Uninteresting Boasting

I have written about how I'm leveling a toon along side my buddy. He just started WoW, so I wanted him to be able to have a friend next to him leveling the whole way to 70 instead of taking one of my 70's and power-leveling him through the game. He needed to see how much time, thought, and design went into WoW, and appreciate what Blizzard is providing him for his $15 a month.

Leveling is fun and all, but every once in a while a player just needs to bring the pain to a zone.

As previously posted my little Hunter is at level 66. I finished that Stonebreaker Hold/T-Forrest zone, and am about to step into my beloved Nagrand. I needed to get my buddy caught up. He hasn't been on-line the past couple of days, and I got a bit ahead of him.

Last night I was goofing off on GHOSTKID. I was hanging around in Shat doing enchants and making armor kits. A little gold here and there helps pay for the 1.6 gold-per-stack arrows in my mega-quiver.

I was DE'ing some stuff for a customer when I saw my buddy was logged on. I flew to T-Forrest, put on my humanoid tracker, and hunted my prey. I am, after all, a Hunter. I swooped down from the skies on my Netherdrake in my T-5/Badge gear and commanded (nicely asked) him to put each of his weapons in trade so I could throw on a couple of enchants before we took off to tear this zone up. He only had about six quests to finish before he was done here, anyway.

We set out to go on an XP killing spree, and kill we did. There was one point where I was killing mobs, and he was just looting (needed 20 skulls for some quest). I was killing the level 64 and 65 mobs faster than he could loot. It was epic slaughter.

I am not sure why it brought me such satisfaction to kill mobs 5 levels lower than me in seconds, but I have a theory.

It is my opinion that I enjoyed the masacre because GHOSTKID was a raider until Anathema stopped raiding. Every mob, every boss, every single thing was a challenge. I raided for content and gear. Killing the same bosses every week to get to the next one earned me DKP. I saved my DKP until a piece of gear I could use dropped, and I did my best to get it. About every 2 to 3 weeks I got something for GHOSTKID. Man...that's a long time to get him where he is. I retired from raiding when Anathema did. No more gear. Waiting for the expansion.

I think I enjoyed the quick mob kills because GHOSTKID and I worked long and hard to get him to the level of gear and skill where he is. He EARNED the right to go onto that pile of bones and single-handedly kill all mobs faster that a pocket looter can loot. Why not use what he has? Did GHOSTKID not get this gear to help be an utter killing machine?

So....Am I nuts?

I wasn't showing off. My buddy knows that GHOSTKID has years invested into the toon. A NFL player doesn't walk onto a pop-warner field and offer to take all comers.

I think I was relishing the rewards of all of the time invested into GHOSTKID. It felt like I could see why all of those nights of raiding were done.

I didn't really see it before because as my gear and skill increased the trash and bosses got harder. It never seemed to make much pf a difference when I was raiding, but I can sure see it in the real world of pixels outside of a 25 man where the air smells like Undead and Clefthoof shit.