Tags: wow, wow-addiction
The blog just started, I reached level 60 with my multiboxing accounts, paid 3 new Burning Crusade keys and then I got retired. Well, this is a bit weird, but I had to do this.
After almost 3 years dedicated to MMORPG’s, my work (I am self employed), my studies, and everything else got messed up. I was really addicted to World of Warcraft, playing from 4 to 16 hours a day (I think I have more than 1800 hours total played in all chars + accounts)!
The fact of working by myself helps putting more time on games, which is bad, because the law of self employment is: less work, less cash & full time work, full time the cash comes in!
It was very hard to stop playing, as I was really addicted and scared of giving away all the “work” that I put myself into the game these years. Feeling like “well, if I stop, what am I gonna do with this free time”. Felt like I would have a vacuum in my life. At the same time, was ashamed of myself for thinking in WoW 24 hours a day, I have to admit.
Then I googled about “wow addiction” and found this huge article with real testimonials from addicts, how they stopped, consequences, etc: Are A Lot of People Really Addicted To World of Warcraft?.
They scared me, because the testimonials are very close to my way of living and feeling from the addiction.
They gave me the “power” I wanted to stop: after fighting a little with myself and WoW from Oct 2nd to Oct 10th, I managed to stop 100% (note: the last article was posted on 10/04, I was already trying to stop that day, the event posted - levels 60 - happened earlier).
And here I am now, I don’t miss playing WoW at all. I don’t even read WoW sites, feeds, etc doing so much different things now (most focused on my work), that I sometimes can’t even track my tasks!
Luckily I don’t need therapy as most of WoW addicts (yes, that is true, according to this).
Anyway, I don’t plan to stop forever. This is just to give a time to fix my personal and professional matters. I already have planned my coming back (and IF I really do, the plan is playing only on weekends):
- Level up my multiboxing teams from 60-70;
- Level up my hunter and mage to level 80;
- Continue multiboxing up to 80 and then… arena, farming, etc multiboxing.
And I will find some time to write the article on how to multibox, as I promised :).
Thanks for all the ones that visited and commented.
More on WoW Addiction…
Tags: cauldrons, macros, multibox, Multiboxing, quests, western-plaguelands
Hail Recruit-a-Friend 3x XP Bonus! I leveled both of my teams to 60 in less than 4 days of /played. It just took me long “real” time because I am not playing that much anymore.
Hybrid Team - Nibelheim (Protection Paladin) - Midgarr (Resto Druid) - Jenovva (Affli. Warlock)
Here I got 40.500xp for turning the last part of Cauldron Quests Chain in Western Plaguelands. With Recruit-a-Friend 3x XP Bonus I got from level 56 to 60 there in less than 2 hours.
3 Shamans: Zuldrek - Zuldrik - Zuldrok
Here some silly RPG to express the leveling :p.
Zuldrek you were a good leader, a good mother, always leading our quest way, and taking the aggro when we were in danger…
We grew up to level 60… We took the Wyvern all together to Swamp of Sorrows, but when we arrived, where were ya? We don’t know… The travel to Dark Portal was made only by 2 of us…
Then we knew your Wyvern suffered a crash against an Alliance Hyppogryph… You got retired, you can’t move your legs anymore.. And the damn alliance that was in the crash is stills ok.
At least you were again a good mother and you called our grandpa Cow, Hawkmoo! And here is him leading our way! A lot more powerful than us by the way, which is leading us to a faster power gain!
Was very easy to switch leaders. I just changed focus macro of them all:
Hawkmoo has:
/clearfocus [nomod]
/focus [target=zuldrik,exists,nodead,mod:alt][target=zuldrok,nodead,mod:shift]
/assist [target=focus, exists]
/stopcasting
Slaves:
/focus [target=hawkmoo,exists,nodead,nomod][target=zuldrik,exists,nodead,mod:alt][target=zuldrok,nodead,mod:shift]
/assist [target=focus, exists]
/stopcasting
Tags: guide, herbalism, inscription, patch 3.0, Professions, tradeskills, wotlk, wow professions
The new profession to come with Wrath of the Lich King - Inscription - has Herbalism as its “partner” skill: you use herbs of all levels to get Pigments then with them you make scrolls, glyphs, and all the good stuff Inscription brings.
