World of Warcraft, of course, has for years had a vibrant blogging community that entertained and inspired readers, but nowadays it’s nice to see a new pack of SWTOR blogs popping up as well. The following is a list of blogs curated from my Reader* and a few collections that were posted earlier this week. [...]

Panacea hit 44 last night! It is seeming distinctly likely that one day I will actually reach 50! There haven’t been a ton of changes between 30 and 40. Most of my skills have just been upgrades of existing talents. I did get group stealth at 43 — me and my party can be stealthed [...]

Let’s get a little controversial all up in here! There was a big todo in the blog world this week about skimpy gear on female characters, and it’s kind of been making me cranky. I feel like the conversation has unfortunately fallen into a common rhetorical trap, and I dislike it when things that are [...]

The above image was taken from the front page of the Firefall website. You know, after years of playing video games and reading fantasy novels I’m used to inhuman physiology in related artwork. I can overlook the fact that this woman’s right shoulder doesn’t seem to exist. (Seriously, try and figure out where her right [...]

There seems to be a feeling of regret floating around old school WoW raiders lately. I’ve seen it in other places, but this post over on Raging Monkeys does a great job of summing up the conflict. Syl writes, “To this day, I am deeply resentful; resentful of Blizzard, of the game’s later raid designs [...]

This post is pretty much entirely speculation and thinking out loud. I think at this point no one can deny that SWTOR has been incredibly polarizing. Quite a few people are enjoying it and will defend the game, and the folks who don’t like it… well, let’s just say they really don’t like it. I’ve [...]

While I still dawdle around in my leveling, a number of my guildies have powered on through to 50 with the bulk of them hitting the magic number some time last weekend. (As I say snottily to anyone who points out my being merely level 41, “Look, guilds don’t run themselves.” In truth I just [...]

I had a really facinating discussion on Google+ earlier this week about the use of casual homophobic slurs in gaming and why it should be actively discouraged. It made me think about this blog, and how I am hugely into the “politics” side of gaming but I rarely bring it up here. In retrospect, it [...]

The more time that elapses between me and my hardcore raiding days, the more of an MMO luddite I become. I mean, I am an internet nerd who loves working with information streams and optimizing processes, and one of the things I liked about WoW in the first place was the openness of data. How [...]