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NEW YEAR’S WOW RESOLUTIONS Despite playing for many years I still have some
t’s that time of year again, when we all start to big holes in my mount and pet inventories. I have
make resolutions. This year I am abandoning the faithfully trawled through seemingly endless zones
Iusual resolutions of going to the gym, eating better in the snow, rain and wind to get my World Safari
and drinking less. The gym always smells gross, I love achievement. I had killed Anzu so many times before I
chocolate too much to even pretend to give it up and I finally got my Raven Lord mount that my guild taunted
don’t drink alcohol anyway. That leaves me able to focus me about it to no end. However I’ve still got several
on the things that matter, WoW based resolutions. Maybe grinds to do that would be really easy these days.
you have some yourself? Here are mine for this year:
This year I’m going to get my list together and
I will do my farming duty... start grinding for those pets and mounts. No more
My first resolution is to start farming again. excuses, it’s time to start doing those grinds.
Not for mats, but for mounts. There are raids and
dungeons out there that owe me some shinies and So enough about me, what about you? Do you need
there are some grinds that I have been putting off. to do your dailies? Do you also have grinds you’ve been
putting off? What are your Warcraft resolutions for 2017?
By Helen Ashcroft
busy obsessing about their Gnome, that their class standard. I can just be what I am and happy at the
is inherently broken/OP, or that maybe we could stop same time. There are those friends who don’t seem
making these things BoP and change them to BoA to understand that I have no real interest in gearing
instead. Warcraft keeps on giving people inspiration to as high a standard as I did, or that I don’t have
to do their own thing, to find a space that is uniquely all my professions completed within the first three
their own which they can fill as they see fit. It doesn’t months of release, and I completely understand why.
have to be the right way either; just as long as it
makes you happy, frankly, nothing else really matters. Their gifts from Warcraft are not the same as mine.
That means that this year, I can be the most
casual player that ever existed. I can fish for a The joy of a game that can be so many different
couple of hours, or go help people do Mythics. If things to millions of players is not one that I can ever
my husband’s around we can go and World Quest, see diminishing from a personal standpoint. I’ll still
or maybe finish some dungeons. If my son needs root out things to do and distractions to make me
a hand with gearing I’ll go tank for him with my smile for many, many years to come. Now I’ve been
bear pet. This is, effectively, the best it has ever able to reconcile the issues within myself, everything
been for just doing what I want, when it matters is so much simpler to not only grasp but accept. It
and without the pressure of having to perform to a doesn’t matter that the pace of change is faster than
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