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Thanks for the awesome times!!!

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On that note my guild has had some successes in the raiding scene. We have taken down Gruul the Dragon Killer, and I lead a 10 man into Zul’Aman and killed another boss in there for the first time.

I have not forgotten about Vanguard, I have had to consolidate my games as of late and I look forward to picking it back up soon.

The summoning………..The Fight……………..The Death………………The Result!!!!!GRATS TO MY BABY!

Also my guild took down the first boss in Zul’Aman which is the newest 10 man raid zone they have added to the game. We have done it once before but this was the first time I was present for the fight.

Finally! THIS DUDE NEEDS TO DIE!!!!!!

Most of my adventures last night were in Khegor’s End. This dungeon is another under ground dungeon built into the side of a mountain. Primarily under the control of rogue Dwarves and their bugbear slaves they are causing a lot of havoc on the out lying Dwarven settlements. With a bunch of assignments I was off I went looking for a group of worthy adventures like my self to bring this place down. Luckily I was able to hook up with fellow travelers from my previous adventure in Riftseeker’s Torrent. Us three, me a 12 Druid, a 12 Psiconist, and a 14 bard. We added a 13 Disciple which is like a healer/melee fighter and he was one tough little dude, also a 17 paladin to tank and finally a 13 Necromancer. Are you counting ? YES! thats 6 people which is the group standard in VG.

Here we are killing multiple mobs at once.

I wish I could show you more screens but they disappeared. With that being said. I have to say that the the group experience I am having in vanguard is A+! by far the difficulty of these areas are much tougher than anything I have played in comparison with other games recently. As well as the quality of player is much futher up there than say *cough PUG in WOW Cough*

With it all said and done and the majority of our quests complete a lot of us had gained 2-3 levels. I ended the night at level 15 with maybe 3 deaths the whole night, and one of those being a complete wipe and corpse run. Playing this game brings back a lot of those long lost EQ memories. We all agreed that we would definitely subscribe to this game once our free time is over.

In other news

My Warcraft guild is starting to step up to 25 man raids and the transition is going to be harder on those who have not been in this position before. Personally I have been raiding in wow since early 2005 from MC – Naxx, so this is not new to me. But I am looking forward to seeing some more TBC raid dungeons. Stay tuned!

Jordio was Tasked to find out why the population was slowly starting to dwindle from the surrounding Halfling and Human village of Tursh. Off to the Brownie villages to the north! When I arrived there I found out! Their Village was over ran with a evil sect. of Magical caster’s looking to enslave them! When I returned to my Superior a Covert operation was hatched. I was to infiltrate their detention area and cause a uprising!

I am small but carry a big stick! As a brownie in disguise I was able to get captured and sent to their prison where I roused the repressed brownies into action and over threw the jailer for a grand escape!

Lets hope the brownies will stay out of trouble for now on! In other news I did Ding 10 and thanks to all the loot I pulled out of Rindol Store house as well as a very kind Guild member named Ginon I was able to purchase a horse. I find it awesome that at level 10 you can have a pretty fast mount (40% over run speed) , and believe me it is well needed as you may or may not know the world of Telon is HUGE!!!!! I took a screen shot but for some reason it did not end up in my SS list. So you will have to wait.

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I ended up in my first dungeon group as well. It was your non traditional group of two Bards, 11 &13 and Psiconist 11 and me 11 druid I did a lot of dmg but mostly provided the Heals with my minor healing spells I get.

The Dungeon was Rift seeker’s Torrent. I have a large bounty of quests that I still have not completed . The dungeon design was excellent, and well balanced. There were a lot of hard mobs as well as a few named ones up my group was able to grab as no one else was in this dungeon.

To enter the dungeon you need a password, but no where to get it. Then occasionally a non aggro conned mob would come by say the password and enter this temporal rift!. Copying the Password allowed us to enter and fun was had for several hours. I dinged 11, I still have a few quests to do and will do them before I out grow the place for sure. If all dungeons are this well designed I am excited to see whats coming!

Screen shot of being lowered in to the bowels of the Store house.

I am really enjoying my time in Vanguard. It has taken me completely by surprise. I hooked up with Jaye’s guild Revelry and Honor, and the people there are very nice and helpful.

I must say the Screen shots do not do this game much just as i have scaled them down, but even in game I run on medium settings and get about 25-40 FPS with a few freezes here and there and the game still looks beautiful.

