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The nicest pickup group ever

2008-11-12 06:30:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...pickup group ever. We were doing the daily heroic, Underbog, and everything went just very smooth. The tank and druid were extremely well geared, and while my mage and the other two players weren't quite as well geared, we all knew how to play well. And suddenly we had a surprise drop from a random mob: A Blade of Wizardry , a bind on equip...
 
Tags: sword, pickup, equip epic sword, random mob, surprise drop, daily heroic, auction house, players, roll
 
 
 
 
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Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection patch adds rumble, Pickup Match mode

2008-04-18 08:37:09 by Asif in PS3 News | PS3 games reviews | PS3 Gaming Blog
 
PSN downloadable Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection is getting another update today, one which Japanese players have enjoyed for weeks now. The most significant additions in this recent patch include DualShock 3 support and Pickup Match mode, which allows players to bypass the waiting room and continue playing one-on-one matches continuously
 
Tags: pickup match mode, dark resurrection, players, japanese players, one-on-one matches continuously, psn downloadable, significant additions, support, bypass
 
 
 
 
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Improving PuGs

2008-03-12 08:12:38 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...pickup groups (PuGs) in World of Warcraft? A pickup group is a group formed with complete strangers, via the looking-for-group (LFG) system or via chat, usually formed to tackle a challenge that cant be soloed, such as elite quests or instanced dungeons. In World of Warcraft PuGs are a source of constant complaints on all sorts of forums and...
 
Tags: pugs, improve pugs, improve, dungeons, heroic dungeons, solo, solo content, easy mode dungeons, skill
 
 
 
 
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Making raiding more like PvP

2007-12-30 08:01:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...pickup raid, just like they are assigned to a pickup group for battlegrounds. Of course that necessitates "easy mode" raid dungeons, for example in a system where the current difficulty level is labeled as heroic, and an easier "normal" difficulty is introduced in which a pickup raid group has actually a chance to kill a boss. This is simply...
 
Tags: pvp, people prefer pvp, pvp gear, pvp battleground, arena epics, epics, raid, successful raid, raid dungeons
 
 
 
 
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Interview: David Jaffe Talks Twisted Metal

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2008-01-31 20:21:38 by Chris Kohler in Game | Life
...pickups. One of the things that we did on Lost is, I went back and ripped out about 30 percent of the variety of pickups. Because I realized that in Black , we simply had too many weapon options for the player to the point that everything ended up getting diluted. Every pickup felt like it had the same value. And I remember in Twisted Metal 2...
 
Tags: metal, black, metal black, pickup, pickup game, game, metal series, series, map
 
 
 
 
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The future of grouping

2008-07-30 06:30:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...Pickup group" is an derogatory term in WoW, evoking fears of you being killed by somebody else's faults; but that comes not from people inherently being anti-group, but from WoW teaching them that a group is only useful for specific group content, and that one is so hard that a pickup group is likely to fail. In World of Warcraft before the...
 
Tags: loot, extra loot, vegas loot system, game world, solo play, world, play, single-player rpg, player
 
 
 
 
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Notes from 2.4 Patch

2008-02-01 13:50:55 by Editor in WoW Juju
 
...Pickup items, the confirmation dialogue now lists the name of the item in the dialogue. You can now verify that you are picking up the correct bind on pickup item Bind on Pickup items that only you can pick up (Heroic Badges for instance) will no longer bring up a confirmation dialogue The profession UI search field has been improved and now...
 
Tags: pickup items, items, dialogue, confirmation dialogue, bind, instance, correct bind, pickup item, item
 
 
 
 
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Do you use WoW voice chat?

2008-01-04 15:42:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...pickup groups. I don't know if that is due to some cultural difference, or due to the fact that the "English" servers are in fact the server for everybody who isn't German, French, or Spanish, and thus has the widest mix of nationalities and languages. I've never been asked to join voice chat in a pickup group on a European "English" server....
 
Tags: voice chat, experiences, voice chat experiences, join voice chat, raid, european, tbc european beta, 40-man raid, tbc
 
 
 
 
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WoW battleground rewards

2008-02-08 08:28:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...pickup group. If its a premade, the one guy quits the battleground and the premade group looks for an easier target. If its an easy to beat pickup group, the rest of the premade group enters. Cap'n John has some very reasonable suggestions on how to stop that exploit, for example by not showing the enemy group before the battle starts I'm...
 
Tags: rewards, welfare, welfare epics, pvp rewards, epics, exact honor, pvp, honor, easier epics
 
 
 
 
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2.4 Known Issues - again

2008-02-27 11:46:13 by Editor in WoW Juju
 
...Pickup loot Players are initially unable to loot any Bind on Pickup items with Master Loot on Yells sent b
 
Tags: issues, loot, master loot, assign uncommon bind, uncommon, bind, pickup loot, battleground chat, list