• 2May 07

  To Battle!

  About a year ago I tried to get to a Battleground, last week I did a retry because it was late at night and I couldn't find people to join me on my quests. So I lined up for 'Warsong Gulch', 'Arathi Basin' and 'Alterac Valley' and within 5 minutes I got inside 'Arathi Basin'.
  
  Ok, for you noobs who don't know what I'm talking about, let me explain what to do in this BG. In this area there are several objects, like a mine, stables, a lumber mill, a farm etc. Each object has a banner, obtain this banner and it will turn into the faction's color, in my case it'll turn blue. Then defend it and prevent the Horde to take over. Owning a object or 'base' will start a resource meter to run, the more bases the faster it runs, when it hits 2000, your faction wins, after which you'll have to leave the BG and get back in line.
  With my current level 63, I most of the times am one of lowest levels running around, but hard as nails as I am, I'm most certainly not afraid to attack a 69 Tauren Warrior, stun him, a Hamstring to slow him down, do a Rend, an Overpower, a Demoralizing Shout and if I'm not healed by this time probably being dead meat. Heheh, rez on the graveyard, mount and get back a.s.a.p. to defend or regain the base. If I'm able to finish a Horde off, I can take his isignia, some money and I earn honor points. These can be used outside the BG to buy usefull items, trinkets, epic gear, weapons etc.
  
  This PVP action is really exiting!
  
  I like 'Arathi Basin' the most. 'Warsong Gulch' is a capture the flag BG, get across the field inside the enemies building take the flag and bring it over to your building, this I find pretty dull.
  
  'Alterac Vally' is a very large BG, in this snow covered valley you'll find NPC's at bases that can assist you in keeping the Horde of your back, but this also means their bases are guarded by NPC's as well. It's a very tough BG for me because of my level, most people running around here are 70, so that one time I've been there I've spent more time at the graveyard then I've been fighting. Though I must say I've managed to single handedly kill a 70 Rogue!

  When you die you can ressurect at the graveyard with full health, but you'll have to wait up to a maximum of 30 seconds. The other thing you can do is to, as you normally do, walk back to where you died and rez on the spot, this might save some time but you've got only 50% of your health. And this is exactly what hat Rogue decided to do!
  Next thing he saw me passing on my mount, guessing me being only a 63 and all alone, not needing to have regain full health first and able to kill me with a few simple strokes.
  Not! As surprised as I was myself I did frecking own him completely! I did a Running Attack, which stunned him, then I used a Hamstring to slow him down, not able to run away, did a Rend to give him a deep bleeding cut, an Overpower, a Mortal strike and a Execute to end his story.
  So, either I'm a damn good warrior or he was a sh!tty Rogue, but hey who cares? I was smart enough though to run like hell after this because I must pissed him off really good for sure!
  
  Another BG is 'Eye of the Storm', introduced with 'The Burning Crusade'-add on. Here the capture/defend and capture the flag are combined. There are two floating land masses connected by three bridges, each landmass has two towers which can be captured after which they need to be defended, next to that a flag will spawn from time to time on the middle bridge, capture it and take it to any tower your faction owns and place it into a socket. Done this now a few times, it's okay but not as fun as AB.

  Also with TBC the Arena fights were introduced, this is where you can take upon one another in teams of 2x2, 3x3, or 5x5.

   

  Yep, I'm pretty hooked on this PVP thing!

  • Posted May 2, 2007 3:14 am PT
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• 15Jan 07

  Results (to be) achieved.

  Yay! I've finally reached level 60 on January 6th! Of the about 201760 XP I had to gain, I've managed to farm about 30000 all by myself in Azshara by taking out level 57's.
  
  Next step is to work on my gear, some of it is still a 'green item'! My armor is too low to be of any (good) use in raids and PVP-battles. I'm gonna pay my first visits this week to Stratholme, Dire Maul, Scholomance and the Sunken Temple. I know, I know, I'm way behind most of you, but I got a great excuse:
  Work!
  
  On January 16 I'll aspect the addon 'The Burning Crusade' to be released. Because I pre-ordered it in August 2006 I'm sure to be one of the first to go through the portal into 'Outland'. I've already downloaded the cinematic trailer which of course did look great!
  
  One plus of getting a level 60 just now, is that I've only got to play for a short while without gaining any XP.
  
  Next to WoW I've managed to get some work done on 'Splinter Cell - Pandora Tomorrow'. Though 'TR:AoD', 'NFS:MW', 'HL2', 'SW:LegoII' and 'IGI2', amongst others, have been put aside. I really can't play 'm all at the same time. Also, I'm still waiting for the prices to drop on f.i. 'Prey', 'Dark Messiah', 'Titan Quest' etc.
  
  Soo little time! Maybe I should consider to retire early, winning the lottery is definitly my aim for this year!
  
  • Posted Jan 15, 2007 2:41 am PT
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• 6Sep 06

  What a waste.

  Looking back on four days off, I've come to the conclusion not to not have done much online again. On Saturday I received 'Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance', I know, an oldy, but I felt like I had to play this one too since I did play the first one about six years ago and really liked it back then. After installing I had some graphical issues, only outlines were displayed, no details at all, my PC is just too advanced!
  
  I tried to find some patches which could solve this problem, in the end the only way seemed to be to set the video options to a lower resolution and giving in on effects. At that time I didn't feel like playing the game anymore, for now. So I took a look at my shelf with all the games I haven't installed and therefore not played yet. My eye fell on 'IGI 2: Covert Strike', bought on March 3, 2005 (I always write down the date of purchase on the inside of the box).
  
  After installing the two cd's I started the game, this one also had a problem, it didn't recognize cd one and kept asking for it, while installing went perfectly. Online I found a patch which should solve this problem, well it didn't. Finally I uninstalled the game, started up VirtualDisk, dumped both cd's to files and performed a new installation, started the game and... tada! That did work!
  
  While playing the first level I got bored after an half hour (I couldn't find the right way in without being spotted), so I started up 'WoW'. Great! Some servers went down earlier this day, several were back up again though, meaning I got placed in a queue and had to wait a severe time to get in. No 'WoW' then. What next, hmmmm... 'Flat out', I've still got to do the 'Gold Championship' after which the game officially is finshed and can be moved to my Finished-Games-Shelves. (That reminds me to check on the prices for 'Flat out 2').
  
  After one hour of driving, crashing and jumping it was dinner time and after that, time to spent on wife and daughter. Sunday we had visitors, Monday we had an appointment at the daycare center and afterwards groceries to do, Tuesday I only managed to update my add-on's for 'WoW' and play 'IGI2' for an half hour after which I was dragged to the shopping mall. My advise to all gamers: No wife, no children, preferably no job too if it wasn't for the morgage that needs to be paid, or the food, or the new games...
  
  • Posted Sep 6, 2006 2:43 am PT
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