I've been suffereing with my mage for a long time, trying to pick up playing with him only to get frustrated.  From the very beggining I named him Moroz, which means frost in Russian.  I inteded for him to be frost from the beggining.  I've tried so many time to respec him into pure frost frost and arcane and frost for AOE gridning.  Yet even after I started to have fun with the frost AOE, i got bored of that, and still got owned by a mob a few levels above me.

Finally, finally at level 30 i've specked into pure fire.  Boy-oh-boy.  Things are pretty easy now.  I don't run out of mana, and mob goes down pretty quickly.  Perhaps fire is the way to level a mage after all. :)

The the "world" in World of Warcraft is really that - it's a world.  The game is huge as far as the territories and places it contains.  With the addition of Outland and also the new Blood elf island it keeps getting bigger.  So what is you favorite zone?  What's the least favorite one?

When I just started to play WoW i used to love running around exploring new zone once I got to that level.  Since most of this was done pre-mount it took a long time, and was one of the reasons it took me forever to level my first toon to 70.  It was just so cool and interesting.  I do less of it now, since it's all about leveling quickly and efficiently.  Still, there are zones I like more and others that I like less.

Besides the different theme, each zone very often also has it's own theme music and it's own unique feel.  One of my favorite zones in Outland, for example, is the Zangarmarsh.  I love the colors, the theme, and the music it has. It's very calm and tranquil.

One of the zones that I enjoy looking at, but hate playing in is Ashenvale.  Main reason being that is so hard to get around.  You look at the map and it seems easy to get from point A to point B.  But then you find out that there are all of these terrain obstacles and you got to go around. And usually by running around in that manner you run into tons and tons of Mobs, usually beasts.  I get very frustrated in that zone.

What's your experience like?

The other day, I decided to create a brand new undead priest, and quickly level her to the same level as my human priest, who is almost level 20. After spending about an hour and getting the new priest to level 19, I got bored. Combined with being tired, and also Medivh server being extremely laggy, I logged off.

The realization hit me the next day. I love playing WoW, I hate leveling. What is the difference? One you do for enjoyment of the game. You play the game while you increase your experience and level. The other you do as quickly as possible to get to 70.

Well I hate leveling, even to catch to my friend level 40 toon, or to my own toon on opposite faction who's level 19. Leveling sux! Goes back to my post about life before or after 70.

I think I'm done leveling. I'm gonna play from now on, no matter how long it takes me to get to level 70.

I've been thinking about this topic a lot. When does life begin in WoW? Does it begin when you create your new character or does it begin when that character reaches level 70, or at least 60? Why am I thinking all of this now? Well because I finally got my main Warlock to 70 a few months ago, and now it has been almost like a midlife crisis for me in WoW.

I remember when I just started to play World of Warcraft a few years ago I leveled my character slowly, taking time to run and do all the quests. Sometimes I would run to other zones just to explore them. Needless to say, it took me forever to level. I also made tons of mistakes along the way, and would learn from those mistakes. This was before I discovered how to look up quests on Thottbot or effectively make gold in the game. But I was pretty exited to sit down and explore the WoW universe.