Posts Tagged ‘ulduar’

Five years of World of Warcraft

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I started playing WoW when the US beta was in the late stages. I got a few days of play before the open beta ended, and then I waited a few weeks before the beta started in Europe. Back then, I was familiar with Anarchy Online, which was the first “real” MMORPG I had played – sure, I played a text based game called Nightmist, but that game wasn’t really “massive” and games such as Runescape is a lot further down in the food chain. Anarchy Online was a fun game, but very different from WoW, and despite all the time I had spent on that, it lost out rather quickly to WoW.

But the WoW five years ago is very different from the WoW we have today, both in the good aspects and the bad. My real life job has me analyzing and evaluating online memes, so my interest in WoW is not only for the game itself, but the society it creates. Lets take a walk down memory lane, as I express my rather biased, and perhaps, rather elitist views of the evolution of WoW.

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Fun with Hodir

Monday, November 30th, 2009

hodir
For tonights raid, we didn’t really have a good setup for Algalon, and since we expended all of our tries on Anub’Arak, we decided to do a mostly-alt run to Ulduar 25. With very few mains, DPS wasn’t really a massive competition, but I did have some fun on Hodir.

It wasn’t a hard mode, but the fight took about 3½ minutes overall. As you will see from the screenshot we had quite a lot of alts in the group. What I am jolsting about, however, is that I broke my personal record on Hodir – at one point peaking at 28,5k DPS! With my epeen boosted, I whispered our raid leader to upload the logs for tonight, just for a bit of fun on the player rankings, but unfortunately, he wasn’t running logs for tonight! Aww man, I would have love to look closer to that fight.

Regardless, enjoy the screenshot.

- QQ

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