friends… apparently.

So after a month and a half of playing alliance (and actually frigging enjoying it!) I’m back horde side. I got online one day to a “how would you feel about playing some horde?” message from Dan, and knew straight away what would be happening. My closest gaming friends are flakes. I do not use this as a criticism of course, because I’m one myself, I will admit I was quite surprised though. I was genuinely enjoying playing Mage, I liked my Draeni, and was about as close as I get to being really angry/annoyed by something in an online game these days. That basically just means I spent 10 mins calling Dan all sorts of nasty names, then logger back over to my Orc.

Upon getting back to Horde side I was unsure of what to do. I hadn’t missed Death Knight that I was aware, and my Mage is only level 35 on Horde.

WHY OH WHY CANT I TO FACTIONS TRANSFERS!?

So I was umming and arring between referring a friend and trying to boost a Mage/Warlock up, leveling my Rogue (currently 70) or trying to get back into the Death Knight. I decided to gear up my Death Knight a bit and plod along with her until I made up my mind. First step was to try a new spec for real. I’d been Blood almost all of the time I’d been leveling DK, and 100% of the time since. I was tempted by Dual Wield, but it seems DW got nerfed a bit recently. Frost hasn’t interested me that much, so I decided to go with a cookie cutter (I think) Unholy build. I have to say I love it! My DPS is better, having a ghoul out 100% of the time is rewarding, and the rotation is much comfier than Blood.

So anyway, here I am, back where I was 2 months ago, but now with a level 72 Draeni Mage on another realm, whoop… I’m assuming I might actually be playing Death Knight for a while now, but who knows. I’ll just go where’s my buddies go. It’s interesting to see how different people handle these sorts of things actually, some seem to largely not care what’s happening, as long as they’re with the people they enjoy playing with. I’d put myself in this category. Others seem to have a massive emotional attachment to the investment they’ve made in a specific character, or maybe they just don’t like not being the one making the decisions. Either way I can’t imagine myself ever deliberately distancing myself from anyone I consider a friend due to an online game.

At least I don’t have to be friends with male Night Elves now…