Warrior / Engineer - PvE/Dungeon Spec (GW2)

In this post, I'll go through my PvE (Player vs Environment) specs that I fell is good for leveling in Guild Wars 2. I might have racial traits in slots so pick your own race or the norm. As the title said, I'll be doing a Warrior and an Engineer as these will be the first two class I roll with. Lets began!

Red/Fire Warrior - Greatsword / Longbow

I fell this is an very good duo in PvE as it is a great damage dealer up close w/ the option to back away and shoot some arrows when it's needed. Why not Rifle you may ask; it's cause the longbow synergies very well w/ the GS. With the abilities from your weapons,you can do 3 of the combo finishers using Combustion Shot and add in Bull's Charge and you can do all Fire Combo Finishers by yourself. These are as follow.

My Warrior w/ the Rare Starry Night Dye that dropped seconds before.

• Blast Finisher - Arcing Arrow (grants 3 stacks of might)
• Whirl Finisher - Whirlwind Attack (cause projectiles to be sent out in multiple directions)
• Projectile Finisher - Bladetrail AND Dual Shot ("FIRE" Projectile Attack cause Burning)
• Leap Finisher - Bull's Charge ("FIRE" Envelop yourself in a shield of fire that burns foes )

You can do all four during the duration of CS effect if done correctly. It's also great at killing multiple of enemies at once as GS will hit anything (up to 5 mobs) with in it's cone and that builds up adrenaline faster. Frenzy is there for much speedier attack for GS w/ Hundred Blade and more.

It does have a major weakness as fire attacks (Fan of Fire, CS and any Combo Finisher beside Blast) will have little to no effect on certain mobs. Other weakness is you can only weapon swapping every 10 secs since there is no way to use 15 pts into Discipline.

Banner General - Mace & Shield / Longbow

This is a dungeon built. I'm more natural being a tank BUT their is no tank so ummm.. Fear my banners!

This won't be very effective until you are at lease lvl 40 for decreased banner cooldown but at lvl 60, you gain access to having your banner apply regeneration to the party. Theirs word that the banner actually stays out for 90 secs meaning that if u spec into having a 20% cooldown reduction resulting in only 6 secs of down time. Just don't quote me on this.

Mace / Shield (M&S) has control element in daze and stuns while having 2 defensive ability in Counter Blow and Shield Stance. I also opted to go w/ longbow as it synergies w/ Arcing Arrow and Banner (up to 4 Blast Finisher) and Shield Bash (Leap Finisher). It's also so that you will have a long range option instead of doing nothing while waiting on your heal and stuff.

It haves the same weakness as the Red/Fire Warrior beside you won't ditch out as must DPS so nothing new.

Old Man's Machine - Pistol & Shield

First off, I name the built solely of my Asura's Racial Elite ability to summon a Gundam Power Suit but can't get that till mid-late in game so Supply Drop or your Racial would be suffice. It's also very similar to my PvP built.

This is a Condition Damage / Critical Hit / Elixir built. You can have all the buffs on you (beside stability and aegis) at any given time and w/ Elixir U, you gain quickness (faster attack speed) and a random wall spell when thrown. Rifle Turret gives me extra damage and act as a mini tank since mobs will tend to attack it. If it gets destroyed, the 20sec cooldown doesn't hurt.

This built is also synergies w/ the Toss Elixir U (Can create one of the following wall spells: Veil, Smoke Screen, or Wall of Reflection). Here's what each affected ability gives when using a skill or ability.

Explosive Shot / Throw Shield / Surprised Shot - Projectile Finishers

My Engineer w/ the Caramel dye

• Wall of Reflection AND Veil  - Remove Condition (from self)
• Smoke Screen - Blindness (next attack miss)

Magnetic Inversion / Detonate Rifle Turret - Blast Finishers

• Wall of Reflection AND Veil - Area Retaliation ( returns some of the incoming damage back to its source)
• Smoke Screen - Area Stealth (invisible to enemy)

Late levels you'll be benefiting from elixir duration, weapon skill cooldown reduction, and Piercing shot.

The weakness is that it is condition based damage so some mobs might not be effected by poison, fire, etc. Turret can be destroyed easily if 3+ mobs are on it especially after summoned. Lack of condition removals.
The Double Edge of drinking elixir u is you take either 50% more damage, unable to heal or no endurance (you dodge meter) regen for 5 secs so make sure to use it at the right time.

The Builder - Rifle (+ 2 Alternatives Builds)

This is a good old turret built dream. It's designed to not have mobs target you as much but your turret instead. It has a Water Combo synergies w/ itself if you choose to take Healing Turret . Unlike Pistol, the rifle is more power base (direct damage) so there no worry having enemies resisting shots. The turrets have more range, damage, take 30% less damage and self repairing. A builder also have to protect his creation so toss a mine near it to knockback enemies.

Now the special thing about this built is that it can be changed by taking Throw Mine out and putting Rocket Turret and Grab the Scope Trait (more firepower) or Tool Kit and have access to a pull, shield, and even repair your turrets even faster w/ the Power Wrench Trait.

In dungeon , you can go w/ either of the alternate listed above. You might also want to invest in using Healing Turret as that can do a water combo by detonating your turrets near it for area healing or/and gain regeneration when you use projectiles. I personally will add Rocket Turret unless something different is called for.

The weakness is that picking up your turret, dieing or/and user detonated, it can be a long cooldown due to no way due to lowering it. Meaning net, flame, thumper, and especially rocket turret will be down up to a minute. You can also accidentally pick up your turret and suffer in cooldown when you just want to loot enemies. Some Turrets can't work underwater so adjust accordingly. No way of removing condition on yourself.
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So there you have it. I hope everyone have fun and enjoy Guild Wars 2. See you on the 25th (headstart).

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All Combo Finishers - From GW2 Wiki

SWTOR Goes Free 2 Play but not Free 2 Play

July 31st, It was announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be going F2P this coming fall. That sounds good right, not by a long shot.

Take a look at this. (Click to enlarge)

Still sub based and full access to game. What do F2P get, only your class story. No OPS (Endgame content), and limited feature in everything else basically.

Class story are indeed awesome but what will we do after I finished it? Play like 10 WZ and it's capped for the week? Do dailies or/and world boss w/ limited travel points. Want to create a Sith Jedi but have to pay just to have him/her.

The way they went about it is completely wrong and the solution was so simple that will make everyone happy. Give the player all the option and content and leave cosmetics to the "game shop". That is the true way to go F2P.

Many ppl want to come back and check things out but no OPS w/ friends or guide and limited warzones and flashpoints. I not gonna pay them for it but I'll say that this F2P should of happened from the beginning (but understandable due to the Star Wars license) bit it is a start.

--------- SWTOR goes F2P

MMOs: Abilities Overload

    Your abilities are the staple of your character and mmos. You level up, learn new abilities by trainer, on the field or by other means and learning to master each skill each time while at the same time it starts to add up. Now you're max level and you see u have 25-40 abilities and leave you w/ a ton of abilities wondering if you gonna need to use all these.

Look at all those abilities I use. 30 abilities I have to have on my bar. Not counting Buff,Stances,Hoverbike/Car, Heroic Moment (can't use w/o my companion present) and targeting marker. It was fun killing that Jedi tho =)

In Guild Wars 2 for example, your core weapon abilities are based on what weapon u have on your main hand (3 for 1-handed or 5 for 2-handed) and for off hand (2 regardless). You can learned all your classes weapon skill ability at level 10 by just using it. Their are more abilities but you will only have 3 to put in your utility skill (around 20) and 1 in the elite skill (3+ profession skills to choose from).

I was lvl 9 using a Sword (1,2, and 3) and Shield (4 and 5), 6 is a healing ability which everyone get. 7, 8, and 9 are the utility skill and 0 is the elite skills.

The question is why do we need this many abilities. Their's some that has to be used in certain situation like stun, your/enemy health %, rooted/bind, passive effect, and others that is only used 1-2 times in a 10 min fight. Why not give us up to 15 abilities that we'll use majority of the time then say those 25-40 that we'll use less often. By doing this, it can be less taxing on the player on learning and playing and less taxing for the devs to balancing skills and being able to focus on other aspects of the game. There are other games that don't have many and can still be fun and challenging like DCUO, Diablo 3 and the soon to be released Torchlight 2.

Do you think less is better or more is better?

Custom In-Game Music Option in Guild Wars 2

    Are you one of those people that boot up your iTunes or similar programs to have that epic boss battle music, chilling in the city, or exploring the sea floor? Well there's a not well known feature that will allow you to do such thing. You can have your own Music for the following, these names are Ambient, NighTime, Battle, BossBattle, Underwater, City, Crafting, and MainMenu.

For a quick how to, check out this How-To. (Might need to turn it up a tad)

You not limited to just one song on that playlist format so fell free to add how many you want. Just don't over do it w/ 100 songs.

