I’m a bit behind with this. Oops. In 25 man raiding, we got Sarth+2 down this week. I wasn’t there myself but apparently it all ran quite smooth. I was in for last week’s attempts and thought it was likely they’d nail it this time. 10 man raids still going fine. It is more of [...]
Archive for March, 2009
What do you want from patch 3.1?
Posted in warcraft, tagged 3.1, balancing, changes, cooldowns, death knights, tanks, test realm, warrior on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t written much about the upcoming class changes in WoW because it’s a moving target. Lots of changes have been mentioned. Some have been added to the test realm and then removed again, and other things have been tried which weren’t expected. One thing we can see is that there’s some fairly hefty class [...]
Questus Interruptus
Posted in general mmo, tagged episodic storytelling, patches, quests on March 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So, how much detail do you remember about questlines that you did a few months ago? Me too. I can remember vague details and whether a particular quest was fun or not but subtle characterisation, lore and storytelling tweaks? I wouldn’t bet on my memory for those. I find this to be a real problem [...]
WAR really wants you to come up and see it sometime
Posted in general mmo, tagged choppa, free trial, knight of the burning sun, mailshot, merging servers, PR, slayer, standing in the way, tier 1 on March 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The big Warhammer Online news this week is that patch 1.2 has gone live, and along with it, the new Slayer and Choppa classes. (I keep typing Chippa instead of Choppa which makes me think of fish and chips). The new classes are bags of fun, it’s hard to really go wrong with a dual [...]
I’d lose my geek cred if I didn’t review The Watchmen
Posted in geekery, tagged film review, the watchmen on March 11, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Looking for some reading matter on the train last weekend I dug out my old dusty copy of The Watchmen. When I got to the station, I noticed another guy (a student maybe, from his age/ clothes) pulling a familiar looking yellow and black tome from a bag. He looked over at me, grinned, and [...]
The Tale of One Bronze Drake
Posted in tanking, warcraft, tagged arthas, bronze drake, culling of stratholme, heroic, speed run, stratholme, warcraft iii on March 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m sure everyone has their personal blind spot in MMOs. That one puzzle you can’t solve. That one jump you can never make first time. That one instance run that you need but can never get anyone else to do. That one drop that doesn’t. (Don’t even start with me about tanking trinkets, they do [...]
Clumping the player base
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged claustrophobia, naxxramas, progression, raids on March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When patch 3.1 comes out, I intend to drop our Naxxramas raids off the schedule and run Ulduar 10 man on Saturday nights instead. By that time I expect everyone will have gotten all the gear they wanted. Alts will be geared. Offspecs will be geared. Players will be bored and looking for new mountains [...]
When good enough is Good Enough
Posted in general mmo, tagged efficiency, fun, good enough, hardcore, money, time on March 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
If a PvE challenge is too tough, you can go away and do something else and come back later when you’re tougher and have better gear. In Japanese-style RPGs (which let’s face it, is where most of the quest based play was taken from) you can do this by wandering around and killing random monsters [...]
The wrong trousers!
Posted in general mmo, tanking, warcraft, tagged dps gear, kelthuzad, last laugh, wrong trousers on March 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You know those raids in which you do something so very daft that all you can do is laugh about it? And hope the rest of the group do too? We’d been making good time in Naxxramas, and picking off a few 25 man achievements as we went. Heading up to Kel’Thuzad we had the [...]
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