IT’S RAID FEATURING HGR WOO (We were anticipating him being out for weeks. So glad he’s okay!) Silver/Luis couldn’t make Saturday, and Sunday was mostly a re-clear day. But hey, parse redemption arc! On Eric, the whole party parsed blue except numbers, who died. I tied my best with 54%. On hippo, I ...
We finally did it. We killed a bird. Last week was supposed to be the week. We came close: we saw our first enrage at 3%. On the very next run, we wiped at first tethers. “From the alpha to the omega,” said HGR. We later got another enrage at 10%, but no clear. This Saturday was destined to be a fra...
A bunch of people have been talking about Flight Rising lately, so I decided to try it out. A few thoughts: Pros of Flight Rising:Colorful! Even your starting dragon can be decked out in jade and denim (like mine). The auction house is a riot of color; every pup is bold and vibrant. It’s not like Wo...
“This weekend we shall kill a bird,” said numbers when he sent out the roll call for this weekend’s raid. Spoilers: we did not kill a bird. Saturday was another backslide arc, which is honestly redundant/poor plotting and smacks of filler. It took us nearly an hour to re-clear P1S. We just forgot ev...
Raid went well this weekend. We agreed that we’re “basically” progging enrage (we haven’t seen it yet, but we did see devouring brand 2), and our damage is high enough that we should be able to win with a clean run. Next morning, HGR was poring over our fight log to determine our mitigation strategy...
HGR quit Lost Ark last night. I really didn’t expect him to be the first to drop it (though, to be fair, he’s clocked 300+ hours which is assuredly longer than I’ll wind up playing). There were a couple reasons. First, he was bummed there were not enough people to do high-level world content with hi...
Not much to say about last week’s raiding. Silver and GANON couldn’t make it on Saturday. On Sunday, the re-clears went well (I got 39% on P1S due to a damage down on temperatures 2, and 33% on the hippo), but our Phoinix pulls did not. We were all just tired, I guess. We only saw fountains of fire ...
I found the lost Ark! I beat the game! jk jk it turns out there are like seven more lost Arks scattered across the globe, so my adventure has only just begun. shocker I’m still having a lot of fun just casually strolling through the main questline. There’s been no grinding so far, but eventually the...
Just finished the Thirain/Scherrit arc in Lost Ark. Basically, Regent Scherrit murdered the rightful king and usurped the throne, and the rightful heir, Prince Thirain, is trying to get it back. And of course Regent Scheritt is a terrible ruler (an oppressive tyrant, literally sold his soul to demon...
Fifty-one degrees yesterday, snowstorm today. That’s just how it goes. I left for an early morning walk (9:45, basically the earliest I’ll voluntarily leave the house) to beat the storm. I went to the cafe and got a turtle mocha for myself and a couple of sausage and egg biscuits for my roommate. Ou...
HGR’s been hyping up Lost Ark, a Diablo-esque Korean MMO that launched last Friday. It’s notoriously grindy: in postgame, it’s standard practice to do all your weeklies on your main (which takes many hours), and then do the same weeklies on multiple alts and funnel all the benefits to your main. I h...
For work, Dante has to go down to Georgia to oversee some project. I’m not clear on the details, but it’s a raw deal. He’s living in a lowkey crappy hotel (apparently the good hotel was booked) and working 12-hour night shifts (during which he doesn’t have much to do, so he sits around most of the t...
