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one and one, two and one, one and two

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Morn.

I epic TRed Java last night and feed him a normal heart so he is ready to start again, one what i would like to be his last life for a bit.  So i am trying to form a plan.

Tobril wants me to look at a 2 monk splash, which is poopy mostly do to if you have an unarmed profile then your animal form uses that profile. Or it did and i don’t remember ever seeing that it was changed. It kinda makes since that it would work that way wouldn’t it? Not from a logical pov, but from a coding/lazy pov. Animal form + weapons act like unharmed and handwraps ergo it would use the one that came first…

The first thing i have done is plan out the necessary AP point expenditures to do the things i want to have. And see what important things i am missing.  I would have 17-18 APs left over and would miss the last tear of the Instinctive Fighting (dg sneak attack and 10 positive spell power.) And the Form Mastery ie 10 PRR, 2 damage and 2d6 sneak attack dice and some other bonuses.

One level in fighter gives me the options for extra action boost for 6(7) points, haste boost for 2(9), and reed in the wind for 3(12) or 12 total points. If i do a second fighter level then i could take Imp Dodge in this tree (Tobril claims stacking) for 6(18) more points. So something might need to be cut.

Now if i did one wizard level with those 18 APs i could pick up 15 hps(4) which isn’t bad as that includes 1% double strike and another 1[w]+damage attack. But a second wizard level allows us to spend 6 more total points for a shield clickly that makes up for the missing PRR.

Lets do see what 2/1 fighter/wiz looks like:

4 points for the hps in from Eldritch Knight

6 points for Haste boost and Reed.

6 more for imp Dodge.

1 for invisibility clickly?

17 total points spent 3 total bonus feats and PROFICIENCY with most weapons opening up all the non-Nightmare weapons in my pack (which there are some).

2/1 wiz/fighter:

6 in kensei for Reed, and haste boost 2

10 for Hps and Imp Shield

1 for invisibility clickly?

17 total points spent 2 total bonus feats and PROFICIENCY like above.

Even talking it out with you all, I am not any closer to a decision. Grumble Grumble.

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Time for Another TR?

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I have spent the last few DDo hours on Javabot. By doing/cleaning up some destiny stuff I have gotten him in fairly good shape. Dps is up a little, I am using the Nightmare at the moment. So 2.5+.5(1d10) 17-20 with a so so Str score but by tweaking my destinies and maxing out others i am not using i have some room for twists i didn’t have before. Namely the cold burst from Draconic but having that allows me to return to Primal Avatar as a main destiny for most questing and Fury for the other quests.

Overall it is working out fine.

But tweaking feats and enhancements lead me to another issue, namely i am missing out on another channel for defense, DODGE.

When i last TRed Java dodge was not a thing so tanking dex for wis/con/str was fine. I mean i wanted a tripping hp having dps caster. And for a long time it worked. But change a few things like -4 bab vs -X% (i think it is -25%) for non- proficiency and make dodge one of the better defensive channels available…

What i am saying is i could use a few more tweaks.

Now i have a +4 dex tome in Java with a base of 8 that makes dex 12. You need 13 for dodge (which opens up improved dodge and 4 good legs) which is only 6% more but still that is a big jump and return to more or less immune to knock downs. So looking a round i do happen to have a 4 to 5 dex tome. I thought i did, and i could use it.

OR….

Tr again. I am trying to get my head around all the TR changes. But i think i could do the epic TR at 28 then back to 1 and have more or less the same build with a few tweaks like 9 dex and maybe a hair more strength. Pick up one of them epic past lives and whatnot. Might be worth the hassle. I mean what else am i doing, right?

 

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HammmmmmBERGER!!!!

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When i play a game i often end up thinking about other things as i play. Yesterday, the lady Brits were on their newest TR run (on iconics) doing the minotaur village quest. And as i always do i shouted over voice  HammmmmmBERGER!!!! In my best impression of the chairman from Iron Chief America.

Why? Because that is what i think of when i think of minotaurs.

But i have noticed other repeating trends while doing certain quests. Like any time i am running across a large zone going from point A to B watching the map, i hear the Indiana Jones travel music.

What pops in your head during game?

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Job Updates

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Thought I would throw out a little updatez. Think most of you know I have been job hunting for a while now and ended up taking a job at the post office. And i want to say I don’t think it is for me. As most of you know I have a little more then a hint of dyslexia. I tend to get the last few letters/numbers/words out of order. So if say i wanted to sort all the mail for 1234 green while i am sitting at their box out of my next pile i would have to extra careful not to get the mail for 1243 green out also. Or more often then not I wouldn’t get all the mail for 1234 green at once. What was happening  was i would have 5 letters for 1234, check and see 1234 1234 1234 and 1243 1243 and just put three in the mail box. Roll up to the next address and then realize that i still had mail for the last box. Once i realized i was doing that i had to be even more careful and that took even more time.

