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blog.weflyspitfires.com - 6/17/2009
Gods In MMORPGs
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Spinks posted an interesting article about guessing the next Old God in World of Warcraft (apparently they’re all named after gods in the H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos - had no idea). This got me thinking about how deities are used in MMORPGs and what I’d like to see done with them. ...
blog.weflyspitfires.com - 6/11/2009
Open Dungeons
— blog.weflyspitfires.com — I was absolutely gutted when I found out that World of Warcraft didn’t have any open dungeons.... No idea what I’m talking about? 18 months ago I would’ve been shocked by that but not any more. Read below: Open Dungeon A MMORPG dungeon zone which is not instanced, can ... (more) Open Dungeons

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MMO Classes That I Hate
blog.weflyspitfires.com - 6/14/2009
MMO Classes That I Hate
— blog.weflyspitfires.com — Last week I posted an article about MMO classes that I love and since then Syp over... at Bio Break has chipped in with a great article on his favourite classes of all time . Now that we’ve talked about the classes we love, I figured I would have stab at the classes that I just absolutely ... (more) MMO Classes That I Hate

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blog.weflyspitfires.com - 6/18/2009
Improving Group Combat In MMORPGs
— blog.weflyspitfires.com — Tobold published an interesting article about combat and how it can be made more interactive and interesting.... He has plenty of good ideas and I won’t revisit them as you can just checkout his blog instead but one of the things he didn’t touch upon was group combat. Everquest 2 has ... (more) Improving Group Combat In MMORPGs

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