October Month in Review

You would not expect that becoming unexpectedly unemployed would significantly reduce my playtime, but here we are. Part of the reason for this is that my wife has decided that if I don't work for a Fortune 500 company anymore, I must obviously work for her instead. She is not the ideal employer.

My play time was down significantly from what has been normal lately, but is balanced pretty much the way it has been, with the vast majority going to World of Warcraft, a little bit to Guild Wars 2 with the new expansion, and a tiny bit to Diablo 4.

In World of Warcraft, I got two more characters to max level last month and have made good progress on the Rogue so far, who is now sitting at level 70 and ready to work through the War Within content. After that, I'll finish up my Vulpera warlock, who is sitting at level 51.  

I've also been enjoying the Guild Wars 2 expansion so far. I'm at the stage in Chapter 4 where I just have to grind out xp for the next level of skimmer mastery. That seems to be a block point in the last couple of expansions, and it's not something I'm crazy about from an overall game flow perspective, but I need to just spend the time knocking it out. I've been working on a lot of map-completion stuff, which has gotten me a chunk of the way there, but I need to start chain-running events to finish it. 

I'm enjoying the expansion and storyline so far and am anxious to see what more it has in store once I get past this point. I've started with my Reaper this time and then plan to do Mechanist and Ranger after that, assuming I don't get distracted with other stuff.  

I'm still working on getting my original toon through the latest expansion's content in Diablo 4. I'm sitting around level 56, and I think about halfway through the storyline, so I should be in good shape there. After getting my Necromancer done, I'm thinking about doing a Rogue and then a Spiritborn through the Seasonal content.

We've gotten through a lot of stuff getting the house ready to sell, and we've also moved from Water Polo season into Swim Team season, so that may mean more play time, but we'll see.

My overall game plan is to finish the GW2 content on my Reaper, then go back and finish up all the alts in World of Warcraft, then go back to finish Mechanist and Ranger in GW2, then switch to Diablo 4 until Midnight comes out. I don't think there will be time to do all that, but we'll see.

That is the update for now.

Cheers,

Joar