A Geek Grows Up

As was alot of people, I was at my local Game Stop on Wed. Nov 12th, waiting for the midnight (on Thurs. Nov 13th) launch of the new World Of Warcraft expansion “Wrath of the Lich King”. This is my thus far review.

First off, as with most Game Stops, the store was tiny. When I got there at about 11:30 pm, there were about 20-30 people in line. I lined up and listened to some WoW nerds discuss the lore, while a TV blasted WoW trailers continuously. By go time, there were another 20-30 people behind me waiting.

After I got my copy, I rushed home to install. Once I got it installed, I took a quick zeppelin trip to Northrend on with my main. After that, I had to get some sleep to be at work very early the next morning. I that spent the day at work reading the WoW blogs, FAQ’s, and other information. Mostly I wanted to know about creating a Death Knight. Originally I was under the impression that I would have to sacrifice my level 59 Blood Elf Priest.

This was surprising and disappointing at the same time. From a lore and RP standpoint, it would have been cool for a back story to take an existing character and and convert them to a death knight. I was disappointed when I discovered that I would have to create a completely new character. This allows me to now have two somewhat high level characters that I can swap between in order to get the most from my rested XP. The only problem I have with creating a new character is that when you choose a profession, you are starting out at 1. I choose Inscription and Herbalism as my professions. It sucks to have to wander around the lowbie areas to gather herbs to get my Herbalism up.

I have to give Blizzard props for starting every death knight out with a full set of green plate armor. And doing the start area quests replaces most of that with blue armor.

Once you get out of the death knight starter area, you end up in your racial capital. You have to find the leader as your race. The problem is that you are only neutral with your racial faction. So you have to endure the cat calls and getting fruit thrown at you until you speak with your racial leader and gain enough repetition to no longer be neutral.

Since creating my death knight, I have only logged into my former main character long enough to go to the Undercity to so she can start to gain rested XP. I’m very very impressed with playing my death knight character, and quite enjoy the experience.

If you have not upgraded to the new WoW expansion, I would suggest you try it. It’s a blast and gives new life to the game.