Lord Of The Rings Online

Currently I'm focusing my game time on playing LOTRO since it turned to Free2Play. My character, a hunter, in now level 38. For initial few weeks I was on free account, grinding TP to buy quest packs and traits, then I turned to a premium account because there was offer on TP. I will update this blog with a screen shot of my character some time not far away in the future.

At least this gane will keep me busy while I'm waiting for Guild Wars 2.

New Game : Legendary Champions

Wow, it has been a long time. My gaming has been limited by my work commitment and my daughter who has taken over my PC, watching her favorite videos on YouTube. However I managed to try a new game called "Legendary Champions" by Aeriagames. It is a F2P game just finished their closed-beta, now on the phase of starting the open-beta very soon.

The game asks you to choose one of the warring faction to be in. For the level 30 and under, the quests are still PVEs, but once you reach level 30, all the quests from then on are in the open PVP areas, which means you are forced to do PVP if someone attack you. This is one aspect that I personally think a let down. I just can't accept that you are being forced to be a punchbag for the money spender in a F2P game.

I'm still waiting for the release of Guild Wars 2. I don't mind they take their time to release it actually, because that will buy me some time to get the money to upgrade my PC before i will be able to enjoy the game when it is released.

Gaming Time Out

It has been a while since I last wrote in this blog. It was due to me concentrating on my Microsoft Certification exam. Also partly because of Runes of Magic has temporarily blocked the sales of diamond via the Auction House, thus making the acquisition of diamonds for the F2P player impossible .

Recently my Guild Wars account was hacked by gold seller. Twice it was hacked. In the first hack, all my golds are gone and my equipment are salvaged, virtually left me with nothing . In the second hack, they get smarter; they deleted all my characters and replaced it with their own, making me impossible to log on to the gaming account. In both cases I had to contact the GW support for help. Nowadays I change my GW log in password every time after I play. Tedious, but that's the best I can do for now.

RoM : Upon Reaching 55/55

My Mage/Priest has finally reached the level limit of 55/55. At this level, it is pointless to do the normal quest as the character will not benefit from the experience gained from completing those quests. What I do nowadays is just the daily quest i.e. the "Hunter Raid" to farm TP for levelling up my skills. 10 daily quests per day will get me around 120k TP. Usually after doing the hunter daily I will kill the swallow walkers for the meat. They sell around 4.5k a piece. The only problem with swallow walker is that they are quite far apart, and they are not that many like the crab. Farming crabs at 55/55 is just pain because the spawn does not drop like they used to be at a lower level. I could kill 10 crabs and still get no drop of the spawn. That is not a very efficient way of farming.

Recently RoM has been updated to patch 2.1.6 . Came with that patch is a durability issue where casting a skill now will eat some of the weapon durability. My testing from doing hunter daily quest shows that weapon durability wear out very fast. After complaints from players across the game servers, I think the issue is now fixed for all, except knight. I read from the forum that knights are still facing this issue.

RoM : Wings & Black Pegasus Mount

My wish for a pair of wings has come true. Recently Frogster made an offer through the item mall a pair of Wings of Divine Incarnation, bundled together with a Black Pegasus mount, for 499 diamonds. It may sound a lot, but at the current price of diamond (6k per), the bundle cost must less than the cost of wings alone in the auction house, at around 6 million gold . Here is a screen shot of me sporting the wings and the Black Pegasus.

I also bought a couple of yellow statted mana stones, but with Intellect VI dirty to be used as stats for the wings. However after installing the Advanced Auction House AddOn for the game, I found that there is no more desirable yellow statted mana stone with such dirty. I found another dirty that gave 4 matching mana stones. I'll have to resell the mana stones i have before i can buy them. Lately my farming of gold has been distracted a bit due to the server instability.

Speaking of addon, I have also installed the ComeOnIn addon for party autoinvite. This is very useful for making daily quest raiding party.

RoM : Extra Firepower

After much farming of Ravenfell earth shell crab, I finally managed to buy myself a very good staff : A Tier 8 Overdura Staff of Admiration +6. The magic damage of this staff is 1391, enough for me to one shot a mob with Flame. It cost me 7.2 millions gold coin. Here is a picture of me holding the staff, skinned a sword.

Recently Frogster has introduced a new type of upgrading CS item : Attribute Purifying Stone. It serves to clear an equipment of it's unwanted stats so that it can be stats nicely later. However the cost for each stone is around 199 diamond. I may need to buy some of the stone later, as I foresee myself clearing up the dirties in my magic Vahtoh's set. some people do that, and are selling their overdura clean magic Vahtoh's accessories at a very high price, around 8 millions gold.

Currently I'm saving up my diamond for a pair of wings.