endgame mechanics

Whew. All right. So we've gotten the media tour information for the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, and that means that people have gotten to...

Whew. All right. Last week had a big old release of news about Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood, and now I'm far more relaxed because...

While everyone would like to be the great shaft at the heart of progress in Erectus the Game, the stiff backbone around which all other...

This has been a very stupid week. I know this because any other week, World of Warcraft completely destroying the reason for acquiring new...

It's been a little while, friends, but that happens. Last time I was making bets about what we'd see for World of Warcraft at...

If you were looking forward to hearing about what was changing with combat and class balance in Star Wars: The Old Republic's next expansion,...

Ever since I considered the responses to a Massively Overthinking article in which a developer asked if a prestige system to encourage replaying an...

The team behind World of Warcraft: Legion is wasting no time. The expansion didn't even launch a month ago, but patch 7.1 is already...

When you reach level 110 in World of Warcraft: Legion, you've got a new sort of content awaiting you. They're not daily quests or...

In pretty much any MMO, you have two options when it comes to races. The first is a situation wherein there are several different...

There's a new kind of challenge in Diablo III with the advent of Set Dungeons, specific challenges with pre-determined sets. The latest entry on the...

I walked away from last week's Star Wars: The Old Republic livestream pretty happy. Considering that I repeatedly say how much I absolutely loathe...

There's a lot of stuff coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic in 2016. Not all of it was ready to be discussed during...

Now that Skyforge is in its open beta phase - a soft launch for all intents and purposes - it's reasonable for players to...

As of this writing, I haven't yet cleared Alexander. I've had other things to do, and while it might mean I'm ultimately one week...

It wouldn't be fair to call The Division's endgame PvP-focused, but neither would it be fair to say that it's devoid of PvP. The...

Since the last edition of WoW Factor, two big things hit World of Warcraft in quick succession. The first is that the much-discussed WoW...

I honestly hadn't expected to learn quite this much about Heavensward this soon. I don't know why I hadn't expected this, to be fair;...