Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2

Apparently, Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 came out in Japan. While my 日本語 is still extremely bad, I'm gonna get myself a copy from Play-Asia.com. This game had me drooling for a long time since I found out about it and seen videos of its content and battle system. Plus, original Japanese voices are the best! Well, usually. Anyways, once I get a copy, I'll most likely be glued to it even though I have no idea what's going on! I could sometimes make out what's being said but written dialogues are the killer. In other words, I can understand some Japanese vocally, but almost zero percent in kanji. Anyways, I can't freakin' wait!

On another topic, I quit World of Warcraft for the time being because it's so damn boring. I guess that's why I stopped playing MMORPGs before (WoW, FFXI, and others). I don't even know why I came back. I satisfied my tanking cravings. The game is also lacking so much. I wish they would bring back all the old instance to life. Make heroic version for EVERY instance. I miss the 40 man raids back in vanilla WoW.

WoW 3.0.8 Patch arrives!

It finally arrives! The long-awaited patch. As a druid, I do love this patch. I'm not gonna list what changes happened in the patch. You can look it up if you want to, but it's also listed when the update has been downloaded and patch installation is being applied.

Druid update



I actually dinged 80 less than a week ago, I think. As you can see, during my last 250k to level up, I colored the entire Northrend map for experience hoping it would be enough to ding me. It left me with 40k to level and an "Explore Northrend" achievementl! I did a couple of quests after that in Zul'drak to get my level. Shortly after that, a friend of mine started to form heroic runs to gear me. He also brought another friend of his. Both of them were very good geared. Holy Paladin and a Boomkin. With the Boomkin geared and skilled, it made up for my lack of dps. I was in cat form with bear tanking talents and no kitty talents. Eventually, I am now decently geared and have been tanking heroic. Here's my armory link at the moment, although sometimes I would log out in my crappy kitty dps gear. I still have a few pieces left to get from other heroics that just won't drop. I also need to get my alchemy up to make up for me not having Jewelcrafting and Leatherworking for the extra stamina buff they provide.

I'm still new with the instances so I'm still getting used to the boss fights, but most of them are pretty easy. Actually, they are all easy. During my first boss encounters, my friend would whisper me general knowledge about the boss and I'd be quick enough to catch on. This was during our first boss encounters. The only thing that makes the boss fights harder is when the rest of your group don't co-operate and/or do not know the fight themselves.

Anyways, hopefully I'd be able to get the rest of the gear I need and start learning raid dungeons. On another note, I've been soloing old contents like Ogri'la prequest bosses and other instances like Onyxia's Lair. It's really fun, I love druids!



3.0.8 Patch

When I logged on earlier, first thing I did was switch to bear form to see how much armor the patch gave me. I was expecting to gain a few Ks but what I got was ginormous! My armor went from barely 20k to a whopping 30k! Tanking Heroics now became so much easier. I can even pug (pick-up group) them now. Aside from that, the game also introduced a butt load of bugs. Our Heroic UP run for daily came to a halt when the 3rd boss bugged out. But I'm still very happy with the patch!

Wrath Gate & Battle for the Undercity - EPIC!

While I was continuing to quest in Dragonblight, eventually I stumbled upon a quest that lead to a cinematic cutscene. If you're wondering what the cutscene was like, here's a youtube link. My jaw dropped when I first saw this. I just had to see it for the second time. It does give you an option in-game to see it again if you talk to Alexstrasza. WoW never really had any in-game cutscenes like Final Fantasy XI did so I was very surprised. It was so epic the first time that it gave me goosebumps.



I also took a lot of screenshots during the Battle for the Undercity but most of them didn't turn out good because my computer sucks, lol. But here's a couple at the beginning. I was disappointed to find Varimathras betray the Horde, I really like him. He's cool and awesome looking. Now they say once you finish that quest, you'll never see him in the regular Undercity anymore. SHAME! Anyways, being able to fight alongside Thrall, Lady Sylvanas and Vol'jin for 15 minutes was just incredible.

My Druid

Well, since I'm not playing Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology anymore or any PSP game at the moment, I decided to get back at WoW after a couple of weeks of vacation. I came back to a fully rested character so I was able to level pretty quickly.

Anyways, to summarize everything, I was able to level VERY QUICKLY. I actually purchased a paid addon called Carbonite, and this is my secret to levelling extremely fast. I'm now 78.8 and I was 71 a week and a half ago. I was able to complete quest achievements in each zone I've been through because of it. It gives you markers, right on the map, where the quest givers are so you know where to go get quests. As well as where to go like QuestHelper. But I like QuestHelper's way of calculating the best route to take to be the most efficient. Carbonite doesn't have that.

My love for my druid grows for each hour I spend levelling it. I'm able to tank, which I've always wanted to do for a LONG time. Previously wanted Warrior (which I still don't have) because I've always wanted to look cool with sword and shield in hand and awesomely geared armor. But Druid is just fine, while I may not look good when I tank, I can still tank. Also being able to solo a lot of things like Elites for quests is just awesome. My most recent accomplishment for this is my favorite at the moment.



The quest "Reclusive Runemaster" in Dragonblight. Sure some other people have also soloed it at lower levels, but their gear are all from 70 Outland raids that they used to do like T6. Mine are junk straight from Northrend quests with no enchants or gems! Some from instances.

So anyways, since I am almost 80 now, I have to start finding out what gear I need for pre-heroic. I hope I'll have a lot of fun doing them. If anyone is still wondering, my character name is Pyrewulf from Lightning's Blade server.

