Latest XCM Moves

I've not had much practice with the deck since my last post about being able to fan (not that greatly though)

I have actually been able to perform a one handed single cut called a Charlier... why Charlier and not Charlie or whatever I have no idea... I'm quite good at it, but it's still a bit harder with a full deck.

I have tried out a new move today, it's called the hot shot! You perform a Charlier cut, then a single card flies out of the deck into the other hand...

Sounds impossible right? But look at this and you will understand that it can be done without a fixed deck. I even showed this move to a colleague at work, he could do nothing but sit and smile...

Anyway, it's really coming along now, I'm picking up some pretty cool cuts, and I'm really enjoying it. I never realised I'd get so into it! Then again, it is something I've wanted to be doing for quite a few years now.

I'm looking at doing something called a Revolution, basically spin a 'packet' in one hand or a few fingers, along with other smart moves like Buckeye.

Anyway, I thought I best post the latest.

XCM And Chaos Within Activity

I'm impressing myself how quick I'm picking up these flourishes using a deck of cards. I'm now getting the hang of fanning half a deck (which is what I've been using now for all flourishes for practice). I'm still using an old deck so it sticks very often and leaves gaps and stacks in various places frequently. This is not to my dismay... I'm still determined to perform a fan using this dirty sided old deck...

I'm not doing too bad... here's one I've quickly whipped out... ... ... Well I was going to add it on here... but for some strange reason, my computer can't recognise my phone... when it did it about 10 minutes ago with the image of the cards in this post...

(edit: image now added)

Anyway... I'm picking up the fan (which I will post when I get chance, if it works)... but thats enough ofmy newest hobby.

Thwomp is now rank 16! He hit the magic number of 15 in the Phoenix Gate scenario with a group of guildies... those guys were great to battle alongside... I must say I wasn't at my best in the battles, but I did what I could and killed my fair share of Order scum!

While I was with these great guys, and I should mention Squigboss, I changed the colour of my armorset to white! I'm sure any female WAR players on Karak-Norn Destruction would love me as their Knight In Shinin' Arma' since white is kinda shiny...?

Tonight's project... finish up the quests I currently have in Chaos T2 and head over to Dark Elf T2 for my last push towards getting my mount! Ooo I must get a screenie of my cash at the moment, I'm sure I'm close to 20g now... maybe even 15g... image should hopefully arrive tomorrow.

Till then... TARA MUSH!

Update

Today's post will entail plenty of gubbins and stuff that Thwomp has been getting himself into along with a few things about what I have been up to.

Let's start off with Thwomp.

Thwomp has been a bit mad with the leveling, he progressed up to 14! But I don't have the screenshot of it at the moment (it's on my computer at home). However I do have a shot of him at level 12...
This gave me my first tactic also... Thwomp is making big steps right now at becoming a full blown killing tank!

The shot of rank 12 is in early content of greenskin tier 2, the next shot is me collecting my rewards of the local public quest, and boy oh boy did I enjoy smashing all them stunties!

Not only was this an upgrade from my shocking shoulders from before, but they were my first blue item! And here they are equiped...

I'm still bearing the rank 2 shield in the picture... even as level 14 I'm still using... but there have been some PQ's that I'm sure I've seen a nice flashy new one...

Thwomp has been a bit of a busy bee lately, before all of this happened he did some hardcore high elf killing, and picked up the ToK unlock. after completing the PQ to pick up his first blue (shoulders), he also got the 'Kill 100 Dwarves' which I'm quite pleased about!

As I said earlier, Thwomp is now rank 14, renown rank 8 (I think) and sporting a nice (blue) one hand axe! I'm still on the lookout for a new shield since I'm still carrying around my rank 2 Recroot Chopstoppa (I'm sure it's called that).

A level 20 something Chosen called something like Fjorten invited me to my first WAR guild Chaos Within. I had the usual pleasant welcome, and everyone seems like friendly people, which is what you want in a leveling guild right?

I had only found out on monday from the guild that Corporeal Resistance is resistance against physical damage... so I'm a tank... and I have plenty of Elemental Resistance, and Spiritual Resistance thinking that there can't be many spells that deal Corporeal damage... so I have very little... if only I knew then what I know now, my choices of accessories would be stacking more Corp than Ele and Spirit Resist. I take it that Corporeal Resistance is similar to WoW's Resilience Rating except, it works on PvE? Or doesn't it work on that?

I'll move onto something out of WAR...

I have found a new hobby! Card Manipulation. Being able to control a deck of cards and performing flourishes that appear impossible or extremely difficult without a fixed deck of cards.

Well i've been having a look at some tutorials on YouTube, and I'm starting to pick it up already! I've only really had about 2 or 3 hours of practice, but I'm performing some swift cuts and I'm picking up something called a 'Sybil Cut'... it looks smart if I could execute is quicker, but I'm not that great yet. Practice makes perfect as they say!