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!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Screenshot Saturday… Screenshot Saturday: Back to WoW 6 Jul 2019 Even in the current version of World of Warcraft, I feel nostalgic. I do have a Pandaren sitting at level 110 - I don't even remember playing her much as…
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…
