ir-ri-ta-ble
–adjective
1. easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
2. Physiology, Biology. displaying irritability.
3. Pathology. susceptible to physical irritation.
4. Medicine/Medical. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus.
5. SmakenDahed. these last few weeks.
Grrr…
I tried running my level 21 Mage around with my son’s level 31 Paladin but things were a little slow, especially when he was playing the Paladin because he was running around exploring the area (Darkshire) that he hadn’t seen before. I ended up switching over to Olen and we duoed in Stranglethorn Vale for a bit until he found his mom bought him a new word search puzzle book.
So I continued (to his amazement) with both running off my (3 year old) machine and got the dwarves another level (they’re both level 32, nearing 33) but I really wanted to get a Mage going. I decided it would be easier to recreate one and group it up with one of his other characters.
He had a level 1 Dwarf Warrior (he likes Dwarves) which was perfect. Freshly created, never entered the game. I created a Gnome Mage companion for him and a short while later both of them are level 10 and parked near Ironforge.
I will get to level 30 with that Gnome Mage and focus on Olen and the Paladin after. Really, it shouldn’t take too long. The Warrior is quite durable and deals decent damage. Unfortunately, I’ve completely neglected the Mage, it just tails along behind the Warrior. I think it cast maybe two attack spells the whole time. I’m guessing when I get Flamestrike I’ll make some use of that to help the Warrior with damage.
This would be what Hudson warned me about (skills not being on par with the level), but I’m patient and I’ll work the skills up.
I think it is probably a better approach simply because it helps me level up more than one of my son’s characters and I’m accumulating some more bonus levels to grant to more of my alts. :)
A co-worker popped over to talk about WAR yesterday afternoon. Of course he suggested I should try WAR again and mentioned he’s having all sorts of fun. There have been a lot of changes and nerfs. He switched to Order side and made an Iron Breaker. That character is already level 40 but his Realm Rank is trailing because they’ve made changes on how easy that is to raise.
It seems they’ve made it so you have to switch up the scenarios, you can’t just run the same one every time. They’ve also made flipping points in the open RVR areas (lakes) little value, but flipping them all gets you a nice big reward. (I seem to remember that being the case when I was playing)
Oddly enough, when I was doing my MMO thrash (flailing about trying to find a MMO to hold my interest) I didn’t really consider WAR. It just seemed to be a little… well… weird. I couldn’t find a class I was happy with and there were some really bad balance issues. A lot of false promises like balancing the Order vs. Destro pops? Hah, yeah, right… that still isn’t working.
I guess it was just a matter of the mouthpiece of WAR did his job well and hyped it up. I can remember thinking, “Man, this guy can make hemorrhoid cream sound fun and exciting.”
The first 10 levels were a lot of fun, but as you got into the higher levels, I just found the PVE a little too bland. PVP had some still crap like not being able to LOS turrets, LOS not impacting those magnet thingies, being able to blast people through walls and stacking AoEs on top of each other for quick wins.
Ah well. I’ll likely try it for ten days, but I doubt I’ll stick it out.
I’m so positive lately.
The dwarves hit 31 and 30 last night. I got them flight points in Arathi Highlands (quests seem a little high there), Red Ridge, Darkshire and the Rebel Camp (in Stranglethorn Vale).
I left them parked in STV because I think they’re about the right level for the Nessingway hunting quests, but I’ll move to where ever my son wants to go.
Galiana is in Darkshire (which I keep misspelling as Darkshite) with some quests ready to go. I think she can get the XP bonus from having the linked character around as long as the quests are at least green to the recruit character. That means I’ll have to level her a few levels so she has quests at around 23-24 to hand in then I’ll summon the dwarf over. Getting her to 30 will be my main priority, then I’ll switch to focus entirely on the dwarves. I’ve respec’ed her to Fire since that should make quick work of most mobs she’ll face.
I debated having the Paladin trail along behind her for bonus XP, but I think that would end up leveling the Paladin a little out of the way of Olen. I’m not sure if I mind that or not – I think I’d rather play DPS than healing at this point so I might do that – I just won’t get the quests.
Hmm… maybe I switch to the Mage to help level the Paladin and dump the levels on the Priest since he’s already level 30?
I think I might do that. It’s not like he really needs the healing – it helps for breaking camps, but then, so does sick AE damage. :)
At least not for me. I jot things down and stick it to one of my monitors as a reminder, then spend the rest of the day moving the post-it note around so it’s out of the way.
Damn thing is in the way again!
Okay, not really. But if you think about, the Mac has a lot of the same qualities as a console.
Again, not really. There aren’t nearly enough games for the Mac to be considered a console, but you have to wonder if MicroSoft jumped on the standardized computer hardware as a console (oh hai Xbox!) because they were inspired by the Mac.
Consoles have always been pretty single purpose and the hardware reflected that, but with the XBox generation, you started seeing what looked like a standardized, computer gaming platform.
And yes, I’m aware that most of the above is the same for PCs, but the last point is the biggest similarity.
I saw that TAGN had a Bartle Test result up there and it got me curious where I’d be now and with WoW in mind so I took the test again. Here was my result:
This time I ended up as an EKSA. Previously I believe I was a AKSE or something to that effect. I’ll have to take it again in a couple of months (or years) to see if it stays the same or not.
I’m not too surprised about this result, I’ve definitely shifted more towards PVP in the last little while and exploration is a pretty big deal to me. I hate missing out on zones or instances or even raids. The fact that there are instances I’ve yet to see drives me bonkers, let alone raids.
The reduced Achiever score is definitely related to WoW since I feel it’s really so accessible it stops being any sort of achievement.
Interesting.
