World of Warblog

Yes, I’ve been AFK from the Warblog for a while. I apologize — I didn’t play much WoW for an entire month(!) but I had a marathon last week. It took us all weekend but…Mike and I FINALLY made it to level 70 with our mains!

Yes, it has taken me a long time to get to level 70. I’ve been playing the game for three whole years now and I don’t have a single character to 70 until now. Why has it taken us so damn long? Well, a number of reasons: First, my husband and I are casual players. We play when we have time and inspiration. Sometimes when we have the time, we don’t have the inspiration. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sat down at my gaming PC, turned on WoW and then immediately exited out. I just did not want to deal with the overwhelming amount of WORK that lay ahead of me. I hate that. I hate when a game becomes work. So I take occasional breaks that happen to be a month long.

And when I come back, I appreciate it so much more.

The other reason why it’s taken us so damn long to get to 70 is because we started the wrong characters. Had Mike and I been a Rogue and Hunter respectively, we would have leveled to 60 years ago and level 70 a month or so after we got the BC. But we didn’t — we chose a Priest and a Druid. When I played as a Hunter for the first time, I knew that it was the class for me. This is why I have so many Hunters in the first place.

But no violin-playing. We’re level 70! Yay!

And you won’t believe this. My dad (who’s now a retired OT in a major raiding guild) invited us to join his guild. They’re mostly adults who actually screen their members, meaning they don’t put up with whiny teenagers who OMG DIDNTGET TEH EPIX WTF. They also don’t have any requirements for joining — no gear requirements, no spec requirements, hell, they’re not even picky about Hunter pets. So I promised him that if I made it to level 70 and he was still playing, I’d join his raiding guild.

Well, he still plays and I keep my promises.

DISCLAIMER: This is just an introductory post about role-playing in World of Warcraft. It is not meant to tell you HOW to role-play or change your current role-playing method. This is really just an unofficial look into the various types of role-playing you might see or experience in the game. ^_^

Lets start RP’ing!

If you’re new to RP, don’t be frightened. RP’ing doesn’t make you a nerd, a dork, a geek or a loser. RP’ing is for any player who wants to interract with other players in character. That means you drop the pretense of being the average human and pick up the facade of being a Night Elf, Dwarf, Orc, or Troll etc. The aim of RP, above making yourself unique in a world filled with “the most beautiful” and “the famous”, is to have fun and convince others to have fun as well. In fact, lets keep that as a mantra for my posts: “Have fun above all else.”

The best place to start is on a Role-playing Realm. I play on numerous RP Realms: Farstriders, Kirin Tor, Sentinels, and The Scryers. If you’re feeling adventurous, try an RP-PVP server: a Realm that allows you to both kick ass and RP at the same time. At one time, there were strict rules about role-playing on RP Realms: strict adherence to RP-names, not breaking character, and more. But RP Realms are a little more — shall we say — relaxed these days. Still, they’re called RP Realms for a reason.
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Woohoo! Only a little bit more to go. My NE priest just got there this weekend, with help from Nina.

I went ahead and made me a pair of Imbued Netherweave Boots and Imbued Netherweave Pants (even though I’ve been able to wear the latter for a while).

I’ve already made my Imbued Netherweave Robe, because it’s a lot easier to make than a Primal Mooncloth Robe — 12 Primal Mana are hard enough to find, even if you have the money! I’ve got the other two pieces of the Primal Mooncloth set (the shoulders and the belt), but the Primal Mooncloth Robe will have to wait.

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Alrighty, alrighty. School’s done, I’ve had a week to rest, and now I can finally play WoW and write an entry here! Yay!

In my hiatus, I did some thinking about this blog. I honestly didn’t want to write any more “As Kahlah I went and did this” posts again. There are a lot of blogs out there, and there are a lot of blogs about World Of Warcraft. And of those blogs about WoW, there are a lot about playing Hunters. Unfortunately, with every new Hunter blog that pops up, there are ten old ones that are better and have covered the same topics already. I’m not trying to insult the other Hunter bloggers out there, but really — the market is SATURATED with Hunter blogs, especially Hunter blogs about how to play Hunters. There’s got to be something else to write about.

As far as the game is concerned, I am a BAD WoW player. I don’t play all the time. I don’t raid, so I can’t give enlightening tips about how to raid effectively. I don’t fight with any particular panache, so I can’t write about methodology. I am a girl that games, but I don’t call myself a gamer. My technique to playing the game is so elementary it would make bloggers like BRK cringe — I just stand there, let the pet tank and shoot. Sometimes I shoot Viper Sting, and other times I use Scorpid Sting. It really doesn’t matter to me. My theory of any game playing remains pretty gestalt: if I kill it before it kills me, then things are good. If not, I’ll have to res and try again. I’m not particular about any sort of science that goes into a game. I really just want to get the damn beastie dead so I can get my loot and finish the quest.

And then it came to me…why not change the focus of my half of the blog to role-playing?

A swell idea! From now on, I will be delving into the risky subject of role-playing (that is, in the game #^_^#). I’ll be talking about different role-playing areas, role-playing ideas, and role-playing techniques. Hell, I might even cover LARP-ing too. I think it’s a good way to use this college degree in English that I’m getting…

School = no free time = no WoW.

/cry

I will be back in a week or so. Love y’all!

Hurray! Kahlah made it to 40 and now has a lovely Emerald Raptor mount! Here she is with the mount in question:

Never having a Troll toon before, I have to get used to the ride. If I stare too long at Kahlah while she’s on the mount, the bouncing will make me nauseous. I like having it, I just need to balance my equilibrium. =P

I bought a few pieces of mail armor, and two new weapons. I have an [Ebon Scrimtar] and a [Furious Falchion] — unusual for me since my Hunters tend to stick to axes. I’m disappointed with the aesthetics of swords. Most of them either look too plain or look too bizarre. Scrimtars have a nice look and this Falchion wasn’t too bad either.

As for my new armor: a pair of [Steadfast Shoulderpads] aught to do me well for the time being along with a pair of bracers I received from a quest in Grom’gol. I should have bought mail armor earlier when I had OODLES AND OODLES OF MONEY, but I got a bit greedy and kept most of it. After mount riding, mount buying, training, pet training, and other shopping needs, I have about 18g left. =/ Yeah, I’m disappointed, but I hope to make it up. I’ve always made money easy with Kahlah, even being un-Talented as I am.

While I’, on the subject, did I ever mention how much I HATE Stranglethorn Vale? It’s a bit different now I’m playing from the Horde’s pee-oh-vee, but I still can’t shake that horrible feeling of deja vu. I still hate running up and down that road between Booty Bay and Grom’gol. I hate fighting with other players over the handful of Elder Stranglethorn Tigers. Most of all, I hate those damned jungle Trolls who seem to hang around like Visa — everywhere you want to be. Eventually, I’m going to have to kill the Bloodscale Pirates…who I hate too. The frustrating thing about STV is that there’s hardly a way around it. If you’re between the levels of 35 and 45, you’re going to go there. Sigh.

And now, it’s time to put Kahlah away for awhile while I work on some others characters, namely Iriannis.

Since the patch dropped on Tuesday, I’ve been unable to upgrade most of my add-ons. As of this post, both Curse and World of War are DOWN! Grr!!

Ah well. Blade’s Edge Mountains are waiting for me. Time to kick some Son of Gruul tail!