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Melmoth's Inferno: July 2007
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Exploring the divine comedy inherent to MMOs. Tuesday, 31 July 2007. An undead berry is a Lichee? In many MMOs eating food is a downtime activity used to restore a character's lost health, and drinking restores mana for magic users. There are many curiosities with the nature of these mechanics, so let's extend our culinary cognisance and see what the Inferno has to offer on the subject. But first I just need to grab a quick snack. In skiing they have après-ski, and in adventuring you have après-abattage.
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Melmoth's Inferno: Thought for the day.
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Exploring the divine comedy inherent to MMOs. Friday, 21 December 2007. Thought for the day. Holy trinity for PvE: Tank, DPS, Healer. Holy trinity for PvP: DPS, Crowd Control, Bait. Words of wisdom never uttered so true. 21 December 2007 at 20:17. If CC = instant;. Then bait = not required. 24 December 2007 at 06:23. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sinners, Saints and Supplicants. Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog. Lost in the Grind. Of Ice and Fire. The Ancient Gaming Noob. The Common Sense Gamer.
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Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category. Trying to break the beakons in Splat Zones (13-8, Tri-slosher). Wednesday, December 7th, 2016. Time for the Tri-slosher! I think I'll be aiming for inklings more than the Splat Zones, but I never really know what I'm doing until I get in to the battle. But I almost inevitably get splatted in the first encounter. It feels that way, anyway. After the aborted mission in . Trying the Hydra Splatling in Splat Zones (8-3, Hydra Splatling). Wednesday, December 7th, 2016. After...
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Melmoth's Inferno: March 2007
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Exploring the divine comedy inherent to MMOs. Thursday, 29 March 2007. As said by Melmoth before each game session:. Our developer, who meant to leaven,. Shallow be thy game. Thy quests be done,. For loot as well as experience. Give us this day our daily grind. And make us run long instances,. Which give loot that is of no use to us. And leads us not into Eden;. But delivers us to Cokaygne:. For thine is the rep grind, the nerfbat, and the monthly fee,. For ever and ever (and ever and ever). Another very...
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Melmoth's Inferno: Cool down the moon energy of the left nostril.
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Exploring the divine comedy inherent to MMOs. Saturday, 8 December 2007. Cool down the moon energy of the left nostril. Cool-downs on skills are a curious thing:. Darth Vader: "Your powers are weak, old man.". Obi-Wan: "You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.". Darth Vader: "Nice try noob, but I'm not falling for that; I know you're just stalling because your Jedi skills are on cool-down.". Spirit of Obi-wan: "Run, Luke! I'll tell you now...
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Melmoth's Inferno: February 2007
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Exploring the divine comedy inherent to MMOs. Wednesday, 28 February 2007. The six degrees of inner turbulence: Losing time. Ok, so feral druids have to collect multiple sets of gear, 'So what? Except the feral druid wouldn't come in to her own, and thus the second problem arises. With itemisation as it stands, the feral druid needs two sets of gear to make her effective in each role, and you can't switch gear in the middle of combat. Does anyone see a problem here? Take a rogue or mage. Lost in the Grind.
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Melmoth's Inferno: Festive daze.
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Exploring the divine comedy inherent to MMOs. Tuesday, 18 December 2007. On the twelfth day of Christmas, my game dev. sent to me:. Twelve spammers spamming,. Eleven griefers ganking,. Ten mobs a-bugging,. Nine ninjas looting,. Eight raids a-wiping,. Seven zones a-lagging,. Six guilds amdramming,. Five SECOND pings,. Four camping bots,. Three class nerfs,. Two total noobs,. And a QQ talent in my skill tree. Have a Merry MMOmas. Happy Christmas, Mel. May all your leveling be swift. Lost in the Grind.
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Melmoth's Inferno: August 2007
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Exploring the divine comedy inherent to MMOs. Wednesday, 29 August 2007. Attack of the meme! Hoom, sounds a bit like the title of a bad 1950s sci-fi movie. Run for the hills, the memes are coming! Martha, fetch me mah gun, them thar god damn memes are after the sheep again". One man and his fight against the invading horde of. The Memes! THE RULES. YOU WILL OBEY OR BE DESTROYED. THE MEME COMMANDS IT. 1 Link to your tagger and post these rules. 2 List eight (8) random facts about yourself. 6 I once sat wi...
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Tiger Ears » W-space glossary
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Arkonor, bistot, and crokite ores. Ores are graded in value according to their initial letter, with ABC ores being more valuable than, for example, veldspar or scordite. When mining in a gravimetric site, it is more profitable to gather ABC ore first. A skill needed to gain access to the artefacts found in relic sites. Used with relic analyser modules. Elaborates and expands on this naming convention. One of the types of site that can be scanned down with scanning probes. Data sites contain databanks...
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Some good splats in Tower Control (9-6, Splatterscope). Tuesday, December 6th, 2016. After my earlier battle, I try to learn from my mistakes. I want to stick to perches and hang back, rather than charge forwards in to positions that put me at a natural disadvantage. That's not to say I can't or shouldn't move forwards as circumstances permit. Indeed, I try to . From good to terrible in Tower Control (6-4, Splatterscope). Monday, December 5th, 2016. Splat Zones are for splatting (12-4, Tri-slosher).