SWTOR: Ding Level 50…Ding Illum Sucks
Last week I finally hit the level cap in Star Wars: The Old Republic, but didn’t have a chance to get to Illum until this weekend and holy crap does […]
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E3 2011: Alganon Announces First X-Pac this Winter, Rolls Out Keeps Patch, Switches up Servers
Lots of news has just come out on Quest Online’s F2P MMO Alganon, starting with the biggest announcement that the game will be expanding this winter. Alganon: Rise of the […]
Economic and Efficient Archaeology: Leveling, Keystones, and Epics
I have a pension for efficiency: I have my inscription business down to a science. It’s all fully automated, and my revenue and time investments are carefully calculated to contract out my […]
When Simply Leveling Isn’t Enough
I thought my attempts at Loremaster were hard enough — how about the anti-Loremaster? Recently, I’ve been coming across a bunch of stories of patient and creative WoW players who […]
Falling out of Love with Azeroth. Again.
I’m going to type this out, and then I’m going to look back on it, go “oh, how dreary…” and wonder why I didn’t write some dark poetry about the […]
Instant Gratification: Rift Has It; Will It Hold Me?
A recent trend in video games, all of them, has been the increasing need to instantly gratify the players. From Achievement Points for watching the opening video to rewards for […]
The Balancing Act: Catching Up When Real Life Takes Over
Life likes to throw curve balls every now and then to keep us on our toes. And sometimes adapting requires a bit of down time for those things in life […]
Cataclysm Questing: Immortal No More
At level 80, decked out in ICC gear, I was practically immortal when it came to questing through WotLK (and earlier) material. Waves of mobs? No problem. Giant pull while […]