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That's about it. Progression is: - Get 90 (and flying) - Do the Arena (Gurgthock) scenario for an ilvl 450 weapon (if you use Polearms, do archeology to get the ilvl 463 polearm, if you use staves and have inscription, make an ilvl 476 staff) - Do the Sha of Anger once for ilvl 476 boots...

Oooooh, yeeesssss, please. Pretty, pretty please? (for extra bonus, the "Falls" would have random nameds that drop BOA crafting recipes for specific unique-looking equipment/upgrade particle effects, requiring components available only from events in the dungeon as well. It wouldn't...

And modern tools aren't extremely expensive either. A 3DS license is less than 2 months of your artists' wages, taxes and the rest. Over the time needed for a MMO, the tool costs are a minor part.

Finally, realm abilities!

The problem with Resist Gear, and the backlash against it was that resist gear was 1) valuable only for its resist, 2) obtainable only by grinding trivial content (barring the very rare resist from world bosses). At the time, there was no real alternative to do resist gear, but the WoW...

That's exactly the correct definition of casual. Casual gamers are gamers for which the game comes second where their time is concerned. (be it because they're going to play only when the kids are asleep and the wife is busy watching American Horror, or they're going to tell "sorry, can't...

An interesting implied consequences of this is that Justice gear... is likely to remain the blue 458 we already have. No shortcuts to 2nd tier raids (LFR/normal) in this expansion. At all. (well, for now) Guess what? You are supposed to do the daily grind, get reputation, and then spend your...

i think he implied he got enough drops during the levelling phase not to have to use the farm...

It's because it is their identity, part of what they earned. Besides, it assumes quality levels (purple is better than blue) which does not have to exist. If your purple armor was purchased on the dusty streets of the Jhiittah Bazaar instead of earned in battle... you're less likely to be...

An interesting article (not MMO-related) I saw a year or two ago essentially stated that this next generation will never be lost in their normal lives. Because they will have had a GPS and full map for almost all their life. So, in a couple years, a lot of people will never have this skill IRL...

Actually, no. What they implied strongly is that, during X.0 / X.2 / X.4, you purchase items with valor (with faction locking - again), and during X.1 / X.3 / X.5, you upgrade them. Mind you, you'll probably still be able to upgrade pre-5.2 epics. Just not the new ones. Until 5.3.

The concept of the top-right minimap fits with the concept of WoW-type games. People have various orientation sense; some immediately recognize where they are, and where they need to be, while others need more time. But in a quest-driven levelling game, you never spend more than 10mn in any...

A well known rule: peak connected is 5 to 10 times players. If your server has 100 max online at a time, it's 1k players per server tops. You cannot have one server per 10k player, you'll need to provision at least one server per 1k players. Otherwise... well, you're going to have 1k players...

Everquest was made by people who did MUDs, i.e. type stuff and text commands and then think about the next command. WoW was made by people who made RTS and Hacknslash where your ability is measured in clicks per second.

Asheron's Call had that. Mobs used the same rules than players, and gained experience. The problem was of course, that, as levels increased, the mob needed to kill more and more players to get skills increases, and thus the effect became unnoticeable. The only mobs for which the effect was...

I am always surprised when I meet hardcore MMO players and discover they've never heard about EVE except as "it's a space sim MMO, right?". We were holding our New Year party in the switzerland mountains this year, and the conversation drifted across all kinds of MMO and settled on this. And...

I've also seen it referred to as "plane effect" or "submarine effect" as well. The fact that most of our modern tools aren't copies of natural stuff "just better", but achieve their objectives in ways that are completely different from the natural equivalents. And we all know we need car...

Cheating? Where? The AI uses normal data, it doesn't have any underground access to hidden stuff. All the elements I have mentioned are available either on your client (location, action, casting, player inspect), or on the web (detailed spell list, statistical models). The AI is only cheating...

And there's a relatively good reason for that. Good AI is not fun to play against. Imagine that you're in a PvP match against someone who's mildly retarded (IQ wise) but has millisecond reflexes, knows exactly the amount of damage to the decimal of the spell you're currently casting, can...

There isn't much you can do in that direction. If the items are relatively rare, then they must take large amounts of either: - Luck (low random chance) - Time (farm dungeons, materials, whatever) - Opportunity (be there at the right time or miss it) The camping mobs you don't want is...

P2P. You pay for the game like a normal game, then you don't have any subscription afterward. The gem store (gems purchased with $/?/?/whatever or traded in-game for gold from those who paid) gives you additional stuff, like extra bank, extra char slots, some random stuff you can get in-game...

Yes. You and the other 10,000 on the server, including the 40 people around you in front of that bone dragon. This is where the whole storyline-you're-our-only-hope model breaks down in most moderns MMO. Most moderns MMO aren't MMO, they're slightly stretched single player RPGs who just...

Yet again. Notice that the new VP items are locked to a NEW rep. Also, when they talked about how they wanted another Ulduar, I didn't expect that to mean a 12-boss zone+1 heroic only literally...

It's far easier to maintain a domain active (no change to anything, pay 8$ per year or so) than to try to switch the servers to a new domain, and THEN have to track every reference to it (especially if you obfuscated them to make it harder for people to develop emus - which I don't think they...

That's also my reading of the questline. Besides, we do know that the last raid is dislodging GarroSha from Orgrimmar, and devs seem to be satisfied with 3 primary raid tiers, and apparently expect to tide the time between tiers by having a 5.1 (and possibly a 5.3) being additional non-raid...

Why? From what I hear, SOE is usually in the black and keeps on being a profitable - if not world smashing - business unit for Sony, in a time where vagaries of consumer demand puts them in the red regularly. Why would Sony fire the manager of one of their profitable subsidiairies UNLESS it...

Eve system is "the cloth maketh the man". How you play is defined by your equipment, and your skills let you use (or use more efficiently) your equipment. Actually, it would be more on the lines of "if you spend them on wands and lightning, you can throw equip a nice lightning bolt wand". If you...

As above, do some BG to get honor and purchase 458 upgrades to your 450 blues. Or, if you already have enough JP, use the ilvl upgrade from justice points to upgrade your weapon and biggest items (torso/legs/head), which, given you want to avoid "30k gold epics" mean you are probably still...

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