Slowly Returning
There are many readers and supporters who come by Hunter Mastery and most often in the last month they have been not so much disappointed that nothing has happen but more just playing the waiting game. The game of when I return full-time, well the sad truth is that maybe I’ll come back full-time in the future. However right now that just isn’t going to be the case.
I’m still working on putting my life together, working to lose weight and to feel better and to be healthy. That all comes above any video game, no matter how much I might enjoy playing it. That being said I’m not leaving the game, the up coming changing, really are something and sure I wish things where simple like it was for me years ago. Truth was while I had time to play, write and work on my projects, I was deep down dying a little bit every day because I wasn’t doing anything with my life beyond a computer game.
For those of you reading this, don’t take it that I’m saying playing a video game is bad. No it’s not, everyone has their time where they just want to do something fun, some people like to make a job out of it and some are so sucked in they believe it’s real life for them. Which ever one of those or millions others you should always just do what makes you happy. Nothing anyone or I could say to you to change that fact.
There is this underlining ideal that all great things must come to an end. Well I don’t really believe that at least not 100% all the time. There are times when things change, but things still become better and never really disappear.
As I’m writing this today I’m thinking about what things I need to do to better myself, this site and changes ahead. I know many of you come here hoping to read news about the latest patch, 5.0.4 how much gold did I make? Well I can tell you that I pick up the Sandstone Drake for 35k for myself. I finally broke down and pick it up because well it’ll be on all my characters now.
I didn’t have much time to jump into anything much over the weekend. I did however drop down and give a hard look at inscription, after all that was what I wrote about in my last post. I have to say in the one day I was able to drop items on the Auction House, and pick up my mail 4 days later, I made 7,400g. But that was not all glyphs, I did sell a darkmoon card for about 4k.
About everything else, I didn’t get much of a change. I’m still logging into all my characters, dealing with add-on updates, making sure settings didn’t get nuked, setting up some being they totally changed how they work. You all know the drill. I will say this time around add-on’s are being update much quicker and more smoothing then I think it has ever been in the past. I’m thankful for that 90% of all my add-on’s I use have been updated and are running smoothly.
Tell me about your patch 5.0.4 sales? After a good week how much gold did you make? What did you sell and are you see prices drop in the items that pulled in big cash the first few days of the release.
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4 Comments on Slowly Returning
Richard, at the end of the day, you have to do what you need to do for you.
This “Truth was while I had time to play, write and work on my projects, I was deep down dying a little bit every day because I wasn’t doing anything with my life beyond a computer game” struck a chord with me too – I’ve not worked properly for almost 3 yrs now, at first it was depression & towards end of last year, was depression again but in the middle, I was just having too much fun to shift my butt back to work. I’m out of that now though & finally waking up to fixing myself too. This community is fab but it can consume so much time if you let it.
I look forward to your posts but don’t let this blog & your other WoW projects stop you moving forward with your own real life. You will play & write better if you’re ‘alive’ again anyway :) {{{hugs}}}
Thanks Nev for the kind words and you are right. At the end of the day it comes down to what you’re doing and what life means to you. That is why this community I think is so great because people like you exist in it.
I totally agree and you make some good points there.
Game and RL balance its a challenge I’ve addressed twice in my 6 years of playing wow. Dont get me wrong its a good game despite its many ups and downs. Moving to a new country and not knowing anyone, wow was a welcome distraction but it has at times taken over what little life I had away from work and for a while it was a stress outlet when assaults from patients (forensic nurse) or management pressure became too much. There was something nice after coming home bruised, battered and a little stressed to logging on a slaying some little gobbo…no transference there at all…honest!
And yes it can be rather too easy to retreat into the virtual world and not get out and move on in real life, I know because often I do the same, shift work probably doesnt help and there is something of a virtual community in the game even if in my experience it is only ever that, virtual friends who although I type chat with and sometimes talk on vent with I know when I stop playing wow I will never hear from or meet in the real world.
Last week I returned from a 2 month long holiday back home & with family and it meant going cold turkey from wow (a scarey thought I know but heh I had nephews to keep me busy) and that allowed me time to put the game into perspective, it is afterall just a game. True I have known of at least a handful of players who suffered with depression, it is a hidden menance in the game if it becomes better than RL and there is the challenge.
Thankfully for me the game is slowly winding down, not only has it been dumbed down a lot so as to attract a younger and more occasional player but membership is dropping, MOP should raise it for a while but the format of the game is becoming tired and it lacks the hook it used to have at least for me.
I guess it was due to this that at the start of the year I looked as to what there was left to do in the game. I used to love bgs but at 85 they seemed to lack much of the olde appeal as they became more dependent on which faction you were on (horde rarely win in my battlegroup making random bgs near pointless, afterall serious pvpers just go human) and whether you did arenas to get the uber gear or not (I rarely did), but I digress. I went on to fill all slots with 85′s, then what I asked? Okay next gear them out to raid and RBG level, on the 7th/10 toon I grew bored of that, so what next. Gold making came next and it took 4 months to learn and reach cap on a low pop server where horde are 29% of the pop, so then what? Mogging all toons with most having alt mog sets as well okay now what? Find hidden areas and bits or lore or game knowledge okay so far so good now what? Wait for mop and do pet battles, grind out the story and raids and try the new bgs then what?
Yes I will probably keep on playing at least for a while but certianly far less than I did before. I cant see me spending the time nor wanting to spend the time kiting out 11 toons to 90 and raid and rbg level gear so for me I can enjoy a southern hemisphere summer and have something they call a life.
On that note let me share something I discovered today. Interesting fact, apparently dandelions arent actually fantastical morphed felines from the underworld but green weeds I have to kill, maim, slaughter, sorry I mean pick out of my garden this weekend, now do I use my vorpal demonsword of might to do this or a trowel, hmmm? Have a great RL and remember the answer to the former is a trowel …of might! Keep Smiling :)
Sablemoon
Sablemoon, thanks for the kind words and you are right in everything you said. One of the things you need to do if you’re looking for new ways to make the game more fun is do something that isn’t something that standard for the game.
For example, you have pet battles now, that is something new and I can tell you something.. for me.. I would really just do that all day and night because I use to play pokemon hardcore back in the old days. There is also things you can do. Iron Man for yourself, come up with your own rules and follow them. Try to play Hardcore. Start a new character on another server and if that character dies, you delete it right away and lose all the gold and items that character collected.
I will keep up this site for as long as WoW is alive or until I simply can’t keep doing it. Which could be lack of time, or real life issues. Either or, it a fun game for me and I try to do a little of everything. If I’m not having fun doing something I stop doing it for a while until it’s fun again.