Archive for March, 2009
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Having completed some significant steps in my skill training plan I find I am a little lost for what to do next. I certainly have some more skills I would like to train but they all require over a week to complete and as I have just finished a ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Pleased with my progress to help the Wyrmrest Accord and the good work I have done in Wintergarde Keep my death knight is sent to Fordragon Hold for further instructions. It is there that I bear witness to a massive struggle outside Angrathar the Wrath Gate, Alliance and Horde ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
After a couple of diversions in my skill training, including Industry V and Caldari Industrial V, I have finally finished training Production Efficiency V. It is quite refreshing to be able to open a BPO and no longer see a separate column of mineral needs reserved only to remind ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
A few times now I have been tanking in an instance and had trouble keeping an accompanying death knight pulling aggro from me. In each case the death knight has been in frost presence, greatly increasing their threat generation, rather than my own threat generation being lacking. Apart ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
When I joined up with some friends to see Watchmen at the IMAX last week we spent a little time wandering around comic shops. In Forbidden Planet I saw a superb statue of a character from the Oh! My Goddess! manga and although I generally don't buy statues ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Emiliana Torrini keeps the audience waiting a little longer than normal and apologises for doing so. She apparently got stuck in her other dress and needed some help getting changed, even ripping the dress in the process. Judging by the colourful and gorgeous outfit she changed in to ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Grabbing some mushrooms from the sewers of Dalaran—and only just now realising how disgusting it is to make a meatloaf from sewer mushrooms—I find a discarded Underbelly Elixir. Apparently forgetting that I am in a sewer, even with a warning on the bottle, I quaff the elixir anyway and ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
New EVE Online expansion Apocrypha may be graphically shiny but the sound is awfully disappointing. To get a better look at space in high-definition I jump in to the pod of my Drake battlecruiser and pick up a mission from my agent, leaving my industrial ships behind for the ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
The shiny new graphics of Apocrypha can get a capsuleer in trouble. Whilst making my journey from the system holding my corporation's POS to my base of operations I spy what must be a pirate loitering on a high-sec gate, as my ship's computer highlights his vessel with a ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
The patch doesn't want to download to my computer for some reason. But that's okay, because patching from inside the client pegs my notebook's CPU at a constant 50%, so I grab the Apocrypha patch from the EVE Online website. I actually end up downloading the entire client ...
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