{"id":976,"date":"2007-07-05T19:23:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T00:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/05\/wow-a-daunting-task\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:09:00","slug":"wow-a-daunting-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/05\/wow-a-daunting-task\/","title":{"rendered":"WoW &#8211; A Daunting Task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of guys at work that I consider pretty serious WoW gamers.\u00a0 These are guys with multiple L70 characters, which got me to thinking.\u00a0 My mage just made L38, and is about 20% of the way to L39.\u00a0 If I manage to clear one level per week, I am not going to hit L70 until January or February of 2008.\u00a0 Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>A level per week may not seem that unrealistic, but I would have to spend around 5 hours a week just to meet this goal.\u00a0 Is 5 hours per week unrealistic?\u00a0 For some weeks it may not be, but I only have so much free time a week to devote to gaming.\u00a0 I doubt I would ever spend it all on WoW.\u00a0 I think it has taken me 4-6 hours per level for the last three levels, and that is probably being a little generous.\u00a0 In other words, I need to hit 20% of my experience bar each hour to stand a chance.\u00a0 Ouch.\u00a0 Even if I could manage 10 hours per week (and that is not going to happen), I would not reach L70 until October.<\/p>\n<p>The long and short of it is that I have a whole new appreciation for those of you that have managed to reach every increasing heights in WoW.\u00a0 For me, the reality of the time required to hit L70 is a daunting task.<\/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>There are a couple of guys at work that I consider pretty serious WoW gamers.\u00a0 These are guys with multiple L70 characters, which got me to thinking.\u00a0 My mage just made L38, and is about 20% of the way to L39.\u00a0 If I manage to clear one level per week, I am not going to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/05\/wow-a-daunting-task\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WoW &#8211; A Daunting Task<\/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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,60],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-pc","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2835,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}