Who Still Has A Blog? This Guy Does

Yeah that’s right. You can double check your url at the top of the page (if you actually wander all the way to the site), it’s a new post! Let me say, part of the lack of posting has something to do with the lack of criticism I can throw at my current game of…

Rift Could Go All The Way

I wanted to make a post here about how incredibly bat shit insane the development pace has been at Trion regarding Rift. We’re seeing content being pumped out in a matter of months where other companies would be looking at 6-8 months. In the past half year Rift has had no less than four major…

Guild Stewards

Something that I’ve seen over the years in a variety of forms and have even implemented myself is adding in roles to a guild where players are recognized for their exceptional effort or skill. In larger guilds there’s a need to dole out responsiblity to an officer core so the leader and figurehead isn’t constantly…

Expanding Crafting in Rift

Crafting in Rift is good in the sense that it does pretty much what you would expect for a AAA MMO crafting system. Up until you hit level 50 crafting is quite passable. Things scale well, new recipes unlock at a pleasant pace, and the ingredients have a proper drop rate for the pace you acquire…

Darkening Deeps Expert Run

Last night after the quite successful GSB run with the guild (cleared the first two bosses in a reasonable amount of time) we had a solid run with some of the guys in DD. Only a couple minutes off from the Rapid Assault which we could definitely get if we were more confident about running…

Rift Expert Dungeon Streaming

A couple weeks ago now I started to do some livestreaming of dungeon runs back when I started up Guardian characters on Byriel with the Iniquity guild. Well, I’m pleased that my crew of guys have all finally reached L50 and are reasonably geared out. That means I’m going to start running more of the…

Twitter: A Guide

(not my standard gaming fare, but since I have this bloggy thingy here, I should probably use it for something at least.)   Are you the sort of person that takes one sideways glance at Twitter and thinks to themselves, “Why would I be interested in someone brushing their teeth?” Please, kill that misconception in…

Scratching My Questicles

The breakneck pace that I’ve been hitting lately as far as leveling goes has mostly been in the form of questing. Now I’ll admit I don’t always pay attention to why I’m doing quests, or even the rewards that come from them, but when I stop to read a bit of the text it does…

Ride the Caribou

I’ve tossed in my Defiant towel, for now at least. The Aussie guild that I bounced over to was just keeping me up way too late at night. Probably wasn’t healthy for me in the long run to work 5 days a week on 4 hours of sleep each night. I suppose I could have…

Night of Glory!

Last night was probably one of my most active nights of Rift yet. There’s a couple things I want to touch on, but almost all of it is over the 1.2 patch. The blog hasn’t been as active lately. Been busy drinking. Watching the Red Wings finish out an amazing series against San Jose. Getting…