Petoholics Anonymous

Blasted thing almost killed me

// March 11th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Hunters and Pets, Random Stuff

…A cold in real-life and a ravager in-game >.<

So…remember that cold that I was talking about oh…30 days ago? I’m still dealing with the after-affects. It sure was a doozy, making me miss a day and a half of school, not to mention I couldn’t sleep properly for a week. I was tired and grumpy and coughing and generally not a fun person to be around. I think Mr. Paladin and my brother annoyed with me coughing up my lungs 24/7. Heck, I didn’t even like myself then. It got to the point where taking 2 Advil Cold & Sinus and Buckley’s just wasn’t cutting it. If I was working or going to school, I was trying to sleep.

Luckily it went away on its own after a while. Surprisingly, I’m still coughing every once in a while but it’s nothing more than a mild annoyance. What is unlucky however is that when the cold was at its worst, I had a huge project coming due. So…I had to spend 3 days staying 4-5 hours after school trying to get it done on time. Since I already spend 7 hours in school…that adds up to 11-12 hours spent sitting in the classroom for 3 days. My prof gave me an extension and I just barely got it in on time but I was soooooo relieved to have it done.

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Anu’s Story: “One who hunts for food or knowledge”

// February 4th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Hunters and Pets, Roleplay

My braids tumble to the ground, landing with a muffled thump on the beaten dirt. It feels strange to suddenly be free of their weight. I pick them up and roll them in my hands, feeling the coarse hairs rub against one another. I hear a soft huff and look up to see my mother staring at me, her sharp dagger still in her hand. Her face showed a mixture of emotions that I can’t even begin to decipher.

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Hi’s, Goodbye’s, and Updates

// January 23rd, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Hunters and Pets, Random Stuff

I’ve sort of been taking a break from WoW, just logging on here and there but mostly I’ve been watching TV and movies (Cloverfield FTW!). I even found my Neverwinter Nights 2 CD buried in my brother’s room (because he has the only computer in the apartment that can handle NWN2) and started playing it again. Why am I doing this? After the whole fiasco with the ghost wolf, I’m feeling a little worn out with the game. I’m not completely leaving it, Blizzard hasn’t pissed me off that much. Let’s just consider it a separation.

On that note, I’d like to say farewell to Someone, who will be sorely missed but I wish good luck to nonetheless.

This leads me to welcome two more to my blog roll, both of whom have tried linking to me under the radar but I discovered them nonetheless:

Altitis – The Sandbox of yet another unfocused World of Warcraft player, with a slight paladin slant.

Kinless’ Chronicles – Another altaholic who has been blogging since December 2005! That’s a really long time ago.

/wave to you both

Pretty much the only character update I can give is that Khaja has reached level 25 and has tamed Washte Pawne. I forgot to take a pic of the two of them and I’m at school right now so it will have to wait until I get home. Edit: Finally got the pic up. He still needs a name but I’m starting to like him. Lightning Breath is taking some getting used to because it actually pulls the mob closer to you than it would if your pet didn’t have it.

For the most part, I’ve been playing my new character who I have yet to reveal. I really should do that soon, considering she’s level 23 already. Yes, I know, yet another one but hey, I’m an altaholic. I need to feed my addiction.

I rolled the wrong class too

// January 22nd, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Hunters and Pets, Random Stuff

I saw this article about how someone had no idea what they were doing when they first started playing WoW and rolled a character of a class that they discovered they didn’t like.

No no no, I don’t mean that I was hugely mistaken by rolling 7 hunters. I love my hunters and always will. I’m talking about my first every character: Tiama the night elf druid.

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Why I’m taking my sweet time getting to level 70

// January 10th, 2008 // 12 Comments » // Random Stuff

I’ve been playing Nicora for a looooong time. Other people would have her to level 70 by now. And those people have looked at me quizzically and asked why the heck haven’t I been playing her. Do I want to get to level 70? Yes, eventually. But I’m in no big rush. Here’s why:

1. What on earth am I going to do once I reach level 70? Raid? I don’t like dungeons in the first place and even if I did, there’s no way I could meet all the requirements needed to raid. You want me to give up my Blacky the wolf for some cat or ravager? Let me put it to you this way…touch my wolf and die. I’m probably way too attached to a bunch of pixels but people have also told me that I’m way too attached to animals. I am who I am and I’m not giving up my pup to go to some dank dungeon. That’s what other people like and that’s fine. It’s just not my cup of tea…like in the same way I’ll only drink water and milk and would never touch any soda pop or coffee (I’m weird that way).
2. There is PvP but that’s not something I enjoy doing full time and I can do it at any level, not just level 70.
3. Yes, I want stuff like a flying mount and a ghost wolf but they aren’t urgent things. They can wait.
4. I am an incurable altaholic. If I was only playing Nicora, I would get burnt out real quick. It’s different in say a game like Neverwinter Nights, where you’re constantly progressing and moving through the storyline smoothly. Grinding is not a fun task. So I change it up to keep myself interested.
5. I see the game as something to be enjoyed. Which to me means exploring all the content and doing as many quests as I can. Minus dungeons of course Again, why I have my alts.
6. Really, I just don’t seem to have a lot of time. I’m going to school full-time, working part-time (like 30 hours a week, mainly on weekends), and then there’s this blog and all the other blogs that I read and other little hobbies…I really don’t know how everyone else keeps up with it.

Now, this isn’t directed at anyone in the WoW community but rather people I know IRL who play WoW. For some reason, those are the people who bug me about it, especially my significant other who has just recently started playing again after about 4 months of WoW burn-out. He’ll play for hours and ding another level practically every day and tells me…every…day. Surprisingly though, due to all the time I spend outside WoW doing WoW-related stuff (like reading all those blogs), I sometimes know more about the game than he does. I sure has heck knew more about gem sockets and flying mounts than he did the other night, and I haven’t even gotten Nicora high enough to experience that stuff. Take that Mr. Level-64-Human-Paladin-who-refuses-to-play-anything-but-his-Human-Paladin.