Two days ago I received an email with the subject line of, “Kristine – Celebrate World of Warcraft’s 5th Anniversary with 7 Days of Game Time.” Basically meaning, they’ve given me seven free days to poke at my account.
Not wanting to go through the patch process off my discs, I opted to download this time since my theory was, “more up to date and faster”. Took about three and a half hours, so not sure how sound my theory was, regardless… I log in and glance at my characters for the first time in nearly a year and I’m clueless. Spent another three hours trying to configure my UI back to what I used to have. Had saved my old directory, but back around May, I transferred everything off the original HD, since it was dying, and I knew some files/folders didn’t make it over… seems nearly all of my old Add Ons folder got hit. So trying to remember what addons I used to use has been a struggle.
Being as clueless as I am, and really uncertain of how many changes have taken place (since I believe it’s been two major patches this year, and there were quite a few hunter changes)… I’ve been using Winona only as a powerleveler for Virelai, my druid. So far I have leveled her from 54 to 57. One big change as far as Timbermaw goes, is I hit honored with them within two hours. I remember farming that rep for over eight hours on Edle. 20 rep per kill on a normal, 40 or 60 on the named ones. Just… insane.
Virtually everyone I knew on my server is now either transferred to another, or quit. The amount of effort it’d take to transfer yet again, probably faction change, and meet new people is a major discouragement. My motivation to keep playing is beyond minimal… so right now, I’m just taking it as a nice week to poke at patch changes and nothing more.
Besides, I’m very much preoccupied by hobbits and elves~ 
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WOW has changed a lot recently and I feel like it is hardly the Pre BC WOW I use to enjoy.
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Kris Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 3:14 am
That’s a fairly true statement of any game once they pass a certain age or someone’s been playing it for so many years. My personal reason typically stems from the game(s) losing the “new” charm in exploring zones for the first time, going through levels the first time, and just simply learning how all the mechanics work. Once that’s gone, a lot of my motivation diminishes and all I’m doing is going through the motions waiting till I reach the level cap.
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