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We got a puppy.

We’re getting a new kitchen.

We’ve not been playing since before 2.4.3!

And now… We can haz beta.

D’oh!

My main is my Paladin. It has been for the longest time. Except that for a while it was my Warlock. I enjoy playing my main a whole lot, but it’s at a point where Trakand can’t do anything without 4, 9 or 24 other people to help achieve it. Otherwise the achievement is less meaningful. Same with Poisonberry. Sure I can do dailies or mote farm, and I do both of these things when not alt-ing it up, but neither feels like the meat of the game. When your main gets to raids and heroics, the rest of the game feels like time spent supporting these activities. I do enjoy raiding, I love it in fact. I suck at PVP and hate Arenas with a passion (I did enough to get the Altette her S3 Hunter axe then quit), but the PVE game, that I can’t get enough of. And people tell me I’m at least not dreadful at it…

…but I love levelling too.

I like the ability to solo content that has meaning, or to duo it with my beloved, and to see my character progress by a number ticking up. I enjoy seeing the same problems as last time, but having to come up with new solutions for a new class… That’s why I’m an altaholic I think, because doing the same content again from another perspective feels fresh and fun to me, as fresh and fun as the first day I logged in in 2004.

So the “main game”, which is to say the game I play with my main is one I enjoy. But it’s also nice to try the view from the cheap seats from time to time. After all killing kobolds never gets old.

In which our hero finally notices he got linked from Bigredkitty a month ago, attempts to explain his lack of blogging and expounds on the virtues of focus (and why he has none).

So, I got linked by BRK. And didn’t notice. I had a traffic spike. And didn’t notice. Go me! Truly I am a nub. If anything should have kicked me in the behind and made me blog that should. But it didn’t. Anyway…

I’ve had a busy real-life lately, in fact I think I’ve logged on only three times (maybe four) since 2.4 hit, and once since 2.4.1! Work has been hectic, and I’ve been dieting (see my real life blog for the gory details). Still, not an excuse, not even much of a reason.

And now onto Focus.

I have none.

Not in the Hunter sense of the word, in the even more crucial sticking to a character sense. You see, in the time since I last blogged, I have a new character and have fiddled around the roster a lot. Meet my second Paladin and my old new Druid. The Paladin was an attempt (successful) to see the Horde Paladin starting quests before the disappearance of M’uru as those quests would never exist again. The Druid… well… It’s not mine. It was Mrs. Alt’s on another server, she did a Druid to 30, I did a Shaman. Then we each went Alliance, and eventually got 70s. But we want to see Horde content. So we swapped. I have her Druid, she has my Shaman. And yes, we were mad enough to get new accounts just so we could have our Hordies on our Alliance PVP server. Why did we do this? Primarily because we want to see the Horde storyline 1-70, we’ve done the Alliance stuff so much it’s burned into our brains, but the Horde side is like a whole other game we can play. And since it’s WoW it’s a game we know we love. Since my real Paladin has 375 Enchanting we figured if we levelled on our real server we could twink our Hordies courtesy of the neutral AH.

Meanwhile our raiding guild surges ahead into Mount Hyjal and Black Temple. It’s also awesome fun.

And there are new dailies. Awesome fun.

So two MORE new alts, new places to raid, and 3 70s trying to do dailies.

Yet real life keeps me away from WoW.

If I had the ability to focus on a task I might manage something, instead… I flit like a magpie from shiny thing to shiny thing.

Next time (which will be sooner I hope)… The Druid (in more detail), or the Paladin (finally) or the Shaman (possibly), or perhaps some randomness. I know this, it’ll be much less of a wait than this post was!