Late November 2004 has become a day no one that enjoys this genre will probably ever forget. At the time it didn’t really mean much to me, but i was so ignorant of what was about to happen. I was too busy finally hitting max level in FFXI and starting my journey in the end-game scene to really know what
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Ah that first climb to max level. How can anyone forget their first time in whichever MMO they were playing? It’s just one of those special memorable experiences that anyone that loves this genre should never forget. I’m sure there were a lot of good and bad moments in everyone’s first time, but you stuck with it and here we
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Today i thought i’d use one of Belghast’s “Ten Random Topic Prompts” as my post idea. The one that stuck out to me the most out of that list was talking about a favorite item or drop from any game ever. While i’ve certainly had a few memorable ones for sure, there’s always one that makes it to the top
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Continuing on from yesterday’s post about my first MMORPG, i thought i’d get into the first ever character i created as well as where his name came from. Well surprise surprise, it wasn’t actually Ald. No, my first ever character was named Saxon and he was and remained a lowby hume (human) Red Mage in FFXI. My first passion has
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I thought i’d spend today on a bit of a nostalgia trip and talk about when and where my obsession with MMORPG’s began. I wish i could say i was in on the ground floor, so to say, but my journey began years after the first generation of Ultima Online, EverQuest, and Asheron’s Call launched the genre in the late
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After spending yesterday discussing how i thought BfA may not be worth playing, i thought i’d spend today talking about which class i’m going to play in said expansion! I mean that totally makes sense if you think about it for a while. What good is an expansion not worth playing if you don’t pick a class to play in
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What is this? It can’t possibly be the lead up to an expansion only a few weeks away can it? By golly i think it is! I had to actually check online to make sure i wasn’t missing something or did something wrong because this couldn’t possibly be it. Unfortunately this is what Blizzard thought would be an acceptable patch
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Oh what a time to return to blogging after a two year hiatus. After a relaxing few years away from having to maintain a blog and finding stuff to post about, i’ve returned just in time to drive myself to the point of madness in another attempt to survive Blaugust yet again. The first, last, and only time i participated
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The pre-patch is finally here so it’s time to decide what i want to focus on this expansion. More to the point, it’s time to get back into the game and participate in more content than i did in Legion. Despite the overall praise the last expansion seemed to garner, i found myself not playing very much of it. Call
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Scrolling through my daily blogroll the other day made me realize i’ve come back just in time for this years Blaugust event. I’ve not participated in that since 2015, which was also my first time taking up the challenge. Hmm, i did sort of stop blogging shortly after that didn’t i? Coincidence? Hehe, no but really i’m excited for this
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No, this isn’t about the great Seinfeld episode so get your mind out of the gutter! Not that i consider that topic to be in the gutter but let’s move on anyway. This is about mastery points and GW2’s alternate advancement system. I’m a huge proponent of these post max level experience systems as a way to increase character power. I
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As i sat here the other day diddling around in GW2 waiting on the pre-patch for an expansion i’ve never been less excited about in WoW, i came to the realization that i was actually enjoying myself in Tyria. I was having fun exploring, doing hero challenges, and trying to find all the mastery points i could (i’m ridiculously behind
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Ald Shot First 