There's Life, and There's WoW

I have to say that World of Warcraft is one helluva addicting game. I honestly feel like today did not exist as I spent the majority of it sitting on a chair playing an MMORPG on my laptop while my window fan is on high and I'm feeling good. Not really. I did conjure up quite the headache from staring at the computer screen for so long. Then when I went outside to go swimming, bam, the sun. Instant headache. I really need to cut down on the amount of time that I spend on World of Warcraft. The past few days I played for only an hour to two and then I was off for the day, but today I just kept on playing. Maybe the main reason is that it took about two hours just to get ready to run VC (the Deadmines instance) and then when we're about to get to VanCleef, everybody has to go. That was probably a good thing as everybody besides me died at that moment and I only had about 400+ light shots left for my gun. I didn't want to die again (I probably died three to five times while doing VC) so I used my hearthstone, but I forgot to change my inn to the one in Westfall and instead I was teleported all the way to Darkshore.

The only reason I was at Darkshore in the first place is because I was curious about the whole boat transit system. As my friend Kyle is a night elf, he had to use the boats to enter the Eastern Kingdom. I found out that I had to go to Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands. As I'm a bold and daring adventurer who has a knack for getting lost, I soon got lost right inside of the boundary line between the Wetlands and Loch Modan and was almost killed by a high leveled humanoid. I fled back to the entrance to the Wetlands and thought that maybe if I jump off a small cliff one at a time that I may reach the bottom. Bad mistake. It was just one gigantic cliff. Dead. In my ghost form, I had a hard time trying to find my body with the large amount of cliffs, so I gave up and was resurrected by the guardian that appears in the cemetery. Thankfully, the road to the harbor had no mobs around it and I was able to safely enter the harbor and with my friend Carol with me, travel to Darkshore. The original plan was for all of us to travel to Ashenvale, but I stayed at Darkshore overwhelmed with all the exclamation points that pointed out that the NPC had a quest waiting for me. I think after playing for a few hours in Darkshore tonight, that I only got about three or four of those quests done.

Kyle and Carol traveled to Ashenvale to find out that Kyle was too low of a level to do the quests there. We then got the idea to do VC. After a long travel to Westfall, we headed to the former Alliance town of Moonbrook and founded a group to complete VC. But like I stated before, we got far after about an hour or two of doing it, and then the group just broke up. I left at that time to go swimming.

I'm currently level 19 and I'm not sure if my pet, Kappa, leveled yet -- so he's 18 or 19. I can't wait until the both of us are 20. At 20, I can finally wear mail, get some new attacks, and get a large multitude of defense and attack specials for Kappa. I may stay at Darkshore until we're both 20, and then head over to Darnassus to be trained by the class masters, or maybe go back to Redridge Mountain and fly to Stormwind when I reach 20. I would go to Loch Modan and explore the rest of the region that I left unmarked, but after I saw Kyle get killed by three Horde NPCs, I'm staying away.

Even though I now play WoW, I still check up on the Runescape updates every now and then on Runescape Community. I have to say that the updates that were released today look pretty good. I am a bit mad about the 'string all' opinion for fletching as I thought the stringing aspect of the skill was the most challenging part of it, and that's saying something as it's a relatively easy skill if you have the money. I can already see the large amount of 99 fletching capes running around as we speak. Also, I don't like how the crossbows were powered that much. Honestly, the dark bow needed a bigger demand for it as the prices seemed way too low for me. But now when you have these crossbows that are a lot cheaper than the dark bow and are fast and hit high, the demand for the dark bow may lower even more, and then the people with 90+ slayer are going to be pretty ticked off that they worked so hard and received a low payout. They might as well go back to killing abyssal demons, as they are easier to kill with full Guthans than dark beasts. Craig was at my house the day that dark bows came out and he bought one for around six to seven million gp, which seemed more like a scam as ten minutes later people were selling for around five million -- and it seemed pretty stable. Now they're 3.6-4 mil gp. Sure, it's still a lot higher than whips (1.48-1.55 mil) but I can see dark bows being 2-2.5 mil by the end of the summer. Why am I so ticked? It still seems like a good selling price, right? Well, whips, when they first came out, sold for as high as 60 mil, and were extremely high for a while as the demand for them was so dramatic. And then the dark bows come out and they don't even sell for higher than ten million gp (however that's not to say that such a sale wasn't made). And then I look at the price of dragon arrows, and I say, "Well that's good money." However it seems that people are having difficulty even getting them from the dragon implings in the first place. Oh well. I really can't tell if Runescape is getting better or worse. Range is finally getting good improvements which is a plus for me, but then you have this economy where the best melee weapon is almost one million gp and some easy skills are getting even easier. Now I know why Runescape Classic veterans get ticked over Runescape 2 -- the game got easier in the transition and it makes it feel like their hard work in today's world is worth nothing and not respected. The guy who first got 99 fletching in Runescape Classic may be shunned by today, just because "99 fletching is so easy to get". I don't know -- I'm just ranting on now.

I have to make sure of myself that I don't play WoW a lot tomorrow and do other 'practical' matters of life -- like fixing up the blog like I promised to. I also have to do a bit of cleaning, find a place to do community service, read a bit so that my brain doesn't turn into mush, and, of course, catch up on my WoW lore. But today -- today isn't even considered a day to me. And sadly enough, that's how fast summer vacation will fly away.

"Comment That Keyword!"

"what's zezimas real name"

I believe that it's Peter Zezima. How do I know this? Well, Zezima revealed in his exclusive interview that Zezima is his surname (or some other reliable source). And when Zezima got married in-game to his real life engaged woman, Eli, she called him by the name of Peter. So if you put two and two together, you get Peter Zezima.

"some wan scanned my whip in runescape!"

Oh my God! They scanned your whip!? That's horrible!

Oh, of course. It's a typo. Scammed. Well, you have to watch out for those Wans. They have the hidden ability to switch items quickly in the trade screen, and are known to sell whips, as well as dust, for very high prices. Thankfully whips are cheaper now than they were back in the day, and as you can now 'string all', why don't you fletch to make back that lost money? Or if you have no money whatsoever, then you better fish, mine, or woodcut. But when you go back to get your whip the second time, you better watch out for those Wans, because some Wans know their trade better than other Wans.


Have a good one.