skills

Welcome to our first installment of Vitae Aeternum, an ongoing column in which multiple writers of MassivelyOP plan to bring you coverage, opinions, rants,...

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...

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...

When you think of skills in MMORPGs, you most likely envision combat abilities. Fighting, after all, is 90% of what MMO design seems to...

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...

There are no medical exams to pass when you start a new character in the next patch of The Black Death. You get to...

Do you like dragging yourself out of bed at three in the morning because something has finished in a game and you need to...

Charged Dash is a new skill coming to Path of Exile, and when you read about how it works it probably seems a little...

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...

One of the worst teases in a game for me is to see a place and not be able to go and explore it....

The changes to PLEX for EVE Online make it easier to buy small chunks, sell small chunks, and not have all of it get...

Thanks to a new update, Crowfall is giving its players more freedom than before in customizing their own playstyle. The focus here is on...

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...

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...

Will Guild Wars 2 ever attain perfect balance with all of its classes and skills? Probably not, but such is the way of all...

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...

Every MMO has character classes. Every single one. You might rail against this by pointing out that there are several games out there with...

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...

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...

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,...