skills
Vitae Aeternum: New World lacks customization, but that can be fixed
Welcome to our first installment of Vitae Aeternum, an ongoing column in which multiple writers of MassivelyOP plan to bring you coverage, opinions, rants,...
Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are useless, and that’s completely fine
When you play an MMO, you are developing a skill. That skill is playing that MMO. It's not a skill with a great deal...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about ‘oh shit’ buttons in MMOs?
I hate "oh shit" buttons!
Justin and I were joking about this on a podcast a while back, but I mean it quite seriously. I...
Book of Travels’ skills aren’t the same-old, same-old
When you think of skills in MMORPGs, you most likely envision combat abilities. Fighting, after all, is 90% of what MMO design seems to...
EVE Evolved: Three tricks to maximize your free-to-play EVE Online account
It's now been almost one year to the day that EVE Online officially got a limited free-to-play option, and it's certainly been a boon...
The Black Death outlines the new profession system that starts you off as a plague doctor
There are no medical exams to pass when you start a new character in the next patch of The Black Death. You get to...
Crowfall explains the concepts behind skill trees and time banks
Do you like dragging yourself out of bed at three in the morning because something has finished in a game and you need to...
Take a look at Path of Exile’s new Charged Dash skill in action
Charged Dash is a new skill coming to Path of Exile, and when you read about how it works it probably seems a little...
Ship of Heroes fires up a red-hot powerset
Meanwhile, in the deep void of space, a fire has broken out on a starship. Jets of flame and a rain of red-hot meteors...
Preview: Behind the gates of RuneScape’s Menaphos, opening today
One of the worst teases in a game for me is to see a place and not be able to go and explore it....
EVE Online is adding smaller skill injectors for newer players
The changes to PLEX for EVE Online make it easier to buy small chunks, sell small chunks, and not have all of it get...
Crowfall adds skill loadout customization
Thanks to a new update, Crowfall is giving its players more freedom than before in customizing their own playstyle. The focus here is on...
Revelation Online explains the leveling and advancement of Special Skills
Your normal skills in Revelation Online are what you use for 90% of the game, obviously. That's why they're normal skills, after all. You...
Working As Intended: A tour of 19-year-old Ultima Online
Wanna feel old? Three years ago, I wrote a Second Wind piece for Massively-that-was on Ultima Online, which had recently been turned over to Broadsword...
Guild Wars 2 warns of incoming balance adjustments
Will Guild Wars 2 ever attain perfect balance with all of its classes and skills? Probably not, but such is the way of all...
EverQuesting: Researching for your free EverQuest II skill upgrades
Who doesn't like free? Because I certainly do! And today is all about getting stuff for free in EverQuest II. Sadly, I don't mean...
Perfect Ten: What your MMO character type says about you
Every MMO has character classes. Every single one. You might rail against this by pointing out that there are several games out there with...
Interview: The scoop on Star Trek Online’s skill redesign
I make no secret of the fact that I'm very fond of Star Trek Online, but I also make no secret of the fact...
Star Trek Online is overhauling its skill system (again)
The skill system in Star Trek Online is kind of a hot mess. It always has been, from the game's initial launch skills to...
The six skills your aspiring rogue will employ in The Elder Scrolls Online’s Thieves Guild DLC
Enterprising rogues will be pursuing six new skills once The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC launches next month: Finders Keepers for spotting treasures,...
