I have been kicking around the idea of starting a blog about World of Warcraft for quite some time. I find blogs to be a great way to share information, ideas and stories about the game we all love. I have played since early beta, and from the start I could see that this was the game I had been waiting for.
I fondly remember my first days in Azeroth, before hunters were even in the game, and when weapon and tradeskills were bought with “skill points” you were awarded in combat. (Of course, back in those days there was no limit to how many tradeskills you could have, and herbalism fueled both Alchemy AND Enchanting!) From the very start, WoW was so much more alive, detailed and fun than any other MMORPG I had played. As a brief MMORPG history, I began with Ultima Online, worked my way through Asheron’s Call, Dark Age of Camelot, and basically any MMO that was ever released. When World of Warcraft first took up residence on my hard drive, however, all the “dabbling” in other games was over.
Presently I play a level 70 restoration Druid named Pummra on the Whisperwind server. (Bonus points if you know the name reference!) I also have a level 70 BM Hunter, but since I rolled the druid I haven’t looked back. The druid, to me, has a unique blend of versatility and soloability.
You see I have a wife, a family and a job, and can only devote 6-10 hours a week to the game at the most. The hours I can spend don’t come all in one chunk, either, so I usually play in 2 hour increments. This limits my ability to participate in big time raiding (which occasionally gets me down) and forces me to stick with five man content and solo play. Lucky for me, WoW has oodles of content to support a player like myself. My quest log is still almost always full or close to it, and in a pinch I always have alts to play if I can’t get anything bigger going on my main. If all else fails, I can just stand around Shatt and dance in tree form. (Which looks amazingly close to how I dance IRL.)
What I hope to do through the course of this blog is share my experiences as a casual player. I want to share what has worked for me over the years to hopefully help out any other players that find themselves in a similar situation. Let’s face it, many of us will never see Mount Hyjal or the Black Temple, (not till 2.4 hits, anyway – but even then wiping on trash won’t be fun!) but there are still many, many things to do in this game for kicks. I’ll try to get into what those things are, with an emphasis on the casual player and the druid class. Anyhow, thanks for stopping by, and I hope you come back in the future.
In my next post I plan to address ways to gear up when you find yourself “behind the curve”. Cheers! (No, I’m not British, regardless of how I spell colour.)
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