Monthly Archives: June 2012

Level 15 aka Quicken Reconstruct

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Last night Fopo and I hit the xp hard and fast as we try to do most xp nights. About 30 mins before it was time to log off for the night, we leveled. As I needed too or hit the bankable xp cap. Hello 5 or 6 more points in balance, Quicken, Reconstruct, and a few other spell swaps thanks to having reconstruct.

After taking 5-10 mins picking up a few new spells Fo and I hit Mired in Kobolds. A made zerg to the end of the quest happened. Buffing, shining and whatnot and then the dragon.

The stars aligned and the build was just right. I keep lighting motes and its extra damage from lighting on the baby black dragon. Stood close enough to rune arm blast for a few hundred points of damage a charge and kept Fopo healed as he tanked the little guy. Victory was swift and easy.

I hit the shrine again, and ready myself for Big Mama. We always go for Mama (yes even on Elite) and 9 times out of 10 we win.

Fopo asks for the plan. I say I will grap the archers, he can kite around mama until have them all and then we will set up and do more or less the same as we did with baby. Off we go. Turns out the archers are using naughty arrows and not sonic ones like I thought so I was taking 5 to10 points base + 4 to 5 points from the naughty take that times what 6-8 archers and the reconstruct cool down was too long. I was able to stay alive if all my timers were used to heal myself. And with the torc and CordOp I could take them for a long while. But sooner or later I would need to heal Fopo and as that happened bang I died.

Fo was able to run around healing himself long enough to throw me a rez. But more or less as he did, he took a bad shot to the back and died. So I ran, healing and buffing until I get Fo a rez. We are in the mist of a recovery when I try for a Flame Turrent to try and give us a handful of breathing space when Fo drops again trying to pull the dragon off me. The dragon turns back to me in a heartbeat knocking me to half Hp and knocking me down. And the arrows take me down to next to nothing. When the dragon fires off her acid breath I am done.

So quicken reconstruct is not the bees knees all by itself but it made me feel a lot less squishy. Think I with a little more fine tuning the melee arty will really take off again. The damage out put is on par with other one handed melees. Having just finished my AC fighter I have a good idea were the water mark is for one handed dps. But I need to remember to get my DR trinkets (Bloodrage Symbiont and Kaelth’s Touch) back out of the bank for sure. If I had them think we would have won first time no problem.

Anyway expect more Arty talk after the weekend. I fully expect to be going on about Blade Barrier or Tactical Detonation.

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I’m Not your Mama, take your Drama Someplace Else!

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Sorry but person A can’t play with person B. B wont play with C. C will play with both as long as we don’t do quest X or put person A or B in roll Q. And both A and B want to do quest X only….

Or in other words when I have the star, Frack my Life.

Ever have one of those nights where everyone seems to have brought their baggage to the party? I travel fairly light any more. I have two people I don’t play with and I don’t think either play anymore. But if they did/do and they act like a human beings and keep their mouth shut I don’t think I would notice they were back in my group.

That said I know people have reasons not to want to play with others. I don’t even care what those reasons are. If your reason is good enough for you it is good enough for me. If you don’t want to play with person B don’t. And I will defend you for leaving when your gone. But if your desire to play with me is less then your desire not to play with person B what am I to do? Especially when person B is a guildie with a reservation via mails that you don’t happen to get…

I have to give preferred treatment to members of the guild. It sounds like crap but it is true. Or otherwise my guild wouldn’t be what it is (one of the best ones around). I expect all my guildies to do the same for the other members.

That doesn’t mean you, a person on my friends list, can’t have my loyalty too. But I have to be a good leader within my guild.

It is not fair to me (or anyone else) that I secretly hope that person B doesn’t long on while playing with person A or vice versa.

I don’t have an easy answer for people when this happens. If people can’t talk it out and learn to be civil for the sake of a third or forth person, I don’t know what to do…

My wife’s best friend, hates me or did enough that she tried to stop my wedding right up to the walk down the isle, and I believe she has tried to talk my wife into leaving me more then once (Thankfully my wife is dumb and still loves me 🙂 I am an ass after all.). And I don’t like her because of that fact and some other things that I happen to feel strongly about but wont talk about on an internet blog post. The point is we have worked out a system for my wife to be able to see and hang out with her best friend. Once and a while I will even recommend a visit (and offered her my rental house so she could move closer) because I know what spending time with a friend means. All awhile I don’t put her head on a stick on my front yard while she is “visiting” sleeping on my couch and she hasn’t been successful in talking my wife into leaving me.

If two people can work things out enough to be civil to each other that has as much bad blood as she and I do then I think that there is hope for everyone to put their feelings aside for the other person/s that they do care about.

But hey if you can’t, No problem. But if I slip up and forget you let you know that players on your do not group list are planing on tagging along then well sorry. I don’t even check my dnp list any more….

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