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n okay twilight s hammer was a gimme you re tempted by power and who looks like the winning side and you join with deathwing even the sha are pretty blatant you open your heart to those non zen buddhist emotions such as fear anger and hate just a tiny bit and the sha sneak right on in and corrupt you in a very real sense the sha are the ultimate excuse for bad behavior i was possessed by the sha they made me do it somebody release the sha that s inside me but the war between factions garrosh well blizz has gone on record for saying that garrosh is simply a bad egg oh he may eventually become corrupted by the power within pandaria cough 5 4 cough but he was evil and or power hungry to begin with o really has everybody forgotten the kid in nagrand who was so afraid that he d turn out like his father that he let the ogres and evil aligned broken walk all over his tribe the kid who only began to grow a spine when thrall showed him how his father redeemed himself even though that questline has pretty much dried up due to conflicts thrall not being warchief these days that s pretty telling that garrosh wasn t exactly a bad egg he became a bad egg due to his experiences he saw when he first arrived in orgrimmar that bluster worked that aggression worked in northrend he took a strong offensive stance and freed the dragonmaw from their legion tainted leaders learning that putting pedal to the metal worked he surrounded himself with yes men and marginalized those who would provide better counsel saurfang cairne baine vol jin rexxar eitrigg and lor themar in short he became corrupted with power just like any number of despots if he d had different experiences if he d have learned something by the way he was duped into killing cairne or if he d have learned something about power and responsibility after stonetalon garrosh would have turned out differently but he didn t seduced by the dark side he was good thing that the tao espouses a lack of passion because some lawyer somewhere would have a field day on this you can hear yoda saying this can t you the dark side are they that said the one thing that tor has that blizzard doesn t have is romance in the questlines the world s biggest generator of fear anger and hate is romance relationships and blizz simply refuses to examine that outside of say the books i didn t throw sylvanas into the mix because i m not convinced she d give good counsel and she s also too far gone with her version of total war if liadrin were not consumed with rebuilding quel danas and managing the blood knights i d have put her in the list as well posted by redbeard at 4 01 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels corruption mists of pandaria swtor friday june 14 2013 miscellaneous thoughts on the cusp of the weekend well that didn t take long somewhere in the middle of kun lai summit my rogue dinged 90 without a single piece of heirloom gear on her that was still active anyway i kept the inherited insignia of the alliance just because this was the quickest i d leveled to max level in a new expac area and if i d have been a non stealthie class i d have finished even sooner because i avoided a lot of mobs while out questing by comparison i dinged l80 in storm peaks on q and l85 in twilight highlands on neve and tom and while it s going to be nice for questing pvp just got a big punch in the gut i mean really most of my gear is in the l414 range what do you think would happen if i got into wsg with that gear il i considered running scenarios and or instances but really they didn t appeal to me i didn t feel like dragging down a scenario with my relative lack of dps and while instances might work if i m going to be spending time getting badges i might as well get honor instead okay i have to be honest i queued for an instance long enough to see the dps wait time for a normal was 45 minutes and decided i d much rather get two bgs in before a single instance popped that said just any old bg won t do if you re not geared up for it a rule of thumb of mine is that the more the players on a side the lesss impact a single player will have therefore for an undergeared toon my best bet is to stick to the 40 man bgs and ride on some coattails oh hai vann nice to see you it feels weird walking around neverwinter the last time i was in the jewel of the north was in the video game neverwinter nights back before d d 4e and the spellplague even though she is dead now i keep expecting to see lady aribeth paladin of tyr wandering around the protector s enclave i also expect as a cleric to be managing my available spells and keeping an eye on balancing healing with utility but in neverwinter based as it is on d d 4e all of that is out the window neverwinter is far closer to a diablo esque game than a traditional mmo in terms of gameplay the commands alone feel better suited to a gamepad than a keyboard still it is an addictive game and i recognize the forgotten realms lingo in the npcs you meet kids and mmos part whatever i called the kids down to dinner last night and as she sat down my youngest got a funny look on her face what s up i asked i didn t park my smuggler before coming down she was in black sun territory i headed for the stairs i ll take care of it after moving her toon into a corner i returned to the table kiddo i began why is your smuggler wearing a dress um you realize you put on gear meant for a counselor right oh so that s why she looked weird posted by redbeard at 1 15 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family mists of pandaria neverwinter swtor monday june 10 2013 an embarrassment of riches i was thinking about this last night when i was goofing around on several mmos while i m sure that some will disagree it seems that right at this point in time we ve got a lot of really good mmos that we can sample and play as much as we like from mmos based on known properties ranging from star wars to conan to d d all the way to new designs such as the secret world it seems that we re in the middle of an mmo f2p b2p explosion yes the basic mmo design hasn t changed too much since the eq and early wow days but how it s implemented and for what property has as much as some people want to complain about how the f2p and b2p games make their money the fact that they not only are able to survive but put out new content has to be heartening look at a game such as age of conan after a huge launch it was pretty much written off and or left for dead after the glitches and the tortage vs the rest of the game experience however it just finished it s fifth anniversary after having spent the past few years as f2p the old republic suffered from the nothing to do syndrome after a toon reached max level but after it went f2p bioware has not only provided new updates and content but has seen a stabilization in subs and a