After being super stressed and worn out with raiding & arena & leading a guild back on my home realm (Arthas US), I decided to reroll a hunter with the friendliest people I know who play this silly game I do; the pet-loving petopians.
So I made myself a hunter, just like I have made myself a million other alts... many of which I power leveled to max level, or sometimes even had a deadline for when they needed to be leveled up.But this time something was different!
There was no stress; no one whose level I had to keep up with; no one waiting for me at 85 to do progression content or be my arena partner. It was just me, my hunter... and my pets, and all the time in the world. I didn't even have one piece of BOA or a gold to my name, and I couldn't have cared less. And the only thing I think I even kind of 'power leveled' through was 1-10, simply because I had to have the Tame skill as soon as possible. From there, leveling completely fled from my mind.
I searched petopia's database, revisiting all of the low level rares or just named pets, traveling all over both Kalimdor & Eastern Kingdoms to tame and get to know all of them. I've never been so relaxed while playing this game, or had such an appreciation & affection for all of the most common animals in this game before. And I've never leveled so slowly and cared so little (haha).
Anyway, I have been all over the planet and back on my little level 20 mount searching for and taming pets already. One of my travels was to ride all the way from Silvermoon to Ironforge to get Bjarn, the gorgeous polar bear wandering through the snow in a field. In return, he helped me solo my way to this spot in Wailing Caverns where I fished up a bunch of Deviate Fish to make the fun Pirate/Ninja food (and laughed at my '25,' '50,' and '100,' Fish Achievements that were rewarded for me fishing up grey items)! Pure shameless fun.
Next time you get stressed out I hope you relax like me, and appreciate the huge WoW world full of fuzzy animals and just go have fun doing something silly! It's the little things that count
I may have to update this later with more pictures of the fuzzy friends I find in my travels re-discovering Hunterdom on Nesingwary with the rest of the pet crazies -Sookie ("Ephixa"@Nesingwary!)
