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First Thoughts: World of Warcraft The War Within

It’s been a busy summer since Dawntrail launched in late June, and now the last week of August marked another MMO expansion for me – World of… Read more “First Thoughts: World of Warcraft The War Within”

(Up top warning – this one breached 10,000 words. It’s 20% of a Nanowrimo novel! Get comfy if you wanna read this one.) On Monday, July 1st,… Read more “A Comprehensive, Spoiler-Laden Discussion Of My Experience With Dawntrail”

Dawntrail’s launch in just about a week (for early access) means a chance to start fresh, attack Final Fantasy XIV from a new angle, and for a… Read more “Rising To Meet The Dawntrail – Tips For Progressing At The Start of a New Final Fantasy XIV Expansion”

This post is part two of my Dawntrail pre-release analysis, looking at everything we have now as I write and using it to try and find some… Read more “Speculating About Dawntrail Part 2 of 2 – The Story, Lore, Characters, and Other Final Fantasy Nods”

With this week’s unveiling of the Dawntrail Media Tour information, including tooltips, a preview of the first dungeon, and getting to see actual gameplay in the new… Read more “Speculating About Dawntrail Part 1 of 2 – Job Actions, Abilities, and What The Changes (Might) Mean”

The War Within beta went live, and with it, a challenging change – the effect of damaging trinkets and cantrip effects (weapon procs) are going down by… Read more “Blizzard’s Shadowboxing Match – Their Fight With Themselves on Tanks, Healers, and Trinkets in The War Within”

There’s a lot to talk about with Final Fantasy XIV lately, as the first major batch of job changes for Dawntrail and the job action trailer have… Read more “My First Expansion Raiding Savage Is In The Books – Some Thoughts on Final Fantasy XIV Raiding Before Dawntrail”

Mists of Pandaria Remix has been out for just over a week and a half now. How’s it going? Uh…both really well and also with a lot… Read more “The Fun, Frustrating Ride of Mists of Pandaria: Remix”

Picture this: you’re healing a dungeon in World of Warcraft, and things are going well, when the boss stops to cast a huge party-wide damage hit. You’ve… Read more “Healing Dungeons in World of Warcraft Dragonflight is a Broken Gameplay Design, and Here’s Why”

The dungeon difficulty changes made to World of Warcraft have been interesting, to say the least. For the uninitiated, the basic rundown is this – in Season… Read more “The First Week: WoW’s New Dungeon Scaling, Experienced Firsthand”