On March 9, 2010, I made my first post as a WoW blogger.
Wrath of the Lich King was winding down and Cataclysm was on the horizon; that first post mentions plans I was making in anticipation of the coming changes of Cataclysm.
I had a few long-term WoW goals back then, and, over the past decade, I’ve accomplished them. I raided (in LFR) with a healer of every healing class during Mists. I got a Horde character of each of the existing classes to the level cap in Mists, Warlords, and Legion. I pushed an Alliance character to the level cap at the end of Cataclysm so that I could play the Alliance side of the pre-Mists events at Theramore; that character continues to be the only Alliance character that I actively play.
The introduction of LFR and Transmogrification in late Cataclysm revolutionized my WoW game. The upgrade of Transmogrification with the Appearances collections in late Warlords changed it further. The “Things my [Class] Wears” and “Sunday on the Promenade” series of posts have become this blog’s core content.
Once upon a time, I thought that when this big milestone occasion arrived, I’d put together something elaborate and special. Real Life has gotten in the way of that, however.
I landed my dream job; BTH and I bought a house and adopted two children. My blogiversary is now greatly overshadowed by its proximity to my older child’s birthday. The past couple of academic years have been rather rough and I’m running on the edge of burnout in my job — and that general exhaustion has propagated a feeling of being on the edge of burnout in keeping up with the “Sunday on the Promenade” series here on the blog, as well. So this small post of simple acknowledgement will have to do.
Here’s to TEN YEARS!
/salute! Here’s to Ten Years!
From this point of view, way over here, I enjoy your content and am entertained by it.
Thank you muchly!
I’m glad that I am able to entertain you 😀
Happy Blogiversary!
Thank you!
I’m so happy for you that you’ve stuck this out for the long term, Kamalia!
Here’s to another ten years!!
And yes, in terms of burnout, I’ve been there. There are a few points on PC where, if you pay attention, you’ll notice a dip in production. That’s when I had the most burnout, and also had life issues that took precedence. So nobody will fault you if you have to step back on your frequency blogging if your body and/or mind requires it.
Nevertheless, I really enjoy your Sunday on the Promenade pieces, because they demonstrate your creativity with fashion choices to a tremendous degree. Think of all of the pieces of clothing you have to not only dig through but remember in the first place to keep that sort of thing going. And it’s not as if WoW has a very limited number of choices in the first place, either.
I’m now starting to look forward to your family gaming blog posts, because those two young Jedi will have their own gaming adventures you’ll have to share, right? 😉
Thank you very much!
As for another ten years, well, we’ll have to see where the road takes me.
I’ve thought on occasion that I could probably change the clothes of all of my cloth-wearing characters every week for several months before I ran out of items that I like but haven’t used in an outfit yet! And there’s always new items being added with expansions and patches, faster than I can keep up with acquiring and using them…
The problem with that notion, though, is that Mogging costs money, and characters who aren’t actively adventuring run out of gold rather quickly. That would also be a very rapid road to the sort of burnout from which there is no coming back — I’ve learned from previous hobbies that when I start to make too many lists of things I want to do, doing them turns into a chore instead of a fun thing, and then I drift away.
My almost-three-year-old is already having gaming adventures, actually. I just haven’t written about any of them yet. Some months ago, I decided that I could let him fly my Druids around (with the interface turned off, and I leave all chat channels by default anyway) on occasion. So now he asks to play “the birdie game” whenever I turn on my home computer… He hasn’t figured out how to JUST press the movement keys, though, so he’s always randomly shifting out of Flight form into Cat form or Moonkin form or Humanoid form — and he usually manages to kill my Druid by falling at least once every time I allow him to play…
I love it!
I let my son fly around like that near Shattrath City back in the day, but then he managed to disembark mid-flight and Quintalan plummeted to his death. “No big deal,” I thought, but where Q landed I simply couldn’t get to so I had to accept the rez sickness instead.
Running back to Shattrath after that was embarrassing, as I had to keep an eye out for gankers (Q was on a PvP server at the time) and also dodge enemies that were 16 levels below me.
Hah! Yes, I’ve had to do the taking rez sickness thing, too. There have been a few times when I let him loose too close to the ocean, and he flew so far out into fatigue terrritory that my ghost got fatigue and died before I even reached my body…
Gratz with the milestone! It’s a great and devoted blog, always awesome to see a player’s specific passion within game 🙂
Thank you muchly!
I enjoy reading about your specific passion for alts & alt management, too! 🙂
Congratulations. I no longer play but I do love reading your blog. My little boy loves playing too. We let him make a Worgen hunter and he likes running around shooting things. I justify it because he’s learning computer skills right…
Thank you, Erinys!
Hmm, maybe a Hunter with a pet on Defensive *would* actually be a safer way to let him explore the world than a Druid in flight form!
What a fantastic milestone!! Congrats 🙂
Thank you!