It is that time when we look ahead and try to predict what the year ahead may bring. Arbitrary and I have put our heads together to see what we can come up with… In general, it’s going to be another huge year for both social gaming and mobile gaming. There will be more massive [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Tell me why (I don’t like Uldum)
Posted in general mmo, tagged arbitrary, fake nazis, harrison jones, uldum on December 30, 2010 | 54 Comments »
I’ve really enjoyed my time in WoW getting from level 80 to 85. I started at Mt Hyjal after a brief journey into Vash’jir to get a Seahorse mount. Then I moved onto Deepholm, which is the most gorgeous place to hang out for a while, even if the airship made me physically sick. And [...]
It came from the PUG: I’ll … roll … in … a … minute
Posted in general mmo, tagged greed, it came from the pug, need, roll on December 29, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Now I haven’t ventured into the dangerous waters of PUG heroics in Cataclysm myself, I think I have better things to do than spend a couple of hours in the company of Joe Random who cheated the iLvL requirement by buying PvP gear …. like washing my socks or something. But normal Cataclysm dungeons in [...]
The eternal dance of melee vs ranged
Posted in general mmo, tagged balance, melee, ranged on December 28, 2010 | 21 Comments »
I’m trying to focus on my dps spec at the moment so I’ve been running quite a few instances as an Arms warrior. I’m enjoying the spec a lot, and finding it fun to play at the moment. But there are times when you wonder if it’s really necessary that ranged classes can do more [...]
Weighing up last year’s predictions
Posted in general mmo, tagged 2009, predictions, roundup on December 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Happy Holidays, everyone! Hope you all have/ had a good one. It’s around this time of the year that people start to look back at predictions we made in 2009, mostly so that we can laugh at how much we missed. I’ll attempt another set of crazily off-target predictions for 2011 in a couple of [...]
RIFT: To beta and beyond
Posted in general mmo, tagged beta, defiant, guardian, preview, rift on December 24, 2010 | 11 Comments »
If you read many MMO related blogs, you cannot have missed the fact that Trion’s new MMO, RIFT, has just dropped the NDA from its beta testers. And suddenly, 2011 is looking as though it could be a very good year for new MMOs indeed. I did have a chance to check out the beta [...]
Thought/s of the Day: Guild Rep in Cataclysm, and can you have too much of a good thing?
Posted in general mmo, tagged cataclysm, guilds, large, levelling, reputation, small, xp on December 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
How are you all feeling about the new guild xp/ levelling in Warcraft? Like any largish, active guild, we’ve been picking up levels at a reasonable pace and are currently somewhere between level 6 and 7, which I think is roughly where most other largish active guilds will be at the moment. In a smaller [...]
[LOTRO] Flogging a dead horse
Posted in general mmo, lotro, tagged codemasters, lotro, skeleton painted horse, turbine on December 22, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Psychochild commented on my last LOTRO post that he was disappointed that one of the old Winter Festival horse rewards had been removed as an in game reward and moved to become a cash shop ‘store exclusive’. At the time, I was less bothered by this trend than he was. After all, the horse had [...]
[Pirates] Happy Caribbean Christmas!
Posted in general mmo, tagged caribbean, christmas, first impressions, historical, pirates of the burning sea, pirates of the caribbean 4, sandbox on December 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Last night we went to see Tron Legacy (short review: pacey, exciting, great graphics, and light cycles have never looked this good – but disappointing in that it failed totally to build on the rather cool themes of the original story) and one of the trailers was for Pirates of the Caribbean 4. (A film [...]
[Cataclysm] Women of Cataclysm
Posted in general mmo, tagged alexstrasza, lorna crowley, sylvanas, therazane, ysera, zaela on December 21, 2010 | 38 Comments »
One of the things Blizzard has done with this expansion is brought in some stronger female characters, or made more of the ones who already existed in the game background. To those who wonder why it’s such a big deal, all I can say is that as a female player it makes me happy to [...]
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