Woweee Zowee

I finally caved in a week after the release of Blizzard's Wow:Cataclysm expansion. I don't know why - even though the answer is obvious. I love WoW, especially now that so much has changed since Cataclysm's release. Rubin is back with a renewed interest in the game, after 1.5 years of retirement from the game. I love the fact that they've made levelling from level 1 to 60 so much easier, made quests so much easier to complete, and cut down on downtime when it comes to travelling ingame (e.g. some quests that require you to travel a distance to complete your objective actually provide you with a quick transport to the location of your objective, comes in handy, especially if you're below level 20 and don't have a mount yet).

Talent trees are more straightforward now, and therefore easier to manipulate when calculating damage and stats potential.

While they've had this even before Cataclysm was released, cross-realm interaction has also greatly improved a game. Whether I'm playing DPS or heals or tanking, my average wait time for a dungeon group is an average of 10-15 mins. Shorter wait time for heals and tank (as usual), a bit longer for DPS.

At this point I have 4 active major characters on different servers, and I've attached some screenshots here:

My favourite of the 4 - a one-man army primarily because druids can tank, heal and dps. (especially now with dual specialisation, I can now choose to take a break from tanking/dps in dungeons and switch to restoration for healing). It also helps that Exotramp is in an LGBTQ guild with lots of experienced players.

I love this girl!

My second favourite, Destro/Demon warlock Feydra. I've come a long way with this one - and often found solace in playing her, especially during a bad breakup in 2009. I also learnt raiding skills through Feydra.

As a DPS class, warlocks are the easiest to play, - and since hunters have recently been badly nerfed - it leaves warlocks in high demand, partly because of pet capabilities and partly because of other perks such as the ability to summon players into a dungeon by calling up a portal (I suspect this is why I got invited to raids so often.)

I haven't got the heart to transfer Feydra to another realm - the guild that Feydra resides in is run by a gay couple living in Sydney (both paladins, protection and holy).



Right now, this little guy is my all time favourite - since the release of Cataclysm, I've tried several different classes for the goblin race, and finally decided on a priest. For specialisation, he is a discipline priest, after some research I found that going discipline provides for good dps as well as good healing.


He was christened Viacheslav by a close friend, but in humour, my friends and I also know him as the Russian Vagina.



And now, last, but not least, the last of my 4 major characters. She was first known as Caillech in Thaurissan, but when my guild disbanded and everyone went their separate ways, I had her transferred to Frostmourne, and renamed her Unutjob.

The mage, I feel, is the most difficult dps class to play - but once you know what you are doing, it can be easy to become overpowered like the warlock. At the moment Blizzard has created a pet for frost mages, which helps a lot, considering we tend to be so squishy sometimes. Back when I first started playing WoW in 2005, my second character was a human mage but I never got used to the difficulty of playing a mage.

I will be transferring Unutjob to Barthilas, for practical reasons, while I level up the Russian Vagina.

So you must be thinking, after all this, am I falling into the stereotype of the avid WoW player? The one with practically no life, no love and no ambitions? I have to say that in my case, it is quite the contrary. I have time for WoW, but real life is bigger than the world of warcraft. So while I have so many epic-geared high level characters (OK, OK so Russian Vagina is still struggling to get there), I still go out and smell the roses, have drinks with my friends, and work, work, work.