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Preparing for Wildstar Online

May 28, 2014

So you want to play Wildstar? Me too. Since I’ve gotten some beta time and some other steps out-of-the-way, I wanted to share a few steps in what any new Wildstar player should do. I’ll cover race, faction, class, addons, and servers. If you’re not fully prepared – read this post!

Step 1: Pre-order the game. If you’re going to get it anyway, you may as well buy it sooner to get some cool perks.

Exclusive Rocket House
Exclusive Housing Trophy
Exclusive In-Game Title: “Chosen of the Progenitors”
Access to Beta Weekends (there’s also some weekday betas going on that you can still partake in as of the time of this writing)
3 Day Head Start
In-game Storage Bag

Step 2: (more…)

Wildstar

Wildstar Online End of Beta Event

May 20, 2014

The 10 day Wildstar open beta ended recently to much fanfare created by the devs. I’ve yet to see such a massive end game event to sign off something as small as a beta test before, so it was pretty impressive to see. There were giant monsters, dev jokes, and an epic troll (they Rick Rolled the whole game by giving us a code to buff our players but it instead opened a browser with the music video). See below for some screen shots:

News/Updates

Changes to the Blog

May 18, 2014

Those who come here regularly (or perhaps followed a fixed link from elsewhere on the interwebs) will notice that this site is no longer called “15 Minutes of WoW”. Well, fine, as of this writing the actual link is still that, but not the name or the function of the blog. For both the reasons of my declining interest in World of Warcraft (in no small part due to the long, long time until new content will be released) but also because of my desire to play and blog about other games, I’ve decided to make the change to a gaming blog as opposed to specifically focusing on Wow. A quick review of recent posts would show that the less than adequate Elder Scrolls Online has been a big topic recently and some Wildstar should be showing up in the near future. There may be layout changes and even an actual address change coming, so keep your eyes peeled.

Elder Scrolls

Why I Canceled My ESO Sub

May 17, 2014

When Elder Scrolls: Skyrim first came out, I played the hell out of that game. While I had seen other ES games, Skyrim was my first. It was gorgeous, flexible, full of freedom and adventure. I remember thinking…”this would make a great MMO”. My dream for ESO was Skyrim with other players in it. In some ways, I got my dream, but it was all too shortsighted. (more…)

Elder Scrolls

ESO Resources: Full Skill Breakdowns

April 6, 2014

Sometimes you want to know how a skill is going to turn out before you pick it. Mostly, I mean the morph. Recently a friend of mine had tried out the Bow skill “Snipe”, which hits for high damage at long range but has a cast time of 3 seconds. He was entirely underwhelmed with how much other shots he lost in order to cast that attack. Now, I was still considering it – particularly for shooting players on top of keeps in PVP. However, there’s no way to know, in game, if that morph is going to make it any better. I was really hoping for a reduction of cast time or some such. So I browsed online for skill lists and mostly just found sites that had the main list that one can see in game as soon as they created the character. Finally, though, I found one that has a full list with a very clean approach as well. Continue after the break to see the link and a short review of the rest of that website. (more…)

Elder Scrolls

Addons: The Basics

April 2, 2014

I know some people like to play the game as it comes. As for me, I like to apply a little customization. Given my long history as a World of Warcraft player, there are definitely areas of ESO’s interface that are missing (mostly because of the addons I’m used to using in WoW). But, this game is brand new. It’s been out for 2 days or -3 days depending on how you look at it. Curse (my go to program for downloading and installing WoW addons) doesn’t have a set up for ESO yet. So how do we find these addons and install them? Follow after the break for a great site to find addons, installation instructions, and a couple ones that you might want to pick up now. (more…)

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