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2 wins in the Arena |
I’ve been tweaking some of my other constructed decks with the cards I’ve won, and I can pull a few wins here and there. It’s pretty fun for now!
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Kicked some paladin ass |
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2 wins in the Arena |
I’ve been tweaking some of my other constructed decks with the cards I’ve won, and I can pull a few wins here and there. It’s pretty fun for now!
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Kicked some paladin ass |
The next game on the horizon I’ve got my eye on is Wildstar Online.
It’s probably got game-play very similar to WoW, but it looks like it has a really fun style to it with a lot of humor, which I find very appealing. It’s almost cartoon-like in appearance, which to me is better than trying to go for a very realistic look. Sort of like a Shrek movie with a bit more adult humor.
I’ve applied for a beta invite, but nothing in my inbox yet. I have a few days left on my WoW subscription, but I haven’t really done anything there in a few weeks. I just want something really new and different, and while I’m not sure Wildstar will fulfill that, I’m willing to give it a shot.
In the past, there have been some betas that really turned me off to the games, like Rift and Warhammer. I came to see very quickly that they were just World of Warcaft re-treads with some slight differences. Wildstar could be more of the same, but I see a real hint of fun that the others were lacking.
I’ve been away from Wow for an entire month now, and am not really missing it all that much. There are some stray thoughts now and then, and I’m sure I’ll drift back in at some point, but I’m thinking I might start fresh if I do, with a new character on a new server. If I had people who were doing the same thing and wanted to play together, I’d jump back in at any time, but I don’t care about poking around in Azeroth by myself at this point in time.
It would have been nice if Blizzard could have done smaller, yearly expansions to give us something fresh on a regular basis, as two years is a long time to drag each release out. The patches are okay, but they aren’t enough to keep me going. The end raids are fun, but aren’t the biggest draw for me, and more dailies just doesn’t cut it. I like exploring and leveling, so when I come back, I’ll probably do some of that.
I’ve gone and cancelled my World of Warcraft account again. I’m sure at some point I’ll come back, but this expansion has been a bit frustrating for me. There was a lot to do, no doubt. Pandaria is a beautiful continent with a lot of explore, and full of lore. The route they chose for the end game this time around, with so many reputation grinds before you can buy anything, and all of it through dailies is really tedious, though. I like playing alts, and running all of that again on another toon is just not going to happen. In Cataclysm, I had my army of alts all set up for crafting. I leveled them all up, and then worked on professions, and had a blast using them all together. All of the end game patterns are locked behind the dailies and the reputation grinds now, which is just not as fun for me. I love how they’ve broken down the walls between servers and let more people play together, but it’s just become a big grind, and I don’t feel like doing it anymore.
So, Skulfrak is parked for now. Some day he’ll come back, and maybe put Garrosh in his place.
I still have Diablo 3, and Old Republic is free-to-play, so I may dabble with that here and there. I don’t see that much on the horizon that looks all that exciting, though.
In the gap between WoW‘s Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria expansions, I took some time to indulge in a slight distraction, also from Blizzard – Diablo 3. I have the annual pass for WoW, so it’s not costing me anything to play, and I don’t have to stop playing WoW to do it. I heard complaints of many people experiencing errors and crashes in the early launch days, but my experience has been flawless, with no problems at all.
I got my early access invite to The Old Republic yesterday, and had just enough time to make a few characters. My new main is a Jedi Consular named Olias on the RP server Vrook Lamar. This morning I got him to level 3, taking it nice and slow. For me, I like to absorb all the details and not rush through the first time I play a game, so this should keep me busy for quite some time.
Patch 4.3 has gone live, and the first thing I did was visit the Transmogrification guys to get my gear redone. It turns out I have a lot less things in my bank than I thought I did. All my major toons had some things to improve upon. My main, Skulfrak, had a full set and looks pretty badass.
I spent about an hour doing that. For the rest of 4.3, I’m not going to be killing Deathwing, so no interest there. I have a few new 5-man dungeons to kicked out of for having shitty DPS and not knowing the fights. Other than that, 4.3 doesn’t really give me a whole lot to do, and there are no more patches on the horizon until Mists of Pandaria comes out. I’m sure that won’t be any sooner than six months – probably closer to a year away.
Good thing Star Wars: The Old Replublic head start goes live in 15 days!
The big weekend beta is over now, and I had a blast getting my first experience in The Old Republic. In the last hour, I abandoned my mission (so as not to spoil the story) and headed off-word, making my way to the Republic fleet, and then to Coruscant. It was all very well done, but I only scratched the surface of what’s in the game. Still so much to see!
I don’t any other beta approvals yet, so it’s back to WoW for a few weeks now.