Any veteran MMO player is probably well-versed in MMOs adding some sort of in-game event around a number of real life holidays, with World of Warcraft having an entire meta-achievement for doing the vast majority of their events and rewarding players with the ugliest purple protodrake for their efforts.
One year ago yesterday, my first article was published on TORWars, then featured by our Darth-in-Chief Deirdre Hollis as a guest post.
Recently, I switched from an Annihilation spec on my Marauder to a Carnage spec because overall DPS in Carnage exceeded Annihilation's.