It’s been a while since this blog has gotten some useful posted, but there has not been particularly much that has happened since last time.
I have mainly been playing World of Warcraft, whereas my Death Knight has been respecialized to tank. I felt that I missed the aspect of tanking, and has also registered and become fairly active at Tankspot. I hit a new record in tonight’s raid, when I reached a maximum health of 38400. Yeah, that’s right. Also, when I pop a cooldown I reach 50000 armor. That’s 75% damage mitigation from physical attacks.
On a side note, I am getting quite tired of World of Warcrafts easiness now. We have with little gear and experience been running through two wings in 25 man Naxxramas with under 21 members in the raid. That’s not particularly hard, is it? Imagine people running around in blue equipment back at level 60 with only 32 members rampaging through the Molten Core. It just don’t seem right.
I am looking very much forward to Aion, and I hope it is as good as it looks. There might not be much raiding there, but it’s a whole new world to explore. Not that Northrend was a big letdown in World of Warcraft, but it just was too easy. When we just had dinged the max level, we were running through the instances on Heroic. And I mean running. Most instances were little to no wipes. It just doesn’t seem right. Why is it so simple? It ruins the fun of accomplishing things.
Back to Aion. It has been released in Korea, and Wikipedia suggests that Aion will be released in Q2 of 2009 to the European marked. So far they have been awfully quiet about it, so if they are thinking of releasing it then, they will have some hard marketing to do.
What am I going to miss about World of Warcraft? A very important aspect to World of Warcraft was its stunning gameplay and musical score. I have the original soundtrack on my iPhone and I often find myself playing heroic songs and compositions from the official soundtrack. Regarding Wrath of the Lich King’s soundtrack, I must say that my favourite is the intro, both with and without the speech by King Terenas Menethil. Seriously, I get the chills from just hearing the introduction. It’s so awesome. I cannot describe it sufficiently. I have not yet heard Aion’s official sound track, but I really hope it’s as good.
TBC was just right (after a while). WOTLK is too easy, but will improve (according to blue posts). Hey, maybe it’s us being too “hardcore” for the game.
Hopefully Aion will be a pleasant surprise.