ACLinjury wrote:
and any 10 exhaled reputations!
Well, I guess I can ... Breath easy now.
YEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!
The free bump up to level 80 did surprise me but, then again, I guess the player gets to choose which character receives it. It's not like all your characters become level 80. The 1-60 Cata revamp was a breath of fresh air for me. I'd leveled a few Alliance characters through Azeroth and beyond, and even more characters pushed up to just level 40 or 50 that were kind of early "experimentations" when getting to know the game. I'd also done the Horde side to at least level 30 a few times. A clean sweep with tighter story/questing focus was a Titan sent blessing. I, honestly, haven't touched the high Cata dungeons much on any of my characters. It's the world itself I've enjoyed most of all this expansion. Which is possibly a bad thing, if it's because "end game" content didn't feel tempting enough this time. It largely is because it's just so fun being an orc or worgen, etc, though. Not
playing an orc.
Being one, in the middle of multiple wars. It also helps that quest rewards (more often) looks less like Helen Keller took on a fashion design career now.
But I don't feel like I'm being an orc (or worgen, or whatever) if I'm planted down at level 80 all of a sudden when I didn't travel there. It feels more like someone else said, "here, you can play with my level 80 for a bit". This isn't mine. This isn't
me. It's an orc, sure but ... Who the zug-zug is he?? I'm not even a big role player. There's something about the way I think of my characters, though, that makes me enjoy the game less if I - for lack of better words - haven't traveled with my character. If I don't know them. I'd find it hard to be handed a level 80 and be told, "here you go. This is your character now". No, it's not. It's
a character. I remember earning my very first grey axe in the starting area when I was a young villager and, yeah, it was great stepping through the Dark Portal with them to experience a new world with them as we grew and wandered together. But something's lost. It'd be like a friend you stopped talking to and suddenly met up with again five years later. Their features are the same, the name is the same. You can't say you've grown together though. Somewhere along the line, they've done their adventures that you never saw. And now they're back, ready to play. It's just that there's an element of them that you'll never understand. Whole chunks of experience (or XP) that have nothing to do with you. The character's not you anymore. It's a friend that went away and tried to come back later.
Goodbye, Xlolwarriorx. Who knew that an orc with a name like that would grow up to be such a douche?