[WoW] Back on the crack

Yup, I'm back on WoW. The new expansion lured me in, and some friends finished the job. It was a bit surreal logging back in. Quite a few of my toons were logged out at random inns in different cities. Because of the patches and whatnot, most ended up in their respective main cities. Ogrimmar for the Horde and Stormwind for Alliance.

Playing without addons isn't as bad as it used to be. Before you could barely play if your addons weren't working well. I've gotten to the Jade Forest without addons, and done a few quests. Having said that, I died multiple times because I didn't have any healing spells on my bars ( no healbot). At one point I resorted to typing in "/cast Flash Of Light" to heal myself. Its going to take some time for me to rebuild my interface.

System requirements must have been raised. Even with my new SSD, MoP isn't running near as smooth as Cata did. I had to drop down the settings to "Good" instead of "Ultra" to get smooth gameplay. I can jack it up to Ultra and still get mostly 24-30fps, but as soon as action starts, it drops to the teens with a bit of a stutter. I've gotten very annoyed at that stutter so now I'd rather run at Good and always be at 25+fps. It could of course be because I haven't updated any device drivers, and am running in full screen windowed mode ( to be able to read guides and such on my 2nd monitor).

Most of my characters on Blackwater Raiders are level 80 and below. Some of my old guildies are playing their, but in order to play with them, I'd need to get into the 85-90 content. The prospect of leveling through the cataclysm areas yet another time is not appealing to me. Plus all my money making toons have been transferred to Forgotten Coast. I have my 80 Warlock, 80 Death Knight, and 74 Shaman.

Forgotten Coast has quite a bit more money, and money making toons. My scribe is over there, plus my gathering toons. I have 3 85s there ( Pally, Priest, Druid) and a 74 Warlock. I think I'm going to mainly focus my efforts there. I dont' feel like releveling my toons on the other server, plus I'd feel like I'm handicapped by not having my other toons for support. But we'll see.

[WoW IC] Waash Arrival

Waash, Level 80 Tauren Druid. Day 2

I've been here for 2 days. I'd like to say I've been productive or even getting used to the "new" me. But I'm not. The best I can say is that I haven't killed anyone, or myself yet. I arrived in Thunderbluff 2 days ago, stepping out of the portal very disoriented. I made my way to the nearest Inn to take stock of what I had with me, and what I have become.

I'm surprised that losing my face hasn't affected me as much as I thought it would. Maybe seeing the "old me" held more pain than I thought it did. I'm a Tauren now, and for the foreseeable future. I have the letters for Master Hooff, as well as the bit of gold that I was given. I also have my armor and weapons, though they somehow have matched my more sizeable girth than they used to. I guess I shouldn't expect any less from a Mage as powerful as Ronin. I even somewhat resemble myself, though that might be just wishful thinking.

I have yet to track down the young Warlock that Bob's Felguard mentioned. That will be my next order of business. In the past 2 days I've walked around Thunderbluff, trying to get my bearings. I only recognized it was Thunderbluff from the stories that Bob used to tell. How he knows what Thunderbluff looks like, I guess I'll never know.

If I'm reading this Tauren calendar correctly, its been a month since Ogrimmar was attacked by the Fire Elementals. A month since Master Hooff saved that young blood elf warlock. 

Ronin mentioned that Hooff had joined a guild of other travellers. From different dimensions they had gathered to this one, to aid this land in defense against Deathwing. I stopped by the Guild Registrar, found the guild in question. "From the Ashes". A rather ominous name for a guild. I guess optimism doesn't run rampant here.