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k i d really drank coffee when i was twelve the server i m on is in europe and the lag there shows up in a slight delay between when i hit a button and it registers kind of annoying but if i don t try to do too much i m okay this actually happened in gen chat on tor player 1 is anyone lagging player 2 a little me i m at 99 which is pretty steady for me player 2 maybe it s your machine player 1 prolly not me yeah if i can run without lagging on my old machine he s probably fine player 2 old is relative in this group mine s a slower quad me mine was a middle of the pack core duo 5 years ago player 1 o o player 2 holy shit it actually runs me yeah had to crank the graphics down a bit but it runs posted by redbeard at 10 01 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels computers graphics mmos friday july 27 2012 this fence is pretty darned comfortable that s why i suppose that it was only a matter of time before we got a hard date on mists whether that hard date will hold or slip like diablo iii did remains to be seen but for the moment we have september 25th as the drop date given the way things work out i guess we re looking at late august for the pre release patch the guild soul and i are in is on hiatus and has been since earlier this year so i presume that people will start trickling back in over the next month or two what i m not sure of is a how many will return and b how long people will stay as for me i think i m going to adopt a wait and see attitude toward mists this isn t exactly a new position as i ve been on the fence ever since mists was announced but i m going to follow through on my idea to retire my current two mains and have them join quintalan relaxing by the dal fountain however i m not going to promote my lock adelwulf to main status in fact i may get him to l84 and make him a twink for the time being so if not a toon i ve got right now what have i got in mind having leveled an affliction warlock through bgs and their graveyards i sure do have ideas and the best way to study the biggest enemy that a lock has is to create one yes i m going rogue by my estimations if i created a rogue in the next few weeks and leveled that toon via bgs i d probably reach l85 sometime in december that s a long time before i d actually need the mists expac which should work fine for my finances by the time i d be ready to set sail to pandaria the new zones will already be devoid of life just like cata s were by the time neve and tom got there a few months after release will i miss out on the chaos and insanity of everyone getting to the new zones oh i m sure i will but that also means that my older pc won t feel the strain of too many toons nearby it also means avoiding the fights over resources and for this ex pvp server player it means fewer flashbacks of the inn at tarren mill one thing that will happen however will be a huge wave of pandarens entering bgs all of which will have asian ripoffs for names mr tauren bullburgers meet mr pandaren chopupyoursuey and i m absolutely certain i ll be on when the release drops with a big bowl of popcorn because i sure wouldn t want to miss the collective angst of the trade chat crazies posted by redbeard at 1 30 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alts mists of pandaria thursday july 26 2012 messing with my head just to remind me that an mmo isn t all sweetness and light i encountered an imperial l50 on tatooine the other day or rather he sought me out you know the type the player that likes to mess with the lowbies in a pvp environment they d be the person decimating tarren mill or invading the crossroads in pve however if you don t attack them they can t do that to you at all so they park themselves atop your toon wiggling around trying to freak you out in the hope that they cause you to mess up so they can gank you i remember quite well one day years ago now when quintalan was just reaching l20 and he was finishing up the pre cata silverpine forest this was back when i was on a west coast pvp server and i was quite aware of the free for all that awaited me when i crossed into hillsbrad perhaps i wasn t thinking straight it was 6 am that day and i probably was waiting on my coffee i was at the gates to shadowfang keep poking around and admiring the moon over the keep when all hell broke loose i saw a flash of yellow bars and then the skull of a much much higher level toon as he descended upon my young paladin jumping and swinging and yelling some nonsense in common oh god i thought i m going to die i m about to get creamed i quickly bubbled and then used my hearthstone to get out all the while praying that i wasn t going to get ganked in the middle of nowhere once i d hearthed back to silvermoon i realized that i d been had he wasn t going to attack me at all i wasn t flagged for pvp and i was in a horde controlled area i felt incredibly foolish that i d fallen for such a juvenile tactic yet at the same time i itched to get back at him fast forwarding to the present i knew just how to respond to such idiocy when the empire player tried messing with me i was in the middle of a quest that bordered on a heroic area so i was keeping an eye on my positioning the last thing i needed was having several elites decide to pay me and my wookie a visit i was examining the next mob when my screen was filled with an imperial on a speeder bouncing and wiggling atop my gunslinger oh great just what i need i grumbled my toon yawned and made a rude gesture hmmph i don t know what the guy expected but he certainly didn t expect that the imperial player stopped all movement for several heartbeats then flew away on his speeder i sent a message out in gen chat about the guy telling any fellow lowbies in the area to ignore him and he ll go away because you never know if you ve got a true newbie around after all or failing that they attempt to kill the quest givers q was actually my second toon a blood elf priest named gdaan was my first i manged to actually get him to around the mid l20s before i finally decided on q as my main the reason for the strangeness of the name was simple i thought i could put in a in the name and discovered that wasn t the case since i didn t have a backup name to use g daan became gdaan and that was that posted by redbeard at 7 20 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gankers pvp the wow life wednesday july 18 2012 those who can play those who can t crank it up to eleven as my family will tell you i like music i m one of those people who can t play an instrument worth a damn but i ve spent a lot of my time surrounded by music i worked a dj shift in college listened to shortwave radio for the world music now easily found over the internet volunteered at our local celtic festival to help run sound and do stage work and spent time supporting the arts as much as i could it would figure i suppose that i really enjoy the music in video games such as this gem from 1998 it isn t exactly news to gamers that video game soundtracks had reached movie soundtrack quality but the wider world only seemed to take notice when christopher tin s baba yetu the main theme for civilization iv won a grammy in 2011 for best instrumental arrangement with vocalist s in that spirit i thought i d take a quick look at some of my favorite pieces in the mmos i play and you re welcome to