Now, before I begin, this post deserves a bit of explanation. Largely, this post was spurred by seeing someone tweet about how raiding (in the context of WoW) needed a higher skill floor, and then my own tweets on the subject. This segued into a bit of a talk about raiding in general, and then I came to compose this, in a format where I can use more than 140 characters at a time.

As such, I can’t promise this post will not contain some less than positive opinions about raiders. If you self-identify as a raider, if that is a thing that you do, and enjoy doing, you may not want to continue reading, and leave this post well alone. If you do, anything I say isn’t to be taken personally, but maybe you should have more fun doing that thing you do.

(Good job, self, write a post that might offend pretty much most people who will read this. Woo~)

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Most of this post was written last night, but then I got distracted with food/life/etc. So it’s not going up ’till now. Whoops. :x

This was at 6am server time. I was fairly impressed, actually.

The title kinda says it all, doesn’t it? Today’s post won’t be super fancy, as I’ve spent an ungodly amount of time this weekend playing TOR. I’m not going to lie. In the interests of pointless statistics, however, I am going to share some things with the class, and how they match up with my projected times for things.

So, since the “Summer of Gaming” post, most of my gaming time has been spent playing Skyrim and TOR and some other shit. Thanks to Steam, I have some more concrete stats on the subject, however.

• SKYRIM – 7.5 additional hours
• Sonic Generations – 4 hours
• Cave Story+ – 2 hours

In addition, this weekend I played a metric fuckton of TOR. As I keep saying. The beta weekend closed up an hour and a half-ish ago as I write this, and in the ~3.5 days I had to play, I spent somewhere in the region of 45-50 hours playing the game. As it counts towards my 200 ‘scheduled’ hours, I’m going to tax them at half rate because it’s really outside the scope of playing the game proper (my progress has been wiped, and now we await live)

As such, I’ve decided to count it as 20 hours towards my 200 done, not that it looks like I’ll need it, it seems. I imagine I’ll probably knock another 100 odd hours off in the first week or two, hopefully that’ll get me to 50, although I am unsure.  That is my goal for new years, so that’s that.

Speaking of TOR, the next episode of Arcane Envoy plays that will be about it will (probably) not be on the  24th/25th, but will most likely on the 31st/1st. This is because I don’t really want to record again ’till I’ve experienced the game properly. That being said, I imagine that there will be quite a few posts about the game during that period. (Probably a couple in addition to normal posts?)

I have a secret plan for that episode, which may or may not happen. I’m playing it close-ish to my chest (for the immediate time being), worst case I can do a modified version of it. Maybe. In addition, I’m thinking of doing something special for the Christmas episode, but we will see how that pans out as well.

In addition, you might of noticed a few changes to the blog’s layout, and I’m warning you not to be too alarmed. I’m just fiddling with a few ideas. (Can anyone say “Redesign Season”? By saying that I have basically jinxed the whole process, haven’t I? ><)