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A New Year's quest log
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Age of Conan, Culture, Events (Real-World), Opinion, Humor Everyone has New Year's resolutions, including MMO players. Here is a two-page list of resolutions we found on...
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EverQuest II adds new achievements of challenging nature
Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, News Items What's makes beating raids in Ruins of Kunark and The Shadow Odyssey even better? Achievements, of course. That's why SOE is adding brand new achievements...
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Don't be a foo, tweet to be a hero (and get closed beta keys for Kung Foo!)
Filed under: Fantasy, Contests, New Titles, News Items, Free-to-Play, Humor, Kung Foo! Do you want to be a cool hero? As cool of a hero as the guy in the picture above? Or, even better, do you want to...
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The Perfect Ten: Non-vanilla server rulesets
Filed under: Age of Conan, Asheron's Call, City of Heroes, Dark Age of Camelot, Darkfall, Dofus, EVE Online, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Fallen Earth, Lord of the Rings Online, Ultima Online, Vanguard,...
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The Daily Grind: Does fighting multiple mobs at once make you feel heroic?
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous One of BioWare's stated goals with Star Wars: The Old Republic was to make players feel more "heroic" by having them wade into packs of...
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Free for All: Making the perfectly flawed character
Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Culture, Opinion, RuneScape, Free-to-Play, Browser, Casual, Roleplaying, Mabinogi, Free for All, Miscellaneous Whenever I play a new MMO, the first thing I want to...
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The Daily Grind: When's the last time an MMO made you feel heroic?
Filed under: Super-hero, Opinion, Free-to-Play, The Daily Grind, DC Universe Online Heroism in MMOs is a tricky thing. Most games cast us as some sort of cosmic fulcrum, but then most games also ask us...
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The Stream Team: Healing heroics in World of Warcraft
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Video, PvE, Massively Meta, Hands-On, Livestream, The Stream Team, Subscription, MMORPG Massively's Mike Foster has finally hit level 90 in World of Warcraft,...
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The Soapbox: The Raid Finder ruined raiding
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Game Mechanics, Guilds, PvE, Opinion, The Soapbox, Dungeons I don't typically limit myself to ranting about only one game at a time, but I decided to make an exception...
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Earlier this month, Paragon earned the high honor of world-first heroic Ragnaros kill, downing the Firelord after over 400 attempts on his fight. Heroic mode encounters add something new and difficult...
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Does the Rise of the Zandalari dungeon tier serve a purpose?
Perhaps what I should be asking is, "Does the Rise of the Zandalari dungeon tier still serve a purpose?" When patch 4.1 launched, the two Zandalari dungeons, Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman, served as a "more...
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Patch 4.3 PTR: Well of Eternity heroic dungeon available for testing
If you've been waiting for the Well of Eternity 5-man heroic dungeon to open on the patch 4.3 PTR, wait no more. It's now available from the Dungeon Finder tool, and you can zone into it successfully....
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BlizzCon 2011: Heroic Scholomance and Scarlet Monastery redesign
One of the most exciting things last year was the announcement that in the Cataclysm expansion there would be a redesign of classic dungeons into new heroic modes for level 85. Shadowfang Keep and The...
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Korean guild KIN Raiders scores world-first heroic Madness of Deathwing
After more than three weeks of intense strategizing, planning, fighting, scandals, and more, the race to world-first heroic Madness of Deathwing kill is over. KIN Raiders, the group that swept by...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: Are heroics really heroic?
Uh-oh, it's semantics time again, combined with a trip to the way-back machine, even! I still have nightmares about heroics back in The Burning Crusade when they were first introduced. In order to...
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5 ways to keep your healer happy in 5-man heroics
While much of Azeroth has been busy engineering the repeated demise of the big Dee-Dubya, many of us are still running 5-man dungeons. Maybe it's for valor points, maybe it's to hit the ilevel...
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5 ways to keep your DPS players happy in 5-man heroics
OK, you can't pretend you didn't see this one coming after the healing and tanking editions. As I may have mentioned, I have less DPS experience than tanking and healing, but from that time in...
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Should transmogrification change the way lockouts function?
I've admitted to my transmogrification habit on a few occasions now. One of the things that it's brought to my attention is that I really, really hate heroic lockouts on content I can easily solo --...
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Dungeon Mastery: Gate of the Setting Sun
Pandaria is under siege by the pesky, bug-like mantid. It reminds me of an alternate universe Starship Troopers. The Serpent's Spine, a massive fortified wall, has kept them out but the mantid have...
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Breakfast Topic: The fly on the wall
Every so often, you find yourself in a PUG where a line in party chat makes you think that something pretty serious is going on behind the scenes. Not long before Mists hit, I was tanking an otherwise...
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