







So, I have been playing in the world of Telara. I'm finding Rift to be a bit of a different game than World of Warcraft. I like both. Depending on my mood I'll be constantly switching between the two of them. So far, on Rift I have a Defiant female warrior (Beastmaster, Riftblade, Champion) called 'Foxsyd', wish I hadn't named her that, but I've got her up to level 13, and I'm unable to change her name. So I'm stuck with a character with my universal login name that I've been using for the last ten years. I also suspect, that being the same name as my Twitter login, may be preventing me logging into Twitter from in-game which is a nifty feature of Rift.
So, an update of my video game stuff… Maguire my human warrior is now at level 25. Has ventured into Duskwood, which is so very Sleepy Hollow. Surprised Maguire hasn’t lost his head yet.
Had become curious about the Rift game, have now pre-ordered it. Like a lot of PC games, it’s not Mac, I’ve now bootcamped Vista onto my Mac. Already have the Head Start Rift on my Mac…. Looking good! Looking forward to when I actually have some time for it.
Maguire had an easy one tonight... just went around killing boars for their meat, and mining copper ore. It was all about the professions tonight. Mining, Blacksmithing and Cooking.
Though later on there was some time for some shenanigans, like swimming above the water.
And encountering the biggest spider Maguire has seen yet! Scary!
So last night, after much swearing on my part, Maguire beat the Redridge quests. The last one was tricky, because to get the last quest item Maguire had to get past several beastie that were inclined to gang up on him. He died a couple of times. Though not a bad thing really, because as a ghost he was able to sneak around to a much better position to get the quest item. Then he RAN RAN RAN!
Tonight he’s going to start on those Lakeshire… Lakeshore? Quests… Or do some fishing.
In other news, Maguire sold his first auction. 2+ gold! He’s never had so much money before! And to think previously I would of sold that shield to a vender for 3 silvers, or something like that.
One more WoW thing I forgot to mention… I had Maguire the Warrior up to Level 16, and I still didn’t know how to use any projectile weapon like a gun.
Wasn’t a problem till I got to Redridge and needed to kill Dire Condors, and the blasted things wouldn’t come down to the ground and fight me!
I had to stop what I was doing, leave the area to go some where I could buy a gun, then I had to figure out how it works. Grump. I like hitting things up close, like with a big stick.
Maguire the human warrior in the World of Warcraft (not Maguire the Dwarf cat) has now reached Level 17.
I don’t think there is anything else to report, other than WoW has made me cuss more often, last night I heard the phrase “Piss Ant!” come out of my mouth, don’t know where that came from… Oh, yeah spiders attacking, right after a resurrection and while I thought I was in a safe area. Anyway, that Spidey is toast.
This all took place at Redridge… Which brings to mind another thing, a bloody blood elf (player) was at Redridge, getting in my way. But, fortunately, a combo of Alliance guards and spiders killed her, ha ha!
It's Jayta the Goblin Warlock! Am trying new things on World of Warcraft tonight, new Realm, new characters, trying out the Horde ones. Also, tried a Undead Hunter, because I like the big redback spider that the Hunter has as a pet. Which makes squishy sounds, you know in real life, spiders don't squish when they move around. But anyway, I got kind of bored and sleepy with the Undead. Actually, I think I just may be sleepy... long day. But good day!
Last night I got my human warrior Maguire up to level 11 just before server shutdown for scheduled maintenance. And when I woke up this morning there was a shiny new fat patch to the game, all 3+ GBs of it are downloading now.
Maguire also experienced some interesting stuff in the last couple of days, last night by pure chance Maguire ended up on a totally different continent, partying and getting his boogie on at the Moonglade, as part of the Lunar Festival (anyone new to the game, do the firecracker quest, it’s totally worth it!)
Another little adventure also took me far out of my way, to Loch Mordan and beyond, where I discovered the Wetlands, got laughed at by another gamer because I attempted to board a ship and got bumped off, gamer told me it was because I didn’t have the Lich King expansion (well I do now!).
And then after all that I ventured into an area way beyond my Level, beasties attacked even while on the path, then I almost got death trapped in a graveyard because it was full of undead killing me! Everytime I revived I got killed again! Obviously, I escaped, eventually.
Last night I got my human warrior to level 10. Then he kept on getting killed by Murlocs, had a enough of that shit, so went to Goldshire for rest and relaxation.
And those damn murlocs were not giving up the fins as quest items.
I've never actually played many video games before, but lately I've become curious, and I want to give some a go. This blog is now going to be my chatter outlet as I explore the very new world to me of video gaming.
Most of the games I'll be trying out will be iMac and iPhone compatible. As I can not afford a console at this time. I may at sometime mention XBox games, but that's because my brother has the XBox, and I sometimes play with it when I visit the clan. He has the Kinnect, with Dance Central... it's freaking awesome!
Right now I'm trying out the 10 Day Free Trial of World of Warcraft, I started it Friday night. And I am thoroughly enjoying it. I plan to buy the game (I think the Battle Chest is the place to start?) tomorrow.
I've also added a few games to my iPhone, which are Dungeon Hunter, Lara Croft & the Guardian of Light, both of which seem good so far, I've not really ventured much into them yet. And there was Eternal Legacy, which was complete crap.