Sunday, March 1, 2009
Better Late than Never
So I dinged 80 today. Took me long enough :) Seems like it was slow going til Level 77 but once I had access to my flying mount back, the last 3 levels were simple.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Well, in the immortal word's of someone in Monty Python, "I'm not quite dead yet!"
Since my account as paid up through May even thou the credit card that pait for it is no more, I have started playing solo again to finish my grind to 80. I realised I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to try and keep up with the uber players in my guild and I just didn't have the free time or the skill to do it. So I am just plodding along at my own pace now and relaxing and enjoying the game more. Sometimes I think I am too goal oriented in WoW as well as the rest of my real life.
So I have dinged 78 today, yay! and did something wierd to my install that cuased all my addons to cease functioning. Had to delete all of them and all the saved variable files and start from scratch! Ack! So as soon as I have my GUI back up to speed, I think I will go back and do the instances I skipped.
WotLK is boggling my mind... there seems to just be SOOOOOO much to do with all the achievments that are out there. I doubt I'll ever finish even a fraction of them, but at least I am having a good time. I do miss raiding, but we'll see how long this holds my interest.
On a personal note, little in my real life has changed, but I still need to do SOMETHING to relax, so WoW it is!
Since my account as paid up through May even thou the credit card that pait for it is no more, I have started playing solo again to finish my grind to 80. I realised I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to try and keep up with the uber players in my guild and I just didn't have the free time or the skill to do it. So I am just plodding along at my own pace now and relaxing and enjoying the game more. Sometimes I think I am too goal oriented in WoW as well as the rest of my real life.
So I have dinged 78 today, yay! and did something wierd to my install that cuased all my addons to cease functioning. Had to delete all of them and all the saved variable files and start from scratch! Ack! So as soon as I have my GUI back up to speed, I think I will go back and do the instances I skipped.
WotLK is boggling my mind... there seems to just be SOOOOOO much to do with all the achievments that are out there. I doubt I'll ever finish even a fraction of them, but at least I am having a good time. I do miss raiding, but we'll see how long this holds my interest.
On a personal note, little in my real life has changed, but I still need to do SOMETHING to relax, so WoW it is!
Friday, January 16, 2009
Sorta assuming no one follows this anymore but just in case.....
I started playing WotLK the day it came out. And has so often been the case for me of late, real life reared it's ugly head. Between unemployment, and my partner becoming gravely ill, WoW suddenly wasnt nearly as relaxing or as easy to make time for as it used to be. So I am in a semi inactive state now. My account was paid for six months in advance. I hate feeling like I wasted the money, but it is what it is.
This may be the final entry her, I don't know. Depends on if I ever get my act together.
I started playing WotLK the day it came out. And has so often been the case for me of late, real life reared it's ugly head. Between unemployment, and my partner becoming gravely ill, WoW suddenly wasnt nearly as relaxing or as easy to make time for as it used to be. So I am in a semi inactive state now. My account was paid for six months in advance. I hate feeling like I wasted the money, but it is what it is.
This may be the final entry her, I don't know. Depends on if I ever get my act together.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Everything old is new again
Wow... It's been awhile since I posted here. Real life has been very demanding. I am hoping when the Wrath King expansion comes out, I can squeeze out some more playing time. A couple of my friends gifted me with a 60 day play card. Isn't it great to have friends that know the right gift to give?
Went on what my guild called a "retro raid" through Molten Core last night. Ended up with like 30 people in the raid so it went really fast. Was very enjoyable seeing all the all bosses that used to take serious effort to down drop faster than a fluffer in a porn movie.
Went on what my guild called a "retro raid" through Molten Core last night. Ended up with like 30 people in the raid so it went really fast. Was very enjoyable seeing all the all bosses that used to take serious effort to down drop faster than a fluffer in a porn movie.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Just Another Day in Paradise
Well, it looked like I was finished with WoW, but my real life situation is so bad, I need WoW just to have a little stress relief. So after a month off, I am puttering around with lowbie alts for the fun of it. I'll stay around until I get a job or file for bankruptcy. Obviously, no chance in RL, still no job, no money, blah blah blah.....
