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Post by crankyhealer on Mar 9, 2010 10:04:39 GMT -5
Hubby and I played SWG, and in November 2005, they rolled out the "NGE" and fundamentally changed the game. I went out the day NGE launched and bought 2 copies of wow.
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Milovany
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Post by Milovany on Mar 9, 2010 10:12:51 GMT -5
O dears, where to begin?
My ex, we'll call him Liar-Face (yes, he was my ex then too. We remained friends(ish) after he skruud me over because I am a pushover and a marshmallow) sent me an email one day asking me to call... Woe, woe, woe, his girliefriend had left him. For their WoW guild leader. Ahhh, sweet justice! (Not that I'm bitter) (what?)
After savoring his misery for a bit (hey, I said friends(ish) not best of buds!), I tuned back in to the conversation and managed to make all the appropriate sympathetic noises. I must have lost consciousness at some point, because I don't quite know how it happened. I heard myself saying that sure, I'd go pick up a copy of the game and... Wait. Wut? I'm going to nursemaid Liar-Face through his heartache by playing video games with him??? Noes!
Many fierce noes and headbangings and what-are-you-thinkings later (told you I was a marshmallow), I was watching the human intro and my lil nub mageling Mitethe was born. Moments later she was stuck behind a candelabra as I discovered that despite what Liar-Face had told me, it's *not* just like Diablo, the effing controls are effing *backwards* thank you very much! To his credit, I'm pretty sure Liar-Face was trying not to laugh. Much.
Through all the swearing, I dimly heard him say "there's someone you need to meet" and I turned around and there he was. Him. Xod. Captain Fantastic. (Queue choirs of angels) He was level 54 and could slay many fierce Kobolds with one mighty AoE and... He was wearing a turban. Snicker... guffaw...
Between the finally learning to walk and the demi-god before me I was hooked. Captain Fantastic gave me the Thank-God-I'm-A-Mage tour of Azeroth after Liar-Face fell asleep on the phone. A few months later Mitethe and Xod were 70. A few months after that he was moving in (do de dooooo), and a few months from now we're getting married. We named our dog Arthas. The Lick King.
My mage was my raiding main all through TBC, but WotLK gave me the chance to change my main to my freshly-minted druid and give healing a whirl. Now it's Resto Druid, Resto Shaman, Holy Priest... and poor Mitethe is perma-stuck at level 74. If only she had heals...
Iubit is my warlock in SAN, but knowing me a druid will be along shortly as well... I suck at reform.
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Post by jen on Mar 9, 2010 10:59:51 GMT -5
I have to ask: where did you get Iubit? It means "lover" in Romanian
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Post by gazimoff on Mar 9, 2010 11:03:23 GMT -5
I blame my fiancée for getting me into MMOs. I started out with a game called Horizons. It wasn't brilliant (it had some horrible grinds) but it worked. We'd only just started going out, so we used it to keep in contact over the 200 or so miles between us. We'd both played the original Warcarft RTS games, so when news emerged of an MMO comign out we made plans to move game. I spoke to a bunch of other friends and we all decided to give the game a shot. I'd originally planned to roll Shaemus the Shaman (cheesy I know) but we swapped to Alliance at the last minute. As a result, my gnome mage was born. That was five years ago. In the intervening time a lot in my life has changed. The girl I was dating became my live-in girlfriend, my fiancée and later this year my wife. I've changed jobs and moved house. I still log in though. Wouldn't have it any other way
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Milovany
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Post by Milovany on Mar 9, 2010 11:50:29 GMT -5
I have to ask: where did you get Iubit? It means "lover" in Romanian Mitethe, the name of my first toon, means (more or less) "beloved" in the sci-fi book I swiped it from. In deference to her, a lot of my toons have names with meanings close to that in assorted languages. Iubit, Milovany, Ukochany, Amado, Cariad. Most of the rest came from the same book. Oddly my main, Corrie, is none of these. She just ended up with the name because I thought it was cute.
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Post by mimetir on Mar 9, 2010 15:15:57 GMT -5
I started playing WoW about three years ago. I think. It all melds into one after enough levelling!
