And here we go again.... a new patch, a new start, a new race!
I'm going to be posting a series of updates once the race gets underway (starting today on the American servers!) but I wanted to start us off on the official "boring" day with a poll about what you're looking forward to. And for those of you grumps out there who aren't looking forward to anything, you can vote that way too!
As you probably have noticed, we have done some tweaking and polishing around the site to make it more accessible and readable. There is still work to be done, and all the features haven't been completed yet. We'll add more as we go along. We hope you enjoy the design.
And remember, feedback is always welcome and appreciated.
Our academic friends Ladan and Zeotrix aka Sebastian Lundmark haven't been idling this fall. Both of them have published some very interesting content from raider's perspective.
First of all Zeotrix has finished his thesis which takes a closer look on how gaming together affects us. Last winter and fall people from this site (among with some other people) were asked to particiapte in the study twice, and the results are here. Zeotrix describes his work:
A couple of our members will be attending Digiexpo in Helsinki, Finland this weekend. The fair is held 4.-6.11.2011 at Helsingin Messukeskus, close to Pasila station. We'll be hanging around at Pelaaja booth on Saturday 5th at 15:00 CET together with the editor of Finnish World of Warcraft magazine "WOW-lehti". Come and meet us there!
Digiexpo is the biggest fair in Finland concentrating on consumer electronics. As previous years, this year will also feature a lot of high level e-sports tournamets played at the stage, including an ASUS ROG Starcraft 2 tournament with some big names turning up.
The BlizzCon is over and the information about Mists of Pandaria have settled. Time to ask Paragon members about their thoughts regarding the new expansion, the Pandarens and the new Monk class.
Today we are celebrating the 3rd anniversary of our first instance last boss kill. And the "say happy birthday to Paragon" competition has also closed now, and the winners have been picked. As you know, we wanted to invite our readers to get creative, and you really did. We got 20 entries, which composed of stories, poems, pictures, videos, comics, and music.
As promised, here come the entries we've gotten so far for our first instance last boss kill competition. We'll keep on updating the gallery with the entries as we get them.
Now with the recent patchnotes for 4.3 were released containing information from the End Time, Hour of Twilight, Well of Eternity, and of course the Dragon Soul, I thought I'd get this started. And I'm talking about hc lore. Even when my guild mates tease me with comments like "make sure you don't watch the rp during the quest line, we won't wait", I'm the kind of player that enjoys the story part of World of Warcraft as well.
Crumbs strewn over his stale t-shirt; crumpled cans of energy drink lay about; you can see evidence in the gamer's beady eyes of the early onset of sugar/salt-related dementia; the requisite unmade bed sits in the background... the gamer begins to resemble his food: beige, tasteless, and incoherent.
Or are we? Obviously the afore-posted video is an example of a stereotype on steroids. Sure some of us might let the deskspace get a little messy... or even resort to what's known as board chow (http://www.inktank.com/files/comics/2001-04-04-board-chow.gif) from time to time. Yes, that's what you get when you turn your keyboard over and shake out the crumbs (?). I suppose you could call it a kind of cooking.
It hasn't always been easy going forward, keeping on raiding with our eyes set on getting world first kills and being as good as we can ever be. During the last 3 years we have been able to see things none of us would have imagined to see, go to places we just dreamed of, and met people we didn't know existed.