As I type this, I am downloading the PTR client. Heck, I could type War and Peace in the time it is taking to do this download. I wanna at least get a peek at the upcoming content. I am sure once the new expansion hits, providing I can buy it, it will be like when TBC came out and all the lewt I busted my fat hinney to get will become history.
Some of my old friends in-game are looking to transfer to a server that is more competitive. Others are taking advantage of the PVE to PVP transfer option Blizzard is now offering. I wish all of them luck and I will miss them, but given my finances, paying for a character transfer is not gonna happen. I'd rather stick with my casual hordie friends on my current server anyway. I am sure at some point, the subscriber base will start to shrink. I hope when that happens and servers start being phased out, guilds will be allowed to stay together.
As I type this, I am downloading the PTR client. Heck, I could type War and Peace in the time it is taking to do this download. I wanna at least get a peek at the upcoming content. I am sure once the new expansion hits, providing I can buy it, it will be like when TBC came out and all the lewt I busted my fat hinney to get will become history.
Some of my old friends in-game are looking to transfer to a server that is more competitive. Others are taking advantage of the PVE to PVP transfer option Blizzard is now offering. I wish all of them luck and I will miss them, but given my finances, paying for a character transfer is not gonna happen. I'd rather stick with my casual hordie friends on my current server anyway. I am sure at some point, the subscriber base will start to shrink. I hope when that happens and servers start being phased out, guilds will be allowed to stay together.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Requiem to a Guild
Well, I haven't been playing a lot of WoW so no updates here in a long time either. Real Life in all its wonder has been getting me down. I am one of the many folks struggling with the current economy and after a frustrating day of job hunting and repeating myself to collections agents, I am often too tired or just not in the mood to game when evening rolls around.
I am going to indulge in a little virtual drama now, as something recently happened that ironically has rekindled my interest in WoW somewhat. The guild I had been in for over 2 years on the Alliance side pretty much self destructed over a weekend. Now I have seen more than a couple of guilds fall apart but this was a guild that was started by friends I had known in gaming through two and in one case, three different MMO's. It was a well respected and established guild. Yet in the end, none of that mattered. Greed and selfishness took over and a handful of senior players, including my so called friends (those that hadn't left earlier due to disillusionment), split off without warning leaving the rest of the guild too fend for itself. It was a back stab, pure and simple. It came down to their own needs being more important then the guild they had shaped and built and the people that had trusted them. I had long since been been excluded from the "inner circle" because I saw the changes in attitudes and voiced my opinions so the shattering impacted me very little. Now that the guild is dead, several of the people that participated in the breakaway are suddenly deciding to "retire" from WoW, at least til the next expansion comes out. I guess the grass on the other side wasn't as green as they hoped and now everyone loses. I wonder if any of the many people that left that guild will ever see the goal they thought they were getting, that being to "finish" the game and its high end raiding content. I find it ironic that they had all the people and skills and desire together they needed, but lacked the patience and faith in each other. What a shame.
World of Warcraft is only a game. We each pay our fee and do a wide variety of activities to relax, unwind, channel aggression, whatever. But it is still a community, even though it is a virtual one. A gaming Guild is like a family, even if it is just a virtual, online one. In gaming, as in life, if you don't have family, you have nothing. What good is having the best gear around, or defeating every last boss if you have no one you care about to share that triumph with, especially those that battled up through the ranks with you? Seems a rather empty victory to me but for some, it seems the phrase "victory at all costs" means just that, even to the point of disrespecting those you play the game with.
I am fortunate. When I decided to explore the horde side of my server, I met a group of gamers with the same ideals as I have, as I thought my alliance guild had when it was founded. Though I have to say goodbye to one group of people I once called friends, I am blessed to have made new online friends that I respect and enjoy being with (even when they are pointing out out the boneheaded things I do, or maybe especially then). So I will enjoy thier company and raise a farewell toast to my old mates, who for a shining moment, were the best there was at what we did once upon a time.
