Gamings

Happy April Fools Day. Whee. It ought to turn up some amusements. I've already seen a few things here and there, but I'm waiting for more.

GW2 went into this with a colorful 16-bit "Super Adventure Box" quasi-dungeon, a jumping-heavy romp through a rather colorful virtual zone that's supposed to be up for the month. It's cute, but can take a long time if you're waiting on other people. Perhaps the best part is that it allows parties of 1-5 people, but things are so simple that it doesn't really compare to scaling a normal dungeon - skills are standardized to the in-Box weapons and only the boss monsters take more than a few hits to dispatch.
Sunday was pretty normal other than spending most of it in there. There still seems to be some measure of disgruntlement over representation of guilds and there was a forum topic, but I haven't seen any great conclusion, mostly just venting. I also got sucked in Friday night for longer than intended, which is a minor frustration, but ah well.

WoW continues to be slow. Saturday, I got bored and didn't stay long - but then came back to help with some further Icecrown achievement stuff. With the below-raid-level turnout, I'm also considering the fate of the guild Vent server. It isn't expensive (maybe $30 for six months), but if it's not something we'll use, there's no sense in continuing to pay for it...
I made a genuine effort to get into the Throne of Thunder LFR wings, but... ugh. It's like early-Cataclysm heroics all over again. Between queue time and clearing time, I need at least two hours (possibly more) blocked out to even try. Saturday, I did about 35 minutes of dailies, waited another 20 minutes, zoned into the raid... and was immediately called by work, so I had to drop out. Sunday wasn't much better, sitting in queue for about an hour only to be alt-tabbed into another window (looking at fight descriptions) when my turn finally came up, so I missed the invite. Argh. Considering that's my only real path to gear improvement currently (whether by drops or raid reputation to get better VP gear), I feel a bit hamstrung. And somehow the part I'm most disappointed about is the quest chain toward the legendary is (again) gated through the raid, requiring repeated runs. I really thought I might finish that, but at this rate I don't know I have the drive.

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