Update on the Update!

YES, I am still working on the guide update!

I'm splitting my time a bit though, because Story of Seasons just came out and I was really looking forward to that, so I'm doing PDP at night and SoS during the day inbetween homework and classtime.

For PDP I picked Rin Kaenbyou as my starter, and I'm just now at Kappa Valley. Just so we all know, I swear the week I wrote the initial guide was the most productive week of my life. I wrote a guide while also taking an intensive animation class (which I got an A in, so I wasn't slacking!).

I never complete games that fast. Like I said: most productive week of my life. I'm a slow game-completer. I like to think I'm not, but I am.

And let's finish this off with a couple quick tips for Story of Seasons, because I've been wanting to make a list of these anyway.

•  This one is kind of obvious, but look up you love interest's likes and dislikes. Don't do what I did and assume they like flowers. Because then you end up like me and realize halfway into Summer that they hated the gifts you were giving them. :(
• Get a Sewing Studio as soon as possible. Start growing Flax. Turn it into Gold Linen Cloth. Sell it. Easiest way to beat Conquests and make money.  (this one is credited to http://fogu.com/hmforum/viewforum.php?f=30 <-- That forum)
• Save 5 Turnip Seeds before you're done with Year 1 Spring. You need it to make the Seed Maker. (also from the above forum).
•  In the Fall, grow Sweet Potatoes. After they're fully grown, they are harvestable every day with only one water per day.
• Once you unlock them, carry some Carrots in your inventory to instantly travel on your horse to town or the Trade Depot. You can either grow the Carrots yourself in the Fall or buy them from the General Store starting in the Fall (I think that's when they start being sold). 
• Participate in Conquests regardless of if you think you can win or not. No harm in trying. Even if you don't particularly want the field, it's a good idea to try for it just in case you want it next Season or something and the lease isn't up yet.
• For that matter, renew your leases regardless of if you're actually using the field or not. It doesn't cost anything, and you don't have to do another Conquest for it.
• Remember to water plants twice a day. At least your main ones. I'm at the end of Fall and I only grow Flax in my main field and Sweet Potatoes in the Root Crops field. I water the Flax twice a day (6AM, 6PM), and the Sweet Potatoes once
• Clear out the trees to the top right of your property ASAP. There's a ton of space up there and you can put your workshops / coop up there or something.
• If you have the spare Stamina be sure to chop any wood and crush any rocks you see for the lumber and stone.
• Collect Weeds that you find and store them. You can turn them into Fertilizer once you have the Seed Maker.
• For Conquests, definitely try and get the Honey/Mushroom field. In the Summer, you can start picking up Giant Honey Bees. Put three in each box. They seem to be better than normal Bees. Check back every week or so for honey. Mushrooms you just have to plant and come back every once in a while to check on. You can fertilize them too, if you want. But, basically, that field is passive income. You barely have to do anything, but you get honey and shiitake mushrooms out of it.
• Don't overdo it on the crops. Even just your little pre-fenced field on your property gives you 99+ crops per harvest sometimes. It doesn't look like much when it's planted, but it's a LOT when harvested!
• Don't grow trees on your main property. One of the Conqest-able fields is an Orchard. I don't have that yet, so I personally planted four trees (one for each season) on those four plots you can use at Ida's farm.
• Feed your livestock treats! This can make it so they give you twice the amount of product (2 milks per day, 2 eggs, etc.).
• If you have Rabbits, make sure you brush them.
• Pick up your chickens and rabbits every day to raise their heart levels.
• Once you unlock the Safari area, mine there every day for gems and metals. They're so useful!
• Also check the grassy area and stumps for Downy Tufts, which can be used to make clothing in the Sewing Studio.
• Once you have the Seed Maker save some of your harvested crops to dry and turn into free seeds.
• Grow two patches of grass early on in the game. I had so many stacks of 99 Fodder saved up from Year 1 Spring that I still have plenty of stacks, and I haven't grown grass in 2 seasons!
• Early on, go diving whenever you have spare Stamina. You need Bricks and Iron to build many things! Fish can be sold. Any gems you find can be kept or sold.

I really wish Steam did refunds :/

I got a Steam card as a gift the other day and so I went to go get some games today, and I picked out some that looked good and installed.

....Only to find out that they don't even work. Two won't even start and one will start but shrinks my screen and makes it so no buttons work. I really wish I could return them and get my money back, but I can't because Steam doesn't do refunds. I've done my research on how to fix these and they just won't be fixed, and my computer meets the minimum requirements for these games. I wish I could just get a refund and get some different games instead :(

Just a little update

I'm doing another run of Puppet Dance Performance to do a check of the guide. My game is fully patched to 1.31, so I'll likely be including a section about the new costume change stuff.

