The Calm
Well as of currently there is not much to talk about here. I haven't been playing much beta lately.
I did finish up Zul'drak, and I do hope to post that gallery and blog entry soon, but that is about it. I haven't even started Sholazar Basin, The Storm Peaks or Icecrown Glacier. But to be honest, I probably will not complete those zones in beta as I'm already level 80 in beta and I might as well save those experience until release.
On live, I finally talked my girlfriend into starting WoW and she's taken quite a liking to it. We did the recruit-a-friend program and with her on a hunter and myself on a warlock, we went 1-60 in one week. After that, she wanted to learn a bit of the back story before starting the Burning Crusade, so the two of us sat down together and played through Warcraft 3 and The Frozen Throne. She was amazed by the depth of the story in the Warcraft universe and I'm glad she has really been enjoying the lore (being that I'm a huge lore nerd myself). So our current project is just getting these two characters up to 70 before the November release. I probably won't ever play the warlock again at the WotLK launch as I'll be focusing on my paladin main and I don't really like having alts.
On a different note, I was thinking about what my dream MMO would be. I know that WoW is not the perfect game, but it has is the one that best satisfies my wants in a game. I know that there were many people that were hoping WAR would be the perfect game, and to some it is (see: Syncaine).
So in regards to this, my next little side project is going to be a series of pieces writing about what my dream MMO would be like. I plan on detailing the setting (i.e. not fantasy), the factions, the classes, the combat system, the profession system, the leveling/skill system, and how expansions would be handled. I also hope to have one final blog post on the subject detailing what would be the pitfalls of the game and what flaws could arise.
My workplace is no longer having problems connecting to my website so now I won't have as much of an excuse to not update, so expect more frequent updates from me.
Also, grats Mayonaise on Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian.