I Spent Two Days Playing World Of Warcraft

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You might look at the headline, “I spent two days playing World of Warcraft,” and go, “What is this, 2008?” And, honestly? I wish it was. But, the past it is not. Recently, I had a position change at work, and now I have to sleep during the day. But, an added bonus? I work longer days, and have more days off. So, I decided to take a sizeable chunk of that time off, and get back into the World of Warcraft. But, how long have I had characters in this game?

This is one of the oldest characters on my account … Mokklerblitz, the Death Knight. I created this character on the day that Wrath of the Lich King launched, in the hours when the servers had come back online. I wish I could show you what this character looked like, then, rather than now, in War Within … but, keeping record of my screenshots in 2008 (or even 2004) wasn’t really something I did.

But, I spent a couple days (okay, maybe not two entire full days straight) grinding in WoW, in order to get my set of four main characters caught-up with War Within.

It’s been far too many years since I really went all out and actually played through an expansion in World of Warcraft. Which, is pretty nuts, because I’ve pre-ordered … every single one of them.

I still have the Cataclysm special edition box sitting on a shelf here.

Anyway, I didn’t start playing World of Warcraft as a Death Knight in 2008. I started as a Night Elf Druid (which is now pictured above to the far left), and then I was bribed by friends at the time (with in-game gold) to join the Horde, and play there. Which I did. On a mage.

I don’t have that mage anymore.

I won’t say why, exactly, but let’s just say, this was before Battle.net accounts, and people sometimes swapped characters between each other.

Never-the-less, I wish I still had that character.

I feel, though, World of Warcraft has come a long way. There’s so much content that it’s kind of ridiculous if you somehow run out of things to do. There’s so much to do you could probably spend the next decade completing it, and then you’d have probably four more expansions to run.

What I miss, though, is something that not even the Classic servers can really capture. That’s partially, because, for some reason, they decided that part of Classic should just … run through every single expansion until it catches up with the Retail version.

I don’t think that was needed. I think we needed three servers for the first three expansions, and then they could’ve just stopped there.

But what do I know? Cataclysm, at least, didn’t need a “classic” edition on these servers. One of the very reasons I think people even wanted classic servers, was to experience the game before Cataclysm vastly changed everything!

Sometimes I wish I could log in again for the first time in 2004, create a Night Elf, and die repeatedly, mesmerized as to what exactly was happening.

“Why am I a glowing ball? Where do I go? What the heck is this? I’m lost!” And then re-rez, and do it all over again.

No, my favorite, “I’m a noob and I don’t know what MMOs are” thing, was when I ran from Darnassus to Ironforge, on foot, at level one, because I wanted to see what it looked like. And then I found out that my graphics card couldn’t handle it, so I ran to Walmart and bought a new one.

That was back when Walmart still sold videocards, and when videocards didn’t cost as much as a used car due to crypto and AI grifters jacking up demand.

But I spent two days playing, and it felt like I was 19 years old again, in some points. I ignored most of the world. Ignored social media, ignored the constant onslaught of notifications from millions of different sources that demand your attention only to waste it, and I leveled the hell up. I just leveled up, dude.

Did this improve my dating life? Hell no. Date? Who dates in this economy?

Did I almost feel like things were normal for short stints over a two day period? Sort of. But … with a whole lot less friends.

On that note, got a guild? I’m looking for one on my Alliance Druid! The one I joined yesterday is dead in the water. Hit me up!