LoDBlog

Ah the ever changing landscape of an MMO. With every new major and minor patch these days it seems each class can expect something that comes along to affect them either directly or indirectly. A long time ago classes didn’t change much, you’d get a class review once in a blue moon but that’s about [...]

So as part of the Ladies of Destiny 5th Anniversery blog series, I’ll be writing a response to each of Matron’s posts, to let you know everything he got wrong or important details that he left out!  There actually wasn’t a whole lot going on in that first year before we started running Molten Core [...]

LoD celebrated our 5th birthday on Feb 22nd 2010.  As part of the celebration I’d like to take a trip down memory lane and go year by year, recounting the trials and tribulations, lessons and achievements, wins and losses, and try to capture what has made this guild home for so many during the years.  [...]

Gaming phrases are all over the place, some are good and some are bad but most are trying to convey something in a way that the reader will remember. There’s a good phrase that gets passed around on gaming forums, put into peoples signatures, and has even made it onto my much maligned Facebook page. [...]

The Problem – We all know how it goes in raid guilds.  When you’re raiding and things are dying people are happy.  When you’re not raiding and when things aren’t dying people are unhappy.  It’s basically that simple.  There are many different flavors of drama, but most of all of gets solved, or ignored, if raids [...]

Everybody has alts (alternate characters). You may only have one lonely little bank alt or a server of max-level behemoths on both sides of the faction fence but if you play WoW you have alts. For a very long time, Tinwhisker was my only character. Leveling in vanilla WoW wasn’t terribly difficult (although it was [...]

A recurring theme on WoW forums that I’ve seen since the days of Molten Core, is uninformed raiders complaining about Damage Meter mods and how they hurt the raid.  The truth is that damage meters are a tool, much like a hammer.  When used properly, a hammer can help you build some very cool stuff [...]