We’re bad bloggers. We get all wrapped up in our little lives and forget about you, our public.

So, as seems to be Harry’s and my pattern, we give up WoW to search for greener pastures only to spend 6 months bored and disconsolate until, with heads hanging low, we crawl back to the sweet embrace of Azeroth.

We really, really tried to like LotRO, and, objectively speaking, it’s a great game. But it’s not quite our cup of tea, just not quite. The visual style doesn’t quite do it for us, and while we both like Tolkien it’s not our #1 most captivating imaginary world, and, in some ways, using the world of Tolkien keeps some visual, plot and game play choices fairly rigid. And, honestly, we’re min/maxers. We like mechanics, we like efficiency, we like information and lots of it. WoW gives us these things in spades whereas LotRO is much more about socialization, collecting, experiencing. It’s not bad, it’s different, but it doesn’t quite fill our particular OCD hole. I don’t want to put words in our roommate’s mouths, but they really enjoy LotRO and I think it’s because J like collections of any kind and T is often more immersed in character development, and crafting. They tend to explore virtual worlds more, at a slower pace, with more thoroughness. Harry and I are speed demons. The game we play is getting from point A to point B FASTER BETTER HARDER NOW NOW NOW.

ATM, we’re leveling 2 little mages, which is always fun. We’ve done matching mages before, and I have a 70 mage already, but damit, mages are just a hoot to level up. We’re going fire this time, since my 70 and our two previous ones were both frost, and things go asplody. We are also reveling in the luxury that is FINALLY having low level spell dmg gear available. THANKS BLIZ. Harry really wants a high lvl pure DPS class (having a mage and a hunter myself I can hardly blame him), so we might take these all the way to 70. However, I feel absurd having two 70 mages. I might swap out at 40 for my priest or my lock or at 50 for my war, but eh, we’ll see.

We have some interest in re-joining end game WoW activities, we certainly have people who’d let us raid with them in a heartbeat, so we’re giving that some thought. Especially since our gear isn’t too out of date yet and badge gear makes it easier to catch up. Mostly though it’s just been nice playing something that we’re so good at together. We’re a pretty fierce machine of two in WoW, we’ve been playing for long enough that we intuit what to do. We sort of fall in to almost a kind of shorthand communication, it’s really pretty satisfying.

We shall see what comes of it, especially when Harry’s new job starts up and we fall back in to some kind of pattern.