Wow. So last night I logged in to WoW. For the first time in 18 months…..
Holy CRAP!
I haven’t felt like such a noob since Merlinne tried to buy her first bag and was offended that it cost 15 whole silver!!
Yeah, such a noob that I forgot that Nauloera had the flight path to Dalaran already….
This is gonna be fun.
I was wondering what could I write about for this blog now too. I mean seriously, others have stepped up to the plate writing RP articles since I left at different blogs and doing a much better job than I ever did.
I still have no firm plan for the future but for now I thought it would be interesting to write about my experiences returning to the game after such a long hiatus.
Welcome to The Diary of a Re-Noob: Part I
So the first thing I noticed when I logged in was my chat window was spamming me to beat the band. Holy crap! Make it stop!!!!
And I couldn’t bloody remember how to leave all those damn public channels that Blizzard slams you face first into when you join the game.
So the LOLs and USUX were scrolling up my screen at breakneck pace. Somewhere in there I caught a flash of purple. Wait! Purple is a whisper! Someone is contacting me directly!
Fortunately it was a friend! Two of them as a matter of fact! Both clamoring for my attention. In a panic I frantically remembered that if I hit the “r” key I could answer them.
/w [Friend] “HELP! I can’t remember how to leave the public channels! How do I do that?”
[Friend says to you] “I create a new tab and move them.”
……
NOT HELPFUL!
/w [Friend] “I don’t want to hide them! I want them GONE!” And I really didn’t want to admit that trying to make a new tab was waaaaay too complex for me anyway. Even if I wanted to stay in the public channels. WHICH I HATE!
[Friend tells you] “Oh. I think it is /leave and the channel number.”
/leave ALL THE CHANNELS THAT ARE FLOODING MY SCREEN!!!
……
Ahhhhh…. Blessed silence.
[Anotherfriend says to you] “OMG! It’s a Nau! [friendchannel] is going nuts right now!” (I believe the precise phrase was “fu***** nuts” but I could have a faulty memory.)
/join [friendchannel] and try to respond to a zillion people at once! Well, okay, that’s an exaggeration. Only half a zillion.
So we chatter for a while and talk about some of the changes and I decide that really, tonight is going to be just a chat night since I’m still being bombarded by /whispers and my UI looks like icon vomit. And really…. I have no clue what half of those buttons are for anyway.
After things calm down a bit I log out and make a list of my previous addons then grab one that I see as one of the most important ones I use.
Persistence of Chattiness. I’m sure there are others that do the same thing, but this one is simple and does EXACTLY what I want it to. I hate having to type channel numbers every time, especially right now when my fingers are fighting the keyboard and keep popping up random windows that I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THEY DO!
So I log back in and start a plan of action. I decided to start with AddOns first. I’m not thinking about Talent Trees yet… they scare me.
Okay, so the icon vomit has to go. I ask about UIs in [friendchannel] (that isn’t really the channel name btw so don’t look for me there) and get several answers. Then I asked Anna (yep! Anna of Too Many Annas. She’s totallyawesomefantabulous! And very kind to this re-newb.)
I told her my dilemma. My UI looked like the icon mill barfed on my monitor and I needed to fix it. I used to use Dominos but didn’t know what the latest and greatest UI addon was. I was absolutely giddy when she told me that Dominos was still updated and functional and it was the one she used. Hoorah!!!!
So I scampered off to get my Dominos updated and take a quick peek for some of the others I used to run. What I found:
Dominos- my lovely UI that found my previous settings for the main account. Hoorah! Though the second account was never set up on Dominos so it’s all buggered up. Does anyone know if there is a way to copy settings between accounts?
Decursive- I fell in love with this cleansing addon when I was playing a mage in the Core. Still love it. Was very excited to find it again.
Friends4ever- this is a silly little addon that hasn’t been updated but still works. Ever get annoyed by that message “A name has been removed from your friend list because the character no longer exists.” Well this addon tells you what that name was.
QuestHelper- I have little time to spare searching for places, items, etc and trying to keep track of what quests are in progress. QuestHelper has been a dream come true for me. It tracks quests by zones, keeps a running list on screen of what I need for the ones I’m working on, and points me in the right direction (remember boys and girls, I am the healy that can get lost in a wet paper sack). QH = <3
So those are the only ones I picked up last night. Likely I will look for some others later. But I’m going to have to go through my list of previous addons and see what still exists and what has been abandoned and do I really need it.
Previously I had:
Atlas and all its additional packets. If that one has been updated, I will get it again.
Auctioneer. An auction house addon and again, if it is updated I will get it again.
Gatherer. I liked it when I was out hunting herbs or ores but apparently it isn’t being updated anymore though my source said it still works. I will check into it and see if I can use it. Though I don’t think I need all the bells and whistles it had. I just need it to point me to herbs and ores and such.
ProfessionsBook. This one has been abandoned. **CRY!!!** I’m going to have to do some deep digging to see if there is some sort of replacement or suitable alternative. If anyone knows of one I sure would appreciate it if you could let me know.
ImmersionRP. When I was using this before it was dangerously close to complete and utter abandonment. I haven’t checked it yet but I certainly hope it is functional still. If not I suppose I’ll dig around for FlagRSP and see if it is still up and going.
PetEmote. This one makes me sad. It gave emotes to hunter pets and now I can’t find it. If someone knows of a working version out there I would love to have it. KaeAskavi just wouldn’t be the same if he wasn’t able to fart at random.
IgnoreMore. This addon seemed to be a replacement for Infinite Ignore. It basically makes your ignore list capable of handling more than 100 names. Yes, I needed it.
Those are the ones I know what they were for and would like to have back. Now apparently there is at least one I won’t need anymore. YATA was a totem manager and it seems with changes that Blizz has made it is no longer necessary. Doesn’t break my heart any at all. One less addon to break during patches!
Then there are some I don’t know what they were for (I… uh… don’t remember) or if I need them anymore. They are:
Informant
Omen
TinyTip (I think that had something to do with the mouse)
DeadlyBossMods
If anyone knows what these are for and has advice about them I’ll listen. I don’t promise to follow it but I will listen. Likely I won’t get time to research them until this weekend.
So it seems my first night was spent chatting and cleaning up the most important addons. Oh and I did a little bit of bag digging too. In between all of this I went to Dalaran to test my processor, drooled over some new mounts and pets I saw and asked a lot of dumb questions.
It’s really going to get stupid when I start trying to do Talent Trees!!
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