Comments on: Settling Into a Cycle

By: Gaming Ethics: Can it ever be fun to do things that aren’t fun? « Welcome to Spinksville!

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:35:33 +0000

[...] per se to create fun games that people like to play and will want to pay for, or to recognise that some people enjoy having organised habits. Or even that many MMO players enjoy the process of grinding towards progress or an [...]

By: Floating With The Rest Of The Garbage « soresu

Floating With The Rest Of The Garbage « soresu — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:34:07 +0000

[...] write a long screed about everything that I found wanting, but instead, I’ll recommend this report by the venerable Big Bear Butt, whose blog I remember enjoying back when I was a young, hopeful [...]

By: erroll

erroll — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:00:44 +0000

if you are done with game Big B. i understand..
Family far more important.
but if you can do me one favor. Dont stop writing.
you havnt done a tank blog in years. I found you looking for bear tank blogs.
I kept reading. cuase of your writing skills.
If nothing else. when your book comes out link it ill buy and read.
no game should feel like a job :(
A game is an escape not a job.
you still my big guru of bear tankdom :)

By: Pawzy

Pawzy — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:09:07 +0000

When I find myself thinking of something as “an unpaid job” in a resentful way, I take a break from it to give myself space to think, if possible. Most often, I come back to it and feel refreshed. If not, I guess I have time to try something new or to pick something up that I left behind ages ago. :)

I got tired of grinding daily reps on characters that were not my main. So I stopped. I feel less stressed out. Now, I only do dailies on alts if I -want- to do them as something to do while waiting on a tank for a group. While I don’t have as much gold now, I’m feeling less cranky.

By: erroll

erroll — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:11:22 +0000

im just slow rolling it. im still on klaxi rep. than ill move too operation shild wall.
game fun as hell still.
But i for one miss the old days. I tanked and healed. and could get 3 dps easy for bfd. but last spot hard too fill. But after spot finaly filled. you had a very polite run. was social. Alot of im sorryies. but alot of working together alot of fun,
Game still feeling like a job too me. Wow is putting out so much stuff so fast. I for one cant keep up :(
I tried lfr. there is no vent. just go tank go. Followed buy wtf is wrong with you tank. Then boot :(
I for one dont have time to study tape. Miss well planed runs and vent bad.
I also miss grp qusts.
im gm of a family guild a few kids on. My job to protect them from ass hats.
My 2 fav parts of game are dieing. i dont like lfr or lfg. those lead to ass hats. you dont have to work to run an instance any more. there is no comuniction.
i pulled a heroic just now. I talked i tried to set points. And talk. i got go tank go.
not fun.
i so miss taling thru the 5 mans before the adds and cheats.
and i deserved too get booted from my first ony run. but that was epic too. we had vent i fucked up.
I guess point is. My very fav part of game atm. is the alex runs. its like old days. just like the old bfd runs.

A very polite well mannered grp that comunicates.
atm my fav part of game is the alex runs. i know alot of you in it.
Now that fun too me :)

By: E

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:09:24 +0000

I’ve been doing the Scenario/LFG thing from almost the getgo. Makes my DPS feel like they’re not just standing around waiting for queues to pop. The only time that’s ever caused an issue was an epic fail of a scenario run that had me dying so many times my gear was orange. Mercifully, the dungeon run that immediately followed was quick and flawless. But yeah, since that wasn’t my engineer, no easy way to repair between runs otherwise!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:37:47 +0000

On the subject of repeated raid finderings, I am doing much the same with Empress in Heart of Fear. Occasionally I’ll burn a coin on Lei Shi for the staff, but the mace from Empress remains my preference :)

As for capping Valor, I’m at a point where capping valor each week feels absolutely mandatory, thanks to a certain achievement requiring 6k valor from scratch. So, I’ve capped it out each week with little effort involved, or at least feeling like there was little effort. I run all the raidfinders, usually with guildies. That’s 450 valor right there. I get another 90 from two more runs of the last half of HoF on raid finder as well, bringing me to 540. The rest of it comes from doing 1, sometimes 2 factions worth of dailies plus a random heroic or two or scenarios. And so long as I ignore LFR chat, it’s pretty easy on the blood pressure as well :)

By: ItsASecret

ItsASecret — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:22:18 +0000

CRIVENS!!!!

Nac Mac Feegle rule ye scunners

By: Jem

Jem — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:16:25 +0000

You can queue for a scenario while in the LFR queue, I ended up running 4 scenarios while waiting for my LFR to pop. I haven’t bothered to make the effort to cap valor more than twice since I hit 90,a nd that was when I was doing allt he rep grinds. My raid group isn’t the type to be uber anxious about capping VP fortunately.

They have made MoP more of an effort to progress, and I think it will come back to bite them badly if they don’t take steps soon.

By: Malk

Malk — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:43:56 +0000

The Feegles win.
Just plain Win!
That is all.