Recently I tried playing Draven and came out with only ONE conclusion. Draven is hard to play! Hard, but very rewarding for those willing to master the precision spam clicking required to catch his axes for that extra damage. I am too lazy to bother trying to master it so I will stick to other, easier carries such as Quinn, Ashe and even Vayne. His current passive which causes bleed damage on crit and a few other things, this rips through anybody that isnt prepared in a very short time. I have witnessed same level AD Carries being One Shot by a Draven Axe. His new passive will turn him from one of the most aggressive ADC's to the most Defensive. All he will need to do is catch axes and kill minions (I think) to get stacks of his passive. When he gets a kill he trades in a certain amount of his stacked passive for some extra gold. I can easily see good Draven players getting a GPM (Gold Per Minute) of greater than 700.
Also something about EVE that I've noticed. But first a short history lesson. When I joined the EVE scene the major power in the game (and the North of the galaxy) was the Northern Coalition. They fell apart due to greed mainly and were replaced by the Clusterfuck Coalition, who then ruled the North for two years. Present Day. The Clusterfuck Coalition has a weakening grip on the North and has deployed its fleets Southward to deal with a fast growing threat. Meanwhile in the East and some parts of the North a less obvious threat is brewing and if nothing is done. The Cycle will continue, the old coalition will be deposed and a new will rise in its place only to fall eventually and so on. I call it; "The Cycle of Dominion".
-Xalaram
Sunday 30 June 2013
Saturday 29 June 2013
Cube World, and Smurfing in general
If you haven't heard of Cube World but have heard of Minecraft, go google that right now! It has the same limitless potential that Minecraft does, except more RPG focused. Sort of like a 3D Terraria without too much focus on the building. It's in Closed Alpha at the moment and it has some very nice features already, such as; Visually customizable weapons and when you add on to an item it gains more stats, alot of tameable mobs some of which are mountable, climbing/hang gliding and sailing/swimming. It has the same random terrain generation as Minecraft, which makes for a new adventure over every hill. If you like Minecraft and Terraria, you will more than likely love Cube World.
Since relocating my main League of Legends account to the new Oceania Server, I have been forced to play with my North American friends on an alternate account. They are generally known as a Smurf or an Alt, the reasoning behind this is beyond me. Anyway, at lower levels the ratio of the density between smurfs and newbs is considerably higher. By my judgement I would say that it goes 5:2, the greater being smurf accounts until you hit around level Thirteen where it starts evening out and you get more legitimate newbies in your games. In DOTA2 they have a fix for people that use smurf accounts, and that is to put them with more skilled players the more that they win games until they are back at their usual level of skill. I could be wrong, but I don't really notice this in LoL.
-Xalaram
Since relocating my main League of Legends account to the new Oceania Server, I have been forced to play with my North American friends on an alternate account. They are generally known as a Smurf or an Alt, the reasoning behind this is beyond me. Anyway, at lower levels the ratio of the density between smurfs and newbs is considerably higher. By my judgement I would say that it goes 5:2, the greater being smurf accounts until you hit around level Thirteen where it starts evening out and you get more legitimate newbies in your games. In DOTA2 they have a fix for people that use smurf accounts, and that is to put them with more skilled players the more that they win games until they are back at their usual level of skill. I could be wrong, but I don't really notice this in LoL.
-Xalaram
Friday 28 June 2013
RWBY, LoL goes down-under and why the Vi stands for Victory
RWBY, pronounced "Ruby", but stands for "Red White Black Yellow". Four trailers, one for each of the main characters are on Youtube somewhere. The first trailer I saw was Yellow's, and I immediately fell in love with it! It has some great combat and good music to go with it. I can't wait to see the show when its actually released.
Today, the Oceania region (Australia, New Zealand etc.) got their own LoL server! And as I happen to live in Australia, I am very pleased! No more pings of 180ms+, I now sit on a stable 40ms! I started playing in earnest and after listening to Yellow's Theme Song; "i burn" I got a sudden urge to play Vi. I went solo-top against a Nunu, killed him twice (only because of his hubris) and died twice. Nunu has crazy sustain! But I ended the game with Twelve kills Five deaths and Four assists. My build before they surrendered was BotRK, Last Whisper, Berserker Greaves, Black Cleaver, Trinity Force and a Brawlers Glove. Vi has crazy crazy BPS (Burst per Second). I was killing a tanky Sion in around Five hits, a bit under Four seconds. I was getting easy 1v3 Triple Kills, and that is why (in most cases) Vi stands for Victory!!
