Ok, I know blogging about WoW is kinda geeky, but I needed to write something today.
So a whole bunch of us just rerolled on a US pvp server, Magtheridon to be exact. Now this wasn’t your average reroll, no. We went over to the Horde side. Gasp. Horror. It’s actually pretty good playing the other side, you get to hear their story and Horde do seem to win more battlegrounds… Which had nothing to do with our decision to roll Horde.
So it’s 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning, and Rhys had just called and woken me up from my sleep in. By the time we had finished talking I didn’t feel like sleeping anymore, so since everyone else is either at church or still sleeping, I decide to hop onto WoW. I’m sure most people would agree with me when I say that solo questing is boring, even when you have people to talk to on Vent. After reaching 29 on my belf mage, and finding that no one else from the guild was on, I decided to do Arathi Basin.
Now my troubles began when I got past the loading screen and I appear in the starting area, and my first thought was, “This isn’t Arathi Basin…” Did I accidentally queue for a different BG? Was I the victim of a microsleep where I had teleported to a whole new zone that I had never been to before? Happily neither of those things were true, and the reason that I was so confused was that the view from the Horde starting area looks over the Farm, which is pretty, but looks very different from the Stables.
Another incident that gave me +rep with Silly occurred about halfway through the game. Both sides were on about 1200 points, and I’m sitting at the Gold Mine with a priest and a hunter, when I check the little icons at the top of the screen that indicate how many points either side has. Happily for us, four of those nodes belonged to us. Unfortunately it turned out that I was looking at the Alliance points, and we were in fact losing the BG.
Hopefully the reroll jetlag wears off soon, so that I can actually function in BG’s.
I do have a redeeming story though. In a Warsong Gulch game later on, I managed to capture the flag all three times, with the help of Adam as healer, without whom I would have ended up as a squishy smear on the bottom of a raptor’s foot. Damn hunters.
So now I’m faced with a dilemma, level or do BG’s at 29? Life’s full of tough choices.
