Meta tags:
description= Originally a pair of views on gaming, it s now musings by Redbeard on video games (mainly MMOs), board games, RPGs, and other geeky hobbies.;
Headings (most frequently used words):
2025, wednesday, mmo, tuesday, january, rpg, 2026, may, february, 2024, podcasts, blogroll, links, past, you, to, it, like, cranky, playing, there, april, 22, 20, august, 13, 28, friday, saturday, 21, 14, june, thursday, pages, reference, youtube, channels, blog, archive, blogs, in, mothballs, pc, contributors, labels, solved, game, forces, respond, whether, or, not, red, being, accidental, swtor, yes, do, actually, them, just, with, my, dolls, again, hello, old, friends, finding, that, aha, moment, economic, life, lessons, from, an, time, the, offiicial, reason, and, then,
Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (487), and (234), that (209), you (132), was (94), for (84), but (83), ago (77), with (72), game (70), have (70), not (68), this (65), from (53), there (53), wow (51), can (47), years (46), about (42), all (41), play (41), out (40), swtor (39), they (39), what (37), when (37), #playing (36), time (35), more (35), just (33), people (32), one (30), share (30), games (28), are (28), because (28), like (27), get (27), them (27), mmos (26), don (26), some (26), classic (24), your (24), mmo (23), seasons (23), january (22), other (22), much (21), been (21), old (20), content (20), february (20), april (20), how (20), than (20), had (20), toons (19), may (19), even (19), around (19), really (18), november (18), know (18), has (18), back (18), while (18), played (18), retail (17), september (17), october (17), december (17), march (17), june (17), august (17), long (17), such (17), were (17), too (17), would (17), player (17), video (16), over (16), july (16), months (16), new (16), thing (16), see (16), enough (16), bit (16), lotro (15), friends (15), same (15), seasonal (15), why (15), any (15), way (15), story (15), these (15), something (15), she (15), also (15), first (14), didn (14), being (14), into (14), doing (14), online (13), day (13), gold (13), end (13), last (13), after (13), money (13), then (13), map (13), things (13), now (13), having (13), those (13), whether (13), world (12), redbeard (12), guild (12), show (12), two (12), make (12), days (12), comments (12), want (12), only (12), problem (12), take (12), original (12), where (12), their (12), every (12), think (12), never (12), meta (12), another (11), group (11), labels (11), short (11), here (11), own (11), better (11), pinterest (11), still (11), before (11), since (11), term (11), memes (10), leveling (10), gear (10), age (10), 2025 (10), going (10), facebook (10), blogthis (10), email (10), posted (10), well (10), toon (10), through (10), far (10), look (10), very (10), once (10), least (10), community (10), blog (9), her (9), fomo (9), week (9), conan (9), posts (9), got (9), said (9), does (9), actually (9), without (9), ever (9), who (9), simply (9), yes (9), most (9), theramore (9), company (9), season (8), gaming (8), vanilla (8), life (8), star (8), past (8), love (8), stuff (8), year (8), which (8), companion (8), run (8), use (8), keep (8), either (8), find (8), lack (8), nature (8), post (8), doesn (8), late (8), means (8), pretty (8), off (8), sure (8), quite (8), smuggler (8), companies (8), anniversary (7), red (7), valley (7), meme (7), fun (7), did (7), specific (7), various (7), maybe (7), action (7), servers (7), could (7), again (7), actively (7), always (7), guess (7), fine (7), will (7), youtube (6), warcraft (6), tera (6), wars (6), real (6), radio (6), musings (6), getting (6), changes (6), cataclysm (6), miss (6), part (6), month (6), few (6), yeah (6), deal (6), combat (6), looking (6), design (6), until (6), issues (6), between (6), making (6), given (6), experience (6), login (6), screen (6), reason (6), longer (6), problems (6), started (6), single (6), flight (6), happy (6), aren (6), different (6), went (6), moment (6), corrected (6), eso (6), say (6), consider (6), format (6), certainly (6), wrath (5), rpg (5), final (5), monday (5), instances (5), fps (5), elder (5), scrolls (5), blizzard (5), battle (5), need (5), 2026 (5), players (5), hours (5), set (5), weeks (5), raiding (5), house (5), anything (5), class (5), its (5), name (5), nothing (5), good (5), made (5), head (5), try (5), done (5), used (5), ones (5), above (5), figured (5), tell (5), absolutely (5), certain (5), let (5), wanted (5), okay (5), right (5), point (5), current (5), wednesday (5), wasn (5), level (5), instead (5), basically (5), supply (5), found (5), creating (5), case (5), sound (5), nice (5), big (5), activities (5), pace (5), path (5), start (5), hate (5), follow (5), blogger (4), reading (4), videos (4), trek (4), raid (4), podcasts (4), parallel (4), context (4), pandaria (4), mists (4), massively (4), bugs (4), blogs (4), alterac (4), azeroth (4), 2009 (4), 2019 (4), 2024 (4), hat (4), episode (4), random (4), zone (4), times (4), thoughts (4), server (4), many (4), max (4), ready (4), watch (4), system (4), gave (4), motion (4), gets (4), able (4), worth (4), trying (4), best (4), quest (4), down (4), talk (4), green (4), pay (4), example (4), matter (4), itself (4), happened (4), though (4), left (4), seeing (4), issue (4), reasons (4), behind (4), boss (4), sort (4), typically (4), takes (4), coming (4), toward (4), pathing (4), turned (4), several (4), changed (4), seen (4), runs (4), bug (4), lot (4), great (4), spent (4), person (4), drop (4), questing (4), obtain (4), currency (4), likely (4), running (4), exactly (4), might (4), aha (4), north (4), myself (4), eta (4), tired (4), kind (4), feel (4), everybody (4), put (4), mean (4), opinion (4), along (4), dislike (4), focus (4), instanced (4), aware (4), simple (3), hardcore (3), work (3), wildstar (3), warlock (3), thanks (3), tbc (3), stardew (3), social (3), shaman (3), self (3), lead (3), pvp (3), pugs (3), operation (3), spread (3), neverwinter (3), names (3), legion (3), graphics (3), gen (3), friday (3), free (3), shooters (3), ffxiv (3), fantasy (3), family (3), dps (3), diablo (3), man (3), era (3), burning (3), crusade (3), battlegrounds (3), bards (3), amateur (3), 2020 (3), blaugust2025 (3), pugging (3), altoholic (3), 2010 (3), speed (3), second (3), solved (3), paizo (3), forums (3), links (3), sky (3), goes (3), podcast (3), adventure (3), night (3), live (3), come (3), chapter (3), exploring (3), high (3), dungeons (3), screenshot (3), everquest (3), full (3), lord (3), item (3), republic (3), home (3), discovered (3), rather (3), base (3), probably (3), train (3), overall (3), everything (3), details (3), surprised (3), nightmare (3), close (3), icons (3), performing (3), main (3), bad (3), easily (3), apparently (3), evening (3), band (3), delay (3), pushing (3), select (3), latency (3), believe (3), quickly (3), others (3), fix (3), hard (3), decided (3), haven (3), due (3), shit (3), half (3), ship (3), side (3), our (3), weapon (3), remember (3), field (3), someone (3), kept (3), became (3), added (3), chance (3), event (3), explicitly (3), items (3), majority (3), finding (3), spend (3), cartel (3), coins (3), available (3), fast (3), notwithstanding (3), entire (3), tuesday (3), wetlands (3), finally (3), place (3), understand (3), pat (3), screencap (3), create (3), favorite (3), hanging (3), enjoy (3), loading (3), isn (3), major (3), actual (3), npcs (3), gw2 (3), else (3), among (3), read (3), caress (3), stormwind (3), frequently (3), completely (3), familiar (3), harbor (3), road (3), general (3), weekend (3), thinking (3), course (3), pressure (3), next (3), popular (3), leave (3), toxic (3), toxicity (3), commentary (3), limited (3), cranky (3), avoid (3), positive (3), remix (3), rated (3), git (3), gud (3), designed (3), license (3), puerto (3), rico (3), theme (2), women (2), winter (2), light (2), winning (2), earth (2), warrior (2), draenor (2), art (2), update (2), twisted (2), nether (2), blogcast (2), trailers (2), war (2), soundtrack (2), skill (2), invasion (2), worlds (2), rift (2), reviews (2), restaurants (2), award (2), pets (2), pcs (2), pathfinder (2), patch (2), novels (2), nostalgia (2), newbie (2), outland (2), nerd (2), music (2), mounts (2), core (2), media (2), market (2), lore (2), legends (2), kotfe (2), kickstarter (2), karazhan (2), intro (2), housing (2), dawn (2), honest (2), heroic (2), chat (2), flashpoints (2), fashion (2), eve (2), list (2), drivethrurpg (2), discord (2), developer (2), crafting (2), computers (2), classes (2), card (2), books (2), boardgames (2), blood (2), blogging (2), blaugust (2), lair (2), black (2), bioware (2), gate (2), archeage (2), adventures (2), 2021 (2), pally (2), force (2), welcome (2), 2012 (2), 2014 (2), 2015 (2), 2022 (2), coast (2), gone (2), forces (2), respond (2), goal (2), spring (2), cleaning (2), com (2), campaign (2), four (2), survival (2), blogroll (2), armor (2), considered (2), bonus (2), boot (2), join (2), columbus (2), shintar (2), gypsy (2), hour (2), wowhead (2), swtorista (2), reference (2), gamer (2), girl (2), sad (2), decline (2), review (2), ancient (2), atheren (2), trolls (2), seem (2), geek (2), legend (2), grind (2), completed (2), healing (2), jump (2), break (2), cause (2), saturday (2), sunday (2), water (2), commando (2), kurn (2), brain (2), advice (2), should (2), hatred (2), overpowered (2), ootinicast (2), dark (2), site (2), suppose (2), shouldn (2), horror (2), sickness (2), buying (2), tough (2), order (2), save (2), articles (2), dramamine (2), clarity (2), extremely (2), washed (2), colors (2), distinguish (2), rings (2), placed (2), smaller (2), faithful (2), maps (2), imagine (2), attention (2), correct (2), glance (2), buttons (2), bree (2), presented (2), modern (2), supported (2), basic (2), interaction (2), almost (2), button (2), makes (2), lag (2), couple (2), aoc (2), located (2), away (2), appear (2), 100 (2), ability (2), responsiveness (2), already (2), mentioned (2), delve (2), accurate (2), bring (2), aside (2), thought (2), similar (2), despite (2), account (2), fight (2), implementation (2), difficulty (2), jedi (2), consular (2), dead (2), stand (2), areas (2), arrived (2), taxi (2), entrance (2), area (2), ran (2), somewhere (2), expansion (2), discussion (2), whenever (2), cards (2), drive (2), oldest (2), discussed (2), weapons (2), often (2), starts (2), tank (2), discovering (2), spawn (2), faction (2), asked (2), taking (2), particular (2), originally (2), nerfed (2), easy (2), idea (2), three (2), hasn (2), bought (2), alderaan (2), crazy (2), keeps (2), fresh (2), obviously (2), constant (2), rogue (2), his (2), wanting (2), caught (2), rat (2), race (2), returned (2), especially (2), l20 (2), following (2), selling (2), distribute (2), low (2), mobs (2), raw (2), materials (2), yourself (2), auction (2), cheaper (2), abilities (2), shock (2), buy (2), relatively (2), meant (2), amount (2), per (2), reached (2), flying (2), battered (2), hilt (2), predecessors (2), released (2), response (2), began (2), cheap (2), help (2), cuts (2), eyes (2), skin (2), coruscant (2), version (2), experiences (2), business (2), count (2), senator (2), talking (2), top (2), traditional (2), realize (2), training (2), knew (2), ord (2), mantell (2), screwed (2), cutscenes (2), forget (2), tend (2), build (2), keeping (2), ended (2), hello (2), dolls (2), grammar (2), looked (2), memories (2), require (2), levels (2), wrong (2), perspective (2), planning (2), listed (2), wouldn (2), outfit (2), yesterday (2), visiting (2), cost (2), each (2), article (2), rush (2), steel (2), tour (2), complaining (2), plan (2), lost (2), fond (2), brand (2), number (2), chose (2), route (2), explore (2), east (2), menethil (2), loch (2), modan (2), pass (2), dun (2), morogh (2), ironforge (2), blanchy (2), parts (2), deeper (2), annoy (2), possibly (2), understanding (2), seriously (2), pop (2), ham (2), success (2), merely (2), conditions (2), expect (2), potential (2), glad (2), liking (2), mind (2), equivalent (2), devote (2), resources (2), profit (2), publicly (2), owned (2), private (2), equity (2), firm (2), quarterly (2), commitment (2), losing (2), delves (2), address (2), suggestion (2), solo (2), overarching (2), phenomenon (2), operate (2), quarter (2), line (2), seemed (2), akin (2), guilds (2), whose (2), key (2), pug (2), ahead (2), deliberately (2), progression (2), style (2), bunch (2), commit (2), operating (2), bloggers (2), based (2), environment (2), reddit (2), circle (2), wee (2), raised (2), temper (2), win (2), extreme (2), effectively (2), came (2), heighten (2), box (2), responding (2), possible (2), driven (2), however (2), titles (2), medium (2), organized (2), rankings (2), casual (2), bgs (2), utilizing (2), themselves (2), shy (2), service (2), logging (2), terms (2), called (2), versions (2), studying (2), existence (2), streaming (2), walkthroughs (2), oregon (2), trail (2), guide (2), playthrough (2), completing (2), unless (2), consciously (2), according (2), boardgame (2), showing (2), label (2), powered, zul, gurub, zelda, xenoblade, chronicles, wtf, writing, discovery, insider, events, bosses, witcher, veil, wildermyth, wil, wheaton, wii, weddings, weather, warlords, reforged, voice, acting, upgrades, ulduar, ubisoft, tyranny, trion, traveller, transferring, total, titan, theorycrafting, secret, thanksgiving, tetris, television, tanks, tanking, talents, tabletop, sucking, subscriptions, steam, starcraft, sports, spoofs, splatoon, sparkle, pony, contract, soap, opera, snl, smosh, skyrim, sindorei, sid, meier, civilization, shortwave, security, screenshots, scourge, scanners, savage, satanic, panic, runequest, rpgs, romance, roles, role, rogues, retro, ret, spec, neat, races, quitting, quests, pve, ptr, pro, wrestling, postmortem, ponderings, planetbase, pillars, eternity, photos, permateam, patreon, kingmaker, parody, pandemic, pandaren, paladins, p2w, overwatch, lesson, school, runescape, ohio, renaissance, festival, obsidian, entertainment, non, nintendo, ninjas, news, initiative, neve, naxxramas, nanowrimo, sandrock, portia, evershine, movies, molten, mods, mobile, mobas, missives, silvermoon, miscellaneous, minis, minecraft, microsoft, metagame, merp, matt, colville, mass, effect, marvel, heroes, mages, madruga, works, lowbies, liebster, lfg, tool, letters, league, joystiq, josh, strife, hayes, jason, schreier, jade, empire, interviews, idiots, humor, horizon, zero, horde, hor, holidays, hogwarts, legacy, hobbies, universe, heavy, metal, healers, hardware, hacking, gurps, groundhog, farming, gnomes, genealogy, con, gary, gygax, gankers, gamergate, gambling, mechanics, funcom, lecture, series, fortnite, forsaken, filk, fiction, felicia, fate, fandom, failpug, fail, factions, facepalm, f2p, expansions, esports, endangered, species, electronics, drama, dragons, dragon, draenei, documentaries, discworld, development, houses, appreciation, dancing, dalaran, dailies, cyberpunk, 2077, crowdfunding, cosplay, corruption, corporations, cooking, convoy, l85, console, cons, exiles, complainers, comic, colossal, cave, college, cheating, census, bungie, buffs, brewing, bots, boob, plate, elves, blogoversary, bloggy, mas, blogcasts, blizzcon, blackwing, blackrock, depths, desert, bethesda, beta, bayonetta, royale, baldurs, shows, atari, ars, magica, arena, arcade, aq40, anthem, anniversaries, alts, alliance, aircraft, aion, airwaves, addons, activision, blaugust2024, blaugust2023, blaugust2022, blaugust2021, blapril2020, souldat, deftig, satyana, ehna, contributors, medicina, achtung, panzercow, stoppable, lazy, npc, cow, rise, cynwise, manual, jazz, panda, spinksville, manalicious, rage, megadirge, dàchéng, diaries, ravalation, bossy, giant, spoon, eight, daily, frostwolf, druid, edition, null, signifier, wanderings, mothballs, 153, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 110, 161, 151, 2023, 175, 187, space, goats, car, irrelevance, intruding, verse, tale, extremes, writer, wheth, anyway, archive, rpggeek, rpgnet, convention, plans, ardwulf, letter, amanita, gift, spirit, small, gifts, scions, recent, statement, monte, cook, gnomecast, 235, considerations, gnome, stew, ends, 9pm, central, atlas, brp, release, under, orc, hearth, harrowing, roleplaying, chaosium, inc, alien, evil, productions, clank, 018, andorra, country, 104, wpc, traits, fear, afterparty, party, versus, midsummer, dream, pointy, studios, syl, ravanel, griffon, channel, jasper, channels, champion, wowpedia, spoiler, touched, motivational, moonfang, darkmoon, stream, schedule, confessions, 213, xiv, endwalker, chick, wandering, nine, galactic, antics, ramblings, videogame, spotlight, checking, blessing, kings, alas, weakauras, hunters, ark, evolved, dedicated, welps, project, genie, prompt, yeebo, fernbottom, visit, palace, tome, direct, mad, jinxed, updates, gnomecore, bodhi, rana, neighbourhood, homes, decor, zeirah, fanfest, aywren, keystone, keys, myth, umbral, achievements, kaylriene, voidspire, stance, hounds, dynamite, jvt, workshop, e33, horse, bio, turtle, crescent, grove, stormwrought, ruins, priest, promenade, 296, kamalia, alia, treading, dump, corner, guides, helpful, inventory, notes, midnight, noob, previews, merging, exaltation, 503, refrain, moving, episodes, 346, 348, 563, windrose, waiting, room, contact, pages, subscribe, atom, older, stirring, pot, posting, pic, elin, standards, interesting, enemies, pulling, archives, compared, recently, nasa, moonbase, alpha, looks, lunar, simulation, sadly, unplayable, thankfully, lose, discover, pill, swallow, decision, medicated, purchase, sick, types, successfully, riding, plane, memecrunch, step, brothers, doom, nauseous, forward, overhaul, improvements, bash, against, wall, metaphorically, speaking, progress, earnest, visual, wilhelm, arcturus, worse, brownish, poor, markers, ring, hazy, poorly, monitor, sharp, difference, usable, museoteca, interactive, inspired, exploration, kinda, sorta, pauline, baynes, middle, copy, passed, mom, son, colorblind, sake, coloring, matches, rest, color, scheme, favors, actions, him, commands, removed, shades, foray, elf, third, unique, visible, standing, stone, yet, figure, intention, wander, listen, gladden, blasted, sizes, readable, visibility, famous, smooth, user, somehow, manages, noticeable, straightforward, combo, performs, selection, tried, persisted, overcome, respect, optimization, code, breaker, expected, perform, complex, maneuvers, newark, jersey, grindy, factor, anybody, anymore, pressing, petty, definitely, realm, direction, clunky, highlight, hardly, irk, replacing, reminiscent, remediated, customization, efforts, mini, reds, damn, dilly, dallying, fights, died, nursemaid, reach, swing, camera, closely, moved, senya, view, nar, shadda, disembark, literally, attacking, shenanigans, sith, inquisitor, surrounding, alluded, broken, switched, replaced, cpus, manufacturers, installed, nvme, ssd, cry, slowpoke, 5400, rpm, mechanical, avail, offiicial, thursday, eating, dinner, storage, legendary, swap, daughter, reminiscing, foot, flashpoint, healer, confessed, administered, points, scattered, boy, zones, heroics, accidentally, touching, assembling, grabbing, tatooine, maze, elevator, bite, salad, disliked, brother, brief, pause, created, knows, traffic, separate, installations, companions, theirs, wondered, congestion, radeon, nvidia, advanced, shame, replied, loved, drives, covered, continued, niche, mused, doubt, rid, truism, rested, surprise, apply, projects, sink, lengthy, conversation, westfall, joanofdark, member, bonded, liked, pleasant, chilling, orphans, begun, previously, expressed, raids, irony, spoke, powerleveling, stunned, rapidly, tables, mid, l30s, penny, pinching, continues, insistence, hamstrung, services, ports, food, highly, desirable, potions, magic, ordinarily, disenchant, enchanting, multiply, figuring, evenings, ways, fishing, catch, grinding, drops, sell, finished, vendor, cover, expenses, prioritize, pick, choose, consumables, cosmetics, unfurnished, 000, yikes, approach, nowhere, near, average, subscribing, greater, needs, hurting, rich, thousand, repair, bills, enchantments, whatnot, dungeon, increasing, words, waited, economics, signed, reality, addressed, sooner, later, economy, necessitated, easier, truly, appreciated, lich, king, rolled, session, admittedly, joan, vaguely, unsettling, white, hair, piercing, blue, mocha, tone, robe, esque, child, growing, listings, economic, lessons, sometimes, appreciate, mmorpg, reaching, evendim, pleiades, custom, cutscene, slicing, terminal, spaceport, unnoticed, helluva, touch, starship, arathi, highlands, hillsbrad, foothills, accident, western, plaguelands, stealthed, mountains, sneak, scholomance, l28, sneaking, places, whetted, appetite, ghostlands, quintalan, paladin, building, deathholme, upon, struggling, teamed, finish, khan, drathir, neither, took, defeated, traitor, forever, appeared, feed, screencaps, sentinel, taris, grew, return, developed, tolerance, tolerate, balmorra, farther, gotten, whats, bisector, overlay, minimap, corso, confused, skills, fleet, supposed, arrive, starring, kayl, roughness, cleaned, visuals, fantastic, alone, outside, city, skyscrapers, canyons, urban, hear, walking, downtown, excellent, immerses, stick, type, gunslinger, standard, bar, disconcerting, change, migrant, merchants, users, bounty, hunter, adults, call, figures, sheesh, desire, pull, recalled, install, exist, warband, azshandra, progressed, therefore, tweaked, composition, occasionally, logged, minor, interim, hey, lady
Text of the page (random words):
i ve gotten in a long time creating that one smuggler for the screencaps of the intro quest a year or two ago for a post here doesn t count i went back and played a jedi sentinel instead and got as far as taris for i grew tired of the pathing issues eta corrected pat ak s name posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels swtor tuesday january 21 2025 finding that aha moment sometimes it takes looking at a game through fresh eyes to appreciate what we ve got i m not sure how this appeared on my youtube feed but this relatively short video is worth a watch back in 2009 i think my aha moment was questing through the ghostlands on quintalan my paladin and finally building up to deathholme i happened upon another player struggling through that place and we teamed up to finish off dark khan drathir neither of us had played before so it took us a try or two but we figured it out and defeated the traitor coming back from that part of the zone forever changed the game for me because i finally began to understand the story and what had happened there for vanilla classic in 2019 being the