I moved from Enlgand to New Mexico a few months ago, but still play on my European server. Because of the time difference, I'm usually playing 4 or 5AM server time. Its great for farming the elememtal plateau and things like that, but seeing as my main is 70, he really needs to run instances more to get some better gear.
Saying that, you still get quite a few people online at the same time on my server - either there a bunch of ex-pats like me or a bunch of insomniacs like you!

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I find myself play a lot late night as well. It's awesome! At first I didn't like it with trying to run instances, raids, etc. But questing and farming is the best at night! Have all the mobs untouched were ever you go is great! I'm a college student so staying up real late is all part of the college game. I am happy that I found this little gem. Good article.

Zuric
Destromath Server

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Edmonton, Alberta. Damn, me too!

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I play late/early hours at times. Not because I am an insomniac, but because I have a family and spend waking hours with them.

That being said, I find that the drop rates on greens, blues, and quest items are much better during these times, so it doesn't make the grind so draining on one's soul.

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I'm a Canadian myself, but I moved to Europe several months ago. I was a WoW player before I left and still am. I already kept strange hours, but now with massive difference in time zones, I'm on at all kinds of crazy hours. It is definitely different in mood in the middle of the night. It's fun discovering things like daily quest reset times, etc... doing dailys twice in a row within a short time span is kind of monotonous, but it's nice to get them all out of the way that way too.

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I tend to suffer from insomnia at times too. When I was little I use to play FF7 to fall back asleep. Now I play WoW, course I don't fall back asleep now.

My wife thinks I wake up to play games, while in actuallity I'm just doing something to pass the time rather than stare at a clock or infomercial.

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I am not working yet (still looking) so I like a lot playing during evenings and nights.
I usually farm at night.
Minimize wow in a 1024*768 window on a widescreen monitor and I watch videos... TV stuffs, South Parks.... I could be herbs farming or fishing...
Week ends are for raids, the week for video farming :)

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When BC came out, I did all my leveling in the middle of the night since I wasn't working at the time. I loved it. ya its not great for getting groups, but it is nice to have whatever area you need all to yourself, especially then when everyone was the same level and had to kill the same 20 mobs for quests. Now that I'm back to leveling alts, it doesn't matter as much, because pretty much any time of day I'm the only person in Silithus or Un'goro.

the middle of the night is also good for gathering herbs or mining.

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I guess it's either a good or bad thing, but my server has a large Aussie population, so even in the middle of the night, there's people there.

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Last night is a good example of me playing when no one else was around. I woke up at 1 am, Mountain Time, and got two decent quests complete in about 1/2 hour. Not a bad way to earn 20k xp.

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I love playing in the middle of the night. Generally it makes soloing a breeze and battlegrounds are easier to win for some reason.

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booo deadmonton

I occasionally have the same bouts of insomnia but instead what I do is catch up on reading, or generally anything that isn't WoW.

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I peek in to check mail and auctions before work ( I am NOT addicted ::shifty:: ) at around 6 server. I say "Good Morning" in my chatty channel and get several responses of "No Way!" My friends, that I left just 6 hours ago, played all night and are surprised to see me. O.o

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When I can't sleep, I pick flowers until I can. Anything more complicated will keep me awake.

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For the most part, the only times I have ever played (save for a few occasions) has been late at night, anywhere between the hours of 10pm and 8am.

Seeing as how I do so every night, I have managed to make a lot of friends around my level to quest and run instances with, and they've all joined my guild now, so I really don't have much of an issue with that.

Worst case scenario is when I ask for help with a group of elites and my friend says "sure once I ding lvl 67 I'll be right there" and having to wait about 10-20 minutes. Not really a big deal when you already spend so much time in-game not even realizing it.

It takes me longer than that to drive to my girlfriends house, so it's not an issue.

Plus there's also an advantage if you've been farming some items to sell in the AH, and you post it in the middle of the night for 24 hours, it's guaranteed to be seen during the entire next day of daytime play for anyone looking, so I find it easier to sell things.

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They need to fire Kevin Lowe and kick him out of that city. I don't care how many Stanley Cups he helped them win when he was playing.... Also, why the hell couldn't they let Katz just buy the team?

Oilers Forever!

(Yeah, I am more likely to post our home pride before reading the rest of the article, lol)

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Hello from Calgary! (Edmonton's souther rival/neighbor for those who don't know)

I'm a bit of an insomniatic as well. What I eventually discovered was that leveling was made much easier at night (mostly due to ease of grinding issues) but my level 70 Blood Elf Pally has yet to be able to run an instance at this time of night. Because of that I usually spend my nights on as an alt or perhaps doing a daily or two before switching over.

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Cut the caffeine out of your diet totally for a month and see if the insomnia goes away. Even a single cup of coffee in the morning can affect your sleep patterns that night.

There is caffeine in coffee, tea, sodas, chocolate, and chocolate flavored items.

Many energy drinks and herbal supplements include caffeine and other caffeine like stimulants often hidden under other names like guaranine, guarana, mateine, mate, theine. Plus, certain over the counter pain medications like Excedrin contain caffeine.

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I lived in Japan for 10 months and I always played during odd server hours. This was about a year and a half ago, so instead of questing and instancing I was PvPing. I made friends with a lot of the people grinding for HWL and even managed to get on the A-team (those were the good 'ol days of PvP...but I digress).

Now there's no reason for people to be on late/early to grind honor so I would be at a loss for things to do except level.

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I empathize. A couple of us are trying to start a late night reroll guild for people like us who have always wanted to do endgame, but work-schedules, etc always intervene. We actually named it [A] on Illidan US. PST Warborn or Temporary if ya want, :)

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