Heroic Dreams - All Things Medieval

I have not posted to the blog in a week because I have been really busy with a fun project.
As you know I have been playing warcraft and really enjoying it! Although, the project has limited my warcraft time

The project is something that I have been wanting to do for a long time and it has been on my to-do list for seemingly forever. It is a virtual reality kind of chamber and I never really knew what I would actually do in it. But the idea hit me that I could play Warcraft in it! This seemed like it would be fun so I went ahead and spent the week building the chamber and it came out cool. And now that it is done I can get back to the blog, the websites, and a bit of warcraft.

I am putting together a project page where you can learn more about the chamber, how I built it, what I used, and how you can make one too. I will keep you posted and let you know where on stormthecastle.com you can see this. For now here is a quick picture of the inside of the chamber. (I think I am going to call it the Warcraft Pod.)

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Going over my log files and affiliate information with Amazon.com I can see that many of you that visit my websites and this blog are very savvy shoppers when it comes to medieval items> Often times I am made aware of a great sale on Amazon for a sword, or other piece of medieval equipment through a sale. This made me think that I really should tap into the power of ebay for this kind of savvy shopping. So today I have joined up with ebay and have started the process of adding ebay alerts, sales and items to my websites. I will keep you posted as to my progress so you can keep on top of any hot items in the medieval/fantasy genre.
This is a sample small banner of real time offerings from ebay. I will do up some code and really drill down into the ebay offerings so I can target the things and sales that you are looking for.

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The Burning Crusade Expansion

World Of Warcraft Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition

If you have been reading my blog you know that somebody gave me a free subscription to Warcraft about a month ago. I have been squeezing some time in the evening to play and I have been thoroughly enjoying it.
The progenesis for the big todo about warcraft was my writing of the blog post about the warcraft episode of SouthPark (which is the single funniest 30 minutes I have ever seen on TV)

But a couple of things about Warcraft, I have played a lot of online games and I was playing ultima online before most people even had computers, I ahve played Final Fantasy online, Shadowbane, Knight online, runescape, Eternal Lands and others.

And warcraft is the best. They have really put some thought into making the game better and the big thing they addressed was the endless level grind. This was the worst part of online gaming for me and if you are an online gamer you know what I mean !

What warcraft does is have a seriously extensive list of quests to complete and you can have a list of quests as long as 25 that you can work on. These quests vary considerably and as you go about completing them you stop and realize that you are leveling! What a big change to the leveling grind.

About PVP - I am not a fan of PVP (Player-vs-Player) combat. But lately I have been doing some PVP on Warcraft, and I have been enjoying it! Just as in leveling Warcraft has done a nice job with really thinking about how to make PVP a fun experience - and it is! And the pvp itself awards you honor points which can be used to buy weapons and armor in the game (some nice stuff too!)

Another solution to the Online Gaming Problem - Another big thing about online games is the level cap. THis is where you get to the highest level and then you really have nowhere to go from there. Warcraft seems to have nicely handled this problem in that their new expansion release The Burning Crusade allows you to go from the current cap of level 60 to the new cap of level 70! I think this is great and of course you have to buy the expansion but I consider it to be well worth it! And I can’t see any reason why next year they put out an expansion that will allow you to get to 80.

About Solo Playing Warcraft - I am a big solo player, I love to play solo and it is totally doable for %90 of the time in Warcraft. Occasionally I group with other people to conquer the tougher quests and this is perfect for my style of play.

About all this stuff - Is it no wonder that there are 8 Million subscribers to this game?

If you are looking for a great online game to play then Warcraft is it!

World of Warcraft

Looking for my review of the Southpark Warcraft Episode? It’s the funniest half hour on TV and every online gamer has to watch it!
Read my review here:
http://castlefiction.com/heroicdreams/we-cant-trust-the-sword-of-a-thousand-truths-to-a-noob.html

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