Overly Positive

Yeah, I really couldn’t resist. Old school, baby!

This week’s Happy Humpday Highlight, which takes a tour around my blogroll, takes a look at the Shadow WAR blog, run by MMO veteran Andrew. Now, a lot of the friends and readers I’ve accumulated over the past year have been people that I know from the Warhammer Online community. While the number of bloggers that are currently writing about WAR has decreased, a few brave souls soldier on, and Shadow WAR, while it has turned a but generalist, is among them.

Shadow WAR used to be focused on, well Shadow Warrior type posts. The Shadow Warriors have arguably been one of WAR’s much-maligned classes, with lack of love and attention leading to a lot of frustration and issues. Thankfully, Andrew has been there despite that, with inspired posts such as “Even if they can’t make it sound awesome”, which responds to the GOA highlight of the Shadow Warrior, and “What I’d like to call retarded”, which talks about the lack of meaningful buffs to the Shadow Warrior in a particular patch note listing. These may sound like odd posts to be endorsing, considering I’m all about the sun and brightness, but I have a lot of respect for passion and posts that are driven by a sincere love of the class. A lesser person would have rerolled into a more powerful class. Andrew responded by playing a little Black Guard, another arguably underpowered class. Now that takes guts.

Andrew’s blog is also interesting because he has a wide scope of other topics, from other MMOs like Champions Online, to a bit of history and politics, and commentary on other blogs. There’s varied reading to be had at Shadow WAR, and I always like dropping in via Google Reader to hit up the latest articles or simply click in to give him another hit on the site. If you doubt the experience of his gaming that qualifies him to talk on so many topics, one only need to drop in on the MMO history and characters section of his blog, which is a full breakdown of what Andrew’s played. It’s a background that rivals and even exceeds my own, from an MMO perspective.

Shadow WAR’s definitely a good and decent read on gaming. Be sure to check the blog posts there, and on my blogroll – because they’re there for a reason, don’t ya know.