Some blogs teach you things, like how to plant a garden, or how to make more money, or how to maximize your DPS rotation. Other blogs entertain with clever turns of phrase. And still others are there to get you to agree with their authors.
This blog won’t do any of those things.
First off – this is a blog about World of Warcraft. I’ve played WoW for four years now. While I’ve quit the game for one reason or another a few times over the years, I’ve found myself returning to the game over and over again. Thanks to WoW, I’ve connected with friends, old and new, across vast distances and distant continents. I don’t think I’ll be giving it up again anytime soon.
I play a level 80 Paladin on the Nagrand server. This is important! Level 80 means that, for now at least, I am at the highest level possible. Nothing I do will make me level up. Until the next game expansion is released (next year, if the rumors are to be believed) I am stuck at level 80. So I have to find other things to do with my time than level up.
I play with a lot of friends in real life. By “a lot” I mean, of course, more than two. As a matter of fact, there are around eight to ten of us on the server, all playing together. We decided some time ago to form a Guild called Rage On. This allows us to share a bank, which is a place we store items we don’t need at the moment. It also lets us chat in the game in a dedicated Guild channel. And we run around the game world with the phrase over our heads so everyone knows what Guild we belong to.
We are what’s called casual raiders. At level 80 there are quite a few things that you can do to pass the time. Raiding is one of them. When we raid, ten or twenty-five of go into a dungeon together to fight bosses. Each boss has a particular mechanic, or trick, that lets us kill him if we execute the strategy properly. Like, maybe a boss is vulnerable to fire when he turns the color purple, and ice when he turns green. So our strategy would be to hit him with fire spells when he’s purple and ice spells when he’s green. Of course, it’s much more complicated than that, and we spend literally hours learning how to defeat bosses. One boss, Yogg-Saron, took us more than two months to kill, raiding every weekend. Another, Mimiron, involved a strategy so complex that I had dreams about fighting and killing him (and I know I’m not the only one in my Guild who had them.) As raiders go, we’re fairly successful. We’ve killed almost all the bosses we can kill at our level. When we raid now, we farm these bosses for epic loot. Epic loot makes us better at killing bosses. So we are getting better all the time – or at least, we certainly hope so.
As fate would have it, I’m currently the leader of my little Guild. It’s not an easy position to occupy, and there are a great many days when I wonder about passing on this load to someone else. But that’s just not in the cards for me, at least not now.
I suppose that’s it for now. This has been quite lengthy for an introduction and I hope I haven’t lost anyone yet. Drop me a comment sometime and let me know how I’m doing. It would be nice to hear from you.
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