So! I'm not dead! But I just got my computer back. That means I had to get a life in the evening for a whole month. OMG.

Anyway, after a few weeks in the UK, I can now write down this official list of facts:

- It's raining ALOT
- People get drunk at 7pm
- Some chicks dress like wh**** in the evening, even when it's freezing
- My job is awesome
- I love beer
- My Irish roomate is very nice, I'm lucky
- My internet is crappy
- It's cold!
- Apartments are as expensive as in Paris. WTH.

So far, I'm enjoying the UK way of life. But what's with the commercials on TV seriously. It's just like in the US: you got 5 minutes of a movie, then commercials. How can you watch something like this? At least the commercials are better than french ones, but oh well, I don't watch TV anyway.

Luckily beers are cheap so better going out with friends and have free gigs and cheap drinks than watching crappy TV to be honest.

And... To be continued!

Awesome scarf made by a friend/fan :p

PS: DB v3 is great, good job to all of you guys!

Ok so many of my posts have been deleted and I have been a lazy blogger. Prepare the lash for me...

But seriously. December has been kinda crazy for me, and I thought maybe I could relate my "tale" here and make this blog interesting. Also it will be a nice way to tell my friends and family how I feel about this.

I have decided a couple of month ago to totally change my life. I have been trying to work in the video game industry, MMORPGs to be accurate. And my goal was to go and work in another country.
As you know I play Aion and I was looking forward to try and be a part of the company that makes the game, NCsoft.
After alot of time working on my resume and letter, I finally had a positive answer and filled some emails for them.
It led me to an interview in the company office in UK and oh boy I will work there!

So begins my tale of a froggie going to live in the UK and finally work for what he believes in.
Right now I'm packing, making phonecalls so I got everything ready for my departure. I got many things to do actually.
I do not think yet of my friends and family I won't be able to see for a long time. I think I'm gonna realize this when I'm in UK. But I got full support from them and really want to thank them for that. It's been really great to have them cheer me up when I thought I couldn't do this.
For now, I really look forward to the work I'll do and the people I'll meet. Working with people from all over the world was also a huge motivation for me, as well as improving my english.
I'll try and tell you how it goes for me there, I'm moving this week-end and can't wait for that :)

Hopefully there's gonna be some place I can play the piano, I played it alot these last months and it would be a shame if I can't keep doing this. It was like 5 years or more without playing it and I realized I really need music. But I hear english people do play alot of music so...

In the meantime, happy new year to everyone here and may 2010 rock!

Baptiste / Mudjai

And this blog is gonna be much more updated!

My char, inspired by a manga character

First Aion interview is coming : POGO, guildmaster of a very critisized french guild "Xeo Frenezy" which will be on the biggest EU server Spatalos. Hope it answers some questions about the game to a few people here...

My guild's website is on its way, feel free to comment and say it's a fat piece of crap!

The Legion Emblem I'm working on :

Aion release is now coming up very soon. Which servers are hot? Where the dramas are gonna take place? Those are essential questions I will answer soon...

Interviews incoming !

Peace

Baptiste / Mudjai

Hello!

As maybe some of you know, it's Aion Open Beta this week, and I had time to play until this wednsday and so I did.

But first there is something I'd like to ask the people reading this. DingBlog is about games, all the good ones hopefully, and Aion is going to be one huge game. This open beta started crazy with thousands and thousands of people rushing into this new world. I hope the Aion community here will be interesting, and I'm planning to try and make it grow.
So my question is : what do you guys want to know about Aion? What do you want to watch and read?
Please answer this in the comments if you have any interest in the game!

Anyway, I'm off for a few days but I will tell you that once again I had tons of fun. The game was patched and greatly improved on some aspects. I really can't wait for the upcoming release of the game, but I already know I will have fun during the long leveling process with my guild. We better not be drunk while PvPing in the air, it's already strange enough to battle like this for the first time :D

By the way, have you tried Windows Seven? I'm willing to take a look at it... Still on my good(well, more bad) old XP.

Hey there

A lot of things going on in my life atm, I think I'll have a long story to tell once I'm done with everything I have to do.

In the meantime I'm trying to change my blogtheme here. This should do for some weeks, I have no time for more atm, sadly.

