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There's apparently some kind of ultra-high-level Lich lording it there, if I understood the story right. They're made chiefly of Canthan and Elonan refugees.

From the wiki, I gather there's a number ofspecific high level cheststhat only appear while "uncovered by the sandstorm".

That's your decision, though. Unlike season 1, if you want to take three weeks to do one episode, or four, or mix two episodes, no sweat.

You mean two years? Since you can do them at any time. (was away all evening, just logged in before going to bed, saw the popup, unlocked, saw the star mark over a new area, almost yelled "yea", then went to bed. Will see what it's about on thursday since today is drink-with-friends day)

Cataclysm wad probably the worst in term of how WOW Storyline was structured. But basically, I tend to consider that the "personal storyline" is not what MMO are about. We have single-player RPGs for that. Unfortunately, the MMO-verse has been trending toward that format for the last 10...

I don't defend hearts. Hearts are like faction. You do them for completion's sake, or because you need something specific from that vendor. Most of the time, you don't do them, and they simply complete because you were there during an event. Given that, why spend resources on what is essentially...

And we all know why the Heart system exists. Because, at one point, someone in design became afraid that "players may not know what to do! How do we give them something to do?". The answer in WoW is the yellow "!" sign, and being told explicitly "go there now" (and, in various expansion...

Remember those quests parodied (until MoP): Kill me 10 Renowned Paladins. Nope, the Experienced ones next to them don't count. Now that you've killed 10 Renowned, go kill 12 Experi... what? You already did? Don't care, it's kill them now, not then. Hearts offer a vastly better system: do I...

Well, guess what? If you do have to downgrade performance for the PC to make it look equivalent to consoles, then maybe it's not people thinking that consoles aren't as powerful as PC. Maybe they really are less powerful than a PC. And it's time for people to realize that, yes, the thing that...

The lack of Trinity is textbook stuff now. Every MMO that attempts to say "we don't have the trinity" gets instantly compared to GW2. I don't think Champion buses will be mourned. There's a few zones however that have multiple champions all over the map, and those might end up replacing...

Cash drops and trophies are based on the zone. Loot drops are 1/5th based on zone, 4/5th based on level (i.e., I'm 80 in a level 10 area, about 20% of the equipment will be 8-10, 80% will be 76-80). Chest loot are based on level. Except for Jewelry and Cooking, who still have only 400 pts max...

Trailer is up on the GW2 site, and yes, it's "The Gates of Maguuma". So here's to hoping for new Maguuma zones. (of course, the trailer doesn't give the slightest hint of what it's going to be about, except, you know, we go there, and a bunch of bad guys await us)

Sparkfly Fen is basically southern Kryta, not Maguuma. It's classified as Maguuma for the exploration, and achieves because otherwise, Maguuma would be 3 zones total, but it shouldn't be. It's one of the new zones that had no matching GW1 areas. Bloodstone Fen is NW Maguuma. A GW1/GW2...

Notice he already had "The Insane" title (and I presume, he had from when the achievements were introduced)? He's OCD. MMOs tend to attract OCD like flies.

Scythe and Dervish. But, alas, that's not something that fits Maguuma, so not in S2.

Yea, it's main problem was that it was content designed to last 2 weeks, so they couldn't invest a lot in it. The only permanent content we got was the Kessex zone change and the Lion Arch change (oh, and the Jungle Wurm. Let's not forget the Wurm). The first of the two episodes was fun. People...

Well, theoretically Season 1 ends up with awakening Mordremoth, which is Maguuma-based (what? you didn't knew that the Lion Arch drilling led to that? Well, neither did I).

There's been a couple changes during the lull between Season 1 and the upcoming season 2. Notably, they've made almost everything account-wide (dyes are account-wide, wardrobe of transmogs is account-wide), they've switched the "you have access to all traits" to "choose to do this event to get...

Their biggest problem is that their pets are core to their play, but those pets are absolutely stupid. Even in PVE, the pets are going to stand in fire in a way that reminds you of your fellow LFR players in WoW, but worse. Yea, I have both a Ranger and Guardian, and I love my Guardian, the...

