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One of the damage dealers in the party can't stay out of damaging effects because moving interrupts his casts, and he thinks finishing a cast is more important than not getting killed. The other DPS seems to think that she's winning if she can pull threat off of the tank, usually by pulling groups that the tank hasn't even...

A volunteer-led effort to restore the original version of Darkfall is moving forward as unspecified negotiations with Aventurine continue. The Darkfall: Rise of Agon team announced that it will be self-funding the licensing costs while looking to the community for donations for the game's development and operation. The alpha test will take place over four to eight weeks and be completely free to players,...

With Black Desert coming to both North America and Europe next year, getting into the test just became one of the hottest -- and most exclusive -- tickets in town. While it will remain difficult to score yourself a key for the time being, one of Black Desert's CMs posted a helpful list of links for those camping for an...

The combat of Guild Wars 2 sits in an interesting place between full-on action combat and more traditional combat mechanics, but it definitely edges more toward the former. So why not give yourself a camera that really emphasizes that active nature? The most recent official livestream showed off the upcoming action camera, which transforms the game with the control scheme...

Next up on Camelot Unchained's class reveal docket is the upcoming MMO's heavy fighters, a brutal group of muscled pain that will be sure to ruin an enemy's day. As with the other reveals to date, each of the three factions have their own take on the archetype. Vikings boast Mjölnir, a hammer-and-lightning-wielding class that absolutely, positively has nothing to do...

Call it the mother of all rollbacks. A series of technical issues has resulted in massive amounts of lost data on Wakfu's EU Elbor server, requiring a shutdown of the server and a rollback to June 21st. According to Ankama, the process of creating database backups broke on June 21st and went unnoticed until recently when the server was brought down...

I don't know what was going on with me during the week of September 16th, but I completely missed the news about fantasy sandbox MMO Wurm Online repackaging itself as a sort of modernized Neverwinter Nights. Wurm Unlimited is not only coming to Steam on October 21st, but it's offering up the chance for players to run their own...

Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! The aftermath of CitizenCon has been glorious for Star Citizens: We learned more about the 2.0.0 alpha patch, read up on the Starmap, rounded up the highlights of CitizenCon itself, and celebrated the game's one-millionth member. Read on for...

EVE Online's realtime skill training system has been a major point of contention throughout the game's lifetime, being a boon for those with little time to invest but often stunting players who prefer to work toward goals. While you could grind your way to your first billion ISK and can play the market freely, skill training will slow your...

The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a weekly compilation of smaller MMO stories and videos that you won’t want to miss. See any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips...