blog.weflyspitfires.com - 6/8/2009
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Classes. Jobs. Professions. They’re in almost every MMORPG we play and are perhaps the single most important choice we make. They define who we are, what we do and how we do it. Everyone knows the classic Warriors, Rangers and Wizards but what about some of the more exotic or uncommon ...
blog.weflyspitfires.com - 6/14/2009
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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 ...
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MMO Classes That I Hate
blog.weflyspitfires.com - 6/11/2009
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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 ...
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Open Dungeons
westkarana.com - 6/11/2009
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westkarana.com —
I have JUSt heard from a very reliable
source that EverQuest II’s next expansion will be on...
the frozen continent of Velious. This was EverQuest’s second expansion, and for the first time brought a three faction war into the game, ...
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EVERQUEST II’s NEXT EXPANSION: VELIOUS
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Nightly Blogroll — Though Amaryllis dance edition
West Karana —
... to blog about it. But then, he got permission (and I am trying to!). His take? Highly polished but standard gameplay, with the ease of the first ten levels no indication that there is no grind to come.
I find it hard to disagree with anything he wrote.
It’s not so much that your game has standard classes, it’s what the players want. It’s what you do with them. Gordon at We Fly Spitfires (note: I would love to fly in a Spitfire) writes about his favorite MMO classes from games past and present. Beastlord? Yes, please!
Out of all ...
Daily Blogroll 6/15 — Just This Once edition
West Karana —
... We were doing RE2, and the uberguild troubadour explained that he was going to tank the thing with his Bloodthirsty Choker on (which removes the player’s hit points on successful hits). I couldn’t keep him alive. He booted me out of the group and got an uberguild cleric. My cleric may still be sitting on the floor deep in that dungeon where she camped out.
Uberguild jerks — you ruin the game for everyone else with your jackassery.
Syp takes a page from Gordon’s article last week and talks about his favorite MMO classes of all time. ...
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