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Somber Smithing Stone 7 from Avenue Balcony @ Leyndell Royal Capital [Elden Ring Xbox 4K HDR] Magic Monk 2022-11-27 | As mentioned previously, I use a Sword of Night and Flame for the awesome weapon skills that come with it. However, in order to increase the damage on the skill, you need to upgrade the weapon with somber smithing stones.The first few somber smithing stones were quite easy to get. However after upgrading the weapons a few times, the requirement for rarer somber smithing stones means they are not as easy to find. Somber smithing stone 7 in particular, is hidden in Leyndell Royal Capital in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds. Even though you can clearly see this location on the interactive map, to actually get to it is quite difficult. The whole Leyndell Royal Capital is like a maze with multiple levels. To actually get into an area there are very specific entrances that you have to find. In this case, lots of ladders, stairs, dropping down into specific objects (e.g. pipes) and trying to survive ambushes.Eventually you will see how I get to Somber Smithing Stone 7. Enjoy upgrading your weapon!
Secret to defeating Castle Sol boss Commander Niall as a mage [Elden Ring Xbox 4K HDR] Magic Monk 2022-11-26 | So I am trying to get my sword of night and flame upgraded to level 10, which requires an Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone. In order to get this stone, you must complete the Latenna questline, which means you must kill the Castle Sol boss Commander Niall.This boss is insanely difficult initially. You have to try a lot of things and do a lot of research. After doing the homework, it does get a lot easier. Firstly, at the start of the fight, he will summon two knights to help him. These knights do a lot of damage, so you have to get rid of the knights first before tackling the boss.One of the knights will run at you (the one that is dual weilding). This is good because that means you get a bit of time to kill him before the other two bosses reach you as well. Use a carian greatsword spell to quickly finish the first knight.If the second knight charges at you, use a carian greatsword to finish him off too. If he doesn't, run far away from both the knight and commander Niall, and use a ranged spell (in my case I am using Comet Azur) to finish the second knight.When Niall is the only one left standing, that's when I summoned my spirit to help. Mimic Tear will create an identical version of yourself. In this case since I have only equipped two spells, the mimic tear should shoot Comet Azur at commander Niall a few times. This will help a little bit but not too much.The only way to defeat Niall is to know when to dodge, so his attacks don't touch you. If you get used to his attacks, you basically know when to dodge (at the last split second when he charges at you). After you master the dodging, it'll simply be a case of standing as far away from him as possible, drink your mana potions and fire the Comet Azur. Hold down the comet Azur spell button so it will damage him as much as possible per shot.Hope you can see how I defeated him and do the same!
Give your Mimic Tear this spell and youll be invincible [Elden Ring Xbox 4K HDR] Magic Monk 2022-11-26 | Hey everyone. This video will combine a few things that I've learned playing Elden Ring. If you haven't played for long, there will be a lot of items in here that you will spend a lot of time getting. But don't worry, there's plenty of help on the internet on where to find them.1. Mimic Tear - this is a spirit summon that creates a clone of yourself. It will have the exact same equipment that you're wearing and use the exact same spells that you've learned.2. Ancient Death Rancor - this is a spell that staggers enemies constantly. When you equip this spell on the Mimic tear, it will basically constantly stagger whoever you're fighting against.So while your Mimic Tear is almost freezing all your enemies for you, I'm using the Sword of Night and Flame to deal instane amounts of damage, by using the Comet Azur skill of the sword, I basically one or two shot most enemies in this area I'm in.The area in this video is called Fort Faroth. I found it would give me about 20k runes if I cleared it, and I do it very easily as you can see in this video. I basically gained about 20 levels here just by clearning it over and over again, from about level 50 to 70.The area also contains a very useful item - Radagon's Soreseal, which gives you insane stats boosts, at the cost of taking a bit more damage. You get this item right at the end after killing some giant rats. As you can see I have this equipped.
How to defeat Radahn as a low level 55 mage *do not use rock sling* [Elden Ring Xbox 4K HDR] Magic Monk 2022-11-20 | General Radahn is definitely the hardest boss I've come across in Elden Ring. The fight against him was super interesting. Not only are you able to summon people in the very same arena as you're fighting him, if he kills the people you summoned, you can re-summon them again after a short while.The problem is, even with this huge perk, Radahn still kicked my ass the first few times I tried. He is simply too strong.Looking at this problem logically - how did I die every time? Basically because on Youtube I watched a very strong mage (level 90) defeat him with the rock sling spell. In order to land rock sling on him, you had to be within a certain distance. Unfortunately, that distance was too close. Once he sees you and chases after you, it's pretty much instant death.So I found another spell. Loretta's Greatbow. With this spell, you can basically stand so far away that if he starts running at you, you can run away with your house and he will never catch up. Using this spell, killing him was almost too easy. He barely landed any hits on me.Enjoy the video!
How to run from start to end @ Redmane Castle [Elden Ring Xbox 4K HDR] Magic Monk 2022-11-19 | I'm standing at the site of grace just in front of the "impassable greatbridge", staring at the Redmane Castle. I'm about to die again, I just know it. There are guides on youtube showing how people get through the Castle, but there are seldoms ones with explanation and they generally are quite overpowered for the area.As a mage, it is insanely difficult to clear the area, and you don't need to. You just need to know how to run from the starting site of grace to the second site of grace, which is right in front of the boss. It sound easy, but if you don't know where to go, you will die, a lot.So this is a video showing you exactly how to run, from the "Impassable Greatbridge" site of grace to "Chamber Outside the Plaza" site of grace. You will not need to kill anyone, so you should survive no matter what level you are. Enjoy the video!
