Decisions, Decisions

I did it. I chose to buy a time-card although, it happened in a rather complex way.

My mind had been switching between yes and no ever since I posted my last blog entry. I was so close to JB HIFI just before work and yet I did not buy one. I still wasn’t sure if I would use it.

About half-way through my shift I knew I had made a mistake. Also, I didn’t finish work until the shops shut so I was pretty much without options. And then, to my surprise, in walked my beautiful girlfriend and her mum. Without hesitation I gave her the 40 bucks and got her to purchase one for me.

So that’s how it went down. I am glad I did end up getting one because I have had a lot of fun tonight. I even started questing again!!!

One quest in particular made me feel like I was playing the expansion more than any other. The quest: ‘Surrender…Not!’. It wasn’t so much the gameplay that made me feel I was playing an expansion. It was the amazing design of the Murloc suit, as well as its custom-made dance, that excited me so much. I spent ages just looking at the graphics. I loved the jumping animations especially.

So, for the last couple of hours I have been questing in the Borean Tundra and really loving it. I have less than a third of my level before I ding, and I feel I will topple that goal very soon. Strand of the Ancients here I come.
Another reason I loved questing tonight was the way in which my DK can take on six mobs of his level at one time. This makes any quest that involves killing, or looting mobs, so much easier. I LOVE IT! Currently I am Blood specced but have no real idea about where I’m going with it. As of yet I haven’t even put in the last talent point!

Thanks to my recent mining efforts, I was able to mine a fair few Cobalt nodes while questing tonight. However, I was saddened to find out they sold for only around 30g a stack. I think I will keep them for now. I intend to take up Engineering as my DK’s second profession anyways

When I get to level 80 I am planning to spec Unholy as I hear it is the best for PvP (which is what I hope I will mainly be doing).

Next time I will be able to play is tomorrow night, and I hope to be very close to 71 by the time I stop. I will update the blog with anything of interest when I get a chance tomorrow.

WoW time-card expiry

My time-card had expired. In the few days before expiration, I was very unsure as to whether or not I would buy another one. This was mainly because I had just gotten back into the game and was not sure I wanted to fork out AU$40 on a hope that I would continue playing. The few hours I spent in-game over the last few days were exactly how I usually spend my WoW-time. I went mining

In fact, I mined to much that I reached my level cap of 375 and had to go North to get trained again. As my character is a level 70 Death Knight, this was no problem; it just came as a shock. I am now ready to quest in the North without being teased by un-mineable nodes.

However, do I even want to quest? A whole ten levels of more-or-less new content await me ( I do have a level 74 hunter on another realm). I just don’t know whether I will be entertained. I still think I would rather farm and get my epic flying mount. However, there are incentives to levelling.

Namely, the Strand of the Ancients. I really want to try out this new Battleground when I do in-fact level once more. Unfortunately for me, I have over 1 million XP before I can enter it.

As of yet I am undecided whether or not to buy another time-card. I will have to decide this afternoon before I go to work. If I don’t get it, and regret it, I will have a rather boring night.

First Post, I.E. Blog Explanation

Hey everybody. As you can see this is my first entry for this blog. I guess I should explain my purpose for creating this blog.

I have played World of Warcraft for close to two years now. Since then I have had some extremely fun times.

However, in that time I have really not done much at all. I have never raided. The toughest instance I have done is the Mechanar. I do not have a level 80 as of yet (though I am working on it). I have never achieved anything of note in PvP (although I do enjoy a good BG). And this is not due to a lack of time in which to play. I just came out of three months of university holidays. I had ample time to do those things if I wished.

However, just before University started I became extremely frustrated with the amount of time I was spending playing WoW. So I quit. I had played too much and I felt it was taking over my life. I had full intentions to never come back to the game. However, despite having no strong guild ties, or a populated friends list (I was on a new server though), nor any real desire to do anything in-game, my resolve crumbled and I was soon back playing my Death Knight.

Now that I am back playing the game, I feel a desire to log my activities in WoW as well as every so often document my thoughts on any WoW-related topics. I am trying to identify what it is that drew me, despite my intentions or expectations, back into the game (and not for the first time). I hope that this blog is of interest to other extremely casual WoW players in particular. We see the World of Warcraft from a very different view-point than most. However, I also hope that by blogging about the less serious or less ‘hardcore’ side of WoW, I can hold the interest of players who are looking for reflections on a different aspect of their game.