To end this post, here's my user interface look. I joined a pug Old Kingdom group last night and my dps sucks bad! But it's decent since I'm tank spec and doesn't have the kitty talents. And I'm not like those people who enchants and gems the gear they use for levelling even from outlands, LOL. I laugh at those people. They wanna be cool and waste money so they can top dps charts in levelling dungeons. Well, I didn't spend a single gold while levelling since outlands and I got my Artisan Riding skill, Cold Weather Flying, and Swift Flight Form at 77. So good job people! Waste more money on stuff you'll replace shortly. On a side note, I'm still in Dragonblight and I'm 78.8, but moving on to Grizzly Hills soon. 3 zones clear in Northrend so far.

Content thieves!

This is really interesting and blew my mind. An hour after I published my previous post, it was copied and posted elsewhere in their own blog claiming as their own original post.

I woke up earlier and checked my blog for comments among other things. I decided, I'll google "yamiLuceid" and see what comes up. Of course I saw my blog and other things that I am familiar with. But there was this one site that came up. It was completely unknown! The blog title was "Cruelty Of Terrorism" and it had my unalternate post that I made a few hours ago. So why would a blog about terrorism have a topic about Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology? I don't know if this blogger just copies random website contents from others and post it as his own. But he did have other crap about politics which I have absolutely no interest in. It's just so funny how all of a sudden, he had pictures of anime and game stuff in his blog.



Anyways, I sent him a comment to take it down or provide a link to my blog instead. I also took a full screenshot of the copied content on his website. Now I have to do extra work when posting. I now watermark my screenshots that I upload in my photobucket account. And I think I'll have to make a Copyright page too. Sigh, why do people do this? It's so much easier to just provide a link to the source than to steal the entire content all together.

Until RM2!

Late post about this as I have already done what I'm about to talk about weeks ago.



I did beat Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology finally. Final boss Widdershin still packs a massive punch even after being quite overly-leveled. But I suppose I was technically NOT over-leveled as the boss was still 15ish levels above me!



(That's Swordsman's Dark Blade Mystic Arte.) Backtracking a bit, I was kinda surprised to see Kanonno fight me. But I will not hold that against her. I think she's a great character and really cute. And her background is very sad. I'm glad she'll be playable in Radiant Mythology 2. Mormo, on the other hand, was just extremely annoying 95% of the time!



Like hell! How in the world is he supposed to do that? Since the beginning of the game, all he's done is talk very annoyingly. He hasn't done any fighting or assisting! It was ME who did ALL the work! I sure hope the "new" Mormo in RM2 won't be as annoying. It's a female version this time.

Anyways, I have restarted the game again. I basically plowed through the main story again in Hard mode. Finishing at high levels during the first playthrough, Hard mode wasn't that difficult. I was scanning every monster in the game and the bosses that I forgot to scan are now in my Enemy Book list. I'm just missing the other Radiant bosses.



This shot, I tested how hard "Very Hard mode" is. I was hitting for 2 digits normal attacks and very weak Arte attacks as shown. That battle took about 5 minutes to beat and almost made me run out of healing items as I wasn't stocked up. It was also hitting me for 1.5k per hit. I was doing the Swordsman's infinite combo here. The other is just one of the bosses during the main story.



The ending wasn't anything special. But it was kinda sad that they all part ways afterwards. But I got one message for Mormo if he wants to tag along with me again...

On a side note, I got all the Ninja Radiants as well. And if you're wondering about the looks I posted the pic together with the Fighter Radiant set that I skipped.

I don't think I wanna play this any more. Level 250 seems too much time to devote. Plus after seeing how RM2 is going to be like, I just can't play this anymore! I'm definitely buying it import if it doesn't come out in North America. And if the NA version doesn't have JP voice included, I'm gonna buy import!

To end this post and this wonderful game once and for all, let's take a look one more time at its beautiful intro movie. Until Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2! (US version)

Save the Vowels!

http://carocat.co.uk/2006/12/07/save-the-vowels-my-view/

This is possibly very old, but I will post it anyway. I fully support this. I know sometimes/from time to time, I would use an acronym but it would always be one of the "most used" or "general" ones. For example, lol, afk, brb, btw (by the way), fyi (for your information), atm (at the moment), imo/imho (in my humble opinion). And I do it very rarely!

So please type out your words people! "sry" or "pls" or "thx" aren't words and they look stupid and make YOU look stupid. So stop using them! Also if you're texting, please enable and use Predictive Text.

I will quote something important if you're too lazy to click the above article link.

I believe that the English language is a great sounding and easy to pick up language. It uses fairly straightforward grammar and the vocabulary isn’t that big compared to other languages. Many words share the same pronounciation and it is important that they are spelled correctly to keep the meaning.

Over the recent years people have been using txt spk not just in text messages, but also elsewhere. For example on internet forums, in letters, on blogs, IM services and chat rooms.

In my opinion, these people are just lazy. They use txt spk to save themselves time and effort, yet it takes me double the time to read what they are saying. So I have to spend more time/effort, because they are lazy? I don’t think so.

Sure, another option would be to ignore what they are writing, but how exactly do you do that in a thread with several people using txt spk? I would be missing out of opinions and wouldn’t be able to reply properly.

This needs to stop and it needs to stop now, before it is too late!

I want to create the ‘Save the Vowels’ Movement! No more txt spk! Who is with me?

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