The spoon-fed era

The combination of:

  1. easy and abundant Emblems of such high iLevel,
  2. teleportation instantly to and from the instance,
  3. easy PUGs with cross-realms giving minimal waiting times and
  4. T9 raiders carrying people in random LFG groups

is creating a spoon-fed era.

I did a random LFG PUG and found myself zoning into Oculus. I like the new loading screens that came with 3.3. I was reflecting on the quality of graphic designers when the loading finished, and I’m

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Raid mentor

I was watching the interview series celebrating 5 years of Wow and 15 of Warcraft. (I’d never played Warcraft, saw it a few times over shoulders, but RTS never grabbed me).

Frank Pearce (he’s a co-founder) reminded me of something I’d forgotten about raiding: the advantage of having an experienced raid mentor. He talked about Molten Core, hear from him here if you’d like, and how on his own guild’s first attempt at MC they had someone help them

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Married to WoW, or do you date other games?

I was wondering this morning how many of us only play WoW; compared to playing a few games or possibly a few MMOs. Five years I’ve been playing Warcraft.

Five years.

That’s a long time.

I haven’t played much of any other games at all the whole time.

No other games, really

I tried Eve for a short time, wrote a guide on how to play it for other former WoW players. After a while though, I missed the

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