WoW is like sports for children...

[thistlechaser]

Know how some sports for children don't actually keep score and at the end of the game it's announced that both teams have won? That's WoW for you. Tomorrow's patch has a change I knew was coming. Archaeology getting seriously nerfed. I can't even muster up any anger about this change. I knew it was coming. Heck, I posted here that I should have waited to finish once they made it easier.

I wish there were some way that titles were marked. "Professor Keen, Became Professor When It Was Actually A Challenge". Kinda long, but at least people would know I did it when it was hard.

Sigh. Like I said, this doesn't make me angry. It makes me tired, frustrated, depressed, and drained. But WoW nerfs everything because in the end both teams need to win and every child is a special snowflake.

In other depressing WoW news, by the end of today I should have 400K gold. Why's that depressing? A thread on a gold making forum explained it well: The topic was 'What will you do (or did you do) when you hit a million gold'. Most answers were exactly the same as mine: One million now becomes your new "zero", your gold may never fall below that as you chase after the second million. It's never ending, it's never enough. When I hit 100K, I wanted to hit 200K. When I hit 200K I wanted to hit 300K... and so on. The gold doesn't even have any value anymore, I look at the total amount on the top of my screen and I honestly and seriously cannot tell if it's a lot or a little anymore.

At one point I was having fun making money, but it's become a chore. It goes back to how different servers are. As a RP server, we have a crapton of crafters (RPers are generally more mature and understand that professions are Good Things), but as a RP server we have fewer raiders. This means the gem market is horrible.

...I had typed out all the math as to why it was so bad here, but it would likely put most people on my flist to sleep, so I deleted it. Let's just say if I didn't get the raw rare gem for basically free, I'd be better off vendoring cut rare gems. And, on many cuts, I'm nearly at the point of vendoring them now.

I really need to get out of the money making end of the game. I have over 2,000 more rare gems to move though, sigh. I need to RP more, stand in front of the AH less.

Edit: In positive news, my worgen druid hit 48 yesterday. For the first time, I did that 'punch Deathwing in the face' questline. I have to say, I enjoyed it quite a bit! I especially liked having the macho orc biker pick the male belf to save. :D I wish they'd release stats on which of the three got saved most!

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

That's actually how I make any gil in XI. I set a goal, and that becomes "zero" and I don't go below that. Right now I'm at 1.9mil, 1.5 is my current "zero" when I get to about 2.2mil then 2 will become the new "zero". I've been doing it for years but this is the first time I've done it where there wasn't really an end point or goal. At this points it's basically stockpiling for the future (since we still have 2 more level cap increases to go and who knows what kinda gear there will be). Although if I had like 100mil I'd probably just not care anymore and laugh maniacally to myself every time I look at my gil total.

Also, I love the "snowflake" term. I listen to AM radio and the one early morning host is constantly going on about the "snowflake generation" and the "Coulton's" about how they won't be able to grow up to do anything since when they hit the real world and learn that, they can indeed, fail at something they won't know how to handle it and their heads will explode.

Did you know they have Pull-string Pinata's?! (http://www.coolest-kid-birthday-parties.com/pinata.html) So instead of smashing it with a PVC pipe or a baseball bat or a stick you pull strings to get a bottom trap-door to open (multiple strings, only 1 opens the door). Since god forbid children work out some of their more violent urges in a safe and constructive (mmmm candy) manner. dlnsdflhjgtbsea@!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait, wait. You mean beating a cartoon animal with a bat WON'T make candy fall out of it? I've gotten myself banned from Disney World for nothing!

But more seriously, yeah. Failing is part of life! Some of us will live lives full of fail. :P It's better to learn how to deal with these things than to be overly protected from them.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I was in a tree once, I think I was like 11. And I was on a half broken branch that I thought to myself "This could break" but I didn't really care and went a little further out onto it to try and reach the next branch. Of course the branch broke and I feel down like, maybe 1 story (so like 8 or 10 feet) and landed on my back. After "Oww" my first thought was "Ok, lesson learned, not doing that again..."

See, I didn't get dead and became smarter and stronger for it!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes! People learn from these things, they have to experience them to learn!

[wow-hazmat.livejournal.com]

Eh, ya gotta be a little zen about it and take comfort in knowing that YOU got the achievement when it was hard. Heck, anyone looking up your achievement can see when you did it.

Ya gotta be proud of your accomplishments for your own sake, not for the sake of looking good to other people. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, good point. I always say that to others, I have to listen to it myself! :)

[giftofarthas.livejournal.com]

Having reached 400k already and realizing now I have to get to 500k, I just kinda went 'bleh'. I'm having more fun now leveling a little orc shaman now, and I've stopped worrying about it as much other than tossing up what I already have and forgetting about it.

Also, I spent a bunch of it getting my guild's cauldron achievement. We were so close to the 1000 flasks mark, why not? What else am I gonna spend all this gold on?

Also, I wish they'd taken the title for heroic LK out of the game when Cata was released. Because I got that title back when that fight was both relevant and difficult. Now there's these guilds who just got the title last week wearing it all over the place as if they're bigshots. /qq lots

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

and I've stopped worrying about it as much other than tossing up what I already have and forgetting about it.

While I always laugh at sellers who do that, I really have to start doing it myself. Not only will it give me more time to do other things, but it will make prices drop less fast. *I'm* good about undercutting (one copper will do it!), but others undercut by 10 gold (on a 15-20 gold cut!), which kills the prices for everyone. So the less they have to "get back at me" for undercutting them, I suppose the less they'll drive the prices into dirt.

Agreed on the LK titles. It's not the same thing getting them now! And can you imagine in another expansion or two? Casuals like me will be soloing the poor Lich King!