Well I have renewed my subscription to World of Warcraft, I originally began on the games release in November 2004 and kept at it till about April 2007. To say the least the game did get the better of me. It’s time sink design drew me in like no other, my poison was raiding, I was involved for almost a year and a bit with a new guild that followed the ZG,MC,BWL,AQ progression path, though my tier 2 Trans shoulder did also alluded me.
After the expansion pack Burning Crusade, I levelled my Priest to 70 but became disillusion with the new direction and after a guild disbandment the game became lacking lacking in that special something. I freely admit that I pushed too many hours into the game, though never dropping a credit average for my university degree which is part testament to the ease of same of the early classes. With harder classes on the way and a desire to expand my knowledge continue my credit average ended my subscription.
Come end of 2008 I have improved my knowledge gaining a strong understanding of CSS and HTML, Learning important OOP concepts, experienced the ExtJs javascript library reviewed general OOP design patterns also developing a strong understanding of C# and web-development on the ASP.Net framework gaining valuable experience through university on XML and XSLT.
I have a blog with some customizations of my own with more exciting projects to come, I have toyed with office development with VSTO (finding many limitations) and various other projects and reading.
I am looking forward (fingers crossed) to another year of post-grade study at UWS, and with these self improvements and a new WOW Exp WOTLK felt now possible to enjoy once again a guilty pleasure.
I have renewed after some important improvements were made to the game,
- New Xpac , a gear reset and a new chance
- Only use one mana/health pot in a boss fight reduce consumables necessary.
- Enchanting and now enchant onto scrolls to sell or send to alt characters.
- The Big Improvement: while not yet implement has been confirmed dual specs, very important for a healing class like the priest.
- New character class