gaming nostalgia
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LotRO then and now
I was dipping my toes into the Vanguard emulation server and thought to myself that Lord of the Rings Online aged a lot better. Both games released in 2007. Then again, it’s hardly a fair comparison as LotRO is still getting active development and Vanguard shut down in July 2014. But it left me wondering:…
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Replaying vanilla Guild Wars 2
I previously tried to get into the necromancer, the thief and the ranger again. For some reason, when I don’t play a class for some time, I forget about the class’s skills. The only two where this isn’t the case are the mesmer and the warrior – but only for the weapons I’ve been using…
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A friendly competition
I found this post in my drafts. It was originally written back in 2014 and should have been the teaser post for a roleplaying event in our Guild Wars 2 guild. However, some (minor) guild drama arose and the event consequently never happened. I almost forgot I ever wrote it, but when going through my…
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Promptapalooza No. 16: My earliest memory of Guild Wars
This Promptapalooza prompt was shared by Syp from Bio Break: “What is your earliest memory related to one of your core fandoms?” I decided to tell you about Guild Wars, because Guild Wars 2 has been the core of this blog for many years. I still have the email archived: “Join the Guild Wars Factions…
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Screenshot Saturday: New dervish
I didn’t think ArenaNet would run sales for Guild Wars on Black Friday, but they did. So I bought a new character slot to play a new dervish on my main account. I do have two other accounts, but I never actively played on them. I like being able to send my new character whatever…
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Gaming nostalgia: What about Guild Wars?
I think it was Rift with their Prime server that started the nostalgia trip into the beginnings of several MMOs. Rift Prime launched in March 2018 and community-wise it was nostalgia as everybody started new and there were no expansions out yet. Apart from that, it was the same as on the live servers. Still,…
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Still WoWing
I have settled on a main in WoW with my warlock, but the hunter, priest and shaman are closely following. Since I want to play priest as a disc healer, just as I used to do in the “good old days”, they’re not really a competition. Yes, they, because I have a female dwarf priest…
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Screenshot Saturday: WoW Classic Launch
Home again. This time for real. The image below was taken five minutes after WoW Classic launched. This was on the second German PvE server, Razorfen. We have since switched to Lakeshire which hasn’t had any bad queues so far. Razorfen’s queue has calmed down as well, though, since Blizzard increased the servers’ capacity. The…
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Screenshot Saturday: Thunder Bluff
Home again. Well, almost. This is only the stress test, but they kept the servers open for the weekend, so I’m taking advantage of it by trying all the classes as they were in classic. I only died once, so far, because I left my character right where hostile cougars respawned… funnily enough: Right in…
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WoW Classic: EU Realms
(Updated server list: September 19, 2019 (8:00pm Berlin time) Blizzard released the names of the European servers for WoW Classic. I am going to list them here as well, so you can either follow the link or just continue reading. The US ones can be found here. Name Type Language Population Ashbringer PvP English High…
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Paeroka’s Ponderings: Vertical maps
For a while, I’d been very excitedly levelling my guardian in LotRO and was really happy when she’d gotten to level 50. But then, a few levels into Mines of Moria… I stopped playing. I had also missed the announcement that Mirkwood launched despite reading the dev tracker regularly. They added it in a post…
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Paeroka’s Ponderings: Back to the roots…?
I guess every MMO enthusiast has heard about WoW Classic by now. At the end of August, servers will open. A few months of playing the “good old World of Warcraft” again sounds like a nice thing to do. So far, I have played Rift Prime, the “classic” – or rather, progression – server in…
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Screenshot Saturday: A long loooong time ago
This is a screenshot from 2006 showing my main character at the time, my undead warlock. Since it shows her with an uninteresting background, I strongly assume I took this screenshot to show off the Dreadsteed! It is a mount exclusive to warlocks. In the beginning, it required completing a questline at level 60. According…
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8 years of Nerdy Bookahs!
I kind of missed our blog’s anniversary. I know it is in March, but I thought it would be this weekend when it was on March 12. I guess it really shows that I haven’t had as much time as I would have liked to devote to blogging in the past year. Back in March…
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Screenshot Saturday: 10 years in LotRO
Apparently, this screenshot was taken today, 10 years ago, on March 16, 2009. It’s the first screenshot I took of the “real” Lord of the Rings Online. A friend had referred me and I had just started my free 14 day trial before finally buying the game. When I found this screenshot, I was confused…
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