Synopsis
Today (well yesterday for me at least) Karthis announced he'll stop playing WoW. The title is not to announce me stopping. I am addressing it to Karthis, if he'll allow me to call him a friend.
Most of you know Karthis or at least his blog, Of Teeth and Claws. I myself found him a couple of months ago and he was an inspiration for me to start this blog and a good source of information.
He is a friendly guy and I am sad to see him stop playing WoW. I might have seen it coming, might have known in the back of my head. It doesn't really come as a surprise to me, though I didn't know, as he mentioned, he had quit a few times before already for some periods of time.
I myself have quit playing WoW a couple of times too. Most of the times it seems to coincide with me moving. First time (was playing my lock back then, august 2005), I went from a student house to my own apartment and I stopped playing. Then after 6 months I realized there was nothing else that came close to WoW and came back. Then I stopped twice more. Both for about a month or 2 when I first moved in with my girlfriend, the second time when we moved to where we live now. I never stopped my subscription though. Moving was more important then.
After that I never stopped from the game, and only stopped raiding for a period of 6 months since it had nothing much to offer me. I had seen Illidan. We took him down (when I was not there) and the week after when I met him we had two 1% wipes. Mission accomplished. Never cared about Sunwell at all. The game was done. End boss killed. Basta.
Now I find myself in kind of the same situation as Karthis if I am honest. I am not planning to stop playing and I owe it to the rest of the guild to keep tanking, but I don't feel compelled to anything in the game really. Probably because I am working more these days. I tend to value sleep more then farming. I only raid and do some dailies. Today and 2 other days this week I didn't even bother logging in to do the dailies. Though on 2 of those 3 days there were raids, I could not join them because I had not enough time that day. I could have logged an hour for dailies only though, but to my own surprise I didn't.
So I wonder why? I realize that having everything I want from the game in 3 weeks of 3.1 is kinda demoralizing. In Naxx I wanted to get all those items, get all BiS items there were. Huge upgrades. Lots of loot drops! Yes! Gief!
Now it is like... Ok, I got full t8.5. I got the best staff. The rest, like boots are relatively big upgrades, but still minor ones compared to 3.0 upgrades. I don't want anything from the game anymore really.
So what does it have left to offer for me? Hard modes? I totally agree with Karthis there. It is nice yes, but it is so boring to do that week after week. I saw a real nice upgrade left for me. It only drops from hard mode 10 man Yogg-saron. Come on!? I have to strain myself to the max for 10 man? I have to hope for it to drop? I am not gonna do that. Screw em. So screw me.
The wait till 3.2 when a new instance is opened. That is actually what the game has to offer me. I hope I find some fun in stuff to come though. Maybe go balance instead of feral dps, though balance seemed to me incredibly dull those 3 days that I played it.
One last thing. I thought about what it would be like if I wasn't this geared. If we were at Mimiron or anything before that. What it would be like if my guild was like it used to be. Wiping on Prince while others were killing Kael'thas. Essentially I would have to step down and join a worse guild. I don't think I could do that though. The best way I think is to describe it with a metaphor.
It is like driving a Porsche that handles really well and makes driving easy and dull. So to make it exiting again you would sell your Porsche and buy a Toyota Corolla without power steering instead. But you would not be able to enjoy it at all, knowing what it feels like going from 0 to 100 kmph in 6 seconds in a Porsche.
The only option left is to keep your Porsche and go hard mode. Drive 200 kmph (where for non-metric the speed limit is 120) and dodge all speed traps and police cars.
So I guess it is the pedal to the metal for me then.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Why Druid?
Synopsis
One more introduction post. Something about druids in general. Why am I playing a druid etc.
So I am a druid. I started out playing a warlock on vanilla Beta of which I got to use the beta account of a friend of mine. I was human and when Wow came out I played it from day one. Started a guild, Ordo Lucis, on Aggramar that grew to 200 people and was one of the top guilds there. Played wow for half a year and then kinda lost interest.
In the half year that followed I tried other games but none could give me the same satisfaction as WoW could. So I came back. Didn't want to go back to Ordo Lucis. I wanted a frest start. I wanted to see the horde too, quest there and be ugly! (this is before belf were there).
After trying every class there was till about level 15 I finally tried Druid. Part of sticking with druid was that I know from before that there were few druids. And also that there were few healers. So I leveled to 60 as a healer. At that point there were a lot of people leveling so it was not a bad choice healing instances.
At level 40 I joined a guild that one day later merged into Nordic Chapter. Together we raided ZG, MC, AQ20 and AQ40. We were about to enter Blackwing lair when PvP rewards changed coming TBC. No raids could be formed then.
Went to TBC as feral but changed back to resto at level 70. Raided Karazhan a bit when Nordic Chaper broke up. I did initially join the more RP oriented of the 2, although we continued to become hardcore raiders. Mythicow, my guildleader, who since then has gained some fame on my server at least, then took charge. He pointed us towards hardcore raiding. We had Kara and Gruul down and we went more and more hardcore. We were way behind on progress. We were guild 25 on the server or so. We marched up doing all content. I myself was on an Illidan wipenight (the week after we first cleared whole BT) and we had two 1% wipes.
I didn't really feel like raiding any more at that point. I went to casual Karazhan, farming badges for gear. Since it was hard to find a tank I started collecting tanking gear and later some cat dps gear. The Esoteric foundation made it into Sunwell killing 2 or 3 out of the 6 bosses before 3.0 patch hit.
Wrath of the Lich King came, and I planned what I wanted to do, tanking and doing some cat dps. Knowing how easy it is after while to greed some other types of gear I decided I would absolutely stick with Monedula, my druid. I also Identify myself with him and I invested a lot of time in him which I don't want to go to waste. At the moment I am an achievement whore gathering 5775 points, a lot of mounts and rep with 35 factions now. I can not ever start having my hunter, paladin or warlock (a new warlock, not the ally one I started day 1) as a main.
An other reason for sticking with my druid was the versatility of druids. I really like tanking (though I wonder with current PTR changes druids, me, are that welcome tanking). I also like doing feral dps. It is the hardest I have ever done and I compare it to a circus act where you spin plates on a stick and trying to not ever let them drop. However It is really easy to greed some real good offspec gear after all casters have already the items they need. So I have collected an ok balance set which with some adaptions can be made into healing gear if I would ever change from feral to an other spec. But I doubt it, have been healer too long and balance seems boring to me.
The one thing that makes druids stand out verses any other class is the fact that we can do all types of gaming. We can tank, we can heal, we can melee dps and we can do ranged dps. Paladin is the only thing that is close but they have no ranged dps. So if I would ever get bored I don't have to switch my main to change my game.
So currently my guild has cleared all content long time ago. Last Sunday we did Sarth 3d 10 man, the last hurdle left in my opinion, and in hindsight we would have been able to take him way earlier. I don't really want any more items on my tanking set at the moment and my feral dps gear is really good as well.
I really like to see Ulduar and I plan to be active on the PTR, since we clear most of the content on wednesday which makes the rest of the days a bit boring. I hope we are able to make some server first kills in Ulduar.
One more introduction post. Something about druids in general. Why am I playing a druid etc.
So I am a druid. I started out playing a warlock on vanilla Beta of which I got to use the beta account of a friend of mine. I was human and when Wow came out I played it from day one. Started a guild, Ordo Lucis, on Aggramar that grew to 200 people and was one of the top guilds there. Played wow for half a year and then kinda lost interest.
In the half year that followed I tried other games but none could give me the same satisfaction as WoW could. So I came back. Didn't want to go back to Ordo Lucis. I wanted a frest start. I wanted to see the horde too, quest there and be ugly! (this is before belf were there).
After trying every class there was till about level 15 I finally tried Druid. Part of sticking with druid was that I know from before that there were few druids. And also that there were few healers. So I leveled to 60 as a healer. At that point there were a lot of people leveling so it was not a bad choice healing instances.
At level 40 I joined a guild that one day later merged into Nordic Chapter. Together we raided ZG, MC, AQ20 and AQ40. We were about to enter Blackwing lair when PvP rewards changed coming TBC. No raids could be formed then.
Went to TBC as feral but changed back to resto at level 70. Raided Karazhan a bit when Nordic Chaper broke up. I did initially join the more RP oriented of the 2, although we continued to become hardcore raiders. Mythicow, my guildleader, who since then has gained some fame on my server at least, then took charge. He pointed us towards hardcore raiding. We had Kara and Gruul down and we went more and more hardcore. We were way behind on progress. We were guild 25 on the server or so. We marched up doing all content. I myself was on an Illidan wipenight (the week after we first cleared whole BT) and we had two 1% wipes.
I didn't really feel like raiding any more at that point. I went to casual Karazhan, farming badges for gear. Since it was hard to find a tank I started collecting tanking gear and later some cat dps gear. The Esoteric foundation made it into Sunwell killing 2 or 3 out of the 6 bosses before 3.0 patch hit.
Wrath of the Lich King came, and I planned what I wanted to do, tanking and doing some cat dps. Knowing how easy it is after while to greed some other types of gear I decided I would absolutely stick with Monedula, my druid. I also Identify myself with him and I invested a lot of time in him which I don't want to go to waste. At the moment I am an achievement whore gathering 5775 points, a lot of mounts and rep with 35 factions now. I can not ever start having my hunter, paladin or warlock (a new warlock, not the ally one I started day 1) as a main.
An other reason for sticking with my druid was the versatility of druids. I really like tanking (though I wonder with current PTR changes druids, me, are that welcome tanking). I also like doing feral dps. It is the hardest I have ever done and I compare it to a circus act where you spin plates on a stick and trying to not ever let them drop. However It is really easy to greed some real good offspec gear after all casters have already the items they need. So I have collected an ok balance set which with some adaptions can be made into healing gear if I would ever change from feral to an other spec. But I doubt it, have been healer too long and balance seems boring to me.
The one thing that makes druids stand out verses any other class is the fact that we can do all types of gaming. We can tank, we can heal, we can melee dps and we can do ranged dps. Paladin is the only thing that is close but they have no ranged dps. So if I would ever get bored I don't have to switch my main to change my game.
So currently my guild has cleared all content long time ago. Last Sunday we did Sarth 3d 10 man, the last hurdle left in my opinion, and in hindsight we would have been able to take him way earlier. I don't really want any more items on my tanking set at the moment and my feral dps gear is really good as well.
I really like to see Ulduar and I plan to be active on the PTR, since we clear most of the content on wednesday which makes the rest of the days a bit boring. I hope we are able to make some server first kills in Ulduar.
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