Ho-ly-fuck! What a journey it’s been since I started playing Wurm. Hmm.. isn’t this what most Youtubers or Twitch streamers say when they reflect on the past?
To go from someone who was forced to depend on friends yet also wanting to live on my own as I felt I was being taken advantage of.. and sadly to this day I haven’t changed that mindset (with Kovo needing my help for raiding in Destiny 2), then finally discovering I could use an alt to help me survive off of fish stew for years, and eventually got the power to use ‘Refresh’ and feed myself once every 16 hours (I think it was, but who knows if that got nerfed into the ground by now).
Not to mention, I also remember.. what a bad toxic friend I was to angry. *sighs* Why in the fuck did he put up with me for so fucking long, is just.. I dunno.
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Go from being scared of everything that moves, to becoming a seasoned fighter and learning the ways of the Wurm Dragon Warrior. Getting that 2H axe from Exodus and receiving training on how to handle mobs was the best day I ever had.
What would had been even more awesome, would be if I was trained by an actual Wurm Dragon Warrior. But I honestly shouldn’t complain.
Sadly I wasn’t taught how to move my body to handle trolls. Never got my Body Control up. This was ‘taught’ to me by a fellow dragon in honorable combat during an Impalong. But instead of slaying me, they offered their reward as a token of friendship.
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And also holy fuck was my typing horrible back then. So many small paragraphs and not properly phrasing certain things. Plus the typos. So many typos. I’ve really improved since then.
Despite all the complaining I did back then, Wurm still gave me something to do. And I almost kind of wonder if any of the evil Wogic of the past 4+ years has been addressed in such a way by the devs, or if it’s still the same. Such as finally allowing people that don’t have a deed to brand their horse (so they can put a saddle on
it, or animals can finally eat on grass tiles with trees and flowers).
Most of my complaints came from.. honestly not having a clear picture of what to do. To move or not to move. To be a nomad or to keep living on a deed. Yet there’s also the number crunching aspect of Wurm that grinds my gears, such as never getting to 40 in Animal Husbandry (AH) for me to ‘Care For’ more than 4 animals with
Premium (Perm) time. It was mainly because of how little I was getting from grooming animals. It’s such a painful skill to grind.
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But probably the stupidest thing of all, is more of a personal one: having a person’s name being the deciding factor to attend an Impalong or not, just because they were part of the staff at the time.
I should’ve went. Probably would’ve had a blast. Because I keep forgetting to just be myself. I had worked hard to get my fight skill up. Why did I let someone’s name control my emotions like that? At the end of the day, we’re still all human beings.
Bet not even that champagne-drinking dragon was perfect. She likely was lacking in areas that I excelled.
Though that wasn’t the reason why I stopped playing. Sure it was a combination of
reasons, but it was.. losing interest in the very thing I enjoyed doing; exploring these worlds and checking out what people have done. Having to keep my defensive equipment in top physical form (my armor and my axe) got annoying too, of how much money I’ve wasted getting them re-imped.
Could had taken the time to improve my Armor and Weaponsmithing skills, and did the imping myself. The reason I never did is how painful I’ve heard it was to do so. Likely still is. I really doubt this main core of Wurm would ever be made easier for casuals, as the game would likely die off.
Just Netflix and left click in menus for hours. Such a great life. ..Just not the life for me.
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But.. I dunno. Next year would be five years since I last quit Wurm. If I was to come back for another five years (assuming I’ll even live that long), either I would end up being trapped in a deed that was once mine, or moved to Tap Dance. Either way I’d definitely feel bad. I had the perfect place for a deed in Cele, but I kept fucking with it.. kept getting bored with it, just like I was in the past.
Would take a miracle to bring me back this time. Not memories, but changes in Wurm’s core to make the grinding a lot more tolerable. So what if I finally got 70 in Blacksmithing? Woopy fucking do. I don’t have Mining high enough to support that with high quality lumps. Plus I couldn’t even imp my own damn carving knife, as the game sees it as
a “weapon” (which requires Blades Smithing).
HOW is something that’s only designed to shape wood, a WEAPON?! And you can fuck right off with the whole “LOLOL WOGIC” crap. I don’t want to hear it.