The days turned to weeks, the weeks to months and as this happened the young Shaman could feel his powers become more and more monsterous as his enemies fell before him with more and more haste. Their lightning charred bodies served as a reminder of just how futile life really is....

So, I hit level 68 today. A little bit anti-climatic. It's funny how the only level that seems to matter now is 70. We used to look forward to 40, it was a mile stone and we could finally stop running around like knaves on our hooves and feet and so forth. Now that they bumped that requirement to level 30, it's so much easier to obtain that it almost doesn't matter. One day you're running the next you're riding. And lets face it, epic mounts stopped mattering as soon as you could fly around.

I figure the epic mounts will matter a lot more once the new expansion comes out, given I hear that you won't be able to fly about on Northrend until 78, not to mention the "cool" taxi feature, where you can haul your buddies around.

I've found that the game has become increasingly easy as I progressed from 60 and up. Mainly because outland gears you within the first hour of game play giving you greens that replaced your blues and purples (if you're old school and got the epic level 60 pre-TBC loot). Then you start getting the new skill starting at 62. At 66 I got my earth elemental totem, and at 68 my fire elemental totem. So basically I can solo the 2-3 group quests with little to no problems most of the time. I haven't decided if this is awesome or lame yet. I guess I'll go with awesome until someone uses it against me. And it's not like I can turn into a bear and heal myself with over powered DOTs, right? Right. <scoff>

The unfortunate part of this new character I'm running is that I am looking forward to level 70 battlegrounds. You think, well what's so wrong with that? Well if you've played any other MMORPG's long enough to gain max level then you know that PVP in WoW compared to most other games int he genre is a joke. It means that no matter how excited I am now, I'm only goign to be let down after I've grinded for a month and had little to no fun. The problem isn't really the game play, I realized a long time ago its the fact that the BG PVP experience is so...un-personal. Most of the time you don't know anyone, you rarely (I've never seen) see a guild pre-made, it's always realm pre-mades, and most of the time it's just a bunch of randoms who want to win a few marks.

Stay tuned next time for me ranting on about why I'm on Tichondrius and what's up with my guild "Protest The Hero"!