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EVECoHWoWEtc

Let’s see, my account for EVE Online just expired. I’ll reactivate it soon as there are some things I still want to do – like venture into 0.0 space. A friend of mine stopped by tonight and asked me to help walk him through City of Heroes a little bit since he just purchased it. Thus, I have reactivated my CoH account at least temporarily. If he gets into that I’ll probably keep my account active just to hang out with him since he is moving across country. World of Warcraft is still active but I think it runs out in the beginning of October. I’ve had some good fun there lately so I’ll probably have to reactivate that as well.

Will I really have three accounts active? That’s just nuts. I don’t have the time for three games.

– Ethic

I like being a slippery Gnome…

[World of Warcraft] I was strolling through Stranglethorn Vale one day, minding my own business. I was making my way to Booty Bay because us Alliance, unlike Horde, don’t have another flight point in STV except in BB while Horde have GG and BB. This is quite a long journey for a wee Gnome like me to make on foot with no mount. I pass a couple of Alliance dueling on the path, which is a stupid thing to do on a PvP server, and I see an Orc run past on a wolf. He stops next to the duelers and I think he’s going to gank them, so I continue on running minding my own business. What do you know? He doesn’t kill them and instead keeps running down the path in the direction I’m going.

So I’m thinking, “Ok, he must be a nice Orc.” Of course, I hear the “roar” of him dismount and obviously I expect the worse. He’s a warrior, so I wait for him to charge and stun me so I can blink out of it. He does, just like any warrior would do. So after blinking I turn and use polymorph and have to use my Gnome racial to get out of his hamstring. I was expecting him to intercept me (in-combat charge), but maybe he was a bit cocky. Needless to say, even though he was a skull to me (he ended up being a level 50 something), he was off eating some grass as a sheep while I continued my stroll.

A few seconds later he tries again. The same exact thing happens. I continue skipping down the path some more until he then tries another time but this time I ran into a 60 Alliance mage. Yep, the warrior got owned. Then a level 60 Orc warrior attacked followed up by a lower level shaman, who earth shocked me, but I cast frost nova on him and ran away. Instead of chasing me, he decides to help the 60 Warrior try and kill the 60 mage. I turn around once I see that he’s not chasing me and by the time I catch back up, the mage was already starting to kill the Shaman, so I added my scorch and fireblast in for the finishing blow.

Did I mention the level 60 mage was a Gnome as well? Yep…being a slippery Gnome rocks. Being a slippery Gnome mage rocks even more. Eat grass you stupid sheep! Why would you want to harm little ‘ol me anyways? I’m just as cute as can be!

.:lufia22:.

For Instance

warlock[World of Warcraft] A good friend of mine offered to take my level 20 Undead Warlock through Shadowfang Keep in hopes of getting one of the good drops at the end. The final guy drops one of a selected few choice things and several of them would be good for me.

We worked our way through the keep (ok, he worked our way through) and we made it to the end with no problems thanks to the fact that we have done this about 8 times total together. The drop was a really nice belt that I’ll be able to use in a few levels. I also leveled to 21 during the run. We plan to go back and hope for the robes. I’ll probably hit 22 in that process as well.

The Imp in phase-shift is nice for things like this. The stamina buff gives me an additional 100 hit points and he is safe from attack so we don’t have to worry about aggro issues. I kept myself soulstoned just in case I got killed and would thus be able to rez on the spot.

Really, the whole run was good for me. I improved several armor pieces, a few of them were blue items including two rings. Nice!

I must say, even though I’ve only done two instances, Shadowfang Keep is my favorite. I guess that doesn’t say much but a few level 60 players I know say it is one of their favorites too.

On another note, the same guild that sent me a blind invite a while back has done so again. Same way. Even if you didn’t have a stupid guild name, I would not join you because of the way you invite random strangers to the guild. I would, however, be willing to join a fun guild that isn’t into hard core raiding and such all the time. If you know of a good, fun, laid-back Horde guild on Hellscream, let me know.

– Ethic

EON

[EVE Online] CCP e-mailed me today to announce the upcoming publication of EON, “possibly the most exciting development in the MMORPG world since EVE itself.” Only eight months in the making! So what is EON? A magazine about EVE: Online, just $15/issue. (Since it will be a quarterly publication, that is not more than the cost of the game itself. I was concerned.)

I have so many different ways that I want to comment on this, I cannot decide which to go with. Obviously, I have been swept away by “possibly the most exciting development in the MMORPG world since EVE itself.” Maybe we can make a week of EON on KTR.

: Zubon

Corrupted Blood

[World of Warcraft] Word was running rampant through the streets, the plague was here! People were falling dead everywhere and nobody could stop it. Finally, a live event from Blizzard. What a treat!

Oh wait, never mind:

Beginning at 4:00 AM PDT on 9/17 we will be issuing rolling restarts to all realms to apply a hotfix. We expect this to resolve several issues:

Hakkar’s spell Corrupted Blood can no longer exist outside of Zul’Gurub

Turns out Hunter pets would get infected in ZG and they would dismiss them only to resummon in town. Personally, I think this was cool.

Bah.

Update: It appears that the hotfix remedy concocted to combat the recent Azerothian outbreak has not yielded desired results. At this time, our medical staff is continuing to develop an effective cure. We look forward to ensuring the health and vitality of the citizens of Azeroth in the near future.

– Ethic