So it seems like even if Hilary doesn’t want to officially raise the white flag yet, Obama is going to be the democratic nominee. I am both excited and nervous about the prospect. I know that the underlying racism in our country will play a big part. There will be a lot of people that won’t vote for Obama because he is black, plain and simple. They would rather vote for an old fart that wants to stay in Iraq forever than vote for a brother. To me, the way Obama could minimize this problem would be to pull Hilary on as VP which would hopefully appease bitter Hilary supporters. I don’t know if he will be willing to take her in after some of the barbs that have been tossed around during the primaries.
Most of the negative comments I see regarding Obama have to do with his lack of experience. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want someone in the white house that has decades of experience being bought by special interests, corrupted by lobbyists and in debt to big business for years of political favors. Plus any lack of experience Obama may have can be countered by the staff he surrounds himself with. I look forward to having a president that is intelligent, well spoken and polished. Plus I think having a black man elected president would say a lot about how far America has come in terms of race. I think it would be a fantastic moment to turn the page on eight years of corruption, lies, fear cultivation and pocket stuffing to a fresh start with an unconventional politician. This is exactly why I am afraid it won’t happen. It seems our recent track record is filled with taking the wrong path when given a choice. Hey if the world ends in 2012 we don’t have much more to put up with anyway, right?
So last night I finished up my three and a half journey in WoW to level all classes in the game to 70. If you play the game you would be impressed, if you don’t you would have no idea the amount of time that must be invested to perform this feat. I posted this on my WoW message board about the event.
My shaman just hit 70 last night, rounding out my three and a half year mission to level every class to maximum level. I announced my achievement in guild chat last night and got exactly zero acknowledgements. I am obviously on the outside of this guild looking in, no one could give a shit.
There was no jubilation on my part, not even a smile across my face. I accomplished a virtual goal that meant nothing in real life besides the consumption of countless hours of time.
It’s been a long journey. It’s a journey that has seen me outlast pretty much everyone I started the game with besides Reaper. After leveling that many characters I have several observations.
The easiest and favorite classes to level have been the hunter and lock. I seem to prefer classes that have pets the most. Maybe because it minimizes what I have to do.
I thought that levelling the pally would be brutal and boring. I actually didn’t mind it at all and found it enjoyable to play a class that tanked and healed equally well.
The most difficult class to level was my warrior hands down. It was my first character so it took forever since I didn’t know anything about the game. Plus leveling a warrior is very frustrating. I died A LOT.
I played the druid as pure feral. I loved the flexibility of the class.
Likewise, I played my priest as pure shadow. I never healed anything much more than 5 mans.
The mage was fun to play due to his high damage and multiple methods to frustrate the enemy. (poly, ice block, blink, etc…) I hated all the stopping for mana though.
I was never great as a rogue although I enjoyed using his stealth to annoy many horde as well as take a look at Ogrimar.
The shaman is a whirling DPS powerhouse. I’ve done very little pvp with him but in pve he tore through most enemies with ease. He has been specced enhancement from the get go.
Levelling so many characters has meant I am a jack of all trades but a master of none. I’m not an expert at any one class. Concentrating on levelling so much also means that I have not concentrated on gear. None of my characters are equipped all that well. I’d say my hunter and priest have the best gear and none of it compares to what is the top of the food chain nowadays.
So now the levelling is done, except for the 60 horde hunter I am farting around with, what will I do?
I’m not sure. I may pvp some to grab more gear. I could try to crack into the raiding faction of my guilds although the time commitments there make it unlikely. (8pm – 11pm on raid nights) I still have professions that are not maxxed out like blacksmithing, enchanting, alchemy, leatherworking, engineering, cooking, fishing and jewel crafting.
Who knows what I’ll do. I don’t come home at night and HAVE to play. I’m fine doing other things and actually for the most part prefer to do something other than WoW most nights.
I have come to realize that the people you play with have as much to do with your enjoyment of the game as the actual game itself. Since the crew split up and went their separate ways the game has been devoid of very much fun. Never was that more apparent than when I hit 70 last night and had my announcement met by crickets.
No one cared and to be honest, I don’t know that I did either.
After hitting 70 and no one caring, I decided to hop into our guild’s vent (voice chat) and listen in on the guild meeting that was occurring. Evidently there have been some recent problems in guild raids that they wanted to address. I don’t participate in these raids because they typically run from 8pm-11pm but I wanted to listen in.
It was very funny to listen to. The guild leaders that talked sounded intelligent and well spoken. They logically presented the various issues on the table and then offered up their ideas on how to address them as well as opening up to the floor for comments/ideas. I thought to myself how impressive this sounded but then I reminded myself that all of this attention and concern was directed at virtual accomplishments, virtual progression in the game, and virtual gear for your characters. If you listened in for a few moments you would think that you were listening on an intense discussion on how to solve world hunger or global warming. I said nothing during the event, if I had I wouldn’t have been acknowledged since nobody knows me because I don’t “raid”. I found listening very compelling though. It is bizarre listening in on some people that obviously have good communication skills and good leadership abilities choose to put them to work in a virtual manner with imaginary rewards for doing so.
