Good Morning Folks. I’ve now made it through the Black Star, and am working on unlocking both the Searing Exarch and Eater of Worlds fights. I have to admit I have a little bit of hesitancy around both, given how hard it was to get through Infinite Hunger and now Black Star. I am just not used to playing characters that fall down if you look at them crossways. I am not sure what else I can do in my current build trajectory that would improve my survival without also losing a lot of killing power. Again I went into this knowing that I was going to be playing a map blaster, and it does that beautifully… but bossing on it is a bit of a pain in the butt. Just like Infinite Hunger I managed to down the encounter with a single portal left, so the “six-portal defense” was definitely a thing.
I’ve never quite played a build like this before where I either completely clear the entire screen… or get one shot. I’m able to wreck red maps in pretty much the same way as I could wreck white and yellow maps… but every now and then there is a single mob that just ruins my day. Mostly the challenge now is to get red maps that have doable negatives by the time I have corrupted it in order to get credit. While I am clearing, everything is peachy. When I have to stop and fight a tanky mob or a boss… things begin to get considerably more dicey.
That said I have made one heck of a lot of progress and am sitting at 68 bonus objectives out of 115, and I just got a Unique Moon Temple drop that will give me yet another point to spend. I think the challenge that I am running into is always before my map blasters were a secondary project. Now it is all I currently have and it is making me miss my super tanky Righteous Fire Juggernaut a bit. I miss being able to do heist and delve with impunity… but again I also knew what I was getting myself in for. I have a pretty thick stash of essences and am almost done unlocking what I need to run Beasts. The truth though is that I have been spending almost all of my time unlocking new maps, and not really a lot of it reaping the benefit of having such a brutal killing machine. Maybe I should pause my progression a bit to remember what I built this character for actually.
That said I did start a Righteous Fire Juggernaut, and I have to say… it is weird how much slower the character is than I remember it being. I am a bit concerned that the pace of my Lightning Arrow Raider will have adversely impacted my opinion of my old standby. That said I am only in Act 3 and have a lot of points to sink into the tree until it starts to feel amazing. However, I am shocked at how easy it was to get Righteous Fire and pretty much all of the other abilities I use in the endgame version, up and running by around level 20. I am kinda of wondering about going straight for the pseudo-six-link helm for Righteous Fire rather than bothering with the six-link chest. In theory, you are supposed to pivot to that setup eventually, but I have never gone through the hassle on my previous RF characters. By the time I get there, I should have the cash to buy a good helm and then shop for a proper RRRGGG chest instead of the traditional RF BBBRRG.
I did not make it super far yesterday, because I spent a good chunk of the night watching the back-to-back episodes of the new Disney Plus Ahsoka series. Now Ahsoka Tano is probably one of my favorite Star Wars characters, and I am a huge fan of Rosario Dawson. I think she brings a lot to the character and I enjoyed her story arc mingled in amongst the Mandalorian seasons. All in all, I was not disappointed in the show and loved the way it felt. It definitely felt like they pulled out the stops for this one and the cinematography was excellent.
My only complaint… something is just not right with Hera. I don’t necessarily think that Mary Elizabeth Winstead did a bad job playing her. It is more that something is off with the makeup. Like the shade of skin tone seems wrong, and it feels way more like a human in facepaint with rubber lekku than an actual Twi’lek. It makes me wonder if there just was not enough time to go back and fix this in the post. Thankfully most of the time we are just seeing Hera in Hologram form where it isn’t really that big of a deal but it was jarring. Maybe this is just a me thing, and because Hera was another favorite character of mine… but it was this weird offputting moment in an otherwise phenomenal show.
Overall though I am definitely looking forward to seeing more of this show. We also got a new Guild Wars 2 expansion yesterday, but unfortunately with everything else going on I did not make it much further than seeing that the launcher had updated. I really dig the color scheme this time around. The End of Dragons patcher was nice, but this one seems much cooler. Maybe I am just partial to the color purple. Anyway, I think I am going to stop typing now. Hopefully, you are having an excellent week.
