Drama Mamas: Choosing between raiding and friendships
Drama Mamas Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are experienced gamers and real-life mamas — and just as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor of the checkout lane next to the candy, neither do we want you to become known as That Guy on your realm. In the video above, Candace’s friends are off having fun without her. Since she is unwilling to find her own fun, she takes a portal to Mars to hang out with strangers — and breaks into song. There are parallels with this week’s letter (except for the song part). Hi Robin & Lisa, I’m finally writing in with my own dilemma. Since I started playing this game in mid-Wrath, I’ve played with my girlfriend and our mutual friend. We have a strong bond and truly enjoy playing together, and GF and I have even met our friend IRL. In Wrath, I led our 10 man raid group, and we loved every minute of ICC. Once the Cataclysm was upon us, we expected to continue raiding. However, things rarely work out as planned, and we missed T11 completely, mostly due to the dissolution of our guild. Eventually I became frustrated with lack of progress and quit the game for a while. Continue reading Drama Mamas: Choosing between raiding and friendships Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Drama Mamas Drama Mamas: Choosing between raiding and friendships originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Two Different Experiences, One Guild
Today I’m going to paint for you two pictures of different individuals.
Both of them are in the same guild.
Both are on the same raid team and are of the same member rank. Their raiding performances are comparable to one another.
Player A: Soshal Crither
Shows up a few minutes early before the raid. Sticks around after the raid discussing the evening. Posts interesting and relevant discussion/material on the forums. Players other games with guild members in addition to WoW forging stronger social ties. Has a strong presence.
Player B: Hermy
Stays quiet and doesn’t actively engage with many players in the guild. Promptly logs out right after raids and barely squeaks in before raid start for an invite. Rarely posts on the forums and only chimes in when they’re absent. Not a big fan of hanging out on Mumble during non raid nights.
The point I want to make here is that while being a by-the-book player who does only what’s needed down to the letter can be acceptable, it doesn’t hurt to socialize every so often.
I maintain a memorable impression of players who aren’t afraid of frequenting Mumble and touching base outside of raids. Can’t lay out a theory as to why, but I reckon it’s due to repeated exposure to their presence. Sharing additional interests with other players (in addition to WoW) can create a much better guild experience then simply playing the 9 to 5 career raider.
Do you play other games with your guildies?
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”
- Wayne Gretzky
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WoW Moviewatch: I’ll Fight For You
I love this video for a few reasons. I’ll Fight For You is a guild tribute video by Antimatter (who did Colder ), featuring music by Jason Derulo. The first reason I love this video is that I love heartfelt, honest, friendly videos that commemorate the friends and family we all enjoy in WoW . More importantly, I liked this video because it exemplifies a favorite aspect of machinima. While I like to think of myself as a fairly pop-culture-savvy dude, I don’t know every artist, every song, and every cover created. While I obviously recognized the Toto sample, I’ve never been exposed to Jason Derulo. I really grooved to this song, and I loved the way it worked with the video. So now I get to enjoy a new artist, which is an added bonus to a video like this. All in all, nice job, Antimatter. Interested in the wide world of machinima ? We have new movies every weekday here on WoW Moviewatch ! Have suggestions for machinima we ought to feature? Toss us an email at moviewatch@wowinsider.com . Filed under: WoW Moviewatch WoW Moviewatch: I’ll Fight For You originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
The Queue: G-Men
Welcome back to The Queue , the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft . Mathew McCurley ( @gomatgo ) will be your host for today. I don’t think I need to say anything other than the fact that it was a really good game. Sorry, Brady. exogenesis. asked: “I did the Love is in the Air bosses this morning – and the necks that dropped were not upgraded. Is this intentional, or a bug?” This is intentional. Remember, the Cataclysm expansion released at the beginning of December, with Love is in the Air launching with an updated form in February 2011. At the time, these ilevel 346 necks were a huge boon to players who were still slogging through Cataclysm heroics at the opening of the expansion, some of the hardest casual content Blizzard has ever released. Continue reading The Queue: G-Men Filed under: The Queue The Queue: G-Men originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Around Azeroth: All the lilacs in Kalimdor
Love is in the air! Well, perhaps not for Pilkington of Ravenguard on Suramar (US-A). His all-consuming loneliness (gnomeliness?) leads him to make dramatic gestures such as lying all alone in a field of flowers, weeping over the state of his romantic life. Someday your vertically challenged princess will come, Pilkington. Hopefully before that rat starts chewing off your toes. Gallery: Around Azeroth 3 Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com . We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Please include “Azeroth” in the subject line so your email doesn’t get marked as spam, and include your name, guild and server if you want to be credited. Filed under: Around Azeroth Around Azeroth: All the lilacs in Kalimdor originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
A vision of Mists of Pandaria’s Pet Battles
Mists of Pandaria can’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned, and that anticipation is palpable. Hopefully we’ll learn more about Pet Battles soon, especially with all of that hinted Pandaria information coming in the near future. Enterprising players have begun to create their own visions of the future of Pet Battles, including the above video that features an all-too-familiar scenario occurring in an all-too-unnatural place. Have you seen any other fan mockups of the upcoming Pet Battle system, whether humorous or realistic? Show off your favorites in the comments below. Filed under: Mists of Pandaria A vision of Mists of Pandaria’s Pet Battles originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Breakfast Topic: How do you roleplay in WoW?
I did a Breakfast Topic recently asking you all what your game was. This included a woefully inadequate poll, but it still gave me some interesting results to look at. There was the expected dominance of PvE endgame content, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about today. I have just enough knowledge to be dangerous about most aspects of WoW ; I could explain PvP and PvE to a non-player pretty easily. I could also make a relatively decent stab at achievement farming , professions and playing the Auction House . But roleplaying … now, that is a total mystery to me. I get that we’re all playing roles to an extent — bar a recent Halloween fancy dress outfit, I’m not an orc shaman any more than I really could survive being beaten up by a huge dragon. But that, as far as I know, isn’t what roleplaying is really about. I could be totally wrong, of course! I think it has to do with creating a story for a character and then enacting it, but I have so many questions! Do you raid? Can your character’s storyline encompass all aspects of gameplay? I can see how there may be a good amount of PvP involved, but are instances more troublesome? Do you quest? If you don’t include normal gameplay, what do you actually do? What are the constituent parts of a few normal days of roleplaying in WoW ? I’m intrigued to hear your stories! Filed under: Breakfast Topics Breakfast Topic: How do you roleplay in WoW? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Know Your Lore: Cataclysm lore for Dummies, Act I
The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how — but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft. Are you super familiar with Warcraft lore? Can you name all the dragon aspects, what they were created for, where they got their powers? Do you have a working definition of the Dragon Soul , what it is, what its other name is, and why it’s important? Do you know who Sinestra was before she was a torn-up, reanimated corpse in the bottom of the Bastion of Twilight? Are you related to the Red Shirt Guy? Are you the Red Shirt Guy ? Then this post is likely not for you. But if you’ve been running the Raid Finder like a fiend, killing dragons and elementals and minions left and right, and suddenly found yourself wondering why, exactly, you were fighting in Wyrmrest Temple, this is for you. If you’re wondering why Thrall is suddenly pals with the Dragon Aspects, this is for you. If you’re wondering why exactly Deathwing is such a huge major threat and what’s with all this running around you have to do, this one is for you. Let’s take a quick sweep through the entirety of Cataclysm and recap what’s happened. Better yet, let’s sum up. Continue reading Know Your Lore: Cataclysm lore for Dummies, Act I Filed under: Lore , Know your Lore Know Your Lore: Cataclysm lore for Dummies, Act I originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
