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• Blue Posts and Other WoW News: Too scared to Arena

  WoW Insider

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:00 pm

  Join us every weekday evening as Today in WoW runs down all the WoW news that you could possibly want. From comments from Blizzard's blues to the latest datamining info -- we've got you covered. Don't forget to check out The Daily Quest and our Weekly Podcast Roundup to find out what else is going on in the WoW community. And if you have a news tip, feel free to drop us a line and let us know. Blue posts WoW news from other sites News and features from WoW Insider Links from around the web Continue reading Blue Posts and Other WoW News: Too scared to ArenaFiled under: Today in WoWBlue Posts…

• Minimalist vs. Maximalist in pen & paper roleplaying rules

  Tobold's MMORPG Blog

  Tobold

  27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 am

  It didn't take long after me mentioning Dungeons & Dragons until the first commenter popped up saying that this wasn't the best system to roleplay with. Specifically Inquisitor said: "4e doesn't *stop* you running an actual story, but it really doesn't help you, either". Which brings us back to a debate which is over 30 years old: What is the role of a rule system in a pen & paper roleplaying game?Basically there are two extreme positions, and lots of shades of grey in between. The two extremes can be called minimalist and maximalist. The minimalist point of view is that the rules only get…

• Flying Solo

  Jaded Alt

  Windsoar

  26 Jan 2012 | 2:29 am

  I was reading Stubborn’s article yesterday about the erosion of social activities in the leveling experience as he ventures forth in SW:TOR. While I can’t say that I can talk about that game in particular, as someone who considers herself a somewhat sociable player in MMO’s, I found that the article didn’t really resonate with me. Although I commented, I wanted to expand and explore that comment, and the general topic a bit more. The first time I encountered a companion system was in Neverwinter Nights, and I thought it was awesome. Although I had played many tabletop…

• And now for something completely different

  Tobold's MMORPG Blog

  Tobold

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:30 am

  I am strangely excited about a new game opportunity, more than I have been for years. If I had to sum up my gaming history in one phrase, I'd say that I played Dungeons & Dragons in the eighties, Magic the Gathering in the nineties, and MMORPGs in the noughties (or whatever you want to call that decade). But I never completely stopped playing pen & paper role-playing games, I just play a lot less now, and as a player instead of a Dungeon Master. So now I am excited about a possibility to become the Dungeon Master again, starting a fresh campaign, probably with Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition…

• Breakfast Topic: What are your WoW pet peeves?

  WoW Insider

  28 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  Last year, the Drama Mamas answered a letter from a person whose pet peeve was being called by her class instead of by her character name. The comments showed that many people agreed with her, while others argued that it wasn't impersonal so much as efficient. Re-reading that post made me want to talk about pet peeves again. Check out this ancient Breakfast Topic by our former editor-in-chief, which asks the same question I'm asking today, or this also similar one from last year. But I think it is important to direct you to my declaration of my biggest in-game pet peeve: "rogue" vs. "rouge."…

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  WoW Insider

• Breakfast Topic: What are your WoW pet peeves?

  28 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  Last year, the Drama Mamas answered a letter from a person whose pet peeve was being called by her class instead of by her character name. The comments showed that many people agreed with her, while others argued that it wasn't impersonal so much as efficient. Re-reading that post made me want to talk about pet peeves again. Check out this ancient Breakfast Topic by our former editor-in-chief, which asks the same question I'm asking today, or this also similar one from last year. But I think it is important to direct you to my declaration of my biggest in-game pet peeve: "rogue" vs. "rouge."…

• Blue Posts and Other WoW News: Too scared to Arena

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:00 pm

  Join us every weekday evening as Today in WoW runs down all the WoW news that you could possibly want. From comments from Blizzard's blues to the latest datamining info -- we've got you covered. Don't forget to check out The Daily Quest and our Weekly Podcast Roundup to find out what else is going on in the WoW community. And if you have a news tip, feel free to drop us a line and let us know. Blue posts WoW news from other sites News and features from WoW Insider Links from around the web Continue reading Blue Posts and Other WoW News: Too scared to ArenaFiled under: Today in WoWBlue Posts…

• Phat Loot Phriday: Iron Boot Flask

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 pm

  When we last left our heroes, Throgg was complaining about Garrosh, essentially proving his membership in the Horde ... or, alternatively, proving his membership in the Alliance. Hatred of Garrosh is a unifying force in Azeroth, similar to love of Legos in the real world. The four rode into Tirisfal without much fanfare. Lolegolas was careful to guide the party away from the dirt road, staying out of sight from the undead guards who stalked the kingdom's highway. Throgg grew increasingly quiet. "I've not smelled Abercrombie," the Gilnean said quietly. "Not a whiff of a food court, Hot Topic,…

• WRUP: 1 (900) 555 - WRUP

  27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW Insider staff and ask them, "What are you playing this week?" -- otherwise known as: WRUP. Join us to see what we're up to in and out of game, and catch us in the comments to let us know what you're playing, too! Don't sit there sad and alone on yet another Friday night. Come on, give us a call and find out what the hottest WoW Insider writers are playing this weekend. Alex Ziebart, Adam Holisky, and more ... just waiting after the jump. WRUP is $4.99 per minute. Please be 18 or older, or have your parents' permission. Or…

• Raid Rx: How to be the world's worst healer

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm

  Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast. Time to take a break from trying to be an awesome healer. It just feels much easier to be the best at being the bottom of the barrel. Without any concerns, you can simply play however you like with no fear. There are multiple steps on the road to being an excellent healer for your raiding…

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  WordPress.com News

• Chrome Users: Try the WordPress.com Extension

  Christopher Finke

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:54 pm

  Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you’re not on WordPress.com? Add the new WordPress.com extension for Chrome and as soon as you get a new follower or a new like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in your browser: Simply click the icon to view your latest WordPress.com notifications: Start following new blogs without visiting WordPress.com The Chrome extension also makes it easy to follow sites from your WordPress.com account by displaying a Follow button whenever you’re browsing a site that has an RSS feed. Clicking the Follow button…

• Your Stats Have a New Home

  Andy Skelton

  26 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am

  Are you addicted to checking your site stats? You are not alone. The stats dashboard has always been one of the most popular admin screens. It’s gratifying to know that people are visiting your place online. With the WordPress.com front page evolving into a one-stop shop for posting, exploring, following and reading blogs, it seemed natural to put your blog stats there, too.  Stats are becoming more and more about interacting with your readers and other bloggers. You’ll still see your summary stats and chart on your main dashboard, and the full stats page in your dashboard will…

• Reblogging is Back!

  Erica Johnson

  22 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm

  As we mentioned last week, you can like and reblog posts directly from your reader, which displays a stream of all the updates published on all the blogs you follow from your WordPress.com account. We’ve also brought the reblog button back to the toolbar that appears at the top of the screen when you’re logged into WordPress.com. Note that you’ll only see the like and reblog options while you’re looking at individual posts. For example, you’ll see this on the left side of your toolbar while viewing http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/read-blogs: And your…

• New Theme: Newsy

  Philip Arthur Moore

  20 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pm

  It’s been an extra big week in the news ’round these parts, so much so that the launch announcement of our latest premium theme seems like an extra extra good way to headline our Friday. Newsy is a versatile business and news-friendly theme that offers up to ten different layouts, four footer columns, custom link and accent colors, and a custom site header. Brand and content-focused editorial teams will love publishing with this theme. Newsy: Home Page Designed by Themify, Newsy comes with an impressive set of Theme Options that afford you a great deal of flexibility with how you…

• Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place

  Erica Johnson

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:04 pm

  If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader displays all the posts across all the blogs you follow in the order they were published, with the most recent content appearing at the top. You’ll see an excerpt of the introduction to each post, the first image in the post, and thumbnails of any other images that the post contains. You can even like and reblog WordPress.com content directly…

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  World of Matticus

• Poll: Guild Site Hosting

  Matticus

  26 Jan 2012 | 5:45 pm

  Hey team, can you do me a favor? I want to conduct a poll about your guild website. I’m curious about what your guild is using and why. My interest is both personal and professional (Disclaimer: I’m with Enjin). Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Note: If you can’t see the poll because you’re on a reader, try this link In addition to voting on the poll, could you drop a comment answering the following questions for me? What influenced your guild to use that hosting service? What one site feature are you most…

• Heroic Morchok Down: Where Next?

