Sunday, May 31, 2009

A Day and a Half back in WoW

Took me a morning to dowload the client and apply all the patches.

I've been out of the game for right around two years. What's the very first thing I do after two years away? I start writing a mod that will never be useful enough for anyone else to ever see. I'm such a nerd.

It was weird to see Shattrath empty. Really weird to load the Stormwind map and see the Harbor on there (still haven't gone there yet). Cool to see what a Gnome Death Knight looks like.

Didn't see any old friends around, but my real "friends" in WoW were people I played with for six months ... four years ago. They probably don't even remember me anymore, I barely remember them. This fall I have a college reunion and I'd like to see one of my old friends, but it's the same thing -- we were friends for four years ten years ago and haven't talked much since, not sure he'd even know who I was.

I haven't seen any of the new content yet (unless the map of Stormwind counts) but I've already seen the weirdest thing, and I'd say it's the most fundamental change in the game since launch, possibly tied only with the 40 to 25 man raid switch.

One plus one equals two, and hearthstones have a 60 minute cooldown. I've kept up with patch notes but I have no idea when it went down to 30 minutes. Most fundamental change to anything in the game since launch, in my eyes. Wow.

4 comments:

Oakstout said...

If you want to move to a PvP server and hang with people, come to Darkspear. We don't do much except hang out, do a few 5 mans, PvP a bunch and generally just have fun. No raid pressure and no drama.

The bad news is you'll have to play Alliance, but even that can be fun.

boatorious said...

It's very, very tempting Oak, but I've kind of sworn off PvP servers. I was on one of the original PvP servers back at launch and I don't care for it much.

It's always more fun to play with people you know, though, so I'll have to think about it.

Anonymous said...

Come to Windrunner , its a great PVE server tons of people on , We have a great lvling guild , Name is Gellorr

Oakstout said...

I can respect that. We had a bunch of friends go play on a PvE server because they truly didn't like the PvP aspect. They do pop back over to hang with us every now and then, and when they do, we, those of much higher level, make sure they don't get abused lol.

If someone is in trouble with getting ganked, I make sure to pop down and lend a hand, if possible. Remember you can't swat an elephant with a blade of grass lol, which is why I'm working to be the elephant lol.

But that being said, the old world on my server is pretty boring and dead. I struggled to stay entertained while leveling up to Outlands, but once I got there and pushed through to Northrend I've been having a blast. The art work and graphics are spectacular and I think Blizzard has out done themselves this time.