I will get round to telling you about my toons, honest. But as ever I got distracted, by names. How can you get distracted by something as simple as a name? I have found that in this game, that the name you choose for your character has a bigger impact on your game then you would think. The name you choose for your character is what you will be known as for your gaming life, so while a name seems like a laugh when you first make a character it may not seem so when you get along in levels. I am one of those hypocritical folk that instantly dislikes people who put their race/class/spec into their characters name or the really special people who put all three, though that said since I play on the EU servers dk not only means death knight, but also Denmark, even so, you get my point. Why hypocritical? Well due to my lack of textual imagination I can't come up with names I use an aspect of my character and get the Irish of it and usually end up a name. But at least it doesn't look as just plain stupid as undeaddk or whatever the name ends up being. Huh? Well consider some of my character names Naofa, Fiach, Bás, Lobh, Laoch, unusual seeming aren't they. But back to Naofa, who along with Fiatim are what this post are meant to be about.
Right before I get into the meat of this post.....*reads up*.....er....or rather what I had intended to the meat of this post, a little aside and a bit of history. Fiatim as a name is uniquely me, there are no others who use that name. It came about as a mistake that happened in real life but it was the name I chose for my until then unnamed feral druid that I always wanted to make, but couldn't due to computer issues, lack-there-of if you must know. Fiatim the nelf druid is the first character I ever had. *sighs remembering the early days.*
Right then, on names. On the server I play on, I am not a well know figure or troll, I am not someone who is known by all, but I am known by two names, that of Fiatim and that of Naofa. Fiatim is the name I known as in the raid guild I am in, Original Sin, nice guild, nice people, currently recruiting *plugs*, though I no longer raid with them. I was an OT with them and though I am no longer active I hope at the very least I am not disliked, when I miss social interaction with no repercussions, rare though that is, I log onto my druid, my pala or my hunter and listen....er read...er listen....oh you get what I mean, to the randomness that is guild chat. They are also a good source of impartial advice on specs/professions when I need/want a source I can trust. Naofa, or more often Nao, is the name I am known to a now small number of people. To explain fully a bit of history, as I have said my first character was and is a night elf druid. But I truely played horde for a long time, I played a blood elf warlock, and in the guild I was in I met another lock who to make a long story short is now my better half. When we together hit 70 in tbc we decided we wanted to raid and instance and stuff, so rather then attempt to find a raiding guild that would take two locks, without begging favour on my brother. Hmmm my brother now there is something to post on, as if his ego needs a boost, but it'll be something to write about. Where was I? Oh yeah, so the two of us decided to reroll. We figured if we rolled a tank and healer combo that we could get instances easily and the like. Since I had a tendency to be an aggro magnet anyway and as I wanted to see what Bro was always hyping on about I rolled a Paladin and chose the name Naofa, the Better Half chose a priest who was called Pilfkin. Rather than go into some random guild we joined Synergy which my druid was then residing, said guild was building to become the biggest guild on the server.....did you know that if you get more than 500 guild members you can only list 500 of them? No, well it's true, I witnessed it. Together we leveled basically from 1-70 in the guild and started in on raiding Kara with them, though the Better Half started raiding before me, getting geared to heal a raid was slightly easier than getting defence capped as a paladin in those days. So to the old guard of Synergy I'm known as Nao....not that much of the old guard remain in saying that. Most of them are officers now I think or just not playing anymore.
As such I give these words of warning chose your name well, for who knows how many years you shall bear it.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Back to the problem
Originally this second post was going to be about me telling you about the various characters I have and what I spend my time doing with them. But while I was thinking about all that I came to think about their professions and the fact that some of them are a wee bit behind where they should be. So in thinking that I set myself a challenge of sorts, what would happen if I concentrated on levelling these professions and/or grinding the mats for them, for a length of time, say maybe a week. Now having said a week, I do acknowledge that I can't spend all week doing this as I have things like work and real life to deal with as well, but what if.....well we'll just see won't we.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
A start
Right everyone needs a place to start and I am no different.
So.....*looks around*.....*takes a step to the left*.....here, this will do.
Now then, I have both a vice and a problem and one affects the other and the other propagates the one.
The problem is that I have a very, and I do mean very, short attention span. Sort of along the lines of 'train of thou-ooooooo what does that do-oh cool what is this-and this-what was it again-ght. The outcome of this is in part is my doodling, but this is not the time or the place for that topic. Though I will say it a good thing there is no time for idle thought much and when there is there is a pen to run through my fingers. It, my attention span, has been an issue for years, and it tends to annoy my better half quite a bit.
