I wrote back in April about how I was wandering aimlessly between games these days, not making much progress on any of them. At various times in the last six months, I've wondered whether the issue may be that I'm just losing interest in video games at this stage of my life. I feel like I'm just waiting for some interesting new game to come out that I can bury myself in for a while, but I have no idea what that might be.
Right now, I'm bouncing back and forth between World of Warcraft, FFXIV, ESO, and Guild Wars 2. With all the professions finished and no new content out, ESO is getting the short end of the stick from a playtime perspective. After that, FFXIV probably has the 2nd lowest amount of playtime.
I did go back and do the new MSQ material, but I have not unlocked or tried the new alliance raids.
In World of Warcraft, I stalled out in the middle of leveling my Demon Hunter. In theory, the way renown works now should encourage me to do weeklies and world quests across more of my alt army. In reality, I'm not motivated to do them at all.
The most play time lately has definitely been going to Guild Wars 2. I finished the main story quest for the new expansion on my Mechanist and have been working through it on my Reaper. I've also gone back and started to work on getting my Mechanist caught up on the other story quests. I also decided to go back and work on unlocking the Roller Beetle since it's the only Path of Fire Mastery I have left to do, and I'm earning POF experience as part of catching up the Mechanist. Right now, I'm stuck on the saddle on the part where you have to kill the Ley Line Anomaly world boss because I can't seem to manage to get to it before the stupid thing ends up dead. I was trying on the Friday after Thanksgiving, where there may have been a ton of people playing, so I will give it a few more tries during a period that's likely to be a little bit more dead.
Of course, I'm already on Dragonfall on the Mechanist trying to finish up Puff the Purple Crystal Dragon, so I don't have that much Path of Fire experience still to go. Oh well. I think Icebrood Saga is up next, which has its own mastery tracks, none of which I recall as being particularly interesting.
I'll also work on unlocking the turtle mount before I start the Mechanist through End of Dragons, and after that, he'll be all caught up. At that point, I can go back to finishing up the post-Tyria world completion stuff on my Reaper, at which point it will probably be time to switch to something else.
I feel bad for not using the anniversary event experience boosts to level alts like crazy in World of Warcraft, but I'm not exactly sure what the point is now, anyway. It is a good reminder to go back and grab the Darkmoon Faire profession boosts for this month since it's time for that.
That's the update for now!
Cheers,
Joar
