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The War Within’s First Mythic Plus Season – Some Early Thoughts and Commentary After Getting Keystone Master

Yesterday, I was able to cross off a major goal for the opening window of Season 1 of The War Within – I accomplished Keystone Master, getting… Read more “The War Within’s First Mythic Plus Season – Some Early Thoughts and Commentary After Getting Keystone Master”

Dragonflight’s Mythic Plus model capitalizes on the changes that Blizzard has been making to WoW. Is it good? I guess that depends. First, I need to state… Read more “Dragonflight Season 1 Mythic Plus – The Ups and Downs”

Mythic Plus is changing quite a bit in Dragonflight, and most of these are, to my eye, positive changes. Currently, in Shadowlands, the way Mythic Plus works… Read more “Mythic Plus In Dragonflight – Fixing A Symptom But Not The Issue?”

Loot is what makes the MMO world go round. Or, well, it can certainly be a powerful motivator. Loot in my two main games is an interesting… Read more “Loot – Discussing The Value, Interest, and Number of Options in Both WoW and FFXIV”

When the beta for Shadowlands started, with me in the first wave of invites, one of the first things I had a strongly negative opinion of was… Read more “The Maw – A Pre-9.1 Design Analysis and My Review”

Around 2 AM local time, I did it. The boss on floor 18 of Layer 8 felled, the achievement pop-up shown, the mount added to my collection.… Read more “The Many-Layered Challenges of the Twisting Corridors of Torghast – My Completely-Solo Journey to the Corridor Creeper”

Last night, I finished both layers 5 and 6 of the Twisting Corridors, getting my Spirestalker title, and it went pretty well. A few mistakes nearly jeopardized… Read more “The Twisting Corridors and 9.1 – Or, What Purpose is There to Them At This Point?”

Today, the news went up – rejoice! With the next weekly reset, raids will be seeing more loot in Shadowlands. Specifically, Castle Nathria is going to a… Read more “Change, Necessary or Not – How The Loot Changes and Their (Sort Of) Reversion Affect Shadowlands”

The guiding principle of Shadowlands rewards has been a desire to return to the more traditional state of WoW – one where each drop matters and feels… Read more “Loot Is Loot – A Followup On Why I Think Shadowlands Loot Feels Bad”

Another major MMO patch launched – arguably larger than the FFXIV patch I detailed in my last post. With patch 9.01, Shadowlands is now, in some ways,… Read more “World of Warcraft Patch 9.01 – Shadowlands Pre-Patch and the Value of Rewards”