Welcome, WoW, and Writing

Hey everyone. This is my first post on what I hope to be a pretty active blog. I'm not sure what I'll talk about yet- probably all the things that interest me.

First up, I play World of Warcraft. I don't have a level 70 character, just a 62 in outlands. The newest patch that's coming up will change the level riding mounts are acquired down to level 30. It used to be 40. As a player, I've always thought level 40 was kind of a "woo I get tons of stuff!" level, as every tenth level you get a nice chunk of skills, abilities and usually opens up a new row of talents. It seems like Blizzard is changing the way people approach leveling. Instead of 40 being sort of the 'seasoned warror' level, 30 is quite a stretch. There's a lot of areas around 30 to explore and a mount makes all of that easier. Is it nerfing the game to make it easier for noobs? Sort of, but what mounts are made for is traveling, not leveling. You get mounts to make you appreciate the game's scale. You actually 'waste' a lot of time walking around in the game towards your objective.

I can see people speculating that other skills/etc will get lowered as we get closer to the Wrath release, but really it seems as though Blizzard is just making it easier to get to the new content, much like they did for Burning Crusade. However, it still takes time to get through stuff. Meh, I'm happy, and so are my alts.

I also write quite a lot. Here's my profile on Drytear.net