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After my first blog entry to the Magic: The Gathering Xbox Live game and with the new 2012 version I thought I could do it again and gather all ways to solve the challenges in the game for everyone to try them out and get the achievements for this.

Challenge: Rumble in the Jungle (vs. Garruk Wildspeaker)

Both you and Garruk have only 2 life. Using the few creatures you still have left, blunt Garruk’s final assault and defeat him.

This one is pretty easy:

• Garruk will attack you
• Block with ‘Runeclaw Bear’ and ‘Barony Vampire’
• You will know enter your Main Phase and got only 1 life left
• Play the Swamp (or just press Y to get into the Combat Phase)
• Attack with ‘Gloomhunter’

Congratulations you won your first Challenge and you got your ‘Magic: The Puzzling’ Achievement

Challenge: In the Spider’s Web (vs. Kiora Atua)

Kiora has 6 life while you only have 1. Negate Kiora’s lethal attack, then defeat her.

• Kiora will attack you with ‘Storm Crow’
• Block with your untapped ‘Furnace Whelp’
• You draw a Basic Land and play it
• Attack with both of your ‘Furnace Whelp’s
• Pause the game directly after Kiora blocked your ‘Furnace Whelp’ with her ‘Giant Spider’
• Activate the Ability of your other ‘Furnace Whelp’ and use all your Mana

more coming soon …

After 6 Years of playing Guild Wars and finally seeing more and more Videos, Interviews and reveals of Guild Wars 2 I’m really excited of what ArenaNet is serving me again. When I think about it, man, 6 years is quite something. But thats not what I wanted to talk about, I don’t understand how people are this narrow minded if it is about the features of Guild Wars 2. To tell the Truth Guild Wars 2 is THE GAME I always wanted, a MMORPG where you can really feel to be a part of the world. I remember playing with a friend and joking about a quest where a village is attacked and you are standing in the village with NPCs and some Monsters … and nothing happens. And, fuck yeah, Guild Wars 2 has that, you see what is happening.
Even with the new Class reveals like the Engineer there are some people who say that it doesn’t fit into this fantasy genre of Guild Wars. I would lie if i tell you that the Engineer is my favorite Class, no, but I think it is interesting to see something like that 250 years after Guild Wars 1. Same thing with the Holy trinity (Tank, healer, Damage dealer) after playing a Rogue in WoW you know what I mean, nobody wants you, but not because you are not that good but rather because you are a Rogue. Guild Wars 2 doesn’t have this combination and on the first thought I was like “hö, i hope that works” but after seeing and playing the game it is just perfect now if you want to form a group you won’t find in the chat something like “Healer Rank 12871203 LFG” or “GLF Healer/Tank/DD” which is really good. Hell how often were I in “The Depth” in Guild Wars and we needed only one Monk and we found not a single one.
But as usual there are people out there who doesn’t want changes. If you don’t want it that way go play WoW or ffs all the other crappy Grinding games out there and yeah I think I played them all. ArenaNet is trying to do something new like they did with Guild Wars, a full Online game with no monthly fee (free2play games aren’t mentioned here) and I think thats the only one you find out there and they will do it again with Guild Wars 2.

I read a comment today (or rather yesterday) that said something like “I tried Guild Wars but it looks like crap, something like WoW”. I read it twice because I couldn’t believe it, Guild Wars doesn’t look like WoW AT ALL how can you mistake a Comic graphic of WoW with the more real graphics of Guild Wars? Please tell me … and yeah it doesn’t look like Battlefield 3 or Black ops because its freaking 6 years old and I must say it looks way better for a 6 years old game than some other games (I played Dungeon Siege 2 recently and it is also 6-7 years old).

But I must say, Guild Wars isn’t the easiest Game because if you get a trail account you will start in the very first Chapter of Guild Wars … Prophecies and there you got more Story than progress. If you really want to see what Guild Wars is made of get Guild Wars: Factions there you will be max level in like 10 hours.
And yeah Guild Wars is different … some love it, some dislike it – if you give Guild Wars a chance you will find out it is not that bad.

