I broke the seal today on Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion to World of Warcraft, which was released earlier this month. Michael picked up snazzy Collector’s Editions for us the day it came out, so I have the little frost wyrm whelp pet, the card game, a book of art work, and the soundtrack (which might make an interesting diversion to listen to while driving to work).
Michael decided a while back that his new primary would be a Death Knight (there were reasons that tanking as a druid would suck in the new expansion), so he worked on leveling a Death Knight from 55 to 70 while I continued my vacation from World of Warcraft and contemplated whether my machine would run well enough to play.
I’ve been on hiatus from the game since May, essentially, which was about the time my computer started overheating while running dungeons. The timing was good. I was as far as I could get in the game without investing huge amounts of time a week and joining a raiding group that could handle Black Temple. I’m a gamer, but not that much of a gamer, clearly. Therefore, I was growing bored with weekly Karazhan and Zul’Aman runs and needed a vacation until the next expansion– so it worked out.
Right now, the iMac is in the shop, but I can run WoW on Michael’s recently-acquired Mac Mini. And I should have a working iMac back in my hands in the next few days.
Now that the weather is growing colder and cruddier by the day, it will be nice to have a cheap, indoor diversion on those weekends/evenings when we don’t really want to be out.
Time to level to 80!