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Guild Wars: Nightfall Philippine Launch
Haven’t posted since last Thursday. Why? Nightfall Worldwide Release! In the Philippines, the game was launched in Game Frog in Metrowalk, Ortigas at 20:00 last Friday, 10/27 (the same day as the global launch). I showed up, not intending to buy the game, as I was planning on getting the Collector’s Edition with the help of my SO.
While waiting around for the event, I ran into an old acquaintance from college. I mentioned that I was planning on getting the CE version, and he mentioned that he thought about the same thing too, but decided against it. He reminded me that in the Prophecies CE, players had an aura. Aside from the “making of DVD” and the art books, the only bonus is the unique dance. Now, Since I don’t see myself dancing a lot, it made me realize that waiting for something like an aura would be of better value. Given this, I decided to get the game already, and I got it at a small discount, with a free shirt, an ID strap, and a ball pen to boot. 
Ergo, no time to post! Too busy preparing to save Elona! 
Initial 2006.10/25 Patch Comments
The complete patch ain’t done yet, but enough has been downloaded for me to play. Here are some initial comments.
I wasn’t able to maximize being able to place the henchmen yet. I didn’t do anything complicated for me to need it, but I should be useful if I decide to do harder tasks on my own.
The skill template is an absolute blast! I already configured some of my more common templates for my Ele and Rit, and I noticed that I had a lot more configurations for my Rit. My Rit is really flexible, he can spike, he can support, he can be a Minion Bomber, and he can go Resto. I’ll definitely move my Rit along in Prophecies, the same way my Ele is moving along if Factions.
One of the configurations I’m trying with my Rit is to maximize the Channeling/spiking capabilities. I noticed that my energy management was a tad off, I guess I got so used to the large energy capacity from my Ele that I forget that not all casters have that much energy. Given this, I’m gonna consider putting put some energy management tweaks to some builds.
I’ll keep y’all posted.
Tags: Guild Wars2006.10/25 Guild Wars Patch
Just because I haven’t played Guild Wars all day doesn’t mean that I won’t play it all day ;). Apparently, they have a HUGE patch today, I I’ll just let the patch download while I bum around. (If I knew this earlier, I would’ve activated the patch downloading earlier, particularly during lunch, oh well).
Among the more significant changes:
- Preparation for the Halloween events (this will be temporary, though)
- Skill and Equipment templates (this will go a long way in switching modes)
- Equipment balance changes (20% recharge now affects all spells, not just a specific attribute!)
- Henchmen controls and updated AI
- Skill balance changes (of big note to me personally are changes to Assassins and Elementalists)
Strangely, any skill changes to Ritualists were not mentioned (maybe there weren’t any?).
Now, I’ll just relax and let the patch download a while.
See you in Tyria!
Lazy Day (just the way I like it!)
Can you believe that it’s already the afternoon and I haven’t played any Guild Wars at all yet?! Well, after defeating the Lich and Shiro, I do need a little breather.
Most of the morning, I spent on non-game related activities, as well as a little Triplejack Poker on the side. Funny thing is, I’m learning a lot about myself as I observe how I play, and how my goals change when I play. I think these small realizations will pay off in the future somehow.
After another post, I’ll just sit back and read, perhaps I can pull off finishing “Flags of Our Fathers” before the movie comes out in the Philippines.
No tags for this post.Upcomming Events (2006.10/26)
- (2006.10/25) release of Firefox v2.0
- already available
- (2006.10/27) release of Guild Wars: Nightfall
- Guild Wars: Nightfall event at GameFrog in Metrowalk, 20:00 PH time (8pm to non-military time folks)
- (next week?) Flags of Our Fathers movie (directed by Clint Eastwood
- I haven’t finished the book yet! If it does come out next week, I don’t have enough time!
MS Publisher
My SO called me up while my dad and I were finishing-up on car’s tune-up. Apparently, she was having trouble doing some layout parts in MS Publisher, which I didn’t have and never used.
After the tune-up, and lunch, I went back home and did some research and finally figured out what she was trying to do. Afterwards, I tried to discuss with her on how to do it. It was rather confusing, not because what she was trying to do was all that hard, but because I didn’t know anything about MS Publisher.
My only background in print and publishing software was NewsMaster (and those old greeting card making software), and very little PageMaker. After PageMaker, I had very little idea on how publishing software evolved. I did hear that the in-thing to use was Adobe InHouse, and I knew that MS Publisher was a similar product, but that’s it. Apparently, my SO was having trouble ‘coz she was used to using an old version of MS Publisher, and the new version handled what she wanted to do differently.
Based on my research, things seemed pretty consistent with similar layout options in MS Word and such, but I guess the old Publisher was quite different. Given this, I’d probably struggle myself if I used the old version.
Now, if only I could start figuring out Adobe Photoshop…
No tags for this post.Have a Good… err… 2006.10/26 Day Without Work?
I heard that today is a holiday due to “Ramadan”, so I was looking for the official declaration so I won’t get things wrong and inadvertently offend some people. Unfortunately, I’m confused. From what I gather, Ramadan ended last Sunday in the Philippines, and today is Eid’l Fitr (Feast of Charity). I’ll just refer to that Inq7.net article for whatever the official reasons for today is.
Regardless if you’re Muslim or not, I hope today goes well.
As a side note, “Ramadan” keeps reminding me of the very first Sandman (by Neil Gaiman) comic I read. I think I was in high school, and the issue was Sandman #50, the story entitled Ramadan (reprinted in “The Sandman: Fables and Reflections“. A great story, though I wouldn’t be reading Sandman until I started working.
No tags for this post.Triplejack Poker Day
My SO is out with some friends today, so I’m spendin’ most of this Saturday by myself. I just finished Prophecies yesterday, I think, so I’m in the mood for something else. Yes, I know that this weekend is the Dragon Festival at Shing Jea Monestary, and I did drop by for the festivities for a while, but most of this afternoon was spent at Triplejack Poker.
I mentioned before that I’ve been playing it a while, and as much as I run into a lot of Filipinos, I do want to play with pals from time to time. I ran into some of my former officemates in IM, and managed to convince some of them to try it out. Some didn’t know how to play poker, which actually makes Triplejack Poker a great place to start learning, particularly since you can play without losing real money.
I tried to create a private table, but either my free membership doesn’t have that feature, or that feature hasn’t been done yet (most probably the former), so I just made the smallest table possible and hoped nobody but my pals would play while we went through things slowly. Of course, you can’t stop others from butting in, and there was one spammer who was annoying, but otherwise, things went well. I’ll run into more pals next time.
If ya wanna check it out, please click here ‘Triplejack Poker‘ or the other referral links in this blog (if I refer people to join, maybe I’ll get some perks… maybe…).
See yaz at the poker tables!
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