Sigh

July 30, 2008 at 1:01 am (Random, Video Games)

OK, since I started playing WoW I’ve wanted one thing more than any other in the game: a skeleton horse. The Undead mount. But I have never been able to level up a Horde character past 28. No, really. I can not do it. For some reason, I find the areas around that level so boring and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.

Well, the recent patch has lowered the level when you can get a mount from 40 to 30 so that gives me a reason to push on through those boring levels. And I did. I got a Horde character to 41 and I’ve been strutting around the apartment for weeks. Though this strutting does not equal my Alliance character hitting 70 dance—we like to call that one The Running Woman Who Accidentally Ran Into the Wall and Stubbed Her Toe—it still has managed to make my husband mildly uncomfortable.

My Horde character is an Orc and I fear that she’ll look really stupid on the skeleton horse. But since in real life I wear a beanie cap with matching pants, I do not fear looking stupid. So I took my Orc to the Undead starting are to grind for rep—in English, that means that I went to where the Undead characters start and decided to do those easy quests to gain reputation. You need a certain level of reputation with whichever group you want to buy a mount from. This is a pretty regular occurrence with higher level characters who want another mount. Apparently, this guy did not know that.

I am the one talking to NoName. Now, forgive me for my bad high school Spanish, which I didn’t do very well in, and for my poking of Teh Stupid. And while I laughed for quite some time at this player, it also made me shake my head in annoyance. I am very careful when I play WoW. I don’t pull kills away from people. If I do by accident then I apologize (yes, yes, I am lame). I am especially careful when I grind rep in newbie areas to stay away from the other characters there who need the kills to level up. Maybe I didn’t see this guy and I pulled something from him. If he had pointed that out, I’d have apologized.

But he didn’t so I teased him and laughed at him. Ahhhh, WoW. Possibly the best showcase in the world for Teh Stupid that is people.

I have to admit that not 15 minutes later, another player asked to group with me. He was friendly and polite and he got help with some of his quests so . . . there you go.