Btw, they reason we merged was...

...Funcoms financial problems, covered up with some story that Funcom wanted to increase the vividness of the servers. My source (which is reliable and will remain anonymous) also tells me that Funcom are really struggling financially now, and that they are thinking of terminating AoC. We will see what happens there...

The merger has been complete

So recently the servermerge was complete, and i (and probably many with me) had high hopes of a new infusion of players, RP and social life in general.

Has anything changed, really?

I don't think so. The only noticble difference is that there are a few new guilds out there, and alot more people in the duelarea of Keshetta. The latter is nothing but bad news i think. It also seems like the crappy guilds of this server, Argonauts for example, has gotten more members since the merger.

Oh yeah, global chat is now more annoying than ever.

I can't help to feel sorry for the ex-Corinthians. Corinthia, which probably was more heavy on RP than Aquilonia ever will be, got incorporated with mostly gankers and other morons. I wouldn't be surpised if they are looking at us as "white trailor trash", a description which fits many players here, such as players with Celestial and Argonauts tags under their name.

I hope we will see more of a change with the next big patch. We need CHANGE! CHANGE! Go Obama!

The reason for my few posts is...

... WORK! IRL sucks ass right now, i haven't been able to log on properly for a week now, hence i haven't been able to follow the gossip as of late. I will be back shortly though, with some provokative news!

Argosploit the Movie(s)

Courtsey to a anonymous donor who sent me the clips where Argonauts are taking advantage of the PvP-EXP system.

Argonauts PvP-XP leeching

This was actually a pretty funny little gem of entertainment i found on the official forums, which was banned short after it was published. And since the topic was naming and shaming Argonauts, i felt an urge to write something about it here :).

A member of BotGC witnessed a few Argonauts exploiting the PvP-EXP in Keshetta the other day, and as they didn't seem to care about what people thought, they were talking openly about it in /say. Unfortunetly, the pictures and the vids of this was removed from the official forums before i got my hands on them (if anyone could send them to me i'll gladly publish it all here).

So, some Argonauts used the flawes of the PvP-EXP system, does it really matter and who cares? I wouldn't make much of a fuss about it, unless it involved one of the bst Bear Shamen on this server which i held in great respect; Theli. From my point of view, he is just another lamer now, trying to reach PvP level 4 before anyone else so he can 000wnZZ-L33T-M0DE in duels. I will immidietly stop duelling him, as i have done with other cheaters. It's a damn shame, he was really good.

Next time you gonna leech PvP-EXP, do it somewhere else than Keshetta, and don't use /say :). But im sure Argonauts doesn't care... ;)

Happy birthday Kruella!

Today, Kruella turns 28 years old! I don't know how many years that is in Stygian years, probably 287 or something, though Kruellas sexy arse doesn't look a day over 20.

So how will i celebrate this remarkable day? Slay a few Celestials, hunt down and mock Theli in tells or hope for some nice T3-loot courtsey of Funcom?

Nah, i will celebrate it offline with beer and cake!

The incentive to log on grows smaller...

I can't help to feel that the interest for AoC is growing smaller :(. It's basiclly the same story each day; you log on, find yourself in Keshetta after a few minutes, where you duel the same people over and over and you get killed by the same zerg. It's fun for about an hour, after you gotten 4-5 tells about how OP necromancers are, and that Grip of Death should be banned from the game. It's just boring.

There's a few entertaining parts left in this game, but they are getting really old and dusty as well;

The raids: sure it can be fun to crawl trhough the Kylikki instance in record time, however these types of raids are really lacking surprises and demand of skill so you can do it in your sleep. BRC is probably the most fun so far, and Wing 1 still is a challenge, but since you only can do it once a week there isn't really that much of a dungeon crawl. Wing 2 is way too bugged, 3 tries at the poison-boss and then you have to reset the instance, damn boring.

The grind: even though i probably would enjoy another character to grind, i really cba to level another character to 80.

The PvP: well, since it's ZERG or DIE in this game nowdays, there isn't much to do regarding the PvP.

