Earlier today the BBC posted an article about raiding, particularly in relation to hard core or elite raiding and I was interviewed for this article for my “thoughts” about raiding and what my research is telling me. They also spoke to Paragon to get the added perspective from an elite raiding guild (nice job, Xaar!). Here is the article, if you are interested:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12326825
So. I've been thinking about starting to blog for a while already. People say my news posts are sometimes too dramatic and I don't always represent the opinions or views of the entire guild when I answer questions as a Paragon member. Now I'm happy, because with this new site, I'll be able to write about things under my own name. I can also exaggerate and be dramatic in peace - I guess I'm that kind of person after all.
*Again something I originally posted in MMO-Champion, which is why it slightly repeats what I said in my previous entry.*
There was a short discussion on our forums regarding the difficulty between 10-man and 25-man raids a few months before Cataclysm where I posted the following:
Even though I have faith that the dev team knows how to make 10s hard, I have a feeling they don't really want to go there. The hard stuff would have to be brutally tightly tuned, limiting the experience to even fewer people than in 25s. Harder than now - definitely - but I simply don't see a lot of benefit in going all-out, and I doubt they do either.
To give you guys an idea what my life has been like for most of the time after Cataclysm launch, let me show you how a typical weekday during the progress used to be for me. This isn't really any single given day, but rather a composite of how the days went on average - on some days the raids started earlier or later and I didn't always wake up at the same time, but this should give a reasonable idea what it was like.