Good Grief, Get a Grip!
Dear fellow gamer,
You are playing a MMOG. Your accomplishments are something you do for your own sake, for your own enjoyment and for your own pleasure. And yes, sometimes it will garner you some recognition of other players.
You want to be admired for what you did? Log off. Go outside.
Rouge BG Arena Advice
Turns out I missed one search term. Rouge BG Arena Advice.
Hmm… OK. Here’s your Rouge Background Arena Advisor:
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Closing the 2007 Welfare Epics Debate with a Look at PvE
As you will have noticed, I’ve had a couple of things to say on the whole PvP loot distribution system and its perception by the playerbase.
From the other side of the issue, Rohan has been using about as much virtual ink over the matter pointing out the flaws of the arena rewards system and why [...]
The Sky is falling, the Sky is falling! Oh wait, it’s not
It’s that time of the year. Or, to be precise, it’s one of these times of the year, when thoughts from different angles come together in a common train just waiting to derail into an argument.
WoWinsider’s Amanda Miller reports on yet another taunt by some unheard-of developer for Age of Conan (currently scheduled for [...]
Bloody 2v2!
While we get enough points off our 3v3 for the week, Steptoe and me decided to work on our 2v2 skills further - arena experience is arena experience, and while 2v2 is a lot quieter than 3v3, we’re by no means that good that we can scoff at some more time.
Time being a keyword here, [...]
3v3, Week 2
Last night, we managed to convene again and go back to the task of building a working team. Again, we had no specific rating goals set, we were primarily interested in improving teamwork.
Considering that, the evening went extremely well, Steptoe and Sons moved from 1440 up to 1507, with a nice 7-3 win ratio.
Highlights of [...]
Putting a few things back into their right place
There’s a strange thing happening in the wowosphere these days. Due to a couple of rants I wrote, and my admittedly vehement participation in certain welfare epics debates, I have apparently become some kind of advocate for the PvP viewpoint on arena reward distribution.
While I appreciate the additional readership this generates, I don’t want to [...]
The Hardcore Raider’s Alien Mindset
Round #25817 of the reincarnated hardcore vs. casual debate, which has now morphed into Hardcore Raider vs Arena, Rohan (and the various people supporting his positions in the comments to his recent Welfare epics posts) gives us an insight why he and his peers get so annoyed by arena gear that they must have it [...]
Enough with the Armchair Arena fixes. Disclose your Rating first.
What happens when well-spoken and otherwise smart raiders get all worked up over S3 gear? You get armchair designers devising ways to fix arena loot distribution from the perspective of sour, disgruntled raiders with a barely hidden agenda of denying other people loot they didn’t catass for through BT.
Never mind that raiders get a disproportionate [...]
First 3v3 Impressions
Last night was the first time our brand new trio of Warlock, Mage and Paladin convened together for 3v3. We didn’t harbour any expectations towards ratings, the only objective was to get used to the format and each other a bit.
We played 16 games, 10 losses to 6 wins. We went down as low as [...]
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