In other news my Guild Covenant on the Khaz Modan server is continuing our weekly farming sessions of Karazhan gearing up for SSC and taking the whooping to Gruul he so richly deserves. We will find out tomorrow night if Gruul will be taking his Dirt nap at the hand of Covenant.

What have I been up to you ask ? Well EQ2 got put down after my friends started to migrate back to WoW. I do enjoy EQ2 but no fun when you can’t play with your real life friends. As well as my fiancée does not have the computer power to run EQ2 so it was back to wow where I picked up my level 70 raiding rogue again. I am back casually raiding for the time. I recently went to a sword build from a life time dagger fiend I am enjoying it!

In other news I am going to start something new for the time being. See how this fits me. Due to SOE giving you a “Holiday Pass” to Vanguard: Saga of heroes I am gonna try it out and document my journeys(Note: put in bold to help you remember).

BEHOLD!!!! Jordio Emptybelly the level 5 Halfling Druid- He on the smaller size of the Halfling race, but don’t let the size full you. He can tear up some baddies and has a appetite the size of a Half Ogre to boot!

So far I have been really liking what SOE has done to the game. I picked up Diplomacy and think it is a neat twist to a MMORPG, as well as a good way to flesh out the story and lore of the Telon World.

Through Diplomacy I have learned a lot of interesting things going on in my little Halfling village. Here Jordio is trying to calm down a Angry Dwarf who isn’t happy with the fact that the Halflings are not shipping their agreed amount of food to the Dwarf out post.

I was able to calm him down and send him on his way! Thats pretty much it for now. Stay tuned I will be adding more Adventures of Raiding in WoW and adventuring in Vanguard!

With that being said I want to apologize for the lack of any type of real update. I went from almost 3 posts a day to 1 post a week to not posting in a few weeks. So what has Rob been up to?

Well I have been dabbling in a lot of games as of late. To name a few, World in Conflict, Half Life 2 The Orange box, Vanguard, Ever Quest 2, and finally I have to admit, I went back to the dark side and resubscribed to World of Warcraft. Before I get to much in what I have been doing in Wow. I wanted to talk about few other games I have mentioned.

ORANGE BOX – Wow what a awesome compilation of games. If you have not played Half Life 2 yet I recommend you buy this. What I think really makes this Shine is not only the fact it comes with HF2 and both expansions, it comes with a mini Game called Portal, wow just wow… Do some research on it. Finally it also came with the online only game of Team Fortress 2 and that is hi, wow, awesome fun!!! I recommend you pick it up.

SOE Games – EQ2 has been put away for a bit while I have been playing other games, I also tried out Vanguard once again and it has come along way. I like it but I could not start over in another MMORPG right now. I will definitely re-sub at a later date I have no doubt.

WoW - Have you ever been a level 70 noob? Well I am. Recently I sent a message to my regular gaming buddy and said, “You know I would like to play wow again and just run a bunch of 5 mans. I miss doing that.” His Reply was. “Funny you mentioned that. My significant other and I have been playing for a few weeks again.” That was it for me. I resubscribed. My Fiancée Gwen saw that I was playing again and she resubscribed her account and is playing her 70 druid again.

NOOBING IT UP!

So here we are, Gwen and I back in WoW trying to figure things out again. The ability to play our classes has not been a problem, but remembering where things are, what this boss does, and so on garners funny looks from people we are in groups with. Especially since we are in level 70 raid gear. WE MUST BE E-BAYED!!!!!!

We are having a good time again, and I think we could not have come back at a better time. The Hallow Ends event is going on which is basically Halloween in WoW. I am guessing new for this year, is the “Headless Horseman” event where you attack the headless horse man for free Purples! Few pics from our adventures over the weekend .

The game play in this game is a lot of FUN it you play as the silent antagonist named Parker, and only control a small part of what is happening similar to Call of Duty etc, as opposed to the entire battle field. This aspect combined with no resource gather is why this game is incorrectly classified as a real time strategy and should be classified as a Real time tactical game. As I previously said this game is a lot of fun and I am enjoying runnign though the single player campaign at the moment. I understand online skirmishes can be very tactical base and brutal. I am looking forward to getting my fingers a little dirt. I have only taken a few screen shots as I am so busy making sure I make my objectives and keeping my troops alive, but here is a pic of me raining Death from a hill top on a well entrenched Russian position.

I have not played much EQ2 recently or kept up with the goings on in the online gaming world. But I will jump back into it and see if I can get my feet a little soggy once again.

Heroes was awesome last night and I think I might like that show that came on afterwards called Journey Man, we will see in another episode or two.