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Stuck at 29
Blaugust, Hooo! Logo by Belghast First off, I have to say that I’m super excited that it’s almost time for Blaugust! What is Blaugust, you ask? It’s a challenge to blog each day during August. Belghast started it a few years ago, and continues the tradition this year, as well. He wrote a splendiferous guide on how it’s going to work next month, and I encourage all current Bloggers to join in! I will totally be participating! As for those just starting out blogging, it might be a bit of a challenge as you’re beginning and sussing out your format. However, it’s still a great way to get into the…
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Gaming Goals: July
Trying this out last month seemed to be helpful to me in those waffley “I don’t know what to play!” whiney moments, so I’m going to try it again this month! You might notice that this month the lists are a tad shorter. The reasoning behind this is (1) we’ll be on vacation for about nine days, and (2) I didn’t get through a bunch of things, so I’d like to try to make the list a little more tackle-able. So, without further ado, my gaming goals for July! WildStar Goals Chestnut Reach the max tier of the PvP contracts for the first time ever Reach the max tier of…
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Gaming Goals Review: June
So, I started something new at the beginning of this month where I decided to set some gaming goals for myself and then see how I did with them, because I’ve much less time than I’d like with real life cropping up and all that jazz. So, let’s review how I did with them! WildStar Goals Reach the max tier of both the PvP and PvE contracts by the end of the month (I still have yet to max them since they came out) Max my rep in the Crimson Badlands and Northern Wastes (The first two daily areas. And no, I still haven’t finished maxing the reps.) Finish out…
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High Anxiety
First of all… Final Fantasy Sunday night, I had an epic battle with the login boss, but eventually was able to log into Lamia. Cactuar was out of the question after a half hour of login attempts, and Lamia only took about ten minutes comparatively. So I had some fun leveling up my Archer. I worked a bit on my main Bard quests, and next on my list is to purchase a few gear items from vendors to unlock the “level 5 gear” quest to progress the main story. I thought the exchange with Silvairre was entertaining. I giggled a little bit. Though I do think he’s kind of an…
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Stuck in a Rut
Feelings and Free Writing The past few days I’ve been stuck in a bit of a rut. Real life has left little time for gaming, so I’ve been logging into WildStar to sit and run around Thayd chatting in guild most of the night. I’ve run a few things–Wednesday I tanked a Bay of Betrayal and helped get a few more folks through it for the first time. Last night I finished my World Bosses for attunement, and all I have left is to smash the extra boss in Vet KV. But it’s all felt very unexciting to write about. While it’s been exciting to game, it just seems so…
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NBI 2015 Safari: Wrap-Up
For those that didn’t know, Murf ran a month-long contest called the NBI 2015 Safari to help get us newbie bloggers some prompts and ideas to spring board. In his most recent post, he announces the winners of the Safari! All in all, all of the entries were magnificent, so be sure to check them all out, and not just the Winners. 🙂 Who knows, you may find another blog for your blog roll or feedreader! As a writing prompt, Murf suggested we revisit our posts: If you won, please consider reposting your screenshot with a link back this this post. It’ll be an awesome way to show off and…
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Gaming Goals: June
WildStar Gaming yesterday was a bit lacking. I did log into WildStar, but I mainly started taking care of some guild-management stuff for when we go F2P. A lot of combing the roster, seeing if folks have applied to our site, yada yada. I also put together Episode 5 of Yardcore Nexus, which takes some time. And it doesn’t always cooperate with the game, either, so at one point I had to sit and watch Netflix while my video rendered. I think that’s a sign I need an upgrade to my computer? But I’m not sure what to upgrade. Besides, we don’t have the extra cash for it right now,…
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The Weekend Report
I seem to post less on the weekends. I’d love to try to post more on the weekends. In fact, I’d love to try to start posting daily. See if I can get to it before Blaugust hits! Boss Train, Woop Woop! Saturday I hopped into WildStar for an officer meeting, and then a scheduled Rose Bowl event! Not only did we do Rose Bowl, however, we started a World Boss Train. It was a lot of fun! I even got to do R12 for the first time! I’d love to do both again! We actually downed King Honeygrave!! He’s an extremely buggy boss (no pun intended) and can reset…
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Haukke Manor
Opportunity I haven’t been online/gaming much the past week and half, really. I had an opportunity for a new position with the company I interned with fall into my lap, and had to complete a project as a part of the interview process. I’m excited to see if I progress to the next step. I know I have cheerleaders in my corner there, so I’m leaning towards the positive. Cake or Death Last night was my first night back in-game since, well, Memorial Day, really. So almost two weeks. Good grief. Anyways. The last time Chaide and I played FFXIV, we had gotten the quest to unlock Haukke Manor, but…
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What Makes a Villain?
If you didn’t know by now, Murf is hosting a Screenshot Safari competition during the Newbie Blogger Initiative. I’m behind on entries, so there will be two this week, I’m sure. This one is based on the topic: Heroes or Villains. It was kind of a tough topic for me to come up with, quite honestly. In WildStar, who are the real villains? The big bad? The factions we fight against? It didn’t feel quite so clear-cut. Because the premise of the game is that we are discovering what the Eldan have left on Nexus. So does that make the Eldan the big bads, or their creation(s)? Lots of questions…
