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drvid's World of Warcraft (PC)
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| [January 12, 2007 07:25:16 PM]
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Well, like I said earlier, I value that courtesy more now. I decided to work on my level 20 night elf druid this time and I am really happy because I finally got my cat form. I was a little disappointed though, because I spent 2g on training for the form instead of being sent on a crazy series of quests that the bear form and aquatic form required. Okay, I was very disappointed, but at least I have my cat form now. Out of all my characters, my druid’s guild is my favorite. We are a small guild with mixed levels but we are all really close friends now. In fact, I just received a new pet from someone in my guild as an early birthday present, a mechanical squirrel, and he’s so cute. The people you meet along the way via quests or guilds and so on are the things that keep me coming back day after day. Having people say hey to you when you log on, having people you can rely on if you have questions or if you need help on a quest or a little money to get you through is a great feeling. Also, being there to help others is also something that makes me happy, and occupied when I’m bored and somebody asks me to help them do a quest.
Anyways, what still amazes me is how big the world is and how complex the cities are dungeons and everything in between are. Even the coast is busy with its shipwrecks and its enemies and its reefs and so on. There is always somewhere else to explore, for both Horde and Alliance, especially when it comes to exploring enemy territory. And now, with the expansion and all, well I don’t think the adventure will ever end. There is always something to do in WoW. Sure at times people get sick of it, but you always come back to it one day, don’t you? Everywhere I go in the world, I always wonder how long it took the game makers to creat this place and that place, what might it have looked like, what will it look like in the future, and will I ever be able to do this one day? Maybe. Hopefully.
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| [January 12, 2007 07:00:56 PM]
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I am victorious! After much begging and pleading, I finally got my boyfriend to succumb to the addictive grasp of World of Warcraft. Though I have one higher level, one mid level, and three lower level characters already, I have just created a new character who I use to battle along side my boyfriend’s first character. Though the WoW experience isn’t all that new to me, going through every step of the adventure as a race and class I have never been before, in an alien server, battling side by side with the person sitting right next to me on his own computer, is a whole new experience.
Once again I have been hooked by the quests. I believe they are the key to this game. The first thing you see when you begin your adventure is an npc with a yellow exclamation point over their head, ready to give you your first quest. From that point on quests pop up everywhere you go, many of which are part of a series of quests that keep you going. Besides the fact that quest givers are everywhere and that those giant floating yellow exclamation marks are very difficult to ignore, there are many rewards awaiting you when you complete quests, rewards that are necessary to build a successful character: money, experience, items such as armor and weapons, reputation, key abilities such as the druid’s different forms, and access to tougher quests that yield even better rewards and take you to new places. Some people (like the people who started me on WoW) only do the quests that yield the best rewards and see them as a waste of time, while others, like myself, become addicted to quests. WoW has done a great job of satisfying those quest addicts by creating quests that are not obviously indicated, quests that can only be started by talking to random npc’s or looking at wanted signs that are hidden in the shadows of a building. One thing I have noticed is that those who take advantage of quests tend to make a greater number of friends, as well as stronger bonds with those friends that will last, well, until WoW loses its grasp on one of them (if that is possible). Another thing that the quests accomplish, especially the beginning ones, is that they help to unfold the history of your character’s class or of the places they are in.
Well anyway, my boyfriend and I just started today as trolls, he chose to be a warrior and I decided to go with something I have never been before, a shaman. I was at first confused when we started out in a place run not buy our own kind, like every other one of my characters have done, but in a place run by orcs, weird. But I guess the two of us will learn why as our adventure progresses. Working with somebody who is sitting next to me is much different than working with friends from around the world, in good ways and bad. The good thing is that it is much easier to communicate and teach and explain things. The bad part, though, is the lack of those unspoken rules of courtesy that you quickly acquire when you start working with other players you do not personally know. Now I value that courtesy a little more. Anyways, back to the game.
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drvid's World of Warcraft (PC)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Friday 1 September, 2006
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