What is this about ?

I've been a WoW player for some time nice. Although I'll always consider myself a neophyte because I never played the vanilla WoW content, I've seen pretty much and I do consider myself a competent player.

When I first began to play WoW, there was a sense of wonderment by playing a persistent game, with a whole world to explore. Well, after more than a year and a half and two 70's, I raided every instance (with the exception of SWP) and there's nothing left to be seen. I realized an obvious truth: I grew tired of the carrot.

See, WoW, as any other MMORPG, works just like the carrot-on-a-stick. Our carrot is better gear, new bosses, leveling, but in the end it's always the same poor gameplay. Don't get me wrong, WoW is a great game, although the graphics fell a bit dated, it's a gorgeous game. But it's game play is VERY limited, so limited I really think it doesn't deserved to be called a RPG, there's no ROLE PLAYING on it.

WoW is about combat, every single quest, boss, is about killing. I'm not a pacifist, I feel no regrest for pounding a database entry to death, but there's nothing more than that.
Raiding ? Kill critters untul you reach the boss. Kill the boss. Whine about looting. Kill more critters until next boss. And so on.

My point is that I'm tired of that. I'm tired of my life as a WoW character. And what you do when you reach midlife crisis ? You travel. I'm setting on traveling round both Azeroth and Outland to see places I've never seen, with a focus on lore. Where all those history-changing events happened ? What these ruins represented in they heyday ? This is what I mean :

I leveled 3 toons past 40, so I quested in the Arathi Highlands more than once and obviously did Sigil of Strom, but didn't realize that Arathor was the first human kingdom to unite all human tribes. I was inside Stromgarde, a historical place, and didn't know.

So I'm going to read the lore on wowwiki and then I'm going to the place, take some screen shots and post my impressions. This blog is nothing more than a travel blog. Of a place that doesn't exists :-)

So, first top: Orgrimmar!