That being said, i really hope that the next patch will bring some major updates making me eager to log on again. Now it's more out of old habit than anything else.

How many Celestials does it take to kill a Kruella?

Answer: 3-4 of them.

Yesterday, me and a few Condemned and Exalted had some very nice fights with mainly Celestials outside of Keshetta City. It was as even as i could get i guess, 8 vs 10 or so. The best part was the sneakattacks which both sides managed to pull off several times (ress and sneak the Onyx-way). I was actually thinking that Celestial are an honourable bunch of people, liking to fight with even odds where they (read: The Empire) usually zerg you to death.

Short after (when the ineviteble zerg began) i headed for the duel area for some PvP. But as soon as i started to queue for duels, several Celestials popped out of stealth and killed me. I ressed, stealthed and was heading back to the area when 3 of the Celestials had me on track and killed me. This happened several times, and it got quite frustrating. Celestial tried to take me on alone, but failed miserably over and over. Any Celestials who would like to prove me wrong, please contact me for a private duel.

The reason for this stalking is actually this blog, according to Henker who said something like "From Russia with love, right?" as he referred to a post made by me here earlier.

So the blog has provoked reactions from Celestial, and my "I WIN!" button is pressed down :). Keep it up Celestial!

Ahazu-Zagam dead!

Ahazu-Zagam, a.k.a. the poison boss of BRC Wing 2, fell yesterday on the first try when me and Arigold of NK joined the finnish forces of Band of the Grey Clover. Where Nova Krepusko failed, BotGC was victorious mostly due to finnish sisu and a very solid tank (Ashurst).
NK has had problems with the aggro management mostly, where hungry DPS-classes has unloaded their arsenal resulting in a room filled with poison and lots of dead people.

All in all it went very smooth and two PoM wrists dropped.

We moved on to the next bosses, Incubus and Succubus, had a few unsuccessful tries before we ended the raid. It seemed to me as these two bosses are very easy, once you figure it out.

It's all about The Oasis

Im getting quite pissed and bored with the post 80 content of this game. When i log on, i always turn up in the Keshetta Oasis for PvP, as PvP is what i really enjoy about AoC. However, i feel that the game right now is all about this god damn Oasis which no one seems to be able to leave. Sure, it's fun for an hour or so, to kill someone, get killed, ress, kill, get killed and so on. But thats about as far as the open world PvP reaches.
On rare occasions, you can have fun, somewhaqt even battles between an equal 6-10 players. But it's always ruined by the zergs who takes all the fun out of the PvP by massing in numbers making it boring/impossible to leave the guarded area.

What this game needs is more viable options for world-PvP, free from guards and zerg-tactics. I really doubt it will happen though, especially since the number of alliances and NAP's seem to grow larger by each day.

Back!

As i have been celebrating x-mas and new years IRL (new years on the hospital, in fact :)), the blog has been out of updates. But now that im back i will start writing again.

I have been getting some critique on the content of this blog, that it's too much gossip and too little information about stuff such as end-game etc. Even though my intention is to write more about the people and the happenings on the server (which some interprets as gosspi) i will try to document raids etc better this year :).

But first off; a MMO-serverfirst for me. I have never gotten an IRL-threat in an MMO-before, until today. Player Kimaro (alt. Pooko) of Argonauts (formerly Nova Krepusko, until he got kicked out) went psycho on me and on Nova Krepusko, first in global:



It translates: "i feel honoured being attacked by Nova Krepuskos whole guild, that they are not better hahahah... Fucking loosers". Thats one of many caps-locked idiocies he ranted on about for an hour.

Then he started sending me numerous of tells:



It translates: "If this would have been real you would have been so fucking dead, fucking bitch, fucking stockholm-faggot". After that he said that if i came to his hometown he would kill me, and later on he said he would look me up and come bash my skull in :).

So what to do about this? Petition it? Not sure how Funcom deals with threats etc made in swedish, but they are norwegian so i guess they will understand.

Anyway, if you see this guy Kimaro/Pooko, kill him. I will ^^.