Let the Games Begin

Lord Victor NefariusLord Victor Nefarius says: Do you expect me to cower before the mighty legion of *FotonRogue*?

You are nothing to me. Less than nothing. Had I desired your head, it would have been presented to me on a pike.

You have made the mistake that all mortals make.

*Lord Victor Nefarius sighs.*

Time does strange things to those that use it as a form of currency.

I’ve made no mistakes.

In your rush to glory, you assumed that the pace of the game revolved around your actions. Can you even fathom how preposterous that sounds to a being like me? A being that if so inclined could cause your own insignificant thoughts to crush the peanut sized mass of grey matter floating within your skull.

You have lost your mind, Nefarius. You speak in riddles.

It is simple really! Allow me to summarize…

Please do.

In this world where time is your enemy, it is my greatest ally. This grand game of life that you think you play in fact plays you. To that I say…

Let the games begin!

The one-year anniversary of the Carnival of Gamers is available on buttonmashing, representing the collective work of over twenty gaming blogs.

Thanks to Tony of buttonmashing for organizing, prodding and sweating out the Carnival this past year — it could not have been easy at times. Accolades also to participants, past and present, who maintain a heavy gaming schedule AND write about it. How do we do it?!?

Mostly liquor and magic.

Until next week then, Foton out.

O NOES, FOES

An article in the BBC News today, “Problems plague World of Warcraft” got me to chuckling this morning. It’s about the server problems as of late (i.e. the past 18 months) and Blizzard’s recent rah-rah State of the Game address. They talk to a few players who have respectable real lives — not slobs like you and me — and, in particular, they spoke with Jeff Woleslagle, an editor at Ten Ton Hammer. Let me clarify that I like Ten Ton Hammer, I don’t think they’re idiots; it’s a little too ad-y for my tastes, but we all have to pay the bills. At any rate, teh BBC paraphrased Mr. Woleslagle’s comments on how lag can affect gameplay, “These tiny delays often occured at the most inconvenient times. For instance, they could mean that healing spells were not cast in time and player-controlled characters got overwhelmed by foes.” This is how immature I am, I think that’s hilarious. Foes. OH NOES, We’re overwhelmed by FOES! Maybe they talk like that on the RP servers, but on the regular servers for slobs like us, fancy boys and their foes are not welcome. (God. I’m so easily amused.)

Innervate Please

Good news, Warcraft Druids. Innervate, the highly desired druid talent to infuse raid priests with hyper mana regeneration, will be moved to a base ability, available at level 40. Eyonix, Blizzard’s flying whelp, posted that Patch 1.11 will include the change to innervate as well as a new 31-point talent. Nightshroud of the Alleria realm, new enemy of raid priests everywhere, posted: “Excellent. More freedom for Druids to spec how they please and not how the Priests please.” (Because we all know that priests get to spec however they please. Even I know that’s not true.) Here’s a fun trick to play on your guild priests, by the way. Ask them at the next raid how come they’re not shadow spec’d, you heard that spec was wtfpwnage. You should get quite a rise out of them. (Furl archive of Patch 1.11 Innervate announcement)