As with last week's dev diary concerning class changes to the Burglar, Hunter and Lore-master, this week's guide to life after level 50 pertains to the Champion, Minstrel and Rune-keeper.
Turbine's posted a new developer diary that exposes the creative and mechanical processes of designing the Warden, one of the new classes coming in Mines of Moria. There's something for everyone in the diary from the inspiration of the Warden to its gambit combat mechanic. We don't get an in-depth look at gambits and instead get a more introductory look at how they function.
Just as a bit of background, in The Fellowship of the Ring, Aragorn and the hobbits meet for the first time in Bree. They then realize that they were being followed by the Black Riders, so our mangy ranger leads their escape, and decides that the party go through the Midgewater Marshes.
One of the many things that make an MMO title great is the story behind it. After all, when you think about it, everything we know now first began as a story. Developer Funcom definitely knows this for a fact and that is why they've been working hard to build the lore of their latest project - Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.
One of the things that we've heard about many times over is the ability of MMOs to bring family together -- not just over long distances, but also over short ones.
The internal dynamics of a class in a given game are usually quite impenetrable to outsiders. People with only a cursory knowledge of a given game, or people who are working through the game for the first time, often see these dynamics as mysterious and unpredictable.
We got an official release date for EVE Online's next expansion, Trinity, at the FanFest over the weekend. Here is also a very interesting mmorpg game called Warhammer Online.
Tobold's MMORPG Blog is one of the most popular online gaming blogs in the series of tubes, but Tobold suggesting that he and a lot of other online gamers are in a "gaming slump." Here is also a very interesting mmorpg game called Warhammer Online.
Along with many others, many of the team here at Massively have been enjoying tearing things up in RvR combat. Here is also a very interesting mmorpg game called Star Wars Galaxies.
Just when developers and venture capitalists were almost to the point of apprehension for the future of investing in the MMO genre, Warhammer Online has broken the failed-MMO streak by creating what looks to be the biggest thing since... well, since World of Wacraft.