Category Archives: PvP

League of Legends

Posted on July 6, 2010 by SynCaine

The latest Inquisition craze is League of Legends (LoL), a F2P game from the makes of the extremely popular Defense of the Ancients map for Warcraft 3. LoL is in many ways DotA 2.0, build from the ground up to … Continue reading →

Posted in Inquisition Clan, PvP, Random | 10 Comments

The newbie hero

Posted on July 1, 2010 by SynCaine

Yesterday’s post started the discussion about the perception vs the reality of a new player’s role in Darkfall, and what chance that player has of really contributing to Darkfall’s ‘end-game’ of massive PvP. It also brought up the issue of … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, MMO design, PvP, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 22 Comments

A new flavor of tears, plus an expansion update.

Posted on June 30, 2010 by SynCaine

First, the comments section on this Massively article (great piece btw, riveting topic that someone should have blogged about…) is hilarious. Usually you have to go to MMORPG.com to get such ‘quality’ comments, but it seems people’s love for Darkfall … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media, Patch Notes, PvP, Ultima Online | 24 Comments

Darkfall Online FAQ

Posted on June 24, 2010 by SynCaine

The overall goal of this post is to give prospective Darkfall players a go-to FAQ about the game based on emails and comment questions I’ve received here, along with some of the more common items brought up on the official … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, crafting, Darkfall Online, MMO design, PvP, Site update | 22 Comments

Mildly entertaining, I guess

Posted on June 21, 2010 by SynCaine

First up is this video from Obs of LoD. The combination of the latest patch increasing Sea Fortress rewards, balancing AoE magic, and the overall excitement about Darkfall among many veteran players lead to this rather massive naval blowout. Looks … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Darkfall Online, Patch Notes, PvP | 9 Comments

Darkfall: Day after the patch

Posted on June 18, 2010 by SynCaine

So that patch went… about as well as most Aventurine patches really. Some extra downtime, a short-lived exploit, and dramalama on the forums, in other words, business as usual. My character went from 326hp to 387hp, Ghana now has rats … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Darkfall Online, MMO design, Patch Notes, PvP | 9 Comments

The ‘small’ patch to Darkfall is finally here, tomorrow.

Posted on June 16, 2010 by SynCaine

I love when Aventurine does ‘small’ patches and we get this. As has been the trend for some time now, this patch is a good mix of new/casual player help (no mob decap) with ‘end-game’ changes like the Sea Fortress … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Darkfall Online, MMO design, Patch Notes, PvP | 7 Comments

Chasing sheep money

Posted on June 16, 2010 by SynCaine

My comment yesterday about Warhammer 40k looking like WoW in the future was only partly based off the fact that, well, it looks like WoW in the future. The other factor in making that statement was the fact that in … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Conan, Combat Systems, Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, MMO design, PvP, Rant, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 24 Comments

Two games you should be playing right now

Posted on June 15, 2010 by SynCaine

Indie-game update time! Inquisition has been exposed to Eschalon, and some heavy hours have been put into the game as they too have been sucked in. As I said before, if you love old school RPGs, this one is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Inquisition Clan, PvP, Random | 9 Comments

This. Is. Darkfall!

Posted on June 11, 2010 by SynCaine

No matter how I write this post it won’t do justice to what happened last night. Last night was, without a doubt, the most fun I’ve had in an MMO in a long, long time. And not only was it … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Darkfall Online, Housing, PvP | 20 Comments