Well 3.2 came out today, much earlier than I was anticipating. So let me give you a little update on what’s going on in my world right now.
Really Good At This Game bit the bullet in terms of raiding. So once again I am lacking a solid raiding guild. So what I will not be doing is jumping head first into the Colleseum. Truth be told, I am not sure how my ability to raid is going to pan out.
I recently applied for a new job, one that I am quite excteid for and hoping I get. The only downside is that it would require me to work a couple evenings each week. Given that I always reserve my weekends for spending time with my family, it will make it difficult to actually raid.
The job is the Program Director for the Graphic Design program at a local business college and I am really hoping for it. So if I get it, this very well may be the start of a much more casual Drotara.
On the plus side, 3.2 looks like a fun patch from a general overview. While I am not sure about how much I am going to enjoy the trap changes, overall a lot of fun stuff has been put in the game. My baby Shaman I am leveling with my wife, some real life friends and brothers-in-law is pretty happy he is getting a mount now.
Sometime this week I will know if I get this new job. If I don’t (which would suck) I will be looking for a new home so I can keep raiding.
So that’s where I am at right now. I just figured I should let everyone know since it’s been a bit quiet around here. As for my gold challenge, I am sitting at 37,000 gold now. I blew 1600 of it on a Cenarion Hippogryph for no reason other than to show it to my niece the other night. I need to finish doing the Argent Tournament dailies just so I can buy the improved squire.
If I do start raiding again I will be sure to keep up with recording new videos. If I don’t, I am not sure what I am going to do with the site. It seemed most readers were interested in raid content and a more min/maxing stand point rather than a more casual approach to WoW. So I don’t know if people care to hear about my more casual not-raiding WoW activities.
I’ve been raiding since the first raid group on Deathwing ever stepped foot Onyxia’s Lair. I was in the first group to venture into Molten Core as we became perpetually stuck on trash due to it respawning behind behind us. The only content I have ever missed was the ability to kill Kil’jaeden at the appropriate level. I might have missed Algalon but I feel I have at least completed Ulduar. Although I am still 3 achievements and 1 dward from my 10-man drake.
If I don’t raid at the highest content level when it’s new, I think I would be OK wih that. Not saying I don’t want to, but eventually you do have to move on. We’ll see what happens.
Well that’s it for now. I am downloading the new patch at the moment. Thoughts, comments, opinions about the patch, etc. Post ‘em here.
Drotara (or BehemothDan) considers himself a geek on many levels. A web developer and programmer by trade, he has no shortage of geeky hobbies. Whether it's trying to stay current in World of Warcraft raiding, playing competitively in the WoW TCG, Magic: The Gathering with friends, or a night at the local shop playing DnD, it's all good to him!
same thing happen with me my guild slowed down raiding and a lot of our good players left I was tired of bringing PuGs and wiping on easy stuff so i stopped play and Most people dont know how much fun you can actually have not playing WoW and im not sure what changed form BC to Wotlk but WoW just became the same thing over and over again Move out of the way and DPS
I still enjoy WoW a lot. For the first time in years I have more people playing that I know in real life than I have since vanilla. It just might require a shift in focus. :)
Agree with Dro above. This new game is not what it was once, it simply isn’t and will never be again. He is actually really fortunate to have many RL friends/family to play with at different range levels with different classes, casually. The rewards of endgame raiding are actually rather slim, for the effort and time investment. And you can get close enough in rewards, for very little effort and time commitment. In this case, adapting or abandoning play are perfectly reasonable. I parked my Hunter some time back, since to me at least, it felt like playing with weights and handicaps compared with other alts I played more casually. Currently casually twinking with a Rogue which is now tons of fun. I’ve seen Algalon, not beat (not even close) him. but rather than listen to a bunch of voices on vent, some of which are grotesquely socially maladapted, I’d much rather twink in the 39 level bracket with my GF for and hour or two every other night.
