Tag Archives: TBC

MMO Expansions and Sequels

By GoW | Published: August 22, 2008
I recently read a post at Tobold’s about the nature of Bliz­zard expan­sions, and it got me thinking. I keep ref­er­enc­ing World of War­craft 2 in my posts (“Maybe Bliz­zard will change this in WoW2”). But it dawned on me that there’s really no real dif­fer­ence between sequel and expan­sion with MMOs. We’re already play­ing [...]
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Maximum Performance Isn’t Always Maximum Fun

By GoW | Published: July 11, 2008
This is a thought in progress. A lit­tle rambling. My wife is a com­bat rogue. Always has been. When she joined the game she fell in love with being a rogue, and she asked what the high­est dam­age ver­sion of rogue was. I went off to the inter­nets, and came back with the answer: Com­bat [...]
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Raiding does not mean Skilled

By GoW | Published: June 12, 2008
(Related post: Max level does not mean Skilled.) There’s a class of player who feels that their sta­tus in the raid­ing game means that they’re Right. They label other peo­ple noobs, and the silly thing is that peo­ple believe them. “I have this awe­some item, you don’t, there­fore I know what I’m talk­ing about and [...]
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The Downside of Endgame Guilds

By GoW | Published: May 1, 2008
I’ve been read­ing Tobold and Pot­shot lately. They’re talk­ing about loot and game design as it relates to endgame guilds, specif­i­cally guild hop­ping and pro­gres­sion prob­lems due to it. I haven’t seen a decent expla­na­tion of the prob­lem, but as a guild officer/leader I’ve seen it in action twice now, once with the orig­i­nal WoW [...]
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Second Magister’s Terrace run

By GoW | Published: April 10, 2008
Ran it for the sec­ond time with my guild, again on my heal­ing priest. This time I bet­ter appre­ci­ated its virtues, I think. It’s a fun, inter­est­ing, and relax­ing instance, per­fect in length. It runs like a greatest-hits ver­sion of Burn­ing Cru­sade boss-fight design. Of course, both times I’ve healed it have been with a [...]
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