PvE
Some Thoughts On The New Badge System
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 - 27 Comments
There once was a time when earning a badge meant slogging through a 5-man dungeon over the span of a couple hours, or spending an entire night on downing two or three bosses in a raid. And it was a really long haul towards the ... More
Bad Tuning, Too Many Guilds, Or Too Many Bad Players?
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 - 14 Comments
Since Wrath of the Lich King launched in November I have been in more guilds than I have ever been in my lengthy World of Warcraft career. Now moving on to my fourth (and fifth) guild, I’ve discovered a trend. A trend that I believe ... More
Blue Stew: 9/11/09: Hey! You Got Your PvP In My PvE!
Friday, September 11th, 2009 - 10 Comments
Blue Stew is a new semi-daily column bringing you a delicious concoction of developer news, thoughts, and opinions straight from the boiling pot that is the official World of Warcraft forums. The highlights of each day include additional commentary by Project Lore staff. PvPvPvE Would you look ... More
Is Blizzard Really Short-changing PvP?
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 - 8 Comments
We dedicated players can bicker all we want about Arena balance or Rogues being over-powered, but what about the presence of PvP available in the game itself? When you have a game as popular as World of Warcraft, you’re bound to attract the ire of ... More
The Next Expansion: Sacking A Town
Friday, July 31st, 2009 - 37 Comments
The Next Expansion is an ever growing series of articles that focuses on WoW’s upcoming third expansion. The column covers news, speculation and even gameplay mechanics that PL’s writers would like to see implemented. The little quip about Southshore vs. Tarren Mill in yesterday’s post was ... More
Being A Well-Rounded Raider (And A Better Rogue)
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 - 17 Comments
Combat, Assassination, Sublety. Backstab, Mutilate, Sinister Strike. White, yellow, green damage. These are all important things to consider when you are trying to maximize your DPS, but they aren’t the only things. Not by a long shot. The stab-happy class (and all other classes) also ... More
The Next Expansion: Pure Speculation On WoW v4.0 To v4.4
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - 18 Comments
I, like many of you, absolutely love Warcraft’s lore. We’ve been talking about it much lately, ranging from various quests and zones all the way to the predicted reveal of the upcoming expansion. To be completely honest, the lore is what I spend most of ... More
Questing: Arthas & The Scarlet Onslaught
Monday, July 13th, 2009 - 16 Comments
For reasons unknown I was meet with a good amount of playtime this weekend. Rather then ponder on my good fortunes I set out to plow through level 73 (accomplished) on my priest in an effort to have her join the raiding ranks before Cataclysm ... More
Out of the Comfort Zone and Into the Arena
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 - 20 Comments
I’m not much of a PvPer. Sure, I play on a PvP realm. I hate the Horde (or Alliance, depending on which character I’m playing). I dabbled in battlegrounds. But in MMOs in general, I have never really gotten into the Player vs Player aspects ... More
Patch 3.2: Raiding Lockout Extensions
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 - 9 Comments
Blizzard is known for pulling random, often unrequested, features out of the collective brain trust and adding them to an upcoming patch without warning. Normally people cheer for additions to the default setup. Some of the features just don’t cut it, falling way short of ... More