In the wake of the EAFAIL advertising campaign, there’s been some discussion about the use of sex to sell games. Muckbeast points out that both men and women like looking at boobs and that people like their characters to look hot. But, there are also people who like their characters not to look conventionally pretty. [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Beauty is skin-deep, Ugliness goes to the bone
Posted in general mmo, links, tagged badass, kneel before zod, pretty, ugly on July 31, 2009 | 18 Comments »
A blast from the past! And why we won’t get any more legendary tanking weapons..
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged 40 man raids, blackwing lair, elementium, legendary weapon, molten core, thunderaan, thunderfury on July 30, 2009 | 18 Comments »
One of my guildies has finally finished collecting the pieces he needs to build Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker (don’t try saying that when you are drunk). This was THE iconic tanking weapon during vanilla WoW. It was one of the few legendary weapons in the game, it looked great, and the special proc [...]
Why do we have to wear different types of armour?
Posted in general mmo, tagged armour class, chain, cloth, leather, plate, repair costs on July 30, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Back since MUD days, we’ve had different classes of armour available to characters. Cloth, Leather, Chain, Plate, is the usual progression. So some classes (usually casters) aren’t allowed to wear anything heavier than cloth, while the specialist fighter types will eventually have access to full plate, the ‘best’ armour in the game. And usually, the [...]
Raiding and the Great Healer Problem
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged boredom, burnout, dps race, dull, finding enough healers, fixed healing assignments, hard modes, healer shortage, healing, healing yourself out of a job, raids, small group, whack-a-mole on July 29, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Of the three main roles in the ‘holy trinity’, it’s healing which changes the most between small groups and large raids. In a single group, one healer usually supports the rest of the party. There may be an off-healer along as well who switches between dps and healing as needed. In a raid, there are [...]
Welcome to Hotel Hard Mode
Posted in general mmo, tanking, warcraft, tagged con-speed-atory, culling of stratholme, hard mode, heart of iron, heartbreaker, orbital devastation, speed run, summer doldrums, ulduar, wow heroes on July 28, 2009 | 8 Comments »
… you can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave … I haven’t written much about raid progression recently. It’s because the good ship 25-man raiding has been drifting in the summertime signup doldrums. I think everyone is proud that we’ve been able to muster at least one raid a week and [...]
Travels in EQ2
Posted in general mmo, tagged character creation, chat channels, collections, eq2 map addon, EQ2. newbie experience, esrb, faydark, first 15 minutes, making money on July 27, 2009 | 25 Comments »
I have been playing EQ2 for the last month; much of it has been spent duoing with Arbitrary (we had weekly sessions) but she’s been on holiday for the last fortnight so we agreed I’d strike out on my own. It will be quick enough for her to catch up using the mentoring facility later, [...]
Play Dante’s Inferno if you like assaulting booth babes
Posted in geekery, links, tagged assault a booth babe, dantes inferno, ea are tossers, fake rally, PR, sexist on July 25, 2009 | 11 Comments »
edited to add: mashable.com points out that this stupid PR stunt has spawned its own hashtag so you can watch people’s reactions to it in real time by checking #eafail. edited again to add: EA have now issued an apology for the Sin to Win contest. But at least we had a good laugh out [...]
How not to do a crafting tutorial
Posted in general mmo, tagged crafting tutorial, eq2 on July 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This is the tutorial that gave me SAN loss. Notice that the text overlaps with my chat window (the green text in the bottom left). I could not figure a way to stop it from doing this. There is also a massive amount of text in that text box. Also, whatever you do, do NOT [...]
Naxxramas Revisited
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged alts, dealing with sexism, helping other players, learning, naxxramas, nervous, pick up group, recruiting on July 24, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I’ve been back to Naxxramas a couple of times this week. Time has dulled the pain of over-exposure — I was really quite bored of the place after having run it twice a week (once on 10 man, once on 25 man) for a few months. Despite the sub-par graphics, I’m quite fond of the [...]
Darth Dafydd and the fully voiced trailer
Posted in general mmo, tagged darth maul, sheepdog trials, star wars the old republic, trailer, voice over, welsh accent on July 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
If you haven’t seen it yet, the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic is a video documentary showing off the voice-overs and how they’re recorded. It looks and sounds fantastic, I’m sold. Even the wacky part where the director asks the actor to do “Darth Maul, but Welsh” hasn’t yet deterred me from [...]
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