Most importantly though, I'll be taking screenshots so I can include more images in the guide! That's the major update from me :)

Advice to anyone new to WoW

I think that one of my biggest issues with finding a character I enjoy playing is that I unconsciously cut myself off from certain classes/specs.

For example, my first character was a Druid. I thought that a Druid would be the class I would most enjoy because I like cats. That was an incorrect assumption because I can't seem to stick with a Druid for further than level 30 or so. Try as I might, I can't seem to stick with Feral, and Balance has been weird for me since the changes to how the Eclipse bar functions. I can't get into Resto healing, and we'll get into my experiences with tanking later.

My second character was a Warlock. I chose this one on a whim. Also, not really the best choice. I can't seem to stick with a Warlock past level 20. The highest I think was 25 and that was Affliction. Demonology and Destruction appear to be no-goes for me.

My first level 90 was a Windwalker Monk. I made her because Monk was brand-new and I was leveling with my father, who also made a Monk (although he stopped playing his Monk at level 30). For a while, I was the highest level Monk in my guild at the time before I was inevitably distracted and surpassed.

My absolute favorite class to play is Shadow Priest, which was one I never expected. I initially made my first Shadow Priest, Ariadust, to be a Discipline healer, but queues were slow so I switched over to Shadow to level. And I loved it. I only made a new Shadow Priest, Toyosatomimi, because I fell in love with the new human female models, and Toyosatomimi was boosted up to level 90. Toyosatomimi is now my reigning main character.

And time and time again, I find myself enjoying characters that I never expected.

I always thought I would like Arms Warrior best, but I am really enjoying Fury. I always assumed Elemental Shaman was right for me, but I am having more fun than I have in a while leveling an Enhancement Shaman.

And some specs change frequently for me. Last time I played I was really into Arcane Mage, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe it's time to give Frost a chance, since I've been bored of Fire lately too.

And as for Rogues? Well, I've only ever played Subtlety, so it's time to check out Combat and Assassination too.

My advice to new players is this: For some people, choosing a class is easy and they can stick with it and for others the choice takes a long time to find what you love. My advice is to not box yourself in to any specific classes or assume you won't like something. A class will click for you, you just have to find the right one. Mine is Shadow Priest, although I enjoy messing with other classes too, of course.

Oh, and that applies for roles too. Be sure to try healing, DPS, and tanking at some point. You may hate them, but do try them just for the sake of trying.
I quite enjoy healing in groups, dislike DPS in groups, and I don't like to talk about tanking because I am an incapable tank and I feel bad for the groups I tried to tank for. I am so sorry to anyone who had to witness that.

Okay, I've got a plan

First of all, the Neptune guide is temporarily abandoned because it was FAR more work than I anticipated. I'll be taking down the page right after I'm done typing this. It will happen in the future, just that future is not right this second. Sorry :(

Secondly, I'm back to WoW again. I revamped my account so that all names are now Touhou related. Which makes me very happy. I also chose the name specifically so that if someone was to look up the name the first thing that comes up is related to Touhou. This sadly limited my choices, but I like the idea of this better.

I probably should have chosen a different name for my Paladin than Shoutoramaru because that looks dumb, but both Shou and Toramaru did not direct to Touhou as the first result on Google, and Shou is my absolute favorite Touhou character so I wanted to have her included regardless. She will also be my jewelcrafter, of course :)

I also now have all of my necessary heirlooms at their base 1-60 levels (thanks to Toyosatomimi's ability to solo old content fantastically to earn money), which is good enough for now. Goal #2 is to upgrade them all to the 1-90 variant. I don't care about the 90-100 upgrade so much because 1) I don't mind WoD leveling and 2) 3,000 total for upgrades per piece is a bit excessive for me.

This is kind of insane

The sheer amount of people in the newbie zones in WoW is insane. To the point where I feel bad for any new players.

I'm in the Night Elf starting zone trying to do the quest "Vile Touch" where you have the kill Githyiss the Vile. There are about 10 of us waiting here, and dozens of Githyiss corpses. We have to wait for it to spawn and then one out of 10 gets the kill, meanwhile, three more people have arrived and are waiting.

And if I grab it I'll feel like a jerk since I'm in full heirlooms and no one else is wearing any...

I don't know, this seems like one of those situations where CRZ should be turned off.  When there's so many people trying to do a single quest that it becomes intrusive or something. Because I'm sitting here with a whole bunch of people that aren't from my realm or the realm mine is connected to, all waiting for a thing to spawn in a newbie zone. The zones are fine once you get past the level 20 or so areas, but up until then, it's extremely frustrating.

Okay

I'm going to start writing a Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 1 guide.
But I just want everyone to know that this is not going to be written nearly as quickly as my Puppet Dance Performance guide purely because this game is extraordinarily grind-heavy at times.

But, it's happening regardless, just not quickly.

On to writing!