first time i d ever played the original version of wow it was a different moment it was exploring my way through wetlands to the arathi highlands to hillsbrad foothills up north i went and i found myself quite by accident in the western plaguelands i had experiences with doing this before but while i was stealthed and kept to the mountains i found i was able to sneak all the way up to the entrance to scholomance i had absolutely no business being where i was as a l28 rogue but sneaking there and into other places just whetted my appetite for more in lotro i know where my aha moment was reaching evendim and looking up at night and discovering the pleiades in the sky swtor was a bit different i think it was when i arrived on my smuggler at coruscant and there was a custom cutscene of me slicing a terminal to get into the spaceport unnoticed it wasn t much but it was a helluva touch given that i was trying to get my starship back what about you what was your aha moment in an mmorpg posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lotro mmos musings swtor videos wow wow classic tuesday january 14 2025 economic life lessons from an mmo if there s one thing about my leveling experience in classic fresh that s a truism it s that i almost never run out of rested xp while playing when you think about it that s not a great surprise given that i m leveling 10 toons for joan i went with a vaguely unsettling look with a shock of white hair and piercing blue eyes with her mocha skin tone in her red robe she had that look she had to have been a wednesday esque sort of child growing up the listings are current as of january 14 2025 right now i m at the point where i play a different toon every evening so i might get around to them once every week or week and a half and i can now go an entire evening session on wow without leveling at all admittedly a bit of that is that i m cheap and don t take a flight from a flight point if i can help it because my lack of gold means every flight cuts into my money quite a bit the economics of an mmo aren t exactly what people signed up for when they started playing eve notwithstanding but it s a reality that has to be addressed sooner or later i ve never played everquest or any of the predecessors to wow but i have played several games released after wow i m not sure whether the in game economy of wow necessitated changes or whether it was in response to other mmos making life easier but i never truly appreciated how easy it was to obtain gold by the time wrath of the lich king rolled around until i began playing vanilla wow in 2019 in wrath in 2009 i discovered very quickly that the gold coming in was greater than what my needs were and by the time i reached max level and started running dungeons i wasn t hurting for gold i wasn t rich enough to by fast flying or the battered hilt at the drop of a hat but i had a couple of thousand gold on me at any given time i didn t have repair bills due to raiding or enchantments or whatnot either so just doing a dungeon or two per day was more than enough to keep my gold supply increasing in other words i never had to really think about how to obtain more gold when i decided i wanted fast flying or that battered hilt i just waited for my supply to get high enough and i bought it other mmos i played had a similar approach just playing the game and leveling meant i would have a supply of gold available to me that supply was nowhere near what the likely average amount of money was out there but i was happy with that because i didn t really use it that much to use another game s currency as a reference i get a supply of cartel coins per month from swtor for subscribing that being said i can t tell you the last time i actually used those cartel coins for anything over 57 000 cartel coins as of january 14 2025 yikes i don t buy cosmetics and i m happy with the relatively unfurnished housing i do have so i really have no need to spend that currency but coming back to vanilla wow in 2019 and once more on the anniversary servers is a bit of a shock to the system there s simply not enough money to be had while questing to cover all of your expenses so you have to prioritize things a bit you have to pick and choose which abilities to train consumables to obtain and even whether to take that flight point or not while out in the field now multiply that by 10 and you can see where the problems are especially if you never played the majority of these classes before and you re dead set on figuring it out by yourself there have been