August 2015 – Page 5

Hearthstone: Heart of the Sunwell Tavern Brawl

Hearthstone’s Tavern Brawls are an interesting addition to the game. Each one has unique rules that are specific to that Tavern Brawl. This shakes up the game a bit and forces players to break out of their comfort zone and use new strategies. I’ve been having fun trying them out.

I like to think of the Heart of the Sunwell Tavern Brawl as the “10 Mana Brawl”. Instead of starting out with 1 mana (as players do in a typical Hearthstone match) they started out with 10 mana. The result was that players could use cards right away that they otherwise would have had to wait for several turns to use.

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Leah’s Family Tree

Last year, in April, I participated in an “A to Z” 30 day blogging challenge. One of the posts I wrote while working on that challenge was titled L is for Leah. In it, I briefly went over some of Leah’s backstory. I left a lot out in order to avoid massive “spoilers”.

Today, I decided to go ahead and put together Leah’s family tree. It’s something that’s been in my head for a while. It turned out that her family tree includes characters that one might not expect.

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Pairs

Throwback Thursday: Two pairs of cockatiels.

Poke and Morris have made a tentative agreement to get along with each other. Pepper and Marvin have a bond that implies that Marvin might be a girl.

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Shapes

Throwback Thursday: “Now you’re just some birdie that I used to know…”

Morris and Max would sometimes walk around in the entryway. (2014)

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My Demon Hunters

Blizzard has officially announced that the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion is called Legion. As a person who plays a lot more Diablo III than I do World of Warcraft, there was one thing that caught my attention about the WoW expansion. There will be a Demon Hunter class in World of Warcraft.

Based on this news, I decided that my #Blaugust Day 6 post would be about my Diablo III Demon Hunters. One of them was started the day Diablo III was released, and the other one was created for Season 2.

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Lady Victoria and the House of Deep Sorrow

Anyone who has played through Act V of Diablo III will find that many of the buildings include smaller side quests. If you are playing through Story Mode, you can choose to ignore them and stick with the main quests, or to see how many you can find. Some of these side quests turn up as Bounties in Adventure Mode.

Overall, the stories presented in these little, randomly appearing, optional objectives paint a picture of how bleak and dangerous Westmarch has become. Each shows what happened to random people who were unfortunate enough to be living in Westmarch when Malthael and his minions came and started ripping out people’s souls.

One of the stories that grabbed my attention is in an objective called “House of Deep Sorrow”. It is short, and fairly simple to complete. The implications of what this short story reveals are very disturbing, (even in context of Diablo III).
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Playing Diablo III When Everyone is Focused on WoW

Treasure Goblin Pet from Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Collector’s Edition

This is my Day 4 post for #Blaugust. I probably should have been adding that to my previous three posts, but simply didn’t think to do it. I have two goals for this blogging project.

One, of course, is to write one blog every day until the month is over. The other is to write blogs that are related in some way to my favorite video game – Diablo III. I decided on that topic to challenge myself, since I am a person who regularly writes three or four blogs a day (on various websites).

I’m writing this as most of the lovely people I follow on Twitter are getting super excited about the upcoming announcement from Blizzard about … well, we don’t know exactly what that will turn out to be. Speculation abounds, as it typically does when people get the idea that WoW is due for another expansion. We’ve seen all of this before. I’m kind of bummed that there doesn’t seem to be much new coming to Diablo III, though.

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Big Dreams

Morris is getting the band back together.

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Hearthstone: Free Pack From Webspinner Tavern Brawl

The Tavern Brawls in Hearthstone are interesting because they change up the rules that one would expect in a typical Hearthstone match. Each Tavern Brawl is unique and only lasts for a limited amount of time. So far, every new Tavern Brawl has offered players one free pack of cards after they win their first match.

The Webspinner Tavern Brawl took place during the first week of July of 2015. As you may have guessed, it involved lots and lots of spiders. I happen to like spiders, so I figured that I’d have a great time with the Webspinner Tavern Brawl. Instead, I found myself struggling. The screenshots you see in this blog were taken on July 4, 2015.

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Flight Rising: Lightning Lancer

The Lightning Lancer was the holiday Familiar for the 2015 Thundercrack Carnivale. The festival took place during the last week of July, and the first week of August of 2015. This holiday is connected to the Lightning Flight.

The easiest way to collect a holiday Familiar is to gather up enough of the special currency during the week of that holiday. You can do this via Gathering, or by having your dragons battle in the Colosseum. The special currency is a random drop. This year, for the first time, players could also craft the holiday currency at Baldwin’s Bubbling Brew.

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