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Wildstar

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

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News/Updates

Realms Down Again?

January 24, 2014

About 4:50PM PST, a host of realms has gone down, yet again. What is with this recent server instability? This has easily reached 10+ occasions in the past two months. Supposedly, one or two times was DDOS attacks by some hacker group, but the rest? Server outages is something I’d expect, maybe, from a F2P kind of game, the kind without regular, massive, monthly income to keep up on server maintenance and whatever it takes to keep everything online. It’s becoming excessive. One two different occasions my PVP guild lost multiple rated battlegrounds as a result of servers dropping. A couple times, immediately upon loading into the RBG the servers crashed for 1+ hours making them effectively forfeit. Another, which I was actually in, we had a massive lead with the game more than half over before we dropped. In all occasions, the loss resulted in a loss of rating. Some people that were most affected put in tickets about this, at least trying to get the loss of rating and statistics reversed, but Blizzard could not be bothered. (more…)

Warlords of Draenor

Warlords of Draenor: Garrisons

January 21, 2014

One of the biggest and most anticipated features coming in the next WoW expansion, Warlords of Draenor, is the Garrison. I want to take a moment to discuss what we do know about the Garrisons, what we don’t know, and to make a plea to Blizzard about their design direction for this (at the end of this post).

The Basics

Garrisons are essentially player housing (which I probably said at some point wouldn’t happen), but are filled with awesome that gives them a purpose far beyond a place to park your character in private. Blizzard has this to say about them: (more…)

Mist of Pandaria

Transfer Gold Cross Realm

March 18, 2013

Ever want to start a character on a new server but don’t want to do it without the power of your gold? Transfer to a different server but hampered by pesky limits on gold transfer limits? Something recently occurred to me, it may have been obvious to others, but I’d yet to hear about it. The new pet system in 5.2 is a perfect way to send gold between characters on different servers. Continue to see how and why this works.

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Daily

Daily Thoughts : The Importance of the Right Guild

October 29, 2010

My guild is a very friendly, casual guild with a longer history and has had great success in previous tiers of raiding. We got hit hard by the end of expansion blues. Several of our more active players and officers took extended breaks, a few players quit wow, others had some real life issues take them out of raiding for a span. Several months ago, raiding almost completely stopped. We went from a 25 man guild progressing dutifully through ICC to not having the online members to fill a 10m ICC. At this point, we had downed 8/12 bosses in Icecrown in 25m and I believe our 10m group was 11/12. We were often tied or close for 3rd horde progression on our server. Admittedly, not a power-house server, but we were making progress. Even as we were doing fine, set to continue, the series of personal burn-outs and real life priorities reduced us to 1 of 6 active officers.

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