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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...

A Little Launch “Poetry”

Dec 19, 2011

'Twas the night before TOR Launch, and all through our houses Our computers were whirring, we were clicking our mouses Our companions were nestled all tight in our ships While visions of starscapes streamed by in fast blips With my smuggler in her kerchief, husband's...

Early SWTOR Client

Dec 15, 2011

The good: Star Wars: The Old Republic is really playable right out of the gate. It is highly complex, running a lot of terrain and NPCs and cinematics, and doing it quite well. Lag has been very low and the longest Q time I've had was only 10 minutes. I am enjoying...

My New Adventure Begins

Dec 14, 2011

I can't talk a lot about my character without giving away spoilers of her story. Soon everyone will have their own tales of adventure, but for now I won't go into the details. I avoided as many of the spoilers as I could where the Smuggler was concerned. I didn't beta...

It Is Getting Real

Dec 12, 2011

Anticipation is palpable, people are twitchy, guild server tweets are starting to show up, new game excitement is running wild! Really hoping our new MMO home will be a blast. Considering the nod to Mass Effect, how could you not love a server name of The Harbinger?!...

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Inspiring Music

Dec 1, 2011

On Facebook today, SWTOR announced that they will be releasing a new music track each day until launch. Today is The Mandalorian Blockade. You really should give it a listen. Some of it will sound familiar, we've heard portions of the score in various game videos. I...

Ships and Ship Combat and SWTOR Oh My!

Nov 28, 2011

I know one of my big goals from this weekend's large scale beta test was to get far enough along in my story to get my class ship. My soldier got her ship, after a class story quest chain arc, at level 15. The story arc was fun. There were plenty of side quest options...

How a Different Origin Story Can Change the Feel of a Game

Nov 13, 2011

I've been killing time lately waiting for 12/20/2011 (or 12/15/2011), playing various single player RPGs, replaying a few, and being uninspired by any current MMOs. I've already played Mass Effect 1 and 2 as both a female and male Shepard, one heavily on the paragon...

Why Patches and Expansions Won’t Lure Me Back

Oct 26, 2011

(Warning: This has turned into a pretty long rant fest. The thoughts and ideas have been rolling around in my brain for a while. Blizzcon announcements and a recent Twitter conversation with @Thephauxden shook them loose to run amok on my blog.) The first MMO I ever...

Geek Just Another Name for Awesome

Oct 18, 2011

Today's idea started with an anguished Facebook post from a friend. Her son was getting teased by kids at school for being a nerd and she was really mad. A kid he had been friends with the prior year had turned on him and the betrayal was very hard on her son. I could...