Guild Wars 2 (TBA)

Battlefield 3 (10/27/2011)

Tomb Raider (TBA)

The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim (11/11/2011)

Modern Warfare 3 (TBA)

Mass Effect 3 (03/08/2012)

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (Q4/2011)

Asssassins Creed: Revelations (11/15/2011)

Anno 2070 (11/17/11)

After the GamesCom in Cologne I was quite excited, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit was really great. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood was also a “must have” game, now … after I played them I’m quite dissapointed.

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood:
Don’t get me wrong I like that game but it has some things I can’t understand. First of all the ending of the Singleplayer, until then the game was awesome (okay again crappy controlls), texture popups, some bugs (i got stuck in the aqueduct after renovating it). The Multiplayer is kind of strange. There is a action to avoid getting killed but it seems that it doesnt work or I’m to slow because my thumb is the whole time on “X”.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
I can tell you after the GamesCom I was really excited to play this game. Now after I played it I can tell you, if you are a normal racing-game player, don’t even think about getting this game. It’s so damn difficult after you reached the exotic Series. After 20 tracks as racer I couldn’t get any Gold medals anymore. Why? Everytime you do a Takedown (as racer: destroy an other racer) the Racer falls back, regenerate completely and is back on the track. EMPs doesn’t work in SP and I didn’t try them in MP. I don’t know I can’t get room between me and the second, if I even get the first place, because you can choose the fastes car in the game but the racers and cops will be behind you after the next turn. I promise. And the problem with that is, you can’t even turn it off.

Da legt man sich schlafen und denkt sich nichts böses und als man am nächsten Tag aufwacht, den Rechner anschaltet und sich in Guild Wars einloggt … ist nichts mehr da. Das ganze Geld, fast alle meiner Wertvollen sachen, alles weg.

5 Jahr arbeit für die Katz.

A new profession is out, the Necromancer.

Nachdem man ihn schon auf der GamesCom 2010 spielen konnte ist er nun offiziell angekündigt, der Necromancer

GamesCom 2010 ist zu ende und ich habe wieder viel gesehen was mich überrascht, enttäuscht und verwundert hat. Mit mehr Ausstellern und Besuchern nimmt man doch automatisch an das auch mehr zu sehen bzw. zutun ist. Leider hatten wir schon all das was uns interessiert Donnerstag (1. Tag) gesehen in den Folgenden Tagen war einfach nur noch Guild Wars 2 testen und Loot abgreifen. Viele Überraschungen gab es wie z.B. Rage, welches ich vorher nicht beachtet habe es aber echt gut aussieht und vielversprechend ist. Enttäuschend waren die Mafia 2 and Portal 2 Stände, denn bei Mafia 2 wurde nur die Demo gezeigt die man sich ja schon seid Wochen runterladen konnte (auch wenn diese Demo nicht wirklich toll aussah) hinzu kommt noch, dass man sich dort Stundenlang anstellt (wir hatten Glück und sind nach einer halben Stunde rein gekommen) und nicht einmal ein T-Shirt bekommt. Ebenso bei Portal 2, dort wurden die Trailer gezeigt von den einzelnen Testkammern die ebenfalls sehr lange online zur Verfügung stehen und ein T-Shirt gab es auch nicht. Die größte Überraschung war Guild Wars 2, ich hatte nicht gedachte das es sich so gut spielen lässt und es so gut aussieht. Ich kann kaum das Release erwarten.

I did the same post some time ago. But someone mentioned that the Challenges aren’t solvable the way I wrote it. And yes after an update there are some differences.

