GenCon & San Francisco: Day 1 – Travelling

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Day 1 was spent mainly travelling. We were up at 5am, leaving the house just after 6am for Manchester airport. The SatNav battery ran out while still on the motorway resulting in several minutes of swearing about the loss of the charger while moving house last week. But we found the car park we’d booked into and checked in without any trouble.

The flight was on time and before we knew it we were off! It was a long flight, 8 hours and by the end of it I was too warm, had a bit of a headache & feeling kind of crappy. Which did not make the next stage of the flight any better 😦  We landed in Atlanta, Georgia for our connecting flight and the queues to get through customs were terrible. They have an automated passport check in for people who have been to the USA before. “Great” we thought ” less queueing”. Nope. Part of the process is to scan your fingerprints. Rachel broke her finger as a child & has limited movement to it, so that finger wouldn’t scan. So she had to go in a different queue to have her passport checked. It took about 2 hours too get through as they had a large line of people and only 2 officers processing them 😦
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Hello Our DDO

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I don’t know how you got to this site. You may have stumbled across me from a Google search, or from another blog site. Or you are one of the refugees that have been turned out of the MyDDO site, the blogging facility for DDO (Dungeons & Dragons Online) that is being closed down by Turbine in April.

However you got here – hi 🙂 You might not find what I have to say that interesting, but sometimes I just have to talk. I’ll try and put some nice pictures up to keep you entertained. I hope you stick around.

 

 

LFM UP LOSERS

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I felt the need to blog about this. It really annoyed me.

Yesterday I put an LFM up for FoT. While waiting for the group to fill I got a tell saying ‘LFM UP LOSERS’. Odd, I thought, maybe I missed an existing LFM and the guy was annoyed… So I checked the panel. No, mine was the only FoT up there.

Then an LFM did pop up, from the person who had sent me the tell.

OK… I’ve blanked the name out, but let me just say it suggested he (I’m saying he for ease of writing..) came from another server which he obviously felt was much better than Sarlona.

So here’s my thoughts:-

  • DDO is an MMO. You know, lots of us, playing together…
  • FoT is a raid. Yes, I’ve short manned it. That was our choice at the time. That does not mean I refuse to play with other players, so getting 12 people together so we can all have fun and try to pull loot makes sense.
  • I know for a fact we have players on Sarlona who can solo eE GH. Good for them. I don’t want to 🙂
  • If your other server is so great wtf are you doing on Sarlona then?

I think I’m a fairly easy going person. I don’t really get annoyed easily, I tend to get along with people and just let things go if someone does tick me off. But this? This is why some of us don’t like to pug so much, how a few people can ruin it for everyone else.

So if the person in question should by some chance read this blog, my message is – grow the hell up!

OK, rant over 😛 Have fun, see you around!

Large Blogs…

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So, Micki told me the other day I should start using the ‘more’ tag on my blogs because they are too long. As much as I hate to admit it, she may be right 😛

So, for the enjoyment of all, the last two months posts have been edited to hopefully be easier to scroll through. Not that I imagine many people actually spend time scrolling through my posts 🙂

See you around 🙂

Stone of XP Blues

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Yes, two blogs in one day. Don’t get used to it 🙂

But I did want to comment on something else I did this weekend. My partner & I jumped on Thelanis for a bit to play with some chars we super levelled. By that, I mean we created them at level 7, got to level 8 and got stoned.

This weekend was probably the first time we’ve played them for any length of time. And you know what? Being super levelled kind of sucks! To be fair, we’ve done it to try some builds we’re thinking of for TR”s on our main Sarlona characters. But sitting at level 16 with pretty naff gear is no fun. We will not be pugging anytime soon, I’d be too embarrased 😦

I can see the benefit of the stone for TR’s who have gear stashed away, and I realise it’s a way for Turbine to ensure people can get to the stuff in the expansion pack, but for normal play…. no I don’t think so…

Or maybe it’s just because I don’t spend enough quality time with the Thelanis characters and it’s all my fault! 🙂

What a load of content…

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So, the TR group has now hit 157 on it’s bravery streak.

Lets just take a moment to think about that. 157 missions. All different (well, OK Splinterskull is kind of repetitive). And we’ve skipped some missions. We haven’t done any raids. We’ve just finished the last of the Sands missions, so we still have Gianthold, Orchard, Vale, Amrath to mention a few…

You have to give Turbine props – that’s a lot of content, all those different stories and tales to be told. No wonder we love this game 🙂

Shroud Flagging

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We (me and my partner) had a good weekend this weekend, considering we only really had Sunday afternoon and evening for playing.

Like no doubt everybody else we’ve been grinding Mabar to get some gear together. I’m quite chuffed that I’ve got the epic handwraps for my monk. But Sunday we decoded we needed to do something more interesting. So, last 3 Vale missions for Shroud flagging were decided upon. Due to the rest of the guild being busy Mabar’ing or away it was just the two of us, and we did OK. Of course, it helps that my partner is currently a cleric and she could heal my butt 🙂

Now I just have to talk her into daring to run a Shroud as a cleric for the first time…