Taking it easy



I’m not in a good zone lately, both in WoW and in life. It seems I just can’t get rid or solve all the prob­lems I’m fac­ing and that makes me feel really down.

What is hap­pen­ing in WoW

The right answer would be noth­ing. Wrath of the Lich King is going to come out by the end of the year. That brings up sev­eral issues:

• all raid­ing has stopped;
• PvP is scarce and stupid;
• peo­ple pre­fer to level alts, max out their pro­fes­sions or make gold before the expan­sion (I’m one of them);

WoW, in it’s cur­rent state, is bor­ing. I have absolutely noth­ing to do. Or, to put it in bet­ter words, noth­ing really appeals me.

I am often asked to tank daily hero­ics, do Kara runs or just do some instance. I refuse on the spot. I just can’t bring myself to do any of those. I don’t know why, I just can’t. I’m sure that if I would just do it, I wouldn’t find it that bad and might actu­ally enjoy it. But I feel worn out and all that WoW has to offer at the moment is.. well, boredom.

I find myself log my bank char, do a full scan of the AH, log my Shad­ow­priest, do the daily PvP, log my Pal­adin, do the daily Fish­ing quest and then hang around a main City, wait­ing and watch­ing Trade Chat for poten­tial JC/Enchanting oppor­tu­ni­ties. In all this time, I chat with my friends (which is the only good part of WoW for the time being) and fish.

Yes, I decided to max out my Fish­ing before the expan­sion. Don’t ask me why. I find it relax­ing to just stand there, watch­ing the lure, catch­ing the occa­sional fish, mind­ing my own busi­ness and think­ing of my prob­lems and the times ahead. Yeah, good stuff. Besides, sell­ing Golden Fish Sticks for 40g a stack is good money.

But as I was say­ing, things in WoW are really grim.

I left Unseen and I’m now unguilded. Raid­ing has been off for the last 2–3 months because of the sum­mer, most of the good peo­ple left for the guilds that still raid. We couldn’t even do a weekly Karazhan run. This, together with some issues I had with some mem­bers (no big drama here, just some dif­fer­ences in per­spec­tives) led to my deci­sion to leave. All my friends with whom I trans­ferred from Karazhan also did. So that’s 7 good play­ers (2 tanks, 3 heal­ers and 2 mages).

That’s enough to start a WotLK guild, isn’t it? And we’re gonna do exactly that, together with some other friends who also trans­fered from Karazhan and who chose to PvP/not to be in Unseen. 10 peo­ple, that’s all you need to have fun in WotLK. And I hardly can wait for it.

Right now, we’re at the step of choos­ing a guild name. As Unvin­ci­ble put it: “I don’t want to be in a guild with “mon­key” in it and do the server-first Arthas 10-man kill”. And he’s right.

Oh, by the way, I respeced Holy. Yeah, I did. In a moment of bore­dom, I was look­ing at my heal­ing gear, which is a mix of Heroics/Karazhan/ZA/SSC drops that no one wanted and I got for off­spec. Noth­ing really fancy, but it got me to 1600 heal­ing in Pro­tec­tion spec. So I respeced and gave heal­ing a go. Until now, I’ve healed nor­mal Mecha­nar and SL with­out much trou­ble. Only prob­lem was mak­ing room for the new skills on my already crowded UI. But I man­aged some­how. It is skills I lack, I real­ize that. Meh, those you gain in time, right?

But I found heal­ing to be (yes, you guessed it) bor­ing. All I did was spam-click-heal Flash of Light on my Heal­Bot, with the occa­sional Holy Shock on the mobs or on the party mem­bers. If that’s high-end Pal­adin heal­ing also, it sucks balls.

I’m not going to stick with Holy. I plan to level Pro­tec­tion in WotLK. I was giv­ing a quick skim on the tal­ents and they look nice. True, there is still much debate over some of them and the posi­tion in the tree, but over­all, things are look­ing OK for Pro­tec­tion Pal­adins. I’ve even came up with some builds to try out but, as I already said, I’m not going to blog about Wrath of the Lich King.

Blog­ging

Ah, I love to blog. I have sev­eral blogs, in 2 dif­fer­ent lan­guages, not only related to World of War­craft. Other blogs bring me money. This one brings me sat­is­fac­tion. It’s the only blog in which I can be cre­ative and just write, instead of wor­ry­ing about key­word stuff­ing, rel­e­vant back­links or title optimizations.

I removed all Google Adsense adds from the site. There are sev­eral rea­sons why I did it:

1. the adds that we’re served are not rel­e­vant to the content;
2. gold sell­ing adds are just too many and there is no cur­rent way to stop them all;

I have tried sev­eral other add pro­grams, includ­ing Pro­ject­won­der­ful or Adroll. Sadly, they do not work for me because of my low traf­fic (3k/month vis­i­tors is really low).

So I’m left with refer­ral pro­grams. Although they don’t con­vert really good, I’m happy with them. If I sell 2–3 packages/year, at least I’ll cover my host­ing expenses. And I’m fine with that.

But let’s leave the com­mer­cial aspect of my blog and let us get on to the design. I’m pretty sat­is­fied with it, pro­vided it’s a rather old theme and I had to tweek it a bit. But see­ing as Word­press 2.7 is sched­uled in Novem­ber, I might want to change to a newer and sleeker one. I’ve been on the look­out and I’m mon­i­tor­ing sev­eral themes which I found to be inter­est­ing. I guess I’ll just wait and see how things progress fur­ther. But one thing is for sure: after I saw what a great job Tuna did with his new design, I’ll change mine also.

I’m not a good writer and I don’t think I’ll ever be, even tho I really enjoy it. I’m bad at putting my thoughts in an arti­cle prob­a­bly because I’m a very dis­or­ga­nized per­son in RL (work­ing on that) and because Eng­lish is not my first language.

I’m not a good WoW blog­ger. There are many many more way bet­ter than me and want to thank them for inspir­ing me.

I’ve been part of the Blog Aze­roth com­mu­nity since Jan­u­ary, but never really con­tributed much. Even tho I wanted to, I never got to actu­ally doing it. And that’s a bit lame, I know, because there are some great peo­ple there and it’s a very use­ful place for WoW blog­gers. From time to time I visit and get updated on the lat­est stuff, but meh, I feel that that’s just not enough.

Life

Life is what hap­pens to you when you’re not too busy play­ing WoW. Yes, there is such a thing.

Life has it’s up’s and down’s and right now I’m mid level to hit­ting bot­tom. I have trou­ble at school (failed a cou­ple of examns because I was too lazy to study and I’m just enter­ing my last year at Uni­ver­sity), I want to find my own place to live (and the rents are just so damn expen­sive!) and prob­lems just pilled up and broke at the same time, now. Which sucks. But you know, time heals all so i just gotta keep my head up and face what­ever.

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2 Responses to “Taking it easy”

1. Kestrel says:

   08/09/2008 at 18:11

   Regard­ing life: You’re not even close to bot­tom; it just feels that way. Believe me, I’ve been exactly in your shoes. Unfor­tu­nately, you don’t yet have the per­spec­tive of age. The pic­ture you see is actu­ally just a snip­pet, and that part of the pic­ture may appear bleak. But once you see the larger can­vas, what you’re look­ing at now will only be a small shadow, put there by the artist to bring life to the larger scene.

   Hang in there, and I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing the redesign of the blog!

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2. Tepisor says:

   09/09/2008 at 13:29

   Yeah, I know what you’re talk­ing about. Just that when your young you want so many things, and you want them now, not later. And then you’re slapped in the face by real­ity. And it hurts.

   I just have to get used to it I guess

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