In an effort to get more out of our WoW experience, Louisa and I have been attempting to earn as many Achievements as possible. In particular, lately, we’ve been trying to go back and 2-man all of the Burning Crusade Instances that we never got to play (all of them).
It’s been a lot of fun, running through and seeing all these instances, and then getting an achievement at the end. We’ve done Mana-Tombs, Auchenai Crypts, Mechanar, Botanica, and Shattered Halls, successfully, all within the last week. I don’t have too many ‘normal’ instances to run in Outland before getting the Outland Dungeonmaster Achievement.
Our biggest hurtle thus far has been Magister’s Terrace. We did fine up to the second boss, Vexallus, but his crazy debuff kept killing us before we could drop him. We might go back and try again later, I have an idea on how we can sacrifice our pets to the debuff, so that we can stay alive long enough to take him down…
It’s been tons of fun. Even though the Achievement points are apparently not going to be used for anything, I like trying to get as many done as possible. Since Louisa and I have seen almost all of the Wrath content we’re ever going to see (until we come back at level 90), and I can’t stand the repetitive nature of Daily Quests and Rep-grinding, I’m still able to get plenty of enjoyability out of this game.
I’m dreading the day when I truly run out of things to do, or get bogged down by repeating content, or grinding, or something, and I can no longer find enjoyment out of the game… sure, there are other games out there, but none have the balance of fun + level of depth that makes WoW so great for me. I do feel that dreaded abyss lurking nearby, though… just yesterday, I was playing on my Druid, still trying to level her up and get her Enchanting up, but I was supposed to work on some Honor Hold quests – I logged in, killed one mob for the quest, took a look around at the red, barren landscape, and thought to myself: I don’t really want to do this again… and logged out.
I’m not sure how much longer I can combat this approaching doom – hopefully for many more years, and through many more expansions, but I’m not sure. Yes, there are many things that I could do – I’ve still never played a Horde character past level 20, and there are plenty of characters/race/class combinations I haven’t tried out yet, but I never feel like those alts are going anywhere…
Plus, there’s tons of Raid content that I have resigned to never being able to see. The upcoming Ulduar Raid instance sounds amazing, and the rewards so far have me drooling, but I know where I stand in the possiblity of ever being in a real Raid. Kharazan was a Fluke – I would never have gone if it wasn’t for the special event, and I was able to make it into the Vault of Archavon after my first (and only) Wintergrasp match… I contemplate joining a guild in order to see some of this content, but I’m afraid that it will turn out like all the other guilds I’ve been in before – Everyone is already too far beyond my level of gear/expertise, and no one wants to help me catch up – when they do have something I can run, I either can’t make it due to Real Life, or I can’t stay online for as long as they want me to… etc, etc.
No, I think for right now I’m going to stick it out alone – or at least with my favorite Death Knight at my side, working our way through content that is new to us, but to everyone else is old and stale and boring.
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I personally can’t imagine what it would be like to try and play WoW without a good, solid guild. Then again, I’m a casual raider, logging about 6-8 hours of raiding on Fri/Sat nights combined, and perhaps another 8 hours of raiding throughout the week. Without a guild, that’d be about 16 hours a week of WoW gameplay that I couldn’t take part in.
My current guild is great…the 80s who are undergeared are scheduled into non-progression raids so they can get geared, while the 80s who are geared well enough take part in the big progression events (last week’s was Sartharion 10-man with 1 drake up). They even took me on the OS1D experience, though I was slightly undergeared at the time, and that was a level of excitement that regular 10-man OS pales in comparison to.
Raiding is awesome. You should really give a try sometime.