WoW Journal - Day 14

Day 14 begins with me having no plans whatsoever. But that is the beauty of WoW, you just open your quest journal and you'll find something to do. Using Cosmos I not only get a color code for each quest, but the exact difficulty level. So I start with the lowest level quest in my quest log, to get it done before it turns grey and too easy.

There are two quests there for the southern part of the Barrens, killing razormane quillboars. One to collect three weapons of them, the other to kill their three leaders. I head over to there and kill a lot of them, but I can't find the third leader. I ask for advice in guild chat, and look up the info on the web, but still no luck. Either the guy spawns very slowly, or he gets killed very quickly, being the one closest to the road. But I keep killing the boarmen, until finally I find the third leader. All that killing made me ding 28.

After training I still have some money left. And my first aid skill is at 150 of 150. I know that to enable the secondary skills to pass 150, I need to buy a book somewhere. Turns out this somewhere isn't all that far, Brackenwell Village in the Dustwallow Marsh, close to the southern Barrens. I also learn how to do silk bandages from the first aid trainer in Ogrimmar, but I haven't got all that many silk yet. And guild mates could probably make me silk bags out of it, with 10 slots, so I don't cut it into bandages.

Another quest sends me to Ashenvale. Great, I hope to find some iron there. Well, I find exactly one vein of iron. Plus lots of tin, some silver, and even a gold vein, for which I'm still missing 5 mining skill. The quest is about killing dryads. It takes me some time to realize that in WoW a "dryad" is a female centaur, and not some butterfly type of faerie. Another quest done, and time to go to bed.

At this point I have /played 95 hours. Damn, 50 hours this week, even more than last week. I'm turning into a catass. :) The funny thing is that the census at 8 pm shows that the highest level player online is already level 57. And of the 20 people online from my guild, I'm definitely above average level, but barely into the top quarter. Doesn't really worry me, I don't even want to be the highest level, as then I couldn't group. It just shows how I (job, no children) spend more time playing than the average casual player (job, children), and less time than the really, really serious power gamer (no job, no children).
- posted by Tobold @ 11:59 PM Permanent Link