More Jade Scepter fun – Enter Kanaga!
With all but the final piece of the Jade Scepter acquired, Din Ho sends me to face Kanaga, the toughest minion of the Palgue Oni… The fight is long and, ultimately, unsuccessful – Kanaga is serious business, and I definitely made a few poor choices during the duel. It was a great fight, though!
The Quest for the Jade Scepter – A Pagoda of Significance…
Still on the path of the fabled Jade Scepter, I am guided to a Pagoda that holds special significance to the Plague Oni. Turns out it is of significance to him because some of his thugs hang out there and sharpen their knives and chat about battle tactics, apparently, so once again I got jumped. This is becoming a habit for me on this quest!
Sadly, I was not quite so successful this time, but it was a daring and exciting battle. I successfully defeated him on the second try, but my camera battery had died, sadly, so I was unable to capture my impressive victory. Trust me when I say it was amazing…
Happy Friday – More quest for the Jade Scepter
So as I adventure through Mooshu, questing for pieces of the mythical Jade Scepter, I am asked to search for a piece of the scepter in various houses and huts in the area, as it may be hidden there…
Now, being an experienced adventurer, I was pretty sure all I would find in these quaint little Mooshu huts was danger, disappointment, and bad guys. Sometimes I just hate being right… Each hut was, of course, an ambush, and I was jumped buy fiendish minions of the Plague Oni, villains who would stop at nothing to keep me from completing my quest…
So I blew them all up. What can I say – I’m a Pyromancer! Go Fire!!
On the path of the Jade Scepter – Koto at the Dojo….
On my epic path to locate the Jade Scepter and defeat the Plague Oni, I find myself in the Dojo of a villain known only as ‘Koto’ – villains with only one name are always more frightening, like ‘Voldemort’ or ‘Madonna’…
This fight was EPIC, and for all the wrong reasons. My carefully laid plans and strategies, honed to a razor fine point in 39 levels of play (plus listening to the Pyromancer study hall episode of Ravenwood Radio about fifty times), all fell apart in a smoking mess as a variety of fizzles, ill-times shields, and other misfortunes had the fight dragging on for over ten minutes! It was like the terror of the Ice Spiders all over again – gah!! Finally, in the end, I was victorious and won the shaft of the fabled Jade Scepter.
This fight does outline something that I think is important, especially as my wizard gets into the higher levels of the game, and that is the ability to adapt your strategy on the fly as things don’t go your way. There were a couple times in this duel where, had I tried to just stick with my tried and true strategy (blow stuff up, ala-meteor strike), I’m sure I would have failed, but I rolled with the punches, as it were, and made it through to victory!!
Now I need a nap…
Ditto begins his search for the Jade Scepter
When I get to a point in the game that looks like it will be good for video, I usually stop playing until I can get my camera set up and film it for the blog (which is a little bit involved, as I’m sure you can imagine). Sometimes this means I will wait a few days, even a week, between play sessions, and being a furry orange monster I can forget what I was doing…
So today I jumped in game, had my camera all set up, and realized that even though I knew I had to fight Ronin Mutineers and get the handle to something called a Jade Scepter (thanks to my handy-dandy quest tracker), I literally had no idea why…
So I fought, and I won, and I leveled up (yay!!) and I headed over to see Din Ho and got the skinny on what was really going on. Turns out this was just the beginning of an amazing quest that should lead up to the dreaded Plague Oni! So here we go, the first step on the path to find the Jade Scepter and defeat the Plague Oni!!
Happy New Year from Ditto!
Well here it is, 2011 – it seems like 2010 was over before I knew it. Last year was certainly a pretty amazing year for me, starting this little bloggy project, joining Ravenwood Radio, all these great things that have happened, I’m certainly looking forward to a lot more in 2011!
So here is my 2011 New Years Resolutions, plus I did some great predictions for the coming year – enjoy!!
Ditto versus the toughest boss of all…
I was setting up to film myself playing Warstorm, my newest gaming obsession, but my kitten Phillip had different ideas… just something cute and silly for today.
Ditto faces the Test of Spirit
The final task in my quest for enlightenment, I get to talk to a big old statue and he says something about sandwiches, or was it yogurt? Maybe eggrolls? See, I wasn’t really paying attention and I was kinda hungry, so I might have missed out a bit on that whole ‘enlightenment’ thing… but I guess I did OK because my buddy Noribu Akitame gave me and Madame Jasmine the thumbs up – though it looks like things aren’t going to be nearly as easy as I had hoped. Looks like this time we’ve got an emperor to save!
