WoW Pacifist

as some of you may know, one of my many hobbies is playing a little-known online game called World of Warcraft (herein referred to as WoW). some say it is addicting, a waste of time, etc... i will not argue these points because it is what it is, and everyone gets something different from it. i will say that ANY activity/hobby that detracts from other more important aspects of your life is detrimental and should seriously be looked at. this applies to anything, not just video games. there. done with that.

anyway, this is a game centered around killing creatures, monsters, and other characters to progress further. but because of its scope and utter freedom to ultimately do whatever you want (there are people who create characters to do nothing more than spam chat channels to get you to go to their WoW website and pay them money to progress), some people have been coming up with interesting things to do (as mentioned in previous parenthetical). There is an Auction House in the game that is setup very much like eBay for people in the game to auction off items they find in the game that others may need. Some people play this Auction House like the stock market and corner the market on high-yield items to turn a profit. when i say profit, i mean in-game money, not real money of course. the more gold you have in-game, the better things you can get for yourself.

one new-to-me thing that i've found people doing is being a pacifist in the game and still progressing their character — albeit at a very slow rate. instead of killing creatures or other characters to level-up their character, they complete quests that require them to collect things, or come up with ingenious ways of completing quests without killing things. it seems like a waste of time to me, but it is just another way to take something and make it different and use it in a way that wasn't originally intended. link below for those interested.

http://pacifistundeadpriest.blogspot.com/

i promise i won't bore you with WoW much anymore. :-) maybe i'll make a tanking (WoW term for what i am in-game) blog...