Leveling, RealID and PVP
So I have to post an obligatory RealID discussion post right? Well, here it is:
I’m a fan of it, I support RealID in almost every way. I understand the fear of some parental units in that it would be easy for someone to find their child via the forums and in game with the now defunct RealID forum postings. However, I see nothing wrong with it in the general use of real names tied to characters. Both authors on this blog are in a guild that uses real names explicitly when assigning roles, talking about positioning, or just chatting in general. We hardly use character names, and honestly most of my real guilds have been that way. The guild we ran for a short while used mostly real names. So I see no harm in the overall of putting real names out there. It’s not like someone can look up your real name and automatically have your facebook page or your myspace page or your whatever page. If your information is out there, it’s out there, if you make an effort to secure it yourself, by using the security settings on the aforementioned websites then you have nothing to worry about. If you are an idiot, have a public myspace and post your phone number and home address then you are asking for it, sorry but RealID or not, you have bigger issues than some Squid Shaman who finding out they live close to you.
I have recently decided to finish leveling my level 75 mage, she is now level 77, almost 78, and has hardly done any quests, I believe I have finished one entire zone (Borean Tundra) and have skipped out on finishing the others due to a lack of XP gained as I’m too far ahead of the quests. Sadly, I have to find a new 2v2 and 3v3 team for my mage once I do finish her leveling grind. I used to run a joke 2v2 with another awesome mage, one frost, one haste fire. I was always the frost mage in full PVP gear while the other wore all BT level haste gear. We never pressed far with our rating, but we did press fast. Most of our games would be finished within a minute, and we would typically win about 60-70% of them. I highly doubt that would work anymore, but it was fun while it lasted. I wish I had the video of the Warrior/Druid team they died before they made it half way across the bridge in Blade’s Edge Arena. By the time the Druid came out of stealth the warrior had died. Good times, good times, all of this is totally irrelevant to anything too!
