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week i was in a dungeon group comprised of several raid team members and the question of what happens after wrath classic came up i believe this question is one that we ll have to confront sooner rather than later because the wow classic team demonstrated in tbc classic that they were willing to push harder and faster than the original timeline for tbc and my opinion is they ll do the same for wrath classic after all there already has been a survey of options for a potential cataclysm classic and those options skirted around one major issue the cataclysm and reworking of the old world itself one person in the dungeon group started it off by saying that they had no interest in anything beyond wrath classic this expansion was their swan song and nothing after it would change their mind others held out hope for the classic wow team to create a divergent path from wrath onward thus skirting around cataclysm and later expansions but my suspicion is that simply isn t going to fly why would blizzard create divergent timelines and double wow s development effort when there s no real return given the current monetization of wow classic being part of the subscription price for wow retail and if you said let blizzard release new wow classic expansions for purchase why would blizz sow confusion among the ranks by having expansions for a game from the past i was the gloomiest of the assessments stating that cataclysm classic is coming and the wow classic team is trying to find a way to make it palatable to enough people to keep them playing such as keeping the automated lfd tool in retail only i know of more than one person for whom they re actually looking forward to cataclysm so they could play a worgen but in general i don t know of many people who are looking forward to cataclysm in general that doesn t mean that cataclysm doesn t have its supporters because i expect we ll hear from more and more of them the farther down the wrath phase release path we go we re still in phase one for a bit longer and the expectation is that phase two meaning the ulduar raid will hit in january and let s be honest ulduar is considered a very difficult raid for the era along the lines of original naxx 40 or sunwell plateau in terms of difficulty if the wow classic team steps its foot on the gas and starts burning through content once ulduar is released wrath classic might start bleeding players as they discover that ulduar is much more difficult than wrath s version of naxxramas was so what are the other potential options for someone who reaches the end of their time in wrath classic and the wow classic team unveils cataclysm classic return to classic era wow that s a distinct possibility i cloned several of my toons although linna is stuck at l26 or something in classic era but there s plenty of opportunity to continue to consume content as my players hadn t finished everything in the game in the case of cardwyn she already has almost all of her bis items she missed out on the 1 handed weapon so she could just do whatever without any concerns for gear the major drawback to classic era wow no neve or quintalan i mean i ll survive but i would miss neve s yang to cardwyn s ying stay in wrath classic wow servers this is a big question mark would the wow classic team maintain some wrath classic servers in perpetuity after all they emphatically did not do that for tbc classic when it ended and if you think nobody cared let me introduce you to shintar i personally would have been more interested in tbc era servers myself given that i was unable to continue raiding in tbc classic i d like to get a chance to see the raids that i was unable to see or in the case of the eye at tempest keep actually finish without any external pressures involved and hopefully on another toon than briganaa raiding with her has been tainted by dealing with the pressure to do more and more dps when i began coming up against the limitaitons of my own physical abilities move to retail dragonflight has gotten some good reviews from the player base although to be fair the problems from battle for azeroth and shadowlands didn t really manifest until a couple of months after release so while there s cause for optimism for retail as an institution moving forward i ve decided that retail is not for me for all the people who say try it you might like it blizzard moved in a direction that was evident even back in wrath that you are some superhero for merely doing the job asked of you and i simply can t pick up retail without being forced into that reality on a daily basis my players are not superheroes they began as raw recruits to assist stormwind against a bunch of local thugs named the defias or they were one of the few draenei and or blood elves remaining after their respective races were decimated by disasters far beyond their own control they were there and they began their journey to help their own people no more and no less for me this mirrors real life to a large extent just because i moved into management and have to deal with pushing paper and other managers and management from clients doesn t mean that i feel like i belong there like my toons in wow i m an in the trenches person who does what they re supposed to do because well because that s what i committed to doing and like them i consider myself just an ordinary person doing their job switch to another mmo this is another tempting option as i ve played enough of them over the years i ve plenty of options to work with such as swtor lotro eso and gw2 this might be the time i finally try out final fantasy xiv and go playing with my son but if i thought the chosen one narrative was pretty thick in retail wow that narrative is pretty much what you start out with in ffxiv and to be fair just about every mmo i listed above has a chosen one or chosen hero narrative to them in some form or another it is after all a staple of the mmo genre with one notable exception vanilla classic wow so i ve got some contemplating to do it would seem that my best option once wrath runs out is to return to classic era servers since they are going to be around for a while at least however i don t see clearly enough to know what it is that the classic wow team is thinking and despite best intentions i also believe that this upcoming 2023 will be the last hurrah for several of my classic wow friends that sucks knowing the end is going to get here but i understand their intentions to shut it down when cataclysm classic rolls out you can t prevent change only deal with it we were attempting the so called world tour where you hit every single 5 person wrath instance in one sitting i suppose if you had the time and or were fond of speed running you could do it but we ran out of gas and willpower after 7 of them we missed out on the nexus and the oculus the latter of which is one of the least favorite 5 person wrath instances among the raid team for some reason i personally like the oculus but i am definitely in the minority i never hear people saying they want to play a goblin only a worgen and video game rpgs in general posted by redbeard at 10 38 pm 14 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cataclysm classic musings tbc classic wow classic wrath classic monday december 26 2022 meme monday gifted memes in our post holiday euphoria i almost forgot meme