So, What I Have Been Doing Lately...

In light of my earlier post about our farm status of the Kingdom of Sky expansion, we have decided to start up in WoW. Tarique is playing a Night Elf Hunter and I'm playing a Night Elf Druid. We figured we wanted to play things that were fun, since in EQ2 and other games we tend to stick to needed raiding roles.

I must say, its refreshing to just fool around in a world where no one knows you, no one needs you to help them camp something, and you can just enjoy the content. I'm fully aware that at some point we will either reroll or stop playing entirely since raiding in two MMOs would be insane - (even if both don't have seven days of content.) With the quest oriented game play I am enjoying it. Normally in an MMO, I would skip doing quests unless its a kill quest with an NPC near by for mobs we are already killing, or a quest for a particular piece of gear or access. The beauty of the WoW system is that I know if I get the quests in an area for my level, I will probably level once or twice, and can move on to the next set. Now aside from needing to harvest meat for cooking - I have no reason to grind away on mobs with no purpose. This is a good thing. Other than the occasional tailored dungeon that you have to fight to the end to, this is the way people should level. It definitely masks the dreaded grind.

My impressions of WoW so far are good, but these are the similar to the impressions I had in beta. Not much has changed in this time. Great game to explore in, not enough ongoing raid content for me. I'm sure there are some folks that are just happy to do the same dungeon set with a freebie thrown in now and again. But instead I chose a game that allows us to do that including the freebies - plus allow for about 2 expansions worth of stuff per year.

We have ideas of pursuing other race/class combos, but for now I think we will stick to these.