DocHoliday posted this on May 19th, 2010.
Categorized as General, Raid, TWO, lotro, podcast, sto.
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So I wanted to put up a quick post talking about a couple other games I’m playing, not all that much but from time to time when I can’t find groups in LOTRO.
First up, thanks to @Longasc’s referral, I’m playing Star Trek Online (STO). I haven’t decided if I’m going to subscribe yet as I honestly haven’t spent that much time in-game. However, from what I’ve seen I did really like as I’m been looking for a more twitch based space game then Eve-Online. I do think my perfect game would be a blend of the two, but we shall see how I feel as I get more STO under my belt. The space combat is almost overwhelming as there’s so much pretty stuff to look at that I have to remember that things are shooting at me and I need to respond to that 
The ground combat isn’t all that exciting, but when your focus is on space I can deal with something not quite up to what I’d get from LOTRO. I definitely need to get in there some more and check things out but so far I’m sufficiently intrigued.
The other game I started was one I had forgotten about until listening to the last episode of “Shut up, we’re talking,” which is Tiger Wood Online. I’ve always been a big fan of EA’s sports games but not necessarily a fan of the buying the new version every year to get new stats and not much new gameplay, so the idea of a free-to-play web based version was very exciting. You can pay a monthly subscription which allows you access to all the courses, where as the free version limits you to a couple at a time with I believe a weekly refresh. There’s also a cash shop with typical golf pro shop items in it which can change your look and boost your stats. As much as I’d like to customize my golfer, I’m trying to calm the addiction a bit, and just deal with the free option for now. As you play your golfer gets experience and levels up, while also getting cash rewards which can be used to buff your stats. I’m still having issues with things like putting and in-between club shots but am scoring consistently below par, which is mainly due to this game playing much like the stand-alone versions. So far, I’ve just been checking out the single-player and tournament options but there are multi-player options and more coming from what I’ve seen so far. There’s also a social option of sponsoring people which I haven’t completely figured out yet. So, if anyone out there is playing TWO and can explain that would be great.
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DocHoliday posted this on March 10th, 2010.
Categorized as End Game, Equipment, Minstral, Minstrel, Mirkwood, Raid, Raids and End-game, Warden, epic line, gear, legacy, legendary items, lore, lotro, radiance, sto, threat, volume 3.
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So real-life has been a bit of a drain lately for me and I’ve been very quiet of late both here on my blog as well as in-game. It is a combination of a bunch of different things, but much of it will pass here soon.
So to re-cap on a few things, I did want to comment on some LOTRO items and also some non-LOTRO ones that were of interest too.
My in-game activities have been rather enjoyable, just limited after my fun in Volume 3. I’ve been playing much more on my Minstrel lately and have quite enjoyed not only soloing through content in war-speech but also running the various Mirkwood instances as a healer. I did notice more of my skills being resisted but really didn’t seem to be too big of a problem, but it was good to see that it has in fact been changed as commented on by CStM and confirmed by the devs on the forums as well. On a more positive note, I think I’m getting pretty close to having enough tokens for the radiance sets on him but will probably take a few more runs through SG. My legendary items still need quite a bit of work although I have a couple that are somewhat promising. I do have some of the legacies that help out on the resists, so I may actually play around with leveling them up instead of just leaving them at rank 1. Sadly, outside of the Volume 3 activity I really haven’t been on my Warden too much outside of an SG run or two. She still is 2 pieces from being eligible for BG, so a few more SG runs are in my future. And for those of you that actually do have your BG armor sets, there will be a change made to the set bonus as commented on the forums. Essentially the current bonus is broken (not that a 5% chance shield mastery will debuf your target was all that exciting) and will be changed to a 10% chance to provide a 10% melee damage bonus for the Warden. I’m glad they’re looking at those bonuses and that is a better bonus, but I would’ve loved a 10% threat bonus!
Up on the Warden boards there a pretty detailed discussion on threat. from precise blow and comparing it to damage done. Essentially numerically comparing how much threat was done to counter a certain amount of damage. The numbers worked out to about 1750 damage (or ~100DPS, which is pretty darn low) to counter the threat from a single precise blow, which does seem to indicate that you do need to work and continually apply our ToTs to keep ahead of DPS classes.
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