Finally managed to hit level 80 in World of Warcraft.
After playing for nearly 4 months it still pleases me and gives a good fealing for achieving this. Unlike most "pro" players, I try to enjoy the game and actually partake in what is beeing offered on each level.
This means that I do not rush through zones and instances just to get the equipment and progress as fast as possible to the level cap. No, I took my time to actually understand the story behind a given dungeon or quest, and to see the bigger picture.
I am proud however of a few things that I managed to do before hitting level 80.
The first one beeing the ambassador title on level 37 without doing the cloth quests for each faction. No big thing most will say, but for me it really means alot, as I never bothered much about the factions. I even managed to get my hands now on all the normal speed land mounts of the each Alliance faction. Still got a long way to go.
Currently my objectives are to participate in Heroic runs with guildmembers and slowley gear up for the Raid instances that we do. Besides that I want to collect the achievements for Northrend and Outland, which means running more zones, instances and finishing questlines.
The end goal? For now it will be epic flying, as I would really love to get my hands on a Netherdrake. I'm against borrowing money and goldsellers, so knowing me this will probably take the same amount of time as it took me to get to 80.
I did manage to get the dualspec thing, and now I'm on the lookout for tank and melee DPS gear. Draenor hasn't seen the last of this kitty yet.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Back to the roots
...which means back to Belgium for me.
Been in Belgium now for a couple of days, as of thursday 29th of April to be exact, and I miss things from Germany. On the other hand I'm glad to be back in Belgium as well.
Today's post won't be about those things though. I'm currently semi active, looking for interesting positions but I honestly don't have a clue what to do. Going back to University all sounds great, but several people close to me said that experience is more valuable then knowledge, while other people say the exact opposite.
Personally I want to work with the C++ language, but I'm hearing from all sides that it's a dieing language in the current industry and that I should focus on the .NET environment. I personally have no problems with the .NET evironment, but I'm afraid that if I focus too much on working with the .NET technologies, I will lose my skills and knowledge regarding the C++ language, and that it will become a disadvantage when I finnaly have the required experience to apply for the positions in the gaming industry.
Which brings me to my second point. Alot of people mentioned that I should make small games myself or programs related to games. All nice and well, but I really don't see myself making such a things, due the fact that creativity isn't my strongest point. I don't mean to say I can't think up stuff, as I can be pretty scary in that, I just lack the design skills to make myself some images or 3D stuff. And I honestly don't see the point of starting up a small team just to get stuff going. The trouble it brings isn't really worth the effort at the moment.
Been trying to build up a modelviewer for WoW to analyze the files, but it's so difficult finding information regarding the way Blizzard build their files, and I honestly don't expect them to tell me how they did it...
Been in Belgium now for a couple of days, as of thursday 29th of April to be exact, and I miss things from Germany. On the other hand I'm glad to be back in Belgium as well.
Today's post won't be about those things though. I'm currently semi active, looking for interesting positions but I honestly don't have a clue what to do. Going back to University all sounds great, but several people close to me said that experience is more valuable then knowledge, while other people say the exact opposite.
Personally I want to work with the C++ language, but I'm hearing from all sides that it's a dieing language in the current industry and that I should focus on the .NET environment. I personally have no problems with the .NET evironment, but I'm afraid that if I focus too much on working with the .NET technologies, I will lose my skills and knowledge regarding the C++ language, and that it will become a disadvantage when I finnaly have the required experience to apply for the positions in the gaming industry.
Which brings me to my second point. Alot of people mentioned that I should make small games myself or programs related to games. All nice and well, but I really don't see myself making such a things, due the fact that creativity isn't my strongest point. I don't mean to say I can't think up stuff, as I can be pretty scary in that, I just lack the design skills to make myself some images or 3D stuff. And I honestly don't see the point of starting up a small team just to get stuff going. The trouble it brings isn't really worth the effort at the moment.
Been trying to build up a modelviewer for WoW to analyze the files, but it's so difficult finding information regarding the way Blizzard build their files, and I honestly don't expect them to tell me how they did it...
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