Boss Drop

Getting fit while talking about games and game design!

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My walk during break is kinda uneventful. Lol

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LFR - MoP Edition

LFR, or Looking for Raid, is a tool that most World of Warcraft (WoW) players know, love, and utterly detest. Strange relationship, no? It’s a method designed to appeal to casual players that simply don’t have the time to invest into a “legitimate” raid of regular or heroic difficulty, and is frequently used by those more hardcore players in order to bolster their equipment to give a potential edge on some fights. Every bit counts! It was introduced with the Cataclysm expansion, specifically for the 4.3 Dragon Soul raid. At the time, bosses would just drop whatever and you’d try to roll on things—akin to dungeon bosses. That ended up being quckily abused as players would loot on items they didn’t need for their friends, or just to troll other players “for the lulz”. With Mists of Pandaria, Blizzard has made it so that raid bosses—at least Sha of Anger and LFR since I’ve not done any else—drop an item based on your class and spec automatically into your inventory. Funnily enough, this is more often than not Gold. Yay. We dove into LFR last night, running through each of them one by one. I started out on my Pandaren Monk, Shuxue, and wound up getting a pretty nice 478 fist weapon that I dumped 1500 valor into to upgrade +8 iLvl to a 484. She’s 2 iLvl away now from the final set of LFR queues, and wearing a 442 body… so if I get lucky on dungeons I should probably be able to reach it. After a quick break, we started again—this time I was on my Worgen Hunter, Kreuss. While we cleared the bosses out without much difficulty, I ended up short changed with nothing new to actually use. Danny wound up 2-piecing though, lucky punk. :P The server hiccuped on Lei Shi—the boss that drops pretty much everything I can make tremendous use of right now. It was awful. :(

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Epic Drop: Day 2

Yesterday I woke up pretty sore from the day before--don't knock it! I literally did not work out at all for months prior. I'm really out of shape. That said, I was down to 214.8--likely most of the loss due to regular weight fluctuation and food intake. Not eating after 6pm is really hard! :( Food intake: 2 cookies, 1 PB sandwich, 4 bottles of deer park water, 1 can of coca-cola, 2 wendy's dollar chicken sandwiches (plain), 1 large wendy's fry. I decided to treat my folks and myself yesterday, them because they cleaned the garage out enough to where I can finally use our Bowflex, and myself because I saw a McDonald's bag in the kitchen and couldn't resist any longer. Workout: Power walk (1.5 miles) Preacher curl (50 reps, 3 sets each arm, 5lbs weight) I ended up forgetting about the sit-ups, and by the time we finished with LFR in WoW (thanks to the server hiccup) I was far too tired to do them and really needed to get to bed for work today.

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Epic Drop: Day 1

Epic Drop is going to be posts about my progress towards losing weight and hopefully building some muscle tone--ultimately with the goal of getting into shape for health reasons. At the start of this I weighed in at 217.4lbs, quite a bit heavier than I'd like to be. My "healthy weight" is considered to be 150~160, and I'll even attest to feeling much better then than I do right now. I forgot by now what I've eaten on this day, but I remember the workout: Power walk (1.5 miles) Preacher curl (50 reps, 3 sets, both arms--5lbs weight) Sit-ups (10 reps, 5 sets) Not very much, and I want to increase my free weight quite a bit.