After yesterday’s totally important post, we are going right back to my regular nonsense. I am still playing an excessive amount of World of Warcraft and I am still very much finding it relaxing. At this point currently I am working on an Undead Death Knight and have just started on Frostfire Ridge in the Warlords of Draenor content. I mean I realize that Death Knights get a bit of a boost, but it feels like I am moving slowly because I opted to do Howling Fjord instead of Borean Tundra. While I like the look and feel of the Fjord so much better, I gotta say across the board Borean Tundra is just a better built zone. The objectives are more tightly clumped and there is way less travel time between them. The amount of time I spent flying halfway across the zone in Howling Fjord was significant.
I am somewhat obsessed with leveling an army of Horde characters while this buff is active. One important note is that at the beginning of this process I had two characters sitting at 120, my Warrior and my Demon Hunter both of which were leveled during the early days of Battle for Azeroth. Now you can see I have a pretty formidable stable with effectively five classes missing… Death Knight and Monk that I have already made progress on and then Priest, Shaman and Rogue which are not exactly favorites of mine. For the sake of transparency I should state once again that I spent my boost on the Mage since that is my least favorite class to play, and it also serves as a handy bank alt given its teleportation properties and ability to rapidly deliver stuff to friend characters.
I am of course the consummate adult while going through the leveling process. This time I decided to write a word instead of just drawing a penis with my trail of gunpowder. Sadly it mostly translates as “Euck” but oh well an effort was made. I have been informed that this is client side only, so while I didn’t do this sort of nonsense when Warlords was relevant, I absolutely do now knowing it harms no one. I have to say, as much as I generally did not enjoy Warlords, it is a way better feeling expansion if you are playing the Horde. Additionally that intro sequence while frustrating because it is unskippable, is pretty freaking epic feeling. I feel it is some of the best crafted content in all of World of Warcraft, because it feels like you are playing through a movie for awhile. I’ve always loved the Borderlands style title cards introducing each of the Villains as you encounter them.
In other news I finished the process of unlocking Kul Tirrans on the Alliance side and I now have a potbellied Druid. I don’t love the Alliance content, not in the same way as I did the Zandalari content… but it is equally competent. The funny thing about Kul Tirrans, especially seeing mine… is that they just remind me of the Norn from Guild Wars. I have no interest in leveling another Druid right now, but I mostly chose it for class because it has freaking amazing shape shifted forms. I dig the whole Drust thing, but I am also a huge fan of my Worgen Druid so it would be real hard for me to pass up being a Werewolf. If they had Paladin as an option I would probably consider race changing Exeter over to a Kul Tirran, but alas that is not a thing. Mostly I am just happy to have this done because this was the last thing that I absolutely had to be playing Alliance to complete. I can finish out the rest of the requirements for the Mechagnomes from my horde characters.
The above shot is just something I am posting because I thought it was really cool. I am not exactly sure where I was flying from, but I was headed over to the Dark Portal and this vignette in the distance just looked really cool. Sadly I never could time my screenshot for when one of the lightning flashes happened. There are times when this game still looks really pretty even though the engine at times feels a little dated. The world really is massive at this point, and while we spend most our time zipping around in portals… it is occasionally nice to manually fly over top of it to see vistas like this one.