Horde needlecraft pattern (and the eternal WoW question)
For posterity, this. Many people will have experienced similar, I think. My current UK guild is a bunch of real-life friends, many of whom are new(ish) to WoW (and loving it). A guildie recently wrote:
So, an idle question:
When you hit lvl 70, do you keep earning XP?
Another guildie continued:
.. and, do you keep doing quests? what do you do after 70?
To which (four level-70s) Jonathan replied:
You don't earn any more XP, no, but the XP you would earn from completing quests gets turned into extra gold instead. You'll have a bunch of solo quests to keep doing when you hit 70, for which you get more money and sometimes better equipment as quest rewards. Further progression comes from doing instances to get better equipment which then lets you do harder instances to get better equipment which lets you do raids (instances for more than 5 people, typically 10 or 25) to get better equipment which lets you do harder raids to get better equipment which lets you ..
And there goes your life.
A guildie replied:
When you put it like that it sounds so.....futile....
Another guildie responds:
You see this is the point I lose the will to live...why are we playing this again?
Which led to:
Cos it releases crack from a keyboard while you play as a reward.
He responded:
Finger ingested rock...that's it, I forgot
At which point, I said,
I feel like framing this thread.
And now you can frame it. In Needlepoint.
And she was right:
She made this! And there's a how-to there as well...
Anyone any good at needlepoint?
hehe. Stopped hardcore raiding last august.. Thinnking i would pvp a little with my alt..which im now doing alot.
turn your back to one drug - just to welcome another :D
Posted by: hoek | March 04, 2008 at 12:52
I am about to ding 69 (one the maintenance is done) and was wondering the same things since this is my first 70. Glad I know now. My main is an undead rogue that has pretty much solo'd the entire run. Unfortunately, that means not many instances, thus no phenom gear. Hopefully that will change once I am 70.
Posted by: Sir Henry | March 04, 2008 at 13:47
Well, if it's any consolation, any gear that you might have won from lower-level instances would have been pretty much eclipsed by quest rewards. (Even those who had been farming Molten Core had to junk their precious purple stuff a couple of levels into Burning Crusade...) But if you want to go much further, you'll have to start running instances, getting the gear, grinding up the reputations... If you had a life, now's the time to wave it goodbye!
Posted by: CFKane | March 04, 2008 at 14:05
Hah, I like how everyone gets anonymised but me. Oh, and, it's five now. Sigh.
Posted by: Jonathan | March 04, 2008 at 14:36
(oh, and Kim..)
Posted by: Jonathan | March 04, 2008 at 14:37
You're not really doing my work justice, darling.
Full post here.
http://mildlydiverting.blogspot.com/2008/03/world-of-warcraftcraft.html
Posted by: mildlydiverting | March 04, 2008 at 14:57
Updated, slowcoach ;D
Posted by: Alice | March 04, 2008 at 16:09
Hahaha, I like that needlepoint. Very nerdy indeed :-)
I got to level 38 in WoW before becoming hideously bored. I mustn't be normal.
Posted by: Mr Tom | March 04, 2008 at 21:12
40 is a bit of a turning point. Mounts, you know.
Posted by: Alice | March 12, 2008 at 10:14
having a mount rules. mine's called esme.
Posted by: anno | March 12, 2008 at 10:31
Mine's Etna.
Mount Etna.
Yes.
Posted by: Alice | March 12, 2008 at 11:36
I know, I know. That's the only thing that kept me going THAT long. But still, it was yawn city for me.
Posted by: Mr Tom | March 12, 2008 at 18:42