Things have been noticeably quiet in Warhammer Online this past week. I don’t know if people are busy with work, school and/or family but it’s very unusual for Casualties of WAR Vent to be this empty. Even when the late evening players come online we don’t seem to be bursting at the seams like we were two weeks ago. I’m starting to wonder if some people have gone to pay a visit to the World of Warcraft 3.0.2, Pre Lynch King Patch. *Shrug*
My own playing time has slowed down a little. Work was busy and I was tired. I spent more than a couple of nights lounging on the sofa with a movie instead of gaming. Despite my best attempts at self discipline, I often get caught up in the late night crowd’s shenanigans that run rampant until 1 AM CT. I owe my being exhausted this week to playing way too much and way too late last week and over the weekend.
This week I’ve spent most of my time in Scenarios. It’s the easiest thing to do when you need some XP and Renown. In between I farmed a few PQ areas but not as much as I have in the past. I did two Chapter 12 INFs solo and am finding a noticeable difference in the drop rate for loot and crafting items that’s not pleasing. Given that farming mobs is the only way to get these items, from my perspective, Mythic may have dialed the drop rates down too much. I haven’t been able to craft at all this week which is what I enjoy doing in my piddling around time, so I’ve done more Scenarios than normal.
Last night the guild formed a Gunbad group. It was starting a bit late for me but I wanted to see the instance for myself. I’ve seen so little of the instanced content that I was willing to risk another sleepy day at work over it. Unfortunately, I was having a lot of trouble with my interface (submitted a bug report) and didn’t want to risk crashing so I kept the graphics resolution low. Booooo! I dislike taking pictures at the lower resolution. It detracts from my pleasure of making scrapbooks of my MMO adventures.
For that reason, I didn’t attempt any images designed to showcase the content. You’ll have to get there yourself for to see it in that light.
This is not related specifically to the above topic, but I am curious if your guild is still recruiting. I looked at the website and there is no update since recruiting was stopped. I am considering playing Warhammer and would love to be in a guild of good people who have a life outside of gaming as well.
Keep up the great blog!
Roma
Posted by: RomaGoth | October 26, 2008 at 02:56 AM
Also not related to the post at hand, but to answer your question Roma, we'll be opening recruitment sometime in the near future and I'll make an announcement at my blog and on the forums when it happens.
This is of course, for the Order branch only as Genda of Grouchy Gamer is the GM for Destruction and that's his call.
Posted by: JoBildo | October 26, 2008 at 11:44 AM
Just for the record that is Dracone facing the wrong way, not Hammerhead! I can tell by the shield (which is the only way to tell :) )
Posted by: yunk | October 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM
oh and I was being silly above, after reading it I realized you might think the exclamation point might mean I was worried people would think I was running away! :)
Though at times we had just as many mobs behind us as in front :) I think that was my fault though the one time... /shifty eyes
Posted by: yunk | October 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM