So, yesterday (6/3/12) I got my final alt on my home realm (Malygos) to level 80, and it was completely anticlimactic. I actually think I enjoy leveling more than anything else, and yet I am also completely bleh-ified by questing and doing dungeons in the "old world" (pre-BC). Am I finally starting to overcome my years-long addiction to World of Warcraft? What on Earth do I do now?
My husband is trying to interest me in Diablo 3, hoping that we will be able to play together, as we used to play WoW together, and I've tried, but I am not very into or familiar with the story-line, and to me the gameplay is nothing compared to other MMOs. I've played for maybe five hours total, and have one "wizard" to level six and one monk to level eight, and have only yet unlocked the 1 key for special abilities, and it is on a cooldown. So, this means that for the majority of the game and fights, I am madly clicking my mouse keys, which is not only annoying but not very ergonomically pleasing for someone used to engaging both hands. I understand that many people are frustrated with World of Warcraft, and that it IS old and behind the times, and while the combat system is not as dynamic as the new Guild Wars 2 is supposed to be, it is at least solid and requires some form of coordination (even if that just means using both hands.) So far, Diablo 3 requires the right hand for everything except for things like opening your inventory and turning on and off enemy health bars... so my left hand, so used to the 1-6, WASD, etc is left poised but unused, abandoned, as it were.
Needless to say, I don't foresee purchasing a second copy of D3 or investing any serious amount of time in it.
Speaking of investing time (ahem, wasting) I spent about 90 hours in my game of Skyrim (with one character) and because my hard drive died on me, my game is gone. I am still convinced that we can recover the data one way or another, but that is just because I believe I *MUST* as there are some very important documents on there that I foolishly neglected to back up. I went a little MOD-happy as I decided to start playing Skyrim again (anew) and in doing so have managed to break my copy of Skyrim... we purchased it on Steam and Steam decided that in order to fix it I had to re-download something that took about four hours, and it is still not fixed.
Whew, that was more writing than I've done in about two weeks! And all, sadly, about something that most people would consider a worthless waste of time.
I don't think that I will find what I seek in Skyrim, I haven't found it yet in D3, and I fear I've lost it in WoW. I want to purchase Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and TERA and try both of those, but have yet to find a way to fund these purchases. And no, I don't think I'm ready to solely rely on the "real world" yet.
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