Project Lore: Five dudes. Four cameras. One World of Warcraft.

Posted by iTZKooPA on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 9 Comments

Tags: Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom, C'thun, debuff, encounter, Faceless Ones, grinding, instancing, lore, Nerubian, PUG, pugging, spiders, the old kingdom

I first recall hearing about the Faceless Ones – in World of Warcraft - around the time of Ahn’Qiraj and its faction’s leader, C’Thun. While I can not recall why they came up in this context exactly, I assume it was because of the link between Forgotten Ones leading the Faceless Ones. [...]

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Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 - 11 Comments

Tags: Alleria Windrunner, Anduin Lothar, blackhand, Death Knight, Gul'dan, Khadgar, Kurdran Wildhammer, lore, lore nerd, Orgrim Doomhammer, Paladin, reading, second war, the novel post, Turalyon, warcraft novels, Zul'Jin

Aaron Rosenberg, like many of the authors Blizzard has been hiring, has managed to write for some hot properties. The New York/New Jersey native’s work spans StarCraft, Warcraft, Star Trek, Warhammer, and he also manages to design roleplaying games. Even with all of this material, I somehow managed to never read anything by him. [...]

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Posted by Bastosa on Thursday, January 1st, 2009 - 13 Comments

Tags: christmas event, holiday, merrymaker, mounts, seasonal event, winter veil

So I am now proudly wearing the Merrymaker title over my head, and am still on track for my violet proto-drake. As I look back at the Winter Veil holiday event there is one thing above all else I am grateful for. There was not special holiday boss with a super rare mount drop!! Don’t [...]

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Posted by Juggynaut on Friday, December 26th, 2008 - 20 Comments

Tags: Alliance, dalaran, handful of snowflakes, holiday, holiday spirit, Horde, mistletoe, reindeer, snowball, spirit, winter revelers

Now with presents actually under the Winter Veil Trees in Ironforge and Orgrimmar, all of us in Azeroth have a bunch of ways to show off our holiday cheer. Blizzard has put in a lot of great ways for players to interact with each other - we can sprinkle handfuls of snowflakes on people, kiss [...]

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Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, December 22nd, 2008 - 13 Comments

Tags: arthas, betrayal, drakuru, firefly, grinding, icecrown, lick king, questing, zul'drak

What, no meal with this flight? Before Wrath hit, I admitted that I was awaiting its release far more than its predecessor, The Burning Crusade. Blizzard Entertainment planned to do things with The Burning Crusade that I just did not agree with. And if you ever state a fact along those lines in General [...]

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Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, December 15th, 2008 - 6 Comments

Tags: Achievements, egbert, events, holidays, moral choices, sleepy willy, Vanity pets, winter veil

My second favorite holiday inside Azeroth is finally upon us. While I am not certain where the IRL version of Feast of Winter Veil ranks (“Awesome, more socks!” and the inevitable, “No Grandma, I’m still not married.”), I certainly love Blizzard’s version of the holiday season. It’s partially because of the fact [...]

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Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, December 1st, 2008 - 24 Comments

Tags: Achievements, girlfriend, grinding, holiday, holiday break, level 80, Priest, refer-a-friend, Rogue, vacation

I don’t know about you guys, but I have enough turkey left in the fridge to make open-face turkey sammies for a week. Coincidentally, that is the perfect meal to eat while you are slaving away at those XP bubbles or taking down your next heroic. Quick and easy to prepare, with little need [...]

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Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 - 16 Comments

Tags: age of conan, closed mmorpg, competition, layoffs, ncsoft, polish, richard garriott, tabula rasa, ultima online, warhammer online

I am not sure how many of you may have heard of this game, but earlier this week it was announced that Tabula Rasa, a MMORPG set in an original science fiction universe, will be closing early next year. The closure of another AAA MMORPG title is never good for the market, as it [...]

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Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, November 17th, 2008 - 44 Comments

Tags: malygos, naxxramas, nihilum, patch 3.1, raids, sk-gaming, twentyfifthnovember, wotlk, wrath, wrath defeated

We all knew that there would be plenty of people out their racing to hit level 80 as soon as possible. Not you racing against your friend or guildmate. I mean someone who would take vacation, go without sleep, eat dry packets of Ramen (hey, the saliva will hydrate it) and pee in empty [...]

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Posted by Bastosa on Thursday, November 13th, 2008 - 12 Comments

Tags: black temple, burning crusade, Karazhan, memeories, raiding, wrath of the lich king

With Wrath upon us I thought I would take a moment to look back at all the great times I had with the burning crusade. Sure it may seem silly to wax philosophical about a video game… but I must admit I had some absolutely great times playing it. With WoW, I was a little late [...]

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