Slowly moving along

I must be the slowest leveler I know around. Been leveling on 100% rest bonus. Just making it to lvl 89 on my Paladin and again out of rest bonus. Time to bank up some more rest bonus for the long haul to 90. I may make it there sometime this weekend. After all I'm in no hurry to get there other than maybe before Brewfest is over and get a chance to kill the Brewfest Boss a few times.

Mist of Pandaria, Day One

Called in Sick! Somehow I really turned out to be sick as well and spent the day on the couch feeling not so well and playing Mist of Pandaria on my MacBook Pro.

Didn't have any server problems starting play about 2 hrs after game launched. Orgrimmar was a ghost town by that point. Trained up my Pet Battle skills as somehow I was able to learn the kills at the trainer since was in Orgrimmar at that point close by. Then fumbled around playing around with a few of my pets… all 23 of them. I guess I've never been much of a pet collector! But did some of the pet quests and won some pet battles enough to get all my pets to lvl 6. Gotta say… Pet Battles are FUN and allot more fun that I would have thought. And its fun battling your pets with other players in a good spirit of fun pet battling.

After a little while I ditched doing that and found my way to Pandaria. It was chaotic there as I made my way still trying to regain some muscle memory of not having played my Paladin all that much in the last 2 years. As well haven't played all that much in the last month since I've been subscribed again.

Its a beautiful place in Pandaria from what I've seen so far, have no idea if its the only starting zone in the Jade Forest. So far in no hurry to make it to lvl 90. None of my guildies were on for the day and the few that are playing, none were around either. So just made it easier for me to take my time and play. So far made it about 60% the way to lvl 86 and in all lvl 372 gear at this point.

So far it has been fun with minimal bugged quests.

Back from the dead… for now

Been back playing WoW for about a week now after activating a sub for a month. I'll likely give it a month or two and see how it goes checking out the MoP expansion. I'll likely just be playing casually as I already play multiple MMO's so WoW not likely to get all my attention like before in the old days. I just don't play like I did anymore in the old days playing WoW.

Its been about a year and a half to 2 years since have been away from WoW and coming back to WoW its like old times. But honestly I feel like a noob playing again. Just login in for the first time a few days ago I stared at my Paladin UI and I was dumb struck just looking at the UI trying to figure out what all those buttons all did. Even remembering some buttons were custom macro's and couldn't make sense of none of it. I actually had to read over many the buttons and spells to even remember what to use them for lol. Felt like a complete noob! I probably only have figured out how to use maybe 1/3 the buttons on my UI again so far. Slow going it is.

I remember when I used to play my Prot Paladin/Ret without much thinking, now I almost need a guide as well to just remember how to play either. The stuff you forget not having played in close to 2 years.

So over the last few days I just did a few of the new Hyjal and Firelands dailies to get used to going through the motion of playing my character. All those quests were all new to me and was also surprised how empty all the zones were. Over several days and haven't ever seen a single chat in any zone I was in doing dailies. Just different to what I used to remember how it sued to be.  Played with a few my other characters to get reacquainted again just relearning how to play them as well. So far not really in too much of a hurry with new patch changes ahead and everything changing just getting back.

There and Back Again… MoP

That was an awesome Cinematic!

Remind me of why a long time ago I originally fell in love with WoW, it was originally the Adventure and the Journey.

That was a very long time ago and time and taste has changed much since, so has the world changed much in his absence.

There and Back Again, can the old man who grew tired of the old War and Adventure who shed his armor and left it all behind for a quieter life of remote wilderness Fishing return to the life of the living?

Can a man who's broken Holy Spirit dead for so long, really find reason to resurrect again from the dead to adventure in Mystical Lands?

WTH Blizzard! LOL Pandas

LMAO at Pandas! I can't imagine at this point in my MMO career that I can get excited about a Teddy Bear game and Kong Fu Pandas running around in a game. No longer my kind of game in WoW as a previous long time player.

However though you gotta admire Blizzard boldness in marketing at striking back at the coming SW:TOR soon release for a 2 for one deal offering. A 12 month sub to WoW with the next expansion Beta included, free pets and free Diablo III subscription for the deal. 

That to me strikes right back at SW:TOR in Blizzard fearing loosing more current WoW players and to lure old no longer playing veteran WoW players back to WoW. 

At this point in my MMO gaming career I can't get excited much about coming back to play WoW. 

I'm just interested in playing Diablo III not a game with or of Pandas. My gaming taste has changed much since WoW days.