2/15/17 hour long session at home desktop. The grind became real in this session. Not much of actual substance happened, other than collecting pelts, bones and other random items for every NPC and their mother. I did get to level five today though (from two), which isn’t that much of an improvement, but I’m getting enough abilities to begin seeing distinctions between the mage and warlock. The ability to summon meat shields that throw fire to protect me is really handy, especially with how easy it is for my weakling of a warlock to take damage. I also noticed while playing that the dynamics of how common each class is had changed from seven years ago. It used to be that warlocks were one of the most uncommon classes, along with shaman and priest, and yet now the warlock is easily the second most common class that I have run across, aside from hunter. Also the general social-ness of the community seems to have become much more reclusive than it used to be. It feels like I am playing a single player game at times, even in hub areas, which seems to defeat the purpose of the game in my eyes. Part of the fun is being able to hook up with other players to take care of quests together or cause chaos together, and yet no one seems willing to ask or even spend time playing with me. The game is still enjoyable, it is just an entirely different animal from what I quit playing. I also wonder if maybe the social aspect will pick up at higher levels (due to harder quests, dungeoning, and PvP). I may have to hook up with some classmates through the discussion to play together (if anyone else created an undead character anyway). Either way, it seems to me that I just have to keep grinding until I can at least get to the Undercity (the hub city for the undead), which will open up possibilities like the auction house, and several professions for my character. The one experience this session worth mentioning was during a quest where I had to gather several wolf pelts as proof that I had reduced the population of these diseased wolves or something like that. While I was fighting a level 4 wolf, a level 107 death knight, mounted on this huge spectral horse and decked out in massive armor showed up next to me. I wasn’t sure what to do so i just kept killing wolves, while this death knight that was over 100 times my level watched, and after he watched me kill a second wolf, he makes his character clap in celebration, and then run off. Whether he was mocking me, or genuinely happy that I was playing the game, I will never know, but I chuckled for a good ten minutes over that. It seems that the WoW community hasn’t lost all of its old charm that I remember.