Walkthroughs Source:
IGN.com

Main Game: (tested 10. June 2010)

Challenge 1: Garruk

• Play Angelic Blessing on Skyhunter Skermisher
• Play Angelic Blessing on Skyhunter Skermisher
• Attack with Skyhunter Skermisher

Challenge 2: Elspeth

• Play Threaten on Soul Warden
• Summon Raging Goblin
• Attack with all usable creatures

Challenge 3: Garruk

• Use Elvish Pipers ability to summon Roughshod Mentor
• Attack with 3 Grizzly Bear’s
• Use 3 Giant Growths on a single Grizzly Bear whom is blocked by a Civic Wayfinder

Challenge 4: Chandra

• Play Megrim
• Summon Ravenous Rats
• Attack with all usable creatures

Challenge 5: Liliana

• Summon Elven Eulogist
• Summon Elvish Warrior
• Play Eyeblight’s Ending on Nightmare
• Attack with Elvin Riders
• Stop during block step
• Use Immaculate Magistrate’s ability on Elven Riders

Challenge 6: Chandra

• Use Prodigal Pyromancer’s ability on Opponent
• Use Boomerang on Persuasion
• Use Persuasion on Raging Goblin
• Attack with Phantom Warrior and Raging Goblin

Challenge 7: Nissa

• Play Terror on Elvish Champion
• Attack with all usable creatures
• Stop during attack phase
• Use Flameblast Dragons’s ability on Sprouting Thrinax with 3 mana

Challenge 8: Liliana

• Use Incinerate on Royal Assassin
• Use Incinerate on Ravenous Rats
• Use Pariah on Platinum Angel
• Use Sangrite Surge on Knights of the Skyward Eye
• Use Knights of the Skyward Eye’s ability
• Attack with Knights of the Skyward Eye and Mistmeadow Skulk
• Stop after Knights of the Skyward Eye has dealt damage to Opponent
• Use Brion Stoutarm’s ability on Yourself with Knights of the Skyward Eye as the sacrificed creature

Expansion 1:

Challenge 1: Jace (tested 10. June 2010)

• Summon Etherium Sculptor
• Summon Master of Etherium
• Play Howling Mine
• Play Onyx Goblet
• Use Onyx Goblet’s ability
• Play Loxodon Warhammer
• Play Terror on opponent’s Wall of Air
• Attack with all usable creatures

Challenge 2: Elspeth (tested 06. August 2010)

• Play ‘Jagged Lightning’ on Elspeth’s untapped ‘Angel of Mercy’ and your ‘Mudbutton Torchrunner’
• Target Elspeth
• Play ‘Vengeful Firebrand’
• Attack with all usable creatures

Challenge 3: Liliana (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play a Basic Land
• Attack with ‘Ambassador Laquatus’
• Continue and Stop the Timer
• Play ‘Condemn’ on ‘Ambassador Laquatus’
• In your 2nd main Phase play ‘Kiss of the Amesha’ to gain 7 life and 2 cards
• Play ‘Wrath of God’
• In your next turn play a Basic Land
• Summon ‘Ambassador Laquatus’
• Use ‘Ambassador Laquatus’ ability 3 times and target Liliana

Expansion 2:

Challenge 1: Garruk (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play a Swamp
• Equip your ‘Vampire Nighthawk’ with your ‘Blade of the Bloodchief’
• Use ‘Disfigure’ on ‘Guul Draz Vampire’ or ‘Ruthless Cullblade’ 2 times to power up your ‘Vampire Nighthawk’
• Use ‘Feast of Blood’ on opponents ‘Giant Spider’
• Attack with ‘Vampire Nighthawk’

Challenge 2: Garruk (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play ‘Selective Memory’ and destory every card you can select
• Play ‘Tressure Hunt’
• Play a ‘Forest’
• Play ‘Primal Frenzy’ on ‘Maro’
• Attack with ‘Maro’

Challenge 3: Nicol Bolas (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play ‘Evolving Woods’ and use its ability
• Play ‘Excommunicate’ and target ‘Phage the Untouchable’
• Play ‘Brainstorm’ and keep ‘Polymorph’
• Play ‘Polymorph’ on opponents ‘Darksteel Colossus’

Challenge 4: Tezzeret (tested 07. August 2010)

