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.“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
: Zubon
Or is everyone having a nostalgia attack lately?
Sweet zombie Jesus, people. I’ll be the first to admit the last couple of years have been mediocre, but have some perspective. It’ll get better without the need to look back. We’re not going to be the first generation to destroy gaming. The guys in the mid 80s already did it.
Sometimes the sky is, indeed, not falling.
(this post is half tongue in cheek, but I’m not telling which half)
It’s weird to see the progression of material prices as I scum the Auction Hall. Tier 1 is pretty cheap. Tier 2 jumps about a magnitude in price. Tier 3 is about double in price to Tier 2, and so on… until the last two Tiers where the character leveling curve slows to a crawl. Tier 6 materials only cost as much as Tier 2. That makes most expensive portion for leveling my alt’s crafting the mid-game. The end game crafting experience will be an easy coast downhill towards mastery.
–Ravious
pork bellies
Achievement awarded: Nobel Peace Prize. For the Horde!
: Zubon
WTF is this? This right here, in the red circle? “That is a female gnome’s navel.” Yes, but why is it there? Why on Azeroth is a female death knight’s outfit midriff-baring? This is a male tauren death knight, and his stomach is perfectly covered. Every other class manages to start with a shirt, so this is not a problem. Why did someone think it was proper to have bare midriff armor for female death knights? Rule 36 aside, is our need to make all women sexual objects so severe that it applies to gnome death knights?
: Zubon
Also, a gnome’s two-handed sword clips pretty badly. She should be leaving a furrow in the ground behind her when she runs.
Cooking and fishing dailies organize my life. I want those last recipes that The Rokk is hiding. His first quest gave me Delicious Chocolate Cake. Given repeats, it looks like it will take me a couple of weeks to earn the four daily cooking/fishing achievements, but I am in no rush since I want other toys from them.
Start in Dalaran, pick up those two, head to Shattrath, pick up those two, pick up any Outland dailies near my questing path. Fish and farm what I need, maybe explore a bit or do a random quest. That takes me back to Shattrath, which takes me to Stormwind, which takes me to Borean Tundra to get what I need for the Dalaran dailies. I notice that Vegetable Soup is half meat; these people learned to cook from hobbits. While I am there, hit a few !s and ?s, which could take a few minutes or a few hours depending on how much I get into it. Hearth back to Dalaran, all set.
One of my ! pursuits led me to the murloc quest chain in the Borean Tundra. That was fun. Continue reading What I’ve Been Doing Since 70
In the real world, I am not in constant risk of some dickhead driving by and blowing up my house for kicks.
: Zubon
Update: I’m adding to this one because people have already managed to piss me off. The basic inability to tell the difference between freakishly unlikely threats and ones that happen every few minutes is a regular part of my work, and it kills people every day because they are worrying about the 0.01% chance while doing things that put themselves at greater risk for a 5% chance. People worry about swine flu while it is apparently less severe than the normal flu that kills thousands of people each year. The disasters you hear about on the news are news because they are odd and unlikely. I have this huge list of things that people do or avoid doing in perverse defiance of all probability because one risk sounds scarier while the other quietly kills lots of people.
If you live in Iraq, yes, worry about your house blowing up. Do you know several people in your country who have had their houses intentionally blown up in the past few years? Have you personally been ganked in-game for no apparent reason several times in an hour? Please try to understand that “1 in a million” is a smaller chance than “1 in ten.”
Since I enjoyed the first one so much, I should mention that Frantic has a sequel, which is also the current card challenge. I have yet to decide if I like it as much as the original. There is more there, but adding achievements and such makes it feel less pure.
: Zubon
Full disclosure: if you use one of those links and sign up at Kongregate, I get some kind of points that do nothing but put a number by my name. But, you know.
Joining a PvP server was a mistake. I should have found a different friend to join. Making the server PvP seems to have three effects:
It was a trivial annoyance in the original zones, but as the population gets more concentrated in the expansion packs, it becomes more frequent. In the long run, I am not going to want to be on this server, and I am certainly not going to want to be here when the expansion hits and everyone is in the same zone. Paying to move the Paladin could be an option, but I want neither to abandon the alts nor to effectively re-buy the game several times to move them all.
So here I am. I made a mistake in listening to a friend, and I am not willing to pay $100 (or whatever) to correct a game error. I might come back, but the Blizzard account maintenance page is incredibly patronizing, and I don’t really want to deal with those people again. I mean, this is a less annoying version of the screen Blizzard requires you to go through to exit. But there are still neat things to see, so I am going to keep looking around. And, for some reason, doing some grindy things because that is apparently just what we MMO players do.
: Zubon
I finished out level 70 in Shadowmoon Valley. This is exactly what you want a Hell dimension to look like. The place is covered with lava flows, demons, cultists, and all the fun you might expect where horrors rule. A never-ending supply of Infernals falls from the sky at the bases.
It reminds me a lot of Shadows of Angmarâ„¢. Once you get to the original endgame in northwest Angmar, it looks much the same, down to the green flows of liquid in Carn Dum. This place could be the gate to Mordor, but the Black Temple serves much the same purpose. Also like the Shadows of Angmarâ„¢ endgame, it slides quickly into group-based content. There is more than enough solo content to finish out 70, but not a lot more that was immediately apparent. I smashed things, dinged, and left the area with exploration achievement in-hand.
Netherstorm is exactly what you would want from a shattered Outland, with floating islands and strange energies. This makes Hellfire Peninsula perfect as the place where the two zones meet, with sundered lands, strange energies, and demons on the march. Continue reading Visiting the Rest of Outland at 70
