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NEW YEAR, SAME MAIN
By Sarah Reeson
ormally at this point in an expansion I’d trying to work out why this is for a while now, and
have a slew of alts levelling, in various part of the reason I’m telling you this is to help my
Nways, building up rested bonus one after brain grasp the bigger issue that Legion’s created
the other. This time around, for the first time in over a for those of us with multiple (virtual) mouths to feed.
decade, my husband has an alt at 110 before I do. He Why is it that I feel compelled to keep going back
chose a Shaman, mostly because he’s been working to my Hunter ahead of getting anyone else maxed,
late nights, and has needed somewhere to go and when it would give me more variety for playtime?
relax after tough days. I’m currently in the process
of applying for jobs and writing covering letters, Then I grasped that I no longer need a change of
and after a day of that, exercise and writing I’ll be pace in this expansion: the game provides that for
honest, I’d rather go to bed. It would be fair to say my main in ways that never existed before. I am no
that, since the announcement of Legion and now, my longer restricted to a limited number of activities,
commitment to play time is in a different place. I’ve the pile of ‘Things to Do’ in current content becoming
not lost any of my love for the game however, in fact larger every day. There’s Battle pets who reward
it’s quite the opposite. The biggest problem, without mounts after training, helping people in Mythic Plus,
a doubt, is making that limited online time count. World Quest upgrades, PvP in the Dalaran Sewers
for a mount, fishing Drowned Mana for a mount…
That meant that for a while my main was all that with so much more still not done in Legacy should
mattered, ahead of any thoughts of getting other I get bored. However, there’s also the very real pull
things done, right up to the point a couple of weeks of a class and set of abilities that I now love more
ago when I finished the 7.1 Suramar campaign. than I have at any point in 12 years. Beast Mastery
Once that was finished, I will freely admit I pulled is my fantasy spec. I don’t need huge DPS, just the
out my Mage with high hopes of starting a new ability to survive indefinitely and I can do just that
journey. However, she’s still sitting where I left her now with a measure of style and unflappability.
in Dalaran, with no real desire to go pick her up All that is then required for maximum enjoyment
again for even Professions development. I’ve been exists in one place, and on a single character.
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