Anyway in a few days we should know more about the Aion Open Beta, I'll keep you in touch. You will read interesting stuff here about Aion :) If you plan to play it or atleast try it, let me now.

Cya soon, keep bloging guys!

Baptiste / Mudjai

I don't wanna go back to Paris! Being back here in the south of France (Perpignan near Spain), I almost forgot how cool it is.

A long trip awaits me tonight, and I don't wanna do it. But it's not like you can do as you like every single day of you life isn't it...

So, hopefully I'll be back in one piece and blog soon enough.
Cheers

Baptiste / Mudjai

Hey hey! Back on dingblog live from south of France at a friend and guildmate's house (Acouna, that's his name. Of course his pet is always named Matata...). Its sunny, the sea is beautifull and Aion cbt6 was nice indeed.

This time I kept playing my Cleric and tried to reach level 25 in order to see at least once the Abyss! With the beach calling us, it was kinda hard. But between two escapes to the tourists zone, we managed to grind some quests and kill some mobs and had some big laughs.

Yes, in Aion you have ways to transform for fun purposes, just like this :

Or this :

Anyway, we met some Asmodians players and fought them. It was fast, PvP will be pretty violent for the better! Duels are some kind of a piece of cake for us Clerics, but once you got two people beating you up, its hard to even cast a single heal. You really have to focus on +concentration stat to avoid those cast stops or else... Well I guess we'll see that at lvl 50.

Some dead Asmos, most of them didn't know why the hell I was in their quests zone, or so it seemed.

We took the opportunity of this final beta to reach guild lvl 3 and try the personnal cloak logo system. Here's the first result.

Later you can have other nice stuff to make your cloak and gear look cooler, can't wait to see that!

So, after some silly quests and stupid bashing, I was 25 and went to the Abyss. It's really huge there, a bit empty because on this server a very few people reached this lvl, but it will be a blast when release is here.

Some Abyss SC :

My comp had some troubles with the heat for a minute xD

That’s it for closed beta. Keep your eyes opened for open beta as hopefully more and more Aion content will be released on dingblog from other Aion players.

Baptiste / Mudjai

Hello Dingblog!

For a change, I'll tell my "story" of my second closed beta test of Aion, this time as a Cleric.

I already had a Sorcerer, but more friends and guildmates wanted to try the game, and so we started new characters on a new beta server.
I didn't want to heal at first, but the dark side (or maybe light?) is never too far and I was too tempted to resist. I just had a little fun on the character creation page, which is amazing with like 1000 options, and went back to serious business!

The cleric travelling through her memories

I wanted to try the guild system, so we bought our cloak and the rank 1 of the guild. The cloak is pretty cool since if you are guild level 3, you can bring your OWN logo or anything as a guild symbol. I think it rocks :> Too bad its kinda buggy with a shield.

Shield + cloak = bad.

What can I say about the class and the game so far? It's still really really nice and smooth. There is almost no bug, there is no lag, no crash. I don't say the game is perfect, we'll have to wait and see for end game. But the foundations are rock solid. Let's hope they will make some great game out of it.

Cleric is the only real healer of the game and has every tools. It's hard to be killed, you rarely run out of mana, and you can equip shields. Killing mobs is slower than a DPS class of course, but you can chain mobs and never stop. I played with a guildmate (an Assassin) and the quests went fast.

Level 2 cloak!

I managed to reach level 21, not bad as a healer. One guildmate was level 27 tho (limit was 30), with his Spiritmaster. So far leveling is pretty fun and easy. I didn't take a look at craft skills but it seems longer than in WoW. But nothing undoable like in some games.

Did I mention group quests with elite mobs are really fun. I don't really mind bashing in this game. But I hope I'll get to PvP a bit during the next beta. I'm not rerolling again for sure! After all, PvP is the reason we are playing this game...

Everything must end.

Bonus : a drawing of some Aion char.

As I said, here is a short movie as a Sorcerer (2min30 :p)

Download it there !

I'm currently trying to make a whole new website for my guild, check it out on www.guilde-everlast.com It's still a work in progress tho.

To finish this short post, here's a drawing i made very late, I know the mouth is strange :D This was made with a black bic pen in about 15 minutes on a A3 sheet.

Yeah, really need to draw more, why am I so lazy...

Baptiste / Mudjai