I have unintentionally taken something of a break from WoW the last couple of weeks. I had thought it was just because I was bored with it. That is partly true. I’m more in a mode of doing things in the “real world” right now and have a few projects going that easily side track me for a considerable amount of time. However it turns out there maybe more to it than that.
You may recall that I was taking the opportunity, while my friends were taking time away from WoW, to explore different servers, races, and classes. While doing this I ultimately went back to a character I had created a while ago, my Troll Rogue Y. I have really been enjoying playing Y in spite of her relative squishiness. However, I had been compelled to go back to playing some Alliance side characters on the server my friends play on because they have started playing again. And I have become somewhat reticent in my playing.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy playing with my friends. I do when I get a chance. The truth is more often than not we are not on at the same times. They often do not get online until much later than I do and usually after I have logged off. If we are on at the same times they are usually in a raid of some sort. So we don’t actually spend a lot of time playing together. I think, as part of the frustration, is also that when I leveled my DK to 80, I had basically dropped everything else to level her up to 80 while shunning all else within the game except for questing and dungeons and whatever else it took to get there at the behest of my friends.
Now I’m enjoying playing my Rogue and would really like to level her all the way up to 80 on my own, and in my own time, taking the opportunity to enjoy the bits along the way. For example, Brew Fest. I did participate in that on one of my characters last year and it was a lot of fun. Even with the really blurry screen from too much Dwarven Ale or whatever my Toon was drinking. I’m planning on enjoying it again this year with my Rogue. And of course Hallows End is coming up. Who can’t isn’t looking forward to that.
I got the second level of riding skill the other day for Y and got the achievement that comes with it, I can’t remember if that’s “Need for Speed” or a different one. Anyway, I was looking at my achievements and realized it has been almost a month since I made level 40 and I’m still sitting at 44. Then I thought about how I haven’t really been on for the last 2 weeks or so and when I was just before that I was working on other things, like my DK’s Jewel Crafting, leveling a Human Warrior, stuff like that. It’s really a shame because I do have fun playing Y. Especially the pick pocket part. I managed to pick pocket a very nice dagger. It’s a blue level called Vendetta. BONUS! Or when I can stealth past all the other mobs to get right where I need to be and only have to knock off one or two that are in the way of that item I need for a quest. I like that too. Ok, I’m a Combat Rogue, I’m “not supposed to use stealth” that much. Right. Like that’s going to happen. I’m going to use whatever I need to make it fun for me and, that makes it fun. Besides, you have to use stealth to pickpocket.
So now I have new resolve and a new focus for my WoW play time. I’ve got Y stuck in Stranglethorn Vale right now trying to finish off the Green Hills quest. I’ve to about8 more pages to go for that quest and then in a couple of levels I’ll try killing off the elite tiger that I have to kill to get the first of the Nesingwary (is it one s or two?) hunting achievements. After that, I think I might be ready to head back over to Tanaris to run some quests over there. It may all have to wait a little though because of Brew Fest. I’m going to have to head back over to Orgrimmar to enjoy the festivities. It should be fun.
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