I remember when World of Warcraft, more commonly known as WoW, first came out.  I resisted the call of my nerdy peers to partake in the MMORPG.  I knew the probability of addiction was too high to risk.  So I avoided it, and justified that I wasn’t willing to pay to own a game, as well as play it.  Then the first expansion came out, the gaming audience grew ever further as word of mouth spread and people go their friends in on the addiction.  Still, I avoided the call.

Then I got a roommate that plays.  It seemed that no matter where I turned there was WoW.  People at work raving over the game, then at home it was the same thing.  I couldn’t get away from the subculture of the WoW gamer.  The temptation grew.

I screwed up by allowing myself to be talked into trying a “free server”.  I assumed that the novelty would wear off quickly, after all how many quests can you really do before you just get bored?  The server was glitchy and problematic so I stepped away for a little while.  The seed had been planted.

A few weeks later I finally folded.  I bought the combined Chest of WoW and the Burning Crusades expansion.  From that fatal moment I became invested.  So I did the refer-a-friend program, linked my account to my roommate’s and am enjoy triple… let that sink in for a moment… yes TRIPLE xp while leveling to 60.  OMFG I’m so hooked.  We play constantly, I’ve learned all the little sub-cultural references and am a bubble-whore priest.  You can search my toon on the WoW armory, level 64 she’s a Holy Specced Priest for Enigma.

For the others out there, wondering is it worth it?  Is it worth the investment of time, money, and social life?  F*ck yes!! Dude I am pwnin the noobs with the uberl33t hax with the wtf omg ftw…. roflmao.

For the Alliance!

Disclaimer:  If you are not familiar with World of Warcraft… you will likely not understand the following article.

Last night I reached my final “ding” in World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King.  The expansion pack drew my interest from the start and kept me playing.  My main character, a Retribution Paladin never dissapointed, I was able to solo 5-6 mobs at a time if I needed to and pvping was a blast. 

I made a smart decision and powerleveled my Mining skill up to 375 after I hit lvl 71, it definitely paid off by allowing me to get my epic flying training by the time I was lvl 79.  Ores/gems sell quite well on the auction house since everyone and his brother is trying to level their new professions. 

Anywho, last night I was fortunate enough to get into a guild raid of Naxxramas, being that this my first trip back to the necropolis since lvl 60 in my “Vanilla” WoW days, I was expecting much of the same… trash that sucks, too much of it, and annoying boss fights.  I was surprised to see a very “dumbed down” version of Naxx this time around.  The fights were the same, but much MUCH easier.  The trash was brain numbingly easy.  Loot was… meh lots of leather and druid gear.   

I did manage to get a nice trinket off of Loatheb, my first piece of lvl 80 gear.  We still have 2 bosses in the DeathKnight wing to kill so that will have to wait till Sunday.

One short comment… it appears we got our FIRST EVER COMMENT! (Outside of ablindmansees who is an author here at The G-Log.  The reader’s name is Jeb, so I’d like to extend a big THANK YOU to Jeb contributing to the site!  ”high five”