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The Daily Grind: Too hard to bard?

Filed under: Classes, Lore, The Daily Grind, Roleplaying


To the eternal lament of some players, roleplaying is a dying art in MMOs. Players interested purely in socializing, exploring, and roleplaying have largely yielded to achievers, who thirst for the high levels, the best gear, and the world-first accomplishments. That's all well and good for your warriors, rogues, and mages, but where does your friendly neighborhood spoony bard fit into the equation? They're a class that a big company like Blizzard only jokes about including.

It's a question asked elsewhere in the MMO blogosphere, but it's one we're curious about as well. Is there still room in modern MMOs for a Bard class, or are they destined for the dustbin of gaming history?

One Shots: Rock Bard meets LotRO

Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Lord of the Rings Online, One Shots

It's time for another gaming Sunday! You know, that day of the week when many of us try to cram in as much gaming as time will permit, with some of us either multiboxing or just bouncing between as many games as we possibly can? Well, here's one group's creative take on it, managing to get in some Lord of the Rings Online in along with Rock Band time! As Wookadan from the Meneldor server tells us:

While hanging out in the Auction House, a trio came in and started playing music for us to enjoy while shopping!

Okay, so it's not quite Rock Band, but if you could somehow get the guitar controllers mapped to key commands on the PC, that could make playing a Bard a lot more fun in a bunch of different games! (We'd play it!)

Do you have an interesting screenshot of things going on in your online gaming world? Perhaps you've found something off-the-beaten-path that you think others might enjoy seeing. Whatever the reason or story, snag those screenshots and toss them into a mail to us at oneshots AT massively. DOT com. We can always use more screens!

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Guild Wars 2008 Wintersday panorama

Blizzard wins the prank wars

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Galleries, Screenshots, Trailers, Culture, Consoles, Races, Humor


Well, what else would you expect from the company that brought you murlocs? April Fool's day is in full effect in Blizzardlandia, and World of Warcraft isn't the only game to get the treatment, but it's a good place to start!

Molten Core: for consoles
Heavily trading on fond gamer memories of Atari's Adventure, Blizzard brings us the console version of its popular 40-player raid dungeon Molten Core. The game's site features screenshots alongside concept art, and a trailer, even, with an 8-bit, pixelated version of the company's logo. We won't spoil the show for you, but the best bullet point for the game has to be 'Has sound'. Check it out and wait for your chance to pre-order!

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TurpsterVision: Lord of the Dings

Filed under: Video, Lord of the Rings Online, Humor, TurpsterVision

TurpsterVision Presents The T-Team!
Every Tuesday think "T" for Turpster and take the "a" in "day", capitalise it, remove the little bit in the middle, turn it upside down and you get a "V". Put the two together and you'll have TV for TurpsterVision -- the best Internet video podcast on Massively! (Never mind that business about it being the only video podcast on Massively...)

Hello and thanks for joining me again for another fun filled feature here on Massively! I love my job, it totally rocks, I get to have all sorts of fun and hopefully you guys enjoy it a little bit too. I normally am happy with you guys turning up and leaving the odd comment or two below though this week I have to ask you for a favor. On Saturday, just after the WoW Insider Show, I was chatting to everyone's favorite Shaman Crybaby Crusader who was just heading off to a D&D game. I then posed the question to him, "which was the most awesome and manly of DnD characters." Obviously I chose the correct answer and Mike chose the wrong one. Let me know which way you swing in your comments: Bard or Wizard? Who wins? You decide!

(Oh and there is a video or something like that after the break!)

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One Shots: Kickin' it old school

Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, EverQuest, One Shots


To follow up on this morning's Daily Grind, where we asked what game you had originally fallen in love with in the MMO genre, I figured I'd follow up with this seriously old-school image sent in to us by Kilawhar! While he didn't send in the name of this location, I actually spent more than enough years playing this game to know just where this is. For those of you who don't recognize the above screenshot location, it's a place called Trainer Hill in the Crushbone zone off of Greater Faydark. In this location, many EverQuest players ground orc xp until they could get into a Throne Room camping group. Then you'd sit and camp the spawns over and over for experience and loot. Ahh, the old days -- when a bad pull meant running for the zone line because they didn't stop chasing you until you were out... or dead! Mmm. Grindy.

How about you? Do you have some seriously old-school screens floating around on a 5.25" floppy or tape drive somewhere? Did you have to grind uphill in the snow both ways just to get and from your raids? Perhaps you have an older game installed, and can show us just how much the graphics have changed since the old days. Whatever your flavor, old-school or new, we'd love to see your screens and hear your stories! Just drop them in the mail to us at oneshots@massively.com! Yours could be the next one up!

Gallery: One Shots

Guild Wars 2008 Wintersday panorama

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