Crazy days..

following the Steam Summer Sale!

Oh hello and welcome back fair traveller! Or y'know, you! Sat there in your pj's.. or you even, sat there looking at me when you should be working..

So, I've been pretty absent from Blogger.. as you can tell from the lack of updates.. I have however been quite busy playing games and attempting to produce content for my Twitch.tv and YouTube channels! Another reason that I've not been here, is that I've just got back from a lovely birthday holiday.. my lovely lady took me to Prague for 5 days and it was absolutely fantastic! So.. fingers crossed I will be keeping you updated on here in writing .. and in video on the Twitch/YouTube front about what's going on!

Anyway! Since I talked about the Steam Summer sale in my last post, I wanted to update! I think I managed to survive the rest of the Steam Sale with little to no damage to my Wallet.. I think I ended up buying .. well maybe a couple of games that I never would have without the sale being on!

I bought, or rather.. I left my other half with my steam account and some cash loaded into it... and she bought the following!

RAGE
This is a first-person shooter set in the future - pretty fun game and got a meta score of 79/100. If you've not heard of it or played it, you should give it a go! I'm not usually someone for shooters, but I found it quite good fun!

Borderlands
I don't have much to say about Borderlands really, I'm pretty darn sure you've heard of it! OH! Actually, I freaked out when I heard the title song and I played it on repeat for days for some reason! Anyway, another first-person shooter pretty cartoon-y and fun.

and an awesome little game called

DLC Quest

Whelp, I have even less to say about this.. so I'll just leave this here for you.. a little taster, so to speak!

She did pretty darned well I think! I've enjoyed playing all three of these games .. and I would never have bought them.. maybe I should leave her in charge of my steam wallet more often.. I almost just said wallet then.. but that would never happen. I may be slow, but I'm not stupid.


Anyhoo! Apart from playing those games I've been playing DotA 2 and Diablo 3 much more than I have been playing anything else! Really chomping those levels up on my Barbarian! As you might be able to tell if you had looked over and subscribed to my YouTube and Twitch channels.. when I said it earlier ... ahem..

Right.. with that, I think it's time to bid you all farewell for now!

If you like/subscribe to my channels.. I may give you a present!


Ciao for now!

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Diablo 3: The Monk

As promised, I'm here again! This time with a little look at the class that I have been playing the most in the short spurts I've had at playing D3 recently. Unfortunately, most of my time has been taken up with working and.. being told what to do by she who must be obeyed.. so I'm whipped, what of it?!

I actually have something else on my mind too, I was wondering about the different sites that offer homes to blogs and considering moving across to a different one. I did a brief search and it looks like WordPress is the main competitor for Blogger; in one head to head, here, they say that Blogger is much easier to use and WordPress is much more difficult to get to grips with... so, being the lazy bugger that I am, I think I'll stick to Blogger! Do you have any thoughts? Let me know!

Enough about that claptrap! The Monk! The monk is a melee based class with some funky dunky spells to help them out.. if I had to compare them to a WoW class, I guess it would be the Paladin. They can heal themselves and groups(with an Aura) and dish out a bidda damage and also be quite tanky in multiplayer. Their main attributes are Dexterity and that's about it I guess, though it never hurts to stack the old hit points.

You can run with a couple of different styles with the Monk, you can use one weapon and shield and soak damage and bore packs of mobs to death(much like the WoW Paladin used to), you can dual wield one handers(which I think fits more with the way Monks look) or you can try and lift a mighty two-hander with your scrawny looking Monk fella.. 

I found working my way through the beginning levels to be easy, almost too easy really! Especially with abilities like Breath of Heaven and Serenity. Of course, late Hell things got a bit rougher, but still not too difficult.. even Inferno doesn't hurt too much.

Do I like it? Yah, I really like the play style of the Monk for some reason(probably because it's ez-mode balanced!!!). I guess I am still a sucker for running into a group of mobs and laying the smack down and enjoying the abundance of red mist that sprays around when you kill them all! But where are you at with your Monk?!?! I hear you cry in unison.. well, I'm glad you asked! Currently I'm just starting Act II of Inferno. My last session ended when she rang me and made me die to the first champion pack I encountered in Act II! :(

I have no idea if other people who play monks use the build I do.. I think, if I can remember rightly it's something like this and I really like it. It gives a ton of survivability and puts out a decent amount of damage.  Granted it's nowhere near close to the Witch Doctor's damage.. but who would expect it to be? I'm currently stuck with some alright gear.. working on getting upgrades in the ole inferno...

Time to stop talking and get back to ... watching my pc perform a CHKDSK... joy.

Ciao for now!

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