The Cranky Old Gnome

Well now that I have the space on my hard drive I’ve decided to download the PTR.  I’ve been super bored in game lately.  Also, I don’t know if you’ve heard, it’s been kinda on the down-low, I’ve also been pretty lonely and aimless.  So I thought the PTR might be a nice way to add a little spice to my life.  I’m going to take advantage of the feature that lets you create a pre-made level 80 and try out the two classes I’ve never played before (hunter and priest).  Also, I’ve always wanted to try having a horde warrior and an alliance shaman.  So this is a nice way to do that without having to commit to a paid faction change.

And don’t worry, as I try things out and see what’s new, I’ll let you fine folks know what I’ve discovered.

My first impressions? It takes a long time to download.  It’s been 4 hours so far, and I’m still patching.  Granted, I’m also playing WoW in the background so my bandwidth isn’t exactly unrestricted.

“[Insert clever sign off phrase here]”

~Fizz

Warning, this post is a gooey mass of confusion.  It’s a follow up to a post I wrote a few weeks ago.  It takes me a while to get to the point.  Settle in for a long read.  Also, after writing this post, I realized it belongs in two parts.  The first part wherein I ramble on about the difficulties I had in actually writing this post.  The second, where I finally get around to my previous conversation about social interactions in the game.  You’re welcome to skip down to the 2nd part if you like.

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[Update: In case anyone finds this post, please keep it in mind that this was written in 2009. I haven’t bothered to go back through to see if any of this is still accurate because, well, I just don’t play WoW all that much, so it’s not that important to me. Anyway, the point is, do a little more research before deleting files willy-nilly.]

I noticed my computer has been running  a little sluggish lately, so I’ve been running a couple clean up programs to fix it up a bit.  During my adventures I noticed that I was running low on hard disk space so I made a query to find out what program/file was usurping my data.  Well most of my stuff was tied up in multimedia (music/pictures/movies/etc), or documents and misc. stuff to keep my computer actually running.  But the single most prominent thief of space was our old friend World of Warcraft.  20 gigs.  20 freaking gigs. Ho-lee-crap.

Well, that seemed excessive, so I decided to investigate.  I discovered that there are a couple of files that can be safely deleted.  And since I imagine I’m not the only one who didn’t know you could get rid of this stuff I thought I’d share what I learned.

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Most of my experience with other tanks has been on my healer, and I’ve seen quite the variety.  And I’d imagine that in my own time as a tank I’ve qualified as one or two of these types myself.  Just note that this is by no means a comprehensive list. Also, more than likely the tank you are with is an amalgamation of many of these types.

Here are some of the different types of tanks I’ve run with:

I suffer from a debilitating disease known as altitis.  This causes me to create alt after alt, obsessively trying to get them at least to 65 so I can max their professions.  Let me tell you a little about my alts.  Settle in.  This is a long post.

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