Choose My Adventure: Levels and confusion come fast and thick in Tree of Savior
So as the headline suggests, the game we're starting November off with is Tree of Savior, an anime-styled OARPG that I've played a couple...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Five Guild Wars 2 event farms to combat your labyrinth letdown
My favorite thing about Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is the Mad King's Labyrinth. There's nothing quite like it,...
The Daily Grind: What’s clogging up your main MMO character’s bank right now?
Lord of the Rings Online seems deliberately designed to make even people who enjoy organizing inventories (me) a wee bit crazy about it. I...
Wisdom of Nym: The best stuff from Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 that’s already in the game
Whatever we were getting back from Final Fantasy XIV version 1.0 is already in the game. Period end. And let's be honest, there was...
The Daily Grind: What’s the coziest MMO that isn’t technically a cozy MMO?
We have the Lord of the Rings Online general chat to thank for inspiring this Daily Grind, as I recently saw one player make...
The Daily Grind: Do your MMO builds gravitate toward aesthetics or mechanics?
Every single class and build in every MMO is governed by two separate but interlocking things, the look and the feel. These things do...
Battle Bards Episode 229: Caravan Stories Part 1
Come along for a trundling trip through the countryside with Caravan Stories, a 2017-era MMO that charmed Syl so much that she demanded they...
LOTRO Legendarium: Corsairs of Umbar and the three ways we consume expansions
Happy new expansion week in Lord of the Rings Online! It's surreal to finally be at the capstone of LOTRO's ambitious 2023 roadmap, not...
The Daily Grind: If you shilled in a commercial for an MMO, what would it be?
It's always a special brand of surreal to see well-known celebrities conscripted into doing commercials and ads for MMORPGs, all the more so because...
Vague Patch Notes: BlizzCon 2023 wasn’t a disaster, but it needed to be better
The last live BlizzCon in 2019 was not a great show, but it was fundamentally a hype festival for Blizzard just like they've all...
The Daily Grind: Do you typically leave MMOs when your guild does?
A few weeks back, an MOP follower on Mastodon noted that she was happy about changes made to New World and that she'd consider...
Massively Overthinking: Did BlizzCon do what it needed to do?
Given the last couple of years, which have been inarguably rocky for both the company and its games, Blizzard needed a big win at...
The Soapbox: Will Diablo IV’s Vessel of Hatred be a sufficient answer for Path of Exile 2?
Everyone loves a good enrage timer, right? It puts pressure on everyone involved in a raid or boss fight to pull their weight and...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s The War Within actually sounds promising on paper
So now we know what's coming next. World of Warcraft: The War Within is our next expansion, and... you know, that's not really a...
The Daily Grind: Have graphics ever actually turned you off from an MMO?
Graphics are weird. They're pretty vital to the vast majority of games, including most MMOs, but it is possible for a game with objectively...
Perfect Ten: The single best expansion from 10 MMOs
Holy crud, do I not know that I'm setting myself up for some major pushback today. Oh, I feel that to my core, friends!...
The Daily Grind: What are some of your MMO core memories?
There are a lot of annoying modern phrases that everyone seems to latch onto and overuse -- "glow up" is my current pet peeve,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 444: The return of BlizzCon
Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon 2023, World of Warcraft The War Within expansion, the Worldsoul Saga, WoW Classic Cataclysm, WoW Classic's Season of Discovery aka don't call it Classic Plus, with a few bits about Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, and Diablo IV, plus adventures in Warcraft Rumble and My Time at Sandrock.
Choose My Adventure: Swamps, spicy fights, story, and technical issues in New World
Just in case anyone was worried, no, I didn't abandon Choose My Adventure; I was just busied by reporting on a space game and...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil’s Inner Nayos and convergences
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure was a bit of a different expansion in that it wasn't one big chunk of content dropped...
