DocHoliday posted this on February 24th, 2010.
Categorized as Age of Conan, blog, DAOC, End Game, Equipment, expansion, gear, General, legendary items, lotro, moors, pvp, Raids and End-game.
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So just a day after posts (and good conversations as well) on both the Epic Slant and Casual Stroll to Mordor blogs, I saw this announcement on MMORPG.com on the upcoming expansion for Age of Conan. Now I did try AoC but I just really couldn’t get into it – however, this new concept is VERY intriguing to me and I will be paying close attention to this as it is rolled on out.
To recap, the discussions on CStM and ES talked about both vertical (raising the level cap) and horizontal progressions and the advantages (and pitfalls) of both. As they talk about the different ideas, I think one of the main points is that there needs to be a diversity in the methods of progression and that just raising the level cap isn’t enough.
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DocHoliday posted this on October 27th, 2009.
Categorized as DAOC, General, pvp.
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Ok, so this is totally off topic but I just spent a good bit of time checking this blog out and am almost tempted to go download DAOC again 
Basically they’ve re-created various parts of DAOC in the Crysis gaming engine and it just looks gorgeous! The shots of the frontiers bring back lots of goof RvR memories!
I really hope someone else can figure out how to do PvP in a way that is as fun as it was in DAOC. Not only was it fun, but it actually meant something. You could get skills and abilities from it that were usable in PvE and bonuses for keeps/relics applied to PvE as well. I spent many an early morning trying to rally with my fellow Hibernians trying to keep our precious relics 
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DocHoliday posted this on October 8th, 2009.
Categorized as beta, captain, DAOC, End Game, Equipment, legendary items, lotro, Minstral, Raids and End-game, Warden.
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I posted a new page today with some info on my 3 main toons. Also some snapshots and view of my gear… Check out the My-Toons page or go here:
My Toons
Posted in LOTRO, Raids and End-game, Warden Tagged: beta, Captain, DAOC, End-game, Equipment, Legendary Items, LOTRO, Minstral, Warden
