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Only a week into 2018…
It’s been about a week since the start of 2018 and I think I’ll be sleeping out the rest of this World of Warcraft expansion.
It pretty much dawned on me when I did a preliminary calculation of my Hordeside Order Halls. The total came to about 59,000 gold. Now that’s nothing to sneeze at for one week of essentially logging onto my Legion app. But prior to this, I was putting up much bigger numbers. I did that by logging in twice a day, every day. But lately I’m only logging in once, almost every day.
We’re just talking about the app here. An icon on my damn phone, that I carry around with me all the time. That’s not even logging into the actual game, which I have rarely done for more than a couple minutes a week to refill my Order Hall resources.
I’m not even keeping up with WoW happenings. I’ve seen Youtube videos (isn’t that were most folks get their WoW news these days?) where people are mentioning events like buying Legendaries from vendors, and the release of the cinematic where we will retire our artifacts.
I’m not an end game players. I don’t raid, so I don’t care about Legendaries. I know it’s a pride thing for some people, and more power to them, but I couldn’t care less about the status of Legendaries. Legendary items should be rewards at the end of a long quest. Not something you luck into. But that’s old school RPG me.
As far as artifacts go, I think that was the last of my motivation for logging in. Why spend time making my weapon better when I’ll just be handing it in a few months from now. Especially when I have no reason to log in and use it.
I know me. I ebb and flow as far as my WoW interests go. I’ll be bored, then I’ll get bit by the bug and start playing something different. Maybe it’ll be to renew the Ironman challenge. Maybe I’ll want to wreck face in PVP. Maybe I’ll want to build a fortune on a new server.
Right now though, I’ll just keep clicking my app. There’s things in the really real world that have my interest, like the writing bug that bit me again and consumes my waking hours. Like the Pathfinder campaigns that I’m participating in and running. Also, the damn 2018 Pushup Challenge, where I try to do 2018 pushups in 2018. Currently I’m sitting at just over 500.
What are you doing to keep yourself occupied lately in WoW?
So about that 2017
It’s the end of the year. Literally, the end of the year. December 31, 2017.
As a blogger, this is when I’m supposed to talk about how great/poor my year was and how stoked I am for the next year. Everybody’s got ’em going up, so I should probably do the same. Since this is primarily a World of Warcraft blog, I’ll focus on that.
That about sums it up.
In 2017, I’m stoked/thankful for:
- Going to Blizzcon. Seriously, I got to hang out with some cool people and meet awesome folks I normally would never have had the opportunity to see in person. I got to chat with Bajheera and Jen, shake hands with Reckles from WTB Gold, and have drinks with Thorn and Thyst from Lagging Balls. I even got to hang out with Pat Krane for a bit.
- Order Hall Gold. Without this, I wouldn’t have been able to pay for my subscription and make some character changes. Between this and the Legion app, I’ve been able to “play” without even logging into WoW.
That’s pretty much it. Normally I would have tried to invent things in World of Warcraft to keep me interested, but there were more things outside the game that piqued my interest. I’ve lost interest with the whole storyline playing out in the game, and what’s coming in the next expansion is going to be more of the same.
What does that mean for 2018? Will I keep playing World of Warcraft? Of course I will. I’m still working on my Ironman Challenge character, and grinding out that gold. Depending on how my other interests develop, WoW may go on the backburner in order for my dreams to come true. Stuff like that.
Now for some motivation. Congrats, you survived 2017! Hope you have a great 2018!
Happy New Year!
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