I do know that for a long while I'd resisted the urge to try WoW but eventually I caved in. A friend of mine was constantly bugging me about trying it and at the time I needed something new. So, out I went and bought a copy of the game; didn't even try the trial version. I've been playing ever since, for the majority of the time on Raveholdt, and recently on The Venture Co.
I've never looked back since I started playing. Yes, I play a lot, and have at times spent more hours on it than I should. But I feel lucky as WoW is where I found my SO, whom I live with in Edinburgh.
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Post by kamalia on Mar 9, 2010 16:19:39 GMT -5
After we got married 2.75 years ago, my husband decided to try the "get her addicted, too" strategy for managing wife aggro. It worked.
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Post by desukar on Mar 10, 2010 20:50:41 GMT -5
I began playing WoW in the summer of 2005, when a friend convinced me that I needed to try the game. I was totally skeptical until I finally went to his house to try it. It didn't take me long to get hooked. I was having a blast running around Aldrassil. I didn't know much about the game, but I wasn't really new to MMOs either. My previous MMO experience consisted of [minimal amounts of] UO, then Runescape (lulz), and finally RYL, which I'd gotten into the most. It was also until WoW that I thought it was crazy to pay recurring fees to play; I changed my mind on that, needless to say! I was also convinced by this friend of mine that (brace yourselves for this) a Night Elf hunter with leatherworking/skinning was the best combination to ever exist. True story. Don't get me wrong though, I love my hunter Xylia (Draenor US) and her companion Zeus. She remained my main character up until Wrath. I just wonder sometimes what class I'd have chosen for my initial play through, had I not been so strongly influenced. I became an altoholic over the years, with priests becoming my favourite class.
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Post by kialesse on Mar 10, 2010 20:56:50 GMT -5
This is the story of how Kia was born: When I was in college, I was a swing dancer. Yes, an honest-to-God one, did the flips and the twirls and all of it. I ended up as the president of the college dance club, in charge of everything from the color of the napkins at the dances to picking and training the instructors. One such pair of instructors quickly became good friends and they started to pull me into their circle of friends. I moved away to another state for a year, and when I came back (spring of 2008), the whole crowd - ALL SEVENTEEN OF THEM - were ALL playing WoW. We would go out to dinner, and it was like they were speaking another language entirely. It was constant "dps-this" and "threat-that" and "oh the loot" and "will we ever kill Illidan". ALL. DAY. LONG. I caved to the insane peer pressure, and my former instructor let me roll a toon on her account. I played the first seventeen levels of a hunter and said, "I have to have this game". I finally bought the game autumn 2008, three months before Wrath dropped. I leveled Kialesse the Nelf Hunter RAF with Former Instructor until 60, then went all-out to get to 70 before the xpac hit. I made it into one (ONE) Kara run before Wrath, during which BOTH the gun AND the bow dropped for me. I then spent the next three weeks dying in the Isle of Quel-danas in an attempt to have some money before the expansion released last year. Since then, EVERY LAST PERSON in our group of friends has stopped playing WoW. And here I am still. Kialesse of Argent Dawn is my ninth hunter over four servers. I found Pike about a year ago and began my love affair with WoW blogs. Maybe if you talk hard enough, I can be convinced to play some other class, but I find it unlikely
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Post by anea on Mar 11, 2010 16:45:26 GMT -5
Severe boredom lead to the downfall of my principles and trying out WoW. If I had just brought another book while on vacation, none of this would have ever happened
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Post by Caste on Mar 11, 2010 20:14:01 GMT -5
I was bullied into playing WoW by one of my girl friends. She just shoved the trial disc into my hand and said "Go install this and follow the directions on the sticky". She had given me step-by-step instructions, including which server and faction to roll!
I was a real noob, had no idea what was doing on my first toon (a hunter), and I ended up rerolling before too long. In the meantime history repeated itself and I got a girl friend of mine into the game pretty much the same way. ;x
I went with a holy priest this time around, opting to be a healer for my group of friends, and leveled the whole way with a group and running dungeons. I had no real plans aside from just mucking around until I met my prot warrior husband, who is now my raid leader and guild's MT. He and his mate got me and my girls into raiding and we've never looked back.
my husband decided to try the "get her addicted, too" strategy for managing wife aggro This seems to be all too common, know you are not alone!
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