Here's the benefit from this feature.

• Your Personal Music and not having to back out of the game to changed said music.
• More CPU due to not having Music Player open in background.
• The in-game music automatically formats the music to fit in with other game sound effects while additional programs simply play over it.
• ......
• PROFIT!

Now I know that people are like "The GW2 Music is Godlike, why would you changed it". The simple answer is, My Music, My Way!

Now you know so tell your friends & family!

 (Might put a few tunes I'll have playing for certain stuff in a new post so maybe you can copy get some ideals)

-- James Boer Talks GW2 Audio Design 
--- For more info Check out the Playing Custom Music Thread on GW2 Guru by clicking link <----
---- NEW! My In-Game Music List for GW2 

What I learned from SWTOR Servers

I'll be quick about this so here we go.

6 Months of playing/having an account and they open up Server Transfers to a hand pick server. 110 + US Servers down to 12 (11 for EUR). A Server called The Fatman is the Biggest Server for the US (and East) that ppl went in droves when their own server turn into ghost towns.

What I learn from this is........ PICK a Top Tier Character server w/ an Awesome Name.

What Everyone else making MMOs should learn from this is..... Make Awesome names for servers like The Fatman, The Bastion, ect and Don't have so many damn servers. You can have 1 Server the US West and 1 for US East, 1 for Euro, ect like DCUO.

Finally for the MMO games that "plan" to merge servers and not let the player choose whatever server they can transfer to so here's some suggections. Make a NEW server so that ppl won't lose their name to a lvl 4 character that likely hasn't play in a long time and gives ppl a fair chance of landing their name. Another reason is that since it's a new server, the regulars won't be in the minority. Their no perfect way to fix this situation beside not being in this situlation but these are a start.

That's all, I'm out!


PS: References for => "PICK a Top Tier Character"

DC Universe Online goes Free 2 Play

DCUO will be the latest big timer to go F2P this October. Their will be consequences for Free players but you get more out of it unlike Champions Online. Here's the rundown per user preferences.

• Free: New players will now have access to the current gameplay in DC Universe Online (including Gotham City, Metropolis, and all current raids and alerts), with the ability to create two characters, join a league and many other benefits. Free level players will be able to purchase downloadable game packs/updates, additional character slots, powers and more through microtransactions.

• Premium: Any player who has spent at least $5 USD (including former paid subscribers and new players who have purchased $5 of in-game items) will qualify for the Premium access level. Premium level players will have more benefits available to them than the Free level player, including additional character slots, additional inventory slots, and higher cash limits. Downloadable adventure packs, additional character slots, and more can be purchased in-game.

• Legendary: Maximum features and benefits are included at this level. Loaded with enhanced additional features, Legendary access will be available for a $14.99 USD monthly fee and includes all DLC packs at no cost, more than 15 character slots, more than 80 inventory slots, the ability to form unrestricted-sized leagues, and many other benefits.

You can see the subscription in detail by clicking HERE.

I'll be checking this out on PC or the PS3 I "borrowed" from my bro and making my weapon using toons.

Since we are on the F2P subject, President of SOE, John Smedley said in an Interview that SWTOR (Star  Wars: The Old Republic) will be the last of the Big MMOs in terms of subscription only games. This might be a "hidden" part why DCUO is going F2P. Go sign up and check it when it's out.

Summer of F2P MMO Quick Reviews

Lets get right into it shale we..


Forsaken World - This MMO is.... Interesting. You can level to 12-15 in probably a little more then six hrs but eventually, their will be a wall you have to go through. While you level, you'll probably notice their 2 money system in Soul and Gold. Soul money can't be traded in any way nor can be used in Auction houses while Gold money can be traded and use for everything else besides for some venders who want soul money. The ONLY way to gain Gold money is to do certain group quest and events. I just don't understand why they made it like this, I like to upgrade my items from auction house purchase but not being able to sucks.

Combat can be frustrating at times mainly due to you can't do ANYTHING while running unlike most MMO's especially if you're a range class. Guess they want it to be like resident evil, stand still and kill stuff. Overall, I didn't like it (you might maybe) and their's no chance I'll return to Forsaken World.

Extra Points for Where Jr. Comes From.

Champions Online - This game was to be the Marvel / X-men online game but the fall out result in this. The Stories are hits and alot of misses. The Combat is rather fun but IF you going to play for free, you can't make a custom archtypes like say, I wanted a dual pistols wielding dude Like Jr. (Picture right), you gonna have to subscribe or be stuck using the "Soidier" Archtype. Overall, it had potentials but it falls flat on it's face but I might play it again.