-Xalaram
Today, the Oceania region (Australia, New Zealand etc.) got their own LoL server! And as I happen to live in Australia, I am very pleased! No more pings of 180ms+, I now sit on a stable 40ms! I started playing in earnest and after listening to Yellow's Theme Song; "i burn" I got a sudden urge to play Vi. I went solo-top against a Nunu, killed him twice (only because of his hubris) and died twice. Nunu has crazy sustain! But I ended the game with Twelve kills Five deaths and Four assists. My build before they surrendered was BotRK, Last Whisper, Berserker Greaves, Black Cleaver, Trinity Force and a Brawlers Glove. Vi has crazy crazy BPS (Burst per Second). I was killing a tanky Sion in around Five hits, a bit under Four seconds. I was getting easy 1v3 Triple Kills, and that is why (in most cases) Vi stands for Victory!!
-Xalaram
Thursday 27 June 2013
Internet Spaceships, LoL, and Neverwinter Nights!
For the past few years I have been steadily playing EVE Online and only recently have I started to seriously start training into Capital Ships, namely the Amarr Dreadnought. The Revelation. I started out as Amarr because I loved the idea of flying picturesque golden ships that fired giant beams of lasery death! They did not disappoint. About a year into my EVE Career I joined a small null-sec alliance (Pretty much a guild that lived in an area of the game where PVP is unrestricted). And about Six months after I joined, we joined the biggest coalition in the game. The CFC or Clusterfuck Coalition. During the following year or so we expanded northwards in the galaxy and at the height of its rule we (Us and Allies) owned about One Quarter of the game universe. You don't see stuff like that in any other MMO. EVE is also the only MMO where Scamming and other underhanded in-game behavior is perfectly acceptable, provided you don't RMT (Real Money Trade) you are fine. One of my friends commented that it doesn't sound like a very nice game when I mentioned that to them. I laughed, but its true. It really isn't a friendly game. The Learning Curve is a sheer cliff with people at the top throwing bombs down at you, unlike a game such as WoW. EVE Online brings out the very worst and the very best in people, that's why I love it!
Tonight I decided to go and play a game that I haven't touched in around Five months. Neverwinter Nights, the original. Sure, it's an old game but it's so good! Especially online. The most enjoyment I've ever gotten out of almost any game was had on a particular server of Neverwinter Nights. Arelith. It's a proper "Roleplay" server, and just like Pen and Paper D&D you get the opportunity to play out your characters every move, emotion and sentence. My main character is a female Half-Elf named Mana, and her body is partly living crystal. Although being a "Special Snowflake" is highly ill advised, she was my first mistake on that server and I have turned her into my greatest achievement on there. I could take all the adventures she has had and write at least Three thick novels about her, but I'm not going to because I'm much to busy gaming!
Earlier, today I played Bruiser Sivir with Thresh support in ranked. I went up against a Caitlyn with Volibear support. I fed pretty hard early on but by the mid game I was killing Caitlyn pretty easily in a 1v1. It was a very narrow victory on out part though, due to some all round bad plays.
-Xalaram
Tonight I decided to go and play a game that I haven't touched in around Five months. Neverwinter Nights, the original. Sure, it's an old game but it's so good! Especially online. The most enjoyment I've ever gotten out of almost any game was had on a particular server of Neverwinter Nights. Arelith. It's a proper "Roleplay" server, and just like Pen and Paper D&D you get the opportunity to play out your characters every move, emotion and sentence. My main character is a female Half-Elf named Mana, and her body is partly living crystal. Although being a "Special Snowflake" is highly ill advised, she was my first mistake on that server and I have turned her into my greatest achievement on there. I could take all the adventures she has had and write at least Three thick novels about her, but I'm not going to because I'm much to busy gaming!
Earlier, today I played Bruiser Sivir with Thresh support in ranked. I went up against a Caitlyn with Volibear support. I fed pretty hard early on but by the mid game I was killing Caitlyn pretty easily in a 1v1. It was a very narrow victory on out part though, due to some all round bad plays.
