As it’s plainly obvious, I have had a difficult time keeping this site updated, but I’ll try to catch up to where I am in the game.  After several more hospitalizations from my Crohn’s Disease, things have definitely settled down.  I’m now on Stelara, a biologic drug that is working pretty well in keeping my Crohn’s under control.

I was able to pretty much complete BfA on Amphyx, my main toon and have been really trying to keep engaged with Shadowlands. There is litterally so much to do, I don’t know how anyone is running alts.

I’m not sure how I feel about SL, I love the storylines and the game is visually stunning.  However, I feel like the gameplay just isn’t comparable to previous xpacs.  This one reminds me of Cataclysm, which in my opinion isn’t a good thing.  I hated Cataclysm.  The new questing is pretty good and the quests do help to move you along and level quickly, which was nice, however, it’s the daily grind to complete world quests and dailies to get either anima or dust, or some other resource you need to progress.  It gets old after awhile, especially if you have lots of alts.

My biggest complaint so far is the lack of gear drops either in dungeons or in the world.  I’ve done a ton of dungeons and get nothing by gold, which is highly frustrating.  I’ll update some more once I get some better gear.

Because of the new xpac, I really haven’t had time to play WoW Classic, which is a shame since I really like it.  I also miss the simplicity of Classic.

Till Next Time and hopefully not too far in the future!
Amphyx

It’s been quite the journey from alpha to beta and finally GA release. While playing through all the different stages I was very impressed with how they’ve changed the gameplay, mechanics and effects.

However, now that it’s been released I’m finding myself underwhelmed. Let’s see if I can break down the main complaints that I am having with BofA:

1. Phasing – this is being heavily used in this release, but it’s interfering with the fun of playing. It used to be that when questing you would run into lots of other people doing the same quest, and if you wanted you could group up. That’s been drastically reduced. There has been practically few if any other players in all three zones during questing. In beta, there were many more people. I have 12 toons and I’ve noticed this in all the new zones at different levels on different servers. Maybe it’s just me, but I doubt it.
2. Gameplay – while I have noticed great improvements, it’s like Blizzard takes 2 steps back for each one forward. The aggro rate in some zones is so ridiculous that it’s laughable. Some of the quest chains are very derivative, like they were placed there just to give the player a reason for being in the area or to connect two other quests, it just felt weak.
3. Character trait nerfing – As my main is a mage, it feels like mages have certainly lost the love in the talent pool. Being a fire mage has become very weak compared to other DPS specs. I do however really like the graphical changes they made when the mage is casting and throwing spells.
4. Too Similar – Maybe it’s me, but BofA feels like a cross between MoP and BL with some WotLK thrown in for good measure. It’s just not feeling “New”. Or, it could just be me since I’ve been playing this game for so freaking long🤪

So there you have my reasoning. I’ve just gotten my ilvl high enough for heroics and look forward to raiding soon. Look for a follow up shortly!

So my last post went into some detail regarding chronic disease and how it affects gameplay.  My trials and tribulations continued after my last post.  I was so lucky to get Pancreatitis!!  It seems that I had it for a little while which apparently was the root cause of my lower back pain and abdominal pain.  The pain was ridiculous and I was taking way-way-way too much pain medication.  So, into the hospital I went for 4 days until my pancreas was all better.

Once the pancreatitis resolved itself, my pain also went away, which was AMAZING!

I still have some minor pain, but it’s nothing like it used to be and I think that should be going away soon as well.

As for WoW, I guess you can say I am quite bored, especially with Amphyx, since I am pretty much maxed out without doing guild raids.  I’m still working on leveling some of my other toons, but doing the dailies gets quite repetitive after awhile.  I’ve gotten so bored that I just downloaded and installed Civilization 6 from the Mac App Store.  We’ll see how that goes.

Till Next Time!

Amphyx

Not sure if I had ever mentioned this, but I have Crohn’s Disease, a chronic condition that can be debilitating at times.  It’s also one of the reasons I haven’t posted here in awhile.  That, and I was laid off from my job.  So, life, as usual, likes to interfere with imaginary life in the game.

Crohn’s Disease, or CD, affects so many aspects of your life aside from the usual gastrointestinal.  Lethargy, tiredness, no energy are currently how I feel, which is frustrating because there are so many things I want to be doing… and yet, the thought of moving, or doing any of them is debilitating!

On top of all that, I have finally finished recovering from a case of Shingles which was hands down one of the most painful experiences ever.  Even with pain medication, it was ridiculously painful, so I am very glad to be over that!!!

As usual, I’ll keep trying to keep current on posting here.  Currently, in WoW, I’m back to being bored again.  so bored, that I created a new character, a driud!!  she’s at 25!

So I haven’t been able to play much over the past couple of months!!  Between a crohns flare that had me hospitalized for close to a month and now my INR acting up, WoW just hasn’t been possible.

It’s really annoying because it’s looking like I wont be able to complete the Midsummer festival meta ach.  Although I am going to give it one last try tonite😀

I’ll post an update later

Here’s a post from the mobile WordPress App!  Game time is at a trickle for now as the family vacation has begun !!!

Of course it’s at the same time as the DMF!!

Dangnabbit!!😜😜😜

Till next time….Amp