Blogging Months… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Why I stopped liking Guild Wars 2 24 Aug 2019 What to do when you're actually just waiting for your nostalgia trip to start in World of Warcraft Classic? I thought I'd like to advance my guardian further into Mirkwood.…
Fluff… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Mounts in MMOs 7 Aug 2019 This post isn't about whether MMOs should have mounts or not. I love them and even Guild Wars 2 found a way to implement them in a meaningful way. However,…
Guild Wars 2… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Vertical maps 7 Jul 2019 For a while, I'd been very excitedly levelling my guardian in LotRO and was really happy when she'd gotten to level 50. But then, a few levels into Mines of…
Characters/Classes… 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…
Paeroka's Ponderings… 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…
Community… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Goodbye, Rift? 23 Oct 201823 Oct 2018 As some of you know, I love Trion Worlds and the games they have created - well, most of them, at least. I have not always agreed with their decisions,…
Game Design… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Defiance 2050 4 May 20183 Aug 2019 I had originally planned to write about my impressions of the Defiance 2050 beta, but for several reasons, I have not been playing it enough to warrant a whole and…
Characters/Classes… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Racial skills? 5 Feb 2017 I have recently tried hopping into Elder Scrolls Online again and as I want a fresh start, I looked up guides and possible builds for the classes, to get a…
Game Design… Paeroka’s Ponderings: When is a game worth your money? 17 Sep 201617 Sep 2016 I know there are a lot of gamers with a huge backlog of games and a bad conscience whenever they get yet another game even though there is this long…
Combat… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Gear and level-advantages in PvP 28 Aug 201628 Aug 2016 Some time ago, I read a topic in the German section of the Black Desert Online forum where a player suggested that the game's PvP may be better if there…
Game Design… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Bored-out instead of Burnout? 6 Jul 20166 Jul 2016 Excuse the bad pun up there, but something got me thinking... In a conversation about GW2's content drought, somebody wrote (I don't have a link, so I'll paraphrase here out…
Game Design… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Original vs. expansion “maps” 16 May 201616 May 2016 When an MMO originally launches, I often find myself exploring the world and simply enjoying the stories that can be found. When you play a hobbit in Lord of the…
Game Design… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Splitting your game in two 27 Feb 201617 Apr 2016 A few weeks ago, Daybreak Games announced H1Z1 being split into two games, H1Z1: Just Survive and H1Z1: King of the Hill. Is splitting your games in two about to…
Paeroka's Ponderings… Paeroka’s Ponderings: Spending money in Trion’s games 29 Jan 2016 A side note first: I am very late with continuing the "Blogging 101" challenges, as I did not have any good ideas for some of the last tasks. Blogging 101…
Blogging Months… Blogging 101: A little fly on the wall… 20 Jan 201631 Jan 2016 Day 11 of "Blogging 101" asked me to take a daily prompt and make it fit to my blog's content. The first prompt was boring as I had more or…
Games… Busy October 10 Oct 201531 Jan 2016 As I mentioned back in August, October is a pretty busy month with several games releasing or adding updates that I've been looking forward to. There is one notable exception.…
Blogging Months… Why the rush? – Blaugust Day 16 14 Aug 201531 Jan 2016 I was so close to level 18 with my spellslinger, that I headed off to a nearby quest hub, grabbed all the quests I saw, killed whatever had the quest-icon…