You will be Milling stacks of 5 herbs and get specifics pigments, according to the type of herb you milled.
As everybody will be in need of Glyphs and also wanting to level Inscription, the best thing you can do now is farm / save / buy for low prices low level herbs and those that are very cheap.
Because my bet is that they will be 300-1000% more expensive when Patch 3.0 comes (which will feature Inscription already).
EDITED - WAS ONLY PART OF BETA: Also, one of the most important herb is Mageroyal. Although you can level Inscription up to level 450 using no Mageroyals at all (doing Druid Glyphs - they are the cheapest to make), all others classes glyphs use Mageroyals. An example: last week they were 50s-2g each stack on my server. Now they are already 9-12g. And I bet they will be 30-50g on Patch 3.0 / WOTLK.
List of Pigments and type of herbs you mill them from (list from WoW Inscription Guide 1-450 from WoW-Professions.com):
[Alabaster Pigment] - Bloodthistle / Peacebloom / Silverleaf / Earthroot / Mageroyal
[Dusky Pigment] - Briarthorn / Swiftthistle / Bruiseweed / Stranglekelp
[Golden Pigment] - Wild Steelbloom / Grave Moss / Kingsblood / Liferoot
[Emerald Pigment] - Fadeleaf / Goldthorn / Khadgar’s Whiskers / Wintersbite
[Violet Pigment] - Firebloom / Purple Lotus / Arthas’ Tears / Sungrass / Blindweed / Ghost Mushroom / Gromsblood
[Silvery Pigment] - Golden Sansam / Dreamfoil / Mountain Silversage / Plaguebloom / Icecap
[Nether Pigment] - All Outland herbs.
[Azure Pigment] - All Northrend Herbs.Approximate Materials Required for 1-450:
- 90 Alabaster-giving herbs
- 60 Dusky-giving herbs
- 100 Golden-giving herbs
- 80 Emerald-giving herbs
- 80 Violet-giving herbs
- 340 Silvery-giving herbs
- 230 Nether-giving
- 400 Azure-giving
For the complete Inscription Leveling guide: WoW Inscription Guide 1-450
Another good guide (but only until 300): http://wotlkwiki.info/index.php/Guide/Inscription
Tags: brd, brewfest, events, holiday
Brewfest 2008 has started yesterday! It is time to enjoy and do the dailies, to get some unique (but cosmetic only) prizes and this year try the new boss in BRD with unique-too drops (including 2 mounts - kodo and ram - which aren’t obtainable by tokens anymore, they are a rare drop).
Here are some links, so you can see more about the prizes, quests, boss, etc:
- Brewfest 2008, or “Rams and Kodos for Everyone! (quests, prizes, good screenshots)
- WoW Moviewatch: Some Brewfest highlights from last year
- Planning for the Brewmaster title in advance (about the boss and boss’ drops - including both mounts)
- The Brewfest Kodo and what it may mean for WotLK’s release date
- Rounding up Brewfest
- World of Warcraft’s Brewfest 2008 is Live and Kicking
- Meet Coren Direbrew, dispenser of awesome trinkets and brewmaidens
Tags: gm, multibox, Multiboxing, quotes
Thanks to a comment by Oriniwen in the last multiboxing post (thanks!), an important subject was pointed: Is multiboxing legal?
Well, just in short lines, if it wasn’t legal, we multiboxers wouldn’t be spending 2-3-5-10 (or even more) CD Keys, Burning Crusade Keys, Game Cards and in most cases, a lot of new machines to get a ban and lose all this hard (and expensive) work just after everything is ready.
In this page you can see official GM quotes about Multiboxing, with links to where they posted it.
“Multi-boxing is not a violation of the Terms of Use, Sincast. On the contrary, it’s a fairly common practice and extremely fun to watch. ”
Syndri, Customer Service Member
“Badkarma, we do not stop players from owning and playing multiple accounts…There are all manner of ways to use two accounts that are not outside of our in-game policies and legal documents…”
Berghe, Customer Service Member
“There is no problem with you playing multiple characters, as long as you are the owner of the accounts and are in control of them…”
Eilanai, Blizzard Poster
Those are just some clear examples. You can find a lot more in that page.
