This post coming right after the one about not having enough time to play swtor is strange I know. After all adding in another game isn’t exactly going to give me more time. However, I got Diablo 3 for free because of my warcraft annual pass and so I was always going to try it. It didn’t cost me anything so why not? So far I’ve just finished Act 1, I’ve entered the Act 2 area and wandered around some but that’s as far as I’ve got.
I haven’t been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic at all. I don’t think I’ve logged on for at least a month, time gets away from you and so I’m not sure how long it’s been exactly. I logged on very briefly to check out the legacy system but I hadn’t played properly for a couple of weeks before that. I still have a subscription to it though and I actually still think it’s a good deal, but I’m not playing – why?
We’ve all had those nights where content you should have down cold is kicking your butt. When it happens on consecutive raids, or on successive weeks, or both well guilds have broken up over less. Dealing with raids going wrong without blowing a gasket is a skill and one I’m certainly not going to claim I have mastered. However, there are a few points that I want to make.
The other day Ghostcrawler made a post about account wide achievements. I wrote about these, what I wanted to see, and what I was scared about, just a couple of days after Mists Monday in March. However, this new information, while it’s not concrete as it’s still beta, is a lot more specific than the speculation we had before, and therefore needs looking at again.
Been a bit lazy lately with blogging. I ran out of steam and saved up articles and then let it slide. I don’t want to do that and so I’m going to try my best to blog regularly.
I challenge to you name one warcraft player who doesn’t have at least one addon. If you can name one I’ll be surprised, and I’ll also call whoever you named an idiot. A lot of addons are quality of life improvements, some are essential and it’s surprising how quickly you integrate the use of them, and how much you miss them when suddenly they aren’t there.
This morning I woke up to a beta invitation. I was expecting one eventually being an annual pass holder but I checked my account through yesterday, when I heard that a wave had gone out, and it wasn’t there so I assumed I’d be waiting till next wave or longer. I knew that emails took a while to come through but I didn’t realise that it took a while to show up on the account as well. Anyway, happy days I’m now in the beta.
There’s a lot I like about swtor and one of the parts I really like are class quests so I’m an altoholic in this game. The part about patch 1.2 that I was most interested in seeing was the expansion of the legacy system. Unfortunately it isn’t all I hoped it would be. I don’t like negative posts so this isn’t just a rant, promise. Also, this is three days late but better late than never right?
I missed the scheduled post on Saturday as I didn’t have one in reserve and was too lazy to type one up. Having a schedule is a good thing as it does force me to keep up with this whereas otherwise I would let it slip. However, a too demanding schedule would burn me out completely. Therefore I’m going to cut down to twice a week, a Saturday post and a Tuesday/Wednesday post. Anyway, back on topic, I was thinking the other day about Blackrock Mountain and how often I go there.
When I was writing the post about transmogrification I suddenly thought that I could do a weekly feature on it. I love creating transmog sets and I don’t have the time (or the bank space) to collect half of them. Therefore it seems like a good plan to share them and if someone likes the set then they can use it themselves. I’ll post this on Tuesdays so it’ll be something to look at during the downtime Wednesday mornings. I forgot to post this on Tuesday and I haven’t written one for today yet so thought I’d post this today. From now on it’ll be Tuesdays. Starting off today with a Scarlet Monastery set for plate wearers who are locked out of the mail after the level 40 armor specialization.
Now for something a little different. Yesterday evening I logged on to warcraft and ran Firelands in the continuing quest to get our priest the legendary staff for the guild. I then had dinner and afterwards logged swtor and played through Korriban with my new sith warrior. Perhaps it was playing them in quick succession that made me wonder about the ultimate mmo. The ultimate mmo isn’t warcraft and it’s not swtor, it would be a mixture of both and more. So this is my recipe for my dream mmo.