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So on a whim I logged back into my old WoW characters from when I played a lot during Vanilla and Burning Legion...

...turns out my guild still exists! Mind you it is only myself and an alt in the guild... but it exists!... so I'm thinking now I'm going to actually try to do something with it and make it a real guild and not just a 'bank' kind of thing which is what I originally intended.

'The Tank' returns!

I've been playing lots and lots of Destiny and I'm really starting to get into it.

One of my friends keeps pestering me to come back to WoW but I just don't see a point in doing it until Legion drops.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
I've been playing lots and lots of Destiny and I'm really starting to get into it.

One of my friends keeps pestering me to come back to WoW but I just don't see a point in doing it until Legion drops.

Are you playing Taken King? I was considering buying that game for my PS3.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
I've been playing lots and lots of Destiny and I'm really starting to get into it.

One of my friends keeps pestering me to come back to WoW but I just don't see a point in doing it until Legion drops.

Let me guess, you have not yet passed lvl 25 and enterd the realm of mindless boredom and half assed quests?


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 djphranq wrote:

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
I've been playing lots and lots of Destiny and I'm really starting to get into it.

One of my friends keeps pestering me to come back to WoW but I just don't see a point in doing it until Legion drops.

Are you playing Taken King? I was considering buying that game for my PS3.

Dont, save your money

I don't play Destiny, but as far as I understood it, "Taken King" is what makes Destiny worthwhile playing as a game.

Destiny being a pretty poor game without it, but the Taken King stories addressed the vast majority of the issues people had about the original game.

More Dragon's Dogma today, I've recovered from the corrupted save, just about managed to complete my first proper quest (after many, many attempts), spent most of the afternoon trying to kill a Chimera before giving up after about the 10th attempt and sneaking past it, and pretty much got my class/playstyle sorted now (a mix of sword, daggers and bow for the most part, went for a hybrid Fighter/Rogue class rather than straight Rogue for the slightly better armour and the option to go sword'n'board when the situation requires it).

Really enjoying the game, the mechanics are very solid and the gameplay very satisfying.

Cool beans May have to look it up, someone else has been talking about it too.

Still chipping away at Legend of Heroes, think I'm getting reasonably close to the end though I would not mind a couple dozen more hours to play through.


Oh, right. The Firaxis humble bundle is still up, yeah? I like the idea of getting the xcom expansions for less than it would cost normally, though I'm a bit reticent as I haven't played xcom in a good while. What about the Civ games and other included items, stuff that's worth picking up? I've played some RTS ala old warcrafts and starcraft, but that's about it for RTS, not really sure how the Civ games run.

I'd definitely recommend it as you can get it very cheap these days (I paid £7.99 for the version with the Dark Arisen expansion as well). The combat is more action-orientated than something like Skyrim, it has a nice party mechanic and some very, very cool skills and spells, and the boss/monster fights are great; everything has strengths and weaknesses, various ways of approaching it ect.

It's a little light on character and setting, and is hard in places (though nothing like Dark Souls, you can actually get somewhere with this unless you do what I did and spend a couple of hours banging my head against a wall made of monsters a much higher level than I had any business taking on...) and it has a very nice 'classic RPG' feel to it but with modern mechanics. It seems to have a lot of parallels with Dragon Age (the next game on my 'buy it cheap' list) if you've ever played that.

Now Dragon Age is more of an isometric game with more camera angles, a lot of auto attacks and cooldowns halfway between an ISO and MMO... sort of like Neverwinter nights and stuff.

So is this game more like that or more like a 1st/3rd party action game? I may just have to look it up. Your initial description had me thinking similar to Heroes of Might and Magic, whereas comparing it to Dragon Age makes it something entirely different

Ah, I was just going off what I'd seen of Dragon Age, having not played it I might be totally off the mark. Party-based combat with a lot of reliance of synergy and stuff, but thinking about it, the combat is probably more hack'n'slash kind of stuff (though still quite deep). You're probably best off just looking some stuff up, aside from Skyrim fantasy RPG games are not something I have a huge amount of experience with, so I'm probably of very little help there.

Haha, fair enough. I'll just look it up on steam if it's there, and if not, youtube is always a friend.

