Personally, I’m still here, and I’m still enjoying World of Warcraft. I’ve levelled my little baby Mage to 55, and I’m still enjoying blasting stuff, although she is still very squishy if anything gets close enough to hit her! I’m also still enjoying running Heroics with my Druid, who is pretty much permanently Boomkin these days, despite my initial misgivings. She’s still predominately in Resto gear, and her +hit leaves a lot to be desired, but it’s a fun way to spend the evenings Thankfully my group of friends in game are still enjoying running Heroics, and I’m hoping that enthusiasm only gets more intense with the arrival of 3.2 this week

I’m not getting as much playtime as I’d like, and that’s probably the main reason this blog hasn’t been updated recently. Work is crazy busy at the moment – we’re in the middle of a major restructure and I’m having to fill out a nightmare application form to attempt to remain employed. This is seriously eating into my WoW time, but at the end of the day, it’s a short-term thing to ensure I can continue to pay the subscription, so it’s well worth the investment of time.

The deadline for submitting my form is tomorrow, so I intend to celebrate with a lot of WoW 3.2 is arriving at just the right time

It just kind of happened. I’d been enjoying the raiding, and had started taking a bit more responsibility in terms of running the healing assignments.  My guild were regularly clearing Naxx10, and could pretty much clear Naxx25. With the 3.1 patch we headed in to Ulduar10, and started making good progress.

And then it just stopped being fun. And I can’t work out if it’s me, or if it’s Ulduar. But at the moment I don’t feel any motivation to raid at all.

I’ve been enjoying the Argent Tournament, and have managed to gain my “Crusader” title. And I’ve been running a lot of Heroics with a group of friends, which is a blast. Scarily I’m now predominantly a Moonkin, and starting to feel like I’m making a useful dps contribution. In fact, I thought I might be needed to heal the group on one occaision recently, and felt quite disappointed. What a turnaround!

I’m also dabbling around with a small troop of alts, but haven’t really set my heart on any perticular one to take to 80. I’ve got a Rogue, Mage and Warlock all sitting at 44 (thank you, Recruit-a-Friend), a 61 DK, and a very low level Priest and Shaman. The Big Red Kitty baby hunter guide videos on ProjectLore inspired me to start a Hunter, and she’s really fun.

I’m certainly still finding plenty of things to keep me busy. And I’m not missing the raiding at all. At the moment. I don’t know if it’s me, or if it’s Ulduar. And it’s not bad. It’s just different

I created a gnome Mage and Warlock pair to level together. I am lucky enough to have 2 computers on my desk, so I two-boxed them. I used Synergy to be able to control both PCs from one keyboard and mouse, and I set up my Logitech G15 keyboard so that both characters’ key spells were on easily accessible hotkeys. The G15Buttons UI mod made that really easy.

The triple xp is only available for the first three months, so my plan was to use that time to level the pair up to 60. I also had a level 22 rogue at the time of starting, and planned to use my “grant a level” levels to bring her up to 52.

Well, my three months ran out on Saturday. And whilst I knew Saturday was the day, I didn’t realise it would be quite early on Saturday. I had just managed to collect all the Green Hills of Stranglethorn pages to do all the hand ins for the Mage and Warlock, and suddenly realised that the “summon friend” option had disappeared from my right click menu. Boo!

So I didn’t quite hit my target, but I didn’t do too badly. The Mage and Warlock are now each level 44, and my Rogue is 43. With the Wrath release imminent I dount I’ll be doing much with my alts over the next months or so at least, but they’re there when I’m ready to come back to them. I realised whilst levelling that I really don’t like two-boxing. It’s fine when you’re just running around, but when you get that unexpected add, and have to react quickly, I just can’t do it. So I’m looking forward to soloing each class up to the higher levels. It’ll also help me to learn more about playing each class.

I’m sure this was a great marketing ploy to get people buying more accounts. As I don’t want to get suckered into paying for another account on an ongoing basis, I have transferred the Mage back onto my main account and cancelled the RAF one. And I still have a free character slot for my Death Knight.