Changing YOUR Game

Yeah, I know this video has been posted by everyone and their gnomish uncle today, but it goes with my point.

Wrath of the Lich King has brought with it a chance for a new start for all of us. A chance to change our goals, our main characters, or way of playing, our game. Which for me is a good thing. I’ve decided just before launch that my game needed to change a bit. I was too stressed by something that was supposed to be fun, and relaxing. So, I’ve decided to make the changes to get me back to that part.

Raiding

Pretty much off the radar this time around. I got a chance to do it in BC, and maybe someday I’ll see the inside of the new raids. I’d honestly like to, but I can’t foresee a way to do that at this time. Raid times are right at my family dinner time. Dinner is hard enough here to schedule with a husband that has no specified time to get home. The Army isn’t 9-5, it’s more like 6am to whenever they let him go home. He averages getting home around 5 most times, give or take 30 minutes. But there are days that extends to 6, or later. 

Raids start at 6pm. Even if we eat at exactly 5pm, we’d be rushing the meal, to get online and get ready. It’s the only meal we get to have together. We already have limited time together, and a deployment (12 month long) looming in the not so distant future. I can’t take away the one time the 4 of us can sit and eat together. Also, raiding requires signing up in advance. The furthest in advance I could manage is 15-30 minutes.

Progression raiding is great for some, but it’s just not for me. It’s not my game.

Dungeons

These are in my game. But I do have limits. If hubby is home, and playing, I’m no longer joining a group without him. Of course if he isn’t home, isn’t playing, or is sleeping I will. But I still feel bad about running so many without him through outlands, since I’m the one that said hey if you play too we can play together!

Questing, Holidays and Fun Stuff

This is where my heart lies. In all the little things, the quest stories, the achievements, the holiday events that I’ve never done in two years of playing. Sure I got a peddlefeet, but I didn’t really take part in most of the others. And let’s not forget the fun things to get through fishing, crafting, and rep. An epic fishing pole, a baby penguin pet, a motorcycle. These are what I want my focus on. The playful, the fun, the whimsical. Things that are definitely attainable, not dependant on how many raids I’ve done, mostly not dependant on random rolls or DKP.

THAT is my ****’ing game! Anyone else making changes this time around?