evenings where i spent the majority of my time finding ways to make some gold whether it be by fishing and selling my catch grinding mobs for drops or crafting to sell raw materials or finished items on the auction house if i m not doing that i m basically making things for my own toons to use because it s cheaper than buying it on the auction house or from a vendor my insistence on following operation spread the love means that i ve hamstrung my ability to make gold as well because people are making gold selling max level services such as ports or water food or highly desirable potions while i m back at l20 making pretty basic stuff to distribute to my various toons even low end magic items that drop off of mobs that i would ordinarily disenchant for enchanting raw materials i instead distribute to my various toons because well they can use them and so my penny pinching continues some of the people i played with back in my old retail orphans guild have returned to wow and begun playing the anniversary servers i m not especially surprised by this because the anniversary servers are explicitly going to the burning crusade expansion and they ve previously expressed to me their love for karazhan one of the first raids in tbc the irony is that the last time i spoke with them i was powerleveling a shaman and they were stunned at how rapidly i was leveling now the tables have been turned as they re in the mid l30s even though they started two weeks ago while i started in late november and only have some toons at l20 i had a lengthy conversation with a player in westfall while i was on my warlock joanofdark the other week he like me is a member of gen x and we bonded over playing d d back in the day as well as books we liked he like me was taking his time leveling because he wasn t wanting to get caught up in the rat race all in all it was a pleasant hour spent just chilling with a random person in a 20 year old video game that s happened on my warlock my warrior my rogue and my shaman obviously this doesn t apply to real life as i have enough projects around the house just to fix things up that there s a constant gold sink in my life posted by redbeard at 12 39 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels operation spread the love swtor wow classic anniversary wednesday june 5 2024 time past i was eating dinner out with my oldest last night and talk turned to mmos we d discussed lotro for a bit she mentioned that our house was out of storage and about several of the changes made to legendary weapons because of the changes you didn t have to swap out your weapon every so often you could keep that same weapon as long as you wanted i still have my original weapon i mused i doubt i ll ever get rid of it we covered some of the other changes made to the game over the years as she d continued to play lotro actively long after it became a niche event for me then we discussed another mmo we d played a lot in the past i miss swtor i said but that bug keeps me from playing it the companion bug she asked yeah that one i have that bug too and it drives me crazy it s the only game i see where a companion just simply does not keep up with me over time i typically last as far as alderaan until i can t stand it any more that s a shame she replied because i loved the story in alderaan i used to think it was a problem with the radeon graphics cards i added but when we bought my current pc it runs on an nvidia card that s far more advanced than anything we had in 2012 and it still does it i wondered if it had something to do with server congestion there was more server traffic back then so i have no idea what the problem is i have seen it on two separate installations of the game and now three if you re seeing it too it s not like bioware hasn t made games with companions before or after so i don t know what the issue is with this one single game of theirs after a brief pause my oldest added that if there were classic swtor servers ever created she knows several people who would jump at the chance to play those again like your brother yeah he disliked how easy the game became i miss the difficulty i said taking another bite of my salad the consular end boss in particular was originally really tough until they nerfed it and even after it was nerfed it was a hard fight remember the final zone in the tatooine story she asked you kept going through this long maze until you got to the end and now it s you take an elevator and you re there yeah or remember accidentally touching something out in the field and