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Feb20

crazy week

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crazy week

with school holidays coming to an end, i was excited and a little sad… so much for free time to myself hehe…

i did put some gaming in amidst all that mad cap trying to work and move at the same time. with c4 starting right on the day that i was moving, alot of firsts was going to be impossible, but i had fun the last few days more so than i had in a few months within the game… especially since i couldn’t play it much due to work and school.

that’s right, i spent a goddamn lot of mats on this, and it’s worth every bit of those mats in my opinion. funny how her haircut is similar to my real life hair cut though ^_^

over the weekend, i wanted to try out some of the new pvp and the new siege places, i.e goddard, so i tagged up with dot, who was with my old alliance before my clan broke apart. :) i missed my old clan though, and hope for some odd reason they will be resurrected. but i ain’t clinging on too hard to that hope, since i don’t have much time to spend with them either.

goddard is a damn fucking big castle, i have no idea how they are going to defend it. we took it easy because there were few interferences and the npcs were pretty lowbies. then again, attacking is often easier than defending i reckon, simply because if you intend to defend, you need the resources, no?

but it was fun while it lasted, i finally grew tired of logging in just to chat with people, or soloing. i still love to chat with people, but soloing is boring after some time, especially since my mp dump is limited. hehe…

also, i am getting addicted to fishing. it truly wasn’t my thing on pts, and i actually resisted the urge to give it another go on the real servers because it costs so damn much to learn those skills. then i gave up and just learnt those skills anyways :p because freja/mike chucked some rods my way and asked me to fish with them while we waited on larsson to join the game.

and then i realised, i wasn’t all that bad at it after all…. i blame it on pts.

did those damn pet quests a grand total of 11 times, got 2 pets free from someone… 13 new pets at last count, but i believed i got a new one yesterday so now its 14 :p have a grand total of 21 pets now. if this is any indication of how real life is going to be, i am going to have a damn zoo at home when i finally get my place and won’t have any pets restrictions.

animals are sssooo cute.. and loving.

ah school… and work… if i don’t have either and is plenty rich, you know how much time i be spending on trying to rear animals? O.o well real animals, not ingame ones.

oh wells! here’s to school!!!! *embraces studies*

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Jan18

belated review

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belated review


sorry for the lack of updates. school work + work + some minimal gaming makes it really hard to find time to talk about anything here. furthermore, all’s not well at home with my mum being a retard, so i had to pull some strings to get her to actually listen. to those who were uber concerned due to the last post, don’t worry, i am ok. i know how to take care of myself, i just have a tendency to slip sometimes ^^

this post is a little belated, and it’s also very long drawn. for those who are hoping to hear more about my personal life, this post is not it. this is about lineage 2, and the upcoming c4 patch. before i continue on though, let me just reiterate, lineage 2 is a very fantasy based mmorpg that i have grown to love heaps, despite the massive grinding we have to go through. i mean, it’s the place i get to be an elf, and i don’t have to role play to be one.

as they have mentioned, it is going to be the biggest patch. when you open up the map ingame, it could be easily seen why:

there’s like an extra map-worth of new content that they have put into this patch. perhaps whatever they have missed in c3, which was said to be released in a hurry amidst losing players, they have decided to chuck it in.

as with all games, they all have bugs, and lineage 2 is without exception. to minimise the bugs and to fix it before major release, the public test server is up for us paying customers to go view it, test it out, report it, get the fixes done, see what we like/don’t like about it and be gone.

first of all, they have put in 2 side activities for everyone. because most people get a chance to play another class once they hit the previous cap (i believe the new level cap is 78…), by now half the players or more would be facing the same content as they did 2 chronicles or so ago. and i believe ncsoft korea know it’s not really nice to grind through the same shit for the second time.

the first side stuff, is fishing.

while the previous activities is a break away from the normal grind, and does nothing more productive than perhaps winning some of the bets others have chucked in, the new acitivies, fishing and taming alike, contributes somewhat to your levelling. the new tamed mobs, as well as new pets that we can get, actually does more than tank and damage the mobs for us. they heal and buff as well.

fishing wise, they also do give us some items that we might need too, as well as some random items.

