westkarana.com - 7/13/2009
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Like an ebbing tide, the weekend slowly recedes, leaving behind the flotsam and jetsam of yet another Monday. Only a few years too late to knock ‘em dead in Mrs. Moran’s 3rd grade English class on similes.
Are the World of Warcraft’s raids too dependent on scripting to be ...
Daily Blogroll 5/14 — Going Coconuts edition
westkarana.com 5/14/2009 —
One of the nice things about doing the Daily Blogroll is that it takes the pressure off trying to do something fun every night. Tuesday night, Kasul and I were playing LotRO, running around doing quests in the Lone Lands, and I realized I was ...
Wizard 101: Looking back
westkarana.com 11/19/2008 —
There’s nothing as sad as seeing any empty quest journal. Er, assignment book. We are, after all, all wizards at Ravenwood, and in between saving all the worlds of the Spiral from the renegade Death professor, Malistaire, we’re meant ...
Wizard 101: Building a deck
westkarana.com 2/27/2009 — Wizard 101 is built around a card game, and that card game is built around your deck. Deck construction can be tricky. I was talking with a friend about building decks for collectible card games last night, and he told me of some people who would ...
Will 2009 be the best year ever for MMOs?
westkarana.com 3/8/2009 — In 2007, you could have surprised absolutely nobody by predicting that 2008, last year, would be the biggest, best year ever for MMOs. Triple A titles abounded — Age of Conan and Warhammer Online were both just going to tear WoW a new one, but ...
*EXCLUSIVE* Wizard 101 wallpaper!
westkarana.com 7/1/2009 —
I got a shocking letter from Fernando Blanco of KingsIsle today. As a thank you gift for all the Wizard 101 players who read my blog, the artists have drawn up a “cast list” of all the faculty and staff at the Ravenwood School for ...
Wizard 101: Housing goes LIVE Wednesday!
westkarana.com 5/6/2009 —
We’ve word from Ravenwood that the newly-named Builder Turtles are being dropped off at their new homes across the Spiral, and that tomorrow, we’ll be able to buy and furnish our own homes. Thomes the Friendly Necromancer has been ...
Wizard 101: All ten player houses
westkarana.com 5/6/2009 — I read on The Friendly Necromancer’s site that little leprechauns had appeared all over Wizard City, ready, willing and hoping to give everyone who talked to them 50,000 gold.
So, my excited overspending on the first night of housing on the ...
Daily Blogroll 8/4 — Lifetime edition
westkarana.com 8/5/2009 —
Well, would YOU bet $200 on a game that nobody but press is allowed to talk about, a month before it’s released? When Lord of the Rings Online offered the same deal — A Benjamin and his identical twin for a lifetime subscription ...
Casual MMO: Wizard 101
notadiary.typepad.com 12/6/2008 — In my continued search for a second MMO to play, preferable very casual-friendly, I started playing Wizard 101 (W101). Think Harry Potter meets MMO with a collectible card game battle mechanic. For more depth opinions, visit West Karana. I was contemplating a re-sub to EVE Online, which I still ...
Wizard 101: Grizzleheim goes live July 1!
westkarana.com 7/2/2009 — Grizzleheim, the Bazaar, crafting, groups, open chat, and newly enhanced boss mobs comes to Wizard 101 July 1st, after an extended downtime.
Wizard101 will undergo an extended maintenance window on 01 July 2009 from 3am to approximately 5am Central ...
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