Im a mage but I cleared a whole area without using spells [Elden Ring Xbox 4K HDR] Magic Monk 2022-11-17 | As you guys know, before today I've been levelling up an astrologer mage with basically just intelligence. So I am currently level 47 with about 43 Intelligence, with just a few points added to Vigor and Mind. However, I came across a video on Youtube introducing the weapon skill "Ash of War: Glintblade Phalanx". An Ash of War is something you can attach to a weapon so that when you have the weapon equipped, you can activate the Ash Of War by pressing LT. This particular Ash Of War will make four blue swords float around you, and if you run at an enemy the swords will automatically shoot themselves at the enemy causing damage.The crazy thing about this particular Ash of War is that the swords not only cause damage, but also staggers the enemy. This means that for a split second, the enemy won't move and you can critical damage them by doing a backstab or a visceral attack.I basically used this Ash of War to clear a whole area. Firstly I activate the Glintblade Phalanx, then I run at an enemy to stagger them, then I stab them with an Rapier to cause critical damage. I also summon spirit wolves in case anything bad happens, but then again you don't have to be a mage to summon spirits.So really, I don't have to be a mage at all to do any of this. There are so many options in Elden Ring - it's such an interesting game.
Secret to defeating Rennala Queen of the Full Moon as an astrologer mage! [Elden Ring Xbox 4K HDR] Magic Monk 2022-11-12 | Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon is a super difficult boss for mages. This is because she is resistant to spells. However, if you come prepared for this fight, you still have a good chance. This is what I had to do to win against Rennala as a mage.Firstly, I am wearing the Astrologer set of armor. Even though I have gone through the trouble of obtaining the Spell Blade set by completing the Rogier quests, other than being lighter than astrologer set I didn't see too many benefits. Then, I made sure that I had an equal balance of health and mana potions. Normally i would have a lot more mana potions than health, but for this particular boss fight you would need to replenish your health a lot as it is a very long fight, and you don't use a lot of mana at all especially in the first stage (the boss consists of 2 stages).I upgraded my Wolf Spirit Ash to +5. This is because in order to win against the boss in stage 2, you have to have wolves the whole way who will distract them. If your wolf spirits are weak and die straight away, you have no chance of staying alive in the fight.I put bleed on my main weapon, which meant that I needed a different sword to the glintstone sword I talked about in my previous video, because the glintstone sword could not be customised by another Ash of War. I ended up using the "Miséricorde" dagger. I also upgraded it to plus 6.Last but not least, I had a wonderous flask that replenishes HP slowly and negates damage. This saved me from dying at the end as I had totally run out of HP flasks. Because during stage 2 of the boss fight, you can hang back while the boss is busy with the wolves, you have time for HP to slowly replenish.To actually take down the boss in stage 2, make sure you have the meteorite staff and rock sling spell. This is because even though the boss is resistant to magic damage, the rock sling spell deals physical damage. I was quite surprised how much the rock sling damaged the boss in stage 2 as it didn't appear to do much in stage 1. But trust me the rock sling will finish her off for you.Hope you enjoyed watching the very close fight!
Elden Ring - Rogier quest not advancing to About the corpse under Stormveil fix [Xbox 4K HDR] Magic Monk 2022-11-10 | So I am going through guides on the internet to try and get the Spellblade set for my mage. The guides say that once I touch the bloodstain at the bottom level of Stormveil, I can then come back to Rogier to talk to him and a dialogue will come up saying "About the corpse under Stormveil". This did not work for me.So it turns out that I have to kill this huge boss called "Root Monster" before the bloodstain before I touch it. Unfortunately this boss is incredibly hard to kill - you cannot summon anyone to help you, the area is super confined so you get cornered easily with nowhere to run, and the boss is huge while dealing insane damage.So the only way to kill the root monster is basically by going to a high ground where he can't touch you and shoot things down at him. In this video you will see how to do that as well. Once you have defeated him, touching the bloodstain and then going back to Rogier will get you the next dialogue option.
Gotham Knights - How to change characters [Xbox Series X 4K HDR 60FPS] Magic Monk 2022-11-08 | Hey guys, Eddie here, talking about Gotham Knights again. The first thing you do in the game is you select which character you want to play with. I chose to play with Bat girl because in the last few games I have played, the female was the main character (e.g. Kassandra in Odyssey).After I chose Bat girl, I wondered how I would switch to another character. There didn't seem to be a place / option to change characters in your bat computer, and running around the Belfry I couldn't find anything either. I then discovered that after you complete a few starting missions, a location with all four character's costumes in the Belfry will allow you to switch characters.So far it seems pretty cool that all four characters use unique weapons (both melee and range are unique), different fighting styles, have different interactions with the story and enemy characters (e.g. Harley Quinn) so I'm pretty impressed with how thought out the story line is and how much effort they put in. Would you consider buying this game? For me the capped frame rate is the only downside (but you won't feel it in the recordings because it seems like the recordings are 60FPS).
Gotham Knights - Reach the other side of the bullpen (Xbox Series X 4K HDR 60FPS) Magic Monk 2022-11-08 | Hey guys, Eddie the magic monk doing a quick video for Gotham Knights. This is one of the starting area starting missions where you come into the police station with their security cameras everywhere and it says "use a AR to search for a nearby control panel". The problem is, I thought nearby meant that somewhere near the cameras, so I spent ages looking around the security camera and got detected multiple times, which meant I had to get into some big fights. So it turns out you have got to look at where the blue line coming from the security cameras. You can see when you press down our all the blue lines point to somewhere on the left, so that is where you need to go. There is a shortcut to get there without going through any of the policemen, so that's the route I took in the video. I'm really enjoying the story of this game - none of the bad guys (e.g. Freeze, Penguin) take us seriously because we're not Batman. I'm sure you've come across similar situations in your life where people don't take you seriously because you're not someone.. On another note, strangely I'm discovering that while I experience a slower frame rate when I'm playing the game, the video recording actually comes out at 60fps.. So it looks super smooth for you! Enjoy the video!
