I made a commitment to myself to get the Elder achievements done this year. Mainly because Blizzard has provided me with a checklist of shit I am missing.I started the journey last weekend, and got my title last night.
What an epic pain in the ass!
I hate having to travel the world to talk to different NPC's. This is a huge waste of time. I could be masterbating to Wowhead or something instead of seeking out Elder Dick-In-His-Mouth in Bumfuck Egypt!
Anyway...it's done.
Now I need a new goal. I really only enjoy playing when I'm trying to accomplish something. It's usually an obscure thing that means nothing to most people.
This is where most bloggers would ask for your suggestions. I won't. It's my goal, not yours! Stop trying to control me! Ass!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
TBC Waste of Time Heroics
Oliveta has posted in comments how he considers it a waste of time to go do things in the old world for the achievements. Another guildie, Hottietroll, has the opinion that the entire game is about achievements. Hottietroll's point of view is that the achievement system was added to WoW, but each person was doing them already...geared toward their own personal goals of what they wanted out of the game.
Both of these people are right. I'm leaving it at that because I do not have the time nor desire to carefully craft a well thought out post on things that do not matter in real life.
This post is about the smack-in-the-face difference in power I am seeing with the new talents, glyphs, gear, etc. from level 70 to level 80. Ironically, I am posting the day after a patch that has nerfed my toon.
I did not play old WoW when the level cap was 60. That's not true. I got the game when the level cap was 60, but at level 42 The Burning Crusade came out. Obviously, my guild was all about hitting Outlands and the new content. I hit level 58, went to Outlands, and continued leveling. I saw no instances past Scarlet Monestary and ZF in the old world.
By reading the above paragraph the reader can assess that I never saw the difference from level 60 to level 70.
Last nigth Pak was going to run some TBC heroic instances to clear the achievements from his log. Blizzard does not give a player credit for doing an instance unless there is a piece of gear, etc. in the player's inventory from the instance with the new achievement system. Pak had run these things multiple times, but has since out grown the gear and vendored it. I did the same thing.
Pak got a small group of 4 together that included me, and we went to Outlands to terrorize some bosses.
It was bitter sweet. I had an old attitude at my new level. I looked at a boss that took some strat and finess, and tried to remember how I was supposed to perform my roll. You know. I didn't want to be responsible for a wipe for poor performance. Nothing should have been farther from my mind.
Pak would engage 3 or 4 trash mobs at a time. He'd pull them into a moster cluster, and we would burn them down into a mass grave. It was rediculously easy. I felt joy when we spanked a boss that used to give me fits, but felt sad that all of the time I spent honing my approach to the fights was now of no need.
I have to say that finishing a Heroic Crypts in 6 minutes was kind of cool.
At one point we were in Mech, and it seemed like Pak pulled everything from the enterance to the elevator for one big killing spree. It was like we brought a hand grenade to a pea-shooter fight. Maybe a case of grenades.
Heroic Ramparts is all I have left in Outlands. I didn't want to bring it up last night becauses we had just run 8 to 10 heroics back to back, and I wanted to go to bed. I will do the instance for no other reason than for my own satisfaction to have the pixels on my monitor tell me I have done them all.
I play for fun, and will eke it out where I can find it.
Both of these people are right. I'm leaving it at that because I do not have the time nor desire to carefully craft a well thought out post on things that do not matter in real life.
This post is about the smack-in-the-face difference in power I am seeing with the new talents, glyphs, gear, etc. from level 70 to level 80. Ironically, I am posting the day after a patch that has nerfed my toon.
I did not play old WoW when the level cap was 60. That's not true. I got the game when the level cap was 60, but at level 42 The Burning Crusade came out. Obviously, my guild was all about hitting Outlands and the new content. I hit level 58, went to Outlands, and continued leveling. I saw no instances past Scarlet Monestary and ZF in the old world.
By reading the above paragraph the reader can assess that I never saw the difference from level 60 to level 70.
Last nigth Pak was going to run some TBC heroic instances to clear the achievements from his log. Blizzard does not give a player credit for doing an instance unless there is a piece of gear, etc. in the player's inventory from the instance with the new achievement system. Pak had run these things multiple times, but has since out grown the gear and vendored it. I did the same thing.