discovering that was a world boss spawn point or when you d be assembling a group to take on a world boss and someone from the other faction would run up and cause the wb to spawn grabbing it for the other faction i remember that or those heroic 4 zones out in the field they re all 2 heroics now i haven t set foot in a flashpoint since they changed the design so that you didn t need a healer or a tank i confessed and you have those self administered healing points scattered around the instances but boy did i love the original flashpoints they had yeah you know you re getting old when your daughter starts reminiscing about how things were back in the day i suppose posted by redbeard at 1 13 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family lotro swtor thursday february 8 2024 there s the offiicial reason and then there s nothing like stirring the pot i suppose one of my side comments in the discussion surrounding my last post alluded to me not playing swtor very much was because of the broken companion pathing whenever i play it i ve switched pcs replaced cpus and graphics cards and manufacturers and i even have the game installed on an nvme ssd drive a far cry from the slowpoke 5400 rpm mechanical drive it was once on but all to no avail my old sith inquisitor is still somewhere in chapter 10 of the kotfe expansion here i started at this entrance area in nar shadda right after you disembark from your ship and i ran toward the taxi literally all i did no attacking no shenanigans no nothing okay so senya is now just out of view if you look closely at the map you can see that she moved about half speed from the screenshot just above this one and now having arrived at the taxi i can swing the camera around and watch her go oh shit i m coming imagine if i were in a fight and she were dilly dallying around far behind me in the original implementation of swtor where some of the story fights were really hard i m looking at you original difficulty of the final boss of the jedi consular story i d have been dead by the time my companion would have decided to show up as it is i haven t died due to these sort of problems but i can only stand to have to play nursemaid to my companion for as long as it typically takes me to reach the end of chapter one of the swtor vanilla areas there s other changes over the years that irk me such as replacing the original in game map with that map reminiscent of the map in tera and believe me combat aside you don t want your mmo to ever be thought of as similar to tera but that can be remediated by customization but the companion issue despite years worth of efforts i can t fix it i even have a second account that the mini reds used to play swtor with and that account has the same damn problem why bring this up because i wanted to highlight some reasons why i no longer or hardly ever play some mmos that really don t end up on people s reviews or blog posts about the games petty maybe they re definitely not in the realm of i just don t like the direction the story is going or the combat is clunky accurate for me absolutely since i ve already mentioned swtor let s delve into a few others age of conan s issue is simple lack of responsiveness when pressing a button for all of the issues that age of conan has and believe me the grindy nature and the bugs do factor into anybody s ability to play the game the main reason why i don t play age of conan anymore has to do with the game s lack of responsiveness when you go to select an action maybe it s because my first mmo was world of warcraft which is famous for its smooth user interaction but there s more to it than just that almost every other mmo has no delay between pushing a button and performing the action on screen but age of conan somehow manages to have a noticeable delay between when you select a combat action and your toon actually performing said action combat itself is straightforward you select a certain combo of buttons and then your toon performs the action but there s just enough of a delay between the selection and the action that makes you think that there s lag in the system this happened when i first tried the game out back in 2010 or so and it persisted through the years even though all other mmos i ve played have overcome any lag issues with respect to combat it s not even a matter of the couple of servers left in aoc being located far away as they appear to be located in newark new jersey and the latency i was seeing was around 100 ms i ve played other mmos with a 100 ms latency wit...
|
