Category: Games

A year ago, I wrote an entry stating that I had cancelled my World of Warcraft (WoW) subscription.  That was because I realized that it had become addicting & I had to stop myself from playing too much.

Well, just last week, when people were raving about Starcraft II, I decided to play WoW again.  Just to get a feel of it, and to know if I am still a gamer.  Do I still love PC games a lot?  And the answer is yes!  Hahaha!  I’m actually thinking of creating a site dedicated to World of Warcraft LOLz!!

Anyway, in this post, I will share with you the add-ons I use in order to make my WoW gaming experience more enjoyable & less stressful:

• QuestHelper

this is indispensable for me.  It helps me finish my quests faster.  It provides for me the locations where I can find the monsters or things I need to finish the quest.  It’s a huge database considering how big the game already is.  Looking at the notes, seems like the creators won’t be updating this further, I hope someone picks it up & continues working on the add-on.  It will be a waste if they stop developing QuestHelper.  If that happens, I may need to find an alternative.

• TomTom

for WoW maps & minimaps.  My main use of this add-on is for 2 things: coordinates a window that can let me see my character’s exact location & an arrow that points out where my character’s corpse is.

• Overachiever

If you’re like me, someone who wants to complete all the achievements in WoW then this add-on is for you.  It shows us our progress with our achievements.  One thing that I love with this add-on is whenever we need the item or NPC for an achievement, it shows up when you hover your curser over it so you’d know what to do.

• SellJunk

the name says it all.  It helps us sort out all the junk in our bags and with just a click, we can automatically sell them all.  No need to waste time in clicking the items that we need to sell one by one — wohoo! 🙂

• EveryQuest

I’m OC and I bet a lot of WoW players are too.  We want to complete each & every quest available in a faction.  EveryQuest can help us track that, plus it lists down all available quests in every area.

• Auctioneer

Very useful when you auction, it gives you complete listings, age of auction & a lot more.  A must-have for every WoW player.

• ArkInventory

Once you play WoW, you really need to learn how to act fast, think fast & do a lot of things at the same time.  In the game, we are given bag slots.  It’s a pain whenever you need to find a certain item and you forget which bag you put it in.  You have to open each bag to see where it’s at.  With this add-on, it helps organize the items by category.  When you click on one bag, you can see your items neatly organized in a single glance.

• Atlas

for some weird reason, WoW does not provide us maps of instances/dungeons.  This add-on helps fill this gap.  Unless you want to explore blindly, then I would suggest you to download this add-on.
What’s yours?

** I’m currently playing at stormscape server as a blood elf mage.  If you play there too, add me up.  My horde character’s name is fruitshake. **

I posted an entry a week ago regarding Hello Kitty Online.  I just registered that day & the week after, my character now reaches level 15!  Wohoo!

Meet Alba, my HKO character.

She’s currently a week old.  Born last August 24, 2009 and has blood type AB.  She’s very jolly and hardworking.

Throughout the week, she has been to Sanrio Harbour & Florapolis.  Learned how to farm, plant, gather & mine.  She has also been hired to do tailoring, forging & cooking.

She acquired a farm too!

Getting to level 15 is not easy to do in HKO.  It’s even easier to level up in World of Warcraft rather than in HKO.  It took me like 7 hours to get from level 14 to 15.  Imagine the total # of  hours I played to reach this milestone 😛

One thing I learned in leveling up is aside from performing the quests, you can also just raise your skills namely:

• Planting – you do this in your farm.  Put fertilizer first then seed then water it.  
• Gathering – When you see a tree, that’s where you can gather.  You can also gather stuff from the plants in your farm.
• Woodcutting
• Mining

There are 4 profession that your character can do, I don’t think raising this will let you level up but doing this will let you finish some quests.  You’ll need to purchase recipes in order to perform the job, some are given as a reward when you complete a quest.

• Forging
• Cooking
• Tailoring
• Carpentry

I spent most of the time woodcutting & gathering in order to level up fast.  So that’s the tip I can give to people who want to reach higher levels at the fastest time possible.

Truly a cute game.  I’m excited for it to go out of beta.  Let’s see if they do some improvements.  Hopefully they listened to my suggestions.

My biggest request is for them to make this Mac OS-compatible PLEASE 🙂

I attended the Hello Kitty Online Bloggers Party at Yaku Restaurant, Podium Mall last August 20, 2009. It was attended by bloggers and organized by Level Up, sponsored by Level Up, Sanrio & Netopia.

Pictures from the event can be found here.

They gave us a demo of the game and also raffled out prizes, I didn’t win but I’m happy to be invited as I’m a BIG fan of hello kitty! So nice that there is an online game that has Sanrio characters. We were all given founders beta passes to try out the game first-hand.

I tried it out early this morning. I initially thought that this will be the same SIMS but apparently, I can compare this with World of Warcaft hehehe. It’s an MMPORG but more on the “cute” side.

First, you’ll create your character, customize it according to your preference. I named my character “Alba” (I just watched Time Traveler’s wife hehe).

Then we’ll explore the world, it’s soooo cute! It’s a truly magical world out there with places like London, Paris, Beijing, New York & Florapolis.

And we can also interact with Sanrio characters such as Hello Kitty, Keroppi, Bad Badtz-Maru, Pochacco, many more.

There are just so many things to do in HKO.

• Farming – allows you to plant, grow & harvest your crops
• Item Collection & Crafting – allows you to dig ores in mines or gather fruits from trees. You can also gain skills like cooking, tailoring, make furnitures & house building.
• Pet System – you can own different pets to defeat monsters.
• Guild System – Guild can also be formed inside HKO. players can choose one of the 6 sanrio characters as their emblem.

So glad that I’m one of the first ones to try out this great cute game! If you want to be part of the first few to try out the game, you can go to this link.

Before I forget, HKO players can also get a free account with Sanriotown (http://sanriotown.com) where they can send emails, post blog entries, share pictures, play mini games and a lot more.

Here are improvement areas that I hope HKO team will address:

• We can only use our mouse as controls for the game. I really hope we could also use the arrow keys in our keyboards.
• We can only add our HKO buddies if we’re both offline. I hope that we can add buddies even if they are offline.
• Can’t zoom in or zoom out 🙁 We have to be very dependent on the mini map in this case. I hope we’d be given that option coz it will ease gameplay a lot.
• Be able to create more than 1 character.  We’re only allowed to create only one character today.

That’s all for now. Let’s see if I have something more to say in the future when I get to play the game more 🙂