{"id":2059,"date":"2020-05-20T07:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2020-05-20T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T14:58:51","slug":"back-into-the-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/20\/back-into-the-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Into the Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been playing Blizzard’s massively multiplayer role playing game World of Warcraft<\/a> on an off since its launch. Recently came off an off of more than a year, not too very long after the Battle for Azeroth<\/a> expansion launched. I was burnt-out. I had been playing way too much up to the launch, trying to level one of every class type to the max.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was not a wise thing to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anything, I should have been playing way WAY less before the launch. So that the new content had a chance to feel, you know, new. Instead, I was still in the grip of that “must get levels as fast as possible!” mentality, trying to force my main character to the top with all (un)due haste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new expansion has been announced, and I’ve recently started playing again. Blizzard has decided to give everyone an xp boost for the time being, so I decided, why not, let’s start a brand new character and get her to the top as quickly as I can. Old habits die hard, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the boost, though, it went really really fast, and after just a week or so, she’s already at level 120. Yeehah. But I’m not burnt out yet, because it all felt fresh after a year off. Hooray for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right before I quit (in 2018!) I was playing a Blood Elf Affliction Warlock running around a desert. As of this writing, I am in the middle of a haunted forest, playing a Human Destruction Warlock. Different environment, different faction, different aspect. This haunted forest is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I keep saying to myself, if only I’d been playing in the forest, and not the desert, I might not have quit. What I should be telling myself is that I, thankfully, didn’t get burnt out in the middle of this cool forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why am I telling you this? I dunno. The WoW servers are down right now for maintenance, and I have to do something\u2026 also, whenever I’m into WoW, reading and writing come to a halt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I need to take advantage of these opportunities to not play (again). I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve been playing Blizzard’s massively multiplayer role playing game World of Warcraft on an off since its launch. Recently came off an off of more than a year, not too very long after the Battle for Azeroth expansion launched. I was burnt-out. I had been playing way too much up to the launch, trying to … <\/p>\n

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