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ZEN AND THE ART OF ASHRAN
By John M. Miller

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elusions, Revelations,

finding the battle. “Everything’s

don’t have any idea of what to

and The Rundown

pretty well shown on the map, I

do – the basic idea of the zone

got the hang of it when I first got

is simple. The problem is that,

again, back from the killing fields

here, I’m sure they’ll get it!” I’d

because there’s no set objective,

that we all lovingly refer to as

proclaim to myself while slowly

no “Capture X” or “Defend Y” on

Ashran! What a beautiful place;

accumulating enough broken

the screen, people might feel

hills and valleys as far as the

bones that I could drown myself

that there’s too much to do.

eye can see, ancient ruins with

in, freeing me from the suffering

that Stonehenge charm, and the

that was collecting Troll kills on

forums by a lovely little Undead

gentle clucking of free-range

a very Goblin-esque kind of day.

Priest by the name of Torvald .

Hey there guys it’s Eilthis

There was a recent post on the

Horde living their lives in almost

Slowly, though, I came to

Their post examines why people

idealistic comfort. Well, at least

realize that the problem was

feel that “there’s nothing to do”

until the Fangraal gets Z