  Matticus

  25 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm

  Managed to score Heroic Morchok on Tuesday. Ended up using 6 healers. Another classic 22% wipe, then a 16% wipe, then a 13% followed by an 8% then a kill. Actually, the numbers aren’t precise. But that’s what it seemed like anyway. How to Land 3 Healing Spells in Under 2 Seconds It seems impossible, doesn’t it? Note that I didn’t quite say I would cast 3 spells only that I would land them. You have to be precise when it comes to timing and you need to be ready to pounce on the next spell the moment the other one is finished. We were working on heroic Morchok for a total of 6 – 8…

• Mists of Pandaria Needs More Ulduar

  Matticus

  24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm

  I miss Ulduar. I have a suspicion that it ranks up there as the raider’s choice raid instance of all time. From the pacing, to the art, the difficulty and so forth, it has a fond place in the hearts of most Wrath raiders. But what exactly about Ulduar made it so enticing? How can Blizzard recreate that feeling of wonder and accomplishment in future raid instances? Atmosphere The one that did it for me the most was that it wasn’t a typical dungeon like atmosphere. It wasn’t dark or dreary. It wasn’t like Black Temple, Icecrown Citadel or Blackwing Descent. It’s not the standard dark…

• When it Comes to Guild Apps, Pick Two

  Matticus

  23 Jan 2012 | 6:35 pm

  Historically speaking, most of the players I’ve picked up in the past had two out of the three attributes. Rare is the player who manages to possess all three. Recruiting seems to be at an all time low according to a few GMs I’ve spoken to (10 man and 25 man, Horde and Alliance). It’s as if the majority of players just want to see the content, regardless of what difficulty level it is (meaning the path of least resistance gets selected the most or the LFR tool). It seems like the applicants I see seem to exhibit 2 out of the 3 traits. Skilled Manages to bring the pain (or the…

• Admit It: You Get High From Being Clutch

  Matticus

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Ever wonder what it’s like to feel “high” in this game? This is one of those methods. I’d wager that Holy Priests get a bigger kick out of it then the other healers. Unlike the other clutch healing abilities, Guardian Spirit has two key effects: It offers both increased healing received on the target and the ability to grant a second chance in case the target dies. Usually, when Holy Priests burn Guardian Spirit, it’s meant for the extra healing because of some massive amount of incoming damage. But if tank health, your global cooldown, your lag and your reflexes all line up, then…

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  Gray Matter

• My MoP Wish List - Part 1: A Gem Overhaul

  Graylo

  24 Jan 2012 | 1:26 pm

  Quick Note: This is part one of three(ish) posts I am planning on making regarding what I would like to see happen/change in the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion. I say three(ish) posts, because what I had originally planned to be just one post has grown in to four so far. Last weeks post on the current epic gem situation grew out of his idea, and became too big not to be it's own post. Today’s post was also meant to be apart of another post but grew to big as well. Who knows, maybe this idea will keep me posting into March.With the Mists of Pandaria expansion getting closer I've been…

• Epic Gems in Cata = A Failure

  Graylo

  20 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm

  Quick Announcement: I'm trying to be more active on twitter. If you want to follow me, my ID is @graylo.Last night my guild killed Heroic Hagara for the second time and not one, but two [Girdle of the Grotesque] dropped. As I'm sure most of you know, this is the BiS moonkin belt, and I was quite happy when I was awarded one of them. Then I had a revelation.The GotG has two Red sockets and gains a prismatic socket once you apply the belt buckle. Since it is a BiS item I would expect it to be gemmed with epic quality gems even if they are a bit expensive, because I'm not going to replace it.

• FWSC: Upgrading from 4T12

  Graylo

  12 Jan 2012 | 4:14 pm

  In my last post I addressed the value of the 4T13 set bonus because before it was buffed in PTR patch 4.3.2 it was widely regarded as very weak and several people asked me if it was a set bonus people should strive for or just ignore it and use other gear. I think I answered that question sufficiently last week, but I was surprised by how many of you asked when we should upgrade from 4T12, and weren't even concerned about 4T13 yet. I had assumed (somewhat wrongly) that upgrading to 2T13 was a given based upon my experience and where items fell on my gear list. After thinking about it a little…

• FWSC: A Look at Set Bonus 4T13

  Graylo

  4 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm

  Since the release of patch 4.3 I've received several questions about the Moonkin 4 piece set bonus, and had been working on this post for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, it is now a little late given new information from the recent PTR build, but I would like to go ahead and get it out there to answer any questions that might be lingering.Fun With SimulationCraft: The Moonkin 4T13 Set BonusWhen the set bonuses were reveled on the PTR months ago, the criticism of the 4T13 set bonus was pretty quick and pretty loud. I don't remember seeing a single theorycrafter or analysis that suggested it…

• MoP: Celestial Alignment and other Talents

  Graylo

  8 Dec 2011 | 9:06 pm

  There is a new Mists of Pandaria talent calculator up with some fun stuff to discuss. Many of the changes are Mana cost changes and error corrections. For example, Moonkin Aura grants 5% haste again instead of crit. Nature's Grace is back up to 15% instead of the 1% listed before, but nobody is interested in this small stuff. On to the good stuff.New Ability: Celestial AlignmentCelestial Alignment: Grants you the simultaneous damage benefit of both your Lunar Eclipse and Solar Eclipse, increasing damage done by your Nature and Arcane spells by 25%. Activating this ability consumes all Lunar…

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  Blessing of Kings

• Nerfs and Listening to the Hardcore

  Rohan

  23 Jan 2012 | 11:47 pm

  Kurn wrote a good post about the upcoming Dragon Soul nerfs. She is unhappy with the nerfs. I am on the opposite side of the issue. However, I want to address two specific points in her post. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — I like a challenge. I loved attunement quests, no matter how crappy they were to do (doing Jailbreak twice in a single night for Majik because he was a dumbass and died? Not fun.). I loved working out strats for encounters in Burning Crusade raids, which, at the time, were incredibly punishing (Vashj, Kael, Bloodboil all come to mind off the top of…

• [SWTOR] Dungeon Finder

  Rohan

  19 Jan 2012 | 3:12 pm

  The Old Republic doesn't have a dungeon finder.  A lot of bloggers seem to be applauding this. I don't know. Maybe they're right. Maybe a dungeon finder does damage the community and make running instances less fun. All I know is that my highest level character, a 42 Sniper, has only seen the first three flashpoints, and only the first two were done at the appropriate level. The third flashpoint I did when I was 15 levels higher than the recommended level. I have not finished a [HEROIC 4] group quest since the second planet, at about level 16.  I have done some of the smaller…

• [SWTOR] Through a Glass, Darkly

  Rohan

  18 Jan 2012 | 12:30 am

  The Old Republic has an interesting mix of zones. There are zones unique to each faction, like the starting planets and the capital planet. There are "shared" planets, like Hoth, where both sides quest (and gank, if on a PvP server) together. And then there is Taris. Taris is a city planet, destroyed by planetary bombardment by Darth Malak back in Knights of the Old Republic. It's now infested by rakghouls, a vicious bunch of monsters who infect their victims and turn them into more rakghouls. Taris is a level 16-20 zone for Republic and a level 30-36 zone for Empire. But Taris is not a…

• Is Diablo 3 Gambling?

  Rohan

  17 Jan 2012 | 3:10 pm

  Tobold asks if Diablo 3 is gambling and concludes that it is: And thus the question whether the randomized way in which the player acquired the Sword of Uberness is a form of gambling is valid. I disagree with this interpretation. Wikipedia's definition, which I think is a good one, states: Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. The wager is the important part of gambling, and that's the part that Diablo 3 is…

• The Tyranny of Skill

  Rohan

  12 Jan 2012 | 4:30 pm

  In a lot of ways, World of Warcraft raiding is an extreme meritocracy.  The better a player is, the more highly skilled, the more weight her voice carries. All the guilds I've been in follow this general pattern. The players who are listened to are the ones who can perform the best. For this reason, it's very important that officers in a serious raiding guild be among the top half of the players. In my experience, this pattern even holds in PuGs. I have never been treated badly in a PuG or LFR. It is really hard to argue with a person decked in high end gear, or topping the meters. And…

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  Inner Fire

• Why Everyone Should Be Good at Support

  innerfire

  6 Jan 2012 | 4:33 pm

  Support teaches you more than just map awareness and aggression. Most folks don’t realize how much I’m actually doing, and I frankly hate this idea that support are the least vital in a game – everyone is vital, and anyone can lose the game for the whole team. A bad support can lose you the [...]

• Now Live

  innerfire

  15 Nov 2011 | 4:24 am

  I’m now live streaming. You can watch me fail like a boss. I AM SO BAD IT’S GOOD. That is all. I love you guys. (By the way – you can usually tell the bad players by looking at who is blaming their team the most. Instead, troll harder. CAWCAWCAWCAWLOLOLOLOL)

• Little-known Tips for Experienced Players

  innerfire

  11 Oct 2011 | 12:54 pm

  Once again, I’ll be providing a summary of some information found elsewhere. If you’re interested, the original post is here. First, the obvious – shift+key is to auto-cast where your cursor is (great for unloading all at once), alt+key is self-cast. But you can also use ctrl to control self-made minions, like Annie’s bear. Holding [...]

• Thoughts on Dominion

  innerfire

  27 Sep 2011 | 2:48 pm

  So, Dominion is now in public beta, periodically available for public consumption, or always available if you’re one of the pros who’re practicing it constantly. For the unitiated, it’s a 5v5 Capture-and-Defend-Points map with a heavy emphasis on speed (through field buffs) that currently caters best to tanky DPS (doesn’t everything these days?) with high [...]

• Preparing for Season 2

  innerfire

  8 Aug 2011 | 5:11 pm

  So, Season One will be ending at the end of August, and prizes will be awarded to the best players in each set of rankings. I’m currently at level 16  - and a short amount of time to get to 30 and get competitive. But I do have a good group of friends and I’m [...]

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  Kill Ten Rats

• [GW] In Medias Res?

