WoW has taken over my life

So it occurred to me this morning that I hadn't updated for a while. Apparently "a while" means "more than 2 weeks."

I've been playing World of Warcraft. Occasionally Eunice manages to pry me away to play City of Heroes with her, or to watch a movie, but mostly I just play WoW.

I had these grand plans for the new year. Work on and eventually run a new campaign. Write some code at home. Spend more time with Eunice. Read more technical books. Yet what do I do every night when I get home? Play WoW. It's not even like I can keep up with my buddy, who started earlier than I did and plays more than I do.

Oh well, I am at least having fun.

I was intrigued by the Warrior class. Normally I like playing hybrids. Straight up warriors are boring. Gameplay usually consists of running in, hitting the auto-attack button and then making yourself a sandwich. Or at least that was true in the original Everquest. The hybrids always held so much more interest for me. They offered more options.

Warriors in WoW are different. It's a difficult class to play, and I'm pretty sure most of the Warrior community doesn't understand that. At least that's the impression I get from reading the Warrior boards. Then again, according to the warrior boards I'm not in the bad spot for warriors yet. Depending on who you believe, warriors either always suck, or they're fine until 20 and then suck, or they're fine until 35 and then really suck. I'm only 27, so by most accounts I don't have the necessary experience to comment.

Anyway, Warriors are hard to play. All of their special abilities use Rage, which builds up during a fight. You get rage by hitting things and being hit yourself. Sadly, you don't get rage from missing --only you as a player get that. I'm sure there are some warrior issues, but for right now the class seems fine to me.

And how do you tell a good warrior from a bad one? The bad warriors always have a lot leftover rage at the end of a fight --they don't use their special abilities much, if at all. It's very easy to be a bad warrior.

I've rambled enough about WoW for now. I think I want to talk a little bit about A Wizard of Earthsea, but I'll save that for a different post.