I accdentally gained 20 levels trying to get the Lazuli Glintstone Sword [Elden Ring Xbox 4K 60FPS] Magic Monk 2022-11-08 | Hi everyone. I haven't played Elden Ring in a while - I thought I would revisit the game because I never completed any achievements for it on Xbox and I did buy the game in the early stages when it came out, so I feel like it's a bit of a waste of money if I don't revisit it and complete some achievements.Since I've already tried playing a warrior and hero, I thought I'd try a spell caster class this time to experience something different. I can see my previous characters are still there but I chose to start brand new as I have pretty much forgotten how to play anyway.This time I used a lot of guides to help me play rather than just figuring things out myself. I got my Meteorite Staff and the Rock Sling spell, which allows me to do an insane amount of damage and pretty much one or two shot kill most monsters. I have some trouble with bosses but standing far away with the rock sling spell means that I still kill them in relatively few tries.Now back to the main point of the video - I was following a guide which wanted me to get the Lazuli Glintstone Sword. I was very excited about the sword from what I read and spent about 3 hours getting it. However, the sword that I got eventually wasn't that great, but what I did notice was that I was 20 levels higher by the time I got it.The reason is because in order to get this sword, I had to kill the same thing over and over again until they dropped it. The monsters I had to kill were quite easy to kill and they gave insanely high amounts of runes. So by the time I got the sword, my level was in my thirties, when I started on about level 10.Enjoy the video! The video was recorded using the Xbox Series X on the highest possible setting (4K HDR 60FPS)
Gotham Knights unboxing + first play (Xbox Series X, Aorus FO48U, Pixel 7) Magic Monk 2022-11-02 | It's been a very long time since I bought a physical disc game, so I thought it would be fun to unbox one for you guys to see. I probably have not bought a physical copy of a game since Steam came out - why would you when you can just download it? Nowdays though, there is a reason. It seems like I can get the disc version cheaper than the downloaded version - in fact, about $20AUD cheaper - so I bought the game on disc instead of downloading it from the Microsoft store. I also had a JB Hi-fi voucher to use so I thought why not.The graphics is really cool on this game - you start off with an awesome Batman vs Ra's al Ghul intro movie that takes like 15 - 20 minutes. I really enjoyed the fight and also enjoy the story. The game play was quite similar to Assassin's Creed which I've been playing, so it is a familiar feel.I was pretty impressed with the game but I do have to say the frame rate is a little slow - it doesn't feel as smooth as Assassin's Creed Odyssey but I guess the better graphics slightly makes up for it. Would you buy this game? One downside to buying physical discs, which I was reminded of today, was that you can't take out the disc and play it - you have to put in the disc.
Kangaroos in a school filmed with Pixel 7 1920x1080 30fps Magic Monk 2022-10-31 | Hi everyone. As you know, I live in Australia and work in a high school. When I go to work in the mornings, sometimes there are some kangaroos in the school yard. I took a video of some kangaroos just sitting around on the grass and hanging out. Then there are some more videos at another location in the school on another day. Unfortunately I forgot to change the phone camera to 4K 60fps before I took the videos. So this is definitely not the best quality that Pixel 7 is capable of doing. Another thing that I didn't do is I didn't zoom in when I was filming, because my hands had to be absolutely still otherwise the kangaroos would run away. The zooming was done later on through Premiere Pro.Hope you enjoy the video!
Getting started on Legacy of the First Blade (Assassins Creed Odyssey DLC 4K HDR 60FPS) Magic Monk 2022-10-29 | Hi everyone. In the last video you saw me purchase the Assssin's Creed Odyssey Ultimate Edition for $50 AUD and you probably thought.. why in the world would someone do it? In this video you can see the reason. I started on the Legacy of the First Blade DLC, which is not available on the Xbox Game Pass.As you can see from the video, I have not finished all the main storyline quests yet, but I can actually start playing the DLC straight away. According to wikipedia you can start the DLC as soon as you've finished Episode 7 and are at least level 29. 3 new combat abilities were added - I particularly love the "Fury of the Bloodline" warrior ability as you deal 6 attacks at 150% Warrior damage and get 4 Adrenaline points back, as well as the "Rapid Fire" Hunter ability which allows you to basically use your bow as a machine gun (you will shoot successive arrows that quickly).In terms of the story, a new questline comes up where you just have to go to the dock at Macedonia to start it. You will meet Darius and his son Natakas, which according to many becomes your future husband but I am not up to that. You basically fight alongside Darius who is some sort of legendary assassin against the "Order of the Ancients". You can see how I play in this video as I basically complete quests for the majority of the time. Enjoy the video!
How to tame alpha animal (Assassins Creedy Odyssey 4K HDR 60FPS Xbox Series X) Magic Monk 2022-10-29 | Hey guys, Eddie the Magic Monk playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey again. You can see I'm in this area called Achaia which is not far from your starting area Kaphallonia, and there is an elite bear (alpha animal) at this Bear Den. I wanted to show you how to tame it so it becomes your pet.As you probably know, bear is the largest animal with the most health, so it will be very hard for the enemy to kill if you know how to look after it. Which is why I recommend bears as pets. However, doesn't matter how strong the pet is, you never know when your last battle is with it, so look after and cherish it for as long as you can.Back to how to tame it. You need to be a level 3 in the beast master ability, because in level 1 and 2 you can only tame other less powerful animals such as boars and wolves. This means your level will be relatively high as it's not easy to get to level 3 in an ability. You'll also need to be able to craft paralysing arrows so make sure you learn that ability.At this particular bear den, there are some other bears which are not elites. You can tell by the symbol above their character, the one with the crown is the alpha / elite animal. Once you get their health down to just below half, it's better to play safe and start shooting paralysing arrows, otherwise you may end up killing them accidentally.Watch the video to see how I successfully tame one! Hope you enjoy the video and see you next time :)
How to keep your pet alive (Assassins Creedy Odyssey 4K HDR 60FPS Xbox Series X) Magic Monk 2022-10-29 | Hey guys. As you can see, I have a huge bear as my pet in this game. It's actually quite easy for your pet to die, regardless of whether it's a boar, lion or bear. If you don't know how to stop them from dying, then you'll have to tame pets quite often. So I wanted to share some tips with you in this video.At the start of the video we are in a dangerous area in front of the enemy castle. Once you're in this castle with your pet and you get discovered, your pet is pretty much going to get ambushed straight away. It's very hard to save your pet because even if you confront the enemies who are attacking your pet, somehow they focus on your pet even if you're right next to them.If you try to run, you can see that your pet stays behind and fights, which seems quite stupid. It took me a while to figure out how to get my pet out safely. Watch the video to find out!
