Posts tagged world of warcraft

Picked up a load of quests, delivered some meat, destroyed a fire altar with a stone and ran all the way to Thunderbluff from The Crossroads to see if the trainer there could get my staff skill about sixty. Which they couldn’t. Still, it was a nice run and I only killed once by loading pauses.

Well, last started off with all everything bad about WoW in one handy ten-minute package. After the queue the game wouldn’t load properly. Everyone was an ‘unknown entity’, I couldn’t see my own chat in the chat window, my character never appeared. The usual, basically. So I wiped all the cache files and that sorted it out. I was in an orc settlement in the depths of the woods, so I ran around for five minutes trying to find the person in charge of public transport. Eventually ran into her and flew back to The Crossroads. I’m level twenty right now, so decided to try the Stonetalon Mountains for a bit of fighin’ and questin’. Walked to them and had been over the border in contested territory for about twelve seconds when a high level human bastard killed me in a couple of hits. Which was followed by possibly the longest corpse run of my life.

So, there I was, wondering why the hell I ever liked this game. But, you know, the graphics are lovely and everything’s full of personality and I have a pet spider called Donkey. There’s all that. And because I was in contested territory I really like I was adventuring, it was tense and I crept around near, but not on, the path, trying to remain hidden from view as best as possible. It reminded me why PvP servers are best.

Then my old friend Gerplex ran across the world to find me, so we stood in the forest and chatted and emoted for a few minutes.

I continued on into the depths of the mountains and found the loggers I needed to kill. So I did. Fifteen of them, slaughtered. I ran back to the person who’d given me the quest, got my XP and logged off because it was time for Animal Crossing.

Better than FFXI? Yes.

Last night I got homesick and decided to just turn on WoW and have a potter about before my sub ran out.

So I booted up the PC… and found I’d have to download a 316MB patch before doing so. I used to have problems with Torrent type stuff, but I sorted those out. Well, I thought I had. The Blizzard Downloader complained about not being able to connect to the tracker. And then, later, that I was behind a firewall. So I set up the firewall and port forwarding on the router, even though the downloader used to work just fine.

Then I did a trace route and it seems there might have been a routing problem in Telia.net. Maybe. I’m never sure if tracert problems always show real problems or whether it shows problems with tracing the route.

Anyway, I tried again this morning and I’m still getting time outs when running tracert and the Blizzard Downloader is still complaining.

I hate PCs.

(I know I could trying downloading the patch from a mirror, but I’ve had so many Torrent problems in the past I wanted to check this is working okay.)

Wind serpent’s called Tara now. Well, she is a kind of amber colour. Does fit. Sort of.

I’ve just down a load of quests, got to level nineteen and, indeed, halfway to twenty. Quests for my level seem to be getting thinner on the ground now, though, so I think I’m going to nip back to Silverpine for a bit and finish off a couple I’ve got there.

Once that’s done I might have to go back to The Crossroads and do some quests that don’t appeal until I get sent somewhere new. Trouble is, somewhere new is probably going to be contested territory, where I find out how annoying being on a PvP server is. It was quite annoying when I used to group and it was close to release, so most people were about my level.

Now I’m on a server where the majority of people seem to be level fifty and above and who don’t have any qualms about killing people thirty levels lower than them.

Gulp.

This is what I signed up for, though. Willingly and with eyes open.