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
3 Comments:
Nice, Nice, Nice! I agree with what you are saying, but I’d be careful not to take it to an extreme. Extremes tend to cause 50 year old men to jump up on couches on the Oprah show. Two things I’d recommend doing either way is 1.) Go see Batman Begins 2.) Ditch IE. I’m a big fan of Blog sites and IE doesn’t allow you to add the RSS feed in your bookmarks. I traded IE for the free Ideal Broswer which is based off of Mozilla Firefox and I love it. It’s 100 times more secure and web pages load twice as fast. Not to mention that I can now add my favorite RSS feeds to my bookmarks. =-) You can check out the browser here www.Idealbrowser.com
Nice, Nice, Nice! I agree with what you are saying, but I’d be careful not to take it to an extreme. Extremes tend to cause 50 year old men to jump up on couches on the Oprah show. Two things I’d recommend doing either way is 1.) Go see Batman Begins 2.) Ditch IE. I’m a big fan of Blog sites and IE doesn’t allow you to add the RSS feed in your bookmarks. I traded IE for the free Ideal Broswer which is based off of Mozilla Firefox and I love it. It’s 100 times more secure and web pages load twice as fast. Not to mention that I can now add my favorite RSS feeds to my bookmarks. =-) You can check out the browser here www.Idealbrowser.com
Well, it's realy interesting in PVP, too much "surprise" and fun
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