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Not shocking to anyone, I spent a good chunk of my evening messing around on Disney Plus, the latest streaming service vying for some of our monthly budget. The reason of course is due to a single show, at least for now. The Mandalorian was in fact enough to get me to subscribe just to watch the first episode, that and a deal that they were running a few months back where you could get a year of the service for somewhere in the ballpark of $60. That was enough to get me to jump on board ahead of time, and I am happy to report that I am not ashamed of this action thanks to having watched the first episode.
I am purposefully swiping screenshots from the trailers that were released because firstly it is easier to do and secondly I don’t want to give anything away. The show so far is very much like a Clint Eastwood style western set in the Star Wars Universe. I am curious to find out some of the back story as this show is set between the fall of the empire and the rise of the new order. It was always my understanding that much like the Empire hunted down the Jedi… they also more or less decimated what was left of the Mandalorian clans. So I find it really interesting to see what appears to be the remnants of the clan alive and well. That said a lot of the lore surrounding the Mandalorians is apocryphal thanks to the whole tossing out of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
I greatly enjoyed this first episode… and am now looking forward to Friday when the next one drops. I wish I could have binged through the entire thing in a single evening, but this is probably much smarter for Disney as a whole given that they can string us along with the Mandalorian while waiting on the various Marvel shows to drop. I personally wound up spending my evening watching Star Wars Resistance after finishing the episode because it was a show that I had never actually watched any of. There is enough meat on the bones of Disney Plus to entertain me for awhile, because even if I watch through the back catalog of all things Star Wars… there are a bunch of Disney things like Phineas and Ferb that I have only watched a handful of episodes of. There is also the entirety of Gravity Falls on the service, another show i have caught the occasional episode but would love to start from the beginning.
In other news I finished up the Lumina weapon quest chain in Destiny 2 and it ends fairly abruptly with you just getting the Hand Cannon at the end of completing the final objective. I am annoyed as hell that it dropped at 948 instead of 950, but that seems to be the case when you finish a quest chain. Weirdly I had been putting off on this quest until the other night I was randoming my way into strikes and happened to kill Xol and notice that I got credit marked off the quest. I had originally read that you had to complete the quest in a single go, but it seems like that only pertains to each objective. I queued specifically for Will of the Thousands, killed 11 crystals and got the weapon dropped in my inventory mid strike.
Now I just need to wrangle some time to play when other people I know are on and go run the strike required for the completion of Thorn. I’ve not been willing to risk it since I seem to die an awful lot to the final boss of Savathun’s Song, it would be nice to at least have another person so that we don’t instantly fail when one of us dies.
Not shocking to anyone, I spent a good chunk of my evening messing around on Disney Plus, the latest streaming service vying for some of our monthly budget. The reason of course is due to a single show, at least for now. The Mandalorian was in fact enough to get me to subscribe just to watch the first episode, that and a deal that they were running a few months back where you could get a year of the service for somewhere in the ballpark of $60. That was enough to get me to jump on board ahead of time, and I am happy to report that I am not ashamed of this action thanks to having watched the first episode.
I am purposefully swiping screenshots from the trailers that were released because firstly it is easier to do and secondly I don’t want to give anything away. The show so far is very much like a Clint Eastwood style western set in the Star Wars Universe. I am curious to find out some of the back story as this show is set between the fall of the empire and the rise of the new order. It was always my understanding that much like the Empire hunted down the Jedi… they also more or less decimated what was left of the Mandalorian clans. So I find it really interesting to see what appears to be the remnants of the clan alive and well. That said a lot of the lore surrounding the Mandalorians is apocryphal thanks to the whole tossing out of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
I greatly enjoyed this first episode… and am now looking forward to Friday when the next one drops. I wish I could have binged through the entire thing in a single evening, but this is probably much smarter for Disney as a whole given that they can string us along with the Mandalorian while waiting on the various Marvel shows to drop. I personally wound up spending my evening watching Star Wars Resistance after finishing the episode because it was a show that I had never actually watched any of. There is enough meat on the bones of Disney Plus to entertain me for awhile, because even if I watch through the back catalog of all things Star Wars… there are a bunch of Disney things like Phineas and Ferb that I have only watched a handful of episodes of. There is also the entirety of Gravity Falls on the service, another show i have caught the occasional episode but would love to start from the beginning.