  Zubon

  28 Jan 2012 | 12:02 am

  Flipping to the Factions campaign with a Nightfall character, it feels like some important story elements were left out. No no, don’t tell me, I can work it out from inference and wiki, but again pretending that you had not already run through Factions, imagine the new player. There is a plague in Cantha. That sounds bad, and I’m objectively anti-plague (outside the Epidemic skill), so off I go. I meet up with Brother Mhenlo who is an old friend of my character that I’ve never met before. I’m from Istan, who’s this white guy? Oh, he’s someone from Tyria who…

• [GW] Your Thanks Are Enough

  Zubon

  27 Jan 2012 | 10:51 am

  Today I found the quest Too High a Price. There is a loan shark involved, and “I tried to return the money, but he is demanding that I pay him a fee of 250 gold! We do not have that kind of money.” The quest reward is 175 gold. Maybe it takes NPCs a long time to make 75 gold. The player, of course, takes the money from someone who needed a loan shark to afford life-saving medicine, in a setting where a plague is transforming people into monsters and potentially devouring their souls. One notion I like about GW2 karma is that the rewards make more sense and you should feel less…

• Nerdview

  Zubon

  26 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm

  I drove to Chicago yesterday. I-90 splits to local and express lanes once you are in the city. Ideally, you stay in the express lanes until the next opening back to the local lanes is the one before your exit. For that to work, you need to know when the lanes re-merge. The signs helpfully explain that the next exit from the express lanes is at Pershing Road. Great. Is Pershing before or after my exit? What number is the Pershing exit? This sign is a helpful reminder for people who already know where they are going, but not if you are just coming into Chicago and do not know what order the…

• Sometimes I Need That Carrot

  Ethic

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:33 am

  I’ve been in a gaming funk for about a year now. I may find something fun for a while, but within a few weeks I’ve tired of it. I don’t have any active MMO subscriptions either. All I have left is MMOs that are subscription free, or ones I’ve signed up for a lifetime account. I’ve been almost forcing myself to keep playing Lord of the Rings Online because it is still the one game I feel “connected” to. Regardless, as I play less and less, I get more and more lost. I will often log in, pay for my house upkeep, see if anyone I know is playing, and log…

• [GW2] The Jotun, That Which Was Lost

  Ravious

  25 Jan 2012 | 3:06 pm

  There’s a nice new lore article detailing one of the non-player character (NPC) races that appeared in the Guild Wars expansion, The Eye of the North. The jotun are a giant-race, cousins to the ogres. It appears that the giant-races prefer mountains, the ogres getting the Blazeridge Mountains east of Ascalon, while the jotun once held court all throughout the Shiverpeaks. While the story of the ogres is still unknown, the jotun fell in power because of interracial conflict. Behind the scenes, ArenaNet’s loresmith Ree Soesbee writes that the jotun lore was expanded to show…

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  Phantomella's Place

• Mwumwugrlbarg!

  6 Jan 2012 | 3:50 pm

  Mwuwumahgab gwah! [Tranlator engaged] Attention, murlocs of Azeroth! Forget the naga - they are back... All murlocs should be on immediate alert for any sig*unstealth*slice*thud*.

• [Administrivia]

  8 Jan 2011 | 5:00 pm

  By request I'm leaving the blog online, but be aware that it almost certainly won't get updated, and links to external sites may expire. Happy reading, -P :)

• Goodbye

  8 Jan 2011 | 4:48 am

  I'm sorry to go, but I won't be playing WoW any more. It's a combination of things - I've been unable to get past the loading screen for some time, a problem a lot of people seem to be having and Blizzard are aware of, yet seem incapable of providing decent feedback through the Tech Support forum (at least the EU one). I also really dislike Stormwind now. It's not just that the scenery's changed, although I have to say I preferred the old SW (and not just the tree), but it's so crowded and you often can't see anything (even questgivers or mailboxes at times) for flying mounts, especially…

• What the...?

  28 Dec 2010 | 1:11 am

  It's unusual enough that Gothfan dinged 69 and 70 in a day, but now... Downhere has dinged 45, despite being a banker who never goes far from SW/IF. She's been doing fishing and cooking dailies, apparently. Gratz to her :)

• Gnelf powa!

  27 Dec 2010 | 8:57 am

  Finally managed to get on today and Gothfan has excelled himself - he's dinged 69 and 70, and picked up his fast gryph :D We're stunned, I tell ya...

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  Stropp's World

• SOPA/PIPA – The Greatest Threat To The Internet And Innovation So Far

  Stropp

  17 Jan 2012 | 8:19 pm

  Last November I wrote a post about the upcoming SOPA/PIPA legislation currently being debated in the US Congress and Senate. I concluded that SOPA would have a negative impact on gamers and on games. I said, Even worse, because the burden of proof is lowered even further, it may become rediculously easy for game publishers to take out the competition. Just claim copyright infringement. Right now you cannot copyright an idea. But since there is no due process anymore, just a claim that the competing developer has infringed might be enough to close down the competitor. This might not work…

• Star Wars Galaxies: Gone, Or Is It?

  Stropp

  15 Dec 2011 | 8:27 pm

  Star Wars Galaxies is having, or perhaps has had by this time, its last hurrah. The servers are shutting down for good, any final in-game events have taken place, and the last players are now out in the cold after turning out the lights. What to do now? While many former Galaxies players will be heading for the warmer climes of Star Wars The Old Republic, there is perhaps another option for the SWG die hard… The emulator. SWGEmu is a project that has been in development since the CU (combat upgrade) happened to SWG. It attempts to recreate the pre-CU experience for those players that…

• SWTOR Day!

  Stropp

  13 Dec 2011 | 7:02 am

  Happy SWTOR Day. Congrats to all those who are in for the early, early start. Here’s to a smooth launch and lots of Star Warsy goodness. SWTOR Day!

• Bioware You Vex Me

  Stropp

  6 Dec 2011 | 7:16 pm

  Bioware why do you taunt me so? Having participated in the SWTOR weekend tests, I do think that I would love to play this game, at least running one of classes through the story to the end. But I cannot. Australia is not in the list of launch territories. I even checked with my local EB Games the other day, and they don’t have a date at all for the Star Wars The Old Republic release in Oz. So it is looking like post February for an Aussie release. So it is quite vexxing to receive an email from Bioware saying that if I can preorder I can get into the early access. They even provide a…

• Why Star Wars The Old Republic Is Bad For Role Players

  Stropp

  30 Nov 2011 | 6:30 am

  A lot of words have been written about SWTOR lately. The impression I get is that these words have been mostly positive about Star Wars The Old Republic. And, to a certain extent, this is rightfully so. SWTOR is actually a pretty decent game. I was given the opportunity over the weekend to participate in the final stress test for the game, and spent the greater portion of the weekend doing so. While I enjoyed my time playing it, despite some fairly annoying bugs, I’ve come to the following conclusion about The Old Republic. It’s good for themepark gamers, bad for role players.

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  Two and two half paws.

• Authentic Tea, Frankenstein and a lovely state of exhaustion.

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:23 am

  Authentic Tea:Yesterday I had a powerful craving for something sweet. I don't allow myself, during the week, to have sweets. Dilemma. Fortunately I remembered that I had some vanilla chai tea and I remembered that being a rather sweet drink. I dug it out, read the directions for "authentic" chai tea, and brewed a cup. Absolutely delicious. For such a simple recipe (boil 1 C. water with 1/4C. milk with the tea bag, simmer for two minutes) I felt quite proud of myself. I think it's because I had transitioned from drinking tea made in an unauthentic way to an authentic one.Frankenstein:I had to…

• I thought we were a few years away from this conversation.

  19 Jan 2012 | 10:13 pm

  This is the Orclette two years ago. She's still that size in my head, and I suspect I will always, at least in some way, picture her as my little baby. Yes, this is relevant to the topic.So this afternoon I was looking for some way to entertain the Orclette and Miniorc. It had been a loooong day; first day of school for Damm and an emotional one for me as everyone started school and I didn't. I got out the removable "Cars 2" tattoos and put one on the Miniorc's hand. He flipped out, crying and asking me to take it off. I'm guessing he's observed mine don't come off and he thought I'd put…

• The best feeling ever.

  16 Jan 2012 | 2:58 pm

  This past summer I had to have my wisdom teeth removed. I'm not averse to some pain but the thought of being awake while my teeth, one of them impacted, were pulled out was a bit much. So I opted for sedation surgery. It was amazing: the stuff they gave me was incredibly relaxing, and it was better than the moment my epidural hit after eighteen hours of labor (but not by much). The day after, which was filled with sleeping and then more sleeping, was also heaven.The absolute best moment, though, was about a week after the surgery. I had been trying to get through the day without…

• The notoriety of it all.

  13 Jan 2012 | 8:27 am

  I've been busy reading. First up on the list was Leslie Carroll's Notorious Royal Marriages, a book I had started before but suspected I hadn't finished. Turns out I did finish it that first time but I couldn't seem to put it down, it was so depressing. Being royal did mean power and money-most of the time-but it also was synonymous with heartache and depression. Henry VIII? Went through six wives and never found true happiness or contentment and worried to his dying day about the state of his soul because of his rift with the Pope (although it seems he never contemplated reversing his…

• Fidgety.

  10 Jan 2012 | 9:17 am

  And bored. Fidgety and bored. It happens regularly this time of year. I would just console myself with the thought of another semester starting but, for me, that is not happening. So my brain is restless, and nowhere was that more evident than in church this past Sunday. I normally pay attention, take notes, and I was doing that, but the hair distracted me. It did not move. It was completely hair sprayed into place. After watching this phenomenon for a while I turned my attention to the other hair styles in the room, noting those that were obviously hair spray-plastered and those that were…

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  Tobold's MMORPG Blog

• What is Dungeons & Dragons?

  Tobold

  28 Jan 2012 | 1:15 am

  While googling for Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, I discovered there is a "Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition for Dummies" book out there. I found that extremely weird. I know that there are "for Dummies" books about everything, including Farmville. But as D&D comes in the form of books, this is basically a book on how to read a book. But I also got comments like "I've never played a "pen & paper" RPG so I don't understand yet what you'll be doing" on my blog. So it dawned to me that so much time has passed that there are now a significant amount of people who play MMORPGs, but who have never…

• Bad customer service of Bioware

  Tobold

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:30 pm

  When EA Bioware refused all my credit cards and Paypal as payments, I naturally opened a customer support ticket with them. I've used the cards elsewhere since, so I'm sure it is a problem with them, not any of my banks, which would have been extremely unlikely to happen to 3 financial institutions at the same time anyway. I would consider payment issues to be rather fundamental, and worthy of a swift response. But I had to wait a full week before I heard back from EA Bioware. And what did they say? They said that since I had used a game time card since, they considered the ticket closed.

