Big Daddy Olga

Slow down! You level too fast!

Gotta make the lowbie last!

Apologies to Simon and Garfunkel, and I won’t try and parody the rest of the song (OK, I tried, but couldn’t really come up with more; I’ve never been a good poet or lyricist). But I do wish I could slow down leveling on my new alts.

After The Shattering, I rolled a Dwarf Shammy, a race/class combo I’ve been waiting for since Blizzard announced it last year.  I’ve been having a great time with it.  I’ve enjoyed seeing the changes in the early zones, Dun Morogh and Loch Modan; I can almost feel the mud on my feet in the drained loch.  And the quest chains have been entertaining.  I’m having a blast.
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But leveling goes so quickly now!  Zone content turns green before you’ve had a chance to finish the zone, and then it’s off to the next zone.  And if you take mining or herbalism as a profession, leveling goes even faster.  More than once I’ve had to go back to a zone after I’ve already leveled out because I need to gather herbs to level my alchemy, which adds even more XP, pushing me further toward leveling out of the zone I’m working on.

I know in the past, players have pushed Blizzard to make leveling faster, and Blizz has responded well. You can now level an alt to max level in a very short time.  I leveled a hunter to 68 in only a couple of weeks while on medical leave earlier this year.  It took me only a little longer to level a mage all the way to 80 (I got bored with the hunter by the time I reached Northrend).

But with all the new content, I’d love a way to slow down leveling.  It would be great to have a toggle so I could turn off XP for gathering, for example.  Or to be able to toggle the XP requirement for each level between the current requirement and the traditional requirement.  Ideally, we could toggle both.  Toggles on XP would allow us to slow down and enjoy the new content at the appropriate level when we want to, or to level an alt quickly if we want to.

Warning:  This post contains spoilers for the pre-Cataclysm novel The Shattering by Christie Golden.  Read no further if you want to avoid the spoilers.

Conflict between Garrosh Hellscream and Cairne Bloodhoof begins early in The Shattering.  Cairne is dispatched to Northrend to supervise the evacuation of Horde troops to Durotar.  Upon departure, the Horde fleet encounters a nasty storm, and, when the weather clears, discovers an Alliance ship.

“Alliance?  In our waters?” said Garrosh.  “They are in clear violation of the treaty.”

Cairne asks for confirmation that they are in Horde waters, which the ship captain confirms.

Garrosh grinned.  “Then by all laws, theirs and ours, they are ours for the taking!   We are allowed by treaty to defend 0ur territory…including our waters!”

Cairne is more forgiving:

Have you considered the possibility that the same storm that so damaged us blew them off course?  That they are not here to attack. but are here only by accident?

In fact, the Alliance vessel is a virtual derelict:

The vessel was listing badly to port.  It sails had been shredded by the vicious wind….and it was taking on water.

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The incident compels me to wonder about the state of international law, and the law of the sea, on Azeroth.   In the real world, international law during peacetime, and even times of truce, call for a warning to a vessel violating territorial waters before attacking.  Moreover, a ship in distress is generally recognized to have rights to seek safety, even if it means violating the territorial waters of another power.  In fact, international law requires assistance to a vessel in distress.  Does law on Azeroth not require similar assistance?  It’s a hypothetical question, really beyond the scope of any of the games or stories that provide the lore of the game.

Even so, Cairne clearly recognizes Garrosh’s attack for the act of piracy that it is.

“Vengeance is petty and beneath you, Garrosh,” Cairne snapped.  “And what honor is there in slaying those about to drown?  You may not violate the letter of the treaty, but you violate its spirit.

Certainly international law is an esoteric concern for a game, although Golden brings it up repeatedly in this passage.  And the game is about conflict, where many rules go out the window.  But cultures at least as far back as the Romans have recognized certain rules about conflict (concepts of jus ad bellum and jus in bello) , and the concept of honor is even more ancient; soldiers and warriors in most cultures have accepted that certain acts are beyond the pale and dishonorable.

This assault is certainly one of them.  With this act, Garrosh goes from the puerile churl of Nagrand in Burning Crusades to lawless renegade.

The other day,  my troll shammy drew the Sewer Stew cooking daily while waiting in the random dungeon queue.  I had collected my carrots and was hearthing back when something attacked me.  (My shammy is on a PVP server.)  Looking around to respond, I couldn’t see what had hit me, and shortly dropped out of combat.  I began to hearth again, only to be attacked again.

This time, I spotted the culprit:  a night elf druid, who promptly began swarmed me with treants. So I was facing a boomkin.

This was not going to go well.  I was in my healing spec and gear, and I’m no great shakes at PVP anyway.   But, to my amazement, I was surviving, and giving better than I got.  Of course, the druid didn’t help himself much, since he never switched to boomkin form.  A couple of quick heals were enough to keep my health up.  Meanwhile I burned him down with flame shocks, earth shocks, and lightning bolts.
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When he died, the mystery of my victory was solved.  Not only had he failed to change form, he was a level 71 attacking a Level 80 outfitted in tier 9 gear.   Some players might be able to win with that handicap.  He clearly wasn’t one of them. It was a foolish attack.