Spiral Knights - This MMO can take probably 1 to 2 hrs of your time per day unless you just stand in town due to you get 100 energy per 22hrs. Doing dungeons (10 per) and crafting cost energy ( depending on item, 10 to 800) but you can gain energy from buying it w/ game money or real money. The Dungeons are random and brings different challenges for your fight to go deeper into Haven. Combat is a simple hack "n" slash so nothing really special there. It's worth trying out and you don't even have to Download it.

You can Download all 3 from Steam or from their official site (or in Spiral Knight case, play from their site)

Their is one Game left out due to it need it's own review unlike the others. Will it be that good or really bad is for you to guess.

Monday Night Combat Tips & Tricks & Fixes

Maybe I don't want to see her face after all.

MNC been out for almost a year now on Xbox and a bit less on Steam. I want to share some things w/ you like my class specs and how I use them (most of the time) followed by what need to be improved.

My Class Endorsement / Gameplan

Support (My most played Class)

This is more of a defensive Support that can turn offensive in a heart beat. Total Recoil (Rate of Fire) can over-heal and hurt (gun) faster while building Juice w/ the boost of GrenADE (Bonus Juice). FocusAll (Shortened Recharge Time) is for his abilities of course making it available sooner. The only downside is his lack of health can lead to him getting kill by a Dagger Assassin for free unless he's overhealed "excluding a backstab" but you can replace FocusAll for armor.

My gameplan w/ Support

Buy the turret upgrade and hack upgrade as soon as the game start then overheal any and everyone you can before they depart. Find an good flanking or defense spot for your turret and hack to make it more effective. If enemy bots are near you and the area seems to be safe, melee them for twice the juice boost instead of grabing them or otherwise and don't forget to heal teammates and defense towers. (so many forget that it's frustrating). If team has advance deeper into enemy base, you'll probably want to move your turret in to help. If enemy is in your base, try to put your turret in an unsuspected spot and heal injured teammates and turrets. But if your teammate sucks or/and the enemy is to smart, you're fucked since you are after all a support.

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Assassin

An in your face, get kill(s), get out is what my assassin does. Assassins have the lowest health out of the 6 classes so to protect her, I went w/ Gold Armor (Gobi Numb) and Speed (LaseRazor) to be very moble. FocusAll is there to recharged my Sprint,Grab,Smoke bomb, and Cloak cause it would suck if you need to get away and it's still on cooldown.

My gameplan w/ Assassin
First off, I find it crucial to get my Sword so only invest in that 1st then  kill some bots to get $ and boost my Juice. If I see an opening for a kill early on, I'll take it other wise just keep killing bots till you can buy the sword. When u get juice and they have defense guns out, use it and take those out ASAP giving your team an advantage by opening them up. If all else, be a freaken pain in the ass the entire match. (You'll usually tell when they have to resort to either making an Shave Ice machine or adding extra defense.)
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Gunner

What's a gunner w/o tearing his enemies to shreds w/o Total Recoil (Rate of Fire) while wearing some Fine Steel Peel (Armor). Finally for your needs, you got BionoGrip (Reload Speed) cause him reloading that machine gun is slow as fuck as it is.

My gameplan w/ Gunner
Their only 2 ways to play a Gunner. Attack ASAP or Kill bots to get $ and Juice then become Rambo and use your machine gun on pros and Mortar Launcher on everything else. ONLY invested in Gunner Machine Gun till it's level 3 then after that, Invest only in Slam till level 3 and either Gunner Deploy, Buy Gorilla Bots or/and buy/upgrade defense towers. NO $ Should be put in Grapple what so ever. It's not worth it. while juiced, Mortar Launcher can destroy almost everything so for the Gunners out there, use it more often.

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Sniper

I like to call him Mr. Gadget. Aptilube (Faster Ability Recharged) is for very quick trap refresh and Flak Grenade for serious damage and of course flanking. Steel Peel (Armor) for more health cause you'll likely be spending more time closer to the enemy then sniping from afar. Only downside is having Itchy Finger (Fast Firing Rate) but it's an necessary. You can still play the long range game but the endorsements will be kinda wasted.

