Some more Champions stuff

Unfortunately since my account time ran out and I don't actually have any pictures, I'll have to make do with the pictures from the main site. They don't really show much but ah well

First up is a robot who's name I forget. I think he was a fire user though, and he shot fire out of his hands and an enormous fireball out of his chest thing.

Next is Inferno. He was originally a lot skinnier and had less spikes, as well as blue glowing eyes. He was an infernal/fire specialist but I retconned him into being a Might/Beastial user as well as bulking him up.

Lastly is Professor Steel. He's a dual sword specialist, but his sword is a tech sword model. He swings around with a grappling hook swinging thing (Think spiderman but a gun instead) and basically just slaughters everything he goes near. Dual swords are insane.

The other character I posted is Captain Drake. He was actually my first character, but not really my favourite (That's the robot dude I posted) and he uses pistols.

EDIT: I didn't think to actually look at the name ON the site. Dumb me. Robot's name is Blaze. Pretty uncreative but it fits the fire spewing robot.

Some old stuff

This is an old picture from back when 14k DPS was actually impressive, even though it was just Hodir (I think it was a few weeks after 3.2)

As a bonus, here's one of my characters from my brief venture into Champions Online (Quite a fun game, the character creation is amazing)

Also for no reason, here's a guy dressed as Duffman

Etrian Odyssey 3

Been playing a lot of this game recently and it's been really addictive even though I'm pretty slow at moving through it.  Thought I'd share my thoughts about it.

Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City is a recreation of the old school first person dungeon crawler (Think Wizardry) but instead of drawing maps with graph paper, you draw maps with the touch screen on the DS. You start out with nothing but a few thousand EN (the currency in the game, not quite sure what it stands for) and you head off to the Explorer's Guild of the city of Armoroad. Apparently this port city has an enormous tree that is a famous tourist attraction, but it's filled with flesh easting monsters and adventurers from all over come to explore the depths beneath the tree.

After registering some people to your guild (complete with custom names, classes and choices of portraits) you are free to begin exploring. After you enter the labyrinth you will be raped by a cat and possibly some floating red fish. EO3 has a turn based combat system that features enemies that will beat the everliving SHIT out of you. The game is pretty ruthless at some points. After you explore a bit more, you also gain access to the new sailing section of the game.

Sailing is completely new to Etrian Odyssey, not having been featured in the first two games. You get given a ship for free (a free boat for moving to a city? Pretty sweet deal) and told to discover cities to trade with. You're given some biscuits to eat on your journey. The type of food you take with you on your sailing trips decides how long you can sail for. For example, I can pay 130EN a trip to use Sauerkraut that lasts me 20 turns or spend 40EN a trip to use raisins that last me 16 turns. However, the extra 4 turns from Sauerkraut lets me discover a new city on the ocean map that opens up some new quests to do.

I'm only on the 7th floor of the Labyrinth (There's 25 floors, but the main story ends after the 20th floor. The last 5 are just post-game fun to get raped by) and currently slowly pushing forward. The art style also drastically changes every few floors. The general theme for the first 4 floors is a forest with patches of mud and some rivers. You fight mainly fish and cats, although a giant bird makes an appearance occasionally. On the 5th floor it changed in to an underwater style, with coral surrounding everything and almost every animal being a fish or underwater creature of some type. 

I'll make another post when I'm further in but so far my group of a Pirate, a Hoplite (Basically the tank bitch), a Prince (Passively heals), an Arbalist (Has a monster hunter style bow) and a Zodiac (Mage that has some freaky rainbow wings) 

I guess my blog about music I like has turned into a gaming blog. Ah well, it's more interesting this way I suppose.

Games too I suppose

Bit bored, so I decided to use it for games as well. Been playing some L4D2 (which I managed to convince a kiwi friend to gift me, so I have gore coming out my ass) and I gotta say, it IS a lot better than the first. Still kinda stupid that they were charging full price for it on release, without even a sale for the people who bought the original. Glad I only paid $7 for it. Also, fuck those Jockey assholes.

Also been mucking around since the WoW patch (Yeah yeah I know, you can hate wow somewhere else) and it's pretty funny watching almost every single class just destroy everything. Mages walking around Pyroblasting for 25k and hunters using Explosive Shot that ticks for 15k. Too bad warriors got shafted with armour pen>crit/haste change.

The new druid Eclipse mechanic is interesting, especially since they apparently (I haven't looked this up yet, just going by what friends have told me) buffed the damage of Moonfire/Insect Swarm, probably from the ability to crit and the haste benefit, that it's actually worth keeping them up constantly now instead of just whenever you switch Eclipses. Moonfire also gets to benefit from both sides of the Eclipse bar by having a talent that turns it into Sunfire (does nature damage instead of arcane) whenever you hit a Solar Eclipse. If only my druid actually had good gear and wasn't running around in half resto t9 and half balance t9.

I can't decide whether to keep my mage as arcane or switch to fire. Arcane has some hilariously high hits (60k Arcane Blast anyone?) but fire has the benefit of being able to do some (quite a lot actually) damage while not casting, especially since you can just spam scorch while running. I suppose I'll wait until my next raid to see. Incidentally, if anyone is recruiting a somewhat well geared mage on Jubei'thos (Horde or Alliance, I've been meaning to swap recently) I'm quite open.

Basically just for music I like

Made this blog to just post music I like. If you don't like it, please refrain from commenting.

First up, some Blue Oyster Cult. Had this song in my head for the last 2 weeks or so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ycOp67eLoM

Like some Meatloaf too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hLcRU5wE4

I'll post some more another day. And once I get these songs out of my head.