November 2021

Christmas Balls

stargrace November 25, 2021 No Comments

Last year I attempted to participate in a Christmas ball advent calendar knit a long, but my hands were in poor shape and I wasn’t able to knit that many before I just called it. I’m not going to make any promises this year but I have been feeling pretty good physically, and I did jump right back in and I knit up this Christmas ball in an evening that I’m quite proud of.

I also created a few knitting patterns so I can easily share my designs with other people, I really wanted to ever since I knit my ‘For the Horde’ mittens. People asked for the pattern then and because I had created it from scratch and didn’t write it down any place it made it difficult. I still have some learning to do (you can’t just design any pattern at all, tension and colours play a big role in these decorative knits) but we’ll see what I can come up with. I’m also pretty close to passing the amount of yarn I bought by the amount of yarn I used – something I’m really tickled about because I wasn’t sure I did that much knitting this year. If I can finish my cable crush hoodie I’ll surpass it by almost 2000 yards, and that is something I’m looking forward to.

Gaming

So Many Characters

It is coming to the end of the season in Black Desert Online, and I’m trying to decide who I want to play next. I currently have 8 characters but am in the middle of deleting one (the 49 Shai, more details about that later) and I already have two characters that I enjoy a great amount. They include my 61 Lahn (favourite class by far), and my 57 Shai who dreams of one day being 61. I keep intending on making her my main, but then I get distracted.

I decided to use my time piece on a witch, so I now have a 61 witch, and I also leveled up a 56 archer, a 55 sorcerer, a 56 corsair, and a 54 nova. Next season my intention is to level up a tamer – but the class revamps also happen around December 22nd, so how things play will change. I’m looking forward to these changes because as it turns out not all classes play the same. The guardian that I absolutely loved last season is actually pretty slow in their combat style, and after playing the Lahn I just wasn’t enjoying it. Ideally I’ll have one of everything, and at least two sets of gear that I can pass between everyone as I decide who to play. With the Oasis event ending it means most of my characters are without anything to wear, not necessarily a bad thing but I was really relying on that gear to use those alts to camp world bosses.

I’ll probably graduate early because I don’t really have much left to do this season. I’ve got a set of PEN Naru gear that I’m hoping to exchange for Narchilian gear (yellow gear that you can swap one time) and I’ll exchange my PEN Tuvala gear for boss TET gear – that can be enchanted through a bunch of drops/questing. I haven’t figured out all of the details yet, but it’s something involving reforming stones.

All in all? Things are still going very well in game, and even though Endwalker looms, I’ve yet to feel the pull. For now my feet are firmly planted on the river bank where I spend my time AFK fishing.

As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!

Gaming

IntPiPoMo 50/50

stargrace November 23, 2021 1 Comment

Another IntPiPoMo in the books – I had a LOT of fun this year, and I’m surprised but not surprised that I managed to get 50 screen shots of BDO into the month. The game is absolutely gorgeous in case you can’t tell by my enthusiasm.

Gaming