My continuing adventures in Middle Earth started when Zavvi went bust. Drifting round the closing sale and assorted wreckage like a retail vulture riding the winds of recession tsunami (Ed: that’s enough florid metaphor for this week), I found the Moria Expansion and … the rest is a mystical blur but somehow it hopped into [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Speak friend, and enter
Posted in general mmo, lotro, tagged different games, kill ten rats, lord of the rings online, lotro, rejoining guilds, runekeeper on January 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Thoughts on this week’s raiding
Posted in warcraft on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our 25 man raids feel quite laborious now that I’ve cleared Naxx in a 10 man group. Everything is so much more effort, the raid feels more sluggish, and I have to compete with the other tanks if I want a tank spot. By comparison, the 10 man feels light on its feet, quick to [...]
When achievements tell the story
Posted in general mmo, tagged achievements, different types, fun, pointless achievements, shared topic, storytelling, timesinks on January 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Achievements are a waste of time. They’re time consuming, they don’t grant significant gold, don’t give any other significant rewards, and there’s only a small number that might even be worthwhile for boasting rights. They’re very obviously designed as timesinks and players fall for it every.single. time. No, it is not fun to kill 5 [...]
Do you need to suffer to be a real healer?
Posted in general mmo, tagged healing, popularity, real healers on January 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »
You probably know the kind of person who is very proud of being a ‘real’ healer. They are happy to heal 100% of the time and consider it a sign of weakness if their character has any non-support spells at all. Worse still would be a viable dps spec, because that might attract *say it [...]
Holiday Mailbox Spam
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged elders, lunar festival, mail spam, red letters on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you play Warcraft, you’re probably nodding at the title and wishing that your mail had a “delete all” function. Brief explanation: The current in game holiday is the Lunar Festival, which is based loosely on Chinese New Year celebrations. The game is decorated with red banners and lanterns and one of the things you [...]
Getting bored of heroics yet?
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged bored of heroics, how do you get bored, learning process, more crowd control, random instances, tailored to the group on January 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The process of getting bored goes something like this: (new shiny incentive) struggle make progress reconsider tactics make more progress first kill farm (no more upgrades available) When I put it like this, you can see how closely tied it is with the learning process. Games are all about learning. This is why the most [...]
I may be addicted to the readycheck
Posted in tanking, warcraft, tagged are you awake, CTRA, malygos, phase three, polls, raid leading, readycheck, too much paladin loot in naxxramas, warcraft on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Any raid or group leader can enter a /readycheck command in WoW. When they do, a box will pop up on everyone else’s screen saying, “Are you ready?” with yes and no buttons. After 30s or so, the raid leader gets a report saying how many people picked yes or no and how many people [...]
Ten posts you should read this week
Posted in general mmo, warcraft on January 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
These are all posts I read recently that made me think. Some I agree with, some I don’t, some made me laugh out loud. See what you think! Troll Racials are Overpowered wonders whether it’s better to have the hardest boss encounter at the end of an instance, or at the beginning. Larisa@The Pink Pigtail [...]
My raiding round up
Posted in tanking, warcraft, tagged disappointment, dps gear, drama, feral, four horsemen, naxxramas on January 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last week, our 25 man raid group stormed through Naxxramas, killing all but two of the lower bosses. This week, things didn’t go quite so well. On Wednesday’s raid, we set out to clear the Military wing. This did (eventually) result in a first kill on the four horsemen. I was puzzled that our tactic [...]
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