heya,

I play a shaman, mage, priest, druid and paladin in wow. i have a hunter, a rogue and a warrior as well but they are low level alts so can't say too much of the pvp with them, except that rogues are really strong at all stages :D.

My shaman was my 1st character and I got the rank of centurion for him back in vanilla wow.

I've been playing WoW for almost 4 years now and feel I have a pretty good grasp of what to do in the different battlegrounds and I get really frustrated when people have no inclination to even try to play to win but just prefer a mindless melee in the middle of nowhere while the opposition has control of the most of the targets, be it flags, bases, towers, graveyards etc.

I remember back when I started to play they hadn't implemented the cross realm battlegrounds, so the people you faced in the bgs were people you could actually meet in the game world and not just in the bgs. Of course this resulted in longer queues at times to the bgs, but it wasn't an issue in my mind. It was rather nice, our side used to win AB frequently while the other side used to dominate WSG and AV games lasted forever.....

Then the xrealm battlegrounds came and the personal feeling was gone from the bgs, you were just fighting some random people. And we still won most of the ABs and WSG went to the other side... i think it was around this time that EotS was released. It is an ok battleground in my mind.

I can't really say a lot about the Arena as i haven't played it that much, just some in S3-S4. We were playing a shaman lock combo, which wasn't the strongest one by any means, as resto druids were quite dominating as healers... We did manage to get to around 1800 rating and the faced priest+rogue, priest+warrior teams in rapid succession and our rating plummeted, ending around 1700, if i remember right. Arena wasn't that fun for me as we had to wait for a game as long as 15 mins and just get roflstomped by a combo we had no chance against no matter how well we played. Not saying we were the greatest of players but still...

I could say that Arena killed my enthuasim for my shaman, so i started to level my druid, who had been stuck at lvl 18 for 2 years so. I never had any intention of making him into another healer, as he had been feral and feral he was going to be. My lock partner also started to lvl his rogue.

TBC was pretty good if i think about the battlegrounds, expect that the alliance had complete control in AV but you got used to that. The other 3 were quite even, and if anything, a little Horde dominated.

After WotlK however, the Alliance has gotten better or the Horde worse as now the Alliance dominate all bgs. It's really frustrating to play as most of the horde team just zergs away to honor kill farm while a the few players who actually play the way the bgs were meant to be played (in my opinion) ie. protect nodes, go for the flag etc. get the short end of the stick. Even if we manage to win, the honor farming zerg herd gets way more honor than I do which. Something blizzard should look into i think...

WoW is eating up my life

hey there,

just needed something to get me started on this blog so I thought to write about how WoW (World of Warcraft) has become a big problem in my life by eating up almost all my time, time which might be better used by spending time with my family ( wife & son, who's almost 2 years old) or by finally getting those pesky studies out of the way.

It's a freaking wonder the wife has put up with my crap with this game for close to 2,5 years now. I guess that's something to be grateful of. I mean, some days I start to play when I wake up and play until I go to sleep. If anything, it has just gotten worse lately, maybe some sort of spring apathy or something.... The thing is, I know I play too much with the expense of almost everything else. Maybe time to get help?

I have tried to stop at times, to longest i went without playing was 3 months after which I got sucked back in, as I would imagine many others have as well. I think it would be appropriate to tell a little about how I got started with the game.

I did start to play WoW in the fall of 2005 so it'll be 4 years this August. My younger brother got me into it after I came back from a year abroad as an exchange student in Taiwan. I had a girlfriend there and being separated from her was not easy, so at first I guess I used the game to forget about it. By December that year, we had broken up because she'd been sleeping around... which i guess is pretty much to be expected as I had no clear plan of when I would return to Taiwan and long distance relationships rarely work out. So I got depressed, and just started to play WoW even more than before on the expense of my school. Something which i'm paying for now.

So I played till the spring and got fed up with the game as the guild I was in couldn't really achieve anything and eventually fell apart. It seemed like a good chance to break away from the game, which was just what I managed to do for a whole 3 months....

It has been like that for me since that time, I quit for a time but just find myself spending my time on other equally useless things and eventually I just return to WoW.

I will write more on the game and how i feel about different aspect of it later on, mostly on PvP as that is the facet i enjoy to most on my characters (Paladin, Shaman, Rogue, Priest, Mage, Druid, Hunter, Warrior),