My gameplan w/ Sniper
Invest in Traps and Upgrade your gun and find a place to make camp and start killing anything you see. Later you'll either want to upgrade gun again for Splash damage (great for more bot killing and Gunner/Support combo or lvl 3 traps to halt enemy progress and likely easy kills / get aways. If you see an Support w/ turret near enemy base, you can double your protection and hinder your enemy progress and get payed quicker. After that, you can go into upgrading Flak Grenade or/and Grapple to lvl 2. Grapple should be the last lvl 3 upgrade and sometimes, you don't even need it unless an assassin REALLY loves you to death... literally.
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Tank




Tank does what tank do. Having Gobi Numb (Armor) in addition to having the highest HP makes him well, harder to kill especially when juiced. Dr. Trigger (Rate of Fire) makes his Jet Gun (from an actual Jet) and Railgun much faster to dispose of enemies. Hipclip (Clip Size) is not only for his guns....ok it's only for his guns.


My gameplan w/ Tank
Invest in tank health regenerate (not the deploy one) and on your choice of Jet Charge (recommended) or Product Grenade. Follow the bots and help push you bots to enemy base. If alone on your side you can do the juice boost by melee them a few times. If you taking damage from opponent that to far, use jet charge to get away and if you want, invest in level 2 deploy so you can heal faster. If you fully juiced, rush their base and destroy every turret you can or/and destroy your enemies w/ 1 hit kill DEATH BLOSSOMS!!! Laugh at any Assassins that actually tries to kill you from behind to only see you Jet Charge them. Also in my personal opinion, his best map is the LaseRazor Arena followed by Spunky Cola Arena.
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Where's the Assault class you ask? I actually suck as him so I fell their wan't need to put a spec up right now but oddly enough I use to be awesome w/ him when the game started. So I gave you my Class Set up and Gameplan now to address a more serious issue about the Xbox version.

The Plea and What need to be Fixed

This is merely a simple request of let Uber Entertainment update the game like steam and get the new (very fun looking) Map. You are alienating the rather large Xbox community for MNC (keep in mind it's bigger then the PC community) to not see Crossfire matchmaking fixes that literally a team that is full of "prestige" players face against a long experienced players and 5 no so experienced and literally quit seconds before the match starts.

Their's also the Blue Logo screen of death when you try to connect to a server only to get "could not migrate to host" and force to quit game and restart it.



Their's a similar one that basically saids "Server is already at capacity" and it pops you back to main menu but if you go to any of the gametypes, it will automatically assumed it's looking for a match (even in single player) but it only freeze.

Their are many glitches and a few arena errors but just to name three that is the most common that I've experienced.

(This happens mainly when I play assassin) Upon respawning, 1 or 2 of my abilities won't work. This can be Sprint, Lunge, Smoke bomb, and the most crucial ability in Grapple. It basically handicaps her and simply dieing won't fix it.

The Airstrike glitch where an Support can toss up to 3 under the enemy spawn room and can kill them and sometimes lock them in stats menu for the rest of the match or they leave.

Tho not a glitch per say but still pretty bad. In the Spunky Cola Arena, their's an area where 4 out of the 6 class (especially assaults) can sneak on a ledge behind the field of play to the enemy base and either launched a surprised attack, destroy defense towers and free attack on the moneyball fore free.

Don't charge us for updates and maps that they want to give out for free and do away w/ your priority or whatever system. Just don't want to see an good game die like the way TF2 on consoles is.

BTW how awesome Uncle Tully's Funland looks.



Got an Opinion about my class or anything else about this, fell free to post and you can check the review I did for MNC Here. Oddly enough it was after last year's E3 post as well.

E3 predictions Round 2

E3, the most magical week in gaming (before PAX Prime) is almost here and I thought I'll do another E3 prediction write-up for the Big 3 and add Bioware into the mix so w/o further delay, here's my 20 predictions.

PS: High chances of me updating predictions up-till E3.

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My Microsoft Prediction(s) - Press Conference date/time -> Monday, June 6, 9:30 AM PDT

• Halo CE remake confirmed, crowd loses it's shit. ( we will just say yes.... for halo 4,5, and 6 )
• Getting a Timed Exclusive DLC that will look awesome.
• Lots of Kinect info, pie/bar charts and new upcoming games for it. ( Yes then no and then Yes again )
• Announced another extension to Xbox like (facebook,ESPN, etc) and leave you wondering..... Why? ( when you think about it, no.. Youtube, Live Tv, and the eh "from many ppl" of Bing is welcome. )
• To somehow be the baddest press conference for the 2nd straight year. ( I'm actually gonna say no but I wlll throw sony in the mix. They both focus on Kinect and Move/Vita a little to much to my liking. )

