Ald Demo

Steparu uploaded a freaking amazing Black Desert Online city tour video.  There's absolutely nothing i can say that'll do this video justice aside from the obvious amazing visual and art style quality.  It totally reminds me of how fantastic GW2's cities are compared to every other MMO but that may just be my love for Divinity's Reach talking.  I am unfortunately bummed that Black Desert is going the action combat with no trinity route but i'm still looking forward to giving it a try at some point.

I decided to begin working on collecting some mounts to add to my abysmally low count i currently have. Having fewer than ten starting bumming me out and motivated me to get going.  For some unknown reason i set my sights on Stonecore and the Vitreous Stone Drake mount.  Going in i heard a lot of horror stories from people chasing this lovely 1% drop rate chance mount but that never deters me.

Well, i don't know if they upped the drop rate or if i just got ridiculously lucky, but seven attempts later and it's sitting in my collection!  That 1/7 pretty much took me less than 2 hours from when i decided to go.  So either the drop rate was increased or i'm going to get a lot of hate.  Either way, I'm happy it didn't take long and now i can move on to the next challenge.  I'm sure the next mount will decide to elude me to make up for this one.

We come to the fourth and final boss of the first wing of Siege of Orgimmar.  This just happens to be my favorite fight of the first wings for two reasons.  The first being that i love AoE fights and this one doesn't disappoint with all the little adds spawning all over.  The second reason being that so many people seem to fail the mechanics on Swelling Pride and end up all dropping like flies at the same time.  It's hilarious, sort of depressing, but can always be counting on to occur.

Continuing on with the third boss of the first wing of Siege of Orgrimmar.

Continuing on with the second boss(s) is Siege of Orgrimmar.  Nothing meaner than a DK beating on some pandas.  I'll make an exception in this case but only because they're mean as well.

It's been almost five months since i started playing WoW for the first time.  I realized how much I've been slacking when it comes to recording in game footage, which i love to do.  I've done pretty much none!  The only downside is of course i'm limited to doing so in either Looking for Raid or random Flex groups, which are sometimes pretty decent.

It's not all that bad depending on which days i decide to attempt some runs.  It's certainly not a dedicated raid group of course, but i don't have time for that right now.  Perhaps once the expansion drops, i'll look into something a little more serious, but for now this will have to do.

The first boss - Immerseus.

I'm pretty let down with the collection of odd and silly character names i managed to collect during my time in FFXIV.  I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that the quantity is way below that of my GW2 collection considering i only lasted a few months in the game.  I'm sure given the same amount of playtime, i could have managed a much larger list with a lot more interesting names.  Regardless, i still had fun capturing as many interesting names as i could and am still amazed at the variety of silliness.

So i logged in today and completely forgot what day it was.  My UI treated me to a lovely scene i did not expect and most certainly was not prepared for.  I'm normally alt tabbed while loading into the game so when i tabbed back, i was greeted by this lovely image.  I must say, it did put a smile on my face once i realized what the hell was going on.