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Wow Square Enix is doing something awesome with the party dynamics. They are introducing a system where a higher level can party with a lower level player. Square Enix with some feed back from the community of players will let them adjust say a level 75 player to a lower level of the leader of the party. For example, if the leader is say level 25 the other players that are higher level will be reduced to 25. In addition to leveling down the higher level players will be able to equip thier higher tier equipment but they will not be able to have all the bonuses of the armor or weapons. Once the players are the same level they can defeat enemies and gain 100% of the target's experience points. This by far is the best part of the update so far.

Pandemonium Warden and Absolute Virtue are going to be adjusted to be easier due to the heat Square Enix took from a recent Yahoo! games article. The article pointed out that a group of people fought a new boss (Pandemonium Warden) for eighteen hours straight. The group claimed that they began getting sick because of the length of the fight.

My opionion about this is; Square Enix put these monsters in to be defeated in a certain way. For example, the Absolute Virtue video that the development team showed gave a hint in how to weaken the boss using the two hour specials when fighting it. I don't think Square Enix intended the fight to go over two to three hours.

This will be interesting in how they will weaken the bosses in the September patch.

Here's a list of how to get the armors from the Tower of Lost Souls in Soul Calibur IV.

Floor:

1. Soldier's Hat - clear stage without taking any damage
2. Warrior Trousers - clear stage with no ring outs from player or enemy
3. Pauldron - switch with ally more than 2 times
4. Warlord's Belt - perform 3 attack throws
5. Clergy Clothes - ring out an enemy
6. Wonder Jacket - throw an opponent
7. Warrior Trousers - land all attacks on an enemy
8. Armor Ring/Ice Mirror - switch characters twice
9. Scarlett Blossoms - guard against the opponent's attack more than three times in a row
10. Silver Boots - guarded the opponent's attack more then ten times in a row
11. Grim Horn - defeat the enemies with a critical finish
12. Magus Cloth - defeat the enemies with ring outs
13. Pegasus Sallet - destroy all the walls
14. Stage: Phantom Pavilion Seesaw - perform gaurd impact more than three times
15. Submissions Belt - clear the stage using only the A and G buttons
16. Warlord's Belt - clear the stage with 0 time remaining
17. Arm Bandages - execute a more then five hit combo
18. Kouchu Kabuto - stand on all corners of the stage
19. Longhua Qippo - switch with ally more than five times
20. Life gem: Sun - clear the stage with a critical finish
21. Longhua Qippo - voluntarily ring yourself out
22. Honor Boots - perform more than four counter hits
23. Frilled Skirt - guard more than three times in a row
24. Protect Gem: Cardinal Directions --perform a combo with more than 240 damage
25. Zhuque Changpao - throw more than five times
26. Warthog Cuirass - execut a ten hit or more combo
27. Iron Gauntlets - clear the stage with no damage taken
28. Aculeus Suit - opponent guards a guard break attack at least twice
29. Menghu Boots - switch with ally five or mor times
30. Spirit Gem/Noniple Heads - clear stage without guarding
31. Longming Qippo - perform five or more Just Inputs
32. Vane Mask - perform a low throw
33. Battle dress - perform three attack throws
34. Power Gem: Warrior Princess - perform guard impact three or more times
35. Warthog Pauldrons - clear without switching
36. Parlor Blouse - clear stage with zero time remaining
37. Siren's Helm - defeat all enemies with critical finishes
38. Gorgon Fauld - defeat all enemies with ring out
39. Kingfisher Greaves - Clear the stage without changing position
40. Deer Head - execute a five or more combo
41. Minotaur - perform five or more Just Inputs
42. Demonic Gloves - clear the stage without letting opponents invoke a skill
43. Repel Gem: Iron Shell - perform an over the back throw
44. War Cloak - no ring outs either side
45. Tiger Lily Kabuto - defeat enemies without using any skills
46. Butterfly salet - Same as above
47. Succubus Boots - Throw five times
48. Life Dem:Jade - Clear stage with a character equipped with the "invisible" skill
49. Horns of Calamity - clear stage with no attacks missing
50. Tiger Lily Breastplates - execute a ten or more combo
51. Tiger Lily Fauld - perform more than four counterhits
52. Feathered Wings - clear stage with a critical finish
53. Blade Ring: Demon Lord - defeat all enemies with a ring out
54. Leviathan Paoldron - destroy all walls
55. Priestess Kimono - perform three attack throws
56. Leviathan Burgonet - perform a combo with more than 240 damage
57. Voodoo Armlets - Voluntarily perform a ring out
58. Tiger Pauldrons - Defeat all enemies without any skills equipped
59. Voodoo Greaves - Guard an enemies attack ten times in a row
60. Voodoo Breastplate - clear the stage without switching characters