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My Sony Prediction(s) - Press Conference date/time -> Monday, June 6, 5:00 PM PDT

• Sony to get Booed at the start unless they start out w/ their pitchman. ( Double no, He didn't even make an appearances )
• Sony to address their recent issues for like 3 mins. ( Probably more but yes, but don't make a joke out of it at the start on you conference. Just a slap in the face to the ppl that was effected by it.)
• Sony to get more support from Valve (like w/ Portal 2). ( Nope.avi ) 
• Reveal of Never heard Exclusive game.
• Even more Free giveaways on PSN! ( Nope )

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My Nintendo Prediction(s) - Press Conference date/time -> Tuesday, June 7, 9:00 AM PDT

• "Project Cafe" will be equally powerful as the PS3 (It kinda looks like it so Plausible?)
• Release Date of New Zelda game ( all we got is This Year so nope )
• A WTF Moment not including the "New" Console ( Yes, many times, Ninja Gaiden 3 on Wii U for one )
• Star Fox finally makes a console return. The Space shooter, not that crap that is Star Fox Adventure. ( unfortunally nope )
• Best conference out of the big 3 again. ( Yes Yes and............. Yes )
• Online features to either be left out OR be like the PS3 in ways for "Project Cafe" ( their keeping that info for now so ??? )
• Xenoblade or/and The Last Story to comes to the west. ( I wish man )

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• Mass Effect 3 will have multiplayer aspects like Fable 2 and 3
• Mass Effect 3 will also be 2 times as long as ME2
• Plans of what they will do to expand on the Mass Effect universe after the trilogy.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic will announced open beta (to do what RIFT did to perfection) but still no release date cause of beta.
• A "Here..Take my Money" game that Isn't Mass Effect,Dragon Age, nor SW: TOR.

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And there are my predictions. You can watch G4TV's Live E3 Coverage on the 6th and for those who's on Direct TV (they gave G4 the boot this spring for.. you know why..) them along w/ IGN, Gametrailer, and more will be live streams on their respected sites. If you wanta chat while watching it, Justin.tv (gaming section) is the place to go since brodcasters will be streaming it as well.

I'll put up the results after E3 so stay toon. Till next time folks.

My thoughts on MvC3

   Marvel vs Capcom 3 has been out for a month now and their been lots of talk about many things and I going to get in to on this post. MvC3 is a fun game that can provide fast gameplay w/ your favorite character but if you want to be good, then you want synergy w/ your team. I personally based my team around Amaterasu since Okami was a awesome game and I wanted to rep the goddess. It can also be frustrating at times when 1 mistake leads to you losing and you keep losing like 5 straight but it is like that sometimes.

    Capcops, err I meant capcom released a update today to fix and balanced some things.

• Sentinel now haves 905,000 health from 1.3m
• Hagger/ Spencer hyper glitch fixed (it was fun while it lasted)
• Akuma's Infinite is gone

and some more you can check here or check this vid by Desk.

  
     Before I go on, I recommend you check out the Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Hyper Guide where you'll find tons of info for starters to vets and constantly being updated. Also check out Trag13's Youtube Channel to check out nifty combos for your characters not to mention he's helping the the hyper guide mention above. Now their's things that get ppl so mad that they rage and end up hating the game so here's my thoughts and advice on some.

The Keep Away Game - Characters like Arthur and Dormammu (as can other characters like Sentinel) can keep you in your own zone away from them. It can be very frustrating when they tossing their projectiles at you and using doom or sentinel assist to cover spaces they can't cover well but it's very rewarding when you finally get in and they can do almost nothing about it. Instead of bitching, quiting and sending pm's basically saying you suck, be a man and fight. I say get knowledge to blow them up.

Sentinel - Nobody like him due to his power, cheapness, and hp but news of today's patch is they NERF his hp to 905k. This makes me think the overwhelming complanting about him got to capcom and i can tell you he did not deserve it. He's a mutant hunter, built to fight and withstand the mutant forces so the 1.3m hp was just. As for what to do against the machine, This video will help you and also, Don't FUCK w/ Sentinel while he's in X-Factor. 



Above all else... DEAL WITH IT! He's not going anywhere.