• Minimalist vs. Maximalist in pen & paper roleplaying rules

  Tobold

  27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 am

  It didn't take long after me mentioning Dungeons & Dragons until the first commenter popped up saying that this wasn't the best system to roleplay with. Specifically Inquisitor said: "4e doesn't *stop* you running an actual story, but it really doesn't help you, either". Which brings us back to a debate which is over 30 years old: What is the role of a rule system in a pen & paper roleplaying game?Basically there are two extreme positions, and lots of shades of grey in between. The two extremes can be called minimalist and maximalist. The minimalist point of view is that the rules only get…

• And now for something completely different

  Tobold

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:30 am

  I am strangely excited about a new game opportunity, more than I have been for years. If I had to sum up my gaming history in one phrase, I'd say that I played Dungeons & Dragons in the eighties, Magic the Gathering in the nineties, and MMORPGs in the noughties (or whatever you want to call that decade). But I never completely stopped playing pen & paper role-playing games, I just play a lot less now, and as a player instead of a Dungeon Master. So now I am excited about a possibility to become the Dungeon Master again, starting a fresh campaign, probably with Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition…

• The death of the used game

  Tobold

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:30 pm

  The current generation of consoles is getting long in the tooth, and the next generation is starting to get announced. But some of the features of the next generation consoles are likely not to please gamers very much: The XBox 720 reportedly will have a system that makes it impossible to play used games.Of course on a MMORPG blog that is kind of non-news. Or would you like to buy my used copy of World of Warcraft (without the account, which isn't transferable)? Basically a MMORPG client these days is free, and you pay an initial fee to open an account, plus a monthly fee to keep it going. Or…

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• Too scared to Arena...

  28 Jan 2012 | 4:37 am

  posted______________________________RE Suolis postedSo I finally managed to dodge the angry barrage of 2k+ rated rogues running vial and hit 2.2k....

• No Blizzcon - Cancelled in 2012?!

  25 Jan 2012 | 4:50 pm

  Bashiok postedYeah it's a bit disappointing because we all really do enjoy being able to 'open the doors' so to speak. But, it is an...

• What’s Coming to ampm Is Too Epic for Just One Cup

  25 Jan 2012 | 4:45 pm

  Zarhym postedNo less than four malevolent entities will adorn a special set of collectable drinking cups, available soon at ampm convenience stores....

• 70-year-old raiding grandma wields legendary and leads her guild

  24 Jan 2012 | 9:24 pm

  Joystiq postedYou don't get much more charming than the Knitting Grandma, the surprise hit guest at last fall's BlizzCon 2011 WoW Insider...

• Mists of Pandaria Talent Questions

  21 Jan 2012 | 10:07 am

  Lylirra postedSo my question is, with only 6 'tiers' of talents after MoP, what is happening to all the other talents that are currently in...

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  Too Many Annas

• The People of RaidFinder

  Anna

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:09 am

  Having done a few RaidFinder groups, I’m starting to notice patterns. Sadly, they’re not really GOOD patterns. For whatever reason, the players who show up, do their jobs, get loot and go on their merry way don’t seem to stick out in LFR. On the other hand, the ones that DO stick out tend to be… memorable. And so I present to you, the people of Raid Finder: Guys I’m SO baked – drunk, high, stoned, exhausted, or otherwise generally mentally incapacitated. Probably still trying to main tank too. Walking Taunt Button – taunts everything off the tank.

• There’s No Place Like Home

  Anna

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:25 am

  I was reading a post the other day from Ask a Jedi, about how his characters in other games had places that felt like “home”, where in Star Wars they kind of didn’t. It’s a good post, and an interesting one in terms of game design. In WoW, each race has its own “flavor” for the first 10 levels (especially now that Gnomeregan and the Echo Isles are complete). You really have a very specific feel and lore that helps set up who your character is. You’re level 1, and you feel like it. There’s even a quest that welcomes your character into the…

• Brain Heals

  Anna

  24 Jan 2012 | 8:11 am

  I redid my gems. I re-reforged. I redid my keybinds. I set up clique and totem timers. And then we went to Firelands. My first foray as a healer wasn’t horrible though, once I remembered I had Healing Rain (which is probably the biggest change to how I’m used to playing a shaman healer). In fact, I even started to get the rhythm of the various fights once we were halfway through. Of course, we were half overgeared for it, which didn’t hurt, but I didn’t wipe the raid. (/relief) Unfortunately the two people we were intending to gear up didn’t get a single upgrade.

• When the writing gets tough…

  Anna

  23 Jan 2012 | 7:59 am

  I don’t have a witty ending to that statement. But it would probably be something like “… the writer gets a beer.” Anyway, what happens when you want to be writing, but the ideas won’t come? When you have a character that needs attention but no ficlets to write? Sometimes things just need to incubate a little longer. Wait a bit and see what happens. Sometimes, however, even with waiting, you have the desire to write and no concrete direction to take your writing. I suffer from this a lot. It’s why I don’t write novels – I don’t really do…

• Form of Healer – ACTIVATE!

  Anna

  20 Jan 2012 | 11:04 am

  So my as yet nameless raid* is going through another reset cycle. We’ve lost a few people, are raiding on a new night, etc. One of the people we lost was our paladin healer. As such, since I like my raid and want to keep raiding, I offered to swap Annorah over to healing (and Yva will be swapping to paladin healing). To put this into context, the last time I healed anything other than myself while questing, I was running LFD at the end of Wrath with my priest. Which means it’s been more than two years since I healed, closer to FOUR years since I healed as a Shaman (though I may…

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• An Update from Oligopoly, Random Ramblings, Markco Banned from D3 Beta, and Diablo 3 Release Date?

  Oligopoly

  28 Jan 2012 | 7:05 am

  WoW is Slow WoW economic news has been slow lately. There isn’t much going on and we have no reason to push past 1 million gold. In fact every time I get close again, I end up giving a huge chunk of it away to friends and guildies. Although I haven’t been playing much WoW, I still stay up to date on the news and still read blogs. I enjoy the Diablo 3 editorials by Greedy Goblin / Daeity. WoW Gold Community News/Updates: Tarou WoW Guides: WoW Multi-Millionaire The You’ve Never Heard Of It’s interesting that the gold community doesn’t mention or really know…

• Videos: Diablo 3 Runed (Rank 7) Spell Animations

  Oligopoly

  3 Jan 2012 | 7:05 am

  [Spoilers] For those eagerly waiting for Diablo 3, here is some new footage to hold you over. Runes are like glyphs, they change the function of your spells. In D3, they also change the animation significantly. Wizard Skills Runed Hydra Runed Teleport Runed Electrocute Runed Explosive Blast Runed Meteor Runed Demon Hunter Skills Runed Grenades Runed Bola Shot & Grenades Runed Rain of Vengeance Runed Elemental Arrow Related posts: Video: Diablo 3 Presentation at Gamescom 2011 – How Crafting, Gems, and Items Work Diablo 3 Article Round-Up From Our Sister Site –…

• Warcraft Econ – 2011 in Blogging

  Oligopoly

  31 Dec 2011 | 8:09 pm

    Thank you for all of your continued support of our sites, bloggers, and the players that participated in an interview for our Hall of Fame! Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Related posts: Warcraft Econ Reader, Guest Post, and HOF Contest Winner’s Announced The Warcraft Econ Time Machine: May 2009 New Warcraft Econ Feature: The Hall Of Fame MMO Econ Forums – Warcraft Econ’s Upcoming 3 Year Anniversary Join the Warcraft Econ Team!

• Video: Trade Chat Talks About BattleTags, Battle.net Balance, and WoW/Diablo 3 News

  Oligopoly

  28 Dec 2011 | 4:00 pm

  Danielle Elizabeth of Trade Chat has created a video that covers some recent Blizzard news. This is for those who like to get their information through a video rather than walls of text. She also created the video that features gold tips from some of our Hall of Fame gold capped players when the gold cap was 214k. Follow @TradeChat on Twitter. Related posts: Video: Trade Chat Talks About New WoW Patch 4.3 News Video: Trade Chat Talks About New WoW Patch 4.3 News, Transmogrification, and Void Storage Video: Trade Chat Covers WoW Patch 4.3 and the Diablo 3 Auction House Video: Trade…

• Warcraft Lounge Episode 28: 4.3 Edition

  Drakkmur

  21 Dec 2011 | 2:57 pm

  Episode 28 is now available at www.warcraftlounge.com and iTunes (where we have a 5-star rating from our listeners).  Topics for the show include: -What we are doing in game: Chris: Did a FLs pug (me pugging is a big deal enough) with some douche bags that went over the line on a girl in the raid, I took our own advice and got some mechanical chickens, 4.3 launched and spent a lot of time “fixing” toons.  Capped valor on 8 toons the first week and my 10 man went 4/8 normal in DS the first week despite being shorthanded and raiding only 5 hours that week. Ryan: Winning the “Meta War”…

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  Business Egotisticalpriest

• Guide to shopping in cashback service

  admin

  24 Jan 2012 | 6:12 pm

  If you follow this guide, you will find that shopping cashback best way to recoup some money you will surely spend your groceries. However, in order to get the best value, you should check cashback sites as much as possible, learn how much cashback on purchases that they offer a variety of familiarizing themselves with the requirements and additional costs. obviously this can cause a significant reduction in monthly utility customers addicted. so do not be blinded by the great cashback offer – shop around! In addition, there are many reports of customers do not pay cashback on their…

• BUSINESS IDEAS BANK: FREE ADOPTION OF BUSINESS CONCEPTS

  admin

  3 Jan 2012 | 6:53 pm

  There must be millions of ideas out there. However, rarely do they get progressed and most of them just remain thoughts in someone’s head. One way to find all those ideas is to search on the thousands of websites. And to make it easier for you to find them, the ideas can be listed in one site that acts as ideas bank. But why bother? What are those ideas for anyway? Ideas are very important in one’s societies. Inventions and businesses came from one simple idea and now, those are the ones who are keeping the economy alive. Unfortunately, there are many people out there who are…