within the pts, due to time constraints and the amount of new content, they were going to boost us twice. first time is to experience the sub class and the new contents that we can visit with low lvl subclasses as well as the new 76 class change quests. so far, the known buggy one would be the warlock quest where the last tablet was not known to be able to hand in.

however, that’s the least of my concern as yet, since i just want to try out some of the new quests as well as visit the new places.

the new pets seems easy to get, just a whole lot more expensive to finish the quest to get one. it costs 495k adena (or thereabouts) since the pet manager is a bum…. each new pet starts with a new npc. for the cougar, it’s the pet manager in giran and the buffalo is the pet manager in dion. not sure about the kookaburra. it’s an ugly thing though, so you aren’t missing out.

there are a bunch of new quests now, suitable for higher lvls as well as lower lvls…. i am not quite sure about the rewards yet, although i sure hope they are good since i died many times for some of the quests, and some of them are interconnected. which results in the rewards only visable after the 4th quest or something.

one thing to watch out for though, is that the new higher level mobs are mostly mages or mage related mobs. this means that mobs can drain your hit points away even though they are not technically magical mobs. some of the new mobs even uses spirit shots.

jake and i visited new places, as per tradition, as soon as we could. this meant being equipped enough not to die too much and to have enough adena to port rather than run and risk the chances of dying.

forge of gods

of course, when you are us… it’s hard to avoid being cheeky and then dying…

mobs that jake HAD to pull…

the lavasaurus that we found

what we both have concluded somewhat from the new places were that they were awesome. they have a good variety of mobs in my opinion. some places are great for soloing, the vampire places are great for healers who have no other spells than the holy stuff. furthermore, the hot springs are great places for mages because they have “debuffs” that actually are part buffs too. which isn’t a bad thing, other than hearing sounds like your character is choking to death or humping itself.

yes, i have been planning to be a summoner since the last pts. so when i had to choose what sub class i would want to play with this time around, it made sense to try out the new summoner skills and to mess around with it being a dorf too. one thing that made this all the more awesome was the new pet:

she’s pink, she’s a cat, she’s female, and omg that fan…. what more can i ask for? :D

SHE FANS PEOPLE TO DEATH!!!! yesssss!!! :P

and of course, before i end this (i know it’s not much of a review now… i am kinda too tired to finish the whole review today… ), here’s a gift:

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Jan10

Silliness

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Silliness

I started downloading since jake told me, which is about long before school yesterday. as far as i know, everybody was trying to download since they knew, which was also around that time.

slightly more than a day now, and there’s a majority of us who still have no game running, and no ability to run it fully, or does not have all the files…. which resulted from a lot of reasons, but mainly because of ncsoft’s ineptitude in adapting to a large crowd, nor considering us – the consumers – much.

the game client downloads patches like most small games does, directly from themselves through the game client’s set up. however, with they themselves even stating that it is the biggest patch ever, and yet still relying on the same old servers they had for the last couple of years, which also resulted in a blockage every patch, this resulted in several disconnections, crashes, etc from the game servers.

few of us have even gone past the first few files yet.

those who have been able to, are now way beyond noob levels.

if by tomorrow, they still don’t have any torrents/ftp up for us to download the patch with, i would say many people might drop out of pts. we want to test it as much as we want to enjoy the boosts and freebies and so on, which were sorely missed in the last public test server.

if we are to work for everything, WHILE TESTING, then we would be wasting our time trying to get the NORMAL things done rather than testing out the bugs — the main point for having a test server in the first place.

this is also a slight indication though, as to how things would be when the real servers get up and running with chronicle 4. i am not sure how trustworthy those servers are handling that many downloaders. they have never failed in disappointing me.

on the other hand though, this entire incident once again brings out the best in the people (and of course, the worst) that plays.

people started creating torrents, zips, emails etc to send to each other, even people who have never played on their server, so that the entire community is able to play the game and have fun TOGETHER. and i thought that was impressive… that was the lineage 2 that i fell in love with. and still am in love with.

and yes, i am still downloading/patching/etc. i have done parts of the torrents but there are still more stuff to go. 3.5gigs worth of things to download…. that will take me a while.

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