I really did intend to play more Runescape this week - honest. Life, you see, gets in the way sometimes. I figured I'd have time for it Tuesday or Wednesday evening.... but work happened.

I did, however, reactivate my World of Warcraft account over the weekend, and slip back into that smooth blend of fun and mediocrity. And I must tell you - it felt good.

WoW, for me, is a love/hate game. I like how easy it is for me to just hop in and play for a bit, but not get too sucked in. It's like an old pair of shoes or jeans that just fit right and are easy to lounge in, but you wouldn't try to impress someone with them.

I hadn't played since last August, and figured "eh, what the hell? May as well see what the latest patches changed." So I dropped the scratch and logged back in. Crap, it had been a long time. I spent a good half hour just going through all my icons and menus and trying to remember what each thing did, and what order to use them in combat. I wanted to see how dramatic the experience increase was in the last major patch - more XP for quests, and less XP required to level from 20-60 (Fairly decent, actually).

Then I closed it, went over to Curse Gaming and grabbed updates for all of my add-ons. Did you know there's a curse installer now that will keep your add-ons up to date? Handy, that. If it gives me problems I'll let you know.

Next was to figure out what I was doing in my quests. Off to ThottBot for that info. Soon I was killing dragon whelps and pirates and having a fun and spiffy time. Suddenly, what do I see? Horde ganking at Nessy's? Yes, a fight!

So I ran my ass up to the location where there were about 6 people on each side fighting and killing each other, all around my level. Everyone was having a fun time of it until some bastard gets butthurt because he dies too much and logs out so he can come back with his level 70 shadow priest and wipe us all out.

I really hate that. I try to play where if I see someone I could easily kill, I might stand and watch them for a bit, but I let them be. If it's someone within about 3 +/- levels of me I may or may not pick a fight, depending on my mood. But 23 levels? So a guy (or gal) has spent many days of their life levelling a toon to 70, then wants to strut like they're a badass to level 45-50 characters? Screw that noise - you're nothing but a greifer, go take a chance and swing with other 70s, and then talk shit.

So I did what any reasonable player does - logged off, logged on to another server and started levelling my blood elf... 

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