rise in players the f2p b2p models aren t panaceas and i m not altogether certain they are the wave of the future but what these two models do provide is choice don t think wow or rift is brutal enough go try adventuring in hyborea for a while need more cthulhu there s an entire game devoted to that feeling of dread and despair the secret world tired of killing sith there s a klingon d7 with your name on it or maybe you want the feel of returning to an old haunt like the forgotten realms or an even older haunt like the shire or maybe you just want to be an angel for a little while such as in aion and that s not even touching games such as guild wars 2 and the upcoming wildstar i think it s pretty safe to say that i d have burned out on mmos in general if there weren t such a variety to play with these days it can cause problems for me when i get into an instance or a battleground but in general i really enjoy the variety of worlds to play in my only regret is that i can t pay these companies more for their work budget you know but i do what i can is it too much to have someone look at the old darklands video game and create an mmo based on that now that would be cool i was thinking of the ten ton hammer article on how much they hate the lock boxes for star trek online but the reality is that those lock boxes and those announcements in game are no worse than seeing hundreds of sparkle ponies in wow as well as a lack of grouping tools etc that players had become accustomed to remember even blizzard tried to mix things up in cata by having players find the entrance to the instances before they were allowed to queue for them but what happened was that players would simply avoid the instances they didn t like cough stonecore cough now that i think about it an mmo based on rick riordan s percy jackson series would be pretty cool my kids are presently working on an rpg for percy jackson using the savage worlds system and the super powers companion books as a starting point and i m sure they re not the only ones out there who have had that idea posted by redbeard at 4 44 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 6 2013 oh this is gonna hurt i was working on the red crane temple area of karasang wilds with anduin in tow when i ran into yet another gearcheck wall the two mini bosses in the separate wings of the temple what was more annoying this time was that i was properly equipped with as much green and blue quest gear as would be expected as someone attempting this if it weren t for the ads that show up when the sha bosses are halfway down i don t think there d be as much a problem but those ads force me to use up all of my cds and then i m just a sitting duck in leather gear trying to build up combo points i d been chatting with vidyala from manalicious in game and hearing of my latest wipe offered to help i d forgotten about crz capability in pandaria it s there lurking beneath the surface i gratefully accepted her offer and when her mage millya winged in i crept around and assaulted the first mini boss two zaps from vid and the mini boss was a smoldering heap holy crap i said vid laughed you re still l88 she pointed out yeah but then i noticed her health bar you re more than twice my health did i ever tell you about the time i tanked elegon yeah but wow i knew that she was on the current raiding tier but this discrepancy was almost as much as the discrepancy between a fresh l85 and a mists geared l89 in a battleground we circled around to the other mini boss she flew and i crept over and repeated the fireworks all i can think about is how it s going to hurt when i ding l90 and get into a bg i said awed as i thanked her for the assist even now i can see myself as a smudge on the ground with the l2p noob ringing in my pointy ears just when you thought you made it to the top of the mountain i m already sick of that kid for a mists release he sure seems to be fighting with the punch of a wrath era toon i find even corso the smuggler companion on tor less annoying than anduin with a conspicuous opening right between the breasts reminds me of the old female armor sucks comedy skit that collegehumor put out a while back yes go watch it through the link it s a classic posted by redbeard at 8 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogs mists of pandaria wow monday june 3 2013 hellooooo anybody home such was my feeling working my way through pandaria i m already on my third zone krasarang wilds having completed the first two while i know two things cross realm zones are turned off for pandaria and i ve already passed one of the big dailies hubs at the tillers area i m still surprised at how few toons are out and about in pandaria itself i ve seen more toons in hellfire peninsula than in the first three pandaria zones and that s kind of scary there s obviously players out there as cynwise demonstrated in his class distribution post but wherever they are it s not in panda land i am not going to jump to conclusions here but i suspect that people like me who took their time to level a new toon are outliers and most of the utility in the new zones is already spent as the game starts at max level people will tell you that s not a surprise but think of all the effort it took to generate the data in those new zones and you ll understand why i m more than a bit concerned about the future of wow just like in cataclysm blizzard expended a lot of effort to create new content and a new continent but the usefulness of that content evaporated once the big wave made it to l90 i suppose you could make the argument that 2 years of development was useful for the majority of players up until patch 5 1 dropped only a few months worth of playtime that s not exactly fair but the dearth of characters out in pandaria feed the perception that blizzard would be better off spending time devising new raids and bgs and pets for those people like me who have complained about blizzard s use of the wow novels and short stories to advance the lore rather than develop it in game this is a pretty damning result if you were a bean counter at blizzard which would give you more bang for the buck a novel or in game content and what s more if you knew the in game content would be tossed aside at the earliest opportunity where would you put your development dollars at it s a shame really because when blizz development staff take themselves and their topic seriously they can create some really good content given my current leveling rate supplemented by bgs i ll be at max level by the time i m finished with kun lai summit that s great for entering the dread wastes but for a bg er that s going to be painful posted by redbeard at 4 02 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mists of pandaria wow newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth 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