Devilian, an introduction of sorts

Alright I'll admit this game caught me by surprise, I had no idea it was coming out and basically the only way I found out about it was seeing some of my favorite Diablo 3 streamers give it a shot when it released on Dec. 10th. At first glance it looks like a Diablo clone with some Pillars of Eternity mixed in but Devilian has its own twist and once you get started its quite refreshing.

The game Devilian is an Action Role-Playing Game (ARPG) that, at it's base, has the same characteristics as the rest of them. Little bit of story, some classes, and the flashy killing of large amounts of bad guys in the end goal of getting better gear to kill stronger bad guys. All in all, the gear progression is the meat of games of the sort and what motivates players to play it. What makes Devilian stand out from the titans, Diablo and Pillars of Eternity, is the MMO factor which is an attractive trait to have. Yea you can play online in both Diablo and PoE but those games are generally confined to lobbies where you can just get straight to the grind.

I'm not sure how far this game will go but I am sure glad it came when it did. It feeds my hunger for fresh MMO content while World of Warcraft is between expansions and is a welcome change to the season 4 grind on Diablo 3, which was and still is a drama fest about paragon elitism but that's for another post. So far I will say I like the game and hope it does well.


With that said, in my process of figuring out the ins and outs for this game I will make a general guide to get some ideas flowing and help out those who are just starting. There is not much info guide wise to this game so I'll go over some tips that helped me while leveling.

Here is a link to the guide hope you enjoy it.

The Wonderful Overwatch Beta

Ah its great to be back in action and what better to start back up with some Overwatch hype! In case some of you guys haven't noticed the closed beta for Overwatch has been up for a little more than a month starting on October 27th 2015. Beta invites rolled out slowly each week which catered primarily to the friends and family crowd of Blizzard which is pretty typical for any new game released. I know from watching my own share of streams on Twitch.tv a lot of viewers were rather distraught that it seemed only streamers were getting keys and Blizzard was only throwing a few keys towards the random masses. However there is probably more going on behind the scenes to this.

The viewers must also realize for most streamers, that are at least even mildly successful, have a ton of connections especially those that are in the thousands of concurrent viewers. Having these connections and networking at each convention they go to leads to becoming acquaintances with community managers for multiple gaming companies and when betas like this happen they are thrown into the primary pile for invites. This is done as a free way to market their game and to get some live feedback which is pretty cool in my opinion.

Anyways, I did not get a chance to test Overwatch outside of the beta weekend in which they invited just about everyone to stress test the servers. I was invited but I couldnt play that weekend because of college stuff and it was a really busy weekend.

I did manage to watch a ton of streams and had fun watching some of the tournaments that were hosted on twitch. In this time I have made my choice of a few favorite heroes but in all honesty its just a list of favorites on paper I want to play them all! Tanks, supports, dps, builders, they all look enticing and each character has their own unique flavor. I'll add a post on the hero categories later on because there is a decent amount to cover.

Other than that the Overwatch beta is gonna be on pause for about an month starting two days ago on December 10th 2015. Its sad to see it go as I had fun watching the cleverly dubbed OnlyWatch and all of the old Team Fortress 2 streamers gaining popularity off of it due to the similar playstyle. Hope you guys liked the post and if you have any questions or just want to say hey drop a comment!

Guess Who's Back, Back again

Yea yea I know I havent really updated in awhile but I'm gonna try to get on a pretty good schedule these days. A lot has happened since the last post and these days there are tons of games coming out and I'm pretty damn excited to play as much as possible and share what I'm doing with whoever is around. I originally started this blog to keep track of where I was and to practice some much needed writing skills and to be honest writing about gaming freely really helped with that as well as not having to worry about getting a grade for it lol.

Going through all of my old posts gives me a bit of nostalgia and its fun to see what I was thinking when I started. Few strong sets of mind and pinging all over the place in an attempt at getting small points across. Alas I am not going to be too critical just gonna write and see what happens, since something is much better than nothing in most cases. Unless of course if you play League of Legends where playing 4 versus 5 is sometimes preferred over a fifth bad player mostly because of how the game works and skills but I digress.

Time to press play and rebuild as I go WE'LL DO IT LIVE BOYS STAY TUNED!!

Mists of Pandaria

Unfortunately the "epic battle" I was raving on and on about in the last post was a bit lackluster and leaned towards Stormbluff isle and strongly towards Henge of Denravi at the end leaving them the victors of the match. Eredon Terrace has dropped to world 4th and to be honest I haven't really had time to play guild wars 2 since World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria just happened to come out that same week and all spare time went to that trying to get capped on at least 1 character. I managed to do that within 5 days of only playing 2-3 hours when I could of course more time allotted for weekends since I don't have any classes or meetings.

So far in Mists I have had tons of fun just leveling from 85 to 90 as the quests were humorous and it was not just a grind fest like the other expansions. I actually did not blast music like I normally do because I did not want to miss the jokes or npc interaction between quests which felt fluid. I chose to level my Death Knight first because it was my main for essentially 2 expansions and it is what I am used to especially for massive pulls and just destroying stuff. I played using a Blood spec which was able to tank just about anything and with the new changes added on 5.0 allowed me to pull some amazing aoe damage and whenever I was in an instance for a large boost of exp and gear I was topping meters which I was not used to, this will probably be nerfed as we go on because it makes all the other dps cry apparently "TANKS ARENT SUPPOSED TO DPS QQ." personally its refreshing to see big numbers every now and then but it feels wrong sometimes to do 100k dps on a trash pack while the others are struggling to do 30k and the better ones 50k. Its only the 2nd week of the expansion and there will be balance issues that will be fixed once blizzard looks at the grand chart of raids and how the various classes compare to each other healing, damage, and tank wise.

