Blessing of Kings

Group play in Age of Conan is an interesting experience. In many ways it is very different than WoW, even though they are both games based o...

It occurs to me that gemming has become very boring these days. It's pretty much choose the best stat for your class and stack it. When...

In an interview on Gameplanet , Ghostcrawler talks about reforging: The way [reforging] works is, instead of being tied to trade skills, now...

Heroic loot distribution in Icecrown Citadel is slightly different than in the three previous tiers. In Naxx, Ulduar, and Trial of the Crusa...

Measuring performance in a raid is somewhat hard. You can do a bit with damage and healing meters, but those meters are often skewed by the ...

I missed this when Gevlon first proposed it, but he proposed a variant on the standard Gold DKP loot system. For those people unaware of GD...

Blizzard announced that they were scrapping the Path of the Titans system and instead fleshing out Glyphs a bit more. Seems like an interest...

In the last post , I discussed what I see as the economics of Free-To-Play versus Subscription games. Here is my reasoning on why Free-To-Pl...

The recent news that Lord of the Rings Online is going Free-To-Play, and being supported by a cash shop instead of subscriptions has reignit...

Jeremy had a very interesting idea in a comment to the last post: I just had an epiphany: Blizzard is building a Raid Finder for a mid-Catac...

First, let us stipulate that there are two types of group content: transient; and extended. Transient group content is content that is expe...

HolyPally - Barth writes in: Basically it is obvious that the paladin needs some sort of AoE heal but nothing amazing because you don't ...

This post was, oddly enough, prompted by Age of Conan rather than WoW. But you get a similar situation in WoW as well. Most hybrids I know m...

Zarhym posts : We have found that most players using the Dungeon Finder don’t use the Vote Kick feature or abandon groups very often. For th...

I know it's been a long while since I posted one of these. I'm probably going to write a post on the AVR mod, and in a lot of ways t...

John asks: I’m running up my human female pally after being away from the game for about a year. I had played a warrior tank for a couple o...

Age of Conan released its first expansion, Rise of the Godslayer, last week. I know I ragged on Age of Conan a lot when it was first releas...

Traditionally, dungeons in WoW were in the hidden corners of the world. Players would get several quests leading them further and further un...

It took a bit longer than it really should have, but at long last I have defeated the Lich King. It was the second kill for my guild. The fi...

The good people at No Starch Press sent me a review copy of The Guild Leader's Handbook . It's written by Scott F. Andrews, a long ...