• Your Guide to Home Office Layout and Design

  admin

  3 Jan 2012 | 6:25 pm

  Your home based business needs a dedicated area in your home to work from. It’s essential to your overall success to have a properly designated space to work from in order to maintain your work ability and efficiency. Simply “making do” won’t help your business be a success in the long run. Choosing the best area in your home to locate your home office in is a key task for anyone who ever wants to work from home. Now you’ll need to look at what part of your home you’d like to convert to a home office. Which room in your home will readily convert to a home…

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• A Concise Overview Of Finding The Optimal Private Jet Charter

  Nicole

  28 Jan 2012 | 7:26 am

  There are several motives why an individual may want to use private jet charter. The well-known of these factors is the reality that Private Jet services are often much more convenient in comparison with commercial aviation. For instance, if you choose to travel utilizing private jet services, you can benefit from the opportunity to leave whenever you want. You arent limited by things such as flight agendas and in simple terms you can create your own flight plan. This makes private jet charter great for those people who dont have enough time to waste, since they can conveniently pick where to…

• The Diet Program Solution

  Nicole

  28 Jan 2012 | 5:34 am

  When someone were being to offer you Half inchthe diet solutionHalf inch to the long life devoid of sickness are you intrigued? Of course, Really would. What I am going to speak about here is the Mediterranean sea Diet regime. Foodstuff used by the men and women on the Mediterranean sea. We need to acquire a short while to take into consideration the pace cash advance being overweight is growing within our the community and also at the pace were loss of life ahead of time while we are having the Traditional western Diet regime. The meals the fact that men and women on the Mediterranean sea…

• Best Places To Buy African Mango: Find Out Where You Can Buy African Mango And Reveal More Bang For Your Buck

  Nicole

  28 Jan 2012 | 5:27 am

  African Mango Weight loss supplements have gained popularity given it was introduced really. This it seems synergistic formulation must prove helpful within the African mango reviews management of obesity and it is related complications. “. This is vital since the metabolism determines how considerably calories you burn each and every day. Among the 48 participants, 28 of them are permitted to take the seeds at thrice per day for starters month but still observing a regular diet. It is furthermore where its weightloss properties come as a result of. African mango diet supplements could…

• 50th celebration celebration tips and themes for the success get together.

  Nicole

  28 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Should you be in search of the perfect reward basket after that dont look every now and then instead make a wonderful yummy and cute gift bakers holder to gift around the occasion associated with Christmas. For producing cookie reward bags you need to have a section of cute textile, a recipe of one’s favorite cookies, dry ingredients, plastic scoot bag or maybe gift holder, decorative ribbon and 50th birthday ideas Yuletide themed piece of food clutter. Once you’ve selected for the actual recipe make use of, you may type it on hand or compose it on a cute formula card so as to…

• Enjoy Success With Adwords By Avoiding These Simple Mistakes

  Nicole

  28 Jan 2012 | 1:37 am

  When most people talk about a particular internet business method there is usually a certain amount of existing knowledge that is taken for granted. We remember learning about, credit cards with no credit check, and it took a while plus gaining first-hand experience before we really felt comfortable with it. There are certain advertising and marketing methods that so many have the wrong idea about due to people spreading rumors and false information on the net. What we will talk about in this article assumes a certain level of previous learning. If you like learning and discovering, then you…

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  Loregy

• SWTOR – A Quick Review for Lore-Junkies

  Cocles

  4 Jan 2012 | 6:42 am

  Just a quick review before I get back to my usual posts.  I’ve been playing SWTOR since early closed beta, and I’ve been especially enjoying it since pre-release began.  (There’s just something about knowing your character is now “yours” and won’t be deleted after a few weeks.) I’ll keep this short and sweet, since I know most of you don’t come here for reviews.  SWTOR has, quite simply, the best storytelling I have ever seen in an MMO.  Period.  If you love MMO’s for their stories and you’re not playing SWTOR then you’re…

• A Question for my Readers: SWTOR?

  Cocles

  30 Nov 2011 | 5:31 am

  So I have a question for all of you… If you’ve been here awhile then you know Loregy is technically a site about game lore in general; I just happen to talk about WoW most of the time since I know that’s what you enjoy.  For the past few months though, I’ve been trying out the Star Wars: The Old Republic beta, and I have to say, Wow, what a game!  As it is, I’m only familiar with the game up to level 20 or so with each class, but from what I’ve seen, if you’re a lore-junkie then SWTOR is the game for you.  The sheer amount of detail that has gone…

• Wrathion, the new Earth-Warder?

  Cocles

  15 Nov 2011 | 5:54 am

  He’s the most potentially awesome character WarCraft has introduced in years.  Wrathion, the Black Prince, the last black dragon on Azeroth.  An impressive title, but that’s not the best part.  The real kicker?  The Red Dragonflight used Titan technology on him, before he was hatched, to purify him.  So unlike Deathwing, unlike any other black dragon seen on Azeroth in over 10,000 years, Wrathion is a pure, uncorrupt black dragon.   And considering what black dragons have been capable of as villains, one can only image what one of them could do as a hero.  But therein lies…

• Mists of Pandaria Lore

  Cocles

  24 Oct 2011 | 4:54 am

  I’ll be updating this post as we learn more Mists of Pandaria lore, but for now, there are a few things we can surmise. First and foremost, Blizzard is obviously further sub-dividing the originally expected “Maelstrom” expansion.  This is a very big deal.  Why?  Simply put, it could mean we’ll have not five, but six expansions (as some of you have suspected).  Is this certain?  Hardly.  In fact, I discuss this more in the latest Future Expansions for WoW – Redux update.  Six expansions would bring us to a nice clean 100 level cap, but I’m not…

• Updated Posts…

  Cocles

  22 Oct 2011 | 6:47 pm

  When will the Pandaren be in WoW? and here’s another one… Future Expansions for WoW – Redux and one more… Illidan Stormrage, Dead? Enjoy! This post originally came from Loregy a Game Lore Blog. Updated Posts… Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

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• Master of Alterac Valley

  Garwulf

  24 Jan 2012 | 1:40 am

  Earned this shiny new achievement tonight… …leaving only one task left to fulfill before you all can start calling me “Battlemaster Garwulf”. Of course, this last achievement is arguably thee toughest one to earn – especially with a group of randoms. I may have to get the guild rebuilt and organized in order to conquer [...]

• How I Roll, Part 2… More BM PvP Build Advice

  Garwulf

  24 Jan 2012 | 1:20 am

  One major benefit of having a class site like Huntsman’s Lodge is that I get so much great input from all of you. Your comments and discussion really prompt me to revisit a lot things, and in turn, influence change – making me a better player as a result. After reading some of the comments [...]

• How I Roll… A look at my current Beast Mastery PvP build

  Garwulf

  18 Jan 2012 | 5:45 pm

  Beastly-Ass Beast Mastery Hunter Ass-Kicking Build of Death: Patch 4.3 Edition Been awhile since I posted an overview of my BM PvP build, so I figured it was about time to provide a glimpse at what I’m using currently. My previous build I posted way back in July of last year, and while it served [...]

• Greetings

  Garwulf

  18 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm

  I had refrained from posting until I felt the desire and/or motivation to do so, but I’m happy to say it’s coming back. The end of December began what is arguably the most stressful and hurt-filled period of my life since losing my mom to cancer 5 years ago. This recent situation bore similarities to [...]

• Resurfacing

  Garwulf

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:16 am

  The past few weeks for me have been world-shaking, but I’m about ready to return…almost.

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  Sideshow & Syrana

• Space Truckin’

  Sideshow

  31 Dec 2011 | 1:15 pm

  I wasn’t really keeping up on the Star Wars: The Old Republic news, so I pretty much forgot about it. I happened to be listening to Polygamerous on Dec 19th when Syrana was on for the 100th episode and I heard them mention it went live that night. I visited the official site and one thing led to another and I had it purchased and downloading when I went to bed that night. It was installed and ready to go by the time I had a chance to play it the next night. From all of the MMO launches I’ve been through, this one was the smoothest. I had no problems getting in, connecting to a…

• How Heavy This Axe

  Sideshow

  11 Nov 2011 | 4:01 pm

  I need to apologize to a few people. Sorry, Battlefield 3. Sorry, World of Warcraft. Sorry, Lord of the Rings Online. Sorry, Batman: Arkham City. Sorry, Minecraft. Sorry, Rock Band 3. Skyrim is here. Please, hold my calls (for at least a month.) I’m completely agree with Mister Adequate’s review over at The Android’s Closet. When I first wandered up high in the mountains and the snow started blowing hard, I felt the room get colder.

• The War Inside My Head

  Sideshow

  1 Nov 2011 | 7:46 pm

  This is what I’m currently doing. I was going to wait until 11/11 and buy Skyrim, but I had a weak moment and picked up Battlefield 3 for the PC last week. Everything you see in this video is actual gameplay. The multiplayer is that insane. It’s not to say I’ve had some issues getting to that point with server disconnects and game crashes, but overall it’s not that bad. They’ve fixed a lot of the issues recently. I had a good run last night. If you’re also playing on the PC, look me up on Origin/Battlelog. It’s more fun the kill work with people I…

• To Isengard!

  Sideshow

  9 Sep 2011 | 8:25 pm

  Hi, remember me? Probably not. I sometimes live here. Anyways… I did enjoy the Cataclysm expansion. They added a lot of cool features. The new zones and the reconfigured zones were both very well done. I now have more characters at max level than I ever have before (3, up from 2.) But, as with a lot of the “end game” stuff, I get bored quickly. I don’t raid, too much trouble. I play, what most would consider, casually. I pop on for a few hours a week and do mostly solo stuff. I do enjoy PvP on occasion, but one can only do Tol Barad and Firelands dailies enough times.