Started leveling my monk as well and if it gets exciting enough around 60ish I might make it my main alt or possibly a main. I just love the idea of having a Pandaren Monk that drinks beer, doesent give a fuck, big enough to tank with that beer belly, and is just overall a good concept of character. Who doesn't want a drunk tank that is viable?

The Ultimate Showdown

Alright guys so the great World vs World match of guild wars 2 is happening right now, The servers Henge of Denravi (Currently number 1), Stormbluff Isle (Currently number 2) and Eredon Terrace (Currently number 3) got matched up this week for WvW and right now shaping up to be a great match. Stormbluff Isle has taken an early lead by taking Stonemist castle and keeping pressure on Henge of Denravi and Eredon Terrace in both the eternal battlegrounds and the surrounding borderlands. HoD within the last few days has been rather lackluster and has been bullied by both servers which lead to early point loss causing ET to step ahead by a few thousand points.

As of right now Eredon Terrace has managed to match Stormbluff Isle's point gain in spite of them having the almighty stonemist castle which give the largest bonus of all the keeps. What this means is they have to cling on to the castle in order to keep the points ticking in their favor. Personally I wonder what my guild leader Archaos is planning this week as we slowly choke out HoD and make gains towards SBI's lead.

small WvW insight

Alright so I have been playing some WvW lately and our current match up is a bit boring. Isle of Janthir and Sea of Sorrows have completely given up and some of the server is currently camping their respawns in Eternal battlegrounds after taking everything from them. The first day was great because atleast we had resistance but after day 2 or 3 we just took everything and upgraded it to the max and they never retaliated.

Here is a screen shot and you can see we still get points but our bonuses are maxed at a good rate. I haven't really had time to use them as I have been busy all week but I have some of the weekend to use em before our next match. Speaking of our next match I kinda want to go up against henge of denravi just to shut em up about our last match. It would be a nice even playing field this time since we can actually get in to the WvW maps without having to worry about the long queues and hopefully this does not happen with our current server because that would just be hectic.

I aim to level up a bit this weekend and hopefully hit level 80 which is 29 levels away. Gonna rush it since i want to get to 80 fast so that means riding dynamic events across zones and maybe doing a few hearts but most importantly alot of drops and alot of money will be had.

Guild wars 2 update

Sorry about not posting for a month been busy since college is starting and stuff.

Alright so whats been going on in gw2 is my guild Ruinous has been going up against some of the best servers up there in world vs world and holding their own because that's how we roll. Anyways our first server Northern Shiverpeaks became full before we knew it and became saturated with large guilds and a shitload of non guild members. This meant we were not able to get our officers in to direct the regulars because of the long queues just to get into the battlegrounds. Unfortunately if you don't have some authoritative leader inside the "PuGs"(players not in guild/alliance) will swarm wherever the enemy is aka all of the dueling symbols on the map. This is not a bad strategy but it sure as hell is not the best especially when the goal is to own as many keeps, towers and supply camps as possible for points. In light of this realization that we could not direct our reinforcements we decided to use the free transfer to Eredon Terrace one night and once there we took the other two servers by surprise and owned all of eternal battlegrounds and farmed the other teams in their spawn. It was an amazing few hours because it was the first time we were able to switch between the maps freely without having to wait in a one hour plus queue.

News of this of course got out within hours and we were soon followed by a few guilds and a few players for mostly World vs World purposes and the fact that the bonuses for having the most points are so great. our entry into the server was not too bad the queues were still short after a few days often being less than 10 minutes for the borderlands and up to 30 for eternal battlegrounds. during the first few weeks arena net decided to have day long skirmishes with 2 random servers to determine rankings early on so it is not an totally unfair match when they switch to the 1 week format and later the 2 week format. The servers changed every now and then but most of the time there were the same 2 servers and we fought like usual with us on top of close second.

However one server already has a reputation for cheating and we exposed them with a video and a reddit post here.The server was Henge of Denravi and the exploit was they could attack our keep lord in stonemist castle, the largest point value keep, by using AoE spells on the first floor to hit him on the second floor. This of course lead them to taking the keep as we did fortify the lord's room with siege weapons and a few officers to report to the guild on team speak. The exploit was one of the few ways for them to get pass our exceptional defense. After we reported what happened the comments of the reddit post contained all of what they did to other servers and it made me chuckle at how everyone had a bad time against them and had proof of other exploits. Since they took the keep by exploit there was no way we could keep it even if we took it back so we just made them have a rough time outside the keep by disrupting supply lines and taking their fully upgraded towers which took about 1 gold to upgrade. Long story short we lost that skirmish.


After all of that we went up against some other servers and well had no support from the other players on the server so we went from having a lead with most towers/keeps, fully upgraded which took about 10 gold or so which is a pretty nice bit of change, to being in 3rd in the morning because no one defended. Seeing this our guild leader Archaos said fuck it and gave up on the match since it was a money sink. So for the rest of the day we did nothing organized and just fought where the PuGs were because we refused to take and upgrade keeps for them to be left undefended. Needless to say the server learned that our presence is needed in order for them to have a chance at winning any world vs world matches.

Fast forward to today and we are currently going up against the servers Isle of Janthir and Sea of Sorrows for the first week long battle. During the beta we had fun going up against them but now they kinda gave up and we are up by almost 200,000 points already and there is no hope of recovery from that. I just hope they get servers they can deal with next time because its depressing knowing there is a server in first you cant touch and is owning most of your stuff.