So last week I had my wisdom teeth pulled, and let me tell you it was more enjoyable then the T3 scenarios I ran last night. I ran about 6 of them, all of them pretty bad. Black Fire Basin is my new worst enemy, I hate the turtling Order in that. So I decided [...]

Warhammer is plagued by some rather terrible flaws, flaws that should have been tested in beta. The flaws have nothing to do with coding errors or graphical problems, but rather center around player actions and motivation. Warhammer Online’s biggest problem is the players are simply not playing it correctly. Now before you go and post a [...]

One of the things that Stargrace mentions in her post today is that the low-level community is much stronger over on Antonia Bayle than it is on Najena, where I’ve been playing EQ2 this time around (in large part due to Nostalgia’s presence on that server.) Antonia Bayle is, of course, where I focused my [...]

At this point I am convinced that the ‘cold’ I have is actually the flu. Nevertheless, I am feeling better; not 100%, but considerably better. I switched citizenship on my Bruiser last night, from Neriak to Freeport. As well-designed as the newer starting zones are, I prefer the launch areas of Qeynos/Antonica and Freeport/the Commonlands. Aside [...]

I’m suffering from a very bad cold at the moment, bad enough that I stayed home from work today and yesterday. In theory, this should provide me with gaming time, and indeed I have jumped into EQ2 a number of times, but I don’t have the energy to stick with it for more than [...]

I’ve just been informed via e-mail that I am the winner of one of Massively’s regular contests. I get a free copy of the latest EverQuest expansion, Seeds of Destruction. Not terribly sure how much play it’ll get, but I’m a StationPass subscriber anyway, so it’s not like anything will keep me from checking it out [...]

So I got Wrath of the Lich King, it’s looks nice. It’s pretty polished. Blizz does do a good job, but as I start leveling my mage I feel like I’m back on a tread mill. Now I did do the Deathknight Starter Zone - I was impressed. They do something technically, think it’s called phasing [...]

Hum.. “Participate in the Reikland-Factory Scenario”… Seems like an easy task.. but I failed to complete it yesterday ;) After I came back from sports yesterday, I needed some time for my parrots, eating and watching a little bit of England vs. Germany football match.. So i logged in at around 22:00 and in the two hours [...]

I was reading with interest the to and fro of posts between Michael@MMO Nation and Syp@Waaagh about the WAR ‘backlash’ that they see among bloggers at the moment. They’re on the wrong track here. There is no backlash. What we’re seeing (to my mind) is that people have mostly played the game, enjoyed it (or parts [...]

It’s been a strange old week, full of all sorts of nonsense at home and at work. Not been around all that much in WAR, but enough to become interim guild leader. It’s happened for a few reasons, but I was happy to take it on and keep the title warm until someone else steps [...]

Grad school does not a gamer make, and the amount of work I have to do between now and the end of the semester (which I have philandered on for too long) is such that I will be working at the dinner table on Thanksgiving. Needless to say, that has left me very little time [...]

Heavy Metal, Warhammer’s second live event, when um… live yesterday. What that basically means is we have a new scenario to play, along with quick daily tasks to complete in order to gain early access to the two new tank classes coming out in December. My initial thought was ‘weee, a scenario…’, but Reikland Factory is [...]

In the most recent SUWT podcast (always good stuff btw), the crew got off on a tangent when talking about the cultural differences between players of EVE Online and WoW. EVE players embrace scams, trickery, underhandedness, and generally resent any changes that would ‘dumb down’ EVE. In WoW that gets you quickly banned, and before [...]

So I bought Wrath of the Lich King. I tried to install it last night on my Vista machine, nothing but problems such as blue screens of death. I thought we got rid of those with Windows 98. Well it seems like I had to “Run it as a administrator”, As of a day later [...]

I surfed around on WAR analytics.. and checked the “Archetype“-page and then began to wonder. When just looking at the archetypes played most it has following order (percentage-wise): Order: Ranged DPS (well..no wonder with many Bright Wizards out there) Healer Tank Melee DPS Destruction: Healer Ranged DPS Melee DPS Tank Oh..stop..Tank careers are the least played archetype on destruction side and on order they got played more [...]

