Hello Old Friend
Warhammer has been an interesting experience. I have two views right now, the first being the game at launch and the second view seems to be in a pre patch lul the game is experiencing now.
When I initially re-signed up there were quite a few changes. The game has gone through 2 patches (Currently at 1.2) and some server merges. I logged in and discovered that many of my characters where named with with Xs after them, for example Squirrelxx and justdoitx. I believe that Xs where added after a server merge and showed that the server had had characters with those names.
My 15 Disciple of Khaine and 15 Zealot as well as a small number of alts were all on a server called vortex. I dove right in and figured the server changes wouldn’t really affect my game play.
I was wrong.
I played my DoK From 15 to 17 without so much as seeing another soul at a Public Quest and was able to join 1 to 2 scenarios at most. Discouraged by the lack of players of my level on the server I hit up some Warhammer sites to try to find a better one. The Warhammer Alliance Forum was a site I remember from before the game was even released and was still popular upon release due to Warhammer Online choosing not to release any official forums. It is still a pretty good source of information and only contains a fraction of the whining that the official servers have.
Quite a few of the informative posters seemed to be from Dark Crag so i gave it a shot despite it being Open RvR. I’ve rolled a Black Orc named Choppastompa and I’ve been having some fun there. There are quite a few players leveling there and the ORVR isn’t really as bitter/backbiting/grief ridden as wow was. Its mostly live and let live.
My Black Orc is now 13 and I’ll continue to push forward to reach a level where i can do some mass RvR, which is what led me to the game in the first place.
Drifting
Well I’m a little lost at the moment. I have a tendancy to over do things and I repeated the old mistakes that burned me out in the burning crusade.
A month ago it ocurred to me after 3 hours of whipes on heroic mimiron that I wasn’t having fun any more and that I hadn’t had any for a few weeks. Ulduar is not a fix for what I was feeling and I think I just needed a break from the same old, same old.
I’ve finally started back up gaming again last week, a buddy picked me up a copy of fallout 3. Its interesting playing an rpg that isn’t an mmo. I can just go through it and enjoy the quests and enviroment. The story line is super engaging and the biggest thing i’ve noticed is its about constant content.
Wow was very focused on the endgame, you needed to get to max level then started your grind with gear, rep and guildies. Leveling is enjoyable and frankly I’d forgotten what it was like.
I believe another issue that burned me out was keeping up with the joneses. I always felt a need to keep up with my guildies and to keep measuring my progress by the most hardcore people I knew. In Fallout 3 there is no one else to compare myself to, I play when I want and can really play a game on my terms (Which is how it was meant to be I suppose).
I’m still playing Fallout 3 but i’ve also picked up Atlantica and have even resubbed to Warhammer online to see how they have improved the game. Tobald keeps talking about Luminary so I might add that to my plate as well.
It should be interesting to see how it all turns out.