Illegal would be setting up any or some accounts to work by themselves, with some automation software (like auto healing, auto hunting, auto moving, etc).
But then you are wondering: don’t multiboxers use a software? Yes, we do, but the software we use just broadcasts keys we actually press in some window to all the other windows. Then, the slaves windows have to have macros and/or bindings to this pressed key, otherwise nothing will happen.
This post clearly solves this difference:
“As a soloist, you push a key and one thing happens on your account. As a multiboxer, you push a key and 1 thing happens on each of your accounts. Automation would be timed macros, synced pathing, etc., not having the 1 key bound to Flash of Light on your Paladin and Fireball on your mage. Clearly our definitions of automation differ greatly.”
Belfaire, Blizzard Poster
“We have drawn a line. You’re talking about automated behavior. Multiboxing is not automated. There is no automation. There is no great advantage, there is no illicit behavior, there is no overwhelming benefit, there is no automation.”
Belfaire, Blizzard Poster
Tags: hunter, pet, pet skills, video, wasp, wotlk, wotlk beta
Last post I wrote a little about new pets and new pet skills, promising the next one to be about PvP pets. Well, I’m not going to write only about that right now, but a pet that I found to be the most interesting so far, the Wasp! Continue reading »
Tags: guide, Links, multibox, Multiboxing
What is multiboxing?
In short words, the act of playing and controlling more than one character at once whether using various computers (hardware setup) or via the same computer (software setup).
The common choice setup is 5 characters, but you can play any amount you want: dual, tri, quad boxing. And some players are playing 10, 26 and even 30 characters boxed! Continue reading »
Tags: hunter, pet, pet skills, pet talents, wotlk, wotlk beta
The thing I was really expecting (like 100 in 100 WoW Players) was a WoTLK Beta Key. Well, I got one just last week! And, after reading on WoW Insider, the first thing I was really wanting to try were the new pets and pet skills for hunters, the exotic ones.
The actual situation? We got some pet families where most of them are useless. Almost all hunters use a cat, ravager, raptor, owl or dragonhawk. Why? Well, they are just the best. And even with this “big” variety of 5 most used families, there aren’t many differences in what the pet does.
Luckily, WoTLK introduces exclusive skill for each pet family, pet talents, and a lot of new families, even if you aren’t going deep on BM spec (which allows taming exotic beasts - some new fun families).
Well, the first thing I did when I logged on my hunter in Beta was speccing deep BM, allowing me to tame the exotic ones. And what have I done? I tamed one pet of each family (even the common ones) to test each ability and talent spec.
Also note that: Continue reading »
Welcome to LFM Wow! An World of Warcraft Blog Project!
Who am I?
Alfred Reinold Baudisch (nickname Pardall), web and mobile developer, author of various programming and business articles in blogs and portals around. I’m from Parana - Brazil.
I love to blog. I blog about almost everything I get into, from hobbies to professional stuff. And World of Warcraft? Well, this is a passion!
Wow?
I’m known as Zul, Zuld or MuMu.
I am all about grinding, farming, leveling professions, hunting rare mobs, twinking, playing with the Auction House and things like that - even if that means camping the same mobs for 1 month until some rare item drops. I just love GOLD! Since my first MMORPG played and even console RPG’s, I always focused in being rich and exploring all aspects of the game, other than just trying to finish it as soon as possible.
I’m also an alt-aholic (check my armory links later in this post) and a starter multiboxer!
What will you read in LFM WoW?
- The focus: Professions, Farming and Grinding spots, Multiboxing, Twinking, Theorycrafts and Classes in general, Raiding, General PvE Information, Auction House.
- As its name says, “everything about WoW”! Well, I know this is not always possible (or until at least this turns in a multi million portal with dozens of writers - ha!), then I will try to focus in the things I am into, just like I wrote in the “about me” before.
- At least, I will try to give you the “Looking for More World of Warcraft” information, like: guides, screenshots, movies, FAQs, news and all this good stuff.
- You sometimes will also read things about my adventures and anything-I-feel-like-expressing around Azeroth, Outland and now Northrend.
My Characters
Please check the page Armory Links for my characters and multiboxing characters.
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