Yet another warrior to 80 and being fed face first through the dungeon finder. Yet another chance to be irritated with my action bar, to slowly watch incremental DPS increases with every new piece of gear and wonder what kind of brain sickness I have that makes me do this. (In honor of
Dominic Hobbs, I'm required to say, "Whatever it is at least it can't force me to like playing a mage." Then there's a rimshot.) What really gets me is that it's all the same stuff I've done before and yet I find the process completely engaging. I love watching my DPS pop up bit by bit. It was one of the best parts of getting my tauren geared up. Going from the bottom of the run to the top. Even more than that, I love experimenting with crazy ideas (a strength gemming arms warrior build, for instance) and seeing how it goes. I enjoy the freedom of being able to tear everything down and rebuild it from the ground up that I lack on my main.
I don't know why, but there's something about the guild raiding environment that, while I enjoy it, becomes rigid and confining. I'm not really free to just play around with whatever crazy idea I have. So I ask you: do you have any habits you engage in when playing that even you think are mad, bad or even dangerous?
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Jun 16th 2010 at 8:00AM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Blayze Jun 16th 2010 8:06AM
I quest endlessly. Lowest-level content first. Always.
My guildies think I'm crazy.
blizzardsprules Jun 16th 2010 11:23AM
I'm going to let you in on a little secret, soldier. Come a little closer.
I'M THE ONLY SANE ONE HERE!
Look at these people! Would you believe that they're all insane!? Well they are! NUTS! CRAZY!
I WILL KILL YOU WINKY!
Draelan Jun 16th 2010 2:11PM
I love that dwarf! I really hope he's still around after the Cataclysm. =D
Shane Jun 16th 2010 8:07AM
Does breaking your skull while facerolling a paladin count?
Zalvi24 Jun 16th 2010 8:21AM
no, that's normal and your perfectly sane
Nina Katarina Jun 16th 2010 8:09AM
If I'm leveling a profession I have to buy every recipe. Every. Single. One. Even if my paladin will never use the BoP mail or my mage will never use the +str trinket.
Sleutel Jun 16th 2010 8:23AM
Same here.
1.) I have every single Cooking recipe obtainable by my class. Yes, even the epic one from the AQ opening chain. That means the only recipe in the entire game I don't have is Thistle Tea--screw you, Rogues.
2.) I'm coming up on 100% completion for Alchemy. I'm missing one old-world element transmute (a random world drop), one TBC dungeon boss drop, two xmutes I need to discover, and all the cauldrons. ... I'm actually contemplating buying or farming mats for resistance potions to discover the cauldrons. /facepalm
3.) Switching from Herbalism to Jewelcrafting has been a huge cash suck--not just from powerleveling it, but from filling in all the missing recipes. Slowly but surely, I'm picking up all of the BoE recipes from the AH. I'll drop 200 gold on a recipe from the previous expansion that I'll never use. Ever. Just to have it. I don't doubt I'll drop by Dalaran every day in Cataclysm just to do my JC daily, so I can finally buy every single gem cut and other recipe there.
Hal Jun 16th 2010 9:01AM
I'm the same way, but only with my Paladin and his blacksmithing. Some of the recipes out there are just too expensive (or too time-consuming) to acquire. Curse you, Thorium Shield Spikes!
Still, I try to push that when I advertise my craft. Hey, I have tons of recipes! Gear up your alt as you level!
Shinorah Jun 16th 2010 8:59AM
Guilty as charged here too.
In addition, I am compelled to levle and max out every single profession in game at least once - so not only do I drive myself insane trying to collect every obscure recipe possible (just finished Thorium Brotherhood rep on my blacksmith), but then I go out and do it again for *another* profession.
Kylenne Jun 16th 2010 9:28AM
I also suffer from this affliction. It's led me to attempt soloing OL heroics just to get enchants--though, at least with enchanting, I can somewhat justify it because some of those enchants are still decently valuable in today's endgame (like Mongoose, or the Int to shield enchant). Still, I'm a frost mage. It's rough.
Tailoring though, I've got no excuse for that. It doesn't matter if it's an old BoP epic for a class I don't play. I must have it.
Swifteye Jun 16th 2010 10:09AM
Argh, you guys are edging me closer to feeling like a ninja...
That is to say, the pattern for the BoP sword Corruption has been sitting in my guild's bank for ages. Many times have I looked upon it with a certain degree of completionist-natured lust, but alas, my Blacksmith is a Priest (odd combo, I know... the guild had no dedicated BS and my Priest had no profession because she had just facerolled blindly through levels via the dungeon finder; seemed like a no-brainer).
Obviously a Priest can't use a sword and it's BoP so I can't even sell it, so I haven't taken it because I thought somebody might be able to use it or sell it at some point... but sometimes... sometimes I'm just *this close* to right-clicking that pattern in the bank because, as I said, I'm a completionist.
Must... resist... urge..........
NecDW4 Jun 16th 2010 10:33AM
HAHA! I've been doing that too for all my characters. SOOOO many things ill never use (my warlock tailor has the Vestments of faith recipe) but i feel like i'm not honoring the profession if i dont learn everything can.
Heck i had to get a premade AQ20 run going, full of people who would agree to do the second boss in the very specific manner, and NOT but the blacksmith recipes from the vendor afterwards just so i could get them.
Sleutel Jun 16th 2010 7:10PM
@Swifteye:
Talk to your GM and decide on a fair price for the recipe. (Going rate for useful gbank items tends to be 1/2 market price.) You get your recipe; the gbank gets money; everybody wins. Or, better yet, your GM says "Just take the damned thing; no one else is ever going to learn it and it's filling up a slot" and you make out like a bandit.
Daigeil Jun 17th 2010 11:57AM
I'm not sure a strength-gemming arms build is really that crazy, just sub-optimal o.-
I can see where you're coming from, although I haven't got the patience to rebuild my character over and over again like that. Building a boomkin set on my healer druid had a similar effect, though; watching my DPS skyrocket from 3k-ish to 8k on a high-movement fight was extremely satisfying. I'd think making the same class over and over would take half the fun (building your 1337 skillz) out of it, though.
Rajinnu Jun 16th 2010 8:10AM
I am the same I have to buy/farm/get every recipe I possibly can in the game if I am doing a new profession, its like a total obsession.
I also for some reason feel inclined to level fishing to max on all alts... boring but yet I have no choice.
Rossi how many max Warriors is that now?
Matthew Rossi Jun 17th 2010 10:05AM
This is #3.
Moorit Jun 16th 2010 8:17AM
I try to help people in the Random Dungeon Finder become better players. Four in five times it is detrimental to my well being.
Jack Miles Jun 16th 2010 8:46AM
And the fifth time you'll never see the longterm effects because they're on a different server.
Docp Jun 16th 2010 8:20AM
Some say my love for Lightwell is a madness, but I say I'm the only sane one in a world of madmen!
Tuireadh Jun 16th 2010 8:21AM
I'm working on my second level 80 shaman. And intend to level a third. I find the class to be the most enjoyable (and the only that I can bear to get past old world) which makes my guild think I'm insane.
Daily I'm asked by members of the guild that are new or not on much "Why are you gearing a second shaman." It has gotten to the point where other members start to laugh when the question is asked because I've got some smart comment to the question.