It has now been one month since I started to play World of Warcraft. It has completely taken over my spare time (and even my busy-time) and it doesn't plan to let me go anytime soon.

I play as a female hunter night-elf by the name of Nataliah. I play on the Terenas server so give a shout-out if you happen to see me! Currently, I'm level 46 so I'm about halfway to level 60 (experience-wise, of course).

I'm off to play some more WoW but I'll be sure to update this journal entry with pictures (if I remember!).

I beat Tales of Symphonia with sub-level 45 characters. It was pretty easy, actually, since I had plenty of gald to buy 30 of every type of Gel and Life Bottle. I beat the game in just under 16 hours.

However, partway through the run, I realized I missed one of Zelos' titles, Idiot Chosen. You need to play a skit that only appears when you visit Mizuho for the first time. By the time I realized I was missing it, it was too late. So last night, I decided to once again start a new game. I blazed through against every boss since I had 10x EXP and I managed to finally nab ALL the titles. At about 10 hours into my fifth playthrough, I'm already at the Flanoir-scene. I'll beat the game in under 12 hours at this rate.

While visiting the ToS message boards, I came across a site with videos to a lot of various RPG footage, including some of ToS. Among the videos were the Hi-Ougis of every character and some media of incredible combos. The highlights has to be the video of a level 9 Sheena single-handedly defeating Abyssion in Mania and anothe video of a lone level 13 Zelos.

Here's the link for those who wants to see it for themselves.
http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/

Good stuff if I must say so myself!

I'm doing a mini-speed run of this RPG to earn the Gung-Ho title for Lloyd. I'm just after the part where Lloyd has the 'snow-scene' with one of the other characters. I plan to make videos of the conversations for each character but I left my TV-to-PC adapter at home, so I'll have to make them later this weekend.

I also found all the Devil's Arms and I challenged Abyssion, the hardest boss in the game, at level 35 +/-. The battle was taking forever at my level and I didn't think my items would last so I decided to quit after taking away only a quarter of his HP. Lloyd was doing 1 damage per attack so I had to rely on Genis' Meteor Storm for the damage. But at 400 damage per meteor, and assuming 5 hits (at the most), that's still only 2000 damage. The boss has 120,000 HP and Genis could only cast the spell twice before running out of TP. I also need to save items for Raine, the main healer. Needless to say, continuing the battle would be a waste of time.

Hopefully I'll be able to beat the game with my characters at less than level 45 since I'm almost at the end already. The bosses have definitely been much more fun to fight against since each one takes about 10 minutes. I only earn 1/2 the normal EXP as well so it makes it even more challenging when you skip and run from every normal encounter. I've probably only finished two dozen normal encounters.

I clocked in about 14 hours on this, my fourth playthrough, so I expect to finish in 17 or 18 hours. Actually, assuming I don't need to level up against any bosses, which I haven't needed to so far, then I'll even say 16 hours since the final dungeon is optional and I might just skip it.