(The website itself, incidentally, is 13.5 years old… ouch.)

Llewella

Having dyes in-game may seem so trivial – and yet it makes all the difference in the world that your character is NOT an exact carbon copy of the character every other player is playing.

And when the dust settled, we had killed him – on our first attempt of the night.

A well deserved victory, and a joyous event; even if I did not have enough DKP for Glorenzelg.

At the end of the fight only one burning question remaind: What the hell are we gonna do for the rest of the week?

]]> http://nilsjeppe.com/2010/09/10/lich-king-is-finally-down/feed/ 2 http://nilsjeppe.com/2009/04/22/raider-of-the-lost-instance/ http://nilsjeppe.com/2009/04/22/raider-of-the-lost-instance/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:40:59 +0000 Nils http://nils.jeppe.de/?p=1073 Continue reading →]]> I recent weeks I’ve done something I’d never actually seriously considered before: I am now raiding in World of Warcraft. Raids, in case you are not familiar with the lingo, are larger groups of adventurers than the basic 5-man party. Currently, WoW uses 10-man and 25-man raids, though in the past there have been 20-man and 40-man raids as well.

Raids take on challenges that’d be much too hard for smaller groups. Naxxramas – a floating, undead citadel – was the primary raid in the current content; last week, Ulduar was added. Ulduar is a fortress inhabited by titans.

After joining raids fro some weeks now, I’ve gotta say: I am kind of glad I did. They are much more interesting and challenging than small-scale encounters. They require 25 people to work well together; there’s a leadership structure (though we’re kind of casual about it) and people have more specialized roles. Everybody needs to do their job well; a weak link means a wipe – death of the entire raid. For example, on one boss in Naxxramas, I have to use my hunter’s ability to set freezing traps to help neutralize a large group of zombies, and I have to use my tranquilizing shot to calm down the boss when he becomes enraged. Positioning is much important as well. In short, it’s much more about tactics than most other fights.

It’s really fun to do this. Naxxramas is a bit too easy, but Ulduar is very tough for us. This is in part because it’s just a hard area, but it’s also because we’re still learning how to defeat the bosses there. There is immense satisfaction in taking on a big, bad monster, failing for many attempts, and then finally working out the right approach for a successful victory.

Very gratifying.

Razorscale - Ulduar 10-man

In the past years I always had a private Halloween movie marathon. This year, I somehow completely lost track of it and so I didn’t borrow or buy any scary movies. I still have a bunch that I have viewed before, we’ll see. I’ll probably spend the entire night working on the NaNoWriMo thing anyway.

Oh my god, it is full of stars…

I got my first computer pretty much 20 years ago. I’ve been a gamer and I’ve followed the cool stuff the demo scene put out. I thought I was a hardened user, one which simply doesn’t get “wow’ed” anymore.

Enter Apple and iTunes to prove me wrong.

Their new visualizer is simply stunning. Words would be wasted, take a look:

Needless to say… I am currently going through my classical music collection. The Blue Danube is playing as I write this, and it is stunning.

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(via Ben.)