MMOs and me: 2022

2 Jan 20232 Jan 2023

I find myself playing MMOs a lot less often than I have two years ago. There are several reasons for that, I think. One is the lack of time and…

Screenshot Saturday: Back to Wow… again… again… again

20 Aug 2022

After being away for a year, I decided to return to WoW Classic. My initial goal had been to level my mage and get her through Burning Crusade. But that…

WoW Dragonflight Impressions of The Azure Span (Warning: Spoiler!)

2 Aug 20222 Aug 2022

I got an invite to the alpha of World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion and decided to take a look. I don't want to write much about it as my goal…

Would you play your favorite MMO without its IP?

25 Sep 2021

Massively OP mused about this question recently... and since it's a question, of course my brain started trying to answer it for myself. Star Trek Online was mentioned right in…

Meanwhile in German WoW Classic…

22 Apr 202122 Apr 2021

After the latest patch, I logged on and got very annoyed as without a warning, all addons had been reset. Why was that? As much as I love using addons,…

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…

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…

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…

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 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,…

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…

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!…

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…

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,…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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: 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…

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…

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…