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short order wth is the horde doing i asked in bg chat are they turtling no replied a druid they re all bots fighting in mid outside their gate we ve got a ton of them on our side too a pally added i crept up to the hangar and perched on a ledge to watch sure enough toons were emerging from the horde keep in a steady stream into a huge melee about halfway between the front gate and the workshop nobody was even close to the workshop or even bothering to go around to the workshop or hangar okay i d been known to fixate on a fight in a bg before but when the gates were breached into the horde keep i ran in and found horde players rezzing and making a beeline for the front gate s portal nobody bothered to try and defend the keep it was quite surreal seeing a lock and a priest both with over 440k health i checked run right by me and straight for the brawl outside typically everybody on the other side gangs up on the rogue if he s visible so i was shocked when i wasn t stunned and feared all over the courtyard but why set yourself up as a bot why run the risk of having your account suspended for a few honor points near as i can figure there s three reasons why feel free to add your own or dispute as you see fit keeping up with the joneses there are players that due to time crunch or whatnot feel that they can t spend enough time grinding for gear as they should so they decide to run a bot program to get the points needed to buy the gear the problem with that is the more bots there are on a team the lesser chance you have of actually winning the bg if you ve got a full honor set already and it s only a week or so s worth of running av to get the points for a full set why bother botting when you need to actually win the bg or arena or rated to get the conquest points beating the system similar to the first reason but instead of attempting to gear up due to lack of time botting is done not only for gear but to give the mmo s devs the middle finger the i m so clever that i found a way to beat your shitty grinding game and get the points i deserve attitude isn t too far off the big ego driven attitude found in bgs so i can easily believe this motivation boosting a hacked account someone comes along and hacks into an mmo account but the toons aren t completely up to spec to be useful for the hacker therefore they set up a bot to get them the necessary points gear mats whatever this is the one that bothers me the most because when i see such blatant examples of botting all i can think of is that s some poor person s hacked account there are days when it sure seems tempting to login set up a bot and then go take care of errands for the day or maybe set up a bot to run overnight along with any backups av scans that have to be done on the computer the no effort and big return carrot and stick is very powerful and with botting software steadily becoming more sophisticated there s plenty of pressure on mmo admins to flush out bots and keep the peace plus it d be nice to not have about half of your team run straight to the mid in eos and park there for the entire game in case you ve not tried it or haven t purchased it yet another free weekend in guild wars 2 started today and to answer your question yes i ve already logged in my thief is still there and still getting killed off when he attacks enemies two levels higher than himself i ve gotten too many bad habits on easier mmos these days so few people even think of capturing the quarry or the mines in av that i ve kind of taken that on as part of my job it s a small thing really but can be vitally important in a fight that devolves into a war of attrition i find that the team that does the small things well will typically end up winning in the end it used to be that way anyway i m not so sure now if you can be suspended for botting because it seems so prevalent posted by redbeard at 4 15 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bots guild wars 2 friday september 20 2013 they keep dragging me back in part whatever in between running bgs on wow poking around makeb finally on swtor and some occasional forays into other mmos i felt a strange tug perhaps it was me passing by a bunch of in nomine rpg books when i was at one of our local game stores perhaps it was watching the doctor who episode the angels take manhattan with the kids perhaps it was me watching illidan s you are not prepared sequence on the bc trailer but whatever the reason why i had a sudden hankering to see this again nothing like a pair of wings to attract attention yeah i know you d think that after i said aion wasn t for me that would have been the end of it but like white castle hamburgers i got a sudden craving to login to the game again instead of using my elyos light side character i created a dark side asmodian just to see what that looked like to say that they appeared akin to darker reflections of elyos is pretty accurate plus they have a furry almost tail like growth on their backs oh great they re furry angels i muttered and left it at that the asian mmo nature of aion means that you get creatures with names like sparkie out there but that isn t different than the elyos side out there the major difference between factions is illustrated from the beginning questlines on the elyos side you re defending communities from raiders while on the asmodian side you are the raiders gold spammers were in full force in the chat areas which once again rendered them practically useless this makes me wonder whether ncsoft actually encourages gold spammers given how effective arenanet bioware and even blizzard have been at gold spam reduction i will freely admit that the best part of the game is the graphics but still the immersion is ruined by the nintendo factor the goofy enemy names the tendency of some players to use mushroom heads instead of realistic looking designs and the obvious jrpg nature of the female toons graphics part of the aion v4 0 dark betrayal promotion pics a long time ago i once had an apartment neighbor who wore leather outfits like the woman on the right she was not one to be trifled with in the illustration above the woman on the left makes me vaguely uncomfortable i don t know how such images are perceived in asia but over here she leaves the impression of a 12 13 year old dressed up in a sexualized outfit this creeped me out given that i have kids in that age range i simply don t see the need to go there as much as some people complain about the dragon aspects bikini looks at least they dress like adults and the aspects give you the sort of look that says if you piss us off you re breakfast you don t get that in aion aion is popular enough given the number of toons online but i wish it would take itself more seriously oh and i wish it would make the mouse selections the same as on almost all other mmos why decide to do things differently when all you did was kinda sorta reverse some of the mouse functions i suppose i should be happy that aion hasn t enraptured me because the last thing i need is another mmo to split my time but man aion just feels so close to something i d like it s a shame that it doesn t posted by redbeard at 12 21 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aion thursday september 12 2013 a miss in the pattern i find it interesting that we re on the last raid patch of mists of pandaria but we still don t know about the next