Up way too early.

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I've actually been up since 4:30.  Don't know why.  I didn't go to bed until after midnight, which is still earlier than of late, if still later than I... intend.  I set the alarm for 9:00, I think.  I really do need eight hours of sleep, I work... more normally.  Not optimally, that requires four to six hours of sleep.  But optimal sucks.  I'm too old to be keeping myself mean and lean in enough areas to play king.  Hungry, tired, sore, with grudges to bear, and some other things, and I could do much.  The price, however, was that I was a stone cold sob.  But I got the job done, any of them, all of them.  It's the price for a tinkering sword sell.  Too old, now I just play it once in a while.

I think I woke because I was at a point in the game where I would get to try to get past where I am stuck at on the other character in the game.  Last time I tried it from the caster side, this time from the tank side.  After hours of trying, on this character, and many hours on the other, I am about to give up.  There isn't a good way to get the tail of the dragon.  Actually, there isn't a way at all, from what I can see.  You are supposed to either break lock and run behind, while avoiding some things... somehow... or worse, not have a lock on at all.  The combination of moves eludes me.  I am not even sure I have ever even hit the tail so far.  Can't tell.  All that while trying to not die, usually involving great amounts of time dodging other forms of attacks while waiting for a few precious moments to try to do one or the other of the above mentioned sets of moves that will, supposedly, get you to within striking range.  No, I don't think the game makers are playing fair on this.  Generally they are okay.  They do cheat, already, on the side of the monsters.  Don't let the knobbers trying to hawk the game tell you differently.  I hate psychophants.  I really do.

Here is a vid on how to do it.  The problem is, the guy suggest you need a weapon that does at least four hundred regular damage.  No weapon in the game that I have found does that.  The most damage I have seen, that isn't magical or fire or such, puts out, perhaps 325 damage.  But it is too slow to use.  Reading through the comments, however, I have seen a couple of ideas that I might burn out on trying.  I may not be the best gamer in the world, but I am no slouch.  I don't touch pvp, but other than that...  We'll see.  I think I need to take a little nap, before anything else, though.  Now that I've had my ass handed to me, again, again.  Oh, I can beat the dragon, but I won't, not without the tail first, on both characters.  Ugh!  *shrug*

Yeah, nap time.  Even if I had gotten the tail AND beat the dragon, I would be taking a nap.  I simply woke far too early.  A couple of hours should do, I hope.  If not, more!  Later.