My Pawtopsy is now level 49. My goal is to hang out for awhile and do lots of battlegrounds in the 40-49 queue until my friends catch up to me. (They’re a variety of levels throughout the 30s and 40s). I have such a blast running flags in WSG and stealthing around in AB, so I’m totally fine hanging out gaining honor and picking up a few upgrades until they’re ready to group with me. I’ve also been leveling up enchanting (again!) and it is now at about 120. Such an expensive profession. *sigh*
The thing is, I’d really like to run some of the 40’s instances with them. I’d like to go participate in Razorfen Downs, SM Cath, Maraudon, and Zul-Farrak with them, but I don’t want to level out of my BG queue! Everquest II has the feature where you can turn off gaining experience, and I would absolutely love if Blizzard would do the same. It is really annoying to me that I can’t help them kill in some of those instances because I’ll gain experience.
I realize that it’s basically for anti-twinking purposes, but for once I’m actually wanting it for a legitimate reason. I just want to group with my friends! Bleh.
We’ve been having a good time though. It’s really nice to be enjoying an MMO again – makes me feel like I’m “in the know” again and able to make commentary on the things I’m doing in game. I’m trying to resist doing a “Daily Journal” series of posting about my game experiences because I’m not sure if anyone would even be interested in that or not. That’s not really ever been my “style”, normally I’ll just play the game like normal and when I have something major to update I’ll talk about it. To the few of you who read/comment on my blog – what do you think? Should I post about my every day gaming experiences in WoW – or just keep it to highlights and abstract ideas that stem from playing?
It seems like everyone is coming out of the woodwork to play with us, which is awesome. MMO experiences really depend on the people you play with. It’s just unfortunate that everyone has to pay $25 if they want to come over and play with us. Just once it would be swell to see server transferring as a built in feature of an MMO, so that you can always play with the people you want to play with. Ah well.
Anyway, give me your thoughts about the daily journal type of thing. If enough of you have an opinion in either way, maybe I’ll listen to it =)
Tami Baribeau is the Associate Producer for Metaplace, Inc, currently working on Island Life. She is also the Lead Editor of feminist gaming blog The Border House, and the National Facebook Games Examiner for Examiner.com. She can be reached on Twitter or by email.
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Hiya Cuppy!
Long-time lurker of blogs here but I rarely comment so here goes.
I definitely see the value of daily journal type posts especially from gamers like yourself who have interesting and often insiteful takes on gaming. For myself, I’ve found that reading the daily exploits of gamers in the games I play or am thinking about playing extremely useful for a few reasons.
First, it helps me decide if I even want to play the game. If the blogger is able to impart a certain amount of excitement about what he or she experiences in the game and its features I will sure as heck what to go see for myself.
Second, it tends to give me ideas about how I would like to go about my own enjoyment of the game. Surely I have my own idiosyncracies when it comes to gaming but anything that could add to that is always a good thing.
Finally, I’ve personlly discovered many hidden and not so hidden hints for improving my game-play through these types of blog posts. Weither its a “this happened so I did this” or “I play this type of character and this general strategy works for my play-style” type of thing.
No doubt I personlly would like to see continued generallized gaming posts but a personal touch of a day-in-the-life-of is extremely entertaining to me and has the added bonus of being practical as well. You also never run out of things to post.
Excuse my limited knowledge on the technical aspects of a blog site, but perhaps you can separate the two types of posts somehow so that if you want to do a daily thing and not everyone feels like delving into that area they can just go right to the other stuff.
Anyways, those are just my thoughts. In either case keep up the great blogging. 0/
So in my humble opinion, the trouble with ‘daily’ journaling is that it raises expectations on both sides. Bloggers feel compelled to post something daily, and readers expect to see something from you daily. Not sure which compels what, kind of a chicken/egg thing, but my point is that leaving your blog how it is now seems like the best course of action. If you post more, people will enjoy it, but not be pre-disposedt panicking if you miss a day. ANd for some reason, I can’t see what I’m typing, the comment window isn’t expanding, so I’ve no idea if I’m making typos. Bye! =P
I find that doing the journal thing made my writing lazy & turned me off the game, which could be just a personal/isolated reaction.
I’d say no to the journal style. It puts me off reading the post when I see it on a blog…you wouldn’t me to stop reading would you?! LOL…
I think that I will post “journal-type” posts frequently, but not commit to doing them every day, and only post them if I have some commentary enough to warrant posting it. Rather then just say “Today I leveled to 50″ and that’s it.
Don’t leave me DM Osbon! =)
No chance…it’ll take more than a few WoW posts to do that!
The “commetary” posts were more along the lines I was speaking about. We readers already have expectations but I for one won’t panic too much. A little anticipation is a good thing and I’ve rarely heard a blogger write (not that I havent seen it) “I’ve got too much to write about!!! Gah, you readers are killing me!! Go to hell with your wacky expectations!” That actually sounds like somethimg I would say, really. Anyway, have fun with the possible, sometimes, hopefully-not-about-fishing-to-375, journal posts Cuppy. I, for one, will certainly not leave if you decide to go bike-riding or visit a friend instead of blogger on some days. Cheers!