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Tag Archives: loot
The MMO Law of Gathering Professions
While I’ve made cynical observations about loot drop in MMOs before, in an amusing twist of fate, the invaluable Casual Stroll to Mordor today blogs about optimal profession spread between four alt characters in LotRO. As coincidence has it, I … Continue reading
Lore Creators and Item Designers Should Talk to Each Other
My paladin is halfway to 76 now, and it seemed like a good time to start browsing the various Wrath factions and the rewards they offer. Indeed, a good idea, since I spotted two walrus people rewards available at level … Continue reading
10 MMO Loot Drop Rules
Rule #1: The higher the need, the lower the drop rate Rule #2: The last item of a full stack always has the lowest drop rate Corollary: When you need several drops for a quest, even with a good drop … Continue reading
Muckbeast on Raiding Design
Cambios is a game dev who may just have started his blog recently, yet posts interesting stuff from day one. Taking on some of the more visible flaws in raiding in current MMOs, he writes:[...] Continue reading
Blizzard Buffing Seasonal Events
Until last Fall, I’ve always looked at WoW’s seasonal events as a bit of a waste of time, mainly because they only offered mostly cosmetic rewards. Continue reading
Full Tokenization of Dungeon Drops Idea Spreading
In the wake of Tobold’s latest thoughts on providing more incentives to guild loyalty, fellow blogger PΘtshΘt came up with quite similar ideas I’ve been putting forward, to remove the impact of sheer luck from instance drops and replace the loot tables with token drops. Continue reading
Random thoughts on Welfare and Patch 2.4
With reliable predictability, the 2.4 test patch notes brought a new round of QQing on the topic of loot distribution. The debate has, however, not evolved at all since last time, and the same cheap shots get thrown around. As … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