-Xalaram
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Divine RPG, Bad Driving, and why Fiddlesticks is such a good jungler
Recently I have been playing a Minecraft Mod called Divine RPG. It is hosted off the Feed The Beast launcher. Anyway, it is quite fun! It has around Eight unique dimensions, quite a few new ores and materials, alot more mobs and alot more bosses. So far I have a pretty big castle which is still in the making but I haven't ventured too deep underground yet. The reason for this is that there are a few extremely dangerous hostile mobs that live underground in the overworld in this Mod. I plan on doing this either tomorrow or the next day.
We had a power outage for about half the day in my street and so I was running a tablet off a generator which was also powering my internet. During this time, I played League of Legends with some friends. Today wasn't one of my best days on LoL, I don't know why but we only managed to win one of about Six games today. And in that game I played Fiddlesticks Jungle! Fiddlesticks has one of the best clear times and extreme sustain for a jungler. I got Dragon at about Eight minutes at level Six, solo. I did have a Hextech Revolver to give me alot more life recovery on drain, but still. I then proceeded to roll around the map picking up kills with my ult. When it came time to take Dragon again I did the usual Drain, Dark Wind, Drain etc. combo and then the enemy AD Carry (who was Caitlyn) showed up. By this time I had Sorcerers Shoes and a Needlessly Large Rod to go with my Revolver. I smited dragon and turned around and started draining her. In the few seconds between drains she had me down to about a quarter health. I start the drain on her and she ignites me (which halves the healing from it). I out heal her damage through the ignite, killing her in two drains and end up around three quarters health. Drain is ridiculously fun! I had a total of Eight kills and Five assists by the end of the game. In the last few seconds before the other team decided to surrender, I got ganked by the enemy Malphite and somebody else. I died just as the game ended. Oh well.
Also! I have discovered that I am horrible at driving or flying anything in ARMA2. Tonight in DayZ: Origins I had found a tractor and managed to fully repair it. I was driving in a city (I don't remember the name of it) and all of a sudden I drive into a tree. It breaks the engine so I get out quickly with the intention of finding some new parts for it. And then it explodes as I'm walking away. Damn! But I didn't watch the explosion because cool guys don't look at explosions.
-Xalaram
We had a power outage for about half the day in my street and so I was running a tablet off a generator which was also powering my internet. During this time, I played League of Legends with some friends. Today wasn't one of my best days on LoL, I don't know why but we only managed to win one of about Six games today. And in that game I played Fiddlesticks Jungle! Fiddlesticks has one of the best clear times and extreme sustain for a jungler. I got Dragon at about Eight minutes at level Six, solo. I did have a Hextech Revolver to give me alot more life recovery on drain, but still. I then proceeded to roll around the map picking up kills with my ult. When it came time to take Dragon again I did the usual Drain, Dark Wind, Drain etc. combo and then the enemy AD Carry (who was Caitlyn) showed up. By this time I had Sorcerers Shoes and a Needlessly Large Rod to go with my Revolver. I smited dragon and turned around and started draining her. In the few seconds between drains she had me down to about a quarter health. I start the drain on her and she ignites me (which halves the healing from it). I out heal her damage through the ignite, killing her in two drains and end up around three quarters health. Drain is ridiculously fun! I had a total of Eight kills and Five assists by the end of the game. In the last few seconds before the other team decided to surrender, I got ganked by the enemy Malphite and somebody else. I died just as the game ended. Oh well.
Also! I have discovered that I am horrible at driving or flying anything in ARMA2. Tonight in DayZ: Origins I had found a tractor and managed to fully repair it. I was driving in a city (I don't remember the name of it) and all of a sudden I drive into a tree. It breaks the engine so I get out quickly with the intention of finding some new parts for it. And then it explodes as I'm walking away. Damn! But I didn't watch the explosion because cool guys don't look at explosions.
-Xalaram
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Bruiser Sivir, and why Urals should not be driven without Engines!
Today, I decided to play the second champion that I ever liked. Sivir. Now, most people build her straight carry with a bit of extra mana thrown in for good measure. But I find that that build on her is somewhat underwhelming so I decided to try building her bruiser instead! Started off by building Black Cleaver then Berserker Greaves with Furor enchantment, went pretty even against a Caitlyn (which Sivir apparently counters). Then I got Frozen Mallet and Atma's Impaler followed by BotRK and Banshee's Veil for some added troll! The thing I love about Sivir is her ability to absorb enemy spells for mana. Caitlyn ult? E! Karthus ult? E! Lux ult? E! Teemo, Nidalee and Caitlyn also leave convenient deposits of free mana around on the ground and in bushes for Sivir to absorb.
