Blastola Cola

Mad props to anyone who knows what game that title references to, used to play it on an old IBM 286 with a monochrome monitor (that's right, 6MHz of raw processing power).

It's Friday so I'm gonna keep this pretty short. Been playing the mage lately and having a blast. I remember starting a human mage a while ago, got to around the mid-20's and got tired of him, I just didn't think he had enough firepower and the mobs seemed really hard to kill. Now I'm level 22 on my undead mage, still running around the Barrens doing some quests that are about my level and having no problem with them at all. Sure I can't take on a bunch of mobs at once, but if that situation comes up I know just how to escape them. I even found myself in situations where I would have a patrolling mob show up in the middle of a fight and had no problem finishing off the first mob then blowing a way the pat. I don't know whether it was experience I got with the first mage, other alts expanding my overall knowledge, or what I've read online (or maybe all of the above), but I'm really having fun as a mage. Being able to see a mob at less than 50% health before he even gets to you, then rooting it and blasting it the rest of the way down is great, and with how little damage you take in doing this it makes it easy to deal with surprise situations that may arise.

I'm not really sure when I'm going to see the difference between Horde and Alliance, but I haven't found it yet. I guess until you get into the higher levels you're gonna still have a lot of morons running around, especially in the Barrens. What I really want to get exposed to is the advantage Horde always seems to have over Alliance. That's right, I'm talking about the ability to coordinate in groups and help each other out. This may not apply everywhere, but from what I've seen and heard, Horde usually outclasses Alliance when it comes to this. I almost never saw a solo Horde player running around STV, and if I did I usually didn't provoke him because I knew he would have backup there in no time. I guess I'll have to wait and see how it goes, but for now I'm just having fun blowing up mobs on my own.