Everyone knows the Zerg… Many people play in the Zerg and roam with it through the RvR lakes, otherwise there would be no Zerg
Hell..Even I join warbands and participate and large scale battles. Is it bad? No.. as long it’s not the only form of ORvR. That’s at least my opinion. It’s fun to [...]

Despite my heavy Altitis my Runepriest on Huss dinged yesterday.
Having the flu gave my some time to exp a bit. I’ve searched for a big enemy to get the final exp for it, but changed my mind as I found the Valaya dwarves at Thounder Mountain. So my Valaya specced Runepriest made his final exp [...]

Looks like the topic I’m going to write about today is some sort of torch relay.
Gamespy started it and Syp took it up… handing it over to Spinks and now I want to add a bit…
Leveling.. Leveling-speed is something that can cause frustration. The normal progression curve looks more or less like this:

This leveling curve [...]

Reading Syp’s post on BioBreak and at Eric’s at Elder Game about the Pro’s and Con’s of an existing IP for a starting MMO and the design things you have to keep in mind when using an IP, made me think a little bit..
Sure.. an IP e.g. Warhammer will draw many players towards the game, [...]

I want to apologize for the lack of posts lately. It’s the end of the term and I have to put up an exam for the students which is really time-intensive.
The few time I have I spent killing Greenskins, Chaos worshipers and Elves.. Dark Elves.. as it would matter what kind of Elf you kill [...]

Warning.. just a vent-post..
So..subscriber numers are out  (Source) and as can be expected.. people point at each other, make bad comments/statements and fight like 3 year olds because they are playing the better game or the other game is just an epic fail..
To be honest.. I’m with Regis there and I want to go further. [...]

Normally I don’t comment on those big announcements, but I have to admit that the announcements from Mythic yesterday made me go “oh ..wow..aah.. great..oooh”.
I won’t work off the whole announcement from yesterday, but after reading it I was somehow excited. It’s a decent road-map for the next months and I’m sure that the game [...]

There is much excitement and speculations going on about the announcement from Mythic today and the Valentine’s day cards which has been send to some bloggers.. (None of them being in the EU from what I’ve seen..humhum)
As usual I’m not hopping on that train and so write about something completely different. There are many good [...]

As my boss is on a conference and I have to hold the lecture I’m kinda busy this week..
So just a small image.. More NPCs trying a nude tome unlock.

Maybe I should start a quiz asking where those Nudists are located

Remember Paul Barnett saying what a really good invention/design is? His genius test involves the statement from one self saying: “It’s so obvious that I should have thought of that!”
Well.. for me WAR offers a genius feature which I as a healer especially like: Dual targeting
No matter what kind of healer I play, this feature [...]

I rediscovered a fun part in WAR. Public Quests…
In the last couple of weeks they degenerated for me into a grind of stage 1 in every PQ I attended. Most of the time it was because there where not many players around or when I played low-ranked alts rank40 chars helped friends and I didn’t [...]

This floats around in my mind because I recently encountered in a scenario the “you are a healing class ..HEAL”-yells at a shaman.. It’s always nice if you are getting told how you should play your char
There is this well-know trinity of tank-healer-dps in most MMOs and everyone is used to this division of [...]

Why do both realms have elves?
Because everyone likes to beat them up .. So that not everyone chooses the realm that fights against elves, it was necessary for pop balance that both realms have elves.
And as a small bonus (video made by the Lords of Destruction-guild. Just a video someone from my guild stumbled upon):

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Again I have to postpone the post about my reasons why I like playing a healer to tommorrow..
Today is again something about Crowd Control.. examining which I like and which I don’t like. I will try to explain why I (dis)like them..
Knockbacks:
I really like them.. all. Why? Well… they screw all my positioning as a [...]

I wanted to post today something about the reasons why I like playing a healer.. but that has to get postponed.
There are atm some things that break the fun for me in this game and it’s not fortress siege related..
It is also not related to a imo design-flaw like the ward-system..
It’s about the bugging UI. [...]