LAGWAR | GAMING'S BEST IN TOP NOTCH MEDIOCRITY

As a self-proclaimed MMO Nomad, I make it a point to spread my playtime out over multiple titles. The problem is that most MMOs aren’t designed to be anything other than a main game; MMO designers expect you to take their baby and make it your own. It’s a common thought that playing more than [...]

Welcome back to Some Assembly Required, Lagwar’s weekly foray into the lifeblood of the MMO community. Join Syeric every Friday to tackle the latest news and hot topics of the week.

Lifetime subscriptions are a pretty tenuous topic right now. People are well and torn over whether or not they’re good for a game or if [...]

Hi LAGWAR Fans, and welcome to our new Friday column, Some Assembly Required. Each week, we’ll be looking at the little parts that make up the larger MMO-o-sphere (MOOsphere?) and breaking them down, bit by bit. In light of the recent Turbine buyout, I thought we’d kick things off with a look behind [...]

Have you ever wondered how to get some scientific data around your combat performance? Well, I stumbled on a Google Code open source project that fits the bill, and the author is an absolute genius. You can use the native LOTRO chat function and turn on logging to get the data parsed out and presented [...]

It’s astonishing the amount of game play packed into LOTRO.  With Siege of Mirkwood, it inflates the amount of activities in which you can engage beyond anything I thought they would pull off in this release.  One of my favorites is the skirmish system.  I touched on this briefly in my first impressions article the [...]

Official Release Notes
The Patch
Wanted to give some immediate first impressions, and tonight is the night long awaited.  I arrived home filled with anticipation!  Then I had to patch.  Started the patch at  9:30 central and ended at 10:19 pm.  Also, when the patch concludes you get a great new EULA, which I know you all [...]

One of the things I rarely have the opportunity to do in MMORPGs is to engage in what the common vernacular refers to as end game quests / raids / content.  It’s not from lack of level – I usually level cap – but it’s a logistical nightmare.  By the time I hit the high [...]

One of the most important things to me in any game is my ability to customize my character to make him / her unique in contrast to the rest of the player base.  A lot of the articles in MMORPG blogs tend to be about all the new and shiny games that will further dilute [...]