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• No Pandas For Me: Without much fanfare my invitation to the Mists of Pandaria beta has arrived. I actually sat on the invite for about 10 days or so. I was not looking forward to camping quest mobs with a hundred other lemmings looking to level a panda so I waited a bit. After the usual download and game install I began my great beta adventure with restrained enthusiasm. As some know I have had high hopes with this expansion and as a result I paid for early access to the beta. So there I sit, pouring over the character creation screen to take [...]
• Really? REALLY?: So I step away for a few short days and it seems like all hell breaks loose in World of Warcraft. Not only is there a ton of Mists of Pandaria information out there, people are actually getting beta invites. Of course in true Blizzard fashion, invites are not going quite the way everyone expected. It seems that just like me everyone else who purchased the annual pass expected to be at the top of the MoP beta invite list. Oh how we were sadly mistaken. No dear friend, you may have played your hand but Blizzard never really showed [...]
• SWTOR – Too Much Fun?: In the not too distant past, the World of Warcraft was my default choice for entertainment. It seemed whenever I had a free moment I was logged into WoW. However at some point I think it became less about entertainment and more about habit. WoW was what I “did”. Some guys golf, some fish and some gamble, me I played WoW. Towards the end of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion WoW lost all of its entertainment value for me. I struggled to find a reason to log in on a continual basis. I greeted Cataclysm with great enthusiasm [...]
• Melee? Yeah Okay.: A few weeks back I wrote about how fell for Blizzards bait to get me to subscribe for the next year. As you might remember I was also a bit concerned about how I would get my moneys worth of entertainment from WoW while I wait for the expansion. After a few false starts I have finally come up with something for the immediate future. It should be painfully clear that I plan to level a Pandaren Monk come expansion time. I have linked to my new blog PandarenMonk.net about a dozen times since its launch. Yeah I am all [...]
• Mogging – Umm… Okay.: I am not sure how widespread or popular the term “Mogging” has become but apparently this is the blogosphere’s way of referring to WoW’s transmogrification feature. Don’t get me wrong I think matching armor is the bees knees (did I say bees knees?) but the term mogging kind of bothers me. Rift also has this feature and I do think it is pretty cool but”mogging?” Really? Okay Okay, I get it. There are some really hardcore WoW players out there and the last thing you want to do is call it like it is. Let’s be honest with ourselves shall [...]
• PandarenMonk.net: With the all the recent news about the Mists of Pandaria I guess it was inevitable. PandarenMonk.net will be a collection of all things Pandaren. It is in its beginning stages at this point but so far so good. Click –>Pandaren Monk to pop on over and have a look. Take a read of some of the articles and comment, it will help out tremendously.
• More Of The Same: So I have been back in the World of Warcraft for a few days now. About the only thing I can really say about my time in game is that I really feel like a newb. I have spent the majority of my time fumbling around Azeroth. I managed to run the Headless Horseman a few times but so far that is the extent of my foray back into the game. Where I am really at a loss is more in the direction of what I am not doing. I have haven’t bought or sold a single item on the [...]
• A Call For Help: With me dipping my toes in the pool that is WoW, I have now tasked myself with ensuring that I get my monies worth. Come hell or high water I am going to have fun in WoW damn it. Sure I am looking forward to the expansion but who the hell knows when it will drop? With that said, I have to come up with something entertaining to do until that time. As I have begun to look around Azeroth there is a sudden realization that I have missed some content. There are new and old instances I have never [...]
• Blizzards Grasp At Subscribers: Some of the news coming out of Blizzcon this year seems quite revealing. At first glance it may not seem like much but most of you should be aware by now that I try t analyze everything and I must admit my spider sense’s are tingling. Okay before I get to the meat of this post I have to publicly admit that I was wrong about one thing – Panderan. Razor and I had a discussion about this months ago and I swore that Blizzard would NEVER unleash the Pandaren as a playable class in WoW. Looking back I was [...]
• The Rest of the Story: A couple of days ago I wrote about the dance killing WoW. Today I am going to let you in on my dirty little secret. I really, really want to play WoW again. But I don’t want to play Cataclysm’s version of WoW. So I am waiting, waiting for the developers to get it right. When I jumped ship to Rift, I wasn’t sure what I was looking for. I knew exactly what I didn’t want (the dance) but I had no real idea what it was that I wanted. I was searching for something; I just didn’t know what [...]
• Did the dance kill WoW?: Okay so WoW isn’t technically dead but I think we can all agree that it isn’t close to what it once was. Sure there are subscribers but Cataclysm virtually sucked the life out of the game. Gevlon says it was the dance that caused this mess and I think that I agree with him. We can call it “the dance”, twitch style gaming or whatever you want to call it. In the end it was over done and it turned off a lot of people. I was so disenchanted with the game that I walked away well before attempting to [...]
• In the Beginning….: Isn’t it amazing that the simple things in life make the biggest difference. As it goes in life so it goes in WoW. The biggest difference between the most skilled players and those in the fail parade is the fact that the skilled players are good at the simple things. The skilled tend to have a solid foundation in the BASICS of the game and they never stray too far from those skills in any aspect of their play. Do you have a guildie (or 10) who need some help with their game play? Have you referred them to all [...]