Expeditions form an necessary part of WoW. More than anything else, they take the boredom out of the game but then, conquests also become necessary episodes at times in WoW. The first few occasions seem thrilling and sporting. The following time you play, you try to deploy some alternatives, but after than it grows more of a routine practice than anything else.
After some time quests are all about completing it in the most effective means, and there are two ways one can do this. The first way is the most common and I believe it is the most sloppy way. With this way you somehow slog along, repeating many of the activities you attempted before. The real trouble with that approach is you often discover yourself saying things like “Oh, I really needed to go THERE”, “Hmmm?this person doesn?t have the Muffin of Doom at all, it must have been that other person” and unfortunately “Where?s my corpse”?
The second route is the efficient one: It involves memorizing your moves, polishing the campaign each time until when you start a pursuit you follow it from A to B to C to completion. I learnt this technique long back when I played Pools of Radiance and I discover that the same rule applies to any game of any form, so long as it has any replay worth. If you think you?ll be going the same way again ? make notes en route. If you think you?ll be doing the pursuit again, make remarks on the quest and travel a different path for variety by all means. You are most welcome to try out assorted alternatives but if you forget to note down your activities, the prospects are that next time around, you would be moving about like a chicken without a head.
How much? Let?s return to the game where I discovered the example: Pools of Radiance was a predecessor to the likes of WoW. I first brought my champions from the walls of Phlan and journeyed up the river to reach a lake. I recall that there was a large pyramid in the heart of the lake exuding volumes of pollutants into the clean river and my heroes had to probe. To cut a long (really long) story short, the pyramid contained a maze of the most frustrating type. It is not only all twisted and tangled which made it impossible to see any landmark, but also had teleportation systems which haphazardly transported you all the time. I spent lasting hours trying to handle the maze till I began to jot down every exploit that I made. When I ran through the game again with a new team I did the entire pursuit in 10 minutes.
Though it may sound very tiresome and fascinating in the beginning when you start to map, note down and polish your movements but when you finish it faster than anyone else, the next time, then everything feels good.
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