Tuesday’s patch contained bug fixes, Dragon Soul nerfs, and a new (and irritating) game file cleanup process. It also contained one new feature that the community is slowly beginning to buzz about – Cross-Realm raiding with Real ID friends. While we’ve all probably dealt with the effects of the other changes in the patch, this [...]
Trolling Headline Is Trolling
Grimmtooth recently commented on a post that Massively had published under its “Soapbox” column – an opinion piece titled, “How raiding turns you into a horrible person“. You can immediately tell from the title that the post was intended to cause controversy, to incite emotion. In other words, it was a big fat attempt at trolling. [...]
In Which I Realize That We Aren’t Heroes – We’re Bullies
Two posts in one day? Don’t get used to it – the previous one was just spontaneous rejoicing. Retro Raiding Playing old content – especially content that deemed quite difficult back when it was current – is an odd feeling. Suddenly more powerful than the world around you, you bash through the doors and annihilate things [...]
Raid Night
I’ve grown to really love raid night. Especially when it’s on a weekend. I get a warm and fuzzy feeling when I think about going home tonight and falling into our routine. Jardal and I usually go out to dinner somewhere nearby, like Buffalo Wild Wings around 6-ish. If we’re feeling really lazy we’ll do take-out [...]
Achievement Spam and Social Raiding
Yesterday was a day full of achievements, both individual and team ones. I started off the night with 3000 quests completed. The Seeker title is one of my favorite in the entire game, probably because it reminds me of one of my favorite book series. I then wrapped up Borean Tundra’s quests – only three [...]