I was also playing DayZ: Origins today. We (my clan and I) decided to do a raid on Salvation City and so we got in a helicopter and flew off with loot in our minds. As we got to the island - flying low over the water as to not be spotted by the 50. cal Emplacements which were inside the main compound - two of our team were sniped out of the chopper by some well placed shots from another player. We started with Seven and now we had Five. Our pilot dropped us off along the south western beach and we ran for a good 500m along the coast to an entrance location, we took shelter in a ruined house and waited to see what was going on. We heard alot of gunfire coming from inside the wall and then some footsteps outside the house, a very brief firefight followed and we had lost another but the attacker died too! Meanwhile our pilot had flown back to the mainland to pick up the Three that were respawning. Our team leader and the only other remaining squad member ran to the entrance hole and disappeared into the compound, leaving me to guard the escape. I moved to the second floor and found a window to watch from, soon enough I heard some footsteps and a Bandit in a blue tracksuit started towards the hole. I gunned him down from behind with my AK-74. Soon after, I died to a guy with a Makarov who snuck up the stairs behind me. Damn lucky headshot!
After I respawned I headed into Mitrovice (the small city next to our base) and then started looking around for some equipment. I happened across a survivor poking around near an apartment building, I befriended him and we went to check on the general store and its prospective supplies. He then invited me to his TeamSpeak3 server which I happily accepted since I probably wasn't going to get picked up by my clan by then. Anyway, after a few more deaths and kills (one death was caused by Dr. Ivan, a "Super Zombie") I ended up outside the Mitro hospital with Three others. We then headed North West to a zombie overrun army camp in which we almost lost one man to a sudden zerg rush of zombies, however a hail of lead is a sure way of driving back the horde! The server restart message came up, giving us 15 minutes warning. In the following 15 minutes one of my new friends stole a Ural from a group of players that decided it was a good idea to stop and refuel at a nearby fuel station. After stashing the Ural in the nearby forest we logged out for the restart. Afterwards we logged in and I ran over to the Ural and looked inside it, Two CZ550 rifles! Win! We all hopped in and I drove (somewhat dangerously) to the nearest repair station which was in the next city over. Then back to my base. All the while I'm talking to two of my clan mates and telling them that I'm bringing some friendlies around and not to shoot them. One of them is OK with it but the other is extremely paranoid and refuses to trust them straight up. After a few small firefights with some fresh spawns that kept coming to our base to attempt to steal loot off us, the distrust had turned into an uneasy friendliness. We then drove down to the local docks to loot cycle for some building materials for houses for our new allies. We parked the Ural between two hangars and then I removed the engine so it couldn't be driven away. After loading quite alot of building materials into the Ural from some good spawns, the clan mate that came with us decided to try to reposition the Ural. He forgot I took the engine out. It exploded. There goes all our newly acquired loot. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.
-Xalaram
I was also playing DayZ: Origins today. We (my clan and I) decided to do a raid on Salvation City and so we got in a helicopter and flew off with loot in our minds. As we got to the island - flying low over the water as to not be spotted by the 50. cal Emplacements which were inside the main compound - two of our team were sniped out of the chopper by some well placed shots from another player. We started with Seven and now we had Five. Our pilot dropped us off along the south western beach and we ran for a good 500m along the coast to an entrance location, we took shelter in a ruined house and waited to see what was going on. We heard alot of gunfire coming from inside the wall and then some footsteps outside the house, a very brief firefight followed and we had lost another but the attacker died too! Meanwhile our pilot had flown back to the mainland to pick up the Three that were respawning. Our team leader and the only other remaining squad member ran to the entrance hole and disappeared into the compound, leaving me to guard the escape. I moved to the second floor and found a window to watch from, soon enough I heard some footsteps and a Bandit in a blue tracksuit started towards the hole. I gunned him down from behind with my AK-74. Soon after, I died to a guy with a Makarov who snuck up the stairs behind me. Damn lucky headshot!
