Majordomo & Ragnaros

We finally solved the Majordomo encounter in Molten Core. That’s a fun encounter; the first WoW encounter with the kind of complexity of the newer EverQuest encounters. I really had to work hard healing, used every bit of mana, three mana pots, and two dark runes. That won us the right to go visit Ragnaros, … Read more

Finished Onyxia Key!

I really don’t like key quests. They’re just an intentional roadblock to slow people down – very artificial. EverQuest was full of these artificial roadblocks, but since then, they’ve become enlightened; for most places, five fully-flagged people can get a sixth unflagged in free. And many times, they can get a bit in the raid … Read more

Molten Core, Part 2: Coke or Pepsi?

This weekend, I joined millions of other people in the nation’s weekly Molten Core runs. But get a load of this… Count the number of health bars I’m watching… My group’s health bars, the health bars of the main tank group and the two offtank groups, a chart of the health of the ten unhealthiest … Read more

Molten Core and a bunch of BRS

While I have been off “moving” and “cleaning” and “spending time with my children”, Prophetic Fate has been forging ever deeper into Molten Core – they are up to Majordomo, the penultimate boss in MC. I just logged in to say hello yesterday, but was drawn into joining the Molten Core raid. Garr was the … Read more

Various News

Initial reviews of Final Fantasy XII look really good. This is the one that uses a FFXI Online-like world map. If they could let me make my own characters and use them, instead of pre-generated ones, this would be anything I could ever want in a console RPG. And it still may be. Devices based … Read more