Why I paid $50 AUD for Assassins Creed Odyssey Ultimate Magic Monk 2022-10-28 | You probably thought I was crazy. Asssassin's Creed Odyssey is free on the Xbox Game Pass. So why would someone pay for the game still? I did start playing it for free. However, as I got more and more into the game I realised how much effort the developers put into it, and I think they deserve being paid extra for this game. If you consider how much effort they put in modelling ancient greece, the characters, the story, how big the map is, how many quests and side quests there are, the combat system, so on and so forth. There's just so much in the game and it simply should not be free.Secondly, the $50 AUD comes with Assassin's Creed 3 remastered, two DLCs (Legacy of the First Blade and The Fate of Atlantis), various other perks, as well as being able to keep this game forever. Essentially I'm paying the $50 for Assassin's Creed 3 and the two DLCs, which are not part of the Xbox Game Pass. Also, you never know how long a game will stay on the game pass - every month there are games leaving. By paying the $50 you are guaranteed to have Odyssey forever, as well as all the DLCs and Assassin's Creed 3. I have heard really good things about Assassin's Creed 3, so I'm wanting to give it a go too, and the remastered version should have pretty decent graphics.In summary, it is about $160 dollars worth of games for $50. So yes, that's why I paid $50 for it :) Do you think I made the right call?
What was Olympics like 2500 years ago? (Assassins Creedy Odyssey 4K HDR 60FPS) Magic Monk 2022-10-23 | In Assassin's Creed Odyssey (story set in 431-422 BC), the main character Kassandra was asked to represent Sparta in the Olympics, and if she didn't win then she would be declined Spartan citizenship. This brought up an interesting point - which sports existed 2500 years ago? For example, tennis only has over a hundred years of history.It turned out that Pankration was the sport that Kassandra was asked to participate in. I looked up on Google and Pankration was actually introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC, so it makes sense! Learning a bit of history while playing this game for sure. This sport was very similar to MMA, as you were allowed to use a mixture of boxing and wrestling techniques.During the event I noticed that all of my equipment and swords was taken away, so I had to use just my fist and dodge. Interesting I was still allowed to parry (with my fists) so with some good timing it was quite easy to win. You can see at the end of the video Kassandra was crowned Olympic champion.
How to get the second ability wheel in Assassins Creed by upgrading the Spear of Leonidas Magic Monk 2022-10-11 | Hey guys. This is going to be a long explanation. But basically in Assassin's Creed, you have heaps of melee skills, but you can only put 4 of them to use because that's how many slots you're given in your ability wheel. You would have to remove abilities and assign another one if you want to use different abilities to the 4 you have assigned, which is quite inconvenient.Sometime during completing the game, I discovered that you can get a second ability wheel by pressing LB+Down arrow. This shocked me as it made combat so easy. How did I get this ability wheel? I found out it was from upgrading my spear, which I start the game with.So how do you upgrade your spear? Firstly you need to collect enough "fragments" which you gain from defeating cultists. Once you have enough fragments, you can take them to a special futuristic area where you can use the fragments to upgrade your spear. All explained in the video!
How do I dismantle gear in Assasins Creed Odyssey Magic Monk 2022-10-09 | One miute I thought I was able to dismantle gear into wood and iron, but the next minute the dismantle button disappeared. How do you dismantle again? In this video you will learn what you can and cannot dismantle, and how can you get equipment that you can dismantle.
Valheim - How to crossplay between Steam and Xbox PC Game Pass Magic Monk 2022-09-30 | Valheim, a game that is close to $30 AUD on Steam, is now available on Xbox PC Game Pass. However, if you are looking for experienced people to play with, chances are they are all on the Steam version because it was not available on the Game Pass until just yesterday (29th September 2022). It took my friend (very experienced Valheim player) and I a while to figure out how the crossplay works, as they are used to friends' worlds appearing automatically if they are friends on Steam - this method is different for Xbox and Steam crossplay. Watch the video to see how to play with a Steam friend if you are on Xbox Game Pass or vice versa!
Brawl Stars - How to play with friends (private game 1v1 or Free for all) Magic Monk 2022-09-27 | Hey guys. My new friend Omar has kindly helped me to demonstrate how to play this awesome game with your friends. If you simply click play after inviting your friends onto your team, you will end up in a team battle with randoms from the internet. If that's what you want, great, but this tutorial will show you how to organise a private game with your friends, of any number you want so it can either be 1v1 or a free for all deathmatch game if you have multiple friends wanting to play.Link to game: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supercell.brawlstars&hl=en_AU&gl=US
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey - Can you recruit a mercenary? Find out how here. Magic Monk 2022-09-25 | Hi all - in Assassin's Creed Odyssey there is a really cool feature where you can recruit your enemies to work on your ship. However, when the recruit feature was explained when you train your skills, it doesn't specifically say that you need to have a ship in order to recruit. So I spent ages looking up on the internet how to recruit someone.. It turns out that all you have to do to recruit someone is to own a ship first. So how do you own a ship? All you have to do is follow the main line quest, and when it comes time to leave the island you grew up on, you will get a free large ship with heaps of crew already. Once you have a ship, if a mercenary comes after you, you can simply finish him off with a kick (not a sword), and when he is lying on the ground you can choose the recruit function.In the video I show you the whole process and I also show you in the end that he is definitely recruited as you can see the recruited mercenary on your ship!
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is free on Game Pass and comes with free rewards Magic Monk 2022-09-25 | Hey all. This month (September) Assassin's Creed Odyssey appeared on the Xbox Game Pass. I'm playing it on PC but you can get it for Xbox as well. Another cool thing I've found is that, other than being a visually spectacular game with awesome gameplay, it also comes with free rewards that you can activate. In the video I show you the free rewards and how to activate them - basically by getting a ship and then you can hire rare lieutenants and change the look of your ship and crew, using the free rewards.
Multiversus Ultrawide 21:9 Gameplay - Finn VS Wonder Woman, Superman VS Arya Stark Magic Monk 2022-09-25 | Hey guys. You can watch me play Multiversus with my new friend. I used Finn and then Superman. He chose Wonder Woman and then Arya Stark. He put up a lot of resistance both fights but I managed to secure a victory in the end.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey - LB button doesnt work Magic Monk 2022-09-24 | When you're playing the tutorial in this game Assassin's Creed Odyssey, they taught you how to use the LB button for special melee attacks, such as bull rushing. However, after you start the game, you will notice that the LB button does nothing. This is because you haven't trained the abilities for it. Once you train an ability, the LB button will start working again. In this video you can see how I do that.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey - How to synchronize location (+ how to climb up/down) Magic Monk 2022-09-24 | Hey guys. As you are aware I've been playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey because it is free on the Xbox Game Pass. The world map is a huge place so it gets a bit tiring if you have to ride the horse everywhere. I saw this bird icon where you seem to be able to fast travel to them, except you have to "synchronize" the location first. I wasn't quite sure what synchronize meant, and after I arrived at the location (in this case the big Zeus statue) I still couldn't figure out how to synchronize. It turns out that I had to climb right to the top of the statue to synchronize. Coming down from the top of the statue is also a bit of a problem as it is a very big statue so you don't really want to jump down - have to learn how to climb down safely..
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey - Cannot find tracked quests on map Magic Monk 2022-09-23 | Hey guys. If you are getting into Assasin's Creed Odyssey now like I am due to it being free on the Xbox game pass, you'll probably find the quest tracking system a little bit confusing. Firstly you can track a quest, then you can track an area on the map. So many trackers you still can't find where to go. In this video we will do a bit of a summary as well as a show and tell of how to complete quests. Starting from where to get a new quest, to how to track quests, how to find where the tracked quest is on the map, and how to track an area on the map so you can reach that area quicker. Basically, watch this video if anything about questing is confusing you in this game.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey - You are close to your target. Up to call Ikaros. Magic Monk 2022-09-23 | Hey guys. In case you've started playing this game Assassin's Creed Odyssey because it's now free on the Xbox game pass, while you're questing you're going to run into this message a lot: "You are close to your target, press up to call Ikaros". It's a cool feature to be able to fly around and see a bird's eye view of the map, but the problem is after you've taken a look and come back to your normal view, the message does not disappear..In this video we're going to explain how to make that message disappear so you can finish your mission without that message showing up the whole way until you finish your quest!
How to win playing Land-io on Discord (and how to get into the game) Magic Monk 2022-09-22 | Land-io is a very simple game you can play within Discord - you don't even have to leave Discord to play it - you can play it directly inside a voice channel. That is the cool thing about it - no more running Discord in the background and trying to invite your mates to change the game you're playing - they can join the game themselves simply by joining the channel that you're in.Another cool thing about Land-io is that not only can you play with people in the same voice channel as you, if you want you can also join a Public game, so people in your channel can VS people in other channels that might not even be on your discord server. This is cool because even if you don't have friends to play with, you can simply just start the game in a voice channel and then join a public server to play.So about the actual strategies. In this game, the objective is to create an enclosure with your snake-like character, so that the space enclosed becomes your land. The more land you have at the end of the game, the higher your rank is. When you are running around trying to take more land, you need to be careful that nobody runs into the path you're creating, because then you get cut off and lose all your land to that person.So the strategy is simply 2 things: 1. Don't get cut off and 2. Cut other people off. To avoid getting cut off, you have to basically be super aware of your surroundings and as soon as you see someone within your vincinity, play conservative and barely leave your land. While you are on your land, you are immue from being cut off at the tail. This will also help with cutting other people off, because if they try to steal your land, you have a huge advantage as you are invincible while you're on your land, so just stay on your land as much as possible if there are people around, and try to cut them off.Hope this video helps with introducing you to the game and help you to start winning!
My First EV experience in Polestar 2 & charging for free (almost) in Brisbane CBD Magic Monk 2022-09-22 | Hey guys, it's Eddie the magic monk here. Today I want to talk about my experience in being inside an electric car for the first time, the Polestar 2, and my experience with charging it in Brisbane CBD. My brother hired this car Polestar 2 when he visited me in Brisbane. Polestar is owned jointly by Vovo and Geely. The name Polestar originally came from a Swedish racing team, so you can imagine their cars have are racing car look, which is really awesome.The car right now costs $67908 driveaway in Queensland, which is about $20,000 more than my BYD Atto 3 car which I have ordered. I guess this is a good experience for me see what a car that costs 40% more than my car looks like, so I know what to expect when I get my car. The car advertises a 551km range where as the Atto 3 is also 420km, so I expect the battery to last a lot longer in this car too.The car looks super flash, the ride was very comfortable and smooth there was very little noise compared to a traditional petrol car. The only thing that has some noise is the aircon, which is a big change from listening to the loud engine noise.There is a very big display screen in the middle of the car. I found it is really useful for reverse parking as you can see exactly how close the car is to the surrounding obstacles. I can also see that the GPS navigation map is actually appearing right behind the wheel so the driver can see without having to tilt their head, which is really cool.After arriving at the King George Square carpark in the middle of Brisbane, not only can we park the car for $5 for 4 hours on a Saturday, the car can also get charged for free if there are any charging spots remaining. We charged the car from 11:26am to 12:18pm, and the percentage went up from 62% to 75%. (240km to 290km). So it charges at basically 1 minute for 1km, which is really good.So yes, if you have the money, I have no hesitation in buying this car - except because I like to save money, I will still wait for my BYD Atto 3. Hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you next time :)
Phil vs Eddie table tennis Magic Monk 2022-09-20 | You've see me play against my dad, my mum, and now it's my brother. You can see in this video that he is also a great player. In fact with a small amount of training he could be a lot better than me. But in this video I just managed to beat him at 20-18. Yes, you read it right, 20-18. Isn't it only up to 11? Well, yes, except you have to win by two points. Our scores were so even the whole way that we managed to get to 20 before someone won by two points. It was a titanic battle - watch it or you'll miss it!
