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…
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…
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…
Screenshot Saturday… Screenshot Saturday: A long loooong time ago 18 May 2019 This is a screenshot from 2006 showing my main character at the time, my undead warlock. Since it shows her with an uninteresting background, I strongly assume I took this…
Elder Scrolls Online… Mixing my MMO 14 Apr 201914 Apr 2019 I am currently playing very different MMOs, because they each give me something I want from this genre while lacking in other areas. Elder Scrolls Online has this seemingly huge…
Characters/Classes… Pet classes and MMOs 27 May 2018 I have often seen people ask "Will there be a pet class?" before an MMO released and it appears that this is the deciding factor in whether they're interested in…
Fluff… Cities in MMOs 9 Jan 2018 One thing that's been bothering me about Rift since its release is the lack of "proper" towns and cities. The "main city" of the Guardian faction, Sanctum, is a building…
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…
Fluff… WoW: Say cheeeeese! 22 Sep 2016 Now who's more photogenic, eh? I like how silly World of Warcraft is sometimes. I had seen that they implemented the S.E.L.F.I.E. camera some time ago, but both my characters…
Expansion… Revisiting World of Warcraft 13 Sep 2016 Who isn't back to World of Warcraft? This was the question I asked myself a lot lately when looking at blog posts or tweets. And once I mentioned it to…
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…
Fluff… One feature I would want in GW2 from WoW 8 Feb 201610 Feb 2016 There is one feature that I would truly love to see in Guild Wars 2: Archaeology from World of Warcraft. Let me explain first what archaeology is, for those of…
Blogging Months… My favourite “Evergreen-Game” – Blaugust Day 15 14 Aug 201514 Aug 2015 This post is part of Blaugust and I decided to "take a break" from the posts I've planned to do in order to write about one of the prompts: What…
Blogging Months… Impressions from Gamescom 2015 – Blaugust Day 11 9 Aug 2015 Thursday is the day where gamescom is usually the least busy out of all the days that are open to the general public. But it is still far from empty! That's…
Characters/Classes… Hello there, do I know you? 4 Nov 2014 Perfect timing from Blizzard... Just when I feared I would have nothing to write about on the 4th day of NaBloPoMo, they sent me an email reminder that the offer…
Fun!… World of Warcraft: 10 years – 10 questions 7 Sep 2014 I stumbled upon a post by the ALT:ernative chat blog asking former and current World of Warcraft players 10 questions. This post is from August, so I was worried I'd…
Expansion… The excitement of getting an expansion 13 Apr 2014 If you're following Rift, you may have noticed that they're handling their second expansion, Plane of Water, differently than they did the previous one or than what other MMO developers…
Guild Wars 2… Me and my Mini-Mes… 19 Nov 201318 Nov 2013 After I had written about the online game I've been playing the longest, I figured I should "revisit" all my MMO characters. Mentioned and shown below are only the ones…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (January 17, 2013) 17 Jan 2013 Welcome to today’s Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! The place about miscellaneous interesting news related to Guild Wars 2 – and on occasion, other games. This is our first post this year. I…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch: Arrrr thar other games? 19 Sep 201227 Oct 2012 Welcome t' today’s Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! Th' place about miscellaneous interestin' news related t' Guild Wars 2 – an' on occasion, other games. This time, we be havin' a slightly different…
