Well Diablo 3 Season 8 just ended and I wanted to give an update to what I did this season. My original goal for the season was to reach paragon 800 and finish the conqueror seasonal journey. I ended up completing both of my goals for this season. I decided to play a witch doctor again to start the season. I was doing very well, I had no deaths this season and the drop quality was pretty good compared to last season. Overall, I am very pleased to what I accomplished this season. I ended up reaching paragon 874 for the season, which puts me in the top 350 of hardcore players in NA. My witch doctor did a greater rift 79, which put me in rank 73 for all NA hardcore witch doctors. This is pretty amazing that I reached the top 100, since in season 6, I did the same greater rift 79 but that only put me in rank 104. I guess there were fewer people playing this season overall. I wanted to do a greater rift 80 but I kind of ran out of time. Most of my gear had the Cadelsann's despair of +325 int but I needed to do some more.
I also made a demon hunter this season just to play something different. My demon hunter did a greater rift 65, which put me just outside of the top 1000. I mostly used the demon hunter to do some speed grinding and levelling. My demon hunter did the Unhallowed Essence build, which is very nice for speed farming but it is tricky to use when doing higher greater rifts. Compared to last season, this season was much more successful for me. I ended up playing about 20 more hours than last season but I seemed to accomplish a lot more than last season.
My overall non-season paragon level now sits at 1188, which is a lot of extra main stat. After the season ended, I tried to clean up my stash space (it took me a long time to clean it, but it is almost done). I have very little stash space room so I will probably have to disenchant a lot of gear. I made my season 8 witch doctor a bit more stronger and I finally did a greater rift 80 for the first time. Season 9 is going to start on January 6th and I kind of excited about playing this next season. I am probably going to be playing a different class in the next season because there isn't much motivation to reach conqueror in the seasonal journey since I have all the available stash space already. I am probably going to try build a Hammerdin build or maybe even try to do a LoN bomb build.
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Video Games vs Real Life
More and more, video games are becoming like real life. A lot of video games have enhanced graphics which make the game real life-like. The video games that I used to play as a kid were games for Atari and Nintendo, which had 8 bit graphics and no 3d modelling at all. Now, a lot of games have 3d modelling, especially with 1st person shooters. There are lot of games that also mimic the way we live our lives. There might be characters that move like we do, maybe even think the way we do with enhanced artificial intelligence. The more people get used to playing video games and the more development that gets put into video games, the more likely that video games will mimic our daily lives.
There is a very pragmatic way of thinking that video games are not very healthy and that it does not help in our daily lives at all. Although playing video games for long stretches of time is not healthy, there is more evidence that video games do in fact help with our daily lives. Sometimes the problem solving and the teamwork needed in playing these video games will also help solve problems in the real world. I like the fact that the quests in my video games also are like the problems that I have in real life. For example, in order to find my sword in my video game, I have to perform certain tasks to achieve that sword. Much like in real life, that "sword" could be instead clothes or shoes. Another example could be that I want to become stronger and quicker so for in real life, I would train to become more stronger. In a video game, in order to become stronger, I have to level up by killing monsters. There are so many examples of how just like in a video game, in real life there are many steps to complete a task to get stronger and better.
I think one way of video games can help people become more active is to have more games that make people move. Right now the biggest problem of video games is that people are sitting down for long stretches of time and that is not very healthy at all. I think things like the Xbox Kinetic and Nintendo Wii controller are two things that help mimic our movement. An even better development will be the new virtual reality glasses (Oculus Rift) that will even further the real world-like experience. I don't think it will be too long before the new virtual reality glasses will become popular. Other games such as Pokémon Go can help us gamers to play not just by sitting down but moving around. I do hope that video games will continue to evolve and help us to become more active.
There is a very pragmatic way of thinking that video games are not very healthy and that it does not help in our daily lives at all. Although playing video games for long stretches of time is not healthy, there is more evidence that video games do in fact help with our daily lives. Sometimes the problem solving and the teamwork needed in playing these video games will also help solve problems in the real world. I like the fact that the quests in my video games also are like the problems that I have in real life. For example, in order to find my sword in my video game, I have to perform certain tasks to achieve that sword. Much like in real life, that "sword" could be instead clothes or shoes. Another example could be that I want to become stronger and quicker so for in real life, I would train to become more stronger. In a video game, in order to become stronger, I have to level up by killing monsters. There are so many examples of how just like in a video game, in real life there are many steps to complete a task to get stronger and better.
I think one way of video games can help people become more active is to have more games that make people move. Right now the biggest problem of video games is that people are sitting down for long stretches of time and that is not very healthy at all. I think things like the Xbox Kinetic and Nintendo Wii controller are two things that help mimic our movement. An even better development will be the new virtual reality glasses (Oculus Rift) that will even further the real world-like experience. I don't think it will be too long before the new virtual reality glasses will become popular. Other games such as Pokémon Go can help us gamers to play not just by sitting down but moving around. I do hope that video games will continue to evolve and help us to become more active.
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