a day of patch notes.

Well, I've been waiting for Laura to write a post to introduce herself, but she is tied up with school right now, so I guess I should just go on.

There's a lot of talk about patch 2.4 on the forums today. Unfortunately, most of the nice changes they are making don't benefit me much. There is a lot of change for those who raid, a group that I have not been a part of since the launch of TBC.

This is always an exciting time, though, when they are planning a big content patch full of new goodies. It is hard to believe how little I used to know about world of warcraft back when I was raiding the vanilla wow dungeons. I was raiding MC and BWL every week and had never read a guide to either. I must have been a terrible guild member. heh.

Raiding has always been a problem for me. Maybe if I met the right group of people, but the people I have raided with get too caught up in it. It would be nice to meet a casual group to raid once or twice a week and not get upset at each other over wipes, but it appears those groups are few and far between. And it is very hard to balance a raid schedule with school and my social life. How do all of you balance the raid schedule with the rest of your life? Are there actually more casual groups out there than I realize?

But I suppose what I want most out of raiding is the epic feeling of killing bosses and clearing dungeons, and Blizzard is making an effort to open the epic experience to casual players in Wrath of the Lich King, so maybe that will solve the problem for me.

Well, I am going to get back to trolling the forums.