Wednesday, 29 June 2011

The Daily Grind - Day Thirty

Wow the 30th post for the Daily Grind,
Like to thank everyone that reads my blog and hope that will continue on for a long time, anyway back to the grind!

Nothing posted yesterday mostly because of my lovely long shift and when I came home found out that the Uncharted 3 beta was going up until around 10pm, did go onto Warcraft to find no patch seems EU was delayed until today which is currently downloading right now. So was a bit disappointed overall, but there was one good thing I did do Lord Ahune again in WOW and looted my cloak finally! hooray! my first level 85 epic gear.

Today will be a huge marathon on World of Warcraft once the servers are back up and I will be posting up my journey through patch 4.2, later tonight I'm hoping to get some time on the beta for Uncharted as well. Starting earning some of those unlocks and see if the multi player will be any good, fingers crossed. In the mean time while I wait for the servers to go will be doing some tiding, blogging and might put some time into Bulletstorm as well so overall a busy day off.

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Just added a new banner to the blog with a lovely Firelands theme, hope you all enjoy it. Speaking of blogs I have been thinking about doing a second blog for my other hobbies, gaming is my main hobby and well my life pretty much lol. But I do enjoy reading books, especially novels from Black Library publisher (Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 universe novels), Star Wars etc and also enjoy films/tv along with being a fan of anime. So as I said it's been on my mind for a couple months now to do a another blog dedicated to my other passions in life, even thought of calling it Iznic's Library. Not sure though, food for thought.

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Going to go play some Bulletstorm for a bit

Finished all of Act two and loving every minute of it, forgot how good this game is to be honest. Would recommend it to anyone just for the sake of replay value, you always want to go back and try different skill shots. For example there is a lovely weapon that fires a chain with two grenades attached that when it hits the target it wraps them up, then just press the fire trigger to set the grenades off. Fired into a crowd and bang took out the entire group, this skill shot is known as "gang bang" lol. Yesterday fired the same weapon onto a guy then kicked him onto a balcony that set off a chain reaction thanks to explosive barrels, killed ten guys and got over 2,000 points (Achievement for that)

Amazing game

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Anyway going to see if the servers are back up for World of Warcraft, so see you in a second.

It's back up! time for the firelands to begin

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Right loaded up in stormwind the human capital, one thing I love is just a new simple thing and that's when you open the map your character now holds a map in their hand and look at it, simple but cool.

New dungeon journal is very nice and handy to have, have been thinking about getting more into Warcraft and do dungeons again so this will be helpful. Going to put myself into the Que for lord ahune again, hopefully my loot bag will have the staff or pet today since running out of time for this event. Dang in fact it ends tomorrow do got two chances left then have to wait another year.

See the key chain as been taken down and now got a ton of quest keys in my bag taking up space, guess need to tidy my inventory before I do any of firelands. Bag is now cleared so got some space now, put a few items on the auction house so hopefully make some gold of them. Just also realised that my quest log is full, dang need to make some space in that too now lol.
Hmmm got mail too better go check that first see what's going on, ah gold for keys that no longer work in game that where taken off me.

Lord ahune time! Fingers crossed

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That was a disaster! Soon as the fight started we lost one of the dps guys died straight away so had to use my rebirth son that went on the 30 minute timer. The healer did not seem to cope and the group did not attack ahune when his defines down so instead of the normal 20-30% health left when his defines goes back up he was still on 65%!. Then the same guy died again, struggled with the second wave of mobs and still didn't kill ahune so it was disaster and the healer quit leaving us all to die.

So waiting again

Just sorted out some glyphs since I did not know I've never sorted since cataclysm started. Attempt two of lord ahune, damn lost one of are dps again at the start so thought it would be a repeat but we did it. No loot again and the tank got the pet, :-(

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So time to clear some quests and start firelands, got quite a few tol bard daily quests so heading there now.

Finished five daily quests over there, was fun to be honest but dang I am weak. I've been playing wow for years, done some school raiding and use to be up to date quite often. But for a long time I just mucked about and went casual and never kept up to date with the changes, so I am finding myself struggling. My gear is all green with a blue here and there, my first epic was that ahune cloak so that's how and it is. I want start dungeons but no idea on the tactics and don't really want to wipe my group, think what I will do is start reading up on a specific dungeon and then Que up for it, do it a few times to get use to it then move onto the next. Once done that then can start doing random daily dungeons to get the points and better gear.

Anyway now I've cleared some of my log going to start with firelands and the new quest lines.

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Just come to me I've never been to mount hyjal yet, only visited it briefly in the beta. Just started the thrall quest line and loving the story so far, this is what got me into Warcraft the lore and story. I'm off now on a journey to find thrall

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Awesome quest line, saved thrall from fandal the idiot Druid, went across all the elemental planes to rescue his mind and spirit. Ending was great got to see thrall getting married and got a better cloak now lmao all that for ahune and gets replaced

Damn did not see that coming but should had, can't start firelands dailies until I've done a specific amount of quests in hyjal. Makes sense I guess since all story related, wished I had started this zone sooner.

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That was annoying just did a quest to escort a prisoner before he recapped, fandal lol so the earlier quest spoiled it really. Just have to make sure to put the time in next time so won't ruin the story.

Basically the quest I need to work towards is to assist the four ancients, just helped one out at his shrine. Took a while but was really fun, even ventured into a small section of the firelands to take out weapon smith area.

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I'm done, done over 70 quests and unlocked the area so I could start the new fireland hub. Cannot go to firelands yet though, have to do daily quests and earn 20 marks to unlock phase 2 which will let me go in. Right now I'm on 12 marks and can earn four a day from now on so Friday the earliest. Been a really fun day and loved every minute of it, the quests where good and the story kept me entertained and interested. Looking forward to seeing what fireland will offer but anyway I'm stopping for now, time for a nice long break.

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Well my break was a lot longer then I expected so calling it a night, but before I do I just saw the list for the summer of arcade on the xbox 360. Fruit Ninja Kinect is coming out on the 10th august (800 points), Toy Solders Cold War is out on the 17th august (1,200 points) and also a game called Bastion is starting off the summer and coming out on the 20th july (1,200 points). Actually saw a trailer for Bastion today and it looks like a cool rpg, reminds me of the old school rpgs.



Check out the full list of games for the summer of arcade on shopto.net news page here.

Anyway take care all, have a good one
~Iznic

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