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dnesday april 16 2014 whole lotta slimming going on courtesy of rohan of blessing of kings i found out about this little tidbit from mmo champion questing the jade forest quests had a very clear story but it also had a lot of side quests that could bog you down in warlords of draenor your map will show you where to go to continue the main storyline along with the locations of bonus objectives the bonus objectives no longer have any story text that go with them just a list of objectives now when there is quest text you will know that it is really worth reading my first flippant remark on blessing of kings comment section was that blizz is cutting corners rather than being innovative and really on the face of it that sure seems to be the case but i wonder if this is just another nail in the coffin for all previous wow content consider you buy wod you can get an instant l90 upgrade you ll also be allowed to purchase additional l90 upgrades as well both of these taken together mean that you don t have to play any of the previous content at all to play wow now add the quest slimming to the mix and you ve got a recipe tailor made for people who say the game only starts at max level the only way it could get easier to get to max level would be to show up in different places watch a cutscene battle a boss and move to the next location i m sure blizzard is viewing this as a win win situation after all consider the following positives less time coming up with clever ways to describe how to kill ten rats shuts up the complainers who say that leveling is a bore and takes time away from raiding partially cuts the legs out from under the shadowy business of third party we ll level your toon for you routines focuses the storyline so that authors don t have a myriad of new names to keep track of when writing novels makes the game seem more like guild wars 2 which has a similar mechanic but on a reduced scale allows blizzard to put more time into scenarios and raids for important content rather than spending time trying to explain side quests however all i can think of is one thing mankrik s wife side quests give a zone a flavor just as much as art and music were it not for the side quests the kill ten rats quests we d never have come to know mankrik s wife one of the most well known memes in the game the original green hills of stranglethorn quest that maddening quest that would fill up your bag space gave pre cata stranglethorn vale as much flavor as all the ganking going on the old questline in pre cata thousand needles to assist magistrix elosai in searching for a cure for the blood elves magical addition would be gone as would apprentice mirveda s attempts to cleanse the dead scar in eversong woods life even online mmo life is filled with little quirks and oddball things quest slimming would eliminate a large part of that in favor of speed and efficiency which begs the question is this a game or a job mmo champion is referencing this developer interview held at pax east 2014 on youtube or you could just buy a max level toon opening up pandora s box by allowing people to buy an expac s starting level means that it s not out of the realm of the possibility any expanded universe of novels dragonlance thieves world forgotten realms star wars or star trek for starters has to deal with this problem and i ve been told it s not pretty posted by redbeard at 10 02 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard quests warlords of draenor sunday april 6 2014 channeling her inner ancient color me amused my oldest is sitting next to me playing lotro on the main computer while i catch up with some work e mail she s excited because she discovered a fantastic new pastime on lotro fishing no really i keep expecting her to turn around and say dad who s this other person fishing and asking me if i know redbeard she says she knows you from the blog posted by redbeard at 3 00 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogs family humor wednesday april 2 2014 we ve been liebstered i thought i d avoided the recent blogging meme to sweep the mmo blogs the liebster awards but it seems pc was nominated just before april fool s day for the curious the original rules can be found at liebsterawards blogspot com just so you know the blog is in spanish the basic concept is to follow a set of rules like so acknowledge the blog that nominated you and display the award badge answer the eleven questions given to you by the blogger who nominated you provide eleven miscellaneous facts about yourself nominate eleven blogs of relatively small readership that you think deserve to be better known notify the bloggers that you ve nominated them compile eleven questions for your nominees to answer shamelessly stolen from the blogger who nominated me okay here we go 1 kamalia of kamalia et alia nominated pc for this award thanks kamalia 2 and now to answer the eleven questions posed by kamalia a tell me about a game or games video or table or both that you are really enjoying right now hmm i m going to break these down into three categories mmo games non mmo video games and tabletop games mmo games wow swtor age of conan star trek online non mmo video games civ iv and rome total war yeah i know i should get civ v but i still like iv a lot tabletop games fluxx various incarnations but star fluxx and monty python fluxx are great settlers of catan an oldie but goodie d d 3 0 zombie dice transamerica star wars x wing miniatures savage worlds really there are too many good games out there to limit yourself but i had to try b what classes races or roles do you find yourself most drawn to in rpgs whether in d d a single player video game or an mmo for video games i don t really have much of a preference in the baldur s gate games i played fighters but in mmos i ve been all over the place i ll play just about any race class or sex depending on what i find interesting in non video games i tend to play clerics i kind of got roped into playing one on my first college d d campaign and i ve been playing one ever since the current campaign i m on the d d 3 0 campaign that s been ongoing since 2001 i play a human cleric c when you make your first character in a new game do you try to make a character that is in some way an avatar of your rl self or do you make someone entirely different um yeah i do of course finding a blood elf with a beard was a bit of an issue but it is there barely once i get that out of my system i tend to veer off into other toons that look nothing like me d describe a typical session of playing your current favorite video computer game depends on the game really if i m not at max level i log in and do a bit of questing and maybe get in an instance with allowances made for time if i m at max level like azshandra is in wow i ll queue for a battleground either way my play time is fairly limited due to family work whatever so i try to get the biggest bang for the buck e what was the very first computer video game you ever played how old were you hoo boy i guess this dates myself but i remember playing the sears version of pong back in the mid 70s as a little kid but the first adventure game not atari s adventure but a real one i played was colossal cave circa 1980 on a friend s brother in law s work network that you had to pay on a per hour basis to access we didn t even have a computer monitor to look at the computer was a