Category: World of Warcraft

My Hard Core Brother (HCB) is going to update me as he progresses on his way to level 80 in World of Warcraft. I will update this post as I get the information from him. He estimates he will be 80 sometime on Saturday. Yes, he took the rest of the week off for this.

Beginning at level 70 with a Retribution Paladin on the Horde side at 11:30 PM on Wednesday night. He claims he started 30 minutes later than he wanted to so he had to play a little catch up with his guildmates at first.

Level 71 at 3:30 AM Thursday morning (4 hours to level).

Level 72 at 8:00 AM Thursday morning (4.5 hours to level).

Level 73 at 12:00 noon Thursday (4 hours to level).

4:00 PM Thursday, taking 2 hour nap.

6:00 PM queue of 600, est. wait time 25 minutes. 30 minute nap.

In game 6:30 PM – Level 74 at 7:45 PM Thursday night (5.25 hours to level).

Level 75 at 1:30 AM Friday morning (5.75 hours to level).

Level 76 at 6:00 AM Friday morning (4.5 hours to level).

Level 77 at 10:30 AM Friday morning (4.5 hours to level).

Level 78 at 3:00 PM Friday, highest on server now (4.5 hours to level).

Level 79 at 6:45 PM Friday (3.75 hours to level).

Level 80 at 11:00 PM Friday night (4.25 hours to level).

Realm first on Mal’Ganis! He got spammed by so many tells that he couldn’t even do anything so he is off to bed for some much needed rest.

– Ethic

A co-worker is trying to be the first level 80 Death Knight on his server. Much luck to all the soulless murders slouching towards Azeroth to be born.

I understand that there were many complaints about the Death Knight storyline during beta. It seems that some people want to play a being that sold its soul to an incarnation of evil for power, wreaking a trail of murder and betrayal through its old fellows in arms as it sucks the vitality from the living to fuel its dark, blasphemous existence … but do not want to do immoral things to NPCs in the process. Before setting out to slaughter a path of NPCs to level 80. But, you know, not being mean about it.

: Zubon

I sometimes wonder if I should explain those allusions.

I believe: The majority of the players in World of Warcraft are first-time MMO players. We all know how hard it is to leave that first MMO, and the popularity of WoW makes it even harder because it’s not about the game as much as it is about the people you have met.

I believe: The majority of those first-time WoW players will eventually realize how much time they have “lost” playing WoW and will not move on to another MMO when they do finally decide to quit WoW.

I believe: New MMOs will not have a lot of success targeting the first-time WoW players and will have to rely mostly on people new to the MMO genre as well as the old-school MMO players that try them all hoping to find “The One”.

I believe: The first-time MMO players that do leave WoW for another MMO will have a very hard time finding another MMO to equal their first and will not give new MMOs much of a chance unless they dramatically improve on the WoW gameplay experience.

– Ethic

So brilliant that I am going to help them advertise their product by talking about it: IRL guild tabards. Well, t-shirts, but it cannot be that long until someone actually offers tabards for sale. Merchandise with your guild logo and character information on it: brilliant! Not anything that I would buy, granted, but there must be demand for this product. It can only branch out further.

: Zubon

Hat tip: WOWVault

Up next, you’ll find my brother’s level 70 Undead Rogue sporting the very latest in stealthy understatement. With these small but deadly blades equipped, you won’t draw any undesired attention as you sneak up behind your next victim.

If you look closely, you can almost make out The Twin Warglaives of Azzinoth.

– Ethic

Like the groaning, mindless, lurching, brain munching, necrotic corpses made famous in the movies by Tourneur, Romero, Ossorio and Fulci, I have returned from the bleak purgatory of life outside MMOs and am making a shambling return to massively multiplayer worlds and overextended, overwrought metaphors.

In other words, I’m back.

The last I don’t know how many months have seen me playing a handful of single player games (Bioshock was brilliant, Quake Wars not so much. Finally worked out how to play Counter-Strike albeit badly and Call of Duty 4 was annoyingly annoying yet strangely compelling and graphically stunning) I had a quick bash at Age of Conan which was disappointing regardless of how many heads I separated from shoulders but finally, it was the overpopulated realms of Azeroth which dragged me back. And what a time to go back.

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Don’t like non-consensual PvP where max-level characters can kill you and all the NPCs you need with near impunity? Then why did you roll on a PvE server? noob

: Zubon