{"id":460,"date":"2006-02-23T00:22:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T00:22:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-02-23T00:22:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T00:22:34","slug":"life-is-grand-at-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/02\/23\/life-is-grand-at-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Is Grand At 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft changes quite a bit at level 60.  The leveling grind is replaced by gear-grinding.  But it is much more casual for me since I can take my time doing the instanced dungeons.  I have a level 28 mage and 10 rogue that I am slowly advancing.  The best part about being level 60 is that I don\u2019t have to worry about getting rest anymore.  Get tired from chasing after mineral deposits?  I just log out wherever I am.  No more running to the inn to get that max rest credit.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I actually thought about another game this week that isn\u2019t called World of Warcraft or Out of the Park Baseball.  Star Wars Empire at War is the first purely PC game to get TV ad time in a long time that I can remeber.  Not that I am going to buy it because\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026they are actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebgames.com\/ebx\/product\/259896.asp\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ebgames.com\/ebx\/product\/259896.asp', 'taking pre-orders');\">taking pre-orders<\/a> for World of Warcraft The Burning Crusade.  My marriage barely survived getting to level 60.  Kids lost teeth, daughter got into college.  Wife got a new job.  All sorts of things happened.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have to see how getting to level 70 works out.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s even a limit on the number of pre-orders and the game is scheduled for release in July.  Insanity!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft changes quite a bit at level 60. The leveling grind is replaced by gear-grinding. But it is much more casual for me since I can take my time doing the instanced dungeons. I have a level 28 mage and 10 rogue that I am slowly advancing. The best part about being level &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/02\/23\/life-is-grand-at-60\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life Is Grand At 60<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}