Category Archives: Gaming

Emotes in MMOs

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

How important are emotes in MMOs? Should they mostly be specific animated/voiced emotes or the freeform kind (/em bows to the Lord Protector)? As a roleplayer and a keen advocate of running dungeons “for fun” rather than for loot, I’m … Continue reading →

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SWTOR: surprise bonus

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

The Relics of the Gree event is returning to Ilum from the 21st May to the 28th May. I missed out on this event in previous incarnations because I was taking a break from the game so it’ll be something … Continue reading →

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Neverwinter: crafting basics

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

I’ve dipped a bit deeper into Neverwinter’s crafting system now. There are some similarities to SWTORs companion crafting, but the big difference is that in Neverwinter you hire dedicated crafting professionals. These professionals are each tied to a crafting skill; … Continue reading →

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SWTOR: Bounty hunter first impressions

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

I’ve now played my new bounty hunter for a second, more substantial session. I ended the session at level 8, so still very early days. But so far I’m enjoying the class rather a lot. It helps that Nal Hutta … Continue reading →

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Neverwinter: forum fury over exploits

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

There’s a real stink brewing on the Neverwinter forums over bugs at endgame (the Epic  mode 5 man dungeon[s]) that allow certain classes to farm monsters solo, there are also reports of people exploiting certain boss fights for easy loot. … Continue reading →

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Rift: free to play in June

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

It’s finally been announced – Rift will go free to play in June of this year. That’s one of the last hold-out subscription MMOs converting. Massively has further coverage of this and so does Wilhelm of the Ancient Gaming Noob: … Continue reading →

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SWTOR: Athiss ‘muo’ challenges

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

Over the weekend we tried to muo (duo with companions) the Athiss flashpoint. Going in we thought it was lower level, turns out the missions are level 21 and we’d only just dinged that level ourselves. We got half way, … Continue reading →

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Neverwinter: skirmish experience

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

Last night I did the first skirmish, Blacklake Terror, for the first time on my Control Wizard. I was questing in that zone and was given the quest to do the skirmish as I gained level 8. There are a … Continue reading →

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The Internet isn’t to blame (for once)

Posted on May 12, 2013 by

The whole week I’ve been reading, and writing, about clashes of gameplay style – zergers vs story-lovers, power levelers vs ‘enjoy-the-journey’ types. Reading some of the many Neverwinter forum threads about these topics I saw several similar exclamations along the … Continue reading →

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Dungeon traps and the lost spirit of exploration

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

While reading up about Neverwinter I came across this mmorpg.com thread about the zergers running through all the traps much to the annoyance of the rogue-playing original author of the thread. This reminds me of playing DDO, years ago, where … Continue reading →

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