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Alting - and Starting All Over Again
Monday, June 1st, 2009 - 31 Comments
Up until the past couple of months, I always stuck with Horde characters. Sure, I’ve tried out Alliance here and there, but never found them quite as intriguing. I’m sure the fact that my RL friends I play with are all Horde also plays a ... More
Damn It Feels Good to be An Alt!
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 - 15 Comments
Many people, including us at Project Lore, find monotony in playing at level 80. Without the overall goal of leveling up, you can feel misguided. Many people decide to create alts so they can again have that purple (or blue) experience bar on their screens. You ... More
My First Step Into Wintergrasp
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 - 16 Comments
I hate this thing so much… One thing I love about video games is their ability to allow me to blow off steam. When I ran up against an unbeatable bug in one of my computer science projects in college I would turn to video games ... More
The Follow-up: Who & How Are You Getting To 80?
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 - 47 Comments
Many moons ago, Bastosa and I discussed how and who we planned on getting to 80. Back then I figured I would simply keep healing my way up to level 80, pushing my priest as my main toon. While things started out that ... More
The Joy of Ganking
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 - 53 Comments
As we all wait for Wrath of the Lich King, I’ve been doing a lot of achievement grinding. It gives me something to do other than leveling alts, and I finally got my Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement the other day. In order to complete it, ... More
Who Are You Getting To Level 80?
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 - 69 Comments
My fellow blogger Bastosa recently posted a nice article on the grind to level 80. It will be interesting to see how well the 5-man instancing team sticks together. From my previous experiences, running with a group of friends over and over caused ... More
To Enchant Or Not To Enchant?
Monday, August 18th, 2008 - 18 Comments
So you have finally hit level 70 on your alt, or perhaps it is your main. As you begin to run the 5-man content while trying to get into Karazhan and doing PvP in between it dawns on you that most of your gear lacks ... More
A Taste of Tanking
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 - 44 Comments
So, as most of you know from my older post about my alt I’m currently leveling a Druid. From the comments I’ve tried a bunch of stuff and I’m having a bit more fun, so thanks everyone! That said, I’m now spec’d balance. ... More
Choosing Professions: Profit or Pwnage?
Monday, July 14th, 2008 - 12 Comments
How do you choose your professions? If you just want to make money, clearly there is a general consensus that taking a couple of gathering professions such as mining and skinning would be best. Just head out for a little while, gather up some materials, ... More
Where’s the Joy in an Alt?
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 - 48 Comments
So I’ve been leveling an alt. Now I will say that I have a lot of alts. Mostly from starting a character before I had a 70 and just losing interest before they were done. My first character was a Troll Hunter. ... More