New Faces

Over the weekend, while staying bundled up inside out of the -40 degree windchill, I made the decision to switch guilds in Warhammer Online.  It wasn’t a decision made lightly, because I do have some really good friends in The Phoenix Guard.  What ultimately made me do it, though, was just the fact that I wasn’t having fun.  They have a much different mindset on the game than I do.  For one, I am focussed on playing the game where I’m at and not rushing to get to the end.  It was depressing to never have anyone at my level to play with because they were all sitting at the end.

So on Friday morning, I let them know that my wife and I would be leaving, and then struck out to find a new guild.  The place I came upon is The Tome Raiders.  I had heard about them through fellow blogger Syp of Waaagh! fame, and so far they’ve been a lot of fun to hang out with.  They are a much more casual guild with only a few characters at level 40.  That said, they are well organized and really work together to have fun.  It’s been a blast so far, and I’m really looking forward to playing with them more in the future.

Weekend Update

I did a little of everything this weekend.

I played a lot of Warhammer Online as always and managed to pick up another rank and a renown rank.  The renown rank was nice, as now I can wear the full Devastator set that I have.  I also managed to help my wife get to 30 and started doing some Tier 4 stuff with her.  The bad thing is that her computer lags badly in some of the T4 scenarios, which is weird since she didn’t have much problems in open RvR stuff with lots of players.

The rest of the weekend was spent playing with my son, making some Christmas presents with him and trying to get back into painting my Warhammer 40k figures.  Having a 2.5-year-old around makes that much more difficult as he wants to help.  I did give him a brush and a figure to paint, so now I have a very beautiful green/blue Necron warrior and a pink/black Dark Eldar.  I wasn’t able to get much done, but I was at least able to get some stuff started.

Back to the tabletop

I haven’t touched my Warhammer 40k minis in almost a year now.  It just happens that with only two of us in the area that play we only play during the winter months.  Those are quickly approaching, so I figured I’d break them out and try to get a few of the incomplete models I had into some semblance of order.  Last night I was able to get a War Walker put together, and then I based the walker, Farseer, Troupe Master, and the Bone Singer.  Now I just need to prime them and get ready to paint them.

As far as things that need to get done with my army, here’s a list of things I know I need to finish for my Eldar army.

• Jetbike (primed and ready to be painted)
• Viper (primed and ready to be painted)
• 3 Dire Avengers (primed and ready to be painted)
• 2 Harlequins (primed and ready to be painted)
• Shadowseer (primed and ready to be painted)
• War Walker (needs another scatter laser and to be primed)
• Farseer (needs to be primed)
• Troupe Master (needs to be primed)
• Bone Singer (needs to be primed, not needed for army)
• 5 pieces of Wraith Bone landscape (needs to be painted)

Paid Powerleveling

I have recently found out that a couple people in my Warhammer online guild used various paid powerleveling services to get their characters to level 40.  Now I’m not usually one to judge, but I could never endorse that kind of thing personally, and I’m really disappointed that they felt it was necessary.

Apparently the reasons had to do with his computer being out of order and he didn’t want to get stuck behind all of the rest of the guild when he came back, which is understandable, but with the ease of leveling in the game and the fact that there are quite a few of use with alts or characters that aren’t at the cap yet, it just doesn’t seem necessary.

Honestly if it weren’t for the fact that my friends are in this guild (and they actually played their characters to 40), I would be very tempted to leave.

Goals Accomplished

Because of some questions and encouragement from my Warhammer Online guild (The Phoenix Guard), I had made myself a goal of getting Tinius to at least 30 by the end of last week.  I had been slacking on his progress because of Knob and Fallout 3.  Since my wife’s character was close enough in levels to play with Tinius, though, we were able to play together and we managed to play through the last parts of the Tier 3 human and dwarf content.  Between that and plenty of RvR, Tinius is now half way through level 31, and has also picked up the three of the pieces for the Devastator set.  I need to reach Renown Rank 26 to wear it all, and I’m about halfway through 24, so I need to work on that a bit more.

In other news, I was able to put up the Christmas lights on our house and only had a few sections of non-working lights that I need to take care of.  I had a wonderful time with my wife’s family on Thanksgiving.  There was some worries about excessive drama, but it turned out to be pretty calm and fun.  On Black Friday, we avoided the busy stores and just went to the specialty shops.  The comic shop was having a buy 2 get 1 free sale, so I picked up a couple new games to play with friends.

Overall, it was a very successful week at least in gaming terms.  I hope to get a bit more done around the house over Christmas, especially dealing with finishing up our bathroom that has been in work for about 2 years now.