World of Warcraft is back in my life, that’s what I’ve been doing in my spare time. Not that it really took over my life when I first played it, but the game is much more enjoyable when not only am I earning 3x the experience (due to a refer-a-friend link), but I have someone to level with to the top.
My character is a hunter on the Kilrogg server and boy am I having a good time with that class. Ranged isn’t something I normally enjoy playing, but here, ranged is the only way I’ll play. Unfortunately, the downfall of the class is that it prods my OCD too many times and I feel compelled to tame all these rare creatures. It’s like Pokémon for adults. Gotta catch them all!
Of course, before the 4.03 patch, I could only hold 5 pets total, with each stable costing money. Now I can hold an overwhelming 25 pets at a time, but with so many new rares and unique beasts, I’m down to 3 spots open. Two of those slots are for the rare beasts Sambas and the new spirit beast Karoma. Luck has been good to me and I’ve been able to tame the rarest of rares ever since the release of Cataclysm. Caught four spirit beasts and then some within the past month, whereas I’ve spent the last four prior to Cataclysm trying to just get one.
But now that I’m 85 with as many rares as I have, I’m stuck. I don’t know what I want to do anymore. I think I’ve reached my limit with WoW as I don’t want to run heroics as the pickup groups rarely end in satisfaction. Often times, the dungeon runs end in defeat. Blizzard has said that heroics aren’t that hard, and maybe the difficulty is only there because we’re all still new to the experience, but I stopped enjoying those runs a long time ago so I don’t find any reason to push through it. It’s like crawling through a tunnel of glass most of the time.
That’s not to say I haven’t enjoyed the Cataclysm experience. Aside from the first few days of fighting the hundreds of other players trying to level at the same time, I’ve enjoyed the trip to 85. The game is much more cinematic and I felt more immersed in the story than ever before. I’m a player that doesn’t really read the quests for the story. Let’s face it, the few seconds spent reading are better spent leveling. Though now that I’m 85 and tired of heroics (until my guild can run through them with ease), I might try for the Loremaster achievement and learn the lore by doing low-level quests.
And now that I think of it, the time I spend writing this is just time wasted not getting that Loremaster achievement. What am I sitting around for?!