Phoenix - Another hated person despite having the Lowest HP "420k" in the game. Yes, she's gonna play a mix of keep away and teleport mix-ups but here's what you do to kill her before she gets 5 meter and goes Dark Phoenix, snap her in and kill her. Sure it's not that simple but just know 1 hit you land on her can lead to her doom. Another strategy is that if she is the last person remaining but has 5 meters, you could run away but the flaw in it is the time. MvC3 time isn't normal like 1 seconds = 1 sec, but more like 1 sec = 3-4 seconds real time. Recently Final Round ( a Major fighting game tournament held the the ATL ) someone ran away for phoenix for 60 game seconds so it can be done. If you unfortunately get her turned into Dark Phoenix, you can try to control it by checking this guide or find your own way but for phoenix users that are are super quick, you can teleport out of the akuma one atlease. One final note, She do not need a damage nerf, she can destroys planets. Nuff said.


X-Factor - This is the game chancing ability. It was not in any of the other series but it was to some extent in TvsC. For ppl that don't know what X-Factor is... 

• It's a 1 time use (per match) when activated
• Increased damage by 100% to 300% (depending on remaining characters)
• No chip damage
• Speed increase
• Gain red health back
• Canceling normal and hyper combo into more normal and hyper combos
• Canceling whiffed normal and hyper combo to avoid being punished (ie: Bionic Arm being blocked)

That's alot of stuff X-Factor can do and for that, most hate it. Top players wish it was either nerfed or have an option to turned it off for tournament. I gotta say tho, I kinda agree but only for damage to be 50%, 100%,  200% and that chip damage is half during the duration.


If you can't adapt and handle it then this is not the game for you and as for the rest of you, I'll see you online. maybe...

For the 100th time...

Luke, I am your farther and he welcomes you to the new look of of my blog.

    1st off check out Don3Dimensions, a blog from a cool friend of mines in Donntae (What's Up!) not to mention he also writes on Examiner and his awesome 3D work so check it yo. He's also isn't afraid of anything.

    Now for an update on my RPG Mania posted in December that I knocked down. I don't know what to really play atm since I'm trying to do and see alot of stuff at once so we'll see. Check the full list on the December post if you wondering what I'm talking about.

Mass Effect 2 ( Main character "Paragon", Insane Mode, Hopefully all major DLC ) DONE!

Eternal Sonata ( 3rd Play-through, Try to get rare items.......again ) DONE! then I sold it w/ other games for MvC 3

Torchlight ( 5th Character, Son of retire Alchemist Pet Master, get em to max lvl ) Lvl 71 atm.

Fallout 3 ( maybe?? Finished up the DLC game on main ) SOLD also!

Fable 2 ( Maybe?? Just to get 2 easy achievements, 2nd play-through ) also SOLD this.

Neverwinter Nights 2 - On Chapter 2

    Pax East is almost here but I'm not really looking for much game info beside Bioware's MMORPG SW:TOR since they said they will be big news about it. I'm excited about it but also keeping myself from being too hyped up. Starting today, you're now able to make your own guild so get your friends together and get on it. Now for what I'm hoping for Bioware to announced is Open Beta announcement, lots of gameplay footage/story, maybe release date "May the 4th be w/ you?" (quote from gamebreaker tv's fans) and system requirements. Speaking of that, I been in need of a new PC for like 2 years and here's how bad it is from best to worst in the family.

1. Brother Alienware Gaming PC ($3000 + and kinda future proof I think)
2. Mom's Touchscreen Media PC ( $900 + tho I think it was overpaid)
3. Sister NEW HP Pavilion dv6-3025dx NoteBook ( $455 )
4. My 6 year old Alienware Custom Gaming PC ( $3700 including the Monitor and a kick ass 5.1 Surround Sound at the time ... 1.0 GB of RAM and Memory)
5. Dad PC originally the family PC over 10 years ago. It still got AOL on it. but he rarely use the PC anyways.

Yep... I have a long road ahead of me but it's in the planing stages. It's gonna be a Mainstream Gaming PC w/ price range around $1300 max. Now moving on to Music..

    8BitCollective is an awesome site for chiptune music (and some other but all music involve a form of chiptune). I urge you to check out the Music of Last Week 1st which is the top view and like and It updates every sunday. You can also check the latest and search for specific artist or/and song. You don't pay anything and don't need to make an account either so w/ that said, let me start you off on some below.

• Kola Kid - spaceman
• Electric Children - Winter Retrospective
• smiletron - MICROCOSMIC
• Anamanaguchi - Airbrushed (they are on tour currently so no new music currently other then "Mess") 
• And more!!!!!!

