racing the content keeping up and the need for speed

Todays theme revolves around concepts of  speed and the philosophy of leveling. MMOs  by design create a number of competing goals within the design but coded in such a way as to allow for longevity, a small series of challenges increasing in difficulty combined with a diminishing set of rewards increasing in value. . With most people having a succession of alts the content is no longer new but familiar and the desire to blast through to the highest level becomes increasingly attractive. I also have this desire to get Ceren as powerful as possible but am beginning to think at what cost. In business and management we often do a cost benefit analysis weighing up investment against increased productivity results.My cost benefit analysis for Ceren is that speed can often mean a loss of functionality and complex understanding of in game lore legend character customisation and most importantly fun and enjoyment.
Ceren
Went hunting today with Adianne and Kristal *. Kristal was a great companion but we found ourselves getting ganked alot so she called in the big guns and her friend Adianne a lev 90 Ranger appeared to help speed the process up, .a concept known as clearing the zone which we proceeded to do. Great fun but Ceren was left in the dust.  Ceren has silver hair because she is controlled by an older gamer. I suddenly realised that I have become used to a slower pace (Grandma speed)I'm trying to work out if thats due to a lack of skill {eg slow targeting slow combos still learning the class) or an actual preference to take my time and enjoy the ride. I was on voice as well which added an extra level of challenge.
Thinking about an experienced player checking quest journal, moving, sending private tells, chatting in guild chat,chatting in group chat to a non voice group member,checking map, as well as listening tto background music watching the hotbar for twitters as well as watching TV....hmmmm 
* Character names changed for privacy

Wiping blame lag or system specs instead of yourself ?

Some dungeons and instances aren't meant to be duoed. Karnacks Castle is one such. Enyar and me try to get in with Enyar chronomaging down to 72. This should be possible with 2 good players but somehow today my system seems jumpy and my targeting seems laggy. So need to work out whether what caused us to wipe 3 times was my bad targeting due to still trying an alternative key set combined with lag and choppiness my video card settings a problem with my cache and memory in my low tech system or my general suckiness.


Decide that it is my general suckiness after 3 wipes think Enyar fell asleep as it was 4am Central US time.

Grumpy but have a plan to fix...... its called upgrade and practise