Monday, January 18th, 2010
Over at Killed in a Smiling Accident, Melmoth muses on the proclivity of players to skim quest text. I think it's fair to say that most players try to get only the gist of the quest, normally the number and type of mob to kill given conveniently at the ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Worgen and wolves, wolves and worgen. There is so much potential leather in Shadowfang Keep that a tan mist falls over Vulzerda's eyes. Indeed, after the first couple of rooms are cleared of worgen and wolves, wolves and worgen, Vulzerda uses her hearthstone to return to Stormwind and ...
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Over at Killed in a Smiling Accident, Melmoth laments World of Warcraft's looting system. I empathise fully, having experienced loot-envy many times myself, including sulking about losing an ideal tanking drop to a DPS class. Loot distribution is a curious issue, as it's not just in MMORPGs that ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Why wait for a cataclysm? The plan for the Bastards to visit our first instance may not be realised, gaining a couple of levels and forming the guild taking longer than expected, but that's okay. Instead we create our own version of the next World of Warcraft expansion ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
And you will know us by the trail of dead Hoggers. Welcome to the Bastards1. A healer who goes AFK, an aggro-happy warlock, a self-centred paladin, and a psychotic shaman. It's the perfect group. The shaman starts as we mean to go on, slaughtering Bambi as ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
The instance entrance to the Stormwind Stockades is a portal to a mirror universe. With a bit of time at the end of the Deadmines run last week, Melmoth and I try to complete what we started by slaughtering the remaining Defias Brotherhood criminals, those that were caught and ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Melmoth's hunter and my mage are tasked with entering a dangerous hideout of the Defias Brotherhood and to stop its leader, the dreaded Van Cleef, by whatever means. It must be an inordinately difficult challenge if no one has managed to defeat Van Cleef yet, several years in to ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Leaving the US World of Warcraft server, I find myself with an opportunity to play in another static group on my old EU server. It's only two of us in total, myself and Melmoth, and will only be once a week, but it is the adventure that lies ahead ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
My EU-based protection warrior, Tiger, teams up with Melmoth's paladin for some wide-eyed, happy-to-be-here exploration of Northrend. On the gryphon flight to Menethil Harbour to catch the ship to Howling Fjord, still avoiding the Borean Tundra for now, Melmoth remarks on how the hunter class always seems to get ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Zoso and Melmoth have hooked me up to join them on the US servers for City of Heroes. The timing has worked out really well. I picked up the boxed game cheaply and got it working under Crossover Games for Mac, ironing out the showstopping wrinkles, and now ...
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