My baby Shaman is 24 with a couple BoA daggers waiting for him once he can dual wield. My very old Alliance Warrior is finally seeing some love, as he is now 71 and a half after sitting in Stormwind for the past . . . oh I dunno . . . couple years now? There is still plenty to keep me busy. :)
Oh man…you’re soooo gonna wreck face if you decide to twink the day you get Windfury …. Right now in the BG (49 bracket) those are the guys I hesitate to run in and kill carelessly. I check their health points to see if I can insta gib them / disarm them. Their burst is sick at that level.
And don’t get me started with the Juggernaut freaks chain-shouting me out of stealth! LOL too bad your warrior is 71, so you’d have to go alllllll the way to top of the line PvP weaponry from where he stands.
The raiding posts are good for informational purposes (love the Kara zombie kiting video) but I find the casual stuff is much more entertaining. But then again I’m a casual kind of person.
I am sure you will be getting a lot of comments from people talking about what they’d like to see from the site, whether encouragement (keep blogging!) or not, however, I just wanted to stop by to say that I understand where you’re coming from as a blogger, you have sort of carved out a niche for yourself as the place to go for raiding hunter info (almost an “antithesis” to my site, as the casual hunter nook… and I don’t mean that in a bragging way o_o)
Anyways, I understand your concern there, and I hope that regardless of what direction you decide to take the blog, you are happy with that decision. *nods*
Well, if you look to move servers, I know our guild could use more hunters, even if you can’t be the most committed raider. We clear most of the content in a timely manner, but not always (got to yogg in 25, but didn’t get him down, and no real hard modes). Ugh, that’s sad to type out.
So I logged in today, poked around my screen for things that looked out of place, and I must say I like what they did with our talent trees. I see you are enjoying them too.
Turns out swapping to and from your second spec will fix the talent point bug. :(
The good news for you is it appears (from the day and a half it’s been live) that casual players will have plenty of things to do. From getting hot lewtz with heroic emblems to doing the new 5 man over and over to farm abyss crystals to the new raid. And don’t forget to save an orphan!
dang, I hope you don’t quit blogging. I’ve enjoyed the raid and min/max stuff, since that’s a part of the game I don’t get to see and you’ve got some really good info packed in there that can be filtered down to a “lower level” player… but I dearly love it when you step back and take a more leisurely look at the game. Those are the rare posts what have me bouncing in my seat, and good God I’d love it if there were more of them!
Good luck with the job! Aside from the raiding impact, sounds like that would be a splendid fit for you, which can be hard to find in the best of economies. Please do let us all know how that comes out?
“So I don’t know if people care to hear about my more casual not-raiding WoW activities.” A comment on this, I’m just browsing around a few hunter blogs and the things I look for in them isn’t necessarily hardcore content, mostly just that the writing style is interesting. So whether you write about Algalon tactics or how to kill the entire of Gnomeregan in one pull, as long as it’s interesting I’m sure you’ll still have plenty of readers ^^
And good luck for the new job :D
Dro,
I hope you get the job it sounds like you want it bad and would be good for you and the family.
Being Casual is not as bad as it seems actually the game can be fun again, I was somewhat hardcore before my kids (vanilla), the game started to feel like my second job while I liked it, I did not notice the that the “purely fun” aspect of the game was gone. It was numbers, stats grinding for gold to pay for raiding.
Just be aware you won’t have every piece of gear you want, because you wan’t make EVERY raid. You can however find a balance of RL and gaming I am competetive with every Hunter I have come across on my server. Not saying I beat everyone but within and acceptable dps range that fight mechanics balance it out. I honestly have never raided with a Hunter of your (and others that post here yes eyes are watching) caliber. You are a rare breed, the fact that you share your journey with us is not that uniqe but the way you present it is. That is why we come here to read, share, learn and laugh with other people that share the passion of being a WoW Hunter.
Whatever you decide know that you have earned my respect and stand behind your decision.
OK lets get this out of the way:
1) Can I have your shit when you quit (I asked first remember that)
2) You can’t quit your addicted like the rest of us.
3) You can’t stop posting because you have not had your first child which we all know is the real wow killer.
P.S. I am a better Hunter for reading your blog that brought so many people together from all spectrums of life but one passion being a WoW Hunter.
Thank you for all the work you put in over the years.
/Salute
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