Vindictus

I was informed early join for Vindictus Open beta starts on September 15th. Person came and gave me a key to get early start Yay

So everyone thats invited gets 2 more keys to get early start. So pretty much anyone that knows 1 person can spread out keys like wildfire.

So if you wanna join me and Rho, leave a message and I'll get you a key.

~Pearz

GT run today

So we downed Nogram first try, wasted alot of time getting to Wark.

First attempt went horrible, 2nd attempt was 17% left, 3rd attempt at 12%. We might be able to beat him soon.

Immortal indeed.

~Pearz

Phantom Miria

So last week at work, was the exact day they released the new claymore chapter (107). Since then my chrome auto loaded out my last tabs and I re-read the chapter. Now a week later, forums are blaring with rage over this chapter as I was when I first saw it.

So this involves huge spoilers, Don't click if you want to read chapters chronologically.

Spoiler:

So The biggest thing about this chapter is my favorite claymore, and 1 of my favorite characters in anime in general, die. Poor Miria D:

Since I assume some of you clicking this don't read claymore and reading this anyways for god knows why. Miria is basically the cool, calm, collected leader of the "rogue" group of claymores the main character is part of. In every chapter she is in, she is portrayed to be intelligent and calculative type.

Now the problem with this chapter wasn't so much that she died, but how she died. For a character that seemed nearly omniscience, she acted totally out of character this whole chapter almost as if the author wanted her to die forcefully and didn't care how.

The introduction of the number 10 claymore being all powerful and used purely for fighting the other claymore is a huge plot hole. The idea of how many claymores went rogue like Teresa, yet she never appeared. Clearly your expertise could have slowed Teresa down enough, and maybe have changed the anime as a whole since Clare would lose her reason d'etre.

Their have been much more lengthy posts about how out raged people are about this since it seems Miria was a much loved character. First all 3 abyssal beings portrayed as all powerful are all dead now, with no more "big badies" the author most resort to killing off main characters.

I hope they pull a "bleach" lulz

Every chapter ends with a "final Blow" that turns out to be not so final lulz

Only real final blow in bleach happens when you see the flash back XD

Side note: Aaro, Rho and I watched The girl who leapt through time over the weekend. For an anime that won a bazillion awards, it wasn't amazing. I mean not bad, but not jaw droppingly good. Mainly felt their were to many unanswered questions. Things kinda just fall in place. Also learned Rho has the weirdest rating system, I mean 5/10 = watchable which is my 7 D: And my system already considered harsh compared to other raters (._.)

Side Note Part 2: Current list of MMOs in order of want:

Blade and Soul > Iris Online > Guild Wars 2 > Legend of Edda

Side Note part 3: Started playing Mass Effect 2 again since i reduced graphics enough to be "playable". Also been playing HON more with Rho. Downloaded a tool to calculate TSR (true skill rating). Formula for it is long, and tweaked for so that the "average" player = 5.

1-3 = suck

4-6 = average

6+ = amazing

I learned that even though I play decently, I DON'T EVEN REACH 5!!!! I mean granted, almost no body reaches even 5 for TSR, I am greatly saddened by the fact I'm not even considered average player for HON. The description of the tool was right:

"TSR is a very harsh rating system where players are generally rated between 0-10, however values greater than 10 do exist. An average player should have a TSR of 5.0."

Harsh indeed, harsh indeed..............

~Pearz

Pearz hath succeeded!!11!

Spent a whole like 30 mins getting the tag cloud working on the blog. I can finally put in more tags when posting, was worried it would get cluttered as a list. I feel so accomplished I'm updating blog to Version 1.1 !!!

That and I finally finished Kannagi after like 2-3 weeks. Not much special worth mentioning. Next Anime : Sola, Kurenai, and still trying to finish Kara no Kyoukai

That is all, you may resume your boring lives.

~Pearz

Aaro Missed Canada

More specifically, these 1.1MB/s speeds on uTorrent. How easily I forgot. Never again will I leave you. Never.

~Aaro off

(PS. I deliberately waited until Pearz posted in order to usurp top position. You may QQ now, pealz.)

First Look At Legendary Champions

First of all: Rho, I detest you for claiming I have viruses. While using a inferior laptop, I still load HON a lot faster. (._.)

So, I think I've levelled up decently in Legendary Champions (LC from now on). I hit lv30 on my Archer and then reached the Open PVP maps.

So, this is how gameplay pans out:

1) Opening town > NPCs to learn from.

