Sunday
Jan212007
Pondering and WOW
Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 11:01PM
Today I have mostly I have been sitting and working on getting better. I have been up since 5am as Rob had to get up in order to get his car to the airport. I decided that I would try and take a nap but that did not work out so I have mooched and burbled about the house for the rest of the day.
I have spent a while playing WOW today. We have the expansion pack for the Burning Crusades. It is quite cool. There are 2 new races, Blood Elves and Drennai. I have had a go at both of them and they are pretty cool.
The Blood elves (Belfs) start off pretty strong and they are good fun to play. They character spec is pretty much a mana vampire. They are on the Horde side of the racial split (so are considered to be the bad guys by most folks along with the Orcs, un-dead and Torens) Each of the races have their own sound and the Belfs are very very British sounding. Your archetypal Hollywood bad guys. They have pretty fancy armor and gear to start with and the new starter quests are interesting enough that it makes it fun to play the character as they go up levels.
The Drennai are kind of cloven hoved sea creatures who are on the Alliance side (who are kinda considered to be good guys). A lot of the guys have been playing the Drennai as they have the shaman role which previously was only on the Horde side of the game. I am not enjoying playing my Drennai hunter at the minute but I think that is because I am not used to the Hunter character and the way you need to play it
Wow is something that we have been playing rather than watching telly or just generally being bored. The big advantage of it is that there is a strong social aspect to the whole thing. While you can play the game in isolation at some stage you need to interact with other folks who are playing in the game. Usually I am a solitary game player. I like to be left in peace and to just work through things myself, so Wow was a challenge for me, but I think I am getting there.
The strange thing is that you can RP (Role Play) or not in the game if you want to and really the level you buy in is up to you. Now don’t get me wrong there are folks on there that will really bug your happiness but that it true of anything that you do I think. The other strange thing is that you learn a whole new etiquette while playing the game, and it is an etiquette that applies regardless of the people you are playing with, because you know nothing about then. Age, gender etc go out the window,
Sure there are folks who get on better and even folks that know each other and play together but on the whole it is pretty inclusive and thats nice. What is also really nice is that there are a number of other husband and wife teams who play together. I think that this really helps with good team work and it means that rather than mindlessly watching the telly together we are actually doing something together which is also relaxing. There are a number of folks that we know who also play the game and the fact that the we can skype up means that you can have a social interaction with folks who are not in the room with you and it is kinda cool.
Well I guess I have rambled enough - it is late and I have to get up early tomorrow to get to work so thats me for the night
Slater
J
I have spent a while playing WOW today. We have the expansion pack for the Burning Crusades. It is quite cool. There are 2 new races, Blood Elves and Drennai. I have had a go at both of them and they are pretty cool.
The Blood elves (Belfs) start off pretty strong and they are good fun to play. They character spec is pretty much a mana vampire. They are on the Horde side of the racial split (so are considered to be the bad guys by most folks along with the Orcs, un-dead and Torens) Each of the races have their own sound and the Belfs are very very British sounding. Your archetypal Hollywood bad guys. They have pretty fancy armor and gear to start with and the new starter quests are interesting enough that it makes it fun to play the character as they go up levels.
The Drennai are kind of cloven hoved sea creatures who are on the Alliance side (who are kinda considered to be good guys). A lot of the guys have been playing the Drennai as they have the shaman role which previously was only on the Horde side of the game. I am not enjoying playing my Drennai hunter at the minute but I think that is because I am not used to the Hunter character and the way you need to play it
Wow is something that we have been playing rather than watching telly or just generally being bored. The big advantage of it is that there is a strong social aspect to the whole thing. While you can play the game in isolation at some stage you need to interact with other folks who are playing in the game. Usually I am a solitary game player. I like to be left in peace and to just work through things myself, so Wow was a challenge for me, but I think I am getting there.
The strange thing is that you can RP (Role Play) or not in the game if you want to and really the level you buy in is up to you. Now don’t get me wrong there are folks on there that will really bug your happiness but that it true of anything that you do I think. The other strange thing is that you learn a whole new etiquette while playing the game, and it is an etiquette that applies regardless of the people you are playing with, because you know nothing about then. Age, gender etc go out the window,
Sure there are folks who get on better and even folks that know each other and play together but on the whole it is pretty inclusive and thats nice. What is also really nice is that there are a number of other husband and wife teams who play together. I think that this really helps with good team work and it means that rather than mindlessly watching the telly together we are actually doing something together which is also relaxing. There are a number of folks that we know who also play the game and the fact that the we can skype up means that you can have a social interaction with folks who are not in the room with you and it is kinda cool.
Well I guess I have rambled enough - it is late and I have to get up early tomorrow to get to work so thats me for the night
Slater
J
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