Hit the ground digging

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

The stricter rationing of quests and over-reliance on phasing may be frustrating me in post-cataclysmic Azeroth, but I am still quite enjoying archaeology. And it is perhaps only because of the cataclysm that archaeology holds its appeal. Being sent to dig sites across the old world would be fairly tedious ...

Gasping for a breath of fresh air

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

My warlock is happy adventuring in the Southern Barrens. The scenery is new and vivid, the quests are varied and generally involving, and there is almost no one else around. I am guided from Northwatch Hold to a new oasis, then south to a camp, then further south to another ...

Jelica's travels

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

I've got a request to report to the Hinterlands, which I dutifully ignore to go exploring instead. Adventuring is fun, but I am intrigued as to the changes wreaked to the land about me. The cataclysm—or 'shattering', as I believe it's referred to—has rent great tears in the earth, destroyed ...

Dig, death knight, dig

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

One archaeological dig and I lose two years' worth of rested XP. I'm sure that can't be right. I wake up my dormant death knight not so much to make myself even busier but to kick-start my Cataclysm professions. Getting my warrior in to Hyjal and adventuring, after sorting out ...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Don't go to Arathi Highlands! It's not dangerous, just the same old zone and a stark reminder of how tolerant you once had to be to get anything done in Azeroth. I move on from Westfall to Redridge Mountains, but immediately get a quest asking me to visit the mayor ...

Moving on to the familiar

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

Westfall ho! I never much enjoyed adventuring in low-level Elfland and, now that the cataclysm has hit, I am hoping to find new experiences wherever I go, rather than simply trying to streamline my progress to be as efficient as possible. But first I have to work out how to ...

Losing your tail

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

I have been drawn back to Azeroth, partly because of the cataclysmic changes to the landscape, and partly because of the introduction of the worgen race. Draenei are interesting in being an ungulate, but an anthropomorphic wolf appeals much more to the furry in me. It is a little disappointing, ...

Tank/healer/DPS

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

I find it interesting that my PvE fleet activities in EVE Online have me gravitating towards piloting logistics ships repairing the rest of the fleet, effectively being a 'healer', because it is not a role that has appealed to me in previous games. Admittedly, my experience with MMORPGs is ...

Filesystem Checkwits strike Stratholme

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

With the key to Scholomance forged and ready to be used, it's the perfect time to visit Stratholme. A full evening of dungeon-delving seems suited to the more expansive Stratholme, its two effective 'halves' offering greater options within the one dungeon, although the multiple diversions to visit all of ...

Choices

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

I posted recently about motivations for raiding, which explains why I spent a while raiding. What the post doesn't cover is what made me start raiding in the first place, or why I stopped, and the motivations behind my choices. In the early end-game of World of Warcraft I was ...