monday but hey there s always last second gifts such as mugs right for the healer who needs to remind people of what they do for them from pinterest found the mug worthy of carrying my coffee from etsy even my wife doesn t buy this excuse from etsy i m pretty sure that my team at work won t understand this one at all from etsy posted by redbeard at 7 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes sunday december 25 2022 just in time for the holidays for the annual yule festival in lotro there s this soundtrack happy yule everyone posted by redbeard at 11 59 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lotro music saturday december 24 2022 gaming weather part two this is what greeted me on friday morning the top numbers are the indoor temperature and humidity the bottom is the outside ambient temp couple that with 21 mph winds our 6 5f 21 4c felt like 31f 35c brrrr the cold alone was enough but if that were it i could handle that sort of cold temperature but the wind oh boy that wind was something as in lots of four letter curse word somethings you step outside and even if you re bundled up in thermal undergarments in addition to regular clothes and a parka and that blast of cold wind just sucks all of the air right out of you in a gasp from memecreator org to shovel the snow out to the cars so that we could even scrape them off and start them up i had to do the little kid routine and do something for a couple of minutes and then go back inside to warm up even those chemical pack hand warmers couldn t keep up with the cold temperatures but at least they gave it the ol college try from pinterest between that and the lack of services our trash pickup was cancelled with a we ll be back to pick it up next friday from them and the lack of people on the road it wasn t that bad just annoying right now it s a balmy 10f so yay posted by redbeard at 1 41 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes weather thursday december 22 2022 gaming weather that s for sure i believe that someone somewhere had to have said that it d be a cold day in hell before messi and argentina finally won a world cup uh oh from associated press photo by martin meissner i do know that people said as much concerning the cincinnati bengals and the super bowl this past january double uh oh from associated press photo by charlie riedel so be careful what you wish for i suppose time to turn on the heater down below time to batten down the hatches here comes the snowpocalypse from the weather channel noaa s forecasts are more detailed but the maps a bit cruder in design okay that s being a bit self serving but most of the us is or will be shortly in the grip of what is being called a bomb cyclone along with temperatures low enough that s not been seen in quite a while from the weather channel just search for bomb cyclone here in cincinnati the forecast is for 2f 19c with wind chill reaching 28f 33c or worse so not gonna be fun outside that s for sure i guess that means its time to play some games eta corrected a grammatical error posted by redbeard at 5 42 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels miscellaneous weather monday december 19 2022 meme monday naughty memes well you know that all seeing eye of santa he sees you when you re sleeping he knows when you re awake he knows if you ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake well since he s making a list and checking it twice let s take a look at some memes on the naughty side of that list now i know what to wear when my questing buddy needs an assist from etsy com when monty python and star wars intersect from imgflip com sigh we all have had that one player that definitely walks on the naughty side from fb com dndmemes as dm i have become acquainted with this from fb com dndmemes and one bonus meme because why not have one about the big guy why yes as a lad i looked a lot like kris kringle the one in the ng slot from deviantart posted by redbeard at 12 16 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes thursday december 15 2022 an rpg from the past traveller this is free trader beowulf calling anyone mayday mayday we are under attack main drive is gone turret number one not responding mayday losing cabin pressure fast calling anyone please help this is free trader beowulf mayday the iconic distress call gracing the cover of various editions of traveller back in the late 90s when i worked as a software qa engineer one of my friends there and i would spend about a half hour after 5 pm chatting about whatever was on our minds he wasn t interested in traditional sports but he was an absolute racing nut he preferred the cart series back then so we frequently talked open wheel racing one day however we geeked out over rpgs mainly because of the upcoming d d 3rd edition i never really played d d he confessed i played traveller what s that i thought i knew of most of the rpgs at the time but this one was new to me it s a sci fi rpg like gamma world gamma world was put out by tsr the publisher of d d and was essentially d d in a post apocalyptic setting be warned the prices for the gamma world 1e rulebook can spike a lot from ebay no although it was closer to star frontiers another tsr game this time set in space yikes this is the 90 copy on ebay i d never heard of it before oh yeah it was really cool it came out right around the time star wars was released in theaters so it got kind of a boost from that a few days later when i stopped by his cubicle he handed me a small booklet the travellers digest yeah it was a periodical that was put out to support traveller it had premade adventures like early dragon magazines but in a scientific journal format i flipped through it looks pretty cool hey you can have it i don t play any more and i happened to stumble on it the other day while i was moving boxes thanks it s digest sized too much like the original traveller rulebooks were that was the extent of my knowledge of traveller until several years later when i was perusing the rpg section at a now deceased local game store and came across a few traveller books under the gurps license as it turned out the employee at the store was in a long running campaign of gurps traveller and over the course of a half hour he filled me in on the history of the game i found this pic from talestoastound wordpress com no i ve never acquired a copy of the original version traveller was published by games designers workshop a wargaming company in 1977 marc miller was the primary designer with loren k wiseman frank chadwick and john harshman assisting the original intent for traveller was to be a generic space rpg system but what ended up happening was that the charted space setting released by gdw over the years became so associated with traveller more people think of charted space when they think of traveller kind of like how d d and forgotten realms are so intimately intertwined gdw also kept up with an official timeline of what is going on in the third imperium in much the same way that white wolf did with vampire the masquerade so that further integrated charted space into the traveller rpg traveller has seen many iterations over the years there was the original traveller then megatraveller in the late 80s then traveller the new era and marc miller s traveller 4th edition there is also a 5th 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