Loremaster of Cataclysm

Well that took longer than expected.

I thought I'd be able to bust through the cataclysm quests in a day or two, instead real life got the better of me. It turns out that newborn babies are more demanding than I thought :)

I've completely stopped regular raiding and I took a break of a couple of weeks from the game entirely but now I'm back focusing on the solo content.

I'm going to stick to my plan: solo content first. The reason is that with new raiding content coming out almost every major patch, I need to finish the content, including all heroics, before the next set of content comes out. This will require a concerted effort and it's only worth doing once everything else is completed, including all the PVP stuff. Remember, my goal is to reach 100% complete one time, not to stay at 100% complete forever :)

As for the quest content: my biggest complaint is the triviality of many of the quests. I'm not allowed to save the world from insurmountable forces until I collect enough boar spleens for farmer Bill's lunch. Also, there are zero choices to be made - everything is completely linear. I understand why MMO's need to be like this, but I wish there was a way to make more long-lasting choices even if it's something as simple as Aldor versus Scryer.

Anyway, Cataclysm quests are done, on with all the old world ones. I'm excited to see these - I purposely left the entire revamped world unexplored so I have a LOT of quests to finish up.

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