More World of Warcraft
I wish I had never bought this game. I used to actually have time to do productive things, now I just play WoW. I'm sure the addiction will wear off eventually, but in the meantime it's pretty debilitating.
I just thought I'd post my thoughts on the game. I can't comment substantively on anything happening outside the game world, because time and space and politics have ceased to have any real meaning for me. All that exists is Warcraft, and a hazy semi-conscious dream-state I have taken to calling 'The Levelling Zone'.
I just made level 38... along the way I have had an opportunity to explore much more of the game world, and even so have yet to even visit large tracts of land. I've taken part in Alliance raids and fended off Horde aggression. I've entered sprawling dungeons full of enemy warriors and assassinated a large number of influential figures. I've become a big game hunter, and a slayer of demons. It's been great.
Speaking as someone with only Alliance experience, I have to say that the PVP system is perhaps the most fun. It's opt-in (on Argent Dawn) and reversible... you can join in when you're in the mood, and keep to yourself the rest of the time. The Horde players excel at PVP - it's like fighting the Vietcong in Platoon. You may have the material and numerical advantage, but it's only an illusion before you're cut to shreds and your foes fade back into the night.
Being involved in an Alliance raid group on the other hand is like taking part in the special Olympics. The keystone kops are in charge, directing people to 'take that beach and give the Hun a black eye, what?', and then you're left lying dead in the sand after having been severely ass-fucked by a much smaller force of Horde ninja assassins. Then you have to return to your death site and watch the Horde gather around your corpse whilst your Alliance colleagues circle around in the distance trying to untangle their wheelchairs.
Not that I'm bitter.
Alas, it seems that the qualification to lead one of these raids is a high level, which I don't have. It is however gratifying to know that when I finally reach the lofty levels of 60, I'll be able to put all that Sun Tzu knowledge to good use. I would never have believed it would ever come in handy.
I started off with leatherworking as a profession. I dropped that in favour of mining, and I'm glad I did. I managed to get about four gold pieces in two weeks of play with leatherworking. As a miner I'm now sitting on about 140 gold pieces - more than enough to buy my mount at level 40, and all the new spells and abilities that come with that lofty achievement. People will pay crazy money for raw materials, and so my skinning (which provides leather) and my mining (which provides mineral bars) are raking in the big pennies.
That's about all I have to say at the moment. More updates as my game experience continues. :-P
I just thought I'd post my thoughts on the game. I can't comment substantively on anything happening outside the game world, because time and space and politics have ceased to have any real meaning for me. All that exists is Warcraft, and a hazy semi-conscious dream-state I have taken to calling 'The Levelling Zone'.
I just made level 38... along the way I have had an opportunity to explore much more of the game world, and even so have yet to even visit large tracts of land. I've taken part in Alliance raids and fended off Horde aggression. I've entered sprawling dungeons full of enemy warriors and assassinated a large number of influential figures. I've become a big game hunter, and a slayer of demons. It's been great.
Speaking as someone with only Alliance experience, I have to say that the PVP system is perhaps the most fun. It's opt-in (on Argent Dawn) and reversible... you can join in when you're in the mood, and keep to yourself the rest of the time. The Horde players excel at PVP - it's like fighting the Vietcong in Platoon. You may have the material and numerical advantage, but it's only an illusion before you're cut to shreds and your foes fade back into the night.
Being involved in an Alliance raid group on the other hand is like taking part in the special Olympics. The keystone kops are in charge, directing people to 'take that beach and give the Hun a black eye, what?', and then you're left lying dead in the sand after having been severely ass-fucked by a much smaller force of Horde ninja assassins. Then you have to return to your death site and watch the Horde gather around your corpse whilst your Alliance colleagues circle around in the distance trying to untangle their wheelchairs.
Not that I'm bitter.
Alas, it seems that the qualification to lead one of these raids is a high level, which I don't have. It is however gratifying to know that when I finally reach the lofty levels of 60, I'll be able to put all that Sun Tzu knowledge to good use. I would never have believed it would ever come in handy.
I started off with leatherworking as a profession. I dropped that in favour of mining, and I'm glad I did. I managed to get about four gold pieces in two weeks of play with leatherworking. As a miner I'm now sitting on about 140 gold pieces - more than enough to buy my mount at level 40, and all the new spells and abilities that come with that lofty achievement. People will pay crazy money for raw materials, and so my skinning (which provides leather) and my mining (which provides mineral bars) are raking in the big pennies.
That's about all I have to say at the moment. More updates as my game experience continues. :-P
