Lo-Quality WoW

This was a very odd weekend for me. Just couldn’t get into a raid that went anywhere. Well, I did get into one as my hunter, which I’ll talk about in the hunter specific post, but that was it. I also played a bit more than I usually do for a weekend. But since I just couldn’t get into something interesting, I ended up playing a lot of my alts. It was very interesting since I haven’t played some of them seriously for a while and they’ve changed. So probably through this week I’ll be writing class specific posts for a lot of my lower-level alts, to just give my impressions.

As usual, I’m not an expert so don’t expect any amazing revelations from me in my observations. Heck, my main is a hunter and I know I’m not an expert at playing that class. But I’ve yet to really touch my other classes other than my top four, so I guess branching out will be a bit different.

So, in addition to getting used to just the different abilities and playing styles, I also had the fun of trying to remember how to do some of the lower level quests. I had to download and activate the QuestHelper add-on to help me out. It’s not perfect but it does cut down on the time looking for where a particular mob is supposed to be or making sense of the sometimes confusing quest text information. And I don’t have to be constantly going to my work laptop to look up a quest.

But why need it at all? Let’s take my hunter for example. My hunter, according to his statistics, has completed 4,657 quests. He’s also abandoned 192 other quests. Some quests I never did because they were too hard or too annoying or some other reason. And I know that my warrior has done several quests that my hunter never did. Either I didn’t find it with my hunter, or didn’t complete the quest chain, or again some other odd reason. And that’s not including the class-specific quests you do, some more involved than others.

Now when my warrior was coming up, I would often get a quest, think I remember where to go for it and then spend an hour either in the wrong area or farming the wrong mobs. I don’t have the sharpest memory nor the longest of attention spans in order to focus on getting these low level quests completed correctly. With my hunter, it was all new and I was totally fine with spending hours on end exploring new areas or figuring out stuff. With my lower level alts, it’s more about learning the different style of play and getting used to the abilities of that class that I don’t want to have to focus on the quest as much.

I’m also a bit annoyed with the 3.2 patch data. They seem to be handing it out piecemeal this time, a few hundred MBs here, a few there. Which I could normally live with except that each and every time I log off, my patch updater kicks off and tries downloading more data and it doesn’t know enough to go “oh that’s it” and stop. Very annoying.

And since this is my general post, I think I’ll mention the fact that I spent the weekend also watching “The Guild”. I’ve heard of it before but I hadn’t downloaded the episode to watch until this weekend. I do recommend that any WoW player watch it. You know at least one player like one of the characters on there. And if you don’t, either you have been unusually fortunate in your online gaming or you just haven’t gamed enough.

So I guess I’ll get into the class specific posts before I start forgetting stuff. Or getting confused. Or just lose interesting in posting.