Bit of Borderlands 2, and Battlefield 4. Clearing the skies from all air vehicles with the Mobile AA feels glorious

 thenoobbomb wrote:
Bit of Borderlands 2, and Battlefield 4. Clearing the skies from all air vehicles with the Mobile AA feels glorious

Yeah, mobile AA is awesome!

I've gotten started playing Smite. As far as MOBA's go, its definitely easier to learn that DOTA 2.

 Trondheim wrote:

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
I've been playing lots and lots of Destiny and I'm really starting to get into it.

One of my friends keeps pestering me to come back to WoW but I just don't see a point in doing it until Legion drops.

Let me guess, you have not yet passed lvl 25 and enterd the realm of mindless boredom and half assed quests?

Nope, level 40 Hunter with a Light of 291.

The story quests with The Taken King were pretty entertaining and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Really enjoying Darkest Dungeon right now. I put it down a year ago after trying it in early access. Now that it's finished it's just great.

 djphranq wrote:

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
I've been playing lots and lots of Destiny and I'm really starting to get into it.

One of my friends keeps pestering me to come back to WoW but I just don't see a point in doing it until Legion drops.

Are you playing Taken King? I was considering buying that game for my PS3.

I was actually starting to get into Destiny, but ever since the taken king I cannot enter the game. I have a wired internet.

Bungie. Fix your game.

Trying to complete the story mode of Mortal Kombat 9. Since I usually take a glass cannon strategy to fighting games (pressure the opponent and focus heavily on offense with little regard to defence) it's pretty tough. Also, I swear those 1 vs 2 matches are just plain unfair.

 GrimDork wrote:
Oh, right. The Firaxis humble bundle is still up, yeah? I like the idea of getting the xcom expansions for less than it would cost normally, though I'm a bit reticent as I haven't played xcom in a good while. What about the Civ games and other included items, stuff that's worth picking up? I've played some RTS ala old warcrafts and starcraft, but that's about it for RTS, not really sure how the Civ games run.

The Civ games are a lot of fun. They're turn-based instead of RTS, but it does involve quite a bit of strategy. I remember spending a ton of hours on those, especially Civ 4 and 5. Of course, the AI is a bit... strange (if you've heard of the infamous Ghandi nuclear war joke, this is where it came from and this is what will happen), but it's still pretty cool if you want to run a multi-city empire. I think there's quite the modding community behind it too (I think Civ 5 supports mods from Steam Workshop)

Mighty Warlord Gandhi is nothing to mess with. I trust backstabbers like Napoleon over him, because no matter how big of a smile he has, there's always a knife behind his back, ready to stab you once you aren't looking.

After an hour or so of failing terribly, I've started to get good at Battlefield Bad Company 2's multiplayer on Steam! Brilliant!

The Elder Scrolls Online. The way the game's raids work is that you can enter them at level 10 minimum, but on average most are leveled for 50. Everyone however has their base stats (health, stamina, magick, damage, etc) leveled to the highest level upon entering however.

My beef? Spending almost two hours on an easy dungeon which usually is a half hour. Why? Because I was grouped with 3 level 11s. How is that bad? Well, a level 11 has barely any skills, only one weapon set, isn't able to resurrect other players and ...well, is just a bit crap really.

I only started doing raids after I hit level 50 (even then I gave it a few levels), because I knew I would still only be barely passing the bar. I don't get why level 10s are trying to do the same dungeons. The joke is that there's a <Level 50 version of the dungeon available which gives the same rewards. Heh, so I'm kind of at the point where if I see someone of that level I'll just tell them to group into the right version of the Raids and kick them. ;

Warhammer online did something like that with PvP. Now... PvP pretty much was the entire game (though there were quests and group events too)so it made sense to include everyone but... I forget the exact level ranges but it was something like lvl 4-9 all did one bracket, and then 10-19.. or something like that. And yes, they boosted you to the top level or just below it, and the skills boosted to the appropriate level... but you didn't gain any skills you hadn't yet learned, and you wouldn't have any PvP survival gear either. You could certainly contribute...but mostly you would just be contributing points to the enemy team =/

ESO boosts people to the max level stat-wise for PVP as well.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
The Elder Scrolls Online.

Which Faction are you in? I've got a Dunmer Nightblade assassin and an Aldmeri Nightblade archer. Haven't played in months though, I got to lvl 20 ish then moved onto games like Fallout 4. Haven't really got the time for yet another MMO.

