Tired?
So last night I was thinking, "If I'm going to be tired tomorrow it should be for a reason."
Previous nights I had gone to bed in the pm, and still been groggy and cranky the next day. Most days I was having a couple of hours of nap as well. Very worrisome as I really lacked motivation to do anything, and I'm getting to the point where I realize I'm not as young as I used to be and maybe I should watch my health.
Anyways so last night I got back into World of Warcraft after an extended hiatus. For those not in the know it's a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game that has occupied a significant amount of my time since December. I really lost interest though when I hit level 60; the highest in the game. It seemed there was nothing really more to do, I'm not that fond of PVP, and the prospect of doing the same dungeon over and over to get gear didn't appeal to me.
In the course of playing last night I discovered my killer instinct. Repeated attacks by an annoying paladin (is there another kind?) drove me over the edge. I started attacking all the Alliance members that I could find. I racked up quite a few kills before guildmates asked me to come to the Battlegrounds. Then stuff got really crazy.
I'd never tried the Battlegrounds before, and I was kind of out of my element not knowing what to do but it was a lot of fun. Basically it's set in it's own seperate valley where the two sides can meet and do battle. It becomes really complicated though as there's all sorts of missions you can do to help your own side out besides fighting the hated Alliance. You can loot bits of armor off dead enemies to take back to your base so that the blacksmith can upgrade your npc's. You can collect blood as well, and if you get enough an npc shaman will summon a huge ice elemental to attack the other side. Don't quote me on this, but I believe you win if your elemental smashes the other team's base.
It's kind of crazy though as you can get huge bounties for collecting pieces of your enemies. For the Horde it was stuff like a dwarven spine, a severed elf's head (yay), a lock of gnome hair. I had always like that Blizzard seemed to be keeping their players poor by being stingy with their money, but I guess they want to be generous so that none of their players leave. The other wacky thing was the honor kills. I was in the battlegrounds for over two hours, and I got something like 324 honorable kills. I'm assuming these kills are not all weighted equally though.
Anyways to summarize I stayed up till 2 o'clock in the morning being a huge geek. I briefly thought of staying up even longer until Dave sent out the Puragtory turns, but that way lay madness.
Being sane I went to bed, and got up early this morning. Like a kid at christmas I ran up upstairs and turned on my computer. My downtime turn for Puragtory was waiting and as usual it did not disappoint. Very interesting! I get the feeling that my character Bregan comes with an expiry date. Oh well I love it, and the organizers just keep feeding my desire to cause trouble.
And I actually don't feel that bad this afternoon.
Previous nights I had gone to bed in the pm, and still been groggy and cranky the next day. Most days I was having a couple of hours of nap as well. Very worrisome as I really lacked motivation to do anything, and I'm getting to the point where I realize I'm not as young as I used to be and maybe I should watch my health.
Anyways so last night I got back into World of Warcraft after an extended hiatus. For those not in the know it's a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game that has occupied a significant amount of my time since December. I really lost interest though when I hit level 60; the highest in the game. It seemed there was nothing really more to do, I'm not that fond of PVP, and the prospect of doing the same dungeon over and over to get gear didn't appeal to me.
In the course of playing last night I discovered my killer instinct. Repeated attacks by an annoying paladin (is there another kind?) drove me over the edge. I started attacking all the Alliance members that I could find. I racked up quite a few kills before guildmates asked me to come to the Battlegrounds. Then stuff got really crazy.
I'd never tried the Battlegrounds before, and I was kind of out of my element not knowing what to do but it was a lot of fun. Basically it's set in it's own seperate valley where the two sides can meet and do battle. It becomes really complicated though as there's all sorts of missions you can do to help your own side out besides fighting the hated Alliance. You can loot bits of armor off dead enemies to take back to your base so that the blacksmith can upgrade your npc's. You can collect blood as well, and if you get enough an npc shaman will summon a huge ice elemental to attack the other side. Don't quote me on this, but I believe you win if your elemental smashes the other team's base.
It's kind of crazy though as you can get huge bounties for collecting pieces of your enemies. For the Horde it was stuff like a dwarven spine, a severed elf's head (yay), a lock of gnome hair. I had always like that Blizzard seemed to be keeping their players poor by being stingy with their money, but I guess they want to be generous so that none of their players leave. The other wacky thing was the honor kills. I was in the battlegrounds for over two hours, and I got something like 324 honorable kills. I'm assuming these kills are not all weighted equally though.
Anyways to summarize I stayed up till 2 o'clock in the morning being a huge geek. I briefly thought of staying up even longer until Dave sent out the Puragtory turns, but that way lay madness.
Being sane I went to bed, and got up early this morning. Like a kid at christmas I ran up upstairs and turned on my computer. My downtime turn for Puragtory was waiting and as usual it did not disappoint. Very interesting! I get the feeling that my character Bregan comes with an expiry date. Oh well I love it, and the organizers just keep feeding my desire to cause trouble.
And I actually don't feel that bad this afternoon.
posted by Eman at 11:42 AM
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