Just Travian

I've just been playing Travian and not much DoTa.
I still have City of Heroes on trial.
Also a little bit of Wii Brawl.

Dota and Travian

That's all I've been playing lately. And a little bit of Wii.

I've also gotten back into reading.

My current book list is Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy.

I finished reading Assassin's Apprentice over the Thanksgiving weekend and into last night while I was home sick Monday and Tuesday. The book was an easy read and it was a great story.

I started reading the 2nd book, Royal Assassin.

As for Travian, I started Village 14 and working towards a goal of:
10k Phalanx, 4k Druidriders, and 10k Swordsman.

And while I research Rams to level 20 and build up Village 13 & 14 to full production to feed my capital.

No more MMO for me

I canceled my 2 Warhammer Online accounts a few weeks ago. So I played it for the first free 30 days plus a month subscription. I was bored levelling by the time I hit Rank 27 of 40. I did not even see Tier 4!

My 5th World of Warcraft account officially expires in 3 days since I used a 60-day pre-paid card to activate it. I only managed to get a level 60 and a level 45.

The expansion Wrath of the Lich King was released a few week ago, but I did buy it, or re-activate some of my account.

Instead, I've been playing Defender's of the Ancient (DOTA) map for Warcraft 3.

I've also been playing on travian.com server 2. I took over the Mjv account, and gave my Sanctume account in the process. I've been playing with Sunder alliance (or World's Best Bacon by Sunder) WBBS. WBB are veteran players of travian that Sunder hooked up with.

Travian is free, or can cost if you want more out of it. It is a casual game, and can also be time consuming. It is like Sim City with real time war and diplomacy.

Rank 27

Yeah, I hit Rank 27 2 nights ago, and I only max my Influence for Chapter 14 last night. I also spent some time re-spec into Khaine on my Swordmaster and my current gear is not working with it because I am mostly Toughness gear.

I also tried Vaul to get Vaul's buffer, but then again, my weapon and gear is low dps to take on a tanking mastery.

So, I end up going back to Hoeth which works for what I do, mostly pulling 4+ mobs at a time using a 2-Hand great sword.

Testing Links

http://www.wardb.com/item.aspx?id=500006

test

Rank 26

I've been just following my list of Influence grind and managed to get to Rank 26 and currently doing Highelf Chapter 14 area. I will need to update my list soon.

I was doing Dwarf Chapter 14 killing 4 to 8 Black Orcs at a time that are Rank 28 to Rank 30.

Semihrage is Hoeth spec and uses Gusting Wind a lot.

I re-spec Nynaeave for Rune of Battle pulsing damage buff.

The Swordmaster's Way

At Rank 23

Phantom's Blade (Buff)
(23) All your melee attacks a 25% chance to activate a shield that absorbs up to 210 damage over 10 seconds.

Morales:
R1 Demolishing Strike
R2 Wings of Heaven.
R3 Bladeshield.
R4 Immaculate Defense

Tactics:
Ensorcelled Agony
Rugged
Winds' Force
Vaul's Buffer

Rugged
(23) Increases Toughness by 92.

Ensorcelled Agony
(23) Ensorcelled Blow will now cause an additional 115 Spiritual damage over 5 seconds.

Winds' Force
Gusting Wind's area of effect is increased to 30 feet

Ensorcelled Blow (Hex)
(23) A quick precision slash that calls out the enchantment in your blade dealing 70 Spirit damage.

Gusting Wind (Damaging)
(23) You execute a quick spin rending the air around you and producing a magical shockwave that which deals 82 damage to all opponents within 10 feet of you.

Rotation:
Taunt
Ensorcelled Blow
Intimidating Blow (Or Eagle's Flight vs. Melee)
Dragon's Talon (or Crushing Wave when you feel it's needed).

Gusting Winds when I have a ton of melee on me.


Intimidating Blow (Hex)
(23) An overpowering strike that deals 116 damage and decreases your opponent's morale by 100.

Eagle's Flight (Buff)
(23) A guarded strike that deals 93 damage and improves your chance to parry by 25% for 5 seconds.

Dragon's Talon (Hex)
(23) You release two rending blows that deal 70 Spirit damage each, crippling your target for 4 seconds and reducing the damage they deal with every attack by 20%.

Crashing Wave (Debuff)
You launch two powerful blows dealing a total of 224 Spirit damage and knocking your opponent down for 3 seconds.