If you're shooting darts at random on a target (i.e. pick random area names listed in the Warcraft RPG book), you're bound to hit a few times.

Almost certainly Leatherworker and Huntsman. If you want to spend some and unlock a third profession rather than use an alt to craft, then Jeweler would complement it (since Huntsman consume more wood than metal, and jeweler is exclusively metal). But, as usual, professions are more of a money...

Their new system appears to be their equivalent of an x-pack. Basically, the new Living Story episodes can be finished at any time, including after their initial 2-week slot. Meaning you can do the entire Season 2 in a marathon session next spring, if you want. So Season 2 is like an...

Fun fact: here, in France, employees have priority. Employees get paid first, then government for back taxes, then creditors. (it's a bit more complicated than that, but employees get paid first, regardless. And if the company did not have enough assets to liquidate to pay the owed paychecks...

That list is the very proof that undead exists. No matter how often you shoot it dead and debunked, it rises again and rolls around, collecting new victims. From what I heard about their production pipeline, they have the basic thematic idea of the next two expansions, and most of the details...

Which Vanilla expansion plan? You mean the debunked fake list of expansions that got "leaked during beta" but somehow surfaced only just after they announced Lich King? And which was completely incorrect as early as the following expansion (Cataclysm)? (for info, the list was "Draenor" with -...

Good question. We had a bait 'n switch with The Burning Crusade, which had little Legion stuff in it for all the title promised. A couple of portals here and there with a few bored demons wandering aimlessly and the last bad guy of the last raid (slight exaggeration, I know). Hardly Burning. But...

Yes and no. It's a different Draenor, with just a passing resemblance in geography to the Outland maps. But otherwise, yes, it's probably an attempt to capitalize a bit on nostalgia. After 10 years, most of the subscription churn is probably going to be old players coming to play some new...

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

We've seen the Lich being born in the Novellas, and that's not him.

Except that the auto-generated stuff does suffer from the same problem. The distinction they make between player stuff and internal stuff isn't that the player stuff is different. It's that, once you've created whatever masterpiece there is, you can do a lot of processing to create the meshes...

Player mounts have exactly two uses: One, shrink the world size so that players can go faster from A to B. If you don't want to shrink the world, then don't have mounts. Two, extract revenue from players by offering exclusive mounts on your cash shop. Good luck arguing against this. Here's a...

Subscription Model to End in July | Asheron's Call | MMORPG.com Apparently, you'll be able to download the AC1 server to run your own world yourself. No documentation, people are expected to write their own.

At the moment, the X-pac looks like "more of the same". Same levelling process, same "no flying until max" limits, same "dungeons, then heroics", same Timeless Isle-type zone, same amount of raid tiers (just renamed), same PVP, no new races, no new classes. Just "let's see how different but same...

Since apparently, Activision wants to go after Call of Duty levels of money, but for consoles, that's appropriate. Anyway, nice to knowthat your WoW sub money is well used. Remind me, where's my Titan?

And everyone there knows CCP. I mean, I was touring on holiday last year, and we were on the last day in Reykjavik. I was just back from checking the CCP offices, and mentioned I was looking for their shiny black offices to our tour guide: "oh, those internet game guys?".

Cloth cap, cloth cap. Once you drop a cloth cap, you're good.

Apparently, the new "timeless isle" (Frostfire Ridge) was datamined to the same number of rare spawns, and a lot more treasure.

Apparently, your avatar is supposed to suffer from acute myopia (or those videos are really badly done). The blurring in distance to cover LOD is painful. Even without my glasses, I don't get that blurry long-distance vision.

So, you make an account on every board to spread the news about that game, do you?

It worked when you knew the trick, of course. But if you knew the trick, by the time you went there, you would have had the ability to purchase a light and know you needed one, unless you were absolutely stuck on "well, I hate the Halas starting area, so I roll a level 1 and run to Qeynos...