/AFK – May 17

You load sixteen blogs, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in experience debt.  Saint Peter, don’t you call me, ’cause I can’t go; I owe my soul to the Blizzard store…

• Explore the legendary items system in LOTRO and what could be done to improve it with this pair of great posts.
• Elder Game does an in-depth investigation into where City of Heroes’ Architect system went wrong, and how it may be set right once again.
• How close is LOTRO’s Shire to the (fictitious) real thing?  MMeOw answers.
• Incoming Pull has hope for WAR yet, complete with a bullet point list.
• Arby (may I call you that?) shines the light of mellow happiness on LOTRO’s redeeming qualities.
• This is one of the better analysis of the Eurogamer v. Darkfall debacle I read in the past couple weeks.
• Free Realms hurts poor Roggie’s eyes… aww.  He’s not a fan of Candyland, either.  Tipa likes it, however, because she’s a being of pure light and sugar.
• Werit reports on possible future mounted combat in WAR — where dinosaurs and gyrocopters collide!
• Sigils.  Good. Homunculus king.
• Spinks is looking to create terms that cover unique MMO situations.
• Good to know I’m not the only one excited about The Secret World!
• Ysharros doesn’t think “solo player” should be a dirty word.  Spinks thinks it should (at least in a guild context).
• Looks like good news for WAR players on the token front!
• Speaking of WAR, features of patch 1.3 have been released, and both Bow & Stab and Gaarawarr have happy comments about it.
• “Blizzard Rolling Greed?” is perhaps one of the best blog titles I’ve ever seen.  And it’s not a half-bad piece, either.
• Do you like lists?  I do!  How about a list of possible hobbies in MMOs?  Or superpowers that aren’t *that* super?
• I would play if… Word of Shadow, MMO Gamers, Guru Meditation Error
• Unlike some, I’m not on a Eurogamer boycott or anything, and I thought their Champions Online Hands On article to be pretty accurate from my experiences as well.
• Jennifer may or may not survive… the WoW itch.  Which is different than a Wo Witch and a Wowitch.