61 At Last

Posted by Stropp on December 27, 2007

It’s been almost a year since I bought the Burning Crusade expansion pack, and I just dinged 61.

That must be the record for the longest time taken to get from 60 to 61. There was that French dude who, with the help of his guild and I expect a reasonable amount of stimulants, made 70 in under a day. Now there is the slowest time to 61… by yours truely.

In retrospect it was unfortunate that I burned out on World of Warcraft shortly after The Burning Crusade was released. I was looking forward to exploring the new content. But it arrived in the midst of guild drama, a period where everybody was just waiting on the expansion, and noone wanted to really do anything. In a lot of ways, that affected my gaming experience through much of the year, to the point I didn’t enjoy some great games like LotRO as much as I could have.

I’m approaching WoW differently this time. I’m feeling a lot more casual about it. While I’d like to see all the content, I doubt I’ll do so. I have absolutely no desire to get on the raid-a-go-round and hammer the same instances over and over again just to gear up so that I can do the same process in higher level instances. That pretty much counts out seeing that content.

There are plenty of quests on Hellfire Peninsula to get through. I’ve ground through quite a few to get to 61, but there’s a lot more to do. They’re well set out for the most part and I’m enjoying working through them. Previously, I barely read the quest text. I just read enough to figure out what to do, and then I’d do it. This time around I’m looking at the story behind the quests. It’s a lot more fun doing it that way.

As I wrote a week or so ago, I’ve respecced as Beastmaster. I never really spent a lot of time looking at that tree before, as I was more concerned with the Marksman and Survival trees. So, I’ve got a job ahead figuring out what to put my points in.

I’ve also started to pick up a bunch of new green armor pieces. Some of the stats on these pieces blow away the stats on my old blue armor, but not all the new pieces are tougher than the old with a higher armor rating. Even with better stats, I’m not that keen to dump armor with a higher armor rating for a piece with a lower armor rating. I figure it’s still early, so I should find some good pieces in the next couple of levels.

Now, if all goes well, I should make 62 in much less than a year.

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