No, it’s not a slow news day; it’s just The Daily Grind, a long-running morning feature in which the Massively Overpowered writers pose gaming-related questions to the MMORPG community. [Follow this feature’s RSS feed]
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The Daily Grind: What’s your preferred MMO combat playstyle (as opposed to class or role)?
MMO classes don't merely have to be divided into the traditional tank/DPS/healer categories. There are plenty of other ways to separate classes and even...
The Daily Grind: What are the best ways to recapture inactive MMO players?
Today's Daily Grind is inspired directly by the "you've been touching too much grass" meme. Obviously, the powers that be want us back scrolling...
The Daily Grind: What MMO class or archetype do you personally identify with?
I've done a few tongue-in-cheek Perfect Tens about common class archetypes from Warriors to Rogues to Bards, but jokes aside, not every MMORPG has...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you see yourself playing five years from now?
Hey all, it's September 2029! We're just a few months away from the new decade, and against all odds, we're alive and still playing...
The Daily Grind: Are you immune to any specific MMORPG features or tricks?
One of my favorite MOP readers, Aldristavan, recently joked about his new life skill: being immune to big ol' cute minipet eyes.
"Something that I...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most nostalgic newbie experience in MMORPGs?
Amazon ran a second beta for New World's Aeternum over the weekend, and I didn't have time to play - but fortunately, MOP's Tyler...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO overhauls were actually worse than the NGE?
The NGE - that is, Star Wars Galaxies' New Game Enhancements, the patch that basically broke SWG, drove out most of the playerbase, and...
The Daily Grind: Do you avoid MMO hype until it launches for real?
The cancellation of Blue Protocol, while not unforeseen, still stings. It seemed to have potential and was a pretty hefty new MMO in a...
The Daily Grind: Which class or archetype have you spent the most time on across MMOs?
Earlier this summer, MOP reader PaJamas noted that he'd been maining a Paladin tank for something like 10 years (and alted it before that)....
The Daily Grind: How much do you care about an MMORPG’s health?
Every year at the end of December or beginning of January, one of us - usually Justin or Eliot - pens a top 10...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs where basic fights take too long?
When you think about it, tuning combat encounters in MMOs has to be a fiendishly tricky business for devs. You can't make them overly...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs make you feel sad?
I didn't talk about this much because it's an online ARPG rather than an MMO, but last winter, I spent a crapton of time...
The Daily Grind: What are some quietly impressive things in your fave MMO that nobody notices?
When my husband and I went back to Guild Wars 2 for Janthir Wilds a few weeks ago, he booted up the game for...
The Daily Grind: What’s a daily MMO task you struggle to find the motivation to complete?
Pretty much every MMO has some form of daily task, just because that's a good way to get people logging in every day to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO enemies have the best ‘personalities?’
When you play MMOs for a long time and enjoy observing different aspects of them, you're going to notice mobs beyond abstract loot piñatas...
The Daily Grind: Do you call your MMO characters toons, chars, alts, or something else?
A few weeks back, the MMORPG sub erupted in a heated discussion about what to call, well, our characters. And it's a legit question...
The Daily Grind: Are you more likely to leave MMORPGs out of anger or boredom?
To be perfectly clear, there are lots of potential reasons to decide that you no longer wish to play a particular MMORPG. It's not...
The Daily Grind: What long-term MMO goal are you still working toward?
I once was given the advice that things worth having usually take a lot of effort and work to obtain, so suck it up,...
The Daily Grind: Do you think chat toxicity in MMOs is getting worse?
I recently saw a thread on Reddit from an MMO player describing an act of an overt racism he'd suffered in World of Warcraft....
The Daily Grind: Is there a place in an MMO that you’re sentimentally attached to?
The Psychology of Games podcast recently did an episode on forming attachments to places in video games.
"Have you ever become attached to a place...
