What I’m…

  • Playing: WoW, LotRO
  • Reading: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams

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Thoughts on the Goblin Starting Zone

After I got done with the character creator last night, I spent an hour or so exploring the Goblin starting zone. I’m playing my Ben Stiller mage and got up to level 5 before logging off. Bear this in mind as we go on.

I titled this post “Goblin Starting Zone” instead of “Goblin Starting Experience” because, [...]

Thoughts on the Worgen Starting Experience

I had a chance to login to the Cataclysm beta early this morning. Since a reader asked to see the Worgen Rogue stealth animation, I decided to go that route and roll alliance. I’m most of the way through it and I’m very impressed. Here are some of the things that stood out to me:

Phasing, [...]

On PuGs and Progression in WoW

Word on the street has it that Blizzard is planning some big changes for the WoW raiding game come Cataclysm.  The current plan, as I understand it, is that 10 and 25 man raids will now drop the same gear. There’s a little more to it, so here’s the bullet list from MMO Champion:

10-Man and 25-Man [...]

Does lore show WoW’s decline?

Update: I think I did a poor job phrasing myself since people seem to be taking it differently than my intention everywhere I have this post up.

What I’m asking with the post is this: do you think Blizzard’s willingness to stray from the [...]

A Month at Warcraft

I decided today that I’m going to resubscribe to WoW until Aion Online launches in September.  I’ve been dangling dangerously at the precipice of resubbing for a while now, especially since MMO-Champion leaked all of the details on the upcoming expansion but what officially made me take the dive was visiting a couple of friends of [...]

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm confirmed

Because I would be remiss not to mention it, WoW: Cataclysm is coming! There’s a lot of great stuff headed our way that should make leveling 1-60 almost a completely new experience. I can’t wait. There’s too much information for me to review here, so why don’t you head over to WoW.com and check out the [...]

The awesomeness that is WoW: Cataclysm

Thank you to Keen and MMORPG.com for the tip because now I have a good reason to get excited. More information on the new World of Warcraft expansion has leaked out and it looks like old world Azeroth is in for a bit of a makeover.

According to MMO-Champion, Deathwing and Asharza will cause the [...]