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I got a chance to play with my older brother last Friday. We ran a couple of beginning outland instances with him, his wife, my wife, and myself. We had a blast. It’s been a really long time since we’ve done anything in the game together. You see my brother had stopped playing WoW around last April. I didn’t think he’d ever get into the game again and it was kind of a sore spot for him and myself whenever WoW related issues slipped into our conversation. Pretty soon we just avoided the topic altogether.

At the time he was getting frustrated in the game. He originally started playing so he could spend time with some of his friends. (He got me and my brothers into the game as well). But his friends main goal was raiding, which is fine, but it made my brother feel like he had to raid in order to spend time with his friends. I think he liked raiding so that wasn’t a big deal at first, but his life is even busier than mine. I only have 3 kids, none of which are in school yet. He has 5 kids, with his oldest being 12 years old, youngest a newborn. (I just realized that I wrote a post about him quitting awhile ago http://casualhuntering.com/?p=282)

Keeping up with his friends to be able to raid with them was turning into a bit of a joke I guess. He felt that he was always playing catch up. He was always behind in dps with his mage and he didn’t have time to get the gear he needed. During Wrath of the Lich King he started getting frustrated with leveling as well. Being on a PvP server will do that to you, especially when some random @sshat rogue decides to camp on you. So, his main never made it past level 73. He was frustrated with the game and he was starting to feel like it was a waste of his time, time that could be spent doing something else to help out his family. Well, of course we could be doing something more productive with our time, I don’t think any of us would argue with that, but it took out something that we liked todo together.

The funny thing was that he’d spend a lot of time playing console games so it wasn’t like he turned all of the time into something hugely productive. I admit that I was pretty bummed about him quitting WoW. It was something we could talk about, something we had in common. After that we didn’t talk much. Our interests don’t exactly coincide outside of the game. (I guess it sad that I use warcraft to have something to connect me with my brother, but its better than nothing). My wife really enjoyed playing with his wife (she was the one who got Kydra to play, not me). We really enjoyed doing 5 mans together. So, when they stopped playing (since my brother’s accounts were not active), our wives stopped playing. Of course young children also had a hand in putting that to an end at the time.

So, when I heard my brother reactivated his accounts I got really excited. We ran with my dk as the tank, my wife’s level 59 dk, my brother level 66 priest, and my sister-in-law’s 65 warlock. Great fun was had by all. And hopefully we’ll be able to do it again real soon. I think we’re going to be making a weekly event out of it. It’s a nice way to spend time together, because it’s really hard to get away to hang out when we have children running around everywhere. This way we can get our kids to bed and then play and chat via vent.

So, I’m much happier with the game these days. Good times.

Okay, I know its February now and I should have already made this post. I’m already a month behind. Well, if I would have made the post before this last weekend it would have disappeared. You see we backed up the blog early this month to move it over, but then we had some difficulties moving (mostly because I’m a noob when it comes to the technical stuff), but we figured it out! So, I’ve been waiting to post my Azerathian new year resolutions, so here goes.

• Level at least 2 more characters to max level before the expansion.
  • This should be so hard to get, I think… I have my DK at level 79.66 right now so we should just be about there in a little bit if I can stay focused.
• Finish the “What a crazy year” achievement and get my violet 310% speech proto drake on Aoirselvar.
  • On a side note, I want to get started working on this for my DK as well.
• Get my Dwarf Hunter raid worthy
  • I admit it, I’ve lapsed on this in the last couple of months. I know this should be easy if I focus, but every time I sit down to the computer I get side tracked by one squirrel or another.
• Learn how to tank on my DK and feral druid
  • I have not problem trying this out, my only problem is that I don’t wand the LFG to be my first attempt at it. So, I’m going to have to talk some patient guildies into letting me try this out, oh and my druid is only level 35 anyway, so it’ll just be swipe heaven I’m told.
• Learn to heal on my druid (hopefully duel spec sometime) and priest
  • Okay, so I’ve been wanting to try out other aspects of the game. I realized that the days of me being a one character player are over.
• Tank something I’m not suppose to with my turtle.
  • I’ve been obsessed with pet tanking since 3.0 and no one ever takes me seriously. I guess I can’t hardly blame them, but I think non-hunters don’t understand what a good tenacity pet can accomplish. Once we were trying to do the Brewfest holiday boss and we didn’t have a tank, not a big deal, it’s a pretty easy fight actually. So, I tell my boomkin brother that I’ll tank and he told me, “Okay, but you watch, I’m guaranteed to pull aggro off your tank cause I do super massive DPS.” I shrugged in return. He thought I was stupid and only was letting me do this cause it was an easy easy fight. So, at the end when he didn’t even come close to my turtle’s threat he was a little surprised.
• Write at least weekly with quality and at least somewhat useful posts here on this blog.
  • On a side note, I’m also determined about being better to not let this blog, twitter, forums, or another blog from affecting my work performance. I’ve been guilty of that in the past and I’m going to try to keep this to a minimum when I’m at work. Now I’m not saying I’m going to never do anything WoW related at work, I know that I can’t keep that promise.
• Obtain the 100 mount achievement
  • Do I dare put this as a goal for the year when I’ve become an altoholic? I don’t know, but this has been a fun thing for me on Aoirselvar, so far I think I’m up to like 75 or so.

At least that’s some of the stuff that I want to get accomplished. Well, see how the year goes, but writing it down I think helps you stay focused, something I have a problem with that I’ll have to write about on a different day.