Guild Wars 2 Finally a gourmet in Guild Wars 2 16 May 2021 One of the good things of returning to an MMO after not having played it much for a longer time is that there is so much to discover (in MMOs…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (May 2021) 2 May 2021 Guild Wars 2: What's coming next I actually wasn't expecting ArenaNet to give us a timeline of what's coming when in the next few months, but they did! The highlight…
Guild Wars 2 Things I’ve never done in Guild Wars 2 14 Feb 2021 I admit that I never liked playing norn. I do like them in general and I like their culture, but they are just so... huge and slow with their running…
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…
Games… Favourite game intros 12 Nov 2020 A German streamer has a little series where he watches game intros with the viewers and they rate them together. While watching, I was wondering which game intros I personally…
Characters/Classes… Necromancer or Revenant for rediscovering Guild Wars 2… 8 Nov 20208 Nov 2020 After writing here that I want to replay through the old zones of Guild Wars 2 with my new necromancer, I decided to take a look at the revenant. A…
Guild Wars 2 Replaying vanilla Guild Wars 2 4 Nov 2020 I previously tried to get into the necromancer, the thief and the ranger again. For some reason, when I don't play a class for some time, I forget about the…
Crystal Ball… Guild Wars 2: Roadmap for the next 7 months 1 Nov 20201 Nov 2020 I was so happy to see ArenaNet post a roadmap for the game. Even though I fully expect the possibility of delays (as it says: "subject to change"), it is…
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…
Account Security… Return to Guild Wars now! 1 Oct 2020 As Massively notes, Guild Wars (1) doesn't require a character name to log in anymore. Well, in my case, the recent change doesn't make a difference. I always kept screenshots…
Community… A friendly competition 19 Sep 202019 Sep 2020 I found this post in my drafts. It was originally written back in 2014 and should have been the teaser post for a roleplaying event in our Guild Wars 2…
Guild Wars 2 GW2: Ascended Armor 2/3 9 Sep 20209 Sep 2020 How late exactly am I? I finally finished my second ascended armor set. That is, my mesmer got her cloth version... years ago, I guess. For a long time, I…
Guild Wars 2… Screenshot Saturday: Fighting Drakkar 22 Aug 2020 I know, I am very late to this fight, but I have never actually done that one before. As always, I hated the amount of boom, bam and colours and…
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,…
Guild Wars 2… Screenshot Saturday: Being a rebel 1 Aug 2020 Yes, well... In her defence, she came from the other side!
Guild Wars 2 Jumping into Path of Fire again 31 Jul 2020 For some weird reason, I suddenly felt the urge to play Guild Wars 2 again. Since I am now focusing on the warrior and had only played through the expansion…
Characters/Classes… I have finally chosen a main character for Guild Wars 2 20 Jul 202020 Jul 2020 Since before the game's launch (August 2012), I've been switching between the mesmer and the warrior as my main characters, not knowing which one to choose and focus on. I…
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… Top Five most viewed posts 2 May 2020 After the Top Five game series, there's now another top five: the most viewed posts. SDWeasel of Unidentified Signal Source started it, I think. Naithin from Time to Loot followed…
Blogging Months… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch: Free stuff in MMOs 29 Apr 202029 Apr 2020 Lord of the Rings Online extended its period where you can play all content - that is: all quest packs - for free. You can now play the game without…
Blogging Months… What’s the point in housing? 25 Apr 2020 In a post musing about the problems with housing in MMOs, Roger from Contains Moderate Peril said that you can ask 100 players and will get 100 answers as to…
Blogging Months… Hair and MMO characters 6 Apr 20206 Apr 2020 MassivelyOP had a fun yet fascinating topic for their Daily Grind column. Which MMO has the best character hair in the genre? I decided to muse about that here instead…
Crystal Ball… Guild Wars 2: Third expansion coming! 12 Mar 2020 Now that was a surprise (...and it's not April 1 either!). When reading through ArenaNet's latest news article about upcoming features, I skimmed over it and thought to myself: Okay…
Action RPG… My Top Games of the Decade 31 Dec 2019 Writing about my Top Games of 2019 was a bit too short-sighted, apparently. I have seen others talk about their games of the decade - most recently Rakuno's post. And…
Blogging Months… Screenshot Saturday: Whisper in the Dark 23 Nov 2019 Just a few screenshots, no spoilers of the story! (IntPiPoMo count: 48 in total)
Games… Gaming nostalgia: What about Guild Wars? 31 Oct 2019 I think it was Rift with their Prime server that started the nostalgia trip into the beginnings of several MMOs. Rift Prime launched in March 2018 and community-wise it was…
Blood Legion Homelands… Fresh air in Guild Wars 2 20 Oct 2019 While I'm spending most of my time playing WoW Classic at the moment, I did not miss that Guild Wars 2 got a content update for the living story recently.…
Games Games I’ve been playing – August 2019 2 Sep 2019 I would like to keep this blog a little more active than it's been in the past months - with the exception of Blaugust, obviously. So while I still have…
