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gamepath with wow 3.2.0a

limsk — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:54:54 +0800

Anyone using gamepath having problems with the latest patch of wow 3.2.0a?

Mine just crashes out in about 4-5 seconds everytime i launch wow.exe from Freecap 3.16

Prodigal sons return to WOW

limsk — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:55:53 +0800

Two of my ex-guildees who "quit" WOW with a lot of rhetoric and a whole list of complaints have returned after an unsuccessful spell at LOTR Online. Ironic that a month ago they were singing praises of LOTRO and putting down WOW - great story, man, WAY better than WOW, great instance design WAY better than WOW, etc, etc. Looks like they found out the greener grass was actually just painted green hahaha!

Not to be (all) gloating, I loved the original LOTR books, and I loved the LOTR movies so I have tried LOTRO and for the most part the story and questing are a great experience that draws you into the world, especially if you have grown up reading Tolkien's originals as I have. The advantage of LOTRO is that it is based on a huge, fully developed storyline, so it is bound to be richer compared to WOW which was developed from the ideas and themes from the RTS game Warcraft.

Having said that, there still has to be a game underneath all that deep storyline. Rich background and atmosphere is great the first time but becomes a chore on your third or fourth time round. For me, WOW has much more of interest to occupy a players time after the initial euphoria and novelty wears off. Plus you dont get to play Uruk-hai in LOTRO just the prissy humans and human-looking races (Dwarves, Elves, Hobbits).

Monster play (taking the role of various mobs) in LOTRO is ftw though - so much fun that entire guild sessions have been organized around monster play days.

Patch 2.1 = server is dead

limsk — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:57:52 +0800

Server is status bungkus since last night. Guess I will be staying up to watch the Champions' league final waiting for my character list to load.

I love patch days.

Armory Stat Signature Generator

limsk — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:55:10 +0800

Try this out:
http://siggen.xembler.org/

Generates a signature from your Armory stats that you can link to or save the image for upload.

comixtra?

limsk — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:56:51 +0800

Anyone know if Comixtra is still around? They used to operate from Section 14 opposite what is now the Digital Mall.

Armorry profiles

limsk — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:40:31 +0800

Post up your Armory profiles and show off your character and hard-earned loot.

My main:
Gazhkull, 70 Orc Warrior

So what do you guys think about TBC

limsk — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:00:13 +0800

Those of us lucky enough to have gotten TBC at launch should have been playing nearly a week. So what do you guys think?

For me I have been playing since the 17th and currently level 62 (about 4 bars to 63) and I have having a helluva lot of fun, other than the lag from 500 players running all over the Hellfire Peninsular killing everything that moves. Still, its not so bad for far east players like us due to the time difference if you play in the evenings.

Its like starting WOW as a new player again with so many things to do - new guests, gear, factions. I dropped all my unfinished pre-TBC quests to make room for the dozens of new quests. The new 5-man instances are very fun - a good group can finish them 1-1.5 hours which is very easy to slot into your playtime.

I'm glad i didnt grind for some of the pre-TBC gear which wil be outclassed by the new items for most people. Almost everyone of my guildmates has already dropped MC/BWL gear for greens and blues. If you (like me) arent loaded with Naxx epics you can expect to be making gear upgrades each time you run an instance. My warrior who started with a mix of PVP and MC/ZG epics has seen huge improvements in gear since starting TBC. I've already done two talent respecs and AP has zoomed from 950 to almost 1200.

Since everyone is running 5-mans there should be no surprise that tanks and healers are in strong demand. The minute i login as my warrior, I sometimes get two or three whispers asking if i'd like to tank HF: Ramparts or HF: Blood Furnace. Since I was a PVP-head for more than a year, I had to relearn tanking again but boy, I have never felt so appreciated Heck, I'm even thinking of a third respec to get some protection talents.

Yeah and i made a BE paladin - just like 1000 other players from my server Some guys have already made an all-paladin horde guild called "OMG Pallies". Some of the older gamers might remember a crappy sci-fic TV show from the 70s called "Man from Atlantis", and will cringe when they see the bloodelves swim just like the title character from that show (Patrick Duffy).

So short version is: Yes, i am enjoying TBC a lot - sorry for the long-winded diatribe