• Skip your entire turn
• Skip your entire turn again. (Don’t summon ‘Lorthos, The Tidemaker’)
• After the opponents attack, you will be at 1HP. You will be asked again to summon ‘Lorthos, The Tidemaker’, do it.
• Play the ‘Island’
• Attack with ‘Lorthos, The Tidemaker’ and pick his ‘Platinum Angel’ and 7 of his Islands
• Play ‘Unsummon’ on ‘Platinum Angel’ after he got only one Island left

Challenge 5: Sarkhan Vol (tested 07. August 2010)

• Play ‘Summoner’s Pact’ and pick ‘Seedborn Muse’
• Use the ability of ‘Elvish Piper’ and pick ‘Seedborn Muse’
• Play ‘Eladamri’s Call’ and pick ‘Plated Geopede’
• Summon ‘Plated Geopede’
• On his turn stop the timer and play both of your ‘Harrow’s’ and pay with the tapped mana
• Use ‘Khalni Heart Expedition’ to grab 2 extra Land Cards
• After your ‘Plated Geopede’ is 13/13 use ‘Fling’ and sacrifice your ‘Plated Geopede’ and target Sarkhan Vol

Falls ihr es mitbekommen habt hier noch einmal, ich spiele Guild Wars. Dort gibt es einen Bereich der sich Zaishen Elite nennt. Dort kann man pro Tag 6000 Balthazar Punkte bekommen, die man dann z.B. gegen Zaishen Schlüssel eintauschen kann (5000 Punkte gegen einen Schlüssel). Um diese 6000 Punkte zu bekommen wird ein Team aus 3 Trappern und einem Elementarmagier (dem Finisher) gebildet. 16 Kämpfe muss ungefähr machen um die 6000 Punkte voll zu bekommen. Die gegnerischen NPCs Teams bestehen aus verschiedene Kombinationen, Trappers, Spike, Mixed etc. die je weiter man kommt immer was stärker werden (es kommt ein Teammitglied hinzu).

Nun war ich gerade wieder dabei die 6000 Punkte zu bekommen. Mein Team war auch sehr gut, denn wir hatten überwiegend “Flawless”-Siege (was 50 Punkte extra gibt). Naja die Trapper (unter anderem ich) stehen immer am Eingang zu der Spawn-Area legen da ihre Fallen hin und blocken die Gegner. Das Vorgehen funktioniert aber nicht bei allen Gegner-Teams. Bei Ele-Spikes und den Mixed-Teams muss man anders vorgehen. Bei Ele-Spikes müssen alle Spieler zuweit nach hinten (in die eigene Spawn Area) gehen um die Magier in die Fallen zu locken. Bei den Mixed Teams läuft das anders, dieses Team greift entweder den Magier an oder den mit den meisten HP im Team.

Letzteres versteht aber irgendwie keiner.
Bei dem ersten Mixed-Team hatte ich gefragt wer die meisten HP hat, nur 2 von 4 leuten haben geantwortet. Da ich immer die wenigsten HP hatte blieb ich vorne stehen und habe die Gegner geblockt. Einer war wie wild und meinte ich soll doch zurück gehen. Aber geantwortet wurde mir selber nicht, als ich ihm erklärte das nur der Magier und mit dem meisten HP nur angegriffen werden und somit zurück gehen müssten. Wir hatten das ohne Verluste überstanden und weiter gings. Erst mein letzten Match wo wieder ein Mixed-Team kam und ich wieder vorne Stand nur dummerweise sind alle an mir vorbei gelaufen, weil der Rest der Gruppe hinten stand und unser Team wurde gekillt. Der Typ der sich bisher schon Aufgeregt hat rastete voll aus und bezeichnete mich als noob.

Klar wenn man keine Ahnung hat sind die anderen immer alles schuld. Ja ne is klar.

And, finally, the next profession was revealed today, the Ranger.

Whirling defense, Spread Shot, Barrage, Serpent Strike … they look so awesome … I want to play it NOW.