2) Run out to start questing. The majority of the quests are just walk and then talk to someone else with very few "take out xx mobs yy times". I hit lv30 one night, with roughly 5 hours of gameplay. Almost all of your exp comes from quests 'cause one quest gives, say, 100k exp while the mobs your level give around 50 exp. lulz

3) Once you hit lv30 for the Open PVP maps, everything changes. Quite literally, you get a quest to take out 200 pixies, and you only get a couple of the quests anyway. The game becomes a grind-fest - not only that, but the maps are also tiny. They're ramming everyone between lv30-35 in that one map to grind, so you're guaranteed to run into someone every 5min. The second you run in, you know they will attack you, thus levelling lv30+ comes to a very fast halt.

I never got passed lv30, but basically the quests were nearly undoable. It doesn't help that the graphics are horrid and, as Rho puts it, "The game doesn't even TRY to follow the Three Kingdoms story." They just smacked names onto everything to be kool.

The Guardian System is neat; I love transforming into pure ownage owning everything for a minute... Then, someone transformed into Garunda (what irony that he picked that Guardian) on me and owned my face on that PVP map.

Class-wise, there are five. Of them, two seem clearly imba such that if you don't roll those, you will get rocked. Skill-wise, you use books so everyone can get every book and have all the skills, provided that they have money. With cash shop, you're guaranteed to have the money. Stats can be customized, but they make very little impact.

So, in the end, LC is dropped. The gameplay is nothing special, there's nearly no customization, and the graphics are horrid.

On another (anime) note:

Bakuman just keeps winding up and up; makes you think he's getting ready to wrap things up soon. That's good news, 'cause most run-on manga suck. *thumbs up*

Claymore, on the other hand, is also winding up (with monthly chapter #107 being released today). Clearly, they are looking to maybe end things, but this latest chapter has made me resent it. Claymore, you don't exist to me anymore!1!1!111! *shakes fist at the heavens*

Note: FF14 OB is open again, if you can get one of those keys...

~Pearz

A Picture Says A Thousand Words

(Enlarge please!)



No, Pearz, I'm not interested in obscene websites pitched to me in busted English. =p

~*+ Rho

Legendary Champions

I'm very well aware that a majority of people that visit my blog hates Aeria (may have to do with older content XD) but for now I'm trying out the latest game their hosting.

Force informed in the CB opened yestarday so I downloaded it to give it a try. The game seems to be almost pure quests for exp which mainly just involve walking around. I'm level 14 currently 2 hours in. Once you figure out you can click green words in your quest log to auto walk, its easy peasy. Like 1 quest at lvl 14 = 20k exp, killing 1 mob = 100 exp. Keep in mind it takes me like a full 20 secs to kill a mob D:

For anyone that wants to join me I'm in Shu faction, I'll do a review maybe a day or 2 in when I learn more about the game then basic grind of quests XD

~Pearz

For those that want to Register for FF14 OB

But are to lazy to go out to look. The critical bug seems to be fixed and they will announce when Open beta will resume later. For now if you want to register first:

1) Go to this page. Tells you details on how to register a Square Enix account. This is page for NA region, their is link at top for Europe. Helps to read this XD

2) You can download the client here.

3) I'm not at this point yet, but you need a "key" to actually get into Open beta (I always assumed keys = closed beta, think they lack the concept of what OPEN beta means)

Enjoy

~Pearz

Sooo.........

1) FF14 Open beta has been closed due to a "Critical Bug" on first day. This bolds well for official release in less then a month. Still don't know if I can run it but I don't see much hope for this.

2) Logged on tonight to do Gorluxors tower in Allods. We downed the first boss Nogram, but failed 2nd one. I think our raid could have finished. We just needed to reorganize our raid and have everyone ready for him. Some organization all we were missing for beating him.

3) Mainly HONing with Rho again. Kinda out of my anime phase again. Comes and goes where I watch a couple series at once. Probably Finish Kannagi and that will be end. Been over a week and haven't finished a 14 eps series.

4) As of now, the most anticipated MMO I want to try is probably Iris Online or Guild Wars 2 (Blade and soul if that ever comes), Iris being most.

A> Anime-ish = pure win

B> seems to have decent customization

C> Run by Gpotato that I actually think does amazing job as a gaming company, would try their games just cause they host it.

5) Mirai Nikki came out with a new chapter (55), guess they might prolong the manga alot longer. Seemed almost certain it was going to end soon but they just opened it up to be much longer if they want which doesn't seem like a good idea D:

6) And for anyone this effects, good idea to update some of your programs. Apprently a critical Windows .dll vunerability was found recently. Could effect some programs you use (for me it was Utorrent) and put your computer at risk.

~Pearz