Games I’ve played in July

2 Aug 2020

Our vacation is over now and work will start again on Monday. The weather wasn't as bad as we had feared, but far from what I would call "summer". So,…

Vacation Gaming Goals

18 Jul 202018 Jul 2020

Plans were made, then Corona happened. Instead of getting to visit my Greek friends, we're staying home. I already had some vacation days while bookahnerk worked. These were basically to…

My MMOs in July 2020

8 Jul 2020

I am still pondering whether to continue with WoW Classic or not. The lack of Burning Crusade is just too severe for me and I really want my Draenei mage!…

Send help! – Games I’ve been playing in June

3 Jul 2020

I bought both Project Hospital and Old World a couple of weeks ago. One evening, I couldn't decide if I wanted to play Project Hospital or continue playing Old World.…

Screenshot Saturday: Ding Ding!

20 Jun 202020 Jun 2020

My shaman finally hit level 40 in WoW Classic! I realized too late that I don't want to play my warlock and am slowly levelling my shaman now... if only…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Guilds and their leaders

24 May 2020

The members of Dragon Season (a guild on the EU servers in Guild Wars 2) may remember a time where I was actively playing the game and organized our guild…

My top five MMO classes

7 May 202020 Jul 2020

There seem to be a few "top five" lists going around and with my recent post about returning to Lotro and figuring out which class I actually like, I thought…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Choosing the wrong class in MMOs

13 Apr 2020

I usually like the levelling process in MMOs. The amount of alts I have is proof enough! But it does get tedious at some point - both in MMOs with…

My mini mes in 2020

3 Apr 202029 Jun 2020

It's become a bit of a tradition to show off my mini mes during blogging months. Back in August 2015, I made the first post. Then there was a bit…

Once more: Level 60 in WoW

22 Mar 2020

I got my warlock to level 60 on Thursday evening already. But, even with staying at home, life is busy here. I grinded all of the way to level 58…

Which version for WoW Classic?

26 Jan 2020

Now that WoW Classic has been out for a couple of months, the vanilla nostalgia has left and the harsh reality is back. WoW Classic, for me, is much better…

Screenshot Saturday: Tired gaming…

11 Jan 2020

I've never been one to sleep in and get up late, but with my new job, I have to get up at 6 am which is about 30 minutes too…

My Top MMOs in 2019

22 Dec 2019

I originally started this blog because of my love for MMOs. Back then, I'd been impatiently waiting for Guild Wars 2 to come out and spent my time playing Rift…

Update to my November gaming goals

17 Nov 2019

No, I did not finish all my previous gaming goals. But my mood changes frequently and I cannot ever force myself to play something when I'm not in the mood…

Still WoWing

14 Sep 2019

I have settled on a main in WoW with my warlock, but the hunter, priest and shaman are closely following. Since I want to play priest as a disc healer,…

Paeroka’s Next Top Warlock

8 Sep 20198 Sep 2019

I know I previously claimed that my undead warlock in retail World of Warcraft never reached max level before Burning Crusade came out. But that's not true. She was actually…

Screenshot Saturday: WoW Classic Launch

31 Aug 2019

Home again. This time for real. The image below was taken five minutes after WoW Classic launched. This was on the second German PvE server, Razorfen. We have since switched…

Excitedly waiting for an MMO launch

26 Aug 2019

Yesterday, Bookahnerk and I realized that we're as excited about the launch of WoW Classic as we haven't been in ages. I always loved this pre-launch excitement. Not when WoW…

WoW: Ding 120

19 Aug 2019

My warlock finally hit level 120. In a previous post I accidentally claimed that she'd never hit level 60 back in vanilla which isn't true. She was my first level…

My Classic Mini-Mes

13 Aug 2019

After posting my mini mes yesterday, I realized that I'll have to add another post today in order to show you the next ones. It hadn't been clear to me…

My Mini-Mes (August 2019)

12 Aug 201912 Aug 2019

This is the third "Me and my Mini-Mes" posting that I'm doing. The first was for Blaugust 2015. And then I did another last year, for International Picture Posting Month.…

Screenshot Saturday: Thunder Bluff

10 Aug 2019

Home again. Well, almost. This is only the stress test, but they kept the servers open for the weekend, so I'm taking advantage of it by trying all the classes…

WoW Classic: EU Realms

9 Aug 201919 Sep 2019

(Updated server list: September 19, 2019 (8:00pm Berlin time) Blizzard released the names of the European servers for WoW Classic. I am going to list them here as well, so…

WoW: EU Stress Test

8 Aug 20198 Aug 2019

Us Europeans finally got to stress test WoW Classic as well today. The start of the stress test went surprisingly well. Servers were up, filled within seconds. Then they were…

MMOs are weird virtual worlds… – Where’s the toilet?

29 Jul 2019

With the exception of very few MMOs, there are simply no toilets or just in general bathrooms in MMOs. Apparently, there is no need for hygiene? From the top of…

Screenshot Saturday: Levelling gear

20 Jul 2019

Is it just me or does the gear you get while levelling through any expansion of WoW generally look ridiculous? I remember back in classic WoW that I liked the…

Screenshot Saturday: Back to WoW

6 Jul 2019

Even in the current version of World of Warcraft, I feel nostalgic. I do have a Pandaren sitting at level 110 - I don't even remember playing her much as…

Warlock then and now

10 Jun 201910 Jun 2019

As I mentioned before, I decided to give the "old-school" World of Warcraft a try on a private server. Directly after playing a warlock over there, I went back to…

WoW: Choosing a class

2 Jun 2019

As long as a game still has official servers, I am against playing on private servers. On the other hand, WoW Classic is coming up and I am looking forward…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Back to the roots…?

23 May 2019

I guess every MMO enthusiast has heard about WoW Classic by now. At the end of August, servers will open. A few months of playing the "good old World of…