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The Summoner's Guidebook: The best ways to ruin a gank in League of Legends
In League of Legends' Classic mode, jungling is my second-most preferred role. I prefer ADC first, since it is very taxing on attention and raw skill matters more than strategy. However, as a jungler, I can impact the game more meaningfully. While being ADC allows me to usually win the game in spite of awful teammates, jungling helps me prevent those awful teammates from throwing the game away. When I'm going for a gank, there's nothing worse than someone mucking it up for me -- except when I screw it up myself. It's frustrating when I ping for a gank and my mid lane proceeds to engage and die to his opponent before I get there. It's even worse when I run through a place that I know is warded, attempt a gank anyway, and get jumped by three opponents. Sometimes a gank wasn't meant to be, but most of the time, we botched it all on our own.
The Daily Grind: What games have you lost time to?
We've all played these games ... otherwise, why would you be here? But sometimes you don't just play a MMOG. Sometimes you crawl inside it. Maybe the significant other is gone for the weekend with the kids, maybe you have a weekend off of work ... for whatever reason every once in a while it's nice to just be somewhere else for a little bit.This can be both a good and a bad thing. While studies are always coming out about game addiction and whatnot, that doesn't tell the whole story. Sometimes you can play a lot of a game without binging on it. Sometimes a game is just that good, it keeps you coming back over and over. When you look back at your life with games, there has to be one or two that just dominated the landscape. For me, several of those are MMOGs. I've played quite a bit of EverQuest 2 and World of Warcraft at this point ... enough to know that my time in the worlds of Norrath and Azeroth was well spent.So what are the games that would be like "putting a half dozen Mount Everests right in the middle of South Dakota"? What MMO takes up the top three spots in your 'favorite games' list ... by quantity of time played, if nothing else?
