Yeah. I fell pretty much immediately for that trap.
Listen, it’s not as bad as it sounds, but I think it’s probably still iffy. The entire weekend I’ve been playing my orc Hunter in Classic Burning Crusade, and I even managed to lose track of time, ending up spending the entire night between saturday and sunday playing it. I did eat, sleep and such, so it’s not as that one summer many, many years ago, and I allowed myself this because the kids were all with their mother this weekend. But it’s an iffy trend, and I know of atleast one who will be looking out to see if there’s a timer-addon or similar for Classic WoW. I need to have something going off, telling me it’s time to log off.
That said, I played through Ashenvale and relived all my old memories from years ago – even though it’s on the opposite faction now – went down to The Barrens, cleaned out Stonetalon Mountains, played through most of Desolace and wiped out everything in Thousand Needles except for the Shimmering Flats. I emptied out Hillsbrad Foothills, half of Alterac Mountains and quite a good chunk out of Arathi Highlands. I even played through a few instances, such as soloing Wailing Caverns, where I actually intended to upgrade my hunters pet to a higher tier Wind Serpent to get an upgrade on the lightning breath tier one, to a lightning breath tier three. I aim for a tier six in the end, but that requires a higher level than my hunter is, at the moment.
For the moment, I’m clearing out Stranglethorn Vale again, hunting through Hemet Nesingwary’s expedition missions is actually still a thing for me, since it’s a questline over faction borders. I’m thinking of going down from Grom’Gols base camp down to the pirate coast soon, see if I can find a Hyacinth Macaw again. Perhaps I will even sell some, if I find more than one. When I’m done with this area, I’m actually considering going to Burning Steppes through Searing Gorge, doing Molten Core so that I can tame a Core Hound. I’ll keep my Panther I named Memnoch – this time around again – and my Wind Serpent that I named Alba, so I’m going to have to buy a new stable spot.. they’re not cheap, but they’re not terribly expensive either. I should have managed to set some gold aside by the time I can tame a Core Hound. I mean.. there’s Core Hounds at my level right now, but I rather not try to take on the Shadowmoon Valley in Outland already, nor run around Molten Core at the moment. I’ll deal with it when I’m closer to 45, I think.
It’s a slow leveling though. Classic levelling is slow though, compared to retail – meaning the current live version with all the expansions that has come out – but also compared to many others playing Classic. I did have a lot of time to sink into the game this weekend, but now I will only have sporadic time over the next two-or-so weeks, because I’ve got the kids to look after. I cannot let myself lose track of time and play through an entire night again, because while I will be able to stay awake and take care of the kids and the household, I’m going to be completely wiped that evening if I do. And that’s not a fun experience. I rather play a bit on the evening, sleep the night, stay awake and manage to play some on the next evening, so I end up play the same amount of time, but end up not being as tired.
That’s where the timer-addon comes into play during those twelve days I have the responsibility over the kids. The timer-addons use when they’re at their mothers? To not have me play through the entire night so that I can wake up early the next morning and play the entire day instead. Atleast try to be more tactical, Lunnainn.