And an unsatisfying victory.

I wrote earlier about the Germanic influence on the names of my Dwarf toons.  When I go to play other races, though, that approach doesn’t fit.  I don’t see humans and Draenei as having the same Celtic cultural influence.  So when I went to start creating toons of other races (to start getting a feel for other classes and races), I needed another source of names.  For those names, I quickly found myself turning to one of my favorite writers, the outdoor humorist Patrick F. McManus.

I started reading McManus in Field and Stream when I was a kid.  For a few years I was into fishing, and my mother got me a subscription.  (This was when we lived in New England.  A couple of years later, we moved to Kansas where, well, there is no water.  Hence no fish.  Hence no fishing.)  I took to his stories right away, and I loved his engaging cast of characters: the old woodsman Rancid Crabtree, sidekick Retch Sweeney, and general purpose girl Olga Bonemarrow.

So when I was persuaded to start a hunter as my first non-dwarf toon, he naturally had to be named for Rancid Crabtree.  The full name was too long (and would have violated Blizzards naming rules), so I adapted it, and Rancecrabtre, the Draenei hunter, was born.  Along the way, he obtained Matilda Jean, named for the cat belonging to “the Troll”, sister of the stories’ narrator (in WoW, Matilda Jean is a raptor, btw); and Strange, a bear named for the narrator’s (ugh!) dog.
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Similarly, when I started a human female priest, I had  to turn to Olga Bonemarrow.  Again, the name was too long, and could run afoul of WoW naming rules, so I needed to dress it up.  Olga’s a Russian name, and I studied Russian in college, so I turned to the Russian term for “bone marrow”, kostny mozga.  “Olgakostnymozga” is still too long, so I began chopping letters out, somewhat indiscriminately.  After all, Olga was a throw-away toon, or so I thought;I just wanted to get a feel for what it was like running a healer (and to have an easier time getting in PUGs for dungeons, which was all but impossible on a hunter like Rance.

I ended up with “Olgakosmga”.  Not a bad name for a throw-away toon.  Little did I know!  What with one thing and another (especially running with a small guild of friends that already had a main tank firmly in place), Olga became my main.  Which is how a bewhiskered, gravely-voiced man comes to be known to most of his friends in game as “Olga”.

The Twisted Nether blogcast recently suggested a post theme on how you name your toons.  It’s a good one for me to address, because I get comments on my toon names a lot.

Let’s start with my dwarves.  I have several dwarves because I’ve always been partial to the race.  I’m not sure why (although some have observed that I look a lot like a dwarf; and those are my friends.  Can you imagine what someone who doesn’t like me says?).  But going back to my desultory D&D days (lo, these…many…years ago!), I’ve usually played a dwarf if that was an option. They’ve always appealed to me.

In fantasy literature and in MMOs, dwarven culture is usually portrayed as essentially Celtic.  In WoW, dwarves always speak with a Celtic (predominantly Irish) accent, and other aspects of their culture also lean towards the Celtic influence.
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But I’ve always seen dwarves as essentially Germanic.  Again, I can’t say exactly why I see them this way.  And I realize my perception is definitely counter to the common fantasy perception and representation of dwarves.    In any event, I usually give a dwarf a name that seems Germanic, or at least old Anglo-Saxon.  Hence Ulfwaercht, my warrior and primary alt, as well as Ulmbeorcht, my first toon, a dwarf paladin (who sits rather neglected, to be honest).

I also have this concept that “Ulf” and “Ulm” are essentially male prefixes for names, while “Olm” is a female prefix.  Thus my female paladin, Olmgueld, and my female rogue, Olmbruild.

…for me, it’s not a question.

In Patch 4.0.1, Blizzard made 310% riding speed purchasable, rather than tied to specific mounts.  If you previously acquired a 310 mount (such as one of the achievement mounts from Ulduar or ICC, or from the holiday meta-achievement) you upgrade to 310 automatically upon mounting the first time after downloading the patch.  If you don;t have one of those mounts, you can now purchase 310.

But the price is steep:  5,000 gold.

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The upgrade to 310% is no where near as impressive.  A boost of 30 percentage points sounds like a lot, but in reality, it’s a net speed boost of just over 10%.  If you’re flying from one end of a continent to another (say from Valgarde in Howling Fjord to Coldarra in Borean Tundra), the difference might be noticeable.  But how often do you fly that far at once?  And certainly, there are faster ways of making that trip than flying directly, such as hearthing to Dalaran and flying from there.  For the most part, when you fly, it is within a zone, or to an adjacent zone, and that 10% boost in speed is not nearly as important.

I have a couple of toons that got the 310 riding by virtue of obtaining a 310 mount prior to the patch.  For the rest, I’ll be fine flying along at 280%.  The additional 10% boost in speed just isn’t worth 5,000 gold.  I’m sure I’ll find better gold sinks in Cata.

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