Author Archives: SynCaine

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About SynCaine

Former hardcore raider turned casual gamer.

WoW Classic: I love the difficulty so much I installed a mod to remove it!

Posted on August 30, 2019 by SynCaine

Reading some of the early reaction posts to WoW Classic has me mentality returning to the older days of this blog, specifically the thing where I pick apart another post because it always amuses me that people say how they … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, MMO design, Rant, World of Warcraft | 10 Comments

WoW Classic: Benediction is our server

Posted on August 29, 2019 by SynCaine

Due to Blizzard still learning how to manage an MMO 15 years later, we have once again moved, this time to Benediction, a high-pop server that fortunately has yet to have queues. Our guild, Supreme Cream, has also been formed, … Continue reading →

Posted in Inquisition Clan, World of Warcraft | 3 Comments

WoW Classic: L2Rouge nub!

Posted on August 28, 2019 by SynCaine

The level 10 rogue quest asks you to get a document off a certain NPC. Being dumb, I just assumed this meant killing the mob, as you do in most quests. As I was doing this solo and at level … Continue reading →

Posted in World of Warcraft | 1 Comment

WoW Classic: Old Blizzard game design still shines, new Blizzard management still exists

Posted on August 27, 2019 by SynCaine

This morning I was able to play WoW Classic a bit between work meetings, as thankfully the queue issue had not yet picked back up. I fully expect that tonight I won’t be able to get in again, but we … Continue reading →

Posted in Rant, World of Warcraft | 14 Comments

WoW Classic: Day one is 100% exactly like the first day of WoW in 2004!

Posted on August 26, 2019 by SynCaine

And by that I mean Blizzard, 15 years later, still doesn’t understand the basics of how to not get in their own way, and I’m sitting in a queue 18k deep that is going to, at best, get me into … Continue reading →

Posted in MMO design, Rant, World of Warcraft | 7 Comments

LoL TFT: Man I suck, oh wait I’m awesome!

Posted on August 26, 2019 by SynCaine

Tonight we sit in a queue to play WoW Classic, but today I want to talk about the roller coast ride I just went on with LoL TFT Ranked play. It started at around 80 points into Plat 3, the … Continue reading →

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WoW Classic: Lets keep it hard

Posted on August 22, 2019 by SynCaine

The hype train continues to chug along towards the release of WoW Classic. I’m excited. I created my characters to reserve names, and while doing so, some of that original WoW magic came back, even just in character creation. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Rant, World of Warcraft | 20 Comments

WoW Classic: We are playing on Skeram (updated 8/17/19)

Posted on August 13, 2019 by SynCaine

Reserving character names is open now, so it was time to pick a server. Initially we had a few different choices, but with queues being insane and a some servers being destinations for streamers or Brazilians, Grobbulus Stalagg Skeram ended … Continue reading →

Posted in Inquisition Clan, Site update, World of Warcraft | 4 Comments

Fig investment in Pillars of Eternity 2 comes to a close

Posted on August 5, 2019 by SynCaine

On August 2nd I got an email informing me that my Fig investment into Pillars of Eternity 2 is completed, and the end return is 52% (IE, for every $1000 invested, people only got back $520, so every share lost … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant, Site update | 5 Comments

LoL TFT: Gold rank and beyond

Posted on July 31, 2019 by SynCaine

Quick Team Fight Tactics progress update: I hit gold recently and am now in Gold 2, with the expectation of hitting Plat ‘soon’. I’m also still very much enjoying the game, as my ‘games played’ clearly shows. As I mentioned … Continue reading →

Posted in League of Legends | 2 Comments