If I’m afk for a while in Warcraft, the volume of the background music cranks up, and when I arrive back at keyboard, the Victorious Music (in hi fi! at hi vol!) makes me want to take up an elvish blade and shout, “But they will never take our freedom!” Maybe I’m mixing genres, however.
Monthly Archives: January 2005
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
I’ve begun my last decade of levels in Warcrack. That’s right … I’m big badass level 50-something now. Best keep your Horde ass out of my way.
I will say, the journey so far hasn’t been too bad: not overly grindy, and I haven’t come close to punching a wall even once. I’ve mentally cursed a few players to die in a fire (irl!!) but that comes with the MM territory.
Most of the levels, I did quests for about 2/3’s of the eeps; the other third, I would farm craft components and gold. When I was saving for a mount in the early 40s, now that shit was bad. Day after day of killing the same fucking mobs while the candy ass level 40 paladins would prance around on their FREE OF CHARGE mounts. Other than that dark time, the living’s been easy.
Some of the quests were lame, or ambiguous, or had CHEAP payouts. (FFS, I’m a goddamn level 50 and you’re giving me 75 silver to kill this boss on another freaking continent? Fuck you, Terrael Windchaser!) Many times I wished I could kill the quest NPCs, just like in the good ole EQ days. Blizzard kind of sucked the fun out of that with their Invalid Target crap.
The journey to 50 has been enjoyable, engaging even. I expect the final decade will be also. But, I do wonder … will I want to do it again with another character?
Screenshot Sunday
Another weekend of skull-crushing lag, and what better player to vent in the general chat channel than this guy? Couple dozen servers had login difficulties, crashing and random rollbacks — which is always fun. While my server dodged those bullets, what little playtime I had was mostly spent on bended knee, trying to loot [Piece of Crap] quest pieces.
WTF! I really hate cheating mobs. I can report that as a dual wielder with crazy-fast weapons, I healed the HELL out of the next 6 or so mobs.