Blog Neglect – Guilty!
December 29, 2008
If it hasn’t been obvious, I’ve been neglecting my blog lately. Why? Why would I do such a thing? I blame World of Warcraft. In case you don’t know what that is, it’s one of those Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Games and it’s just awesome.
I started off playing MMORPG’s almost 10 years ago when one of my ex co-workers got me into Everquest. Now, that game was addicting. It was also a pain in the ass because it would take soooo freaking long to level up and you would lose a lot of progress whenever you died.
Anyways, I played this game for almost a year when it first came out and then stopped for a year. I then picked it up again and leveled up a warlock to the highest level at that time – level 70. I picked it up then because they released an expansion with a whole new “continent” and higher character levels. I think I leveled that warlock up to 70 in about 3 months. That was fun. But then once I hit 70, I had no idea what to do anymore since it seemed like the only thing left to do was to work on factions and that just seemed really boring.
So, I quit for about a year again and well, they released a new expansion again – Wrath of the Lich King, and I decided to pick the game up again.
Wow, it is an amazing expansion!!! I don’t know if I would recommend picking it up unless you are at least level 68 since most of the new content is geared towards those that are 70+, but damn, this is a good expansion.
When The Burning Crusade expansion came out, I don’t know, they fell a bit short in the lore/storyline department. I mean the new zones were pretty neat and hell, we got flying mounts! But, the story just wasn’t all there. There were quite a few fun bits that entailed flying bombing missions and such and thankfully things like that have been incorporated into the new expansion as well.
Blizzard made a lot of changes to the game since I last played – a lot of good changes. Now, I don’t know if a lot of these changes came about with the new expansion, or if they were slowly incorporated during the year I didn’t play though, but I am really loving this game again.
One big change is that there is now a harbor in Stormwind and you can catch boats to Darkshore or the new continent Northrend from there. I haven’t really hung out in Menethil Harbor to see if the boats there still run as well though.
Another big change is the addition of “achivements” to the game. Achievements are like little progression markers about things you have done in game – like explored zones, killed x amount of players in PvP battles, or done x amount of quests for example. They don’t really mean anything, but you do get some rewards for completing certain achievements. I recently received a special tabard just for exploring all of the zones of Northrend which was pretty cool. Of course, it now has me obsessed with exploring all of the zones so I can get a special title added to my name. Ugh, that is going to take awhile.
They have included more interact with your environment quests too. What this means is that there are quite a few quests where you need to mount certain creatures or use certain vehicles to complete quests and that is just a ton of fun!
I’ve been playing for a little over a month and have already reached level 80! Yea! I also finally saved enough gold and was able to buy my epic flying mount and flying skill to fly over the new continent. I am pretty happy about that. I am not sure how much longer I will be playing now that I’ve reached those goals though. I think the addition of achievements is a brilliant idea since it gives high level players something to strive for after they’ve reached max level. But, I know work is going to start getting crazy again, so I think I will probably only play until my monthly subscription runs out next month. Until then, I am going to try to see how many more achievements I can attain. Yay!
I wonder what the next expansion will be like?
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