I guess the point of all of this is to ask you, oh bored and confused reader, to remember that there is more to playing this game than *just* getting gear and beating bosses. Any console game will let you do that. The thing that makes MMO's special is how it allows us to create teams and forge a community. Please don't let yourself sacrifice that for some perceived short term goal. It may not be all you think it is. All that glitters is not gold... or always an epic
I am going to indulge in a little virtual drama now, as something recently happened that ironically has rekindled my interest in WoW somewhat. The guild I had been in for over 2 years on the Alliance side pretty much self destructed over a weekend. Now I have seen more than a couple of guilds fall apart but this was a guild that was started by friends I had known in gaming through two and in one case, three different MMO's. It was a well respected and established guild. Yet in the end, none of that mattered. Greed and selfishness took over and a handful of senior players, including my so called friends (those that hadn't left earlier due to disillusionment), split off without warning leaving the rest of the guild too fend for itself. It was a back stab, pure and simple. It came down to their own needs being more important then the guild they had shaped and built and the people that had trusted them. I had long since been been excluded from the "inner circle" because I saw the changes in attitudes and voiced my opinions so the shattering impacted me very little. Now that the guild is dead, several of the people that participated in the breakaway are suddenly deciding to "retire" from WoW, at least til the next expansion comes out. I guess the grass on the other side wasn't as green as they hoped and now everyone loses. I wonder if any of the many people that left that guild will ever see the goal they thought they were getting, that being to "finish" the game and its high end raiding content. I find it ironic that they had all the people and skills and desire together they needed, but lacked the patience and faith in each other. What a shame.
World of Warcraft is only a game. We each pay our fee and do a wide variety of activities to relax, unwind, channel aggression, whatever. But it is still a community, even though it is a virtual one. A gaming Guild is like a family, even if it is just a virtual, online one. In gaming, as in life, if you don't have family, you have nothing. What good is having the best gear around, or defeating every last boss if you have no one you care about to share that triumph with, especially those that battled up through the ranks with you? Seems a rather empty victory to me but for some, it seems the phrase "victory at all costs" means just that, even to the point of disrespecting those you play the game with.
I am fortunate. When I decided to explore the horde side of my server, I met a group of gamers with the same ideals as I have, as I thought my alliance guild had when it was founded. Though I have to say goodbye to one group of people I once called friends, I am blessed to have made new online friends that I respect and enjoy being with (even when they are pointing out out the boneheaded things I do, or maybe especially then). So I will enjoy thier company and raise a farewell toast to my old mates, who for a shining moment, were the best there was at what we did once upon a time.
I guess the point of all of this is to ask you, oh bored and confused reader, to remember that there is more to playing this game than *just* getting gear and beating bosses. Any console game will let you do that. The thing that makes MMO's special is how it allows us to create teams and forge a community. Please don't let yourself sacrifice that for some perceived short term goal. It may not be all you think it is. All that glitters is not gold... or always an epic
Sunday, July 20, 2008
No news is...well...no news
Sorry, I haven't posted much here recently. The last few days I have been bedridden with a come-and-go fever of 102+ I feel almost human for the moment though. Hope I can get get back to playing soon. I am on antibiotics and painkillers and only my pharmacist alone knows what else.
I pulled my old alliance toons out of the guild they were in. It is a great guild but I didn't feel like I was contributing anything to justify my presence. I hope to tweak one of them when I get back playing and am toying with some ideas of what to do with her. With a little work, she would very ready for some of the more advanced content now available. Just not sure how much I can do on the ally side when my primary focus has been on this Tankadin of mine.
On a somber note, it may all be an exercise in futility if I don't find a solution of my employment/income woes. My WoW account is good til next month, but I may not be in a position to continue playing after that. Why do the simplest things have to be complex at times.
I pulled my old alliance toons out of the guild they were in. It is a great guild but I didn't feel like I was contributing anything to justify my presence. I hope to tweak one of them when I get back playing and am toying with some ideas of what to do with her. With a little work, she would very ready for some of the more advanced content now available. Just not sure how much I can do on the ally side when my primary focus has been on this Tankadin of mine.
On a somber note, it may all be an exercise in futility if I don't find a solution of my employment/income woes. My WoW account is good til next month, but I may not be in a position to continue playing after that. Why do the simplest things have to be complex at times.
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