My International Zouk Day 2022 Performance in Brisbane, Australia 我在布里斯班市中心表演祖克舞 Magic Monk 2022-09-17 | About six weeks ago, my dance school joined with the International Zouk Day movement, which means that on this day (Sep 17th), every country around the world would have a Zouk dance performance. I took 6 weeks to learn this routine, which was not easy for me, because until about 3 months ago, my dance styles were Salsa and Swing. I only started taking Zouk seriously for the last 3 months.大概六個禮拜前，我的舞蹈學校參加了全球祖克舞的活動，就是在今天各個國家都會有祖克舞表演。我們花了六個禮拜的時間練習這套舞步。其實這個對我來說還是有相當難度的，因為我主要跳的不是祖克舞，一直到三個月前我主要跳的是搖擺舞以及萨尔萨舞，祖克舞是最近三個月才開始學。The following video is filmed by my dad. Because I am in the back row, so he filmed from the side, and it actually looks pretty good. I did not forget any moves from beginning to end, and I did better than usual. The only thing I didn't do too well is I didn't smile a lot, only because I was concentrating on trying to remember the steps.以下影片是爸爸幫我拍的表演影片。因為我是在最後一排，所以他從旁邊拍，效果其實還算不錯。我從頭到尾都沒有忘記舞步，而且還跳得比平常順。唯一沒做好的就是多笑一點，因為太專注了。
Magic Monk Brazilian Zouk Social Dance 2022 Magic Monk 2022-09-06 | They say when you're dancing with someone, that person is the most important person in your life for the duration of the song. My friend Daria was the most important person in my life during this song. It was really fun dancing with her! She actually asked to make this recording to show her family and friends what Zouk dancing looks like, which I was glad to be part of. It's been 3 months since I returned to serious zouk lessons. You can see that I'm still mainly doing beginner moves such Passo Basico, Lateral, Prep Lunge, boomerang, reverse boomerang and so on. I did do a ragdoll which we learned properly in class recently so I'm still not doing it perfectly yet. I also threw in a few moves from the international zouk day routine such as a kombre and a body roll. Are any of my viewers regular partner dancers? If so which types of dance do you do? Feel free to leave a comment and talk dancing to me! As you can see in the video, the style of dance I'm doing is Zouk. I really like the RnB style of music. Other than swing dancing this is definitely my favourite.
Forza Horizon 5 Eliminator - How to play with friends in the same game Magic Monk 2022-09-04 | The eliminator in Forza horizon 5 turns the game into a battle royale similar to Fortnite or PUBG, where you start off in a map with a huge wall and the walls just keep closing in. The aim is to be the last person to survive until the end. You get eliminated if another player challenges you on the map. They can do that by simply colliding with your car and pressing a button.Now, if you get challenged, you'll have to beat the opponent to another spot on the map. It's quite hard to beat them because you have no idea where this spot is going to be, and if you're heading in the wrong direction to start off then your only chance to win is to hope that they run into some obstacle on the way there.Now let's answer the question - how do you get into the same game with friends? You want to be able to see your friend in the same game because then you know who is better. In this case, I joined the same game with Monchdachonch and he nearly challenged me by accident because he didn't know it was me, haha.Enjoy the video!
Turbo Golf Racing - How to play with friends (Xbox game pass) Magic Monk 2022-09-04 | Hey all. Last time I made a video about this game, it was due to a "Waiting for QOS Results" error that I couldn't bypass. It turns out that I had to change my Xbox NAT settings to Open to get rid of this error message. More on this later if people are interested.Basically now I can play multiplayer in this game and I have invited my gaming buddies Monchdachonch as well as PlasteredOwl who is joining us for the first time. This is a really fun game to play multiplayer with - it is similar to rocket league, but since it is golf, you don't need to rely on your team mates as much. If you have good skill, you should win.In the video you will see how I invite people to play the game. Keeping in mind that I am playing on my PC and my friends are on Xbox, but we can still play and chat like normal, which is really cool. There is a strong emphasis in this game on aiming the shot. There is no use in driving fast if you can't hit the ball properly, because you'll have to go back to get the ball if you drive past it.A cool feature is that if you do a flip in the air, it will recharge your boost. You should be finding ways to boost your car from start to finish, once you get good at the game. Don't try to do this if you can't aim where you want the ball to go yet. In fact, it is better to slow down, drive your car to a suitable position, then go towards the ball. This will get you a better placing to start off.Enjoy this awesome game!
Why I bought the Samsung Galaxy A32 in 2022 Magic Monk 2022-09-04 | If you were in the market for a new phone in 2022, Samsuing Galaxy A32 is probably not the first phone that comes to mind. This model was not meant to be a top tier phone, and it has been out for a while, so why did I buy it?There are many reasons. Number 1, I'm buying it as a gift for my mother, who doesn't require the latest phone to play games or take photos or make videos. She is mainly using it for work (e.g. email, teams, phone calls, texting etc) and she has been using a Galaxy S10e with battery issues. Please note I'm not saying all Galaxy S10e have battery issues - this particular one however, the battery runs out very quickly. The A32 on the other hand has a much higher battery capacity, so the battery lasts much much longer. Mum has reported back saying that she used to charge her S10e phone every day but now with the Galaxy A32 she only has to charge it once every 3 days (note: she is not a heavy phone user).Another reason is because A32 suddenly dropped in price by over 50% across Australia. I will discuss the rest of the details in the video - but we basically bought it for a very, very cheap price.
