Lots of mmo lately

School is over. More time for playing and trying new things.
This month as been quite a full one, mmo speaking. Besides Everquest 2, Age of Conan (which just recently both of this got big updates) and WoW, got a free month of Vanguard and Star Wars Galaxies, and 15 days of Pirates of the Burning Sea. Without mentioning i got in Aion closed beta :D.

For Vanguard, recently it was released the latest update (Halls of the Pantheon) which gives players lots of goodies:


Feature Details:
200 new quests
1000+ new items
2 new flying mounts
Choose your alignment and reap the rewards
Find out the truth behind the schemes of Kamelott
Become a god warrior and unlock the way to the Halls of Shattered Souls
Craft enhancements making them more powerful
Craft god armor
Craft a unique epic weapon for each class
New item mods
New resistances
Level Increase
New level cap is 55
95 new abilities
Spell crafting added
Item levels increased
New crafting related quest series



For Star Wars Galaxies Game Update 11 was just released, featuring:


Highlights

* Empire Day: We're bringing back the event from last year and have added many new features to ensure it is as exciting if not more so, than our past three events. Enhancements were made to the entire event from last year.

* Bounty Hunter: In this update we have changed Carbine expertise line to effect both carbines and pistols. You will find that deadly strikes now effect pistols as well. We have made changes to allow Relentless Onslaught to work with pistols.

* Community Requests: Introducing the ability to wear backpacks with all Jedi robes. In addition to this update head-wear can now be worn with elder Jedi robes.
* And many other changes.


Beside, this two games, which got some nice loving from developers, Everquest 2 and Age of Conan got also some love recently.
For Age of Conan, update 1.05 came to live servers during this week, and features the following changes:


Check it here (due to long list of changes. It's huge, really!)


And for my favourite, Everquest 2, european servers finally saw live the latest Game update 52 "Monument and Might"! This update brings lots of new content, like a new single group zone, a new raid zone, lots of new Kunark overland quest, the now famous Research Assistants and many other changes.



For more detail on the update just go here!

Seems alot of love has happen for these games, just hope they continue like that way. I will continue playing them!

I'm not over yet!

It's been a while since i've posted something here. Not because i've stopped playing or something. Just been a bit lazy. Lately i've been trying a bit of Age of Conan also (not much as i expected due to school) and also playing WoW and EQ2.
Next month i plan on posting some new stuff, so stay tuned (if anyone is coming here :P).

Level 80 Armorer!

After getting to level 80 adventurer, i decided to level my crafting profession also to max level. It didn't took long since it was already level 78, so i decided to take a daily instanced mission all by myself. So after like 2 hours (since this quests are kinda long for a solo player), it finally dinged 80. And i don't know if that's normal for a level 80 to receive, but i got the book for the tier 1 set shards. Not bad.



So that's like it, level 80 SK and level 80 Armorer. Now working on epic weapon and crafter epic quest line.

Everquest 2: Level 80 SK

Finally my SK dinged 80!



With around 1100 quests completed, 123 AA points and 94 collections completed, it finally arrived to level 80.
Now it's time to start doing some raiding and gearing it up!

The journey just started!

Everquest 2: Level 79 SK

My shadowknight dinged another level, 79, leaving it a level away from 80.

Congratulations Gonkard!

After hitting 80, time to start doing some instances, and to work on my class weapon. And get those AA!

Pirates of the Burning Sea

In the last two weeks (and after i finished the trial for Eve), i decided to load up and do the trial for Pirates of the Burning Sea. Wasn't my first trial (i did one before), so i already got the hang for the mechanics.

I consider POTBS to be some sort of a Eve Online on boats. We got a nifty little ship, some odd map to a secret (or something), and we are off. Basics are given in a tutorial, where we learn avatar and ship controls. While avatar is common to most mmo players, ship combat is a different thing. We take direct control of our ship, like speed, direction, weapons and such, we fight other ships, board other ships (or be boarded), etc. It's really something new and is lots of fun. My ship is small, but i can imagine a big galleon, full of canons blasting away. Must be nice. I only hate when i need to get to a target that is like 1000 yards away, and i have to travel against the wind (ain't complaining, it suppose to be like that), missions tend to get longer then expected. Back to avatar fighting, it's all instanced (as well as in ships), so you won't be fighting anyone in cities and places like that (unless we can do it in duel, but I'm not sure).



The game gives lots of quest to help you out in the beginning, some are avatar quests while others are with ships, like escort or sink some ships.
Another aspect of the game, is the economy. While i did but the tutorial, i managed to check the possibility to create some industry, to produce final products to be sold in the market. I haven't seen it much but i expect to explore this aspect of the game, when i subscribe it.
Also the game as a lot of PVP, but i haven't tried it yet. I noticed some talk about hot zones, or something, and port battles, but i haven't seen any. Another thing to check.
Overall, for someone who just did the trial, and have an open mind about MMO (yes because i know people who just play WoW, and think it's the best without taking other games in consideration), i liked it, and something i want to give a try to further the experience.

Elements of Corruption (GU #51) is Live!

Well, wasn't expecting this to be release today, but it did!

A zone revamped, a new raid instance, a threat meter, new shard gear, new crafting additions and loads of fixes.

You can read it all here!