add your own favorite in the comments the largest mmo out there wow has some of the most impressive soundtracks as well the music ranges from the classic to the solo piece to the appalachian inspired but my favorite piece in wow has to be this one it feels like the composers were channeling brian eno and adding a sinister guitar riff atop it wow has a history of music that evokes and complements the scenery of a region but for some reason they really hit one out of the park with the soundtrack to hellfire peninsula this music isn t in your face it isn t classic inspirational emotional raid boss fight type of stuff but it s there lurking and when the ground shakes at the approach of a fel reaver at the same time as the guitar riff starts look out by contrast lord of the rings online has a soundtrack that is understated and designed to fit neatly into the background like middle earth itself the music is part of the tapestry surrounding the fields of the shire or the halls of stone in thorin s gate it s there and you notice it from time to time just enter a tavern but it never comes to the forefront unless say you manage to make it to rivendell for the first time when you hear that music you know the long run is finally over you can relax you re at elrond s house at last switching gears from epic fantasy to classic sword and sorcery the soundtrack to age of conan echoes basil poledouris soundtrack to conan the barbarian there s something raw and primal to pieces like this one or this the sharp beauty of the pieces echo the barren lands of the hyborian age with a heavy dose of norse imagery thrown into the mix with the wealth of music generated by six movies okay seven if you count the clone wars movie and a television series you d think that the old republic could coast a bit yes the mmo does use a bit of legacy star wars music okay a lot but it does have a soundtrack in its own right the piece that most people are familiar with is the loading screen but among other items each planet does have its own soundtrack as well this one happens to be one of my favorites and i ll be honest in that i thought at first it was written by john williams as you can see by my lists above i avoided the rah rah in your face battle music all of the mmos in question have great inspirational music that you might not even notice in the heat of battle or you ve turned down the in game music so you have your own to listen to while raiding i was tempted to select the old warsong gulch bg music because that always gets my blood flowing during a hotly contested game but in the end i went with music that i can also pause and just listen to for a few minutes try doing that in wsg and you ll be spending most of your time being corpse camped at the graveyard still i find that game music fits nicely into my playlists while i get my work done and on my mp3 player while i m cutting the grass or going for a walk good music has a utility all its own and i m glad that video game composers are finally starting to get their due from the world at large don t ask me to mix sound for a recording it s been over a decade since i was last behind a mixing board eta stupid cut and paste issues posted by redbeard at 11 57 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes mmos music musings friday july 13 2012 making the gamer stereotypes harder to shake part whatever world of warcraft stabbing jordan osborne assaulted and stabbed in chest over video game i just want to shake my head posted by redbeard at 10 30 pm 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels facepalm tuesday july 10 2012 blizz announces the guild mentoring program when the announcement of the guild mentoring program for wow came through the interwebs i raised my eyes to heaven and said finally looks like someone took a page from eve online and decided to help noobs out by creating mentoring guilds out of a pool of volunteer guilds here s the link for you to go read up the faq such as it is introducing the guild mentoring program at first glance i love the idea it basically formalizes what some random individuals have been doing over the years providing a destination for new players to be tutored in the ways of wow and mmos in general that said i do have some questions concerns how this will work out the portion about identifying and inviting new players into the mentoring guild does make me wonder how that ll work in practice people can be prickly about such things and if they feel like they re being given a hard sell this could backfire also how the mentoring guild will determine that a player is new is going to be a challenge people create new alts all the time and if you don t have the funds don t care about transferring heirlooms over a new alt could seem a lot like a new player the same goes for an already experienced mmo player who just happens to be new to wow a three month tour of duty or three months in the barrel if you prefer that slang might not be enough time for new players i still wonder just how some people are able to power level their way through to max level no matter what mmo i m on because it seems like they have to be spending almost every waking moment playing to do just that will the new players be encouraged to leave the nest once they ve got things down or will this merely become a clever recruiting tool for guilds lucky enough to be chosen i can easily see that some guilds will look on this initiative as the latter and try to pad their raiding ranks this way what happens to the mentoring guild if drama breaks out i don t think i need to say anything else other than a big guild breakup while in the tour of duty would have the opposite of the intended effect still i think it s a decent first step i suspect that the smartest move in the long run is to create a permanent mentoring guild for each faction on each server and ask for volunteers to help staff it blizz might be surprised at how many people would put in some volunteer time in a mentoring guild to help people along this might even counter trade chat and the scum and villany that pervade it one final thought while i think eve online s idea of eve university is a great idea all mmos should emulate some need it more than others lotro and tor have a friendly enough community that the needs of a mentoring program are served by gen chat aoc s f2p gen chat is pretty dead right now with only gold spammers for the most part so a mentoring program could be useful there but wow being the 900 lb gorilla and having the rep of being populated with l2p noob denizens definitely needs something to show that not everybody is an asshat in the game now if they could do something about the nerd ragers in bgs posted by redbeard at 12 36 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard newbie stuff news wow saturday july 7 2012 on mists and the smart kids anne stickney stirred up a bit of a hornets nest with her post on wow insider the smart kids or why cataclysm failed to impress her points about the complaints with cataclysm that it was not what we thought we wanted struck a bit of a nerve with people i can t say i disagree with her assessment that people thought they wanted one thing such as a revamped old world and it turned out that they really wanted was something new and innovative however her assertions that mists has what will cure the 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