Casual Huntering

Have you noticed that your work ethic and personality bleed into your playing style? I certainly have. I’m not saying I have a very poor work ethic, I don’t, I work just as hard as the next guy, I think. Well, okay, sometimes I can get lazy and when the game starts to look like work then I start to want to do something else. Also, I swear I’m ADHD, I swear it. I can’t focus on one thing for more than two minutes or so. That’s why generally I don’t have super long elaborate blog entries about one thing or another. Generally have a couple of paragraphs my brain is off somewhere else. Of course that’s not always true, but seriously.

I can’t seem to stay focused on one thing in the game anymore. I tend to sit down at the computer and think, “Hmmm, what do I want to do this morning?” and without fail I’ll do something random when I should be focusing on getting my hunter better gear or leveling one of my key alts. What do I do instead? I create a new character somewhere random. I believe I’m up to 31 characters across 8 servers. Now, I only care about 4 of those servers, but still, I’m spreading myself pretty thin. I know it would probably be better to focus on maybe only 4 characters. But right now I’d say that I’ve been working on 12 different toons. At least I never have to worry about running out of rest XP, cause there’s always someone that I can play with that has an ample supply.

So, what’s the problem with that? Well, I’m slow. Come on, I have a turtle for a pet! I work slowly, mostly because I have a limited amount of playing time. I play for an hour or two before I go to work and one night a week I’ll get on and do a raid with my guildies. Once or twice a week my wife and I will work one one of our 4 different couples in the game (we tend to try to give them names of famous couples, but that’s another blog post altogether). So, I’m limited in game play. I’d probably be just fine if I only focused on my Hunter and my DK, but I swear it’s addictive to be an altoholic. You find yourself rolling new toons all the time, sometimes with legitimate reasons, sometimes just because you thought it was a cool idea. I swear I’m going to have to go to a 12 steps program for this. But at least I know I’ll be in good company (looks at Anea).

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