• The Future of the Sims

  Syrana

  8 Sep 2011 | 2:21 pm

  When you look at the Sims, you’ll notice that bar the expansions packs, very little has changed. But that’s putting to one side one big Sims 3 expansion – The Sims Medieval. Introducing a quest system, the game starts to take on a simulation/RPG feel, and it’s innovation like this that could really drive the Sims forward into a new generation of gaming experiences. The Sims as it is needs to spice things up, as bar rewards and the odd graphical overhaul, not enough has changed. Some people like that, but the problem with nothing changing is that those who aren’t…

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  The Bronze Kettle

• Looking for Love in Alderaan Places

  Jon

  5 Jan 2012 | 11:04 pm

  Star Wars: The Old Republic is shaping up to be much more than WoW with lightsabers. It’s impossible not to compare the two, and there are plenty of categories where WoW still has the upper hand but I’m having a blast and I have to give credit to the folks over at BioWare for creating such an awesome game. The “you’ve got your single player rpg in my mmo” approach is paying off in spades, at least for me. Playing WoW for almost 7 years, I stuck pretty closely to my main characters, but I never really felt like there was a strong connection to them. Now I know…

• Colossus Illustration

  Shelbi

  29 Jul 2011 | 6:33 pm

  While this technically is from StarCraft 2, we’re still in the same family, right? The winner of the This Ticket is Child’s Play contest, LordZammel, requested a Colossus illustration. If you missed the /roll, you can view the screengrab here.

• Two More Days to Donate and Win!

  Shelbi

  28 Jun 2011 | 9:34 am

  Just a quick reminder that there are 2 days left to enter the drawing for the BlizzCon 2011 Ticket and Custom Minitarz Character. All proceeds go to Child’s Play. I can tell you that there are less than 10 entries, so your odds of winning are REALLY good!

• This Ticket is Child’s Play!

  Shelbi

  1 Jun 2011 | 8:54 am

  We’re running a contest over at LFG: BlizzCon from June 1st to June 30th. Donate to Child’s Play and get a ticket for our virtual raffle. The winner will receive a badge for BlizzCon 2011 (no swag bag) and a custom character illustration (minitarz). 100% of the proceeds will go to Child’s Play. For more info, including rules, Click Here. Although the details of the raffle are TBD, most likely it will be conducted just like our last raffle.

• Going to BlizzCon? Join LFGBC.com

  Shelbi

  20 Mar 2011 | 1:26 pm

  Lately I’ve been working on a new website – Looking For Group: BlizzCon – which is a simplified social networking site dedicated to those of us who plan on attending BlizzCon this year. I wanted to create this site so we can all get to know each other online and then meet up at the con. When you join, you’ll have access to Profiles, Galleries and Forums. Let us know more about you. Post images of past cons and costume progress. Share your experiences and discuss afterparties. So what are you waiting for? Join Now!

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• Is Balanced Worth Boring?

  Gordon

  22 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm

  A reminder to all that WoW's colour palette should probably be avoided by those with epilepsy Although it’s early days with SW:TOR and I’m still somewhat off to the level cap, I’m an avid PvPer and queue for Warzones almost constantly when I play it (they’re a lot of fun). Taking a breather and switching back to WoW Battlegrounds for a few days though highlighted something I always suspected: it’s ridiculously unbalanced compared to The Old Republic. It’s no surprise really. SW:TOR is a new game and designed from the ground up to cater to both PvE and…

• EQ2 Finally Gives Up And Abandons All Design Consistency Completely

  Gordon

  15 Jan 2012 | 5:47 pm

  Hey SOE, Aion called and wants its IP back I used to love Everquest 2. I mean really love it. My feelings towards it transcended beyond the way a man feels about a woman, the way he feels about a fine cigar and even the way he would feel about a fellow Spartan (should be be one himself). To me, it was a game that absorbed years of my life, the plucky little kid who fought back against the face of overwhelming odds (World of Warcraft) and worked harder than anyone out there to improve, to evolve, to better itself. Under excellent guidance it streamlined its mechanics, enhanced its gameplay and…

• DPS Only Classes Are Now Redundant

  Gordon

  8 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm

  The incredulous, exuberant, marvellous paradigm of multi-role perfectionism - the RIFT cleric One of the reasons that I’m not a fan of the Advanced Class system in SW:TOR is because it fills you with hesitation and regret. Having invested four or five hours into your character, you’re suddenly forced to make a huge decision that’s going to impact your playstyle forever more based only upon a tiny Codex entry and a brief glance at skill trees. Furthermore, you sometimes have to pick between giving up any chance of tanking or healing and become a full on DPS only class. The…

• I Shagged A Sith (And I Liked It)

  Gordon

  5 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm

  Even fictional computerised Sith find my charms irresistible According to general chat on Balmorra, Darth Lachris is a well known hussy. I don’t mind. My Bounty Hunter may be a big softy at heart, refusing to kill people unless absolutely necessary and showing mercy where he can, but he still tries to pork anything that moves. Twi’lek, Hutt, Sith, anything goes. Apparently Lady Lachris feels the same way. I must confess, I wasn’t really expecting it. A few casual flirts led to the option to lean in and kiss the Sith cougar, resulting in quite a surprise when she took me by…

• All My Thoughts On SW:TOR

  Gordon

  2 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm

  Even evil Bounty Hunters feel the need to chill out in bars I don’t like doing reviews because I don’t really feel qualified to write them – not as a gamer that is, but as a journalist. I’m far too opinionated and biased to be comfortable scoring games plus MMOs are a huge endeavour and I don’t think reviewing one within a few weeks of release does them justice. Still, I can’t get SW:TOR out of my head (which probably says a lot about how strong a hold it has on me and how good it is) and strangely feel the need to blab my thoughts about it, detailing its…

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  TyphoonAndrew's - Eye of the Storm

• Sharing SOPA Rant

  typhoonandrew

  19 Jan 2012 | 12:44 am

  I’ve made a rant about the anti-piracy bills in the USA and the SOPA movement. Its important enough that I want it shared here too so it reaches a different readership. What to do if SOPA Passes Now returning you to some more rants about RPG, Warcraft, and pugging as a casual with no patience. Filed under: Rant Tagged: Rant, SOPA

• Hate: Constantly moving tanks

  typhoonandrew

  4 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Today’s post is a little rant to get something off my chest: Tank moving mobs too much. I hate it. A lot. Recently in a LFD run the tank was constantly moving the creatures. Now I don’t mean slowly moving them in a reverse circle to gather them up (bears do this, it makes sense), or a tank moving so that nothing is flanking them. Or even adjusting because shitty dps don’t know not to stand in front while the baddies cleave or use flame breaths – I mean constant changing where they stand randomly. This idiot tank walked forwards, backwards, and sideways through the…

• The dearth of time abounds, please standby

  typhoonandrew

  19 Dec 2011 | 4:52 am

  The end of the year is a time when hobbie time seems to evaporate, leaving me frazzled.  This year is no different with work deployments, shopping needs, appointments, training courses, and some such all stopping online gaming from happening. I’d not be exaggerating to say that I’ve played less than 2 hours in the last two weeks, and about 10 minutes in the last 8 days. In fact yesterday was 5 minutes, which counts the loading screen. I’m sure that the new year will see far more regular playtime, and a few more posts. For now at least I’m enjoying reading about how…

• The new 5 mans in patch 4.3 are very reasonable

  typhoonandrew

  12 Dec 2011 | 2:30 am

  I’ve now played each of the new 5 mans in patch 4.3 a few times and they are very reasonable; however the player base and loot mechanics are still problematic. From a pace and visual style the new instances is excellent. The tasks needed are obvious enough that you get the idea quickly, the mechanics are not difficult to follow, but they need to be addressed properly (interrupts, fire on ground, proximity, special kill orders feature strongly). All in all, good stuff. Worth waiting for, and certainly feature rich in terms of game lore that the characters get to participate in. However…

• End Time, thoughts

  typhoonandrew

  1 Dec 2011 | 3:06 am

  I played the first of the new 5 mans last night – End Time. It’s ok. For the first attempts at these instances I’ve decided to join as dps, so that I can at least not have full pressure for the runs. As dps the job is no different than before: kill, interrupt, avoid. The trash was actually sometimes harder than the bosses, especially the initial shadow panther things. They just keep spawning till you get to the light – I like that. Boss mechanics are straight forward (avoid bad, move on special, interrupt when casting X) and not so stacked together that we suffered. I…

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  Dakona: "The Huntress"

• Update 2012

  21 Jan 2012 | 1:50 am

  It's been a while since I checked in, but as I said at Christmas it's not due a lack of WoW activity. In fact this is turning into one of the most enjoyable periods of WoW I've had in ages. I'm still on the dying server of Scilla, and I joined a predominately all Asian guild that speaks very little English but I'm loving life and the new LFR set up. But the most exciting news is I have put together my transmo set!. It took about 5 Black Temple and 3 Hyjal runs to get everything but I finally got it all and I'm pretty stoked about it. I've come to hate Shamans in the last few months, having to…

• Merry Christmas!!!

  25 Dec 2011 | 8:04 pm

  I hope Santa was good to everyone. I've been slacking on the blog but I've been playing WoW more than ever. Lots of new updates and blogging for 2012 I promise. Thanks for visiting my blog this year and I look forward to the year ahead!

