Paeroka's Ponderings… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Railroading in MMOs 24 Jan 2021 It took me a long time until I could finally step into the Shadowlands expansion in World of Warcraft. And I am immediately longing for WoW Classic again (well, the…
Elder Scrolls Online… My MMOs in 2020 25 Dec 202025 Dec 2020 No new MMO has made it on my list this year. I did give New World a try, but ultimately ended up not liking it. It's okay and I am…
World of Warcraft WoW Classic or Retail? 15 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 It is a bit ironic that I returned to WoW because of its classic version, but I am staying in WoW now because of the retail version. If we had…
Elder Scrolls Online… Which MMO does Halloween best? 13 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 I really like the autumn and halloween events in MMOs! When I saw ArenaNet announce the date for their Halloween event (it starts today, by the way) for Guild Wars…
Games… 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,…
Action RPG… 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…
Elder Scrolls Online… 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!…
City-builder/Simulation Game… 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.…
Lord of the Rings Online… 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…
Games… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Games… 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…
World of Warcraft 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… 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…
Elder Scrolls Online… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
World of Warcraft 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,…
Characters/Classes… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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.…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Blogging Months… 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…
Fun!… 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…
Characters/Classes… 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…