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Farewell to Frost

We are into season 2 of WoW's Midnight expansion and I'm finally benching my Frost Mage. What can I say, I'm stubborn and my mage has been Frost spec long before Frost was cool. Frost Mage has been controversial in the most recent expansion. Sometimes the damage is...

Blaugust 2026 Wrap Up: Meeting My Goals

My participation in this year's festival was never about doing a daily blog post. There are several participants who did hit that milestone and I will edit this post later to share the stats that are being gathered from the participants. My plan this time around was...

Blaugust 2026: Lessons Learned Group Project

I had it in mind that the final group project was August 31st rather than August 30th. A day late is about par for the course for me this month. August went by FREAKY-fast this year. I will post separately about my overall goals for this year's festival. For this...

Blaugust Staying Motivated Week

Motivation, goals, achievements... all things that gurus tell us we should have, track and celebrate. For today's group project, rather than a non-blogging achievement that I'm especially proud of, I'm going to write about an achievement tied to having a goal, and...

Blaugust 2026 Group Projects – Blind Choice

This topic idea from Lucky Instar's blog can be done at any time during Blaugust. "Announcing a group project called Blind Choice - to introduce a bit of randomness to your blogging adventure. Also writing about my own entry for it, which ended up being about weird...

Blaugust 2026 Group Projects: Dungeon Crawler Carl Achievements

(Note, there are some spoilers in this post if you haven't read past book 4 in the Dungeon Crawler Carl books)Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl books have become very popular in the past few months. I've seen ttrpg games based on them and talk of making a TV...

SWTOR Decorations Tip: How to Claim Your Class Mission Circular Signs

Oct 3, 2014

A guild member clued us in to this tip from the forums, and I'm sharing it with a screen shot to make it easier to find. This may be changed in the future to automatically unlock, but for now you can manually claim the various circular sign decorations for any class...

Your Online Character’s Theme Song

Sep 25, 2014

This is a fun topic that was started on my SWTOR guild's forums recently. Darth Vader had his Imperial March when he shows up on the screen. So, what would your favorite character's "dramatic entrance" music be? Like most fun questions, this one is hard because I...

Most Posts and Views in a Month (and that ain’t half bad)

Aug 31, 2014

Well, today is the last day of August, and thus the last day of that blogging phenomenon, Blaugust. I'm very impressed that 29 bloggers made it all the way past the finish line. Well done! (Edit: Here is the wrap up post with links to all the participants. There are...

Nar Shaddaa Smuggler Haven

Aug 27, 2014

I finally got my Nar Shaddaa stronghold to 100% decoration status. I am not fully happy with it, there are a lot of trophies on the walls and many decorations I still want, but I can swap those out at my leisure now. Here is a quick set of screen shots of the various...

SWTOR Strongholds: Do Your Research (or suffer like me…)

Aug 22, 2014

I have no one to blame but myself, but I figured I'd share a little warning for those who hit my blog by searching. Do...not...bother spending the 5 Dark Projects and 5 MK-3 Universal Prefab kits to buy a class ship unless you have fully unlocked Nar Shaddaa or...

My Smuggler’s Happy Place

Aug 19, 2014

Today saw the release of early access for Star Wars: The Old Republic's Galactic Strongholds expansion. I have been playing around with it all day. It is pretty intuitive to get started placing objects, although it doesn't seem quite as intuitive to get your initial...

Not Going to Play with ‘Dudes’ with Attitudes

Aug 18, 2014

Yay! for reading other people's blog posts and letting them inspire me. I'll admit, between an awesome weekend of camping and being very AFK, I fell off the Blaugust wagon. But I knew I would, so I'm not going to beat myself up over it. I'm actually really happy I...

Yep, I Really Am Over It

Aug 14, 2014

If it hadn't been for Twitter, I would still be unaware of when the next WoW expansion is coming out. For those of you who may be excited for it and don't know yet, it will be November 13th. I've seen the trailer, because it was linked in a tweet, so I clicked it. I...

Do I Hear the Clock Ticking on the End of Days for My MMOing?

Aug 13, 2014

Games conventions often bring with them awesome reveals and game trailers. Today is no exception as Bioware revealed more details about projects they are working on. The Dragon Age Inquisition enemies trailer is so awesome. And hearing so many familiar voice actors in...