If you've been following me on Twitter, you would have noticed that it has gone quite in the last two months. And as you could have guessed, it's because I was busy leveling up my Spiritmaster to level 50 and yesterday I finally hit the big 50.

What this means for you [or anyone else who's been following my updates] is that you finally get back the regular blog updates, the videos and a more moderated forum.

I thought I'll let everyone know  what going on and what you can expect from now on. Thanks for sticking around and hope to see you on the blog of forums.

I've been gaming for as long as I can remember. During those years, I've used my fair share of headsets. Even though I've got a 5.1 surround sound system, I barely make use of it. It's not because it's a bad system, but it's because I live in a small house. When I'm playing video games, I always want to turn up the volume so I get the most of out the game.

Because I couldn't use the surround sound system and I wanted to play my games with the volume turned up, I quickly started to use headsets. Me being a poor student, I bought the cheapest headset I could find. Back then it was something like a $5 headset. This was probably the worst headset I ever used. This headset was so bad, I got rid of it a couple days later.

Reasons To Get Rid Of Your Headset

The headphones were terrible. They barely had any foam/protection on them, so they would really hurt your ears when you had the headset on. Not only were the headphones terrible, this headset could fall apart even if you looked at it with bad intentions. After falling from my desk 2 times, the headset stopped working. If you're planning to get yourself a headset, please make sure the headphones have enough foam/protection on them so they cover your ears nicely.

Communication Is Important

When I'm looking for headsets I want to buy, there are only a few characteristics I'm looking for. And a quality microphone is one of those. When you're gaming and you're a part of a group/guild which makes use of some sort group communication software [Ventrillo or TeamSpeak most probably], you want to make sure you've got a headset with a microphone which produces sound of high quality. There is nothing more annoying then having a person on Ventrillo or TeamSpeak who has a bad microphone. Which brings me to the headset I'm using right now.

The Logitech ClearChat Comfort USB Headset

The Logitech ClearChat Pro USB™ headset. That's the headset I'm using and picking this headset has been 1 of the best choices I've made in a while. It starts with the headphones, which are small, but big enough to cover yours ears. So not only do you get perfect sound from the headphones which are comfortable to the ears, but it also prevents you hearing unwanted sounds from the "outside world"

Then we have the excellent microphone, which you can also use on MSN, Skype, Google Talk or any other program which requires a microphone. The Logitech ClearChat Pro USB™ is a headset which you can easily use on Ventrillo or TeamSpeak. The sound it produces is crystal clear and in the few months I've been using it, I haven't had 1 person complain about the sound quality.

The last characteristic I like about the Logitech ClearChat Pro USB™ and I want all my future headsets to have, is an USB connection. After I bought the headset and came home. I plugged in the headset and within a minute I could use the headset. No configuring, no adjusting sounds for every separate program. Plug it in, let the software install itself and start using it. So all in all, I'm very pleased with the headset and for $49,99 I'd say it's well worth it.

This is my experience with the Logitech ClearChat Pro USB™ . Do you have anything to say about this headset or the headset you're using, please do so on the forums.

NCsoft has released 4 new Aion Wallpapers and like the previous Aion Wallpapers, there are a few dimensions available. To save you some work and looking around, here are the Aion Wallpapers for you.


For the source of these Aion Wallpapers, go to the NCsoft website.

Video #22 and in this video I show you how you can start off learning the alchemy profession. There is nothing fancy about this video really. It starts off with he showing how to change channels because I thought that's important for people to know as the video explains. This can save you a lot of headache in Aion.

Changing Channels

Changing channels is really easy. All you have to do is press the "Menu" icon on the bottom of your screen. From that menu you go to "Support" and pick the "Change Channels" option. After this a menu will pop up in the top right of your screen and you will be able to pick a channel you want to go to. There are 10 channels so you're bound to find a channel that's not packed with people. Keep in mind that there is a 3 minute period in which you can't change channels.

Learning Alchemy

To learn alchemy, you will have to go to Pandaemonium. When you're in Pandaemonium, you have to go to the Temple or Artisans and jump in the second chamber to your left. This is the alchemy chamber. Once you're in the chamber, you'll have to talk with the NPC called Honir. When you pick the first option [Learn Alchemy] and cough up something like 1300 Kinah [Aion’s version of Gold] you will have learned alchemy. This level of alchemy will give you the possibility to advance your alchemy level to 99, once you reach level 99 for your alchemy you'll have to go to Honir again and learn the second level or alchemy.

So I've decided to join the Aion Online Betaboards to see what's going on with the connection problems as of late. Usually I'm browsing through the AionSource forums to see what's going on, but this was a problem which needed information from the source. So the Aion Online Betaboards it was.

First thing I noticed when "trying" to access the forums? Super slow loading times caused by about 10.000 to 15.000 people browsing the forums (which is a very impressive number by the way). After the initial loading I was slowly gaining access to the forums. I made my way to the general discussions and what did I spy with my little eye? This little thread and how appropriate that it's started by a user named "Bundywow". If you don't have access to the betaboards, this is what he said: First of all, this guy doesn't know the difference between Tech Support and keeping a community informed and updated. The NCsoft employees who use Twitter, have been using it for a while now and I've been following them for a while and the information they give you on Twitter is just amazing. Yes you need a Twitter account, yes you need to see what's going on on Twitter, but the information you get makes up for all of that.

The Logitech G15 is one of the keyboards that many professional and less often casual gamers use to enhance their gaming experience. The main reason for this being it's ability to write macros which you can then use with a single click.

On the Logitech website, it's described as Six programmable G-keys: Perform single keystrokes or complex macros with six fully programmable G-keys. Create macros on the fly, without having to pause the action There are some other functionalities that make the Logitech G15 the preferred keyboard.

Functionalities such as the LCD display which shows information about the game you're playing. I'm not sure which information it exactly is, but it does show some information. And the G15's third characteristic which makes it so famous, are the Illuminated characters.

I've been looking for Aion wallpapers for a while now and it took me a while to get my hands on some proper ones. Not just screenshots taken by players, but real wallpapers. The wallpapers you see are made by NCsoft and all rights belong to them. For the source of these wallpapers, head over to this site. You can get different resolutions there as well.

For those that want 1920x1200 wallpapers, here they are (be warned, each one of these is about 1-2mb):