And here's 80....

So, I hit 80 over the weekend, despite my laptop video card crashing, the holidays, and general mayhem. 80 is good, nice to be on the upper part of the pile again.

Gettign to 80, sucked. I hate levelling, the grind, the questing, the ganking. PvP is fun. Ganking is not. Even with hitting 80, I was still harrassed in Sholazar Basin by random spellcasters who felt it necessary to annoy me while I was turning in quests over the weekend. I'll never be quite so glad about school breaks being over as I am now that I play WoW. I'd be standing in the middle of the Nessingway camp, minding my own business, and I'd get hit by random spells and dots. Nothing really taxing, I'd just heal up and keep turning crap in. But really? Does someone need a hobby or what?

Not that I mind PvP. But I do mind PvP based on stupidity. I'm not one to gank people based on opportunity. I don't like being attacked while I'm in PvE combat, and tend not to bother other folks who are just questing. Mind you, that's bitten me in the ass. I'll leave someone alone, just to have them attempt to jump me while I've moved on to the next critter. As a prot pally, luckily it still takes effort to grind me down to dead. I'm a big fan of making others work for it.

But really? Attacking me while I'm in camp, turning in quests, minding my own ball o beezwax? Can't be satisfying, other than the annoyance factor. I just healed up and moved on. Really the only inconvenience here was not being able to take the flyer back to Dalaran the first time I clicked on it. And I just did a tap dance around camp and took the next flyer out of Dodge. Didn't even bother to see wh owas snickering to themselves in the bushes, the annoying little gits.

It is interesting to see which areas are morphing into the new gankerton centrals of Northrend. Sholazar Basin, Howling Fjord, and parts of Dragonblight seems to be annoying. But as the primary rush of those levelling fast v. those who take a more liesurely route have changed the traffic patterns as time meanders on. And the holidays pushed all of our servers into the joyous queue of love, waiting to even be able to sign onto our beloved toons. We'll see how it pans out, and which area wins out as the Hellfire Penninsula and Stranglethorn Vale of Northrend.

Otherwise, I'm off to gear for tanking raids and heroics. I've got the def cap, now I just need more stamina.