{"id":1733,"date":"2008-06-26T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2008-06-26T00:03:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T05:03:02","slug":"world-of-warcraftmy-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1733","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft:<br\/>My Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worst part about World of Warcraft is the fact that I have been forced to <em>stop playing it<\/em> so I can write about the dang thing.<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself in World of Warcraft on the Kirin Tor server (Alliance side) then feel free to look me up.  I play as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowarmory.com\/character-sheet.xml?r=Kirin+Tor&#038;n=Shadekin\">Shadekin<\/a> (Hunter) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowarmory.com\/character-sheet.xml?r=Kirin+Tor&#038;n=Darkstride\">Darkstride<\/a>. (Rogue.)  I have many other little characters here and there, but none of them are worth mentioning.  These two represent a majority of my playing time in the game.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t team up very often, but I do enjoy taking magic items I can&#8217;t use and mailing them to friends.  I can&#8217;t bear to sell anything but trash to vendors.  I give the rare gems to my guild, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowarmory.com\/guild-info.xml?r=Kirin+Tor&#038;n=Pig+and+Whistle+Society&#038;p=1\">Pig &#038; Whistle Society<\/a>. I sell the herbs at the auction house, and I mail magical items to friends who might be able to make use of them. <\/p>\n<p>If you like, say &#8220;hi&#8221; or send me some in-game mail.  I might even fire an item your way.  I actually enjoy this aspect of the game: Lifting up fellow players and screwing the parasitic vendors.  I&#8217;d much rather have the satisfaction than the money. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably be more open to grouping once I have a little more of the game in me.  Right now I still read every quest, explore every hill and valley, and meander about taking screenshots and writing notes.  Anyone accompanying me would find my pace to be agonizingly <em>slow<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>I <strong>do<\/strong> have proper posts coming that will look at the gameplay and nitpick the little details of the gameworld and such.  I wanted to make sure I at least had some vague handle on the thing before I unleashed the blather. Luckily <a href=\"http:\/\/inscrutable.livejournal.com\/\">Shawn<\/a> (my former partner in Chainmail Bikini and leader of the P&#038;W guild) has been playing Yoda to my Luke Skywalker* for the past week or so, keeping me from making any egregious errors and enhancing my gaming experience with a continual and potent infusion of <em>knowledge<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p><small>* Actually, I think my in-game skill makes me more of a C3PO than a Skywalker.  I sort of fumble around in a dungeon saying &#8220;oh my&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m doomed&#8221; until some festering minion of darkness tears me apart. Again. Shadekin died an average of once a level for the first ten levels of the game.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst part about World of Warcraft is the fact that I have been forced to stop playing it so I can write about the dang thing. If you find yourself in World of Warcraft on the Kirin Tor server (Alliance side) then feel free to look me up. I play as Shadekin (Hunter) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}