So the site has a page rank of seven or higher does it mean it is an authoritative site? Most webmasters will say "yes" but google has admitted that their PageRank system still has ways that it can be manipulated to give high page ranks.

If a page has high page rank, the best way to rank it is to do a little research on the website. The biggest most important factor is how old is the site. You can check on the age of a site by simply going to a whois site such as networksolutions. If a site is a page rank seven and was created three months earlier screams PR Manipulation. Another factor is using other metrics such as alexa, compete, quantcast, and technorati to name a few.

Don't always rely on the google tool bar. Google has said that it is simply for entertainment purposes.

Hopefully this gives some insight on how to spot good sites for link building or tweaking your site to become an Authority in your niche.

In the Next update dancers and scholars are getting thier tier one merit category. This is great and unexpected, I thought they would get thier merit category way later like the last jobs like blue mage, puppetmaster, and corsair.

Looks like Square Enix is going to spice up Campaign with Stronghold Notorious Monsters. There will be a total of eight Notorious Monsters appearing in in La Vaule [S], Beadeaux [S], and Castle Oztroja [S]. When defeating these NMs the defense capabilities of current beastmen controlled areas will be weakend such as funds, tactics, reconnaissance to name a few. Additionally, if all eight are defeated by a player, they gain key items to access an area to fight a Notorious Monster which have not been identified yet. This is going to be interesting.

Square Enix finally figured out that campaign is broken. I mean geez the allied countries haven't controlled an area since the last update. Hopefully, they will get off their asses and fix this for the better.

The update is slated for early September.

Gemma Atkinson, the hottie British model, will be in EA's new Red Alert 3. She will be playing as Lt Eva McKenna, a character that appeared in Red Alert 2. Gemma's character is a spunky communications officer for the allied coalition.

Red alert 3 pits three factions against each other in a struggle to rule the world. This real-time strategy game uses land, air and sea combat which adds a lot of dynamics in strategy. You get to play the Soviets, an aggressive republic, Empire of the Rising Sun, a nationalistic group, and the Allies, a coalition of western countries in Red Alert 3. EA's Red Alert 3 is slatted to be released on 10/28/2008 for PC,PS3, and XBox360. Below is the picture that was released from EA's Press Release.

I just recently bought Soul Calibur IV for the Xbox360, and I have to say I am very impressed so far. I've unlocked all of the characters already and tell you how to unlock them. So you don't have to look all over the internet to find the unlockable characters.

1. Seong Mi-na, Talim, Sophitia, Amy, Yoshimitsu, Zasalamel, Setsuka, Rock, Lizardman, Hong Yun-seong, and Cervantes can be purchased at the character creation screen.

2. Agol Fear, Kamikirimusi, Scheherazade, Algo, Ashlotte, and Shura can be obtained by defeating them in Story Mode.

3. The Apprentice can be obtained by defeating him in Arcade Mode with Yoda.

There you go those are all the characters you can get so far. You're probably wondering what the last blank space is for. Well from what I read on the internet its for a downloadable character available through Xbox marketplace at a later date. I'm guessing it might be Darth Vader.

I recently made a post on how to get armors in Tower of Lost Souls here.

Check out the stats and pictures for the new AF2 here.

HOLY CRAP!!! Square Enix are adding new AF2 to dynamis for blu cor and pup in the next Scheduled update set for September. This is great since those particualar jobs have been out for over a year now. I'm going to level my blue mage since we can get those gears now. The update will also reduce the cost of entering dynamis from 1 million to 500,000. Time to make my own dynamis shell /dance.

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