Pak got a small group of 4 together that included me, and we went to Outlands to terrorize some bosses.
It was bitter sweet. I had an old attitude at my new level. I looked at a boss that took some strat and finess, and tried to remember how I was supposed to perform my roll. You know. I didn't want to be responsible for a wipe for poor performance. Nothing should have been farther from my mind.
Pak would engage 3 or 4 trash mobs at a time. He'd pull them into a moster cluster, and we would burn them down into a mass grave. It was rediculously easy. I felt joy when we spanked a boss that used to give me fits, but felt sad that all of the time I spent honing my approach to the fights was now of no need.
I have to say that finishing a Heroic Crypts in 6 minutes was kind of cool.
At one point we were in Mech, and it seemed like Pak pulled everything from the enterance to the elevator for one big killing spree. It was like we brought a hand grenade to a pea-shooter fight. Maybe a case of grenades.
Heroic Ramparts is all I have left in Outlands. I didn't want to bring it up last night becauses we had just run 8 to 10 heroics back to back, and I wanted to go to bed. I will do the instance for no other reason than for my own satisfaction to have the pixels on my monitor tell me I have done them all.
I play for fun, and will eke it out where I can find it.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Pretend Money
Gold is the currency of WoW. This gold is acquired as one plays the game, and is spend on imaginary crap within the game. All of these things on my monitor do not really exist, to I am not really acquiring them, and the gold I spend to get them is pretend...just pixels on a screen.
Then why does it hurt so much that I dumped 2300 imaginary gold on 10 levels of imaginary Enchanting, leaving my imaginary charachter with 1700 gold to his imaginary name?
Fuck...I am pretend broke!
Then why does it hurt so much that I dumped 2300 imaginary gold on 10 levels of imaginary Enchanting, leaving my imaginary charachter with 1700 gold to his imaginary name?
Fuck...I am pretend broke!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Chillaxin'
I spent last night goofing off. I went to WC with Mokasa to do the instance (third time) to get the achievement. This time I let the summoning dude get hit so the mob can be summonned. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's OK. That's not what this post is about.
After completing WC and another instance in the area Mokasa hearthed out to do dailies. I need rep too, but had no desire to run around Northrend doing mindless tasks just for a shoulder enchant.
I hung around The Barrens and finished exploring the zone for the achievement. I had such a fun time that I continued doing the exploring thing. I hit Thousand Needles, Ferales, Durator, and Mulgore.
It was relaxing and nostalgic. I was on my mount riding through different zones without a care in the world, remembering different times playing WoW in the different areas. Some were good, and some had me thinking of wipe fests.
A long time ago Anathema was raiding 25 man content regularly. Raids were scheduled for 3 hours a day 3 times a week. I saw Nisko on one day just questing in Netherstorm. I offered to help him with whatever he was trying to accomplish. This was a bit presumptuous because his gear and skill enabled him to own the zone. He declined my offer, and later stated that he had a blast just questing.
The raids and heroics are fun, don't get me wrong. Last night I finally understood why Nisko was enjoying lower level content.
Sometimes it's good to just treat the game as a game. Just play. Enjoy the pasttime. No pressure, just joy.
Heroics anyone?
After completing WC and another instance in the area Mokasa hearthed out to do dailies. I need rep too, but had no desire to run around Northrend doing mindless tasks just for a shoulder enchant.
I hung around The Barrens and finished exploring the zone for the achievement. I had such a fun time that I continued doing the exploring thing. I hit Thousand Needles, Ferales, Durator, and Mulgore.
It was relaxing and nostalgic. I was on my mount riding through different zones without a care in the world, remembering different times playing WoW in the different areas. Some were good, and some had me thinking of wipe fests.
A long time ago Anathema was raiding 25 man content regularly. Raids were scheduled for 3 hours a day 3 times a week. I saw Nisko on one day just questing in Netherstorm. I offered to help him with whatever he was trying to accomplish. This was a bit presumptuous because his gear and skill enabled him to own the zone. He declined my offer, and later stated that he had a blast just questing.
The raids and heroics are fun, don't get me wrong. Last night I finally understood why Nisko was enjoying lower level content.
Sometimes it's good to just treat the game as a game. Just play. Enjoy the pasttime. No pressure, just joy.
Heroics anyone?
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