• Dakona's Favorite 25 Pets

  26 Nov 2011 | 11:16 pm

  As a Hunter choosing your pet is like choosing a car or choosing a mate, everyone's taste is different and depending on your personality the pets you end up with are often a reflection of who you are as a person. You DPS whores won't understand, sure it's just pixels but it's also our partner in crime, our Robin, our Samwise Gamgee, our Donkey, you get the point... it's a Hunter thing.With this last patch, the temptation of adding 10 possible new pets to our stables is pretty appealing. I personally added 4 which wasn't easy. I thought this would be a great time to post my favorite 25 pets…

• The Two Stragglers

  2 Nov 2011 | 11:34 pm

  Before I get into it, yes I did sorta learn MM, no I'm not good at it and no I don't like it. Not even a little.Moving on... it's with great excitement I announce that my stable is now complete with 25 of the best pets in the game (in my opinion of course). With only two left on my list I was forunate to get them both on Tuesday only a few hours a part. The first was Ban'thalos, the BM Owl who closely beat out Olm the Wise for the only owl spot in my stable.I spent a few hours late Monday night but came up empty, I did however find a nice camping spot between two antlers. I woke up late on…

• New Additions!

  30 Oct 2011 | 4:26 am

  So apparently rare spawns are easy cake, or maybe I'm late to the party and everyone just has them already, or maybe my sever is dead, or maybe I'm the only one who gives a crap about pixels, either way I ended up with 3 of my desired new pets in less than 24 hours. A far cry from the 48 hours I had set aside which left me with a lot of Pepsi and chips untouched (which maybe is a good thing for me).The first pet I really wanted was Magria in Mount Hyjal. Not going to lie I camped her for about 2 hours before I realized I needed to do some quests in order to actually be able to see her when…

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  Runzs Blog

• SWTOR: Patch 1.1 released, broke Ilum

  20 Jan 2012 | 2:47 am

  Anyone currently playing Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) will know that Bioware released Patch 1.1 a couple of days ago which sought to fix a number of issues with the initial release(and forced a very hurried addendum to my first impressions article, cheers Bioware... bastard).  Well aside from making the UI a little more user friendly it would also appear that Bioware broke Ilum, the world everyone goes to at level 50 for their daily and weekly quests.  The intention was good, they wanted to provoke more world PvP on, what is essentially, their world PvP planet and so they adapted…

• The UK's Very Own SOPA; More British Opposition to SOPA Than To Our Own DEA2010?

  19 Jan 2012 | 3:21 am

  What with the recent ‘blackout’ conducted by Wikipedia, Reddit and a whole host of other websites in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), I thought it was worth taking some time to highlight a couple of other issues.Whilst I wholeheartedly support any opposition to SOPA and PIPA, and fully accept that legislation passed within the United States has wide ranging consequences that not only affect internet usage outside US borders but also basically set the ‘world minimum baseline standard’ with regards to internet freedom, I was somewhat…

• SWTOR; First Impressions

  16 Jan 2012 | 11:12 pm

  (Warning: Very minor spoilers about the Sith Inquisitor story but nothing that will ruin your experience.  I can't, however, guarantee the spoiler free status of links so beware!) I have done something terrible, something absolutely heinous and I feel awful about it.  I didn't for it to happen, events conspired against me so as to make my final course of action inevitable.  It's really not my fault, I mean he would have killed me wouldn't he?  It happened on Balmorra, a planet recently conquered by the Sith Empire deep within the galactic Core Worlds.  I'd been sent there by my Master to…

• Help Me Runz-Kenobi, You're My Only Hope

  11 Jan 2012 | 12:24 am

  Less than a week after saying I wouldn't be playing SWTOR I went out and bought it.  I'm a weak willed fool I know but I just couldn't help it but there was no way I could pass up playing the biggest MMORPG to be released since WoW was first released back in 2004 (2005 in Europe).  Plus, LIGHTSABRES PEOPLE, COME ON... LIGHTSABRES!  Don't worry, don't worry I'm not giving up on WoW or anything I have far too many commitments in Azeroth ranging from my closest friends in guild to my mission of crafting our PvP'ers into well honed killing machines and finally of course my continuing task of…

• Welcome to 2012

  5 Jan 2012 | 1:53 am

  HELLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Welcome to 2012, did you all have a great Xmas and New Year's?  I did, Mrs Runz got me Skyrim and I have not stopped playing it since I departed the UK to go back to work.  In return I got her an iPhone 4S... my inner excited teenager did not stop to acknowledge the slight imbalance in present cost here lol.  I jest of course, this was exactly what I asked her for.  She also got me a pretty kick ass leather jacket (motorbike cut) which I'm very happily wearing.  On top of all this, my in-laws cooked Xmas dinner this year so all I had to do was turn up, eat, drink…

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  The 'mental Shaman

• SWTOR Thoughts

  Pewter

  3 Jan 2012 | 6:19 am

  Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope you had a good holiday season. I have been playing SWTOR, after something of a struggle to get my videocard drivers to stay installed correctly. Warcraft is also installed, but it feels like I’m still a tad burned out with that game. The next target to download is Rift, and then LOTRO to complete my MMO stable. Although when I will get time to play them all, I have no idea. Pewter has moved from the world of Apple to the world of Windows 7, and wow has it changed since I last gamed on a PC. After approximately 6 years as a mac user, the level of pretty is…

• That sickening feeling

  Pewter

  17 Nov 2011 | 8:09 am

  [TW for suicide, rape] I’m not feeling particularly eloquent right now. I’ll keep this short and simple. A well known british blogger was raped while on holiday, and is currently recovering in hospital. The incident was violent enough that it made the news. My thoughts go out to Alyzande. Anything I say towards this is going to be rather trite, so I’m not going to say anymore. I would like to salute the male (and female) bloggers who have started participating in the White Ribbon Campaign. The White Ribbon Campaign is essentially about getting men to reduce gender based…

• Blizzcon: A much better apology

  Pewter

  28 Oct 2011 | 4:26 am

  I said yesterday that my next post would be about happy things, such as Pandas or Monks. It IS a happy post. As an update to yesterday’s post, it seems something has finally filtered though. I appreciate the apology, it’s worlds apart from what I actually expected to get from Blizzard at this stage. Thank you Mike Morhaime, I will be optimistic and hope that this is a sign of continued improvement on Blizzard’s track record when it comes to their record on handling QUILTBAG issues, sexism, and hate speech in general. Bashiok Community Manager Dear members of the Blizzard…

• Blizzcon: This is about homophobia not Horde v Alliance

  Pewter

  27 Oct 2011 | 5:14 am

  Since posting the below, Mike Morhaime has released this apology. I has a happy and am closing the comments on this post. If you would like to add to this discussion, please comment to the new apology post. I had a fantastic time at Blizzcon. I love the company and the games it puts out. I will likely be playing the new expansion and Diablo III. I made lots of new friends this weekend, and strengthened ties with old ones. This is why it makes me incredibly sad that I feel the need to post about the behaviour of a musical guest during the Closing Ceremonies. I could be waffling about the new…

• Brief Blizzcon Observations

  Pewter

  22 Oct 2011 | 5:31 pm

  There is so much going on here, I have met way too many awesome people, and am sad to realise I will never get to spend enough time with all of them. I have a ton of photos of cosplayers, bloggers, and story-related panels, but I know next to nothing about the big mechanics changes. I’m really enthusastic about the MoP expansion, which has been an utter surprise to me. Also american keyboards are weird, so please excuse the odd typing. As I don’t have much time before I need to rejoin my friends in the convention centre, I though I would rattle off a few quick quotes which have…

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  Raging Monkey's

• Precious Time-outs

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  Ironyca has published another fascinating chapter in her series on social interaction and dynamics in MMOs few days ago. If you haven't come across her blog until now, I strongly recommend you step by sometime for some great and insightful reads. One core argument against realID and in favor of invisible alts, is of course that social interaction cannot be forced on people the way Blizzard seem to think. Or as Ironyca puts it in her article: "I think this is social engineering gone wrong, the leash is too tight.” If you want people to form social bonds, you need to allow for that to happen…

• On difficulty in WoW and social control in MMOs

  26 Jan 2012 | 12:33 pm

  The following article is a follow-up to this topic by Klepsacovic. For full context, please head there first (including comments). I would like to second his clarifications on using (relative and problematic) terms such as 'good/top' or 'bad/sub-par' players for the second half of this argument. No player is always just good or bad and good players always benefit from the presence of someone a little weaker. (A breakdown of WoW's difficulty progression for the average player, levels 1-85 (click to enlarge)) On social control in MMORPGs Admittedly, I have omitted one more lesson of WoW's…

• The curious case of SWTOR and LFG

  23 Jan 2012 | 6:32 pm

  Imagine yourself the type of player who loathes the dungeon finder for many reasons; most of which can probably be summed up by "single-most detrimental feature to social interaction in MMOs" or "what really sent WoW's community downhill". Imagine yourself the player who would rather wait for the proper group (and go do other things), who'd rather start his own groups by taking initiative in zone/general chats, who'd rather re-think his role choice (in an MMO that enforces a trinity), look for a guild or form one himself, before seeing this type of feature implemented in his favorite MMO. If…

• Blog updates and 2011 honorable mentions

  22 Jan 2012 | 5:37 pm

  I have been fighting with myself for many months now about switching Raging Monkey's to wordpress or not; or rather, I have been struggling bigtime with blogger - mostly for still not featuring the most essential feature: individual commenting / replies. For years it has cracked me up how blogger would not add this to their top priorities and how, after having had the probably most abysmal service in terms of customer care and responsiveness forever, very little changed after the Google takeover. I cannot recall how many hours I spent looking at wordpress templates this winter, although I was…

• Deep down the mineshaft I saw the light

  12 Jan 2012 | 6:52 pm

  The cardboard boxes are starting to pile up left and right in my apartment which is also why I've been a little quieter. There are only five more days to go at my current workplace. Only two and a half more weeks in this canton I've been living in for five years now and desperately long to leave. Waiting and preparing are such an ordeal sometimes. Between that and not playing much of anything right now (because in this too I am waiting, waiting for GW2), I didn't plan for much distraction until the big move end of January. I certainly didn't expect to find myself deep, deep down the cubic…

