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February in Final Fantasy XIV and World of Warcraft – Big Announcements Incoming? (Yes)

February 2021 marks two major COVID-era milestones for my two main-play MMOs. Firstly, this weekend, with the FFXIV virtual fan fest, and an announcement which is all… Read more “February in Final Fantasy XIV and World of Warcraft – Big Announcements Incoming? (Yes)”

Last week, I wrote in detail about the build and setup of my entire new rig, from the desk to the PC. With a week of use… Read more “Sidenote: Observations After One Week of a Custom Loop Watercooled PC”

WoW’s patch cycle has one bit of predictability, which is this – the x.1 patch for an expansion is, generally, an extension of the ideas present in… Read more “Shadowlands, 9.1, and What To Expect For Gameplay – My Predictions”

Esports is a growth industry, but I think it faces a large problem that is simple to understand in many ways – what is happening on-screen is… Read more “Thoughts on a Half-Watched Mythic Dungeon International and What It Does To World of Warcraft”

You may have (possibly!) noticed I have been rather quiet the last few days. That is simple enough to explain – as I mentioned in a post… Read more “Sidenote: My Long, Sometimes Frustrating Weekend of Building My New Desk and Watercooled PC”

A lot of my recent posts about Shadowlands have had a certain theme to them, which is easy enough to state: Blizzard did not do a great… Read more “Shadowlands and Change Management – Where Things Went Awry”

Tank design in most holy trinity MMOs boils down to managing a trifecta of gameplay components for a player to focus on and learn – managing threat,… Read more “Tanks for the Threat – Threat Changed In Shadowlands and I Don’t Like It”

This one is kind of just a fun personal story, because I spent most of the day fending off our dog as deliverypeople came one by one… Read more “Sidente (Sort Of, I Guess?): My New Desk/Office/Streaming Setup Planning and Parts”

Shadowlands is a weird expansion to me, in a way. Last night, before going to bed, I had a completely random thought that serves as my starting… Read more “Shadowlands (Nearly) Two Months In – My More Experienced Thoughts on the Expansion”

WoW fans – I have a post in the works about the game for later this week. It dives into the concluding lore of the Kyrian covenant… Read more “Sidenote: Intel Rocket Lake, Core 11th Gen Benchmarks, and a Better Intel”