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i m just playing with my dolls again okay i don t have any dolls or what adults would call action figures from thegearpage and spaceballs but i do have mmo toons i spent a bit of time yesterday visiting some of my old characters just to check them out for a bit such as dalaak here my original swtor toon hello big fella or my original lotro toon aranandor when he s not lounging around bree there s also my gw2 toon mikath i still think that the toons and npcs in gw2 all look like the beautiful people with flawless skin and impeccable grooming the beat up outfit notwithstanding or my friendly vulcan from sto and his entire officer corps too and there s also that crazy dunmer from eso those loading screens show the actual armor worn not the outfit she actually has on that s one thing that retail wow does better at least but i guess that this wouldn t be a post about mmo toons if it didn t include the instigator of this post wow hey lady long time no see or even longer really okay that wasn t the actual version of wow i was talking about but this one i occasionally go to the loading screen just to see how long it s been since i last logged into retail if i see gear update listed on all of these toons i know it s been some months and likely at least one major minor patch in the interim those are four of my most played toons on retail the original azshandra isn t there but given how things progressed in classic wow it just didn t feel quite right therefore i tweaked the composition a bit there that s better the gear and levels to be honest are all wrong from my perspective but i m not planning on doing anything about that at least now the names are correct on that warband there are other toons i have from mmos i no longer play such as age of conan rift or neverwinter that would require me to install the games again to simply take a screenshot of the loading screen and then there are games that no longer exist such as wildstar archeage or tera i do miss wildstar but not the other two even though i really have no desire to play some games or specific toons it s nice to pull them up on screen every once in a while just to enjoy how they looked and the memories they recalled again i m surprised that age of conan is still hanging on after all these years eta corrected grammar eta and corrected some more grammar sheesh posted by redbeard at 10 01 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels elder scrolls online guild wars 2 lotro memes mmos old toons retail star trek online swtor toons wow wow classic saturday february 1 2025 hello old friends one nice thing about this short break from wow is that i got a chance to play my favorite class in swtor for a bit the smuggler oh i ve played swtor off and on the past several years but for some reason i ve ended up creating force users instead of a bounty hunter or a smuggler my first toon was a smuggler and here i am playing a smuggler once again ah coruscant don t ever change same goes for the migrant merchants guild if you stick with the type of smuggler i tend to play the gunslinger it s a pretty standard build and in keeping with modern mmos new abilities simply appear on my bar without me having to go train somewhere it s a bit disconcerting but it is what it is having returned to the republic side for the first time in a while i can see the bugs and roughness out there that haven t really been cleaned up over the years or in the case of the companion pathing bugs added over the years but the visuals and the sound are still fantastic the sound alone makes you feel like you re outside in a city where the skyscrapers create canyons and there s just that urban sound that you hear when you re walking around a downtown area the sound at ord mantell is also excellent and really immerses you in the game and those cutscenes can t forget the cutscenes this one starring senator kayl the more i ve gone into leveling this smuggler the more i realize that there s issues where a new player would get confused such as getting a training and skills quest only to find yourself on the republic fleet long before you re supposed to arrive there at least i knew how to get back to ord mantell but if i d been a new player i d have been screwed oh and as you can tell from my top screencap above i turned off that new map overlay and went with the traditional minimap just like how i turned corso into the tank he always was meant to be it was kind of like seeing old friends again such as talking to pat ak once more and senator whats her name yes i m ready to be your black bisector pat ak even when i return to wow classic i have to keep this player going not sure how but i ve developed a better tolerance for the pathing issue this time around but we ll see how long i tolerate it if i get to balmorra that ll be farther than 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 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