After I respawned I headed into Mitrovice (the small city next to our base) and then started looking around for some equipment. I happened across a survivor poking around near an apartment building, I befriended him and we went to check on the general store and its prospective supplies. He then invited me to his TeamSpeak3 server which I happily accepted since I probably wasn't going to get picked up by my clan by then. Anyway, after a few more deaths and kills (one death was caused by Dr. Ivan, a "Super Zombie") I ended up outside the Mitro hospital with Three others. We then headed North West to a zombie overrun army camp in which we almost lost one man to a sudden zerg rush of zombies, however a hail of lead is a sure way of driving back the horde! The server restart message came up, giving us 15 minutes warning. In the following 15 minutes one of my new friends stole a Ural from a group of players that decided it was a good idea to stop and refuel at a nearby fuel station. After stashing the Ural in the nearby forest we logged out for the restart. Afterwards we logged in and I ran over to the Ural and looked inside it, Two CZ550 rifles! Win! We all hopped in and I drove (somewhat dangerously) to the nearest repair station which was in the next city over. Then back to my base. All the while I'm talking to two of my clan mates and telling them that I'm bringing some friendlies around and not to shoot them. One of them is OK with it but the other is extremely paranoid and refuses to trust them straight up. After a few small firefights with some fresh spawns that kept coming to our base to attempt to steal loot off us, the distrust had turned into an uneasy friendliness. We then drove down to the local docks to loot cycle for some building materials for houses for our new allies. We parked the Ural between two hangars and then I removed the engine so it couldn't be driven away. After loading quite alot of building materials into the Ural from some good spawns, the clan mate that came with us decided to try to reposition the Ural. He forgot I took the engine out. It exploded. There goes all our newly acquired loot. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.
-Xalaram
Monday 24 June 2013
AP Rammus, and why Hard Turtling is useful
Well, today I was browsing through my Facebook and I saw a friend post something about Rammus and how his Q and R scale well of AP. I thought this was interesting and so I played two games with this in mind. I decided to use a tanky AP build and the first game was hilariously fun, solo-top against a Vi. By Twenty Minutes I was one hitting whole creep waves (minus the siege creeps) with my Q. And whenever my counterpart left the lane I pushed hard and used my ult to melt the tower. Win!
Even earlier than that however I was playing a premade normal against what I assume was another premade team. I played solo-top Riven against a Xin Zhao, I did OK early but started to fall off around 15 minutes or so as did the rest of my team. We lost top and mid inhibitors and 2 Barons by 30 minutes and then I called for the Turtle Strategy. What ensued was another hour of extremely defensive play with us only losing our other lane tower (Bot). At around 70 minutes of playing we had taken Baron at least 3 times, the first one was a brilliant steal by our jungler (Amumu, played by ManBra1512) and in the team fight that followed we lost our support and main tank, (Leona, played by jman124) but got an ace! The other two we took more or less uncontested with a few minor skirmishes. It took at least Four raids into the enemy base to take out the inhibitors by around 80 minutes as we had to leave our Mid (Kayle, played by Fire Turkey) to protect against the occasional backdoor attempt by the enemy AD carry who was Quinn. But with steadfast determination and alot of strategy and good plays we were able to get our AD carry (Corki, played by TheWereWalrus) extremely fed and we eventually won.
-Xalaram
Even earlier than that however I was playing a premade normal against what I assume was another premade team. I played solo-top Riven against a Xin Zhao, I did OK early but started to fall off around 15 minutes or so as did the rest of my team. We lost top and mid inhibitors and 2 Barons by 30 minutes and then I called for the Turtle Strategy. What ensued was another hour of extremely defensive play with us only losing our other lane tower (Bot). At around 70 minutes of playing we had taken Baron at least 3 times, the first one was a brilliant steal by our jungler (Amumu, played by ManBra1512) and in the team fight that followed we lost our support and main tank, (Leona, played by jman124) but got an ace! The other two we took more or less uncontested with a few minor skirmishes. It took at least Four raids into the enemy base to take out the inhibitors by around 80 minutes as we had to leave our Mid (Kayle, played by Fire Turkey) to protect against the occasional backdoor attempt by the enemy AD carry who was Quinn. But with steadfast determination and alot of strategy and good plays we were able to get our AD carry (Corki, played by TheWereWalrus) extremely fed and we eventually won.
-Xalaram
Sunday 23 June 2013
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