DItto versus the Laptop Battery, and the Test of Strength
Still on the path of Mind, Body, and Spirit in Mooshu, I face one of my greatest challenges yet – my laptop battery dies as I’m talking to Noboru Akitame at the Jade Palace. Thankfully I’m able to cast the ‘plug the laptop in’ spell and get back into game with a minimum of fuss.
So far I’m really loving Mooshu – it’s a beautiful world and I LOVE the music – so tranquil and wonderful. I’m going to really enjoy it here!
Merry Christmas Greetings from Ditto!
Just wishing all my friends, fans, and followers a happy and joyful holiday!!
Ditto faces the Test of the Mind… and finds rocks
As part of my adventures in beautiful and tranquil Mooshu, I must face the tests of Mind, Body, and Spirit. the first test, the Test of Mind, is traditionally only given to monks, and I am apparently the very first furry orange monster to attempt it. I pass the test by apparently being able to see rocks. It wasn’t all that tricky, come to think of it.
All kidding aside, I have to say there was a really wonderful message in this quest – the ‘Book of Celestial Wisdom’ stated that Happiness never decreases by being shared. That’s a really wonderful sentiment, made me feel all warm and fuzzy. Oh Ok – warmer and fuzzier….
Thanks for that nugget of wisdom, Kingsisle. Really made my day.
Crafting Bloopers in Mooshu
I was making videos in Mooshu and thought I was on the ‘Mind, Body, Spirit’ quest, but it turns out I was actually on the crafting quest, which was fine but kind of amusing. In the middle of that, however, I had a Java update on my laptop and it froze the game, so it turned into kind of a double-blooper… Well I thought it was funny anyway.
Ditto’s Holiday Video Bloggy Thingy!!
Hello everyone and happy holidays! Here is my video bloggy thingy, where this week I talk about what furry orange monsters think about the holidays, my big Twitter update, and what I want for Christmas! As always, enjoy and I’ll see you in the spiral!!!
Ditto discovers Mooshu!
After our epic battle against Meowiarty in Big Ben, Malistaire still got away with the Krokonomicon, stealing the spiral key to Mooshu in an attempt to reach the dark and mysterious Dragonspire, which the headmaster assures me is a really bad thing.
So taking the spare copy of the spiral key to Mooshu – it was under the door mat – I headed out to Mooshu to talk to the Emperor in order to keep him from giving Malistaire the Dragonspire Key. Of course as I expected, this isn’t going to be as easy as I had hoped, and so my adventures in the beautiful and mystical Mooshu are just beginning!
Big Ben – With a little help from my friends!
So I finished Counterweight East, no sweat. Counterweight West gave me some trouble, but I got through it. Big Ben, though… I knew Big Ben and Meowiarty were more than one furry orange monster could handle, so I called up a few friends to see if they could give me a hand!
Ditto and friends in Big Ben
Leesha Darkheart, Steven Spiritcaller, and the amazing IcyWiz all dropped in to help me out with Big Ben, and I am SO GLAD I had them with me, because there is just no way I could have done Big Ben by myself. It had like thirty seven floors, all with big mean monsters on them! It was pretty scary, but I knew we could do it!
There were some really fun parts – well, it was all fun questing with the Ravenwood Radio team – but I liked the big floor puzzle, and then knocking over the milk bottles and making Spike the Crusher mad, that was really funny. Of course it wasn’t as funny when I realized that Spike was a 3500 health boss who attacked us near the top of the tower, but even he was still no match for us!
As for video, this dungeon is looooong – like an hour or more – so I didn’t take video the whole time. I DID get a great video of the final fight, though, so here you go – Ditto and Team Ravenwood defeating Meowiarty, with me dealing the fatal blow with none other than my trusty meteor strike!!! Yay me!!!
Ditto’s Adventures in Counterweight West – the finale!!
Here it is, my final – and ultimately successful – battle with the mighty storm boss Bellows at the top of Counterweight West. This was definitely the toughest dungeon I’ve done so far, as you can tell by my rather lengthy string of embarrassing defeats.
I think the big lessons learned from this dungeon are that you ALWAYS make sure you have full health when you go into a fight, which is common sense, but also I think I should have had more shields in my deck. The biggest problem seemed to be Bellows spamming storm sharks, which were hitting for 500ish damage every time. Your health goes down quickly when that happens. Maybe more ways to get health back, too, as I have kind of abandoned my ‘gain health’ ability in favor of doing more damage more quickly, ending the fight as soon as I can.
