Meet Gorrin…
Posted by Peter | Filed under Games
I’ve finally been and gone and done it… I’ve tried World of Warcraft. After a few hours, I have a level 8 Dwarf Hunter called Gorrin. I thought I was being at least a little original, but I’m seeing as many Dwarf Hunters as I am of everybody else put together. Doh!
It’s been an interesting experience so far. I have previously played a little Silkroad Online, so the basics were already somewhat familiar to me. I am struck by how clean and slick many of the graphics and animations are (a few questionable trees and things notwithstanding), although as I always suspected, everything just takes so long to do!
Enjoying it anyway, although I’m finding the balance of ranged/melee attacks quite hard to manage playing on my own (I really should be more social!). Best tactics I’ve found are to hit the bad guy hard and fast from a distance, and keep backing-off while firing more ranged attacks, preferably moving in the direction of an NPC guard who can bail you out if you’re in trouble!
Not sure how willing I’d be to pay £9 a month for the privilege of all this, being as I’m on a student budget again these days… but we’ll see. I’ve got more than a week to try it out for free (although I reckon I should keep my playing strictly to weekends, or else I’ll never get any work done!).
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November 22nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Anybody paying really close attention will notice the name change… my Dwarf is actually “Gorrin” (not “Gorrim”, as I had previously said… oops!).
November 30th, 2008 at 1:00 am
I’d watch out with WoW - scarily addictive.
Some of my friends have a guild btw. If you want, I’ll put you in touch with them. For reasons of humour they have a preference for Gnomes, but accept Dwarfs too… (actually, I think they accept any alliance race, but only under sufferance..)
November 30th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Thankfully, I seem to have been remarkably immune to the addiction. After the flurry of initial novelty last weekend, I’ve not touched it… other priorities I guess!