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…
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On the path of the Jade Scepter – Koto at the Dojo….
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!!
Ditto’s Daring Adventures – 2010 review episode!!
Here it is, the amazing and highly entertaining ‘2010 review’ episode of The Daring Adventures of Ditto, featuring lovable furry Ditto and the amazing Miss Narrator! As originally heard on the wonderful Ravenwood Radio year-end episode #32 – enjoy and we’ll be back for more exciting and daring adventures on January 26th, 2011 at 8pm CST with the return of Ravenwood Radio!!
Ditto’s Blog in review – 2010!!
I have to say I’m really happy with this – these are the numbers that WordPress collected on my blog for 2010, and for my first time out, and as the ONLY Fabricated American blogger out there right now (as far as I know, anyway) I think I did great!
What I’m MOST proud of, though, is the fact that my ‘Safety First’ article was my most read article this year – that’s really great, because more than all the silly videos and game tips and stories, I think that’s my most important post of the year, and everyone really should read it!
Thanks EVERYONE who made my blog such a success in 2010 and I’m looking forward to an even more incredible year in 2011!
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
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Ditto and friends in Big Ben
The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 5 fully loaded ships.
In 2010, there were 186 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 98 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 40mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was July 29th with 554 views. The most popular post that day was Safety First!!.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were thefriendlynecromancer.blogspot.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, asset-server1.libsyn.com, and my.diaryofawizard.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for backyard monsters, backyard monsters defense strategy, ditto wizard, backyard monster, and backyard monsters best layout.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Safety First!! July 2010
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About February 2010
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Wow – Welcome to Wizard 101 Selena Gomez!! September 2010
1 comment
My current games September 2010
Words can still hurt, even if you’re just typing them… August 2010
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Adventures in Mooshu, and I guess I need to garden…
So I have been having a GREAT time in Mooshu (Though I still have a craving for fried rice and eggrolls) – I’m actually finding I like the story better than Marleybone, it’s more interesting and I feel more drawn into it. In Marleybone I was basically cleaning up street crime and uncovering a huge criminal conspiracy, which was cool, but in Mooshu it’s like I’m helping them reclaim their emperor, helping them to fight off a demon invasion and purify their lands – it jut seems cooler and more noble. Besides, those lamb guys and their big brown eyes are impossible to resist!! So cute!!
Ditto posing on his Koi in Mooshu
One hint I can give is something I started doing in Marleybone, and it’s REALLY helpful here in Mooshu – in each new area you unlock that has teleporters, do a quick run around the area and unlock all the teleporters first thing. This makes travel a lot quicker and in some places a lot safer, since there seems to be a lot more ‘choke points’ in Mooshu, areas where you can get pulled into a duel more easily.
And as far as gardening – well I guess I do have to try it since I keep getting seeds as drops, including crowns seeds like pink dandilions. I’ll try it this week, might even record it and see what happens. Looks cute, in any case – not as cute as the big-eyed lamb people but still cute!
For equipment I’ve done pretty well recently – all in the bazaar, though – nothing of note in drops. Even the ‘big’ boss fights I’ve been in haven’t dropped anything decent, but the bazaar has been fantastic! My best find was Fushiko’s Shroud, giving 3% fire accuracy and 5% fire damage, plus extra health and defense. I have the Wrap of the Leaping Flame, giving another 3% accuracy and 6% damage, and then the War Oni’s footwraps giving 2% accuracy and 4% damage boost. And then my favorite new item – Jade Oni’s amulet of Duplicity, which gives a Hydra card – THAT is a fun spell! My total accuracy boost is 8% and damage is 17%, which is certainly not bad. Maybe not the best, but still not bad.
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