ScaryToenails

Well, I've started playing WoW again now that I have someone to play with, and what it's really done is rekindle the old disdain for the "Kill Ten Rats" model that made WoW so very successful to begin with. Sure, they all do it now - but even though I'm playing brand-new content (at least to me - my first foray into WotLK) it seems so stale.

Contrast this with my time in Age of Conan, where I'm having a blast with pretty much the exact same questing model. Maybe it's the "new shiny" of the AoC world. Maybe the learning curve for WoW is so steep; a lot has changed since I last logged in. To give you an idea of how long it's been, the last time I played WoW was right before they reduced the XP needed for levels 51-60. My Shaman was 60, having a blast in AV, and all of a sudden I'm 1 XP away from 61; only one AV left before I'm kicked out of the bracket. Sure, that's kind of a lame reason to leave a game entirely, but it was just the last straw. PVP in WoW was always a poorly-balanced afterthought (just read Warcry's interview with Rob Pardo if you don't believe me), and the allure of RVR got me wanting to plunk down the cash for Warhammer Online.

Which leads me to the next part of this post: The One That Got Away. I truly do love WAR, and I'd love to come back to it. As I mentioned in previous posts, there are a few outstanding issues I'd like to see addressed before that glorious day, but the more I play WoW and AoC, the more I realize just how much fun I had playing WAR. I had so much fun on my Chosen and Magus and Shaman, whether it was leading warbands of ravenous war dogs from keep to keep, slaughtering all the Order we came across, or trying desperately to get to 500 first in the eighth Mourkain Temple of the afternoon. It's disheartening to see many bloggers giving up on WAR altogether, but my heart belongs to RVR and the strife between Order and Destruction. I'll probably wait until it's been 90 days since I canceled to try out the 14-day 10-day "come back!" trial and see what I've been missing.

It's hard to put a finger on exactly what it'd take, but Bootae has a few ideas that I can certainly echo. Everyone wants a third faction, and while that'd definitely be tops on my list too, I'm going to go ahead and call it what it is: wishful thinking, and nothing more.