40th Day (Xbox 360)
Score: 4 out of 10
Gameplay: Average
Graphics: Average
Story: Poor
Length: Short
Controls: Average