I'm a creature of habits in the morning. I have a well defined morning routine consisting of a PvA (Person versus Alarm) battle that I always lose, a shower, getting dressed and breakfast. In all fairness the alarm does get
its opener in
every morning. Like many of you, I manage to fit World of Warcraft into the slice of time before noon. It's not always productive, sometimes I just have time to check the AH - go go
gadget Auctioneer! - other times I manage to steamroll a handful of dailes before the workday beckons.
You can imagine how flustered I get on maintenance days. I mean how dare Blizzard mess up my morning routine. I have half a mind to run into Blizzard's office and slap coffee cups out of each and everyone on of their hands until I am satisfied. I digress though. To avoid this week's frustration, I arranged my PvA skirmish about an hour earlier, allowing me to get some play time in before the servers had to turn their head to the left and cough. Yesterday was one of those productive days.
I logged in only 14 minutes before the server was set to go down. Once that first strip of yellow popped up, I knew it was on. I snagged the
Champion quests for Stormwind - only 2 factions to go! - and mounted up for the day's Valiant challenge. I quickly moved to the main tent, picked up the four Champion dailies and returned to my Exodarian mount for some more challenging jousts. With under five minutes remaining I flew out to Sindragosa's Fall to lay waste to some Scourge. As I went in for my first kill Blizzard's script politely notified me that I had 3:30 remaining. Fifteen kills in 3:30 for a rogue who wants to loot and pickpocket applicable mobs. "It'll be close," I thought as the first baby frost wyrm struggled to fly away before collapsing. I tore through the mobs, dropping them faster than
Manny Pacquiao. With 10 seconds remaining on the clock I dropped the last mob, went down on one knee to collect my rewards, and was logged off.
I missed that last batch of loot. With my luck it was a guaranteed epic item, but I am happy with what I accomplished in that short time frame. In 15 minutes - add a minute to return and hand in the quests - Solidsamm completed four quests, earned himself circa 75 gold, scored a few Writ's, some Seals, and a round of reputation. Not bad for the morning routine. If the
2004 Solidsam (originally had one s) heard about 300 gold an hour he'd explode.
Does WoW play a part in your morning? Just the general AH/mail stuff or do you take it a bit further?
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