Juxtaposed Life

Category: World of Warcraft

  • My return to WoW, the 2013 edition.

    Night One Twenty Seven days ago, after a 28 month hiatus, I returned to the the World of Warcraft. Why return after so long? This was compelled due to memories coming back to me after several people I know had returned to it, and were talking about it.Since burning crusade I have played almost exclusively…

  • 2010 Holiday Gaming Update

    Holiday Gaming Grab Over the holiday’s due to some great sales I acquired a few new (to me) games and I wanted to record their purchase: Fallout New Vegas  $30 Steam Call of Duty: Black Ops $30 Amazon The Witcher $5 Steam Prince of Persia (2008) $5 Steam Battlefield Bad Company 2 $5 Steam Uncharted:…

  • I Approve Shattering Azeroth

    As I do with most MMO discussions, I have strong opinions about the changed the Shattering of Azeroth wrought on quests. There have been several blog posts and twitter discussion about it and as usual I have not engaged in them.  I don’t engage, because I can’t seem to be succinct or quick enough to…

  • Thought Collection: Blizzcon 2010

    No I am not part of some secret plot to steal other people’s thoughts.  I am in fact collecting several of my own thoughts on various topics and storing them away, for future reference. Expectations and Announcements I am sick of hearing about how dull this year’s con was simply because Blizzard did not use…

  • Bad vs Good Matchmaking

    Hello again everyone.   Its been a busy summer for me, I have made sure to keep some time to play games and I figure its time for another “what I’ve been playing” update.    This time two games I’ve played approached a system in such strong opposite fashion that I’ve title my post around it.  Matchmaking.…

  • Cataclysmic Raids

    Wowhead posted some new information about the upcoming expansion, Cataclysm.  While I’m disappointed in the “Path of the Titans” loss, and not completely sold on their take on “Guild Leveling”, I was very happy to find this little nugget: Raid Lockouts Here’s another big change—they’ve added a great deal of flexibility to raid lockouts. Rather…

  • Frantic Friday

    While I was thinking about a quick post about things I was playing, watching, listening to, all the talk about Lord of the Rings Online going F2P helped tipped my hand.   Thus here I am actually sitting down to type out words on the blog. LOTRO F2P I have not even started to read everything…

  • I’m Already Saved

    With all the discussion’s lately of cataclysm Raid changes, my mind started pondering how much I don’t like the way current Raid IDs are implemented.   In doing so I started thinking about ways I would improve the system and came to the same conclusion I did a few years back.   When I do this sort…