Diablo III

I know this is supposed to be a SW:Tor blog, but since I'm not starting a new blog for Diablo III I will post some D3 stuff in here. And WTF... why do I even try to explain myself? This is my own blog. xD

Two weeks ago my guildleader fed me a couple of Diablo III beta videos and in the end I couldn't resist and bought the game. Somehow I was sure I would only be playing it for a week or so and then return to SW:ToR. How the hell was I supposed to know that I would be this hooked. It's an amazing game, and I can't remember having that much fun in aaaages.

My progress so far:

 Normal mode: Check!

Nightmare mode: Check!

Yes, it's not that much, my highest character is level 52 but for once I didn't want to rush through a game. I love exploring every area and every dungeon before finishing a quest. 

And I'm glad that my guildleader shares the same philosophy, so I don't have to feel guilty for taking my time and running around while playing together.

We are currently in "act I" on "hell mode"... and my god, it is hard... I shudder to think of "inferno mode", if I even manage to get to inferno mode at all. It's definitely challenging and very very exhausting as I have to be on my guard constantly. One moment of not concentrating and I'm dead. And I'm really getting annoyed with myself for making stupid mistakes and dying over and over again. xD

Talking about dying... I once said I should not praise my guildleader for his style of playing but yesterday morning he once again managed to make my jaw drop. We did Belial on nightmare mode and I died when Belial still had 45% and he downed the boss... ALONE. I was absolutely amazed by that. Honestly doing that at 6 in the morning after over 10 hours of playing was just brilliant in my eyes. I would never be able to keep my level of concentration that high and move around the way he did after that much playing and at that time of the day... I'm not even sure if I would be able to pull that off at all. So yeah, my kudos to him. *grrrr*

I forgot to make a screencap sooner. -.-

And I also died during the Diablo fight on nightmare mode but this time not as n00bish as in the Belial fight:

I definitely need to stop with the vodka/oj or vodka/cherryjuice... can't focus after 2 glasses. ;D

So yeah, I really really like D3, it's great and I can only hope the fun lasts till GW2 is out. And I love that my Battle.net friends list became so big. It's so much fun to play with everyone and get to know my guildies from Icefyre better.

And bonus screencap of my demonhunter:

My boys...

Actually I wanted to write an entry yesterday, but then I had quite some trouble with my Diablo III installation and at 8pm there was a 7 hour stresstest for GW2.

And when I went to bed this morning at 7am, I really didn't feel like sitting down and posting anything. So before I hop off to play some Diablo III today I'm gonna finish this post.

It's nothing big and mostly just for me... but my SW:ToR male characters need some loving in form of an entry. ;)

My dearest Praven, I just love that screencap. I really did quite well when I created him, perfect Sith. ;)

Forcewalking again, or for those who don't know, he's binding another ghost to him.

Ashara ogling Praven while he's meditating.

And Praven finally got her... perfect PUA that he is, he played his game well with her and had it all in one go. 

And I certainly don't want to forget my other Sith, Sidice... love his gear, even though it clashes with his skin color. :D

Probably his best "I don't take any shit from you"-pose!

And yay, Vette is also there... Sidice is also finally making progress with her. It's just a matter of time... eh, affection points I mean. :D

So, that's it for today, I will definitely do a post on all the companion you can romance, I already started it but oh boy, so many links and videos to post. I can't bring myself to finish it. Ah well, one day... soon. 

Hell, yeah! Ugh, hell no!

I haven't posted some PvP stats lately... time to change it. Reason behind it was, last week, I think it was last week or was it this Monday, I played a couple of warzones with Khalindora. And since patch 1.2 I really had a hard time healing more than 300k in a voidstar match (mostly due to the changes of this particular warzone).

So you can imagine my smile after the match ended and I got to see this:

What also really frustrated me was that no matter what I did I couldn't heal so much with Praven my sorc, so I upgraded the mods in his orange gear and changed the enhancement from power+alacrity to crit+surge.

The result was really really satisfying to me:

I even said that I never healed as much with Sha'khali... hm, I seem to have a short memory because looking through my screenshots proved me wrong:

And searching a bit more I found this one... alright, I need to beat nearly 600k healing. Mind you that was done before patch 1.2 and Sha'khali was 50. This will be really tough and I only have 4 more levels left before Praven hits 50.

Social gear part II & Legacy gear

Right, what did I say about if I wanted to waste another 10 hours of my life I would go and check on the Imperial social gear... turns out all of it is the same the only thing that's different is the pilot gear. And when I did my first social gear post, the Republic had no "formal" gear for males, so you get that one too.

However, I thought 3 pictures isn't all that much and then I made the mistake and checked out the Legacy gear. I hate copy&paste, not to mention that Bioware somehow scaled things down and I had to fiddle around with my old template for the set cards.

God, yes, I want that one for my Khalindora... looks like I will have to do some more daily quests.