So this pretty much wraps up #100 tho not a big deal by any means but thank for visiting me blog here even if it was an accident, thx you to.

Also, I'm Winning!.... < insert troll face here >

PS: Here's a Insanely Awesome clip.. Please Enjoy!

Got Something

This post contain pictures so hit that link to see it all. With that said,

It's MARVEL BAABBYY!! 

Sweet!

Dat MvC 3

 With the upcoming MvC3, I'm hype up for it. If you want to get it, get the SE Version From Capcom Store then use the promo code "THANKYOUTEN" so you'll be buying it like a regular edition w/ awesome stuff w/ it. Don't know if this promo code will work after release tho.

Their will be a MvC3 Live Stream presented by 1up.com today at 5pm (PST). you can go to iplaywinner.com for more info. Haunts from IPW (I Play Winner) also have Preview he wrote HERE but do note it was before the latest character were announced.

Also MvC2 had 10+ years of awesomeness and I seen alot of great matches as they happened live and the Clockw0rk vs. Neo 15k Money Match is no exception.





Here's a Did You Know for you. Most don't know where that win quote from Deadpool when he beat Magneto came from. It was from one of the BEST MvC2 player IFC Yipes. Where's your curly mustache at?    

The "Fuck the Knicks" Mango Sentinel colors (Orange/Blue) is also influenced by the players and the "stream monsters" which you're guarantee to hear or see said at lease 5 times.

Amaterasu (Ammy)/ Phoenix/ Storm

This is my team, what's yours?

Champions Online goes Free-2-Play

Come Join Us... It's Free Unlike that wanta be DC Universe Online

Starting today, Champions Online will be Free for all so of course you might be limited somewhat like character powers customization and other stuff. If this F2P thing is successful, they will do the same for Star Trek Online. So Check it out ya......... Unless you playing that DC game then Kill the Joker please. =)

Game Music Week -- Thursday

Since I miss Wednesday's post get ready for double Thursday so w/ that said..

Let's Get Super....Mario.... SMG has some awesome music and I have 2 of them for you.
Gusty Garden (Galaxy) had simple sounds but it just fell like you're on an adventure and well, you are.




Now you should (if you played it) know how EPIC the final boss music is. It's one of those "One of us isn't walking out alive" tunes; only sad part the fight was not epic for this music. Anyways, enjoy it lady and germs.

Game Music Week -- Tuesday

Going old school on ya. Sonic & Knuckles had some kickass music and the Flying Battery Zone (act 2) among them. When I 1st heard it back in the day, it was just bad ass not to mention I like the stage as well. Enjoy it as I have through out the years.

Game Music Week -- Monday

Final Fantasy is well-known for having great music and FF13 is no exception. Dust to Dust is one of those songs that just chilling yet it pores it soul onto you.

I remember when Fang and Vanille talk about their home throughout the game making me think that after their long absent, their will be fill w/ ancestors that remember them. Once you arrived it just breath-taking to see what their home has become.

Love/Hate/So-So? Drop a comment in.

Game Music Week -- Sunday

No More Heroes is an awesome game w/ sweet music but "We Are Finally Cowboys" was just pure awesome and set the tone for the "REAL" final battle against Henry .  (I won't spoiled it if you never play it but if ya want to know, just highlight it.)

Love it/Hate it? Drop a comment!

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for 5$

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is now on sale for 5 bones as part of the Direct 2 Drive Spring Sale.

If you haven't play this by now then you are missing out. Even if you not a Star Wars fan, I urge you to play this epic.

Anyways.. Since this sale last only a week, you better get it now. Their is more games their selling this week like GTA4 for 7$ and more. So yea, check it out.

Ohh.. Sry..

 Sorry for the lack of blog update. Been kinda busy w/ making my awesome door table, and playing FF 13, Mass Effect 2, and recently Perfect Dark. Also it appears my current template is busted so I'll have to search for a new one.... Again..

On a side note, Torchlight is on sell on Steam till Monday at 5 bones.. I did a review of it Here and did a Add-On special Here or you could just scroll down.

So yea that all.. Oh wait.. Their is 1 request, If you also have Perfect Dark, I'm in dire help. I need help on 2 co-op mission for the crowns.. Both requires very quick mission finish time and knowing what you doing (Lag is huge problem for both missions). Just contact me via: Xbox saying Co-op Chicago – Stealth (this can take less then 30 secs), and Carrington Institute – Defense (have to beat it in 1:30). If you need the leaderboard crown as well, that's awesome.


Till Then Pimps.