expac consider the following wrath was announced in august 2007 before the sunwell and zul aman raids dropped cataclysm was announced in august 2009 before the icecrown raid dropped mists was announced in october 2011 before the deathwing raid dropped and now we have the siege of orgrimmar dropping but no expac announcement as of this date i presume that blizz is waiting for blizzcon to make the announcement on the next expac but given that blizzard likes to follow patterns this isn t a good sign unless of course the siege of orgrimmar isn t the last patch in the mists saga if 5 4 is the last mists patch then blizzard might be setting themselves up for a big problem a huge length of time where nothing is going on in game last time blizzard softened the blow to subscriptions by creating the annual pass which included access to diablo iii what will blizzard do this time move up any release date to q1 or q2 of 2014 this is the most likely solution given that any expac blizz is working on has been done in secret however after the long lead in to mists including the massive beta any push to release so early will be seen by some pundits as a sign of desperation on blizzard s part introduce a bridge raid or two this is imho the second most likely solution the only thing that keeps this from being the most likely solution is the lukewarm reception the last bridge raid ruby sanctum received blizzard would need to devote a lot of time to these raids which would impact any release of the next expac take wow f2p an intriguing possibility but one that i have to question in its soundness blizzard makes a lot of money on wow subscriptions and taking wow f2p would mean that they d have to either eat that money or make up for it in other ways they d have to severely restrict access to endgame content if they wanted to keep subs up because wow s model is based upon the game starting at max level that would be at best a temporary fix but an intriguing one nonetheless announce titan this is possible but given the back to the drawing board announcement in august i suspect this is the least likely of all options anyway this is pure speculation until the announcement comes at blizzcon ha by the powers of murphy i summon the expac announcement posted by redbeard at 1 56 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels expansions wow wednesday september 11 2013 don t overthink this okay when you play an mmo you have to just accept certain things like when you kill an enemy and gear drops it ll actually fit your toon or that a kite will carry you great distances or that you can have almost nothing on and still be able to climb that frozen mountain peak yeah i know if you re playing a fantasy mmo or sf mmo in the case of the old republic it can be kind of silly drawing the line at whether armor fits your character when there are dragons in the sky but still i think it s a matter of risk reward more than immersion if you were playing a dwarf for example and you had to wait for dwarf sized armor to drop that could really suck if the drop rates were based upon the percentage of people playing a dwarf it was bad enough waiting for gear you could use to drop but having to add the extra problem of having it fit you back in the day the old moldvay d d basic set had a rule of thumb that any armor found was human sized unless it said otherwise the reason was because there were level limitations on races other than humans because those races had additional abilities that humans didn t have this was back when you could select elf or dwarf as your class before ad d introduced multiclassing maybe i m showing my age but this was my first rpg courtesy of a christmas present if your dm were running a homebrewed campaign which back then formulated the majority of such campaigns they would often generate treasure and whatnot randomly but still they d be careful to make sure you d find gear your player character could actually use even so the published campaigns had gear and weapons that the enemies themselves would be wielding unlike say bronjahm when he drops robes of the cheating heart in the forge of souls you won t see him wearing those robes but a dm can be picky while an mmo has to handle a wide range of races and classes remember the good old days of vanilla wow where you d go on a 40 man raid of molten core as the horde and you d get pally gear as the drop mmos have gotten better at the sort of gear that drops tailoring it toward keeping the player going forward rather than wasting weeks at a time so some of the immersion in the game suffers but it is balanced out by enabling players to improve themselves in a matter of weeks rather than months and in an age when i can no longer devote a lot of time to playing video games i m grateful for that and could you imagine a female night elf trying to fit into armor made for a gnome on second thought forget i said that just the other day i was taking a flight point to the alliance s pvp vendors when my son stopped by to watch what i was up to a kite he asked how are you able to fly on a kite just accept it i said makes no sense but just accept it if it is big enough it could turn into a glider but that kite is far too small to be a glider courtesy of age of conan s social clothing unless bronjahm does a turn as the preacher in blues brothers goes wow yes the sex machine himself was the inspiration for bronjahm posted by redbeard at 12 33 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings thursday september 5 2013 waiting for godot wow cthulhu to say that i m disappointed the big bad at the end of another wow expac is related to the old gods is probably an understatement sure it s emo guy garrosh hellscream but come on it is yet another old god related ending to a game that simply can t move beyond the old gods as a plot device about the only expac that didn t have a heavy dose of old god material in some form was burning crusade and i ve often suspected that if kil jaeden wasn t around to provide a convenient villain in the sunwell we d have seen yet another old god pulling kael s strings by my count mists y shaarj influenced siege of orgrimmar will make three of the five releases including vanilla that was overshadowed with an old god esque ending vanilla cataclysm and mists you could also make an argument that the lich king while tracing a lineage back to the burning legion is also heavily influenced by yogg saron after all what exactly does arthas use as a metal for his devices and buildings but saronite the blood of yogg saron itself and don t forget the old god influenced quest chain in icecrown where the ghostly child teaches you about arthas and his heart there s a reason why we found arthas heart in that strange area in the first place what makes the y shaarj tie in so disappointing to me was that the entire concept of the sha was so new and interesting that it seems a shame that blizzard couldn t let it stand on it s own just like how the mogu had to have the help of the zandalari trolls the underlying cause of the sha just had to be the old gods i suppose you could say that blizzard has an addiction to conspiracies the popular uprising in westfall characterized by the defias simply couldn t stand on it s own it had to tie in to the twilight s hammer somehow the overeager and blind self righteousness of the scarlet crusade couldn t stand on its own as 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