I've got a level 21 (I think) Altmer Templar. Quit because I was underlevelled heavily for all quests I had and could find.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
After an hour or so of failing terribly, I've started to get good at Battlefield Bad Company 2's multiplayer on Steam! Brilliant!

Is there still a decent sized playerbase on PC? I used to love playing BC2 on the X360 but the playerbase dropped off a cliff. Probably shut down the servers too.

ESO boosts people's stats, but doesn't boost their armour, give them new skills, provide them with the ability to resurrect or give them their second bar. I.e. someone without all that is useless in one of the hard dungeons apart from being a damage soak (and only if they were already a low level tank).

I'm a Dunmer Dragonknight Tank in the Ebonheart Pact. Population's all right. There's enough content there till you reach the high levels then you'll move onto Raids and PVP. I'd level up sooner rather than later, as whilst there;s a large number of low level players playing the DLC is a bit silly until you get to a high level as the loot scales.

Something else re: ESO Raids. Having spent an hour and a half trying to beat the easiest boss in the White Gold Tower dungeon I'll say: do not attempt the second hardest dungeon in the game if you don't know what the hell you're doing. At one point a min-maxing DPS joined who had barely any health, then complained they were being one-shotted by stuff that barely damages me. Again, I'm blaming this on the players, not the dungeon. There's a non-hard mode version of the dungeon out there that people can do, yet they join the veteran one without knowing what they're supposed to be doing :(

I think I'll go back to playing with toy soldiers...

I can't imagine PUGing a raid it just seems silly. Unless it's on ezmode as you say. All of this rezzing you speak of sounds like a mechanic I would not care for, guess you're talking about recovering from a wipe. If its during a fight it just seems silly to me.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
After an hour or so of failing terribly, I've started to get good at Battlefield Bad Company 2's multiplayer on Steam! Brilliant!

Is there still a decent sized playerbase on PC? I used to love playing BC2 on the X360 but the playerbase dropped off a cliff. Probably shut down the servers too.

There's always some full and almost full servers EU-side, mostly Rush.

I finally upgraded my PC. So It's been Space Engineers pretty much non stop when I'm home.

 GrimDork wrote:
I can't imagine PUGing a raid it just seems silly. Unless it's on ezmode as you say. All of this rezzing you speak of sounds like a mechanic I would not care for, guess you're talking about recovering from a wipe. If its during a fight it just seems silly to me.

In ESO when someone dies it costs one Soul Gem to resurrect themselves, or they go back to the last checkpoint. Against regular trash mobs a player can resurrect at any time as long as they have a Soul Gem, however against bosses you can only come back if resurrected by another player. FYI dying also damages armour, so if you keep dying you're losing damage mitigation, meaning you'll die more. You can repair armour with easy to acquire armour repair kits (daily crafting quests always give at least one, and you can do handful of these a day). A pity then nobody carries those either.

Typically the way this works with a boss is that when someone dies a DPS (parties are usually 1 Tank, 1 Healer, 2 DPS) resurrects them. If both DPS are down then the Tank takes all the aggro and the Healer resses. This whole sequence is screwed though when one of those in the chain doesn't bother to res. You can sacrifice DPS for a few seconds, but if you start losing healing then that's bad. Its even worse when the Tank starts having to resurrect people as they then have to deal with being attacked, sans their damage mitigation.

...Though the above goes both for guys who can't resurrect people because their too cheap (you can buy Soul Gems for nothing) and those who on a high horse. I don't get DPS who continue to attack a boss as someone lays next to them dead.

Its a game where you can Solo a non-Veteran dungeon if you wanted to. Make it to a Veteran version of the same run and then you can make up for a couple of crutches. In Hard Mode though its impossible to make it through unless everyone's pulling their weight and knows the boss mechanics. Voice Chat would help in the latter's case, but if you have people that actually know what they're doing you can speed run them in public regardless. ...Actually meeting such folk outside of a guild is rare though, which is odd then why so many people attempt the daily Hard Mode Raids only to be wiped over and over (a guy can hope though).

Anyhow, I've decided to shelf the game till the next DLC comes out in February. In the mean time I've a ton of models backlogged. Notably though, a few based on the Elder Scrolls Online. XD