In other news I finished up the Lumina weapon quest chain in Destiny 2 and it ends fairly abruptly with you just getting the Hand Cannon at the end of completing the final objective. I am annoyed as hell that it dropped at 948 instead of 950, but that seems to be the case when you finish a quest chain. Weirdly I had been putting off on this quest until the other night I was randoming my way into strikes and happened to kill Xol and notice that I got credit marked off the quest. I had originally read that you had to complete the quest in a single go, but it seems like that only pertains to each objective. I queued specifically for Will of the Thousands, killed 11 crystals and got the weapon dropped in my inventory mid strike.
Now I just need to wrangle some time to play when other people I know are on and go run the strike required for the completion of Thorn. I’ve not been willing to risk it since I seem to die an awful lot to the final boss of Savathun’s Song, it would be nice to at least have another person so that we don’t instantly fail when one of us dies.
Not shocking to anyone, I spent a good chunk of my evening messing around on Disney Plus, the latest streaming service vying for some of our monthly budget. The reason of course is due to a single show, at least for now. The Mandalorian was in fact enough to get me to subscribe just to watch the first episode, that and a deal that they were running a few months back where you could get a year of the service for somewhere in the ballpark of $60. That was enough to get me to jump on board ahead of time, and I am happy to report that I am not ashamed of this action thanks to having watched the first episode.
I am purposefully swiping screenshots from the trailers that were released because firstly it is easier to do and secondly I don’t want to give anything away. The show so far is very much like a Clint Eastwood style western set in the Star Wars Universe. I am curious to find out some of the back story as this show is set between the fall of the empire and the rise of the new order. It was always my understanding that much like the Empire hunted down the Jedi… they also more or less decimated what was left of the Mandalorian clans. So I find it really interesting to see what appears to be the remnants of the clan alive and well. That said a lot of the lore surrounding the Mandalorians is apocryphal thanks to the whole tossing out of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
I greatly enjoyed this first episode… and am now looking forward to Friday when the next one drops. I wish I could have binged through the entire thing in a single evening, but this is probably much smarter for Disney as a whole given that they can string us along with the Mandalorian while waiting on the various Marvel shows to drop. I personally wound up spending my evening watching Star Wars Resistance after finishing the episode because it was a show that I had never actually watched any of. There is enough meat on the bones of Disney Plus to entertain me for awhile, because even if I watch through the back catalog of all things Star Wars… there are a bunch of Disney things like Phineas and Ferb that I have only watched a handful of episodes of. There is also the entirety of Gravity Falls on the service, another show i have caught the occasional episode but would love to start from the beginning.
In other news I finished up the Lumina weapon quest chain in Destiny 2 and it ends fairly abruptly with you just getting the Hand Cannon at the end of completing the final objective. I am annoyed as hell that it dropped at 948 instead of 950, but that seems to be the case when you finish a quest chain. Weirdly I had been putting off on this quest until the other night I was randoming my way into strikes and happened to kill Xol and notice that I got credit marked off the quest. I had originally read that you had to complete the quest in a single go, but it seems like that only pertains to each objective. I queued specifically for Will of the Thousands, killed 11 crystals and got the weapon dropped in my inventory mid strike.
Now I just need to wrangle some time to play when other people I know are on and go run the strike required for the completion of Thorn. I’ve not been willing to risk it since I seem to die an awful lot to the final boss of Savathun’s Song, it would be nice to at least have another person so that we don’t instantly fail when one of us dies.
