Weekend Games
So let's see... We were going to be roleplaying offline Friday night, but that just didn't work out. One person was away camping, we knew that. One said she'd be there, but almost never is - no surprise there. Another is frequently eager to play on Friday nights, but got caught up with things and spaced it. That left us at GM+2 players, which is just below our usual threshold of continuing a game. And since we didn't know until the three of us were already together... well... bummer for us. We chatted, hashed out details of a druidy shapeshifting spell, and that was about it.
Saturday's WoW was slow to get started, with lack of communication over who would be present when. Once we got started, though, we did make solid progress even if we had people too tired to continue after Alizabal, Firelands up through Staghelm, Morchok, and Yor'Sahj. Decent drops for a couple people, but Staghelm still hasn't coughed up a second druid staff for our group and I'm not seeing anything I might hope for out of early Dragon Soul. I was amused to see I managed to top the DPS chart on Morchok (letting someone else single-tank that), though I fully recognize the circumstances of that fight let me really lay into him full-burn more than some others. Guild tensions remain at a low simmer in some areas, but that seems the best I can hope for. Sunday morning, I got in an LFR Fall of Deathwing run with one other guildie that looked like it should have been fail (no system-designated tanks when Ultraxion was pulled), but actually worked out just fine. Apparently, Ultraxion can be single-tanked in LFR, though that boggles my mind a little. Much better than my attempt earlier in the week where someone kept starting the Warmaster Blackthorn when we were one tank short, then lacking any tank, then missing half the raid... Seriously, some people can be asses.
Plodding along in Diablo 3 yet. My demon hunter is level 52 or 53 toward the end of Act I of Hell difficulty and I upgraded my Staff of Herding for Nightmare (ooo, ahhhh). And I still play ME3 multiplayer matches from time to time. I feel like a reasonably solid Silver player there and even soloed a Bronze match with one character. Still lots of weapon levels and newer stuff that haven't been unlocked. The EA/Bioware matchmaking system is screwy, though. I queued for a Bronze match with a new, level 1 character and was dumped into a game-in-progress that seemed overly hard and, in fact, turned out to be Silver when we struggled through a partial extraction - annoying as I never would have deliberately entered such a match with an unleveled character. They need to fix that.
Saturday's WoW was slow to get started, with lack of communication over who would be present when. Once we got started, though, we did make solid progress even if we had people too tired to continue after Alizabal, Firelands up through Staghelm, Morchok, and Yor'Sahj. Decent drops for a couple people, but Staghelm still hasn't coughed up a second druid staff for our group and I'm not seeing anything I might hope for out of early Dragon Soul. I was amused to see I managed to top the DPS chart on Morchok (letting someone else single-tank that), though I fully recognize the circumstances of that fight let me really lay into him full-burn more than some others. Guild tensions remain at a low simmer in some areas, but that seems the best I can hope for. Sunday morning, I got in an LFR Fall of Deathwing run with one other guildie that looked like it should have been fail (no system-designated tanks when Ultraxion was pulled), but actually worked out just fine. Apparently, Ultraxion can be single-tanked in LFR, though that boggles my mind a little. Much better than my attempt earlier in the week where someone kept starting the Warmaster Blackthorn when we were one tank short, then lacking any tank, then missing half the raid... Seriously, some people can be asses.
Plodding along in Diablo 3 yet. My demon hunter is level 52 or 53 toward the end of Act I of Hell difficulty and I upgraded my Staff of Herding for Nightmare (ooo, ahhhh). And I still play ME3 multiplayer matches from time to time. I feel like a reasonably solid Silver player there and even soloed a Bronze match with one character. Still lots of weapon levels and newer stuff that haven't been unlocked. The EA/Bioware matchmaking system is screwy, though. I queued for a Bronze match with a new, level 1 character and was dumped into a game-in-progress that seemed overly hard and, in fact, turned out to be Silver when we struggled through a partial extraction - annoying as I never would have deliberately entered such a match with an unleveled character. They need to fix that.
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