Monthly Archives: November 2008

Swâpped Letters in Namês

In these won­der­ful online games, the longer one sin­gle name­space exists, the fewer the names avail­able in that name­space. At some point, all the good names are going to be taken. What then? Gúess.

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Return of the Mixed Blessing

“Hey guys, I’M BACK” What fol­lows isn’t always a fan­fare of trum­pets for the offi­cers of that guild.

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WQ: Grizzly Hills Stink

I recently wrote some gush­ing praise on Wrath quest­ing–about how Bliz­zard finally has it fig­ured out, how it’s great fun, blah blah blah. All that was before my wife and I moved into the Griz­zly Hills. Now, I’m eat­ing my words. What a mas­sive come­down this zone is after Drag­onblight! Let’s run down really quickly the change […]

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WQ: Better Questing!

The bread-and-butter of lev­el­ing, quest­ing, is bet­ter than ever in Wrath. Quest­ing is more fun from both from a nar­ra­tive and mechan­i­cal per­spec­tive. The nar­ra­tives are stronger. A scourge-ravaged vil­lage where many peo­ple have been lost, where you ulti­mately rally the peo­ple to flush the zom­bies out. Some ani­mal activists work against overzeal­ous ani­mal hunters, […]

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Improving Inscription

My main is a holy priest and has always been a straight gath­erer. I liked the gold. When I learned that Scribes made books, my fate was sealed. Inscrip­tion Ho! It’s early in the young life of Inscrip­tion, and like Jew­el­craft­ing and every other craft­ing pro­fes­sion, it has a bare­bones feel at the out­set. There’s one […]

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