I think my infatuation with heroics is coming to a natural end. I’ll never hate them, and we will stay on good terms. We’ve had some good fun together and I have the screenshots to prove it. (This is ironic since there is at least one that I’ve never run on heroic, but I don’t [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Posted in general mmo, tanking, tagged achievements, chain pulling, culling of stratholme, faster, speed runs on January 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The stress of new instances
Posted in general mmo, tagged learning to tank, new instances, panic, setting the pace, stress on January 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Arbitrary at Nerf the Cat writes an impassioned post about how miserable she felt when being rushed through a dungeon that she hadn’t seen before. We’ve all been there. I know I have. That moment when the initial euphoria of ‘Yay! I have a group and am going to a new instance’ fades to the [...]
Which Evil Overlord would you work for?
Posted in general mmo, tagged arachnos, arthas, evil overlord, malekith, pick your employer, saruman, sauron, scarlet crusade, tzcharnazek on January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Evil Overlords are one of the great staples of fiction. It isn’t just in fantasy; Holmes has his Moriarty, Bond has his Blofeld, the Harkers have their Dracula, Superman has his Lex Luthor, the BSG crew have their cylons, the Four Musketeers have their Cardinal Richelieu and so on. But ever since Tolkein set pen [...]
the little paladin who didn’t
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged backstabbed, burnout, gear, guild drama, matticus, paladin, tobold on January 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This is a guild drama (well, not really drama, just minor rant really) issue that I read about from Tobold. The basic story is that a paladin was in a raiding guild, he got geared up quickly and then got bored with the content and let his guildmaster know that he was taking a break [...]
Off-Tanks or Co-Tanks?
Posted in general mmo, tanking, tagged co tank, main tank, off tank, terminology on January 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It has become traditional (ie. online slang that has been in use for at least a year) that when you’re running a raid and have several tanks in the group, one is referred to as the Main Tank (MT) and the others are Off Tanks (OT). It’s role related. The MT picks up the biggest [...]
Saddle up, it’s postmortem time
Posted in warcraft, tagged entry level raiding, epics, mount and blade, naxxramas, postmortem, tuning on January 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a good week online. 1. I picked up a copy of Mount and Blade (will write more about that later but basically you can download a full trial version for free, and you only pay if you want to get past level 7). If you like your medievalish RPGs sans magic, go try [...]
Self help? Help yourself!
Posted in general mmo, tagged crafting, dark age of camelot, interdependence, self help, vellum, warcraft on January 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Happy Thursday, and now for a quick thought exercise. Imagine that you are playing a character in an online MMO and you are a member of a friendly guild. (I know, it’s a stretch.) Now, imagine that this game has crafting professions and characters are limited to how many they can learn. Imagine also that [...]
The road to raiding
Posted in warcraft, tagged casual, first raid, naxxramas, raiding, tanking, warrior on January 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My guild alliance ran its first 25 man raid in Wrath last night. This is a milestone for any raid group, like when your startup gets its first real customer or your band gets its first gig and someone who isn’t actually a relative or partner turns up to see it (bonus points if you [...]
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