Most people who follow my exploits in World of Warcraft know me as a dyed-in-the-wool member of the Horde. In fact, I’ve played Horde my entire WoW career, from the early days of the official release up through the end of the Wrath. I killed Nefarian for a second time alongside my Horde brothers and sisters and ended Cho’gall’s reign over the Twilight Hammer cult. If you’ve been following my main character’s exodus from Horde to Alliance through the WoW Insider Show or Twitter, you’ve heard bits and pieces of why I transferred servers. Falling into the hands of the Alliance is the fault of two men — Lodur and Matticus.
Most people who follow my exploits also know about the dreaded lag issues that I was having because of still unsolved issues with certain internet providers and odd packet inspection (presumably). Connecting to the Chicago data center was never a problem until the release of Cataclysm and, really, not until I started to raid heavily around late December 2010. Things got real ugly during late December. This is my story of changing what I could to keep playing the game that I love.
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Cataclysm
How lag forced me to play a little differently originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.