Styx: Blades of Greed Guide

I'm a sucker for stealth games, so I had to add a link to this guide to Styx:  Blades of Greed.  I don't know how good the game is and haven't play any of the earlier games in this series, but here is the info for my fellow sneaks.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/styx-blades-of-greed-guide-tips-master-stealth-best-talent-quartz-skills?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Here's a bit about the game.

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2026/02/19/styx-blades-of-greed-out-today-ps5-ps-store/

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Elder Scrolls Online: Tips for Tanks

Feel free to ignore all these tips from the Solo MMO Player, but be warned--if you do, you are going to fail as a tank and you are going to be much mocked to boot.

Slow Down - Instances are not a race.  If a tank outruns everyone else, the ads will be drawn to the tank and the group will fail because all the ads will be concentrated around the Boss, protecting and healing the Boss, and it will be impossible to take the Boss down.  Don't rush and allow many ads to be killed as the group goes through the instance.

Don't Panic - Just concentrate on what your job regardless of all going on around you.

Don't Stop to Look at the Map - The in-game map isn't that helpful.  It pays to view videos of the instance ahead of time so you have a general idea of where to go and what the NPC mechanics are.  Making everyone stand around while you try to figure out where you are and where you should be is going to annoy the other players without buying you anything.  Prepare ahead of time.

Kill the Ads - You don't have to kill each and every ad but you have to get as many as possible so they aren't all bunched up around the Boss at the end, protecting and healing the Boss.  See Slow Down and the link at the end for help in tanking to prioritize the NPCs that must be killed.

Running in Circles Is a Bad Idea - Characters in ESO must target ads and bosses before they can get off a shot.  If the tank is running all over, targeting is impossible and shots will be wasted.  Then the group has to wait for the cool down period to be over while the ads are attacking them.  Everyone dies.  (That's not the point of the instance, in case you didn't know.)  Zigzaging from side to side is also a bad idea for the same reason.  The Solo MMO Player has no idea why so many tanks run in circles these days but it does nothing whatsoever to get through the instance. See Slow Down.

Whining Gets You Nowhere - Complaining that you've run an instance four times and not gotten the drop you wanted will get you No Sympathy Whatsoever from experienced players who've run WOW instances forty or fifty times (or even sixty times--The Solo MMO player's record) before a rare item dropped, especially if you failed to trigger the quest at the beginning of the instance that would guarantee the drop once you finish the instance. Don't bother asking if someone has the rare item they'll give you.  It's not your birthday, bro, and the other group members don't care about your little problems.  Spend all your energy learning to tank. This website looks helpful.  Note the links at the end.

https://alcasthq.com/eso-tanking-beginner-guide/

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WOW Classic: Hunters and Their Pets

Here are some links with pet info.  Most appear to be older.  If you are a beginner doing the quests to get pets, use Stay to get rid of one pet or get out of aggro range of the first pet so you can tame a second.  Or get it killed.  (There doesn't seem to be a Dismiss key early on.)
https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=2641/dismiss-pet

Remember, your pet won't be able to do anything until you find a pet trainer (will be next to the hunter trainer but not all locations have pet trainers).

Use your pet to draw aggro away from you.  You can tell it to go to certain places.  Send it a slight distance away so the monster will attack it instead of you.  You can resurrect it over and over once you have a pet tamed.

You have to adapt your play style to the pet in Classic WOW.  Pets are not alike in everything but  their appearance in the original vanilla WOW.  So look at these links and pick the best pet for how you play.  Here's information about various pets and their builds.
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow-classic/hunter-dps-pets-guide

Scroll down towards the bottom for more pet build stats.
https://classic.wowhead.com/guides/classic-wow-hunter-pets

The ultimate pet site is Petopia.  Here is Petopia Classic.
https://www.wow-petopia.com/classic/

Warcraft Tavern has a list of all rare hunter pets in a database you can sort.  This appears to be for Vanilla WOW/Classic WOW.
https://www.warcrafttavern.com/hunter-pets/rare-hunter-pets/

Pet attack speeds.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061112230516/http://tkasomething.com/attackspeeds.php

How to train your pet.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070406191702/http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/articles/skills_main.shtml

Training guides.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070408070200/http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/articles/tameguide_main.shtml


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Beginner's Guides to Elder Scrolls Online

A nice overall guide to beginning play in Elder Scrolls Online.
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/elder-scrolls-online-beginners-guide-classes-racial-skills-crafting-and-lockpicking

Here's a table comparing the various racial bonuses.
http://elderscrollsonline.info/races

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The Best General Introduction to Guild Wars 2...

