Comments on: How to manage a full-time job and WoW in 4 easy steps http://www.storiesofwow.com/how-to-manage-a-full-time-job-and-wow-in-4-easy-steps/ A tree and some alts Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:07:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jen http://www.storiesofwow.com/how-to-manage-a-full-time-job-and-wow-in-4-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-4933 Jen Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:15:28 +0000 http://www.storiesofwow.com/?p=165#comment-4933 I'm taking my time for my OS - I plan to tank ICC/ToC and gather up all the unwanted healing gear :D I farmed heroics a lot (a looot) on Jen to get her from scrub to worthy of a proper guild, and I'm burnt out, can't do it again at that level. I just run my dailies for frosts and maybe get some lucky drops, but getting another hundred badges for T9 holy gear... no thanks, not now. (besides, druid healing is much more fun, you'll see! :D Once you get some decent gear you can just throw some HoTs and afk.) I’m taking my time for my OS – I plan to tank ICC/ToC and gather up all the unwanted healing gear :D I farmed heroics a lot (a looot) on Jen to get her from scrub to worthy of a proper guild, and I’m burnt out, can’t do it again at that level. I just run my dailies for frosts and maybe get some lucky drops, but getting another hundred badges for T9 holy gear… no thanks, not now.
(besides, druid healing is much more fun, you’ll see! :D Once you get some decent gear you can just throw some HoTs and afk.)

]]> By: Cahely / Trell / Seija http://www.storiesofwow.com/how-to-manage-a-full-time-job-and-wow-in-4-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-4932 Cahely / Trell / Seija Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:03:38 +0000 http://www.storiesofwow.com/?p=165#comment-4932 Oh yes, gearing alts is easy with craftables and emblems of triumph - hence the heroic grind. The bear kit is ICC 10 ready and I already have off tanked it once. Now I just want to do it for tree kit too :) Oh yes, gearing alts is easy with craftables and emblems of triumph – hence the heroic grind. The bear kit is ICC 10 ready and I already have off tanked it once. Now I just want to do it for tree kit too :)

]]> By: Jen http://www.storiesofwow.com/how-to-manage-a-full-time-job-and-wow-in-4-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-4931 Jen Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:43 +0000 http://www.storiesofwow.com/?p=165#comment-4931 My new job is a lovely corporate thing where the only advantage is that I can walk out the door at 18.00 without anyone can give me funny looks... atm I'm not doing anything, hence lots of time for reading and writing :P All my old jobs just wanted me to finish on time, which was ideal. I discovered the sleep thing the hard way: "I won't let work get in the way of my raids!", signing up and hating the whole world 2 hours in. The time zone isn't helping, I'm never nice when I'm tired, and wiping for the 20th time at midnight when I can barely stay awake, with 1 more hour to go, doesn't make me a happy person. The result is that I don't have fun and the raid suffers, because I don't give a fuck anymore who lives or dies... so yeah, I stopped signing for all the alt/fun runs and I sleeeeep and life is pretty again. One day we'll even get guildies who listen to Vent and down some bosses... (P.S. Gearing is so so much easier now if you've got a raiding main - and you do. Get the 245 crafted chest and bracers, run ToC normal/hc and the new ICC instances for a weekend and you're all set for ToC 10 at least. I geared my pally for ICC10 in less than 2 weeks, and I made all the titansteel myself, otherwise it would've been faster.) My new job is a lovely corporate thing where the only advantage is that I can walk out the door at 18.00 without anyone can give me funny looks… atm I’m not doing anything, hence lots of time for reading and writing :P All my old jobs just wanted me to finish on time, which was ideal.

I discovered the sleep thing the hard way: “I won’t let work get in the way of my raids!”, signing up and hating the whole world 2 hours in. The time zone isn’t helping, I’m never nice when I’m tired, and wiping for the 20th time at midnight when I can barely stay awake, with 1 more hour to go, doesn’t make me a happy person. The result is that I don’t have fun and the raid suffers, because I don’t give a fuck anymore who lives or dies… so yeah, I stopped signing for all the alt/fun runs and I sleeeeep and life is pretty again. One day we’ll even get guildies who listen to Vent and down some bosses…

(P.S. Gearing is so so much easier now if you’ve got a raiding main – and you do. Get the 245 crafted chest and bracers, run ToC normal/hc and the new ICC instances for a weekend and you’re all set for ToC 10 at least. I geared my pally for ICC10 in less than 2 weeks, and I made all the titansteel myself, otherwise it would’ve been faster.)

]]> By: Cahely / Trell / Seija http://www.storiesofwow.com/how-to-manage-a-full-time-job-and-wow-in-4-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-4929 Cahely / Trell / Seija Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:49:57 +0000 http://www.storiesofwow.com/?p=165#comment-4929 Excellent post! I've been treading that fine line for.. well, all my raiding life barring 4 weeks of summer vacation last year and 4 months of undefined unemployment / working from home time the previous summer. And I've had issues. I'd emphasize number four on your list. In a game, nay, involvement! like WoW it's surprisingly easy to start doing stuff routinely without second thoughts and assume that it's fun. That's bad, getting bored or unmotivated in something you do in free will for your own entertainment is just retarded. Even more so when you have limited time to do that. So nowadays I prioritize my activities in game very strongly with respect to how much I'd enjoy doing it and try to let nothing get in the way of that. Even if my higher goals (collect healing gear for my druid) would require a sub-goal (yet another heroic today) that I'm not feeling good about that moment I just don't do it. Also number one is essential. Sleeping may look like a waste of time but the biological and mental need for it is so prevalent that with too little sleep just everything starts to suck. From my point of view, two and three - and one in fact - all blur up together to reflect a fundamental flaw in work life: work hours are an artificial and inappropriate tool of measuring amounts of work in many modern day jobs. Showing up is not work anymore. In fact, my way to find a solution to combine work life and WoWing is a bit long winded: I mean to convince my employer to forget about work hours and move to a "results only working environment". Sadly, my employer is the state of Finland so it might take a couple of more weeks... Excellent post! I’ve been treading that fine line for.. well, all my raiding life barring 4 weeks of summer vacation last year and 4 months of undefined unemployment / working from home time the previous summer. And I’ve had issues.

I’d emphasize number four on your list. In a game, nay, involvement! like WoW it’s surprisingly easy to start doing stuff routinely without second thoughts and assume that it’s fun. That’s bad, getting bored or unmotivated in something you do in free will for your own entertainment is just retarded. Even more so when you have limited time to do that. So nowadays I prioritize my activities in game very strongly with respect to how much I’d enjoy doing it and try to let nothing get in the way of that. Even if my higher goals (collect healing gear for my druid) would require a sub-goal (yet another heroic today) that I’m not feeling good about that moment I just don’t do it.

Also number one is essential. Sleeping may look like a waste of time but the biological and mental need for it is so prevalent that with too little sleep just everything starts to suck.

From my point of view, two and three – and one in fact – all blur up together to reflect a fundamental flaw in work life: work hours are an artificial and inappropriate tool of measuring amounts of work in many modern day jobs. Showing up is not work anymore. In fact, my way to find a solution to combine work life and WoWing is a bit long winded: I mean to convince my employer to forget about work hours and move to a “results only working environment”. Sadly, my employer is the state of Finland so it might take a couple of more weeks…

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