How to convert Xbox Reward Points to money (in your Microsoft Account) Magic Monk 2022-08-28 | Hey guys. If you have followed my previous tutorial on earning Microsoft reward points through completing missions on your Xbox (video can be seen through this link here: youtube.com/watch?v=_t6ife63da8), you will probably have accrued some points by now. It's time to turn those points into actual money in your account, so you can use it to buy Microsoft products such as games or a game pass membership.The way to do this is basically to convert the points into gift cards. You can see that I only have enough points for a $5 gift card. That is one reason why I stopped doing quests - I found that the time that I spent to accrue the points is probably worth more than the actual dollar value I received from the points. But still, if you make points from playing games, you might as well do it anyway because it's relaxing and enjoyable :)I ended up using the points towards Elden Ring. It was pretty expensive when I bought it so $5 didn't help too much. I did spend a fair amount of time in the game so it was worth it. What did you buy with your points?
How to fix weird grey glitch when importing bandicam videos into Premiere Pro Magic Monk 2022-08-27 | Those of you who make screen casting videos would know how time consuming it is to make one. After you finally make a screen cast video successfully, you then have to edit it in Premiere Pro. How big of a disappointment it would be if, once you imported it, the video doesn't work?That's exactly what happened to me. I imported a screen cast video into Premiere Pro, and then when I'm playing the video inside Premiere Pro for editing, half of the frames are greyed out and glitching as I play the video. You can see it in the first couple of minutes of this video for what it looks like.The way to fix this, however, is quite simple. I just had to export it first in Premiere Pro using certain settings, then re-import the previously exported video, and it worked. What is the reason for this? It could be that the export process re-encodes the video better into a format that the in-program video player can better process, so it doesn't get glitched out. Hope this helps!
How to use Dragonball items to improve your Fortnite game Magic Monk 2022-08-22 | As you guys know recently DBZ items and characters became part of Fortnite and I'm so much better in Battle Royale because of it. In this game, after picking up the Kamehameha and Nimbus Cloud from an orange bottle, I saw someone quite far away from me. I was standing behind a tree when I clicked fire with Kamehameha selected, and somehow Kamehameha shot through the tree and elimnated the opposing player.I then saw another player building a hut (I assume to protect themselves from me). However, because I have the nimbus cloud, I can use it to fly up in the air, and then shoot down with the Kamehameha, again eliminating the enemy.I transformed into Supersayin (simply by using an emote) and then again used the nimbus to fly behind someone. It is much easier to go around an enemy with the nimbus as you're in the air and travelling much faster than on the ground. Then I eliminated them from behind, which is again very hard to guard against.Enjoy the video and see some rare sightings of me playing well at this game!#fortnite #dragonball #dbz
International Zouk Day 2022 week 2 practice Magic Monk 2022-08-22 | As discussed previously, I signed up to do the International Zouk Day flash mob in Brisbane, in the middle of queen street. We will be performing on the 17th of September, which is the third Saturday of September. It is the 11th time that international zouk day has been celebrated around the world, which is a bit scary for me because it didn't seem that long ago when I first heard about it, but it is 11 years ago.I hadn't danced Zouk for a while so initially I wasn't too sure about my ability to actually do this routine. But after 2 training sessions I think I am picking it up. We have a one hour per week training for six weeks and then it's the big day performing in front of a huge crowd in the middle of Brisbane. You can see compared to the first video, we have added quite a few new moves. I guess what I find difficult is towards the end the footwork is quite complex. I couldn't match it up with the music very well so I'm just stepping without worrying too much about it. I also find it quite hard to turn the follower under my elbow because I have been dealing with a shoulder injury for a while. Either way, you probably wouldn't have noticed if I didn't point it out :) Enjoy the video!
Six week beginner Brazilian Zouk recap 2022-08-21 Magic Monk 2022-08-21 | Recently I started Zouk dance classes again. I did it many years ago for a while, but I kind of stopped partner dancing for a few years recently to focus on rock climbing. But now I'm back and I've been doing 2 classes a week (on the same night) as well as being part of the Brisbane Zouk flash mob on another night of each week.I'm quite lucky that one of the rock climbers I know is also a dancer, so we can practice together. Daya is always keen to practice dance as well as climb. She is a great dancer as well as rock climber so I hope to be able to video her climb one day as well, maybe she will be glad to appear on this channel as a climber too.The moves in this video have Portuguese names. This is the list of moves which appear in the video in order of appearance. I led all the moves without telling daya beforehand, so this is completely lead and follow and not choreographed. Passo Basico (Basic Step)LateralPrep LungeNeck WrapSimple TurnElástico (Half Rag Doll)J TurnBoomerangReverse BoomerangViradinha (turning while doing basic step)
My dad (66) thrashed me at tennis while wearing jeans and long sleeve check shirt Magic Monk 2022-08-21 | After I immigrated from Taiwan to NZ, my dad signed me up to a tennis club when I was 12. I also played on the high school team. I was number 1 on my team and got us some good results. Towards the end of high school I also entered the Auckland under 18s tournament and got to the second round. After immigrating to Australia, I lived next to a tennis court, so I played with my neighbours everyday. I also played throughout university and won two tennis trophies for the pennat reserve grade fixtures run by the Brisbane Hardcourt Tennis Association. Now, my dad (66 years of age) casually walks on the court, wearing jeans and a long sleeve check shirt, completely destroyed me 6-2. Why is he this good? A long time ago my grandpa managed a tennis club so my dad started when he was very young. He had a chance to play professional, but he chose to focus on studying and became one of the first MBAs in Taiwan. Even though I can't beat my dad, I can still beat most people I play with, thanks to playing him since I was young. Enjoy the video!#tennis #family #dad
