A Gaming Update Masterpost: Rift, Diablo, and Trove

Hello, readers, and welcome to Teen Fiction Girl!  Christmas is getting even closer, and quite honestly, I can’t wait.  As we all know, with great holidays come great holiday specials on our favorite MMOs, so read on for a bit more on that.

In this post, I’m going to be talking about the three MMOs I play.  If you read the title, you know what they are.  Only one of them does not pertain to Christmas in some way.  So, for you holiday lovers who also happen to be gamers, this ought to be fun for you.

So, Yule has come back to Rift!  This means a month-long game event full of new wardrobe appearances, mounts, minions, quests, and so much more.  You can go sledding in Iron Pine Peak, rejuvenate the humbugs with Christmas cheer in Sanctum and Meridian, and get a new holiday currency from questing and closing rifts.  This currency can be used to buy a plethora of awesome Christmas, winter, or holiday-related items in a new World Event section on the Rift store.  Beware, savvy costume-seekers; some of the costumes in the store are returnable, while some consume automatically once you buy them.  I planned to save up as many snowflakes (that’s the currency) as I could to buy and then return all of the wardrobe appearances – and thus not actually lose any money – but I lost three hundred of them on the fur cloak.  It’s cute, so it’s worth it, but still.

This is the outfit I put on my character for Christmas.  Sorry for the blurry picture.

As for Diablo 3, nothing new has happened (since it’s not as actively updated as Rift or maybe World of Warcraft is – it’s more of a set-in-stone MMO) but that may change soon.  I might well be getting the Reaper of Souls expansion pack for Christmas (I asked for it, anyway) and, if I don’t, then I’ll buy it myself.  So, after Christmas, expect a lot more Diablo-related posts as I explore the new act of the game.

I got to level 8 on my main character on Trove.  I named her _Myra because just plain Myra was taken, and I made her to look as much like my Diablo character as I could.  That’s only one class; this afternoon I unlocked the Chloromancer class (it’s free if you get the quest on Rift!) and played it to level 4.  My graphics card has been acting up lately, so I only got that high before it flipped out on me, but that’s easy to fix since I’ve had a replacement graphics card on hand since I got the computer (I learned that having a backup is always safe after the fiasco with my laptop last year).

This isn’t related to Christmas or gaming, but I’ve made it my personal mission to memorize all of the words to the Spanish version of Parry Gripp’s Space Unicorn.  I knew a little bit of Spanish to begin with, so it wasn’t that hard, but the pronunciation is strange in my English-speaking mouth.  Unicornio espacial, volando por las estrellas, entregando los arcoiris por todo el mundo…

Yeah, I’ll leave it there.

Thanks for reading!  I hope this was interesting and/or informational (although it wasn’t exactly intended to be informational, and it probably wasn’t all that interesting).  Feedback is appreciated, in the form of either ratings or comments, and I always love seeing likes from my readers with WordPress accounts.  : )

~  Summer

Introduction to Trove

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Teen Fiction Girl!  Firstly, it’s almost Christmas, which is awesome (everything SMELLS so GOOD!  I love the smell of Christmas) and I finished all of my Christmas shopping today.  I was informed by my parents that all the Christmas shopping for me was finished, too, and that I did not get the boots I asked for, so I took the liberty of buying them myself.  They are every bit as fabulous as I expected them to be.

But that has nothing to do with Trove, which is what I made this post to discuss.  Trove is another MMORPG by Trion, the company that makes Rift.  I have not actually played it yet (it’s still downloading), but I know basically what it’s all about.  It’s like a cross between Minecraft and your classic MMO – you can build, craft, and explore, but the combat and player interface is more like that of Rift or Diablo 3 or any other MMO you care to use as an example.  Additionally, when you reach level 20 in Trove, you get an exclusive mount on Rift, which is another bonus of playing the game that I have looked forward to for a couple of months now.

Like all Trion games (as of now, thank goodness) it’s free.  That means installation is quick and it should be ready to play in… about twenty minutes.  Maybe I’ll post some more about it tomorrow.

Thanks for reading – I hope you’ll stick around to see if I post any more articles on this subject!

~  Summer