drusylla

wait.. WoW... real life... I get so confused

I'm starting up WoW again!! I just need to get my gaming computer back from my sister.

yea it took us some time but we downed the 1st wing... which is amazing for the 1st week of raiding i am hoping we can get the 2nd one done be4 reset

Sweet It actually dumped an assload of snow in the foothills again today. As long as it stays up top, I am happy.

I like to have a mix of things. I was going to post some more but I figured that might get a bit long.

happy birfday! (to the little one)

Happy birthday, Lillith!!!

Yay, pizza!

Schools do pull dumb shit, my parents had to rip some assholes open bit time when I was in the fourth grade. My bestfriend who lived a few houses down failed the third grade, when school started back up they called my parents in because they wanted to put me back in the third grade since I still played with him. When I graduated that dude was still in the 8th grade.

I still need more practice. You are a beautiful model so it make my job easier

Cute dress! Love the pictures!

<3 Can't wait!

I came back to the site just in time!!

If you read what you just commented on my page it almost sounds like an orgy. LOL.

Yeah, that was pretty cool. I don't think I have ever soent that long on a character creation

Ha-ha!

happy anniversary

Gratz! Made it over the hump. Good deal.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I've read that one before but it never ceases to make me laugh.

I laugh because they believe in better places!

i quit my guild and i am transferring servers this week... to much drrama

It's tough because you want to play with people you know and like, and sometimes those people just aren't what you need. If there was a lower bar to entry (by which I mean - anyone could play a statistically effective version of any role at any given time), it would go a long way towards resolving that issue. However, that bar is something that many MMORPG players love. I don't think most people would really like being able to create a maximum level character with pretty effective equipment on the fly - it would, from their perspective, rob the game of some of its depth, and thereby rob the players of some of their (emotional) investment. See Guild Wars - players don't feel attached to their characters. Players generally like that attachment.

So... essentially, there's no way around it that makes everyone happy. If raids required 5 people, you could work something out - grab four reliable people, help each other level up whatever it is you need, and off you go. When I was playing, raids required 25 people. So you either got the magical combination, or you tried with what was available and likely ran into some trouble.

Or you lower the bar to entry, as mentioned above.

Or you remove encounters that are truly challenging for a group that size.

In short, it's an inherent design flaw in MMORPGs (or ones with raids, anyway) that I don't think can be solved. It's unrealistic to expect players to recruit whatever specific arrangement of 25 people is required because, as mentioned above, people want to play with their friends. Likewise, people are unlikely to want to invest several hours running a potentially disastrous raid with strangers. And, lastly, quality players at maximum level rarely run around without a guild.

My only real solution is to leave large scale battles to PvP, where both sides have to contend with those very issues, and leave PvE on a smaller scale. That's only for games that don't already have raids, though, because otherwise they'd risk losing a hefty chunk of their base.

Ah, this takes me back to college.

Never played Shadowrun, myself. In a weekly group right now, we just got done with Changeling: The Lost, moving on to CthulhuTech. We swap games every other week, so we're currently doing D&D 4e, though that will be on a temporary break to try out Eclipse Phase in the near future.

If you're into games that are more about setting and plot than rules, by the way, I highly recommend Eclipse Phase. Just a damn interesting world they have going on there.

I remember, I texted you the best birthday wishes you have ever had in the past 27 years!