The Mephathon is a new magic finding tournament extremely similar to the Pindlethon. The basic premise is that you must run Mephisto in Hell two thousand times. The person with the most interesting/rares drops wins. Along the way of course lots of good items will be found that will help out future characters. This is the main reason I joined, as I normally don't like magic finding, but if it is part of a competition then I'll do it.
This one was a bit rough as it fell right after the most recent Pindlethon. That's four thousand magic finding runs in a relatively short time span (for me). Obviously quite a few good items fell that give me some great ideas for future characters. Most notably is the M'avina's bow from this tournament and the helm and armor from the Pindlethon. Finishes the set for me so a Frost Maiden is in the works somewhere down the road.
Overall this Pindlethon was very productive, so here are the elite set/unique drops.
IK Stone Crusher--15
Dangoon's Teaching--13
Laying of Hands--11
Dark Adherent--8
Arioc's Needle--7
Wizardspike--7
Bonehew--4
Ethereal Edge--3
Windhammer--1
Gimmershred--1
Demon Limb--5
Jade Talon--3
Djinn Slayer--5
Bloodmoon--3
Natalya's Shadow--2
Credendum--8
Nord's Tenderizer--9
Razor's Edge-- 1
Ormus' Robes--2
Sandstorm Trek--1
Baranar's Star--4
Rune Master--1
Demon's Arch--1
Flamebellow--1
The Reaper's Toll--1
Harlequin Crest--1
Shadow Killer--4
Eschuta's Temper--1
Hellslayer--4
Lightsabre--3
Viperfork--2
Hellrack--1
Arachnid Mesh--2
Dracul's Grasp--2
The Gladiator's Bane--1
Marrowwalk--1
Stormshield--4
Stoneraven--4
Nosferatu's Coil--2
Spike Thorn--4
Steel Shade--5
Soul Drainer--2
Wolfhowl--1
Andariel's Visage--1
Verdungo's Hearty Cord--2
The Redeemer--1
Boneshade--1
Sazabi's Ghost Liberator--1
Naj's Light Plate--1
Firelizard's Talons--1
Eaglehorn--1
Warshrike--1
M'avina's Caster--1
Rings/amulets were also included, so here were those finds.
Carrion Wind--1
Dwarf Star--7
Gheed's Fortune--5
Highlord's Wrath--1
Metalgrid--1
Nature's Peace--3
Rainbow Facet--4
Raven Frost--5
Saracen's Chance--1
Telling of Beads--2
Wisp Projector--2
Overall I had fun competing, even if I was completely outclassed (again). Now I'm done magic finding for quite a while, I even had to skip the MFO (magic find olympics) that started a few days ago due to MF burnout.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Friday, January 4, 2008
OL Games: Travian
Travian is an online real-time browser game set in ancient Roman times. The basic premise of the game is that each player chooses one of three races and begins with a single village. From there each player must improve their village, expand to new ones, go to war with their neighbors and conquer them. It's a war game, pure and simple as anyone attempting to "simcity" their way through the game will quickly be turned into a resource farm for everyone else.
There are multiple servers for dozens of countries, so I joined the US speed server where everything happens three times faster than the normal servers. I severely doubt I'd play a normal server, as waiting a full day to build a single field is simply a bit too slow for me. I ended up joining with a few people from the Diabloii.net forums, simply to test out the game. The server we were on had been running for about three months up to that point, so we were at quite a disadvantage.
Thankfully I ended up on the fringe of civilization so for the most part and was left alone to discover how the game worked. I was able to build up my first village, found a new one and conquer a pair of oasis squares. Along with this I build a decent sized army, practices raiding several inactive players and even destroyed three of them. All in all the game was fun, but I definitely shouldn't play more than one server at a time or I won't get any work done. I do have to be careful with this game, it is very similar to Archmage and Space: Glory Thru Conquest of which I became very addicted to. Thankfully we can assign sitters to watch over the account while I am away doing things in real life, so I can actually have a life.
Now that the US speed server ended earlier this week our group has moved to the COM speed server which has been running for only a single month. This means we won't be at quite as much of a disadvantage and we can take everything we learned in the US server with us. Should be interesting the second time around.
There are multiple servers for dozens of countries, so I joined the US speed server where everything happens three times faster than the normal servers. I severely doubt I'd play a normal server, as waiting a full day to build a single field is simply a bit too slow for me. I ended up joining with a few people from the Diabloii.net forums, simply to test out the game. The server we were on had been running for about three months up to that point, so we were at quite a disadvantage.
Thankfully I ended up on the fringe of civilization so for the most part and was left alone to discover how the game worked. I was able to build up my first village, found a new one and conquer a pair of oasis squares. Along with this I build a decent sized army, practices raiding several inactive players and even destroyed three of them. All in all the game was fun, but I definitely shouldn't play more than one server at a time or I won't get any work done. I do have to be careful with this game, it is very similar to Archmage and Space: Glory Thru Conquest of which I became very addicted to. Thankfully we can assign sitters to watch over the account while I am away doing things in real life, so I can actually have a life.Now that the US speed server ended earlier this week our group has moved to the COM speed server which has been running for only a single month. This means we won't be at quite as much of a disadvantage and we can take everything we learned in the US server with us. Should be interesting the second time around.
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