Ark's Ark » Gaming http://www.arksark.org/blog Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming, Current Affairs, and Random Stuff! Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:10:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Quick Wurm Posthttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5577/a-quick-wurm-post/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5577/a-quick-wurm-post/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:10:32 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5577 I was asked to post a picture of my new little house in wurm. I’ve only been playing it a few days, and it’s a very basic homestead, but it will do me for the time-being.

Wurm is an interesting game. It might look graphically good in that picture, and it does do a decent job with terrain and the environment. It falls down badly when it comes to monsters and players though. but I don’t actually mind terribly much. [...]

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Starting in the next day or two (on Test server only) you’ll be able to play any of your characters in a player-created Dungeon Maker instance.

This doesn’t invalidate playing as an Adventurer, but you can also play as your regular characters, regardless of level. (Well, okay, you still have to be at least level [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5568/eq2-dungeonmaker-to-allow-us-to-use-our-own-characters/feed/ 1 EQ2: Dungeonmaker Frustrations!!!http://www.arksark.org/blog/5554/eq2-dungeonmaker-frustrations/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5554/eq2-dungeonmaker-frustrations/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:49:06 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5554 I’m going to keep this brief. I am considering a proper article on EQ2′s latest expansion, Age of Discovery, but frankly every time I try to write it I become filled with ennui.

So, this picture below will have to speak for me. The situation is this: I’ve just entered a dungeon that another player has made. That underdressed lady is me, as we’re not able to use our real characters in player-made dungeons. The green swirly thing is the [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5554/eq2-dungeonmaker-frustrations/feed/ 7 The Wren – A Pirates of the Burning Sea Yuletide Songhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/4257/the-wren-a-pirates-of-the-burning-sea-yuletide-song/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/4257/the-wren-a-pirates-of-the-burning-sea-yuletide-song/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:00:49 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=4257 This is from last year, but I shamelessly bring it back to the top for 2011!

I mentioned this song from the Pirates of the Burning Sea Christmas event a few days ago. It’s been stuck in my head ever since, so I thought today I’d have a crack at making a little video for it so it can get stuck in your heads too!

“The Wren” is a traditional Irish wassail. Like any such song, there are a lot [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/4257/the-wren-a-pirates-of-the-burning-sea-yuletide-song/feed/ 2 SWTOR: Buyer’s Remorse Averted.http://www.arksark.org/blog/5544/swtor-buyers-remorse-averted/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5544/swtor-buyers-remorse-averted/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:36:14 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5544 I ordered Star Wars: The Old Republic today. It was a somewhat more complicated decision than it needed to be, for I was dithering over which version of it to purchase.

I often like to buy the Collector’s Edition of MMOs. My City of Villains Heroclix still have pride of place on my desk, though usually it is in-game stuff which attracts me to the CE. This is, I admit, a little ironic, considering how much I dislike RMT, but [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5544/swtor-buyers-remorse-averted/feed/ 2 World of Warcraft : Some Chuck Norris Facts.http://www.arksark.org/blog/5524/world-of-warcraft-some-chuck-norris-facts/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5524/world-of-warcraft-some-chuck-norris-facts/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:21:01 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5524 Last month, Blizzard was caught up in something of a backlash, after they promoted the antics of George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, screening a rather pathetic homophobic rant at Blizzcon, and holding him up as a model player.

Suffice it to say, Blizzard were forced to apologise:

Dear members of the Blizzard community,

I have read your feedback and comments about this year’s BlizzCon, and I have also read the feedback to the apology from Level 90 Elite Tauren Chieftain. I’d [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5524/world-of-warcraft-some-chuck-norris-facts/feed/ 8 DDO Videopost: The Free bag guide videohttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5519/ddo-videopost-the-free-bag-guide-video/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5519/ddo-videopost-the-free-bag-guide-video/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:06:55 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5519 I already added this to the end of the original DDO free bag post, but then I realised that most folks have probably looked at that days ago, so would miss it. It’s just a little video I knocked up to show where to find the various bag NPCs.

I’m a bit out of practise at video-making, and need to make sure I have the mic a little further away from my mouth next time!

You can find a [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5519/ddo-videopost-the-free-bag-guide-video/feed/ 0 DDO : A quick guide to free bags and storage.http://www.arksark.org/blog/5495/ddo-a-quick-newbies-guide-to-free-bags-and-storage/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5495/ddo-a-quick-newbies-guide-to-free-bags-and-storage/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:07:29 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5495 Dungeons and Dragons Online likes to bombard you with things that you need to store, while simultaneously keeping your inventory space rather tight. It is not an unusual tactic for F2P games which want to gently persuade you to purchase additional storage and bags, and DDO will be very happy to sell you all manner of extra bank vaults and storage bags through the Turbine Point Store.

However, there is much we can do to delay the moment that we [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5495/ddo-a-quick-newbies-guide-to-free-bags-and-storage/feed/ 2 In which I check in with the Ark!http://www.arksark.org/blog/5490/in-which-i-check-in-with-the-ark/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5490/in-which-i-check-in-with-the-ark/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:55:51 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5490 So, in the last couple of months since I last posted, what have I been up to?

I’ve played through both Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 on Insanity difficulty. I’d been nagged to try them by pretty much every gamer friend who ever heard I’d not played them, and I’m glad I finally buckled. I’ll definitely be grabbing Mass Effect 3 when it materialises.

I have a terrible habit of insisting I play any game on the hardest possible [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5490/in-which-i-check-in-with-the-ark/feed/ 0 EQ2: The Item Revamp Continues and Continueshttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5473/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues-and-continues/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5473/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues-and-continues/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:55:18 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5473 My crafted gear continues to have changed every time I check it. This picture gets ever more difficult to read, so you’ll need to click it, then hit the little expand arrow to get a good look. Ignore the yellow numbers and the difference in procs, as they’re just from adornments I plugged in. It’s the green and blue numbers that are of interest. In the latest instalment the shield got better, while the other two pieces got worse.:

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5473/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues-and-continues/feed/ 5 EQ2: The Item Revamp Continueshttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5452/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5452/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:43:18 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5452 The native tribes of the Chaos Wastes live in a land so weird and changing that they assume that anything they are not looking at right this moment has ceased to exist.

This is how I feel about itemisation in EQ2 right now. My crafted gear was quite lovely on Thursday after the item revamp, perfect for a templar who likes getting stuck in with his hammer, but I just had another look at it and it has changed again! [...]

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]]> http://www.arksark.org/blog/5452/eq2-the-item-revamp-continues/feed/ 0 Everquest 2: GU61 Item Revamp Previewhttp://www.arksark.org/blog/5429/everquest-2-gu61-item-revamp-preview/ http://www.arksark.org/blog/5429/everquest-2-gu61-item-revamp-preview/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:40:04 +0000 Arkenor http://www.arksark.org/blog/?p=5429 EQ2′s Game Update 61 (scheduled for Tuesday 23rd of August Update: and delayed til Thursday 25th!) brings with it an item revamp for level 20-90. Intrigued, Maltheas stepped into Zoltoon’s patented Chronobarrel, to see what would be in store. For future events such as these will effect us in the future.

EQ2′s itemisation has been amiss ever since the Stat Revamp rendered all but two stats useless for every class. There has also been a gradual inflation in item power [...]

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