Blogging Months… Promptapalooza No. 8: Share characters that tell us something about you 8 Aug 202023 Aug 2020 This is a post belonging to the Promptapalooza. I'm using Tessa's prompt: "Share characters that tell us something about you." I've found this prompt rather difficult at first because I…
Characters/Classes… LotRO: New race coming (with female dwarves) 4 Aug 20195 Aug 2019 I was surprised when I saw on MassivelyOP that Standing Stone Games, the developers of Lord of the Rings Online, announced a new race for the game. The news was…
Characters/Classes… 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…
Action RPG… Too many choices in Grim Dawn 7 Apr 20197 Apr 2019 When the 2nd (and last) expansion for Grim Dawn was announced, I didn't think I'd want to buy it on its release day, because I didn't see that it comes…
Characters/Classes… Guild Wars 2 vs. Rift vs. Trove: Part 3 (Character Creation) 12 Apr 201517 May 2015 This is the third post in the blog post series "Guild Wars 2 vs. Rift vs. Trove". The title may suggest that at the end of this series, I will…
Game Design… Class names and expectations 7 Nov 2014 I was just baking some bread while listening to a Trove stream (this one, to be precise) when the streamer was asked if Trove was going to add a healing…
Characters/Classes… Hall of Monuments: Armor 2 Nov 2012 As you probably know, playing Guild Wars 1 gives you certain rewards in Guild Wars 2. A few days ago, I remembered that I had them and hopped over to…
Game Design… Guild Wars 2: A FAQ for new players 1 Jun 201217 Apr 2013 You may already know the first version of this FAQ. I decided to rewrite it, update it and put newer screenshots in. So here is the new version. A very…
Characters/Classes… Criticizing Guild Wars 2 28 May 20128 Apr 2015 DISCLAIMER: If you want to criticize my post, feel free to do so (constructively, of course). However, if you want to do so, please READ it. Especially point 4 and…
Guild Wars 2… Crosspost from TT: Sylvari – The Elves of Guild Wars 2! 11 May 20129 May 2015 This is another crosspost from Talk Tyria. If you want to add a comment, please add it there. Thank you. :) The sylvari, together with the asura, are the races…
Characters/Classes… Naming and customizing your characters 27 Jan 201227 Oct 2012 I showed my STO character to my colleague (believe it or not, we actually do work in between chatting about games, I just don't blog about our work here ^^)…
Characters/Classes… Of merchandise, collector’s editions and Sylvari 12 Aug 201112 Aug 2011 Some time ago, a small package had arrived. I recognised the sender (a German site about online games). I was curious and opened it and... had no idea why I'd…
Account Security… Rift vs. LotRO vs. World of Warcraft – a closer look at all three MMOs (all entries in one) 20 Jun 201128 Mar 2013 This is the full version of entries that have been published in the last week! I just thought it might be nicer to have everything in one huge entry instead…
Characters/Classes… Asuran Madness! 30 May 201127 Oct 2012 When the playable races for Guild Wars 2 were first announced, I was a bit "meh" about Asuras at first. I usually like playing the tiny races. In this case,…
Characters/Classes… Character Design: Star Trek Online 28 May 201127 Oct 2012 I bought Star Trek Online about a week ago for 3,50€ at Amazon. Yesterday, it was on sale at Steam for 2,75€. A friend and bookahnerk both bought this version…