So next up – Big Ben!! I’m definitely not trying this one alone, so I’m going to be trying to set up a night soon to grab some friends/fans and face the dreadful Meowiarty!! I’m looking forward to that!
Ditto’s Adventures in Counterweight West – Bring on the Boss!!
Here is my first (and, sadly, second, and surely not final) attempt at the final boss fight in the Counterweight West dungeon. This is a really tough fight! The final boss, Bellows, is a rank 6 storm school boss who seems to LOVE throwing storm sharks. His minions like tossing elemental shields too, which can really throw a wrench in a pyromancers plans!
I’m pretty sure this was my first ‘Third Time’s a Charm’ battle, but I was eventually successful! I’ll post the winning fight a little later to show you what I changed to finally beat the mighty Bellows!
Ditto’s Adventures in Counterweight West – Part 3!
Here it is, another epic battle in Counterweight West – this is part three, where Ditto and Madame Jasmine battle multitudes of maniacal mechanical minions in the quest to throw the third lever and make it to the top of the counterweight tower!!
Once again we’re defeated on our first attempt – I must say Counterweight West seems much more challenging than counterweight East for some reason. We are finally victorious, however, and make it through to the next level!
Ditto’s Adventures in Counterweight West – Part 2
So here is the first step on my road to ruin, or at least a chain of defeats while completing this dungeon. I wasn’t paying attention (one of the pitfalls of recording yourself for a blog, I think) so I go into my first battle with less than half health. It was a close fight, but starting with 700 health was just too much badness to overcome.. I do win the second fight, however, and move on to the next level.
Ditto’s Adventures in Counterweight West – Part 1
So Madame Jasmine and I, following hot on the trail of Meowiarty, enter Counterweight West and begin the long climb to the top. This is the intro to the dungeon and our first battle, which we won handily. Sadly, I think this made us a little too cocky, because this would be the only duel we won on the first attempt in the dreaded Counterweight West….
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!
I just wanted to say Thank You to everyone who has come to my blog and shared my videos and listened to my Daring Adventures, thanks for all your friendship and support – I’m the happiest furry orange monster in the world thanks to each and every one of you. Oh, and strawberry shampoo, of course!!
Ditto defeats Smogger! Full walkthrough
So after defeating the evil Katzenstein, I was told that there is a secret, secondary boss called Smogger in the lab that gives a special title and some good drops. I decided that this sounded like a fantastic daring adventure and headed back into the dreaded Katz’ Lab to find and defeat Smogger.
The area was easy to find – right inside the lab itself, on the left, there’s a platform. When you walk onto it, the narrator tells you to find some boards and build a bridge. It took me a little while floating around on my Koi to find the boards and, once I used my handy-dandy carpentry skills to build a bridge I found Smogger, a rank 7 storm boss with terrible dialog. He had 4,000 health, which I think is the biggest thing I’ve ever fought thus far…
I did try something new – I hired a level 60 life henchman early in the fight, in the hopes she would help keep me alive during the epic battle. I have to say, the henchman was a mixed bag – she burned my feint a couple times with low level rank 1 or 2 spells, which was unfortunate, but she also healed me for 1000 points a couple times and did, in fact, keep me alive throughout the fight, so she did do what I needed her to, it just made dealing 4,000 points damage take a bit longer.
Anyway here is the epic 13+ minute video that details every part of this exciting side quest. If the video is just too long let me know, I can break them into more digestible chunks in the future.
I will wear my title ‘Smogger Smoker’ with pride!
PLOX!!
Ditto fights random mechanical spiders…
I was in the middle of figuring out the Smogger side-quest in Katz Lab, looking for stacks of wood to build a bridge, and I got pulled in by a couple evil steampunk spiders. It’s a fun, quick fight with some great meteor strike action… It’s very funny in that I get my last opponent down to two health and couldn’t take him out because I had to wait for more cards… I thought it was amusing anyway.
Ditto’s Weekly Video Bloggy Thingy 11/23
So I’m feeling much better, I’m back in game and just defeated Smogger, using a henchman for the very first time. I’ve got a whole new video about that which I should be posting tomorrow (Needs a little editing) but for now here is my weekly video bloggy thingy, almost completely cough and sneeze free. I talk about Wizard 101, LOTRO, Twitter, and what it’s like having a cold as a furry orange monster…
Ditto Monster's Bloggy Thingy 