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Return to Darkness
It had been over a month since I logged into World of Warcraft for any significant amount of time. Usually I would log in just to redistribute order hall resources so I could continue to use the class order hall to make gold via the Legion app. But that was it. Even after using some of that gold to buy tokens and purchase the pre-order for Battle for Azeroth, I still had little motivation to log into the game itself.
Then Real Life gaming brought it all around.
I had been playing the RPG game Pathfinder for several months. For those of you who might not understand what an RPG is without an MMO in front of it, we’re talking pen and paper Warcraft. Rolling dice, roleplaying, and slaying the dragon while being at the complete mercy of RNGesus.
One die to rule them all.
I had decided that I would start my own campaign for family and friends. Pathfinder has several well-written Adventure Paths, which are pre-generated campaigns. All the work is done for you. I started reading several of these, hoping to get some motivation and inspiration. I found one named Second Darkness, an older module that generally wasn’t very well reviewed. That appealed to me in the sense that it felt like it had some decent bones that I could build on.
It also featured the dark elves rarely seen in Pathfinder – the Drow.
Fast-forward to my planning session. The modified story was coming together, but the BBEG (Big Bad Evil Guy/Gal) wasn’t. I had a few ideas, but nothing really jumped into my heart. I decided to go to my other all-encompassing fantasy hobby, World of Warcraft, for inspiration.
That’s when I saw the screenshot for the Nightborne. The Drow.
And so, I was hooked. Again.
Have you played any of the new Allied Races yet? Which ones are your favorite? What do you like/dislike about them?
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?
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