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Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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Good Morning and welcome to next week, the week that followed the previous week but is before the week after next. Oh yes, welcome. Today is going to be a particularly hard day, I told myself yesterday to make up for my truly lackluster performance on trying to catch up with Uni work that I would do a programming task every night this week. I will surely want to kill myself by the time the week is out but it is very much a necessary evil.

Most of my 2 (3?) readers will already know what I’ve been up to this week with WoW taking up an usual amount of time but predominantly the indomitable domineering title that is Call of Duty 4. Been blasting through my 2nd prestige and i’m up into the late 40s now with a Deagle in one hand and an RPD in the other.

I do love that Game and as much as I complain about some aspects it’s still amazing fun! For example, I love leveling up the weapons even if I’m using at utterly terrible one! There’s something innately rewarding about being given experience to punish yourself by running around Bloc with an Uzi but at the same time you can totally “click” with a bizarre gun on a bizarre map.

The number of times I’ve utterly mullered a group of people because my RPG with Deep Impact just decided to shred a squad into pieces is unbelievable and yet it happens with a degree of regularity. There have even been games where, as a sniper (and I’m an appalling sniper) I’ve got into the 20s for maybe 3 or 4 deaths, usually running out of sniper ammo in the process.

I did enjoy a rather glorious game of 28-1 on Downpour where I sprinted into the shed in the middle of the map and just held it. If you need help picturing what it was like, imagine a tin-foil shed with 3 windows and 2 doors and you can shoot through all the walls. 28-1.

I was bloody amazed.

After tiring (lol, tiring of COD …) of this Rob, Leslie and I rolled into WoW for another Retro levelling run, we went first to LBRS where I grabbed all four gems for my UBRS key (which I don’t think you need anymore, but still…) and it was fun although that place is a bloody maze! After that Rob and I decided … Why not? and rolled into UBRS where we enjoyed a relatively easy success. We failed by about 10 whelps to get the Leeeeroy achievement but we did incredibly well for a 71 Prot Pally and a 68 Feral Druid.

We blasted through everything with relative ease all the way up to Drakk. The Beast was a pain in the ass but not difficult and everyone else was relatively easy to crush under the combined weight of imba DPS and an utterly indescructible paladin.

But Drakkisath I knew was going to be hard. Standing tall at 95k Health with 2 25k Health friends he was going to be no push over. I knew what to expect, I’ve only ever seen him killed twice in my 3+ year WoW career so I was fully expecting to Wipe.

Remember, this is a boss where the standard tactic was to have a hunter kite him and run away until we had killed his guards! Serious business indeed. Conflag hits for 3k Damage and drops your aggro, so if you’ve only got two people prepare to share the pain.

In reality we needed a healer, we pulled and I did a decent job with threat and mitigation, but Conflag meant that Rob on his drood took a lot of punishment and ultimately with near zero-mana effeciency he went OOM in a matter of seconds into the fight.

At the same time I wonder if bringing a DPS with Rob in Bear form for the fight would work, say an Enh Shammy who could Maelstrom Chain Heal throughout the fight … Another tactic would be to give Rob Blessing of Sanctuary instead of Kings and have him Main tank with me Off Tanking, he soaks up a lot more damage than I do and with Sanct he’d have a much more stable amount of Rage to heal himself with.

Morale of the story, UBRS was fun. Made a tidy profit I know that much, saw no Pally set drops though :<

Next on the Agenda is trying to level, dinged 71 over the weekend and did another 20%~ XP questing but 80 seems like a long way away. I’m thinking the next 1000 gold I have saved up (I think I have about 700g right now) will go towards Dual Spec Resto/Prot and in the long run probably Ret/Prot. People need healers, I just cba with Respeccing to get groups.

I’m out of time, gotta work, question of the post is … errr … How do you eat them? ORLY?! YARLY.

I’m outtie,
James.

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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Bleh, I swear every time I travel back through London it gets more unpleasant. Mark jests that one day it will just go through hell but I wonder when the last time he had to ride the tube was!

Really don’t have the energy for this blog right now, desperately need to eat something before I die of exhaustion.

Need to go home ¬¬

Seeing my Uni friends again rocked, good fun to just chill out and chat for a day with them. Shame to think I probably won’t see them again until September :/

Regards and Go away,
JamesR.

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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Ah, I so enjoyed posting the brilliant antics of Kalas in my last post. Those of you who’ve been checking out old posts with his brilliant comments – Good on you – those of you who came to the website for whatever reason and drove up my hit statistics the day after I posted his ‘face’ shame on you for not commenting!

I have a fun task for you (and by you I mean Mark and Rob ) why don’t you troll around all those places he spammed – ET, NRT, WSAG and YT and just dig out the golden nuggets of hilarity that he posted?

A personal favorite was his shocking lack of knowledge about WW2 …

For those of you who don’t care, enjoy this awesome link and come play COD4!

Regards,
JamesR.

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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Oh wow, I know it’s been a long time ladies and gentlemen but I have some Kalas related fun time for you!

The lo-down, new guy joins ET (I know, i’m surprised to!) posts about a Zelda game, I hear people do that, before our favourite little canadians leaps all over him (possibly in a gay way?) and acts like a complete douche, some of the quotes are below + of course he fired yet another PM to Leslie.

If you haven’t had a chance to catch up on his previous shenanigans then please check back through the archives but otherwise read on, enjoy and if you wish to carry out some nefarious scheme hit up the thread here.

“Lol you spelled Ocarina wrong too xD, all your posts are one liners man, it seems like your just trying to up your post count to me =/.”

“And no I don’t seem to come off as a mod or anything, just spamming isn’t really allowed and I would hate for the new guy to be warned already”

“Frankly I don’t give a damn, I was just telling him so he wouldn’t get in trouble”

“I don’t have to say anything else. I’m a mod on another forum so I’m used to giving people friendly (but perhaps unwanted) advice.”

“Btw, I spelt cool “kewl” on purpose, unlike you who obviously had no idea how to spell your “second favorite game”

“Oh ya its def a hissy fit, and I completely flew off the handle jumping all over him.”

“You should probably keep your comments to yourself because where am I a hypocrite? Have I been spamming, I believe not”

“As much as I may have “attacked him” you did no better, so your guilty of hypocrisy just as much as the next person.”

“Seriously I find it sad that after all this time you still want to try to assault me. You probably should have left it at that after I admitted my fault and apologized for trying to “boss” him around.”

So, the part you’ve all been waiting for – The Personal Message!

“Um sorry but I did say I didn’t mean to jump all over him and wasn’t trying to boss him around or anything. As for you, whether I got your intended aim at your hypocrital comment, you still are a hypocrite for what you did. I also find it sad despite all your high and mighty talk you still respond in an attempt to get the last word. Why exactly do you choose to continue acting like an immature child, what happened before is long over, and I definatly sent you an apology over pms and on Jame’s blog.

{~James: I put a line break in, so we can actually read. We use paragraphs in the adult world Kalas }

If you never actually read it, that isn’t my fault, but I did sincerly say I was sorry. I’ve already put it past me, don’t you think it possible to do the same? Just leave me alone if you have nothing to say, and btw I wasn’t spamming as it was clearly a response to what you said.”

It’s nice to know, I’m still in the hearts and minds of the people over on ET. Thank you Kalas, you once again have amused me greatly.

I especially like the way you apologized for that frankly appalling comment you left on my blog, which btw is still in the moderation queue. What a disgrace ;p

Peace, especially for the Templites out there.
JamesR.