So, yes, as some of you had surmised correctly from my inclusion of the above picture in my last post, I went back to WoW… sort of. But this time, as a casual player, not a hardcore raider. Why? So I can ruin your game, of course; that’s what all us casual players do. I’d like my free epics now.
… no?
… anyone?
Alright then. Truth be told, I had been doing some thinking since Cataclysm’s plans to renovate Azeroth, and realized that there was basically a whole half of the game I had never* experienced. And while I may not be actively playing like I used to, I still wanted to see at least that half of the storyline. Then I thought to myself, hey, I’ve never rolled a human. So I clicked human. Followed by, hey, I’ve never rolled a mage either. Click. Mage. Now all I need is a name.
And thus Anschlag, human mage, located on Kael’thas so I can harass Jess, Bre, and apparently sometimes Ratters, was born. Voila! See, it’s not that interesting of a story. But so far I’ve been having fun with it, rolling Frost and shooting things with … well, frostbolt spam. I’m really bad at figuring out the range on Frost Nova, and I kinda hate Elwynn Forest now. (I think it was the 8th time I had my face eaten by the same red-leveled bear while I was inside a house that the bear walked past).
So, yeah, on the MMO front I’m dividing my time between that and FFXI, with the result being that I level really, really slowly in both games. I’m also temporarily playing Shaiya (WoW clone hooooooooo!) because there’s two overlapping contests, for reaching levels 5 and 10 respectively, with a chance to win an Alienware 17x laptop (here’s a pic of the specs). Plus all the usual console games, though to be honest everything is taking a back seat because it’s football season! (And the Bengals have already managed to disappoint, but hey, that’s the life of being a Cincinnati fan.)
* Actually, I have a draenei shaman; he’s level 46, and he’s on Silver Hand. And I leveled him when I had no earthly idea what I was doing, so we’re going to pretend he doesn’t exist.
Stop used to be a warlock, then he was a death knight; first he was Horde, then he was Alliance again, and now he's Horde again. For good this time. Lok'tar ogar! 
Funnily enough "Anschlag" does not mean "Stop" in German (using "Stop" would be perfectly appropriate), it means something like "terrorist attack".
As my dwarf pally is in the final stretches of Loremaster, Cat likewise pushed me to hasten my goal for my Orc DK: Loremaster on the Horde side.
Happy traveling!