The Rich, The Noobs, and The Ego

A humorous game mail I received recently in Lord of the Rings Online:

Not My Fault That I'm Game-Poor

I could be misreading this but that sounds like a call to REVOLUTION! Hang the rich.

Here’s a screenshot from a recent, wretched Fornost PUGgie to whack the hilt mobs. As gaming vets, it’s always our responsibility to get the new-to-gaming noobs up to speed on how all this works. I realize that, I accept that, but after giving my short-speech about the do’s and don’ts of crowd control to the same 5 people again and again, I get a little irritated.

Crowd Control is for Noobs

They never did get it, but fortunately for me, we one-shot the last hilt mob — a BAMF nemesis mob — and thank you, Jesus, I never have to go to that pisspool again.

If you’re thirsty for more arrogance and Napoleon-esque posturing, Psycho E-Bitch’s Fraxx was granted an IM audience with me last week to chat about gaming, books and cyber music: A Visit with AFKGamer’s Blogging Bad Boy.

Some highlights: the “Mithaniel Marr story”, the rest of you suck, the liberal manifestos I’m reading, and, gaming’s last dirty little secret.

Downtime All Around

World of Warcraft today, until 11 am PDT, for bug fixery:

Bugs:

  • Players will now be able to properly destroy the infernals in the quest,”The Fel and the Furious”.
  • Gladiator’s Plate Legguards: Fixed a graphical display error.
  • Fixed a bug that caused some systems to see terrain holes appear in the distance.
  • Stackable items retrieved from mail will no longer automatically stack in your inventory. This has been disabled pending a future patch fix.
  • Players will no longer see the flickering terrain issues that were introduced with 2.1.0 when the LOD system is enabled.

Lord of the Rings Online tomorrow, until 2 pm EDT-ish, for minty fresh content and bug/nerf-ness. During downtime, players can create a character on the Roheryn (test) server and auto-magically level to 30, 40 or 50.

The patch notes as of May 30, 2007, subject to change OF COURSE, and I heard they’re fixing the Bree Town Hall grocer repair costs although I can’t for the life of me find a reference. My imaginary blog intern has the day off so I can’t blame him for this lapse in service.

Aha! I birddogged the undocumented changes myself! Unofficial Changes List.

It’s rare to find this kind of dedication and determination in the lesser blogs, but I know you’ve come to expect this kind of hard-hitting reblogging from us. The royal us, that is.