Blessing of Kings

World of Warcraft from a Paladin's Perspective

Thursday, April 07, 2016

The Missing Element in Competitive Seasons

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Overwatch has released its current plans for competitive ranked play .  Basically, it will have "seasons" that are one month long,...
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Friday, April 01, 2016

One Joke, Two Communities

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Today is April Fool's Day, so the internet is useless as normal. However, I found one interesting thing. Both the Reddit Eve Online and ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Intentional Concessions in Magic: the Gathering

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There's an interesting controversy in tournament-level Magic these days around the concept of "intentional concessions". Bac...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Diablo 3 Season 5

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I recently went back and finished leveling my Season 5 Barbarian in Diablo 3. That makes 5 of 6 classes done, leaving the Witch Doctor for S...
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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Dippling a Toe Back Into WoW

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Hearthstone has a promotion where you can get Lady Liadrin as a hero if you level a new character in World of Warcraft. Despite the fact tha...
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

First Impressions of The Division

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I picked up Tom Clancy's The Division on the weekend. It's a pretty interesting game. The Division is an RPG 3rd-person shooter...
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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Play Diary #6: Ennui

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I haven't actually been playing much over the last week. Blade and Soul BnS has been the game I've played most. The warlock patc...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

FFXIV Patch 3.2: Gears of Change

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FFXIV released its latest patch last week, and I took a look at the contents. So far, it's a pretty solid patch. The main story was go...
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Blade and Soul's 24-Person Zones/Raids

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Blade and Soul has a really interesting variant on raids. It's not exactly a raid. In many ways it's a lot closer to WoW's Timel...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Reprints and the Cartel Market

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The Old Republic is having some drama around its Cartel Market. The Cartel Market follows a collectible card game pack pattern. Every so oft...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Group Mechanics in Blade and Soul

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Blade and Soul has an interesting approach to group mechanics. As I understand, it's not quite Trinity gameplay, but it's not quite ...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

Play Diary #5

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The Old Republic Second raid night, but we only had 5 people on. So we pugged 3 people and we did an alt run of Scum & Villainy HM. I ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Play Diary #4

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The Old Republic Raid night again. This time Ravagers was the highlighted HM operation, so we tried that. We went with two melee, which wa...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Blade And Soul Endgame

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My Force Master reached the level cap of 45 and finished off the story so far. The ending of the story was quite interesting, and went off i...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Play Diary #3

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Blade and Soul I've been focusing on BnS the last couple of days. My Force Master is level 44, about half a level from the current cap...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

F2P Versus Subscription in Blade and Soul

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Normally, if you asked me how to best spend money in a Free-2-Play MMO, I would tell you to buy a subscription. In most F2P MMOs I've se...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Knights of the Fallen Empire: Chapter X

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Chapter X Bioware released the latest chapter for The Old Republic last week. I did the content of Chapter X this weekend. This is the fir...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

Play Diary #2

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Blade and Soul I popped on BnS for 15 minutes to try and get the Jangshi Stalker Hat from the wheel. Suprisingly, I got two hats! Sadly, t...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Play Diary #1

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To get back into the habit of writing, if I can't think of a larger topic, I'm going to write a recap of what I've done in the v...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Blizzard's F2P Model

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The Overwatch beta returned today. This time they included more information on their progression and cash shop model . This is interesting b...
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