How to play as Goku in Fortnite Magic Monk 2022-08-20 | I didn't think I would go back to Fortnite. The truth is a few years ago I tried to have a go at it, but I didn't really see myself ever winning a game so I quit. You really need to work as a team, have really good skill, and have good gaming gear (graphics cards, monitors etc) to have a chance, so I didn't think it was for me.However, I saw something on Epic Games which changed my mind. You can play as Goku in Fortnite now? Also fly around in with the cloud (Flying Nimbus) and fire the Kamehameha (fireball thing)? That is just too cool not to try. However, as I got into the game, I noticed that I still have my old stormtrooper skin. In order to use the Goku skin, you need to go to the shop to buy it with Vbucks. Since I have 0 vbucks, I had to buy vbucks using real money ($30 AUD) to buy the dragon ball pack, which includes Goku and Beerus. If you want Vegeta you would have to spend more money.Considering that Epic games gives people free games every week, I think spending $30 AUD to support them is more than justified. You want them to continue existing so we can get more free games! Speaking of which, I am about to get Doom 64 this week for free :)Enjoy the video!#fortnite #dragonball #dragonballfortnite
My 66 year old dad just thrashed me at table tennis (penhold grip vs shakehand grip) Magic Monk 2022-08-18 | Dad vs son, teacher vs student, pen grip vs handshake grip, attacker vs defender, & whatever else you can think of.. There are many things I can never beat my dad in. It was Chinese chess, then tennis, and then table tennis. I discovered I couldn't beat him at a very young age. I used to get a bit frustrated and thought that if I kept practising, then one day I can beat him after a few years. I kept thinking that the whole way throughout my teenage years, my twenties, and then my thirties. Now that I'm in my late thirties and my dad is in his mid 60s, he can still convincingly beat me, in all three things. My way of thinking, however, unlike my skill, has matured. I now celebrate the fact that he can beat me. I am proud that he is able to still be this good after this whole time. I'm not stupid and I'm pretty athletic, but he is just at another level. I'm proud of him just like he may be proud of me sometimes.Enjoy the match!!#tabletennis #pingpong
Help my 64 years old mother get better at ping pong / table tennis Magic Monk 2022-08-15 | Hey everyone. My table tennis table has been sitting in the garage for a while. I watched some Adam Bobrow Youtube videos recently and that inspired me to take out the table and play a few games.I started playing since quite young. I mainly played tennis growing up and I've only had a ping pong table at home for a few years in my life, so I'm not very good, but I guess I can beat most people who don't play.My mum played even less, and you can see she's very unfamiliar with the bat. She is also a bit older now so she can't see the ball very well. She's had surgery on her eyes before, plus the ping pong ball moves way too quickly. It was also getting dark. Taking all of this into consideration, however, you can see she still managed to hit a few rallies. If you have any tips for her, feel free to comment here, I'll make sure she gets the message. You can see her smiling after a few rallies, so I'm sure she secretly enjoys the game!
First practice session for International Zouk Day 2022 Magic Monk 2022-08-14 | International Zouk Day is an event that happens every single year to promote the dance Zouk. Everyone does the same routine around the world on this same day, and post their videos up on Facebook / Youtube to promote the dance. In Brisbane we have 6 practice sessions of 1 hr and 15 mins each before we have to perform a flash mob in Queen Street right in the middle of the city. My friend Daya and I decided to sign up together and apart from attending the group practice sessions, we decided to practice on our own as well so we don't fall behind. We are actually practicing in a yoga room inside our local climbing gym, which has a lot of space and is nice and quiet. Very lucky that nobody else is using it! Hope you enjoy the video.
MultiVersus - Winning 1v1 with Finn Magic Monk 2022-08-13 | Hey guys. In this video you will learn how to use Finn to win a 1v1 game. I'm demonstrating this with Monchdachonch, who is a superman specialist. One thing became awfully obvious when I was fighting superman with finn, and that is Finn's reach is way longer than superman. When I'm on the ground with superman, there is no way he can reach me while I'm spamming standard attack with my sword.Superman's grabbing special attack while he is in the air doesn't work very well against Finn either. When he is flying towards me to grab me, I simply press Forward + special which will not only avoid his attack but knock him back. So superman basically has nothing he can do against me, while I am standard attacking him and taking coins.After collecting coins, spending them on items (speed boost, projectile armour), it's now just a matter of continuing to beat on superman until he runs out of chances to stay in the game each time I land a knock out attack. You can see throughout the whole match Superman hasn't knocked me out once. Enjoy the video!
MultiVersus - Finn and Superman combination 2v2 strategies Magic Monk 2022-08-13 | Hey guys. Back to another Muliversus video with my friend Monchdachonch. As you know he is a superman specialist and I have started switching to Finn. I love how Fin has a sword. His basic attack has a super long reach as a result of the sword. In comparison, Superman's reach is not super long, but he can stay in the air and fly around. These two characters working together in my opinion is very hard to beat.So here is the strategy. With Finn, I'm going to be focussing on staying at ground level and using my basic attack to extract coins out of enemies and deal a huge amount of damage. Once they drop some coin, I'm going to use it to buy the speed and shield items, which will power up both me and my team mate (superman). This means both of us will be moving around the map super quick and be shielded from projectiles when we're charging.As I use my basic attacks with Finn dealing a huge amount of damage, superman's job will be to fly around in the air, pick up anyone I launch from the ground up and throw them even further off the map. You can see in this video that Monch does this really well. We both choose the triple jump perk so both of us can jump 3 times and not fall off the map. Watch us dominate!
Turbo Golf Racing: Waiting for QOS results Magic Monk 2022-08-09 | Hey guys. So I got together with 3 friends and tried to start this game called Turbo Golf Racing which is currently free on XBOX game pass. Once we all got invited to the same group, all clicked ready and start game, for me the error message was "Waiting for QOS results", but for my friends their error message simply said "Waiting for team member". My friends then said for me to leave the group and try the game on my own. I tried to start a multiplayer match myself but it still said the same thing - Waiting for QOS results. My friends however were able to play with each other. So it was obviously my problem.Since then I've tried restarting my Xbox, changing region settings, mucking around with my router settings, changing my internet from Fibre to 4G, so on and so forth. Nothing worked except this.. Which is not really a fix, but it is the only way I can play multiplayer right now.
