So, I was able to get in the game that I’ve been waiting for almost 5 years and when the first BWE (Beta Week End) arrived, I tried creating different professions. Aside from the lag, I like the parts where ArenaNet maintained the character’s introduction from the first Guild Wars. I had a hard time deciding which profession to use since there’s no longer a monk in GW2 but despite my fondness of being a healer and how I take pride of being a good one (especially when I played World of Warcraft for almost four years), I found myself loving the mechanics of a hunter in GW2.

Where in the world can you find a hunter wielding a greatsword? I asked myself. How cool is that?

I had a facepalm moment when someone yelled “Heal!” in public when I was at the the shadow behemoth world event. I love how the dodge works and if you’re playing mass effect 3, you won’t have a problem adjusting to it. You can’t just walk backwards while attacking. Walking backward is still at the mob’s line of attack and always time your strafe. If the enemy is running towards you, you don’t just run away you time it and then dodge.

Anyone can revive without cost. If you think you are safe enough to revive a fellow player revive them quickly, do not worry about not being the last person to kill the mob/boss. It’s not a contest. I am still a little confused with the death penalty on when it disappears or how badly it affects my character when killed multiple times.

The currency seems to be a little hard to gain from the start especially if you want to start crafting early in the game. Saving currency picks up as you get into a higher level.

While leveling in the game, I decided to join in the pvp regardless of my current level in the PVE area. The moment I set foot in the arena, my level is boosted up to maximum level and is provided with sets of PVP armor and weapons.
I’m glad to see that GW2 created some sort of balancing system that will ask you whether you’d like to switch teams or not. I took my chance to join the other team and was happy that I did.

I managed to keep and defend the clock tower for a few minutes and gained some point to the team. As expected from Guild Wars, the PVP area is really exciting but it does not drown my attention to want to continue the PVE aspect of the game, although in the beta, the story line of your character stops at level 20. I’m actually fine with that, more anticipation once the game is officially released.

The level of difficulty is pretty good. I love the challenge and the controls was easy to adapt to as far as I am concern. I’ll probably stick with the human race when the game is release and will check the other races once I reach max level and have nothing else to do.

Diablo III screenshot

Moving forward, most of my friends like the Diablo game series so much that it had me thinking of getting my own copy. I was glad that Blizzard recently announced an open beta weekend for Diablo® III which gave me ample time to access the game and assess myself if I should get a pre-order.

I know that the open beta was to stress test their servers and so I took that into account while trying to log in the game several times. While playing, some of my friends and I managed to play together in co-op and finish the demo.

Diablo III screenshot

Now that the weekend testing is over, I am having doubts on wanting to buy this game. I can’t honestly say that I like the idea of playing a single player campaign that needs constant internet connection just for the sake of having real-time auction to other players online. As the meme (image below) says it all.

I cannot really make a recommendation about this game since I am not an avid fan of Diablo but if you are a hard core fan of Diablo III that has constant internet connection, then why not give it a try. My guess is that the way this game is developed there will be a lot of players that will want a stand alone version of Diablo III. Eventually, someone will figure out how to create a pirated version of it once it is released. It may take a while for hackers to create it but I have no doubts that it will come out to that unless Blizzard takes that into account. If only they can do something like in StarCraft II that has an offline campaign but then again, that’s just me.

This is just a simple shortcode without the wordpress plugin. If your site doesn’t just cater “world of warcraft” posts such like this one and is very much concerned about adding more bandwidth to your website when using WoWhead tooltip, then you can just add this simple shortcode (without the space) [ wowtooltip ] to your post and it will call the

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>

only in that post.

To have this kind of shortcode, add the following code in the functions.php of your current theme.
 

/*
add this in functions.php
*/
function generateWowToolTip($atts) {
	global $post;
	return '<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>';
}

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Please take note: That this is only calls on the javascript. You still have to follow the advanced usage of WowHead tooltips.

Enjoy!

Here’s a fan art of EDI from the game Mass Effect 3. If EDI has an emotion chip just like DATA from StarTrek, I can imagine her laughing whenever Joker tells a joke.

If an AI starts thinking for themselves & wants to live, can you consider them really alive? Carbon based or not. From all the movies about Artificial Intelligent creations turning to their creator. It’s something to ponder about. In the game Mass Effect 3, there was a conversation between Dr. Chakwas and Engineer Adams about AI. I sided with Eng. Adams. I consider carbon based or synthetic based creatures (with or without feelings) a “life form”.

Tali’Zorah of Mass Effect 3. I thought of painting this when Kaidan said “Tali, she’s a good egg. Y’know?”

A little humor in mass effect after all that continues sobbing missions. I honestly cried twice when I lost Mordin and Thane.