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Tera – Fashion Coupons for Gear Costumes
We have discussed the templates previously available with Fed Bills, and the removal of the template system from Tera in previous posts. I’ve not been playing Tera for a while and there have been some updates. Back in April there was an event for about a month where you could obtain Luxury Fashion Coupons. We were each given 20, but it took 200-500 to purchase anything useful. I still have some of those coupons, but the event is over.
Update 16 Dec 2014: As of the Fate of Arun update, it is no longer viable to get Fashion Coupons with low level toons. The drop rate has apparently been reduced to 10-20% of it’s previous number, so rather than working 3 days for 400 coupons with Basilisks or Nagas in Celestial Hills, it now takes much longer. I’ve given up farming Fashion Coupons. You get 5 coupons for doing completing a dungeon with Instance Match, but that will take far too long to get 200-500 coupons for a nice fashion.
Sometime over the summer [2013 date not certain] a new type of Fashion Coupon was created. This time, the event continues. We are going to discuss my experience trying to farm these coupons and show some of the many costumes you can obtain. There are literally 100s of armor designs and one weapon for each class. Many of the armor designs are not very interesting since they are actually just low level armor that each of us have played in the game. But if you want to “Dress Down” and look like a lower level player, then these are interesting.
Some of the designs are quite interesting and some appear to be unique. But first let’s talk about how to get and use these new Fashion Coupons.
Updated 18 Nov. See Below.
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GW2 – Don’t Forget Runes
As as Engineer or a Guardian you will find that you are one of the two races with no speed boost skill built in. So you need to find a way to move faster. Runes are the answer.
There are two types of runes that boost your speed if you use all 6 of them. That is, if you use an identical rune in all your armor pieces.
Superior Rune of the Traveler and Superior Rune of Speed both provide a 25% boost in movement speed, but the Traveler Rune costs almost 3 times as much.
GW2 – Mix and Match for Nicer Armor
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Here are some interesting armor looks by mixing and matching various armors. Here our Guardian model is wearing a Heavy Armor mixed set with the Phalanx armor from the gem store on her legs with the Pit Fighter chest for a bare midriff. My taste is to keep the gloves and boots smaller and hide the shoulders and helm. This shows off the bare shoulder and arm and does not hide the hair style. Dyes are Winter Ice and Midnight Blue. Just perfect for exploring the Shiverpeak Mountains.She is wearing the “Full Makeover” exclusive hairdo with a flower and the dark blue hair color. |
New Kitchen Range
On 7 Sept at about 11:30pm, the power glitched for long enough that my UPS [Uninterruptible Power Supplies] all started beeping. The power was out for a minute or two and then came back on. The next morning when I got up, the control panel on the stove showed the time and a red PF, as I expected.
After having the repair guy out and trying to replace the control board for $270 no luck. So the next thing to try is the key pad, which is the whole front of the stove, for about $300. So the expected cost of the repair would be over $500 with labor. Time for a new stove. Here’s the new stove. Glass top and convection oven are the requirements. This stove is about $800. Delivery today.
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Linux Counter – My Systems
Posted one year ago to keep it off the front page of the blog.
Shipping – A Month is Too Long
Recently I’ve ordered some things from Amazon. Apparently some of these things come from China. This item is taking over a month to arrive.
It appears that this comes all the way from China. Why would they do that? What is Seattle Puzzles? In a month you can walk an item from Seattle, WA to Coos Bay, OR.
GW2 – Do Dungeons
Once you get to level 80, and craft some armor and weapons. Then you’ll need higher strength gear. One way to get this is to go to WvW [ World vs World] and try to keep up with the Chaos. I tried this for about a day, and got about 1400 Badges of Honor.
The cloth armor looks pretty good actually. Here’s an example of Diviner’s Armor that I got with those Badges and some gold from an Armor Merchant in the Mists.
Another way to get better armor is to Grind dungeons.
There are a number of Dungeon currencies. To get enough for armor will take a few days or a couple of weeks. As you do the dungeons the first time during a day, for any character on your account, you get bonus chest[s].
In addition to these dungeons, there are the Fractals. I’ve only done those once, but my gear was not high enough a level. I’m building up my gear with dungeons, and crafting the next level of gear, which begins to get quite expensive. Ascended gear is the final level, and it’s very complex to craft and costly.
All the Dungeon Weapons and Armor have pretty much the same stats, but different looks. There are some details that are different, so choose carefully.
Linux Mint 17 – Auto Mount Solved
SOLVED – see below
I have a couple of hard drives. But I can’t get them to AutoMount. Used the post here to try to get it to work, but this does not work. The boot stops with a message to “Type S to skip mounting or M to Manually whatever”.
I set the options to LABEL= to match the old mount point, I hoped.
I can mount the drives manually using the little Arrow in the Disks program next to the partition.
PROBLEM SOLVED
According to this post under Ubuntu: You must uncheck the “Show In User Interface” option:
The drive[s] then show up as /mnt/YOURLABELHERE and rebooting remounts the drives properly.
But these are not the original mount points that were present when the disks were first added to the system. So I changed them and they still mount properly.
And they appear in the user interface, as you can see. Voila! Why is this so complicated?
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BTW, this was published for 2014 so that it does not appear on my first page of the blog. There is no other way I know to get things off the first page.
Linux DVD writing screenshots
When I choose Disk Image Writer, on LM17, I get a window for which I have no understandable choices. So the question is how am I supposed to use this interface to write an ISO the DVD+R that I have just inserted.
Oh. I see:
Disk Image Writer is a backup program. Brasero is the ISO media writer program, among other things.
Thanks a heap,
-ww
@N200 ~ $ inxi -S
System: Host: N200 Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
BTW: Publishing this exactly one year ago is a hack to keep bug posts off the front page, for which there is no feature in WordPress.
Windy Weather 