So, we're well into the new year now, and a week away on family business, work and a lack of guildies around for Karazhan has meant that my WoWing has been rather thin on the ground. But no matter! I have a year of gear ahead of me, even in the office:
Yes, I picked up the Year of Gear desk calendar in a bookshop sale at the weekend, and I've been enjoying all the Phat Lewts that I never managed to get, like the Feralheart Rainment:
Maybe I should get back into instances and try to get my Moonglade set…
And so, the curtain raises on another year of Warcraft. What are my aims for 2008?
Finish Karazhan. We've dropped the Curator and have oft visited Chess (but I've yet to get my boots, shoulders or T4 gloves from them) and the guild has dropped Aran (but I wasn't there), so we've got a way to go. I'd like to keep running Kara until I finish my "Karazhan set" at the very least. And a couple of pieces of T4 would be nice.
Scrape together 5,000 gold and get myself my Epic Flight Form. It seems cruel that we have to both raise a bucket-load of cash and do a long quest chain to get it, though.
Finish the Outlands quest chains. I still have a bunch of group quests to finish in Netherstorm, Blade's Edge Mountains and Shadowmoon Valley. I'd really like to complete the lot before Wrath of the Litch King hits.
Go have a play in Zul'Aman. No ideal if we'll finish it before WotLK hits, but I'd like a go…
Be Involved in the Sunwell Plateau World Event. Building a town through quests? Sounds fun! I'll be putting the other goals on hold for a while when patch 2.4 hits!
Level Cooking, Enchanting and Fishing. My unfinished professions need some work. I need all of two points for Cooking, about seven for Enchanting, but around 30 for Fishing. Ah, well. I can catch my own Fish Sticks now.
Start Running Some Heroics. I've yet to set foot inside one. Really.
Keep up this blog. Well, it's good fun. And I do have lots of WoWy thoughts in my head right now.
And so, we say goodbye to 2007. In the time-honoured way that lazy journalists do (and, as Ratshag would put it, I have a lazy journalist as a RL avatar…) I'm going to do a post outlining the best and worst of the year in WoW. For me. Because I, Leafshine, purveyor of flowery heals to fine instancing groups, am full of opinion:
The Best
Flight Form. Oh, isn't flight form just the most wonderful thing going? Druids really have an edge over other classes on three levels here: you start flying at 68, it doesn't take up a bag slot and, most of all, it's instant cast. Oh. c'mon, are you telling me that you haven't enjoyed flinging yourself off tall buildings and shifting to flight in mid-air? Or shifting straight from bear to flight (since patch 2.3)? Or, best of all, playing druid roulette! The timing involved in getting your shift in just before you hit the ground is a great, if expensive, micro-game…
The Burning Crusade. On the day tBC was released, I stayed up late for the moment that the servers were rebooted and the new content became available. Five Shattered Ravens leapt through the Dark Portal together and into our first new experiences in the game in many months. I've really enjoyed the expansion. It's brought new elements to the game, and has had just enough content to keep me really busy all through the year.
Karazhan: While we used to go play in Upper Blackrock Spire from time to time in the original version of WoW. And it was fun. However, it never felt like much more than a 10-man version of a standard instance, while Karazhan is something quite different, much more raid-like in nature. And the atmosphere and design of the place is just great. It makes me really look forward to moving on to Zul'Aman, but we still have a number of Kara bosses to drop: Nightbane, Illhoof and the Prince have yet to fall before the Ravens. Still, for the first time in my WoWing life, I'm getting Epiced up and enjoying the experience. Well, most of the time…
Rep Grinds. Pre-BC, rep grinding would bring on what my guild leader described as the Thousand-Bear Stare. You ended up mindlessly slaughtering the same mobs again and again, in the hope of getting one of a handful of slightly useful crafting recipes. Fun. In tBC, I'm within striking distance of being well into Revered with all factions just through questing and instance-running - which is as it should be.
Mac Movie Recording: An unexpected bonus for us Mac-users, Patch 2.2 brought in-built movie recording functionality. Sure, it was making up for the lack of a Fraps-alike on the platform, but it's a great little tool in its own right. Triggered from within the WoW interface, catching both video and sound, and with the option to remove the interface? Lovely. I've done some basic stuff with it in 2007. Expect more in 2008…
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