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sting in pandaria blizz deliberately went for the darker feel in their quest writing making vashj ir seem like a walk in the park by comparison but even then they snuck in their traditional pop culture nods and humorous hijinks hayden christophen as the alliance honor quartermaster for instance this time however i think that the humorous asides actually detract from the rest of the questing like how toshley s station and to a lesser extent area 52 are jarring enough that you lose your immersion in the game quests like the ones associated with the grummies left me grinding my teeth at times like this i wish blizz would dial back the humor a bit and at least take themselves more seriously we already get tons of kill ten rats quests as it is i don t think a spoonful of sugar humor is going to help that medicine go down any easier the ending to dread wastes however is right up there with the ending to vashj ir where you watch what happens and think holy shit we re screwed that said you only get that sort of emotional punch out of an ending once and if you mess it up you ve lost a golden opportunity blizz did a great job on that one and on the jade forest s ending as well for some reason townlong steppes and the combined krasarang wilds valley of the four winds endings didn t have the same sort of punch and of course kun lai summit s ending is in an instance so it gets an incomplete all in all blizz did some things right a bit less quests on rails although it is still quite noticeable which pretty much balance out the issues i had with questing i knew i was getting near the end when i kept saying to myself just hang in there dread wastes has got to end soon the last time i was saying that i was in the old republic and slogging through belsavis and that s a shame because the overall story behind dread wastes was very interesting or at least semi good guys hey scholars are good at least a real raid came out of this compared to what happened in vashj eta i forgot zul farrak for vanilla that s what i get for hanging around the eastern kingdoms lately posted by redbeard at 1 49 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mists of pandaria quests wow tuesday june 18 2013 the old fashioned way of doing things the tao that can be told is not the eternal tao the name that can be named is not the eternal name the unnameable is the eternally real naming is the origin of all particular things free from desire you realize the mystery caught in desire you see only the manifestations yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source this source is called darkness darkness within darkness the gateway to all understanding lao tzu tao te ching there is no emotion there is peace there is no ignorance there is knowledge there is no passion there is serenity there is no chaos there is harmony there is no death there is the force the jedi code in what feels like a lifetime ago i wrote about how corruption was a major theme in blizzard s work a couple of expacs since that time blizzard hasn t really changed their tune very much in fact you could argue that blizzard is simply coming up with new ways to use corruption 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 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