Its over a month now since WOTLK launched and ive seen just about everything there is to bar the Raid Boss encounters and ive come to the conclusion that its just more of the same with a few new quests. Bare in mind that i play a lot of WoW and ive 8 level 70’s, yeah thats a bad sign of addiction i guess which ive beaten. But i just dont get the whole level 80 thing, i put a lot of time and effort into the last expansion TBC with my main warlock toon and my 7 alts and now im expected to do some of that all over again? Im sorry but its not good enough that Blizzard raise the bar again with another level cap and more quests and more gear. I dont want to do that all over again. I guess my problem is that i may have too many alts and i dont know what one to be my main or it could be that im just sick of the same crap Blizzard spew out each time.

My Guild was kind enough to give me a chance to raid in 25 man Naxx a few weeks a go and it despite my rogue being a sorta of Alt/Main with Epic Level 70 T4 gear and PVP S2 Weapons i was bottom on DPS. I didnt expect to be top but the humilation of being bottom was enough for to make me quit raiding once again. I didnt have the level of gear the rest of the raid had like Tier 5-6 and Sunwell Plateau gear but i got the idea of the Boss fight quickly but that doesnt matter if your “DPS” isnt in-line with everyone elses which really is why i hate WoW raiding.

I wanted to be a Healer in WOTLK and i respecced to Holy with my priest from the start and i did at least 9-10 runs of “The Nexus” and “U.K”. I healed quite well with no wipes being my fault until i tried to Heal “Azol-Nerub” in “Dragonlight” where i just couldnt heal the group at the 2nd/3rd boss, and dam did we try. But in the end it felt like it was my fault, if i remember right we had at least 3 melee including tank which made things very hard to heal. So i respecced to shadow and leveled solo till 80 where i just dont know what to do yet again. The leveling of tailoring seems very difficult which is my only hope and the only hope that a “casual player” can get the gear they need to be useful in raids without the crazy timesink.

Im writing this post after thinking about it for a few weeks and because i got rejected from a “PUG Heroic” for being “UnderGeared” which has made me so angry i cant explain it.

This game i got when it came out over a year a go i think it was April 2007 and i never got into it.  Ive been meaning to play it for a long time but because of certain other MMO game i never did. The progress i made in the game was lost each due to the game sving
its “Saved Games” in the windows drive instead of “My Documents”
Folder. From the few levels i did play i knew this was a good game
maybe up the standards of “Half-Life 2” in terms of atmosphere at least.

STALKER the movie and short story:
The game is based on a Russian Short story called “Roadside Picnic” which was made into a movie called “STALKER” back in 1977. The Movie which the game is based on has 3 people going into the “Zone” anymore would be spoiling it. The making of the movie is very interesting as it basically resulted in the deaths of the actors and director due to the places they had to visit while filming it.

From Wikipedia;

In an interview on the MK2
DVD, the production designer, Rashit Safiullin, recalls that Tarkovsky
spent a year shooting a version of the outdoor scenes of Stalker. However, when the crew got back to Moscow,
they found that all of the film had been improperly developed and their
footage was unusable. The film had been shot on experimental Kodak stock with which Soviet laboratories were unfamiliar.

Even before the film stock problem was discovered, relations between Tarkovsky and the first cinematographer, Georgy Rerberg,
had been in serious deterioration. After seeing the poorly-developed
material, Rerberg left the first screening session and never came back.
By the time the film stock defect was found out, Tarkovsky had shot all
the outdoor scenes, and had to burn them. Safiullin contends that
Tarkovsky was so despondent that he wanted to abandon further
production of the film.

After the loss of the film stock, the Soviet film boards wanted to
shut the film down, officially writing it off. But Tarkovsky came up
with a solution: he asked to make a two-part film, which meant
additional deadlines and more funds. Tarkovsky ended up re-shooting
almost all of the film with a new cinematographer, Aleksandr Knyazhinsky. According to Safiullin, the finished version of Stalker is completely different to the one Tarkovsky originally shot.

The central part of the film, in which the characters move around the Zone, was shot in a few days at a deserted hydro power plant on the Jägala river near Tallinn, Estonia. The shot before they enter the Zone is an old Flora chemical factory in the center of Tallinn,
next to the old Rotermann salt store and the electric plant—now a
culture factory where a memorial plate of the film has been set up in
2008. Some shots from the Zone were filmed in Maardu, next to the Iru powerplant and the shot with the gates to the Zone was filmed in Lasnamäe, next to Punane Street behind the Idakeskus.

Many people involved in the film production had untimely deaths.
Many attribute this to the long and arduous shooting schedule of the
film as well as toxins present at the shooting locations.

A Flawed Master-piece:
However it must rank as one of the hardest games ive played.  You can die so easily that you must basically Run->quicksave->shot->Quickload (if you die). Not to mention the fact that the NPC enemies can kill you so easily they seem to have incredible aim and accuracy something that makes you wonder what the hell kind of guns your character has, as it takes a lot og shooting to kill most of the enemies in the game. It feels at time

However the game is great i still connsider it an “Almost “perfect” game but it sure has its flaws.  Its way too hard.  I can quite figure out if its because ive never played the game properly , the R.P.G gameplay part to it kinda frustrates me.

Heres a video of the game that i made just to showcase the “Atmosphere” in the game. Note the sounds are very eerie and atmospheric.

STALKER:S.O.C – Atmosphere 1 (HQ Video and Audio)

There are some amazing games coming out between now and x-mas thats its impossable to choose what ones to buy. Probably the most exciting is the World of Warcrack Expansion pack Wrath of Litch Pin and yes they are delibate mistakes in the aid of being funny.

Anyway the big 3.0.2 patch is out for WoW at the moment which is the one before WOTLK hits so id thought id come back to WoW for a bit. I got an urge to try level my level 34 Dwarf paladin of all things. I cant explain it, one minute i was playing Warhammer Online with my Dwarf Rune Priest and 30 min later i was back in Wow after two months.

I always told myself that i wouldnt come back till there was new content while i cant see much in the patch notes except a “wall of text” abour boring class changes all i see is the “hair-cut” feature something that will keep the boredom away till WOTLK no doubt:p

The big 3.0 patch was something worth investigating at least for the moment. I kinda feel embarrassed returning to WoW like a long lost relative who ran out on his family i return with cap in hand so to speak. Theres still feck all to play for till the 14th of November and “Wrath of the litch king” but ill have a “poke” around i guess.

PVP is still the only thing i can be bothered with and out of my 7 alts ive yet to decide what one will be my “new main”. Its got to be the Priest or Rogue really also i like my Dwaft Huntard but theres piles of hunters around.

The other problem is wheter or not id like to raid ever again and the odds of that in the guild im in isnt very good. Odds are ill leave and join a small friendly guild with some people i know maybe or quit Wow again for good this time never to return.

Ive no idea if i want to raid ever again but thats a long way off and if WOTLK doest have something more than TBC all over again im off. If i get addicted again im screwed unlikely i see what Wow is now and how utterly boring it can be. Time will tell as they say.