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  BullCopra

• Weekend tanked away

  16 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am

  Oh. My. God. First of all, noticed just now that I have fought in one thousand battles in World of Tanks. My son, who is a wizard in all things FPS and related - heck, what ever game you get your fingers on! - has 'only' 700 battles under his belt! That said, I have fought so many only because I have mostly switched to another tank as soon as possible. I have ran most of the lower tier tanks to elite status (except US based ones...) and thus wasted games and experience in vain. Lesson one (if you ever start in WoT): choose your tank tree by the feel and stick to one or two tanks till you…

• Revisits and some more

  13 Jan 2012 | 7:13 am

  It was in August, 2009, when we met with this enormous whirling monstrosity last time. Many corpses and their pieces have floated under the bridge since that fateful encounter, even the main characters of the Three Stooges have changed their appearance. Some even their gender altogether. But there we were, Three Dunces, sons and daughter of the famed Three Stooges who are still waiting for the challenge to take at level cap, to go and blunder in a five man instance in trio. We cleared the Auchindoun instances in one run at gentle level of 68 for the Paladin tank and the gender-bender Rogue,…

• The beginning of 2012

  2 Jan 2012 | 1:57 am

  Happy New Year to everyone. Not going to make any predictions nor any promises. That taken out of my chest, I have the following in mind for the next year (in games). Three Stooges will be riding weekly, as often as life permits. That much has been said and decided so far, as it is the most fun in WoW anyhow to do things which are easy to others in a way that is hard for us. Might also pick Gnomore up and see if I can arse myself into the pacifist way of life again. World of Tanks seems to be the 'non-pacifist' part of the day. The game sucks me into a new random battle after another, which…

• Official Tanking post

  29 Dec 2011 | 2:45 am

  I got lured to tanking again. This time with full plate, tower shield and a huge weapon spewing death and destruction beyond sight. My sons got me into World of Tanks. Luckily I was able to take some advantage of the Holiday bonus, so I kind of skipped the training sessions in the starter fights by gaining enough experience to research tier III tank in a blitz (pun intended), even though I went for the Soviet tanks with the famous T-34 in my mind. It's iconic tank in Finland, in a way The Tank for everyone who has ever gotten into WWII over here. My initial notes about the game are covered…

• Playing, gaming...

  27 Dec 2011 | 2:11 am

  We've had some nice discussions with my son over the Christmas. This is the oldest one of them, at the tender age of 16. He's pretty clever - I know, I'm his father - and a pretty avid player of games of all sorts. A bit too avid would his mother say, to which I can only add my last words in any such discussion. Being "Yes, dear". Anyhow, we've been discussing about the current games and how people play them. In fact, he brought up how he's being sick and bored of the people complaining about how MMO's are this and that and how they dig and tweak their characters to a point where they can…

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  Pugnacious Priest's Warcraft Blog

• How to get that #1 dps spot in LFR – Boss by Boss.

  Pugnacious Priest

  17 Jan 2012 | 7:46 am

  Yes another LFR  post Why would I join a raiding guild ( and actually raid in said raiding guild ) when I can do LFR on 4 toons a week and have endless excitement. So some general advice Don’t forget to food and flask, make sure you have all the buffs you can get.  Ask the locks to give you their haste buff, or rogues to give you tricks, don’t be afraid to ask, and ask often.  Being demanding may encourage them to give it to you to shut you up. No clicking on Lightwells,  and grouping to stand on the healers AOE, why should you move or make any effort to keep yourself alive…

• In Cahoots

  Pugnacious Priest

  14 Jan 2012 | 1:38 am

  One of the new features coming out is to allow people to form a raid group with people through real ID cross servers for Battlegrounds, classic dungeons and raids, as well as LFR. You can join x-server 5 mans in LFR  through real ID now,  but the change will let you bring more people along, It’s natural to have some form of favoritism to people you know,  like, want to impress, want them to like you. Even when trying to be fair on the 5 man dungeon levels when there are people from the same guild  running it they might look out for each other more, heal more often, be more forgiving…

• There is nothing fair in a loot roll

  Pugnacious Priest

  3 Jan 2012 | 7:40 pm

  I got told to give a spirit cloak in a Twilight 5 man to the healer.  ( Admit ably this was after I had asked did the healer mind if I needed, and had no response until after the roll – and was already in the process of trading it when I was TOLD to give it to them) I had a 378 but I ‘need’ a healing set. I was more upset at the being told to hand it over. So I handed over this healing cloak, and didn’t bat an eyelid when the healer rolled on the dps staff. On my horde hunter I paid a DK from my server 500 gold to give me the Agility trinket he needed on after he said…

• Playing Dress up’s

  Pugnacious Priest

  20 Dec 2011 | 7:06 am

  Where are all the Tarts – opps uh scantily dressed women in Mogged gear? Can I say that? I think I have just put feminism in MMO’s back a few years. I shall qualify this first by reminding you I am female, and yes I wore these pants and I liked them. ** For those under a Rock the newest patch 4.3 bought about the  ability to transmogrify via  Transmogrification, pieces of armor to look like other pieces of amour in-game that you have in your possession. AKA Mogging! The first set of gear I mogged into on my Priest Main was the easiest one I could find, and involved a nice little…

• Do you play?

  Pugnacious Priest

  17 Dec 2011 | 7:10 am

  I have two 85′s doing their thing in Raid finder My main changed her offspec from Disc to Holy so she would do better on metres in raid finder in case I ever wanted to impress someone enough to go into a normal DS  considering whats the point of this existence if I am not even considering to try to get the best gear available I can,   even if I am not raiding, but  this means I can’t PVP as disc,  so I have been Pvping as Shadow only  ( I would get laughed at if I went in as holy) I miss playing in bg’s and arena as Disc. ( and yes this is a good argument for 3 specs!)…

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  Jaded Alt

• Update: State of the UI

  Windsoar

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am

  Instead of writing a whole long winded post, I’m just gonna include a screenshot and direct you to my UI page for the latest update that I’m running. Feel free to leave a comment if you have a question Filed under: Addons Tagged: 4.3, user interface

• Minipost: Loot in ProCo

  Windsoar

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am

  We have a simple loot system in Production Company. If you need an item, you roll on it. If you want it for off-spec, you roll a 200. If you want it for fun or don’t think you’ll use it much, you roll a 300. Whoever is highest (based on priority 100>200>300) wins the loot. But do they keep it? Roll on [Awesome Epic] Player 1 rolls 82 (1-100) Player 2 rolls 15 (1-100) Player 3 rolls 185 (1-200) Player 4 rolls 91 (1-100) Player 4 receives [Awesome Epic] - #4: You sure you don’t need this 2. I got a really cool ring last week, and I see you’re using 397 legs. - #2:…

• Flying Solo

  Windsoar

  26 Jan 2012 | 2:29 am

  I was reading Stubborn’s article yesterday about the erosion of social activities in the leveling experience as he ventures forth in SW:TOR. While I can’t say that I can talk about that game in particular, as someone who considers herself a somewhat sociable player in MMO’s, I found that the article didn’t really resonate with me. Although I commented, I wanted to expand and explore that comment, and the general topic a bit more. The first time I encountered a companion system was in Neverwinter Nights, and I thought it was awesome. Although I had played many tabletop…

• DPS Farming

  Windsoar

  20 Jan 2012 | 9:38 pm

  It was the end of a weekly LFR run, and the group was huddled beside Deathwing’s cache waiting for dice to finish rolling. Out of the blue, one of the feral druids starts having a hissy cow about how the rogue (my friend incidentally) was a disgrace and should never ever come back to a LFR. Because it was my friend’s name that scrolled across the screen, I started reading: - You are nothing but a DPS farmer. - What’s a DPS farmer? - If you don’t know, you’re just showing that you are one. Well damn, thought I, maybe I’m a dps farmer too! You see, once upon…

• Discovery

  Windsoar

  17 Jan 2012 | 6:09 pm

  There’s always that raider that you look at in awe: that you admire for their seemingly flawless and polished technique. They never seem to stand in the bad. Their rotations flow from their fingers into perfectly executed strings of numbers that add up to a whole lot of pain. And you’re standing next to them feeling like the proverbial elephant in the raid. I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it, but it’s been a long, long time since I’ve been a dps raider. I raided in vanilla as a rogue, and started a mage in BC; but for all intents and purposes I’ve spent 4…

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  WoWDATA

• Rated Battlegrounds VS. The Blues [1/17/12]

  Emias Yorkie

  13 Jan 2012 | 4:15 pm

  wow 1/17/12

• Razer Synapse 2.0

  Emias Yorkie

  13 Jan 2012 | 4:17 am

  Set-up instantly from the cloud. With Razer™ Synapse 2.0, your gaming preferences will be locked and loaded anywhere in the world. It's the first cloud-based setting network for gamers. What is Synapse 2.0? Every peripheral. Every macro. Every preference, profile and Razer add-on. All ready to go, all the time, from anywhere. Synapse 2.0 is [...]

• Blue Posts – 2012/01/11

  Emias Yorkie

  12 Jan 2012 | 8:07 am

  Click on the title links to read the full thing! Blizzard's Prejudice? Profanity Filter Failed Dear Blizzard Entertainment, While your profanity filter turning back on automatically has been a minor nuisance, I'm a little perturbed to see that a three-letter word starting in F and ending in G, commonly an insult towards gay men, is [...]

• New Warcraft Fan Art – 2012/01/12

  Emias Yorkie

  11 Jan 2012 | 11:36 pm

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• Bossland GmbH Are a Bunch of RETARDS Trying to Sue Blizzard

  Emias Yorkie

  11 Jan 2012 | 5:05 pm

  RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS Yes, that's right, you're a bunch of fucking retarded idiots! If you've been following the Blizzard Entertainment vs Bossland GmbH [...]