Things you might not know about the post office is that it is super time sensitive.  That is that when people send mail out in their mail box it has to be back at the post office by a given time so it can be processed and sent out to be sorted. Unless you live in a MAJOR city odds are it has to dive out of town some. Ergo a must be back time is in effect at most postoffices. Any mail you don’t deliver must be returned and taken out by the next person. Ergo extra work for them. And in my case it will be extra work on Mondays ie the craziest of the days.

Also you have to scan most packages now at the time of delivery. If the scanner is not working you have to manually enter the 16-22 digit number (like 1234 5678 1234 5678 1290 12). I had more then 5 packages that didn’t scan and again with my dyslexia manually enter packages were very time consuming.

My first solo run might be my last as i got back late even though i headed back in time, but you have to get gas on your way back if you work the Saturday shift (Mondays are too busy to get gas) but my gas card wouldn’t work, making me late for the the truck anyway. But to top things off 3 different people helped me out by taking around an hour of deliveries on top of their normal load. Even with their help i still returned with more then a third of my route. Even if i was able to double my speed I would still have tons more work for the regular. Something i can’t abide is someone else having extra work because of me.

I am not sure what to do. My wife said i had to see for myself and my regular saw my issues and made some comments but i hate to quit. There are lots of good things about the job. It is a total rush, 1000% pressure all the time. I didn’t even have time to eat, drink or piss in the 12 hours i was out killing myself. I do like that rush of an impossible deadline when i have the ability to reach the goal in time. But i was totally crushed on Saturday night some things were out of my hands but most of my delays were due my limitations. And i don’t want to hurt others because of my short comings.

Anyway i am debating things maybe too much like i tend to do. But that makes content, right?

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And There Was Much Debate

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This last week/weekend was a bit of a challenge. The Gurobo’s have been passing around something making each other sick or we knock the illness down only for it to climb back up and try to take us down again. The wife is recovering the slowest but i think once she is mostly over it she will be done. I have more training this week Tues-Fri and it is currently -0.1 . Aka fuckin cold. I thought i was over all this shit last week then i spent the day training, 7+ hours out in the cold hardly moving as the main carrier had the heater blowing on him and jumping in and out of the LLV. Burrrrr.

So lets just say other then laying on the couch watching Stargate: Atlantis and wrapping up  Rescue Me; I have been rocking the xps on Butterz. I really like where she is right now, well except in the DPS area but I just need to deal with that as there is not a ton more i can due in that department other then a few hard to handle tweaks.

So time for another project. I am thinking Java.

For whatever reason he went from being super fun and almost unstoppable to not so much in a single TR, TO THE SAME BUILD. Tobril keeps trying to convince me that it has to be something to do with the enchantment changes but I just think that maybe the melee/caster hybrid dog is not going to work any longer. So it is time to pick a horse I guess and go with it. And i am thinking melee, that was Java’s original role so time to get back on it.

So to that end i swapped out of the skullsmasher that i was not proficient with without help and looked to my Raid box for help.  First of all i had an Toughness feat that i could swap if i wanted to pick up a proficiency. Sure i could have taken simple weapons and gone back to the Skullsmasher but i want to try something “more powerful” at least in a vacuum.

Tinah, looks good and there is the benefit of having one or two other long swords in my pack pocket, but it feels less strong combaired to some of the other weapons. Tobril is currently using a Celestia on his current life and while it seems powerful I would rather keep open the idea of a bard doing CC for EEs. Right now about the time i have everything hit with a song Tobril has run in hit his 18 cleave buttons and woken the whole area with the Sunburst effect. Balisarde, would do a ton of work. Java is mostly way under geared (like most of my alts) so it wouldn’t be a bad call. But the dps would be a joke. Mornh, isn’t bad at all, but I have stunning/seeker covered in the off hand. So then there was the dagger and the bastard sword. Both are good, Agony wouldn’t need a feat swap but is less good then Nightmare. Which is all upside other then that whole the only bastard sword i have is it thing.

Okay so debate; what one handed web weapon is the best for a melee dog?

Also keep warm thoughts in mind for KS this week. Damn it is like hell is freezing over.

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Resolutions 2014

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Well it is that time of the new year where we all say we are going to do things and then don’t. Or do we.

Thanks Tobril

 

Well not here. Here we take time to review a few times during the year and see if we are on track and then there is a end of year review.

So last year i had 5 goals.

Focus more on work at work, an area where I feel I massively improved. I cut out forums and most other distractions. For all the good it ended up doing for me.

Add in more learning materials in my reading, this i was so so at best. My personal reading time waxed a waned but i was able to get some things in just not as much as I would have liked.

Leading, other then the Defense Guild i haven’t lead shit. That said raiding is mostly dead right now anyway so there is that.

Be more grateful when the loot gods favor anyone, here i think i made some fairly long strides. Heck just the other day Grim got some fat lootz and i was 90% happy for her, 5% jealous, 5% wondering if the item even worked.

Be more forgiving in game, while i think i have improved some i think i will keep this one on the list. I remember tilting hard and then rage quiting at least 3 or 4 times in the last year. Seems like I still need some work.

