Off to Outland April 23, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Druid, Gaming, Paladin, World of Warcraft , add a commentI finally got my Druid to level 58 today, it’s been a long road since I decided I wanted to level up a Druid, initially it was because I thought they were all uber in PvP, y’know, being able to dps like a cat and then heal themselves. They also appealed because they use the same talent tree to both tank and dps, meaning that I could do either at any stage of leveling and that would be nice.
Now I still like druids quite a lot but I’ve grown a bit more keen to play a dps class for a bit since I fancy doing the damage instead of just having to heal it. With that being said, I do enjoy tanking a lot aswell and in fact enjoy healing a great deal too. So it looks like I really like everything WoW has to offer basically, go me.
Perhaps in the future I will have 3 characters at max level, my Paladin who is already at 70 of course and currently trying to progress with my new guild (which has been a lot of fun so far and thanks to some lucky drops I’m actually becoming pretty decently geared compared to others in the guild) would either heal or tank I would think. Paladin tanking is something that I find cool simply because I like taking down lots of mobs at the same time and the AoE threat is really where its at when it comes to that.
My druid would either tank or heal. I wasn’t sure about druid healing at first but after trying it out on the TTR (the arena tournament test realms for those who don’t know) I found it to be very statisfying, something about healing makes me feel much more useful than when I’m playing a dps class.
Finally I would have a pure dps class such as a rogue or hunter to fill the dps slot. I recently started a rogue on a PvP server and got to level 6, I don’t really know if I’ll continue or not but I would really like to try out leveling on a PvP server just to get that experience. If I could get my 3 max levels (probably level 80 by the time it actually happens) then that would leave me a very happy bunny although given the amount of time its taken me to get my druid to 58 don’t expect it too soon…
Guild based mayhem April 4, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Entertainment, Thoughts, World of Warcraft , add a commentA couple of days ago I logged into WoW only to notice after about 30mins that I was completely lacking a guild. More than that, my realm (EU-Ghostlands) was completely lacking my guild. That evening a discovered from a friend (who was friends with my guild leader when he played WoW) that the guild leader had disbanded the guild and transfered realms.
This left me in something of an interesting position, I had been considering leaving the guild in search of a more progression based one for a while due to little hope in even seeing Kara again as our raiders seemed to be leaving just as we had enough for a trip. Now I could try and join any guild I wanted to, I have reasonable gear, mostly purples and blues with 3 greens that I haven’t managed to replace yet, nothing special but good enough for a kara guild. So I quickly made my mind up to apply to a guild that I found that were currently kara on farm and ZA 2/6 with a view to start 25 mans. Currently my application is being looked at and I’ve been told I will be contacted in game although no communication has arrived yet.
The real problem emerged when I logged on to see if I would be communicated with and saw, to my horror, my guild leader + 2 other high level members sitting in Darnassus with our guild tag under their names. When they saw me I immediately got a guild invite with the leader whispering to say that after a small breakdown she was trying to get the old members back together. I was left really not knowing what to say just looking at the guild invite. I ended up sending back a bit of an uncomfortable message saying I had applied for another guild and that I didn’t know whether they were going to accept me or not, with a confused smiley. She replied with an “Oh…” (or along those lines) and then logged off so I don’t really know what to think.
Now if I can get into this new guild then that would be great, it would give me a good shot at progression and a chance to do the thing I’ve wanted to do right from the start of playing but there is a decent chance they won’t accept me, they’ve had applications from better people and they don’t need more holy paladins. I’m hoping that my application form filling in skills haven’t failed me (in a previous MMO I was an applications officer in my guild so I should know how to write an app myself) and that I will get on based on a sort of “gear can be gotten easily, personality and skill are harder to find” sort of a basis.
I’m really not the guild hopping sort (aforementioned previous MMO I stuck with the same guild from as soon as I got into the guild scene to when I retired and am still a retired member when I last checked) so I can’t really be sure if I’d ever be up to actually doing the deed and leaving my old guild. As with before I was with them from level 15 or so right up to 70 and into kara (albeit only for 2 runs). Because of this I really saw the disappearance of my guild and its leaders as a blessing because it was really a chance for me to get out and experience more of the game, something I promised myself I would do.
It could definitely be argued that the previous MMO really got boring at the end because the game sucked and the guild just weren’t progressing (it was a PvP based system there but we were essentially a mediocre guild for the entire time and probably still to this day) and I don’t want that to happen again in WoW because there is so much more to do at endgame.
Given that I listen to WoW podcasts and read WoW blogs all talking about endgame I don’t really think it’s unfair that I want to experience that for myself even if it means leaving my beloved old mostly-social guild behind. I hope I’m making the right decision.
