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Xal'atath scheming as a dagger that my priest used |
Yes, I am still amused by the fact that my priest in World of Warcraft was using the main villian of the War Within as her weapon in Legion. One time I'm glad I played as a Shadow Priest, even if she is one of my alts.
Before I get back to World of Warcraft, this week's theme is to introduce yourself. I'm not very interested in introducing myself more broadly (and, it's a little disturbing what people could probably find, if they tried; I'm not at all interested in testing AI like Wilhelm or Bhagpuss). For blogging, as I mentioned in my earlier post, this blog started as a way to figure out how I could transition to being a casual MMO player. Over time, it has become two things for me. First, it is a way to keep track of my casual gaming, sometimes MMOs, but often non-MMOs on the PS5, Switch, PC or even on my phone or tablet. Generally these are covered in my 'Check In' posts that I try to do most months, but every once in a while I will include a post about a specific non-MMO that I'm either playing a lot or have finished.
The second thing I enjoy is posting about my MMO experiences. I find the experience of MMOs more story-like and you end up building your own experience which, to me, is more fun to write about than other games. Not necessarily more fun to play, just I find blogging about my MMO experiences fun and therefore I'm much more likely to post regular, maybe weekly posts, while I'm playing an MMO as opposed to the monthly posts about other games. Also, although I enjoy having interactions with other bloggers, this is really for me. Relatively early on it was about the larger blogging community but for most of the life of this blog, probably at least the last 10 years, it's really been about me enjoying writing about my gaming experience and very little beyond that.
Speaking of my gaming experience, I am continuing to alternate between experiencing the new content with my hunter, Kanter, and level an alt, initially Kantro my warrior. My last session saw me finish off the Lorewalker Xal'atath questline on my warrior. The Lorewalker quests can be done for characters as low as level 10, but since I wanted to level my warrior first, I thought I'd play it with him. This was probably a mistake. I only gained about 75% of level from the full questline rested and I think it would have been much more on a lower level alt. However, it was a nice casual experience and I went from it to the War Within introductory questline and the beginning of the campaign quests, gaining another two levels in the process.
Depending on when it happens, I'll likely skip the introductory quests on my next alt but it was last December when I did them and didn't remember everything over the 8 months. Just finishing the introductory quests and the campaign quests up to the first delve was a good couple of hour session and netted me two levels, as I mentioned, plenty fast enough for me. I'm not interested in chain running dungeons or other ways of fast leveling and part of the reason I like having alts is to be able to use the different crafting professions. Doing campaign and side quests gives more opportunity for gathering.
Speaking of which, I need to figure out where my hunter, Kanter, is on his professions for my next session. I also believe I'm about ready to start the Undermine(d) campaign. That'll will probably be next time.