The vice is computer games, all sorts, but the purpose of this....*looks round*....is one specific game, World of Warcraft. That was kind of anti-climatic wasn't it. There are thousands upon thousands of blogs out there on the subject of Warcraft, this is not going to be like all of them, they are all interesting and have deep and meaningful topics, while this will be well.....not. Did I mention my problem? Yeah, well that is going to be apparent shortly.
Where was I? Oh yes my vice and my problem, I have alts, a lot of alts, or as I prefer to call them my toons. An alt is an alternative to your main character, but if you have no main, just some characters you play as and when you feel like it, what do you call them? Toons. Don't ask me why it just something I picked up along the way, like a lot of things. Somewhere back along shortly after I first started playing I hit upon the idea that if I played a class I could understand it better and thus when I grouped with said class I would know what to expect from it in a group or raid situation. As such I have got about 20+ toons littered across the servers, and yes I realise there aren't that many classes, some I just tend to play more than others. Like tanks. Yes I realise that tank is a spec not a class, but of the 4 80's I have 3 are tanks. A paladin, a druid and a death knight. I'm currently levelling a warrior tank too.
Huh, what was that? Raid? Yes I said the 'magic' word. I used to raid, I raided kara and ZA in tbc, naxx, OS, EoE, Ulduar and TotC, tanking them all. But I hit a problem, or rather two closely linked problems, I wasn't having fun anymore and I was close to burning out, it not just healers who suffer from that problem. I can tell you now the one thing I do miss from raiding and I think the only thing I miss is seeing the instances and the layout of them, the details put in and that's about it really.
The one thing I can't seem to do game wise and this is due to my original problem is make gold, but as I no longer raid, what need for gold have I. The toons you say? I like the challenge in starting from nothing and getting somewhere, it just not where everyone seems to want to be.
To be short and to the point for once, I play to be happy and have fun and it how and what I do with my play time that I will write about. I may even give you some proper history at some point.
So.....*looks around*.....*takes a step to the left*.....here, this will do.
Now then, I have both a vice and a problem and one affects the other and the other propagates the one.
The problem is that I have a very, and I do mean very, short attention span. Sort of along the lines of 'train of thou-ooooooo what does that do-oh cool what is this-and this-what was it again-ght. The outcome of this is in part is my doodling, but this is not the time or the place for that topic. Though I will say it a good thing there is no time for idle thought much and when there is there is a pen to run through my fingers. It, my attention span, has been an issue for years, and it tends to annoy my better half quite a bit.
The vice is computer games, all sorts, but the purpose of this....*looks round*....is one specific game, World of Warcraft. That was kind of anti-climatic wasn't it. There are thousands upon thousands of blogs out there on the subject of Warcraft, this is not going to be like all of them, they are all interesting and have deep and meaningful topics, while this will be well.....not. Did I mention my problem? Yeah, well that is going to be apparent shortly.
Where was I? Oh yes my vice and my problem, I have alts, a lot of alts, or as I prefer to call them my toons. An alt is an alternative to your main character, but if you have no main, just some characters you play as and when you feel like it, what do you call them? Toons. Don't ask me why it just something I picked up along the way, like a lot of things. Somewhere back along shortly after I first started playing I hit upon the idea that if I played a class I could understand it better and thus when I grouped with said class I would know what to expect from it in a group or raid situation. As such I have got about 20+ toons littered across the servers, and yes I realise there aren't that many classes, some I just tend to play more than others. Like tanks. Yes I realise that tank is a spec not a class, but of the 4 80's I have 3 are tanks. A paladin, a druid and a death knight. I'm currently levelling a warrior tank too.
Huh, what was that? Raid? Yes I said the 'magic' word. I used to raid, I raided kara and ZA in tbc, naxx, OS, EoE, Ulduar and TotC, tanking them all. But I hit a problem, or rather two closely linked problems, I wasn't having fun anymore and I was close to burning out, it not just healers who suffer from that problem. I can tell you now the one thing I do miss from raiding and I think the only thing I miss is seeing the instances and the layout of them, the details put in and that's about it really.
The one thing I can't seem to do game wise and this is due to my original problem is make gold, but as I no longer raid, what need for gold have I. The toons you say? I like the challenge in starting from nothing and getting somewhere, it just not where everyone seems to want to be.
To be short and to the point for once, I play to be happy and have fun and it how and what I do with my play time that I will write about. I may even give you some proper history at some point.
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