 

Okay lets hit some goals.

Be more forgiving in game, easy. Well not to do, but easy to add to the list.

Gencon weight loss, with everything that happened at the end of the year I got off my diet and slipped into a real gluttonous mindset. As a result I have grown in the bad way, aka around. Time to get motivated again. I am not looking to be in amazing shape by Gencon but not winded as I fast walk/slow jog between events would be nice.

Education, I need to work on that. And i need to make it a larger focus of my life. I just need to figure out what areas I want/need to grow and just do it. For a while i had a fairly solid schedule of reading and reporting. Maybe i need to do something like that again. You people keep my honest.

Podcasting, I need to get a plan down for things. Right now my headset is shot and i have a replacement on the way but once it is hear i need to get back to knocking out the different podcasts including some of the pay for stories of Saveing Samius. There are some real gems that I want to get payed for.  Plus i want to start a Google Hangout min Pod with Tobril. Maybe i can finally make that happen.

I like to have 5…. I could do something about DDo like make a plan for Samius. Or due something with Magic like win something but the truth is I am just in a place where i am simi unfocused. I need to get on someplace full time, someplace with a future. Can i just say become gainfully employed someplace i love again? Or maybe that shouldn’t be in my goals as i am not 100% that is where i am meant to be. No lets do something else. I want to have a DnD module ready for the public. That is something i have wanted for a long time and ever done. Put out my own adventure. Well i guess 2014 is the year.

I also want to wish you all well. This year would have been even harder with out you all checking in on me and reading my poor spelled and wrambly mess i call a blog. So thank you all and

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A Post Christmas Report

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I know the title leaves something to be desired but you know why not?

For a week when Tobril came for a visit not a lot of DDo was played. That is fairly new, the last few visits have been DDo benders unlike those see before. I was a little worried (if I can be totally honest) about how much more we could play. I mean the next level is cutting out holes for buckets under the chairs so we wouldn’t have to get up. EVER!

Okay maybe not quite that extreme but I don’t think I am too far off.

But instead we did a few other things besides just DDo. Hell we even got in a actual pen and paper game. I know right. Totally strange. BTW, the end fight of that pnp game was against a red dragon. we totally powned it. It didn’t even get a second round. It was being all tricky but it sneak attacked Ben, Tobril’s little brother, revealing its location. I got off a lucky super crit thanks to power attack, vital strike, a few buffs and being a triceratops. Turns out that triceratops are super scary. Druids be dinosaurs whenever you can. They are very scary. That was an 164 point hit. Then the rest of the table proceeded to crit or hit very hard and the dragon didn’t have time to run away. Crunch.

In DDo news, Butterz has been getting more or less 100% of my play time this week even if that means i have to solo explorer areas or epic quests on normal. I want to recap her and get her top level gear sorted. Right now she is 27 so i am getting close. But gear is still very fuzzy. I think I will do a gear post later in the week.

Speaking of later in the week, I have more training for the post office this week, maybe. Thanks to some shifting around I got another route and i am only given 3 training and 1 shadow days until I am responsible for my route. I don’t want to burn them on a route just to get transferred to another route. Moving to this other route will also involve using one of those postal right hand drive trucks which means 8 and a half hours of driving to get cleared to drive one. Drive your own car/truck 0 training. Drive the government’s truck, lots of training.

Anyway, it all seems good to me for now.

Look for the new year review/resolutions post, spoiler alert getting some cash from Turbine might be high on the list.

Okay, need to go.

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All by MyyyyyyySelf

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Sorry for the long break, i was out last week due to training but I am 3/4s back as it is the crazy time of the year.

So far my ddo time has been mostly helping the wife get her sorc back to 20, we did Iconic TRs before i had to take off for training and when i left i had shot past her on Butterz and had to wait for her to catch up to Samius Jr which she did while i was gone. A little IQ and some Madness runs then a quick loop through an explorer zone or two and she was ready to lesser out that level of fighter and go pure sorc.

Mean while i have been working on Butterz, yesterday i logged on just in time to miss being able to play on her as everyone else was rocking parts of Web flagging that i wasn’t able to access due to other flagging. So much BS…

And today so far the Brits are rocking challenges (heroics) for bits to make some twink gear, ie not things for Butterz. But being a bard i took a page from Jerry’s book and made my own army. Albus and the gold seals dogs have been helpers more or less and i was able to knock out the first to king forest’s quests on elite. But i don’t think i can pull of the third one. Just to many places where singing and pulling mobs off solo for the beat down wont work…. Strange as i think if the song of the makers and the undead songs were working i might be able to do it. But there are just too many things that i cant song at the moment. 😦

I am not sure what i want to do now… If i could get past the first chain i think i could do the second solo… grumble… I might need to see if i cant catch someone to rock the next two with me. idk…

 

Anyway, i hope you all have a Merry Christmas and i will hopely have some more content for you all this week.

I will be looking for a DnD/Christmas theme ecard for you all.

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