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Epic to wipe ratio

2008-01-25 08:32:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...wipe ratio plays a large role in how much "fun" raiding is for people. Last night my guild did another Karazhan run, second half from Curator to Prince, and my epic to wipe ratio went through the roof. I got the shoulders from the Curator, boots from Aran, and T4 helmet from the Prince. Only Illhoof and the chess event didn't yield anything...
 
Tags: wipe, wipe ratio, wipe ratio plays, epic, raid dungeon, karazhan, karazhan raid, warcraft players remains, players
 
 
 
 
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Who is supposed to train them?

2008-04-04 17:35:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...wipe is impossible. So everybody just blames the healer, who is actually least likely to have caused the wipe, based on the flawed logic that if the healer would just have healed everybody, nobody would have died. It is rare that a wipe leads to the real culpable realizing his mistake and learning from it, which would be the basic requirement...
 
Tags: players, players frequently complain, aggro, aggro management, level, instinctive level, lower level dungeons, guilds, raid guilds
 
 
 
 
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The Ancient Gaming Noob: Death in the Mana Tombs

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2008-04-24 10:58:09 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...wipe. Indeed, if it wasnt for the fact that we were all of three steps from the entrance, it would have been a wipe. Skronk and Bung went down quickly, then we decided to get out. However, Earl and Vikund were both hit with DOT s and managed to die outside of the instance. Ula was the only survivor That set the tone for the night We nearly...
 
Tags: instance, night, time, previous saturday night, skronk, lost skronk, boss, tavarok, ula
 
 
 
 
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The Ancient Gaming Noob: The Mana Tombs - Death Revisited

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2008-05-29 15:57:50 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...wiped on the first pull in the instance We blew through to the first boss, Pandemonius , and sent him packing without much drama. His big trick, fading to another dimension for a moment, which causes damage to be reflected back, was not fooling us Here we are sizing him up before the attack After that we advanced at a brisk pace to the next...
 
Tags: mana tombs, quest, escort quest, ethereal beacons, prince, beacons, nexus-prince shaffer, beacons quickly, time
 
 
 
 
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Games giving feedback

2008-11-03 15:45:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...wiped, as I'm watching everyone's health bars anyway But do the other players in the group always get enough feedback of what went wrong? Group combat can be quite chaotic, and the combat log isn't well designed to replay what happened. As the healer I can tell you that we wiped because the tank after pulling only hit mob A with sunders and...
 
Tags: feedback, combat log, log, possibly heal fast, time, reaction time, fast, heal, combat
 
 
 
 
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Numerical boss stats and strategy

2008-01-02 09:11:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...wipe any more, because people had more health, and were faster healed back up to full The difficulty of raiding is basically the about the degree of perfection that a raid group has to achieve to beat the boss encounter. And that degree of perfection depends very much on numerical values, both those of the boss mob, and those of the raid...
 
Tags: boss, non-heroic version, non-heroic, non-heroic 5-man dungeons, encounter, boss encounter, raid boss, raid dungeons, current raid dungeons
 
 
 
 
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Moroagh on game design

2008-01-13 12:50:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...wipe, another only reluctantly stops trying after the 20th wipe because it is 3 am in the morning, and vows to come back the next day. That is a design problem, because the guy giving up too fast might get frustrated and leave because he finds the game too hard, but if you made the encounter easy enough to beat on the first try, the most...
 
Tags: game, game design, game varies, game developers, players, perseverance players, reasonable players, players repeatedly, repeatedly
 
 
 
 
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Finished Karazhan

2008-01-22 08:01:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...wipe too often. On the more complicated encounters we might wipe once until the players there for the first time understand how it works, and then we down the boss on the second try. The easier fights we manage on the first try. Wiping repeatedly on the prince was really an exception. For once the small raid size of Karazhan is an advantage,...
 
Tags: karazhan, system, raid grind system, raid, raid progression, karazhan raids, gear checks, gear, decent blue gear
 
 
 
 
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25-man raids and skill checks

2008-01-28 18:03:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...wiped once on Maulgar, due to an unexpected pull, and didn't wipe at all at Gruul, although Gruul is supposedly much harder. We then went to SSC and wiped repeatedly on Hydross. I have problems comparing 10-man and 25-man raids in TBC, because the 25-man raids are harder. Going to SSC was certainly less relaxed than going to Karazhan, but...
 
Tags: skill, 25-man raids, 25-man, encounter, raid encounter, skill check, raids, entry-level 40-man raids, 40-man raids
 
 
 
 
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Weird Game of the Day: Duel Love

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2008-03-05 16:44:02 by Stephany in Gaming Today
...wipe the sweat off of their body. Granted, so far it is his chest only (I hope) and the backgrounds will change according to how happy you are making him. If you look at the two screens I have posted, you will see the mood color-chart, and a very disturbing screen where you have to blow on your DS to remove the steam which is covering his...
 
Tags: duel love, game, game duel love, day, secret fight club, game newsflash, fight, day massacre playlist, fight club