Sunday, June 21, 2009

Achievement Streak 2 : The Second Week Glut

Still playing WoW. Still trying to get achievement every day. Still succeeding. Leveling another warlock -- my main back in the day was a warlock. New toon goes by the name of Boatorious.

Second week has been a little harder than the first. Every secondary skill (fishing, cooking, first aid) has a bunch of achievements and I don't want to get more than one per day. So I'm knocking on level 30 and I haven't trained fishing up since I first got it. So here's the second week :

Day 8: Explore Loch Modan
Day 9: Level 20
Day 10:
100 Quests Completed
Day 11: Journeyman Cook
Day 12:
Explore Redridge Mountains
Day 13: 50 Fish
Day 14:
The Old Gnome and the Sea (Fish from a school)

Luck, how bout it? Got my first blue yesterday, a level 19 shield called Redbeard's Crest or something. Today I got my second blue ... Redbeard's Crest again. Allegedly it's good for twinks but the auction house will measure the truth of that.

PvP servers, I don't miss them. It wasn't getting ganked that I hated the most -- it was all the stuff you had to avoid if you didn't want to get ganked all the time. Like doing quests, for instance -- much better to find a forgotten cave and grind there for like four levels. My favorite spot was this cave full of Naga just south of Feathermoon. It was difficult for Horde to get there so getting ganked was not much of a concern. That was Mannoroth -- now I'm on Ysera, a PvE server, and it's nice to be done with grinding in caves.

Although I'm a little late, E3 left me unimpressed in the Massive Department. I predict that The Old Republic will make a ton of money but will not be a successful MMORPG by any other measure. APB always sounded like an awful game but looks pretty darn cool. And if Final Fantasy XIV is a hundred times better than Final Fantasy XI it will still be about a hundred times worse than WoW.

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