...compiled and organized by Dragon Season, who is now my hero.
http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/176/GW2-Tips-Index.aspx

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Returning Rift Player Orientation

Information about changes in the game (August 2011)
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/24/enter-at-your-own-rift-a-party-guide-for-the-fashionably-late/

More about changes (September 2011)
http://www.rifttipsandmore.com/2011/09/rift-tips-couple-quick-tips-of-late.html

Several folks recommend just reading the major patch notes (1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and now 1.8) to see what's changed.
http://forums.riftgame.com/official-rift-news/patch-notes/

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Kingdom of Amalur Play Tips

Tips for play--
http://www.tentonhammer.com/reckoning/features/ten-tips-for-playing-kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

The Solo MMO Player thinks PC players have to load the game from EA's Origins servers.  It won't load from disk for him.  Obscene....

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Rift: How to Kill Healers in PVP

Read the comments for more tips on how to off healers.
http://thisisnotarift.blogspot.com/2011/02/healing-reduction.html

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Rift Tips

While looking for other things I found this forum posting of useful tips for both the novice and experienced Rift player.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25562835-Rift-FAQ-Gameplay

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Help Downloading Cataclysm

How to start streaming Cataclysm now.
http://www.isheepthings.com/blog/two-letters-away-from-cataclysm/

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Tank Help for Cataclysm

Cataclysm tank gear list (mostly for warriors but possibly helpful for other tanks).
http://swordboard.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/cataclysm-dungeons-gear-list-for-tanks/

Help for the tanking bear.
http://primalprecision.blogspot.com/2010/11/relearn-new-tanking-style.html

Help for the low level tanking bear.
http://theincbear.com/low-level-bear-tanking/

How to deal with casters if you are a tank.
http://www.jadedalt.com/2010/11/27/tanking-tips-casters/

Opening moves (rotations) for the DK tank.
http://pwnwear.com/forum/priority-rotation-system-t744-15.html#p13267

http://pwnwear.com/2010/12/02/opening-moves-for-dk-tank/

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PvP Tricks from Discipline Priests

How to break crowd control, how to become immune to Fear, healing above your head, etc.  Many thanks to the Pot for pointing this out.
http://www.warsongpriest.com/?p=39

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Advice for the New Rogue

There is also a link to help lower level rogues level buried in this article for new Level 80 rogues.  I've posted that separately below.
http://samueltempus.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/deckswabber-to-swashbuckler/

http://samueltempus.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/leveling-a-rogue-rogue-101-basic-mechanics/

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Frostwing Halls on 10- and 25-man Normal

How to get through Frostwing Halls in ICC on normal mode.
http://morrighan13.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/icc-10-and-25-man-normal-crib-sheet-the-frostwing-halls/

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How to Be Invisible Without Being Invisible

How to avoid notice in-game in Battlefields.  This covers everything from using a short name to not riding a giant mount.
http://blessingoffish.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/how-not-to-be-seen/

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Avoiding UI Problems in Cataclysm

Tips on how to avoid some of the pain that will happen when Cataclysm hits and borks your UI and addons.  It's a long and laborious process but necessary to play the game once an expansion comes out.
http://graymatterwow.blogspot.com/2010/09/cataclysm-moonkin-glyphs.html

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Five Man PvP Strategies

Tips on winning five man matches.  (By the way, the video is irrelevant to the topic.)
http://www.wow.com/2010/08/30/blood-sport-become-a-5v5-master-tips-and-tricks/

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Being a Better Raiding Hunter

Tips on becoming a much better hunter in Lich King raiding.
http://thehuntersarsenal.blogspot.com/2010/08/improving-your-hunter-skill.html

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Tips on Setting Up Your UI

Thanks to the Melting Pot, I have a very good article on how to set up your UI from Woodsoar.  It starts out recommending several bar addons, then showing you how to make choices when you set them up (based on Dominos) and goes all the way to how to make your buttons prettier once you have them set up.  Useful article.
http://jadedalt.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/clicking-confessions/

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Icecrown Citadel Tips

Tricks for various classes in ICC.
http://www.wow.com/2010/08/09/guest-post-32-tricks-for-icecrown-citadel/

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