OK, here we go...

It is August 30th 2016.
It is time for a new expansion in WoW.
I spent money.
Heh.


Some years ago I lined up to buy the expansion at midnight, the night it was released. Queueing up in a mall with other nerds to get a long awaited copy of the next great thing... those were the days! :-D
http://teapotsbrewing.blogspot.se/2007/01/burning-crusade.html
(http://teapotsbrewing.blogspot.se/search?q=expansion)

Introduced oldest son to WoW. It is good.

Screenshot of when we accepted a transportation quest so precisely the same time that our griffins were merged to a tandem ride. :-D

I was

I was going to write something bitter and/or insightful here regarding separation and the process of forcefully moving someone out of my life.

But I played Warcraft instead.

Haa haa DING!

I cheated.
When purchasing the new expansion to World of Warcraft "Warlords of Draenor" you also get a one character level 90 boost.

I didn't get that for my main character (priest), I had a sudden urge to keep her "raw" simply to be able to say I levelled her on my own. :-) But my very first character - warrior stuck at level 70, she deserved a boost I figure. :-) I'll have to have a test run now.

THEN go do some work.
8-)

Oh yes

 It was worth it. :-) Three wins in Hearthstone rewarded all my characters in WoW this mighty fine stead. :-)

New game all because of old game

What don't you do for a cool new ride? :-) Learn a new game? Heck yeah.

Ding 82

Underwater mount - seahorse!

Dinged level 82 with Glömsk yesterday.

Picked up the game the day before yesterday, after a four month break. Ended up playing "aquatic" quests, I have really always had a soft spot for the under water world gifted to me by Blizzard. I remember the first time swimming and diving (and dying a lot) in the game, too thrilled to keep track of the airsupply... :-D

Easier now, when the character earns/is given an ability to "breathe" under water by the initial quest giver of the area. :-)

Ding 81

Oh my, Glömsk dinged 81 yesterday and I didn't even have to use both hands to do it. 8-)
I reckon it's nice to finally progress the character, experience wise. But Blizzard's made it almost (ALMOST I say) too easy.

I'm really enjoying the peace and quiet offered by sleeping children, almost too much, time to go catch some z's myself now. Hoping for more gaming time tomorrow! :-)

First char

Oldest son created his first World of Warcraft character the other day. Entirely his creation - "mum, I want to be one of those skeleton dudes", perhaps I should worry about his choice of words there "I want to be.."? 8-)

Initially he wanted to make it a warlock but since that meant he would be wearing a skirt and thus not displaying his skeletal legs he changed his mind and made it a warrior instead. :-D I'm thankful for that since warlocks are the only class I've never played to any level that counts.

I'm quite convinced we won't be playing much with this character since he is many years too young to play WoW still. But we had fun for the better part of an hour just creating the character and walking around finishing the first five or so quests (it was total team work - oldest son did the jumping, youngest son pressed 2 or 3 as required when questing, I did the navigation and reading). 8-)

So it has begun

Expansion

I nearly didn't do it - thinking that with the new baby my game-time would dwindle further. But hey, I can't just not do it. I've stuck with it since the beginning, got to keep it around for a bit longer... :-)

New Pandaren char, fresh out of the creation menu.

Ding 79

Golly, that just happened (Glömsk dinging). Didn't expect to get back into the game enough to actually level, but I did. I did and I still managed to get slightly tanned this summer, not bad! :-D

In game companion

I definitely think WoW has taken on a softer approach, a new line of users who require softer, more life-like in game stuff... (unlike the in-game companions I carry - a skull made of smoke, a skeleton baby dragon with blue fire, a spider etc etc). :-D

Never the less, this one was kind of cute anyway. :-)

"Perky pug"

Wowhead link.

Well hello there

Suddenly felt like playing World of Warcraft again, imagine that. :-) Only just over 21 GB to download in order to play, thankfully the download was ready yesterday - all I needed to do today was revive my subscription.

Somehow Star Wars the Old Republic haven't managed to capture me. Though I have a feeling I will continue to subscribe to it because it has, by far, the coolest soundscape and story line of the two.

Perhaps they'll complete my gaming experience, the two of them? What more do you need? World of Tanks? :-D

Ding 77!

Surprised myself by dinging level 77 with undead priest Glömsk. :-)

To compare with "Total time played: 31 days, 10 hours, 51 minutes, 21 seconds" to level 70 with undead warrior Teéhe... The game has gotten easier and easier for each expansion, not at all implying that it's less good. Only that the game designers at Blizzard have learned what works and what the players like. :-)

Ding 20!

Now it's time to have a bite to eat and then shower, got to spruce up a bit to go pick up the boys at kindergarden. No fever today, voice is almost back to normal (a tad husky and nasal). Work awaits tomorrow.

Ding 19!

Time flies when you're having fun (thank god for that). :-)

Ding 18!

Rolled a new character in December, just after the previous expansion (Cataclysm). Wiwiane is a fearsome goblin warrior and I enjoy the simplicity of play-style the warrior class offers on the early levels. Although, looking at how much time I've spent on this character since it was rolled I can't claim any benefits from earlier experience - it having taken almost as many hours as levels to get here... X-)

But I truly enjoyed the initial storyline where you are introduced to how the goblins chose side and started fighting the good fight together with the rest of the Horde. A lot of action and adventure, many so-called 'world events'. T even played with me during a few more peaceful events (training as a miner, going on collect-quests and exploration tours). He liked the fact that it looked just like "Alcúdia" and wanted to play more. :-D

While I was at it (rolling new characters) I had to try out the new Alliance race as well - a worgen. So I rolled a worgen hunter Rweena and her first pet naturally had to be called Rwarr. You get a lot for free nowadays when rolling new characters. Back in the days you had to level many levels before you could train a pet to hunt with you and you had to level a painful amount of levels to get a mount... :-) The worgen got her pet from the start and don't even need a mount (will just learn the ability to run real fast on her own worgen legs). Mounts are available from level 20 now instead of level 40 like earlier, a lot of running around spared there.

All you need to know about World of Warcraft - beginners brief.

Bad combination

Woollen jumper with an oversized collar + WoW incident leading to character's death + large cup of tea = dead character + soaking wet (hot) collar + fast exit from chair + laundry.

I leaned forward in excitement and thoroughly soaked the collar of the knitted jumper. Great. Didn't discover it until I sat up and felt a very warm/wet sensation from the area of where the collar was...
Fortunately the jumper is brown and I hadn't poured any milk into my tea yet.

Ding 75!

Glömsk and I celebrate by flying to the nearest capital and do some training.
It is no longer necessary to portal all the way back to the now completely changed old orchish capital Orgrimmar. A lot of interesting new things are going on over there so I'm tempted to roll a new character to have a taste. But the expansion is due next week (three days) so I suppose I can wait for then when the new races will be available. On the other hand, mother in law is visiting then so it'll have to wait, after Christmas is a more likely time to upgrade and go exploring. :-D

Joy!

Wee! I just found five new episodes of The Guild. :-D And Blizzard released a nice new patch for World of Warcraft last Wednesday that made life SO easy in-game.