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 20207 May 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…

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: 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Revisiting World of Warcraft

13 Sep 201629 Jun 2020

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…

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…

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…

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…