He failed! When my friend arrived at work this morning, he was just below level 77. Shame, I was sure he was going to make it. The key factors that he cited as preventing him from reaching level 80 were the fact that there was a 2-hour queue every time he tried to connect to the server, and the need to sleep. Just as I thought, he kind of burned ( Read more... )

I know I keep going on about this, but it's almost over (It's my friend's last day off tomorrow, so he comes back to work on Wednesday). Today I sent him a text, and didn't get a reply. When he finally did get in touch, he had this to say ( Read more... )

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My friend sent me a text message this morning to tell me that he'd reached level 65 with his Death Knight, from a starting level of 55, at 1am, roughly 24 hours after he started playing. I'm going to assume he was playing constantly for those 24 hours, and he'd been awake for about 16 hours before that, so that makes an impressive 40 hour stretch! ( Read more... )

My friend from work has just taken some holiday for the release of the new World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. In what we have christened 'The Retardening', he plans to spend the next six days getting a Death Knight, the new character class, to level 80. To do this he will be avoiding all unnecessary distractions, such as sleeping ( Read more... )