By alex
Hey people! Hope you all had a nice weekend! I had a good long one as it was bank-holiday here in the UK yesterday!
So i got my grubby little mits on Age of Conan on Friday night, and after our quick badge-run to kara I started installing the game.
Then I waited as this mother of all games set-about chewing up 10% of my hard-drive! TWENTY-FIVE GIG!!! Oh my god!! then i had to wait like another hour while it downloaded and installed the patches…god only knows how long a fresh install would take after Funcom have released a few patches.
Anyway so my friend and I sat back and watched the rather cool opening cgi thingy.
I had decided to make a conqueror – which was as close as i could get to a Ret-Paladin as possible. (called Firelight of course!!)
Took me a while to create him as i decided to fiddle with as much of the char-creation toys as i could to get him looking slightly normal, and not mouse-like.
Then I entered the game. Wow everything is so pretty…man the water…the water reacts to me being in the water!! Wow!
Ok so I wonder up to that woman and I see the “!” above her head – ok my first quest NPC. Expecting the usual page to pop up I’m surprised to see that I actually get to talk to her rather than just read a log.
Right she wants me to go kill the guard who locked her up. I run over to him and start hitting him. Ok the Combat systems is rather interesting, and not as complicated as the manual made out. Basically you click an attack and then press the corresponding attack direction to finish the move. Or you can just attack using the direction buttons. There is no Auto attack.
Ok he’s dead…hang on….I’m level 2 already? huh? Whats the deal with that? One mob and I’ve leveled? Riiiiight…
So back to the woman – she is free’d and off we go on our merry way to Tortage killing mobs along the way that seem to have an unusually high aggro range.
Anyway eventually i get into Tortage and start the night quests. I’m currently level 8 or so and I must say that Although the graphics are lovely, the game just isnt….well…..fun.
Its very realistic and detailed, and I love the way quests are handled (This fact explains the 25gb installation) and the combat system is a laugh as well, but there are just too many things that bother me:
1 – The chat window. Why do the system messages and chat have to be displayed together?
2 -The death system is just annoying. I mean i died and i have to fight my way back to where I was due to respawns?
3 – I’m still not managed to talk to anyone face-to-face in game…Mainly because i find it hard to distinguish the difference between a player and an NPC.
I just don’t find the game fun at the moment mainly. When I hit level 10 or 20 maybe things will change. I’m going to keep going though as I wanna make it through the night quests.
On another note – Rage got Archimonde down last night! Awesome guys! Grats!
I was at the cinema watching Indiana Jones…..Lucas please stop writing movies….
By alex
Hey guys!
Just a small update with some more WWS Reports:
Supremus – This is a ranged fight so to be as High as I am here is nice! (Absolutely nothing to do with the 2 rogues, DPS warrior and the shaman being dead for most of the fight honest!!)
http://wowwebstats.com/rmayfssbr64is?s=2529-3171
Shade of Akama – I’m really proud here!! 1671 DPS!! and 7th on the list!
http://wowwebstats.com/rmayfssbr64is?s=6228-6274
We had some tries on Gorefiend, but as usual we had newbies to the fight in the group and we didn’t get him down due to constructs in the raid picking off the healers.
But i was 7th, and 5th on 2 out of the 4 tries – so not bad..
My faith is restored for now! But I still think we need another instant attack – this is what we need!
By alex
Hey Guys…Hows you? All good I hope.
It was all so much fun when I first stepped foot into SSC having found Rohan’s Blog and changed all my gear around so I made the Hit-Cap and got my AP right up and started working towards getting some real upgrades.
Then 2.4 came out. I had attained lots of nice gear and we stepped foot into Mount Hyjall and Black Temple…As the weeks have gone past and people have gotten their hands on some nice T6 gear I’ve started to be left behind in the DPS stakes. While I appreciate that Retribution will never be able to out do Warlocks or Rogues for pure DPS I was always happy with being placed 5th or sometimes even 4th or 3rd.
Slowly but Surely I’ve been pushed back down to 9th/10th although I seem to still always be over Mages for some reasons on boss fights. (Who knows!!)
I know this probably sounds a bit like a broken record from all Ret-Pallies but we need something else…something special – to make us a bit more powerful, and yet not over powered.
Its tough for Blizzard I guess to balance a class with the rest of other DPS classes when we could quite quickly be SO over powered in PvP.
But then Warlocks and Rogues are already OP in PvP and Blizzards seems blissfully unaware of this…
I’m suffering a bit of WoW Burnout at the moment I think – its frustrating to have so much gear you don’t know what the optimal setup is for it…especially as everyone else around you seems to be getting stronger and stronger.
I just cant seem to get myself over 2000 AP unbuffed. I gain stuff on one item, then loose it on another – its like 2000 AP is the cap for ret-pallies (unbuffed of course)
Its all good saying stuff like “drop all your gems and put +Strength Gems in” But more than likely I’ll loose my Meta gem activation.
This weekend I’m going to buy a copy of Age of Conan and see if its any good – reviews seem very positive at the moment – so I’m optimistic.
If I like playing that it’ll be a nice refreshing change to keep me tied over until Wrath comes out.
In other news my druid made exalted with netherwing last night. Yay!
By alex
Hey Dudes!
Well after my last post which generated a LOT of responses I’ve had a lot on my mind lately.
Firstly a big thanks to Josh @ Eye for an Eye for introducing me to RAWR. I’ve had a play with this app for a few days, and its pretty cool so far. Its a little confusing to start with, but once you get it setup correctly its a good thing to see what sort of loot you can use to increase your DPS. I need to sit down and look at what i have 100% in my bags and play with it properly.
I’m tempted to drop all my crit gems and swap them out for strength gems as well. Most of the socket bonus’s are crit or stamina anyway so not a huge issue here.
I got a new ring last night:
Ring of Decietful Intent
+21 Agility
+42 Stamina
Equip: Improves Hit rating by 19.
Equip: Increases Attack Power by 58.
This is a nice replacement for my Kara ring, but not sure again if its a good upgrade.
Josh advised me to buy Angelista’s Revenge but isnt the above ring better?
I’ve got 102 badges now so if anyone could suggest anything to buy with them then please do so!
Last Nights Raid Bosses:
Azgalor:
http://wowwebstats.com/4q2pznhixi6c3?m&s=2839-3353
(I was on the spawning demons)
Najentus:
http://wowwebstats.com/4q2pznhixi6c3?s=5766-6050&m
Supremus:
http://wowwebstats.com/4q2pznhixi6c3?m&s=8609-9055
Shade of Akama:
http://wowwebstats.com/4q2pznhixi6c3?m&s=11645-11696
(something screwy about that fight as melee were on the adds then the boss. Are the adds counted as trash mobs and Akama only has 1 million HP?)
By alex
Wow Web Stats from Mondays Bloodboil Fight(the try when we downed him):
http://wowwebstats.com/rqhfcywfdwixa?s=9932-10543 – DPS: 771
(I died at 5% left on this try and I was gimped for stamina)
Wow Web Stats from last nights Gorefiend fight – with a shaman in our group:
http://wowwebstats.com/c55rvmah5u6kw?s=5191-5509 – DPS: 1086
Quite a difference!
Now can anyone explain how i managed to miss so much when I’m hit-capped?
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