MMOG Nation today has a post with some pre and post WAR launch reactions, which as expected go from unrealistic hype to ‘worst game eva’ faster than Usain Bolt. It’s entertaining to watch, but nothing new for an MMO launch. People overhyped EQ1, played for a month, and bitch that it too sucked compared to [...]

Watching the current posts in blogs or forums, there is much discussion about numbers. Be it either rank, renown, exp, damage, healing ..loot..contribution (hello Regis ;) ) .. What I’m currently missing.. and that belongs somewhat to the “incentive for ORvR” is Realmpride(tm). Before release this was stated as an incentive to fight the other realm. It [...]

My Rune Priest hit 40 yesterday, finally. After being 39 for a couple of days and participating in open RvR instead of questing hard. I have yet to do a chapter 21 or 22 quest, so I have plenty to do if I ever feel like it, questwise. But I don’t. I was in a [...]

So  the Heavy Metal patch (1.0.4) is going live without the healer and ironbreaker nerfs that we’d discussed a few days ago. Mark Jacobs writes about how they’re thinking now about the career updates for future patches (I am now slightly unclear as to which changes will go in which patch but we’ll see when the [...]

I’d like to zoom in a bit on one of the four (!) MMOs I have on the table right now, the one I am most likely to put the majority of my gaming time in over the next couple of weeks - EverQuest II. A couple of patches ago, some tweaks were made to the [...]

I’ve been seeing alot of Doom and Gloom, alot of places. There is some sort of malaise that has fallen over the community, even my own guild. Alot are playing alts, not around, etc.etc. It’s hard to stay positive when some of the people you admire most in the game, and the blogosphere are complaining, [...]

I’m a bit of a podcast nut, because I have a 1.5 hour commute to and from work on the days I work (yes, I’m lucky enough to be a part-timer). I also tend to think podcasts can ease some of the blah from grinding, as and when I need to do it. So it [...]

As I mentioned previously, my short term goal in WAR was to hit renown rank 26 around the time I hit rank 29 in order to wear all four pieces of the Devastator armor set. It’s interesting how that one goal has altered my play style for WAR, and made me reconsider some aspects of [...]

Wotcha everyone, Thanks BBC.  You’ve just pointed out that addiction to online gaming is bad.  In such a way that makes me want to go and buy Wrath of the Lich King RIGHT NOW and play it ALL NIGHT.  Just to spite you.  Yes, you, BBC. I think it’s the just-one-step-from-hysteria tone of articles commenting on online [...]

I commend them on the better communication we’ve had recently, especially in the light of some fairly important problems. First of all, they’ve implemented an auto-renew on their subscriptions. So, go and check your account. If you don’t want it set to auto-renew, go change it. It was done without consent, and GOA have apologised for [...]

I got some computer time in the wee hours last night, spreading it between a few different games. In EVE, Drones 5 is firing in about two hours. I intend to spend at least one night this week running missions in my Hurricane. In City of Heroes, Doc Constellation reached level 10. I have only four [...]

Wotcha everyone, It seems that Bletchley Park is to receive some much needed love from the the British Government.  Yay. What does this have to do about Warhammer Online?  Absolutely nothing.  Yes, I am hideously abusing my position here, to let me ramble on about something that really interests me, and has done for many, many years. Leaving [...]

NOTE: There’s some minor spoilers in here for the starting Death Knight questchain. So skip this post  if you don’t want to be spoiled. There are three types of storytelling that go on in MMOs. The first and most traditional sort are the stories we tell about players. Ask anyone about their worst ever PUG or [...]

It’s 6am. I woke at 5:30am. I went to bed at midnight, a bit awake for bed, but knowing I had to go. Because I have work today and need to leave the house at 7:30am to get there. So why so tired? Well.. first I signed up to a raid with my LotRO guild so I’d [...]