So, like probably everyone else, I’m playing Starcraft 2. And, like probably every other WoW guild out there, people are drying up at a phenomenal rate. I’m left to wonder, is the only thing that can steal playtime away from WoW, another Blizzard game? Well, to be fair you see this quite often when a [...]

Let’s face it. Wrath of the Lich King, as an expansion, is limping along and gasping it’s last. Progression, now, doesn’t matter. Raiding isn’t really a big deal, relegated to a few slacker casual guilds out there trying to finish up the last of the available content before the Cataclysm arrives. There will be no [...]

I’d been working on some ideas for Blood tank trees for Cataclysm, but after last weeks other bit of news, no not the RealID fiasco, the bit about talent trees being severely pruned, it’s a bit pointless. The Beta talents right now are going to be nothing alike what they’ll be at launch. First off, [...]

And so, once more, all is right with the world. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25968987278&sid=1 Hello everyone, I’d like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We’ve been constantly monitoring the feedback you’ve given us, as well as internally [...]

In a related anecdote : New Facebook Signups Plummets Thinking back the privacy brouhaha around Facebook earlier last month, is this merely coincidence? Facebook have gone from being kinda cool and open, to being thought of as scumbags and criminals. Do you think you can survive the same, ActiBlizzard? Do you really think you’re bigger [...]

You’ve just crossed a terrible threshold, Blizzard.

So, where am I these days, I hear you ask. Hypothetically. What’s up, Skurmish? How’s it hanging, broski? Well, our ultra-casual guild is still working on Arthas 10man. It’s slow going as usual. People are burning out like the wickermen doused in high-octane.  Still soldiering along though, hoping to get Kingslayer for myself and a [...]

It’s been a blockbuster of an E3.So many games to ook forward to. New Dead Space 2 trailer – lookin awesome! And some other stuff about the 3DS or something, ho hum consoles snore. The 2 biggies in my book were The Old Republic, which had a sweet new CGI rendered trailer, and Warhammer 40K. [...]

You know who he is. The one that, for whatever reason, decides he doesn’t like you, and that he’s going to find issue with whatever you do, and say, as long as you’re a member of Guild X. I’m not sure why this is. I think, sometimes, it’s a case of competitiveness gone one step [...]

Man, there’s so much that bugs me about this game sometimes. Particularly about PVP. Like how we can’t win Wintergrasp on our realm due to the 2.5:1 lead in numbers Alliance has over Horde. Like how a hunter, yesterday, basically killed me in under 3 seconds, with me running 1300 resilience. Like how retarded Horde [...]

Big news recently : Lord of the Rings Online goes Free To Play. The question on everyone’s mind is, will this make it more popular. As probably the second most popular fantasy DIKU MMORPG, removing the pay to play barrier to entry immediately makes it look like LotrO might suddenly bust out in a big [...]

Reading this article found on Massively, I was drawn to the following words: In fact, BioWare isn’t afraid to ruffle the feathers of competing MMOs by claiming that they sacrifice fun, story and interesting content while training players to rush through it all to the end game. Despite studios and players resisting change, Lead Writer Daniel [...]

WoW.com had a Cynics Guide to World of Warcraft recently, and they defined raiding more or less as such : “An activity in which we spend hours of our time doing something we dislike, with people we hate, for loot that never drops.”
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I’ve tried a lot of different classes, roles, archetypes in WoW. Started out tank, tried dps, back to a tank/dps hybrid, then a healer, again a tank/dps hybrid, a short stint as ranged dps and now primarily back to melee dps/tank hybrid. After 4, nearly 5 years of doing this I’ve realised I only really [...]