terminal with a scrolling paper printout so you d type in a command hit return and wait for the teletype machine to spew out the results on the roll of paper we got in big trouble playing the game one afternoon as we were told we could play one hour and played for four f do you have more than one blog if so what is are your other blog s about blog names links not necessary and you don t have to include personal family work related blogs unless you really want to i ve got an lj account that i rarely post to but aside from pc that s about it g name three non wow game related websites that you visit frequently non wow or game related okay the register it keeps me grounded in the it world and it s not afraid to tweak the big it companies the mary sue a geeky website that also presents things from a feminist slant which given that i have daughters is a good thing the public library of cincinnati and hamilton county just because and that the local library system is really awesome you really should check it out even if you re not local to the area because you just might find interesting things like this h what was is your favorite animal to see at the zoo the white bengal tigers when the new habitat opened at the cincinnati zoo back in the late 70s that was the major attraction of course the tigers kind of loafed around most of the day but the concept of white tigers was awesome i cake or pie what is your favorite flavor of your preferred dessert pie if you d have asked me about 30 years ago i d have said cake but i love a good slice of apple pie j what toppings do you like on a pizza on an ice cream sundae pizza pepperoni and pineapple i only rarely get it because i get outvoted when we order pizza you d think that pineapple was anchovies or something ice cream sundae good ol chocolate k what is your favorite writing instrument the computer a long time ago i used to be able to write cursive but after years of typing and writing code i ve lost the ability to use cursive considering i was never that fast or that good on penmanship anyway it s not that big of a loss until i started using wordstar and wordperfect in college i used to compose at the typewriter it s not the fastest method of composition but when i was finished i didn t have to revise but nowadays i m grateful for the built in editing capability of word processors 3 eleven miscellaneous facts about yourself well in no particular order unlike westley or inigo montoya i am left handed i once got the evil eye from legendary temple university basketball coach john chaney how he found me in the sea of 13000 people when i was hollering at him siddown chaney after he protested a call by the refs i ll never know but he looked right at me with that look the i m gonna find you and make you wish you were never born look oh my god i breathed to my wife i m so dead thankfully nothing happened but that was only a few years removed from chaney threatening to kill another coach during a press conference he was um a bit of a hothead due to my tendency to be a font of weird facts one of my high school nicknames was cliff after cliff claven from the television show cheers i ran track in high school you d never guess at it now given that my build resembles the pillsbury doughboy but that s life i m an introvert okay stop laughing no seriously i still remember the first time i went into orgrimmar following soul as he was giving me the tour but i was stunned by the crowd of players i kept telling myself that nobody cares nobody is looking at the noob but it still was a shock and naturally i was found by the guy looking for people to sign his guild charter which didn t help my sense of feeling exposed i eventually got over that but when i m out in the wild and i stumble on someone after having not seen anybody for a long time i still feel the urge to port out and get away and i still rarely talk online even to the people i ve friended on mmos because i m sure they re busy and i d be taking them away from that yadda yadda yadda i have a dead on impression of kermit the frog but it hurts my throat to do it for any length of time i once organized a water gun fight in the chemistry geology building at my university my co conspirator and i called it urban warfare in wohlleben hall and it was back in the pre 9 11 environment when you could pull this sort of thing off without having campus security descend on you my team won mainly because one team member hid so well that nobody on the other team could find him he then ambushed them when their guard was down killing them via super soaker in one fell swoop i had a ringside seat at the satanic panic surrounding d d and other rpgs back in the 80s my own collection of d d material was thrown out because it was considered to be satanic and i was ostracized by my fellow middle school gamers who feared that their parents would jump on the d d is eeeevil bandwagon just by associating with me needless to say i have a pretty dim view of the people who promoted this sort of thing i ve worn a beard since my senior year of college when my girlfriend back then suggested that i would look good in one it must have worked because she married me a few years later it s been a decade since i last did it but i ve puttered around with homebrewing and home winemaking my favorite beer i made was a scotch ale partial mash for those who know homebrewing and my favorite wine was a pinot noir made from a kit i once had a dj shift during college while i d like to say that i had a hand in programming my shift i d be lying still it was fun to work the board punch up the music via tape and vinyl and chat over the air the bonus was that almost nobody listened to us so i didn t have any fear of performing 4 well thankfully the blogs i can nominate range from five through twelve so i m going to try to hit that sweet spot the devil is in the details naturally you re supposed to nominate people who have a small following such as 200 followers or less i know that pc here fits this to a t but the first blog i thought of nominating a certain blog by rades obviously blows past the 200 follower limit therefore without much fanfare here s my list of nominated blogs biobreak who might beat that 200 follower limit but it s worth a try going commando mmo gypsy she s all nerd i wonder which of their blogging team will get to do this one the jazz panda the dacheng diaries warlockery hawtpants of the old republic null signifier mmo gamer chick since i already nominated 2 3 of the battle bards might as well get steph too alts etcetera because lyrestra retired musings of an altoholic and created a new blog hmm looks like there were more out there than i thought 5 let the bloggers all know that i nominated them eh well i ll ping those that don t comment in the next few days 6 and drumroll please these are the eleven questions the bloggers who take up this challenge need to answer when did you first get into gaming it doesn t have to be computer gaming that you started with what mmo toon is your favorite of all time right now what was the funniest thing that ever happened to you in an mmo just how many toons do you have anyway raiding questing pvp or rp which do you like the most and why the least when you put the keyboard and or gamepad down what do you do for fun what drove you to write a gaming blog spring summer fall winter which season do you like the best what music do you listen to what is the best dish dessert you co...