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Post by zaeni on Mar 8, 2010 6:05:23 GMT -5
Since Tam so kindly reminded us we can make new threads, I thought i'd make the first post not done by Tam My short version of how i got started: In 2004, started with the US version because I was in Singapore. pings over 9000 (literally), wasn't very enjoyable then. 2009, restarted playing as I'm staying in the UK, finished uni, and working. Edit: curses! beaten by Echo by 3mins
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Post by Ricah on Mar 8, 2010 6:17:25 GMT -5
Back in december 2005 i downloaded wow and meddled around on a free server for 3 days before deciding that I NEED THIS GAME!!!
so: xmas 2005 - legal wow purchase, started a nelf rogue on Kul Tiras-EU januari 2006 - joined my first guild, followed by my 2nd shortly after. The 2nd one remained my "home" up until now, even though it's been semi-disbanded/retired, im am still a community member march 2010 - chars in 5 different guilds,3 different servers, 3x 80's, and a gazillion alts later, i still enjoy the game. Absolutely loving SAN.
Currrently have been on a raiding hiatus since last october after raid burnouts and guild burnouts.
Attempted to start my own blog which i feel i kinda failed at miserably, happily remaining a blog lurker for now.
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Post by Echo on Mar 8, 2010 6:33:38 GMT -5
Was playing another MMO (Matrix Online). A friend of mine picked up WoW and showed me it. Played it and was hooked because it was just so much more polished than anything else I'd seen.
Been Hunter since day 1. Since then I've branched out a lot and now have 4 80s and a couple nearing 80.
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Post by Elsen on Mar 8, 2010 7:37:15 GMT -5
Hmm, a messageboard I used to frequent about the music scene in Manchester had a couple of people playing - I downloaded the trial and played a human mage for a week, decided I loved it and started properly. That was on January 1st 2008 when Elsen was born, and I've never looked back!
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Post by protflashes on Mar 8, 2010 7:43:09 GMT -5
A friend of mine was in the beta, way back when, and when the game came out kept telling me I had to play it. And I kept telling him to STFU and leave me alone because there was NO WAY I was paying a montly fee to play a game, when I had all these single players game I could just pay for once and play as much as I wanted.
And what if the company goes bankrupt and there's no servers anymore, what then?
And what do you mean they keep my character on THEIR servers? That's like a privacy invasion!
And how are you even supposed to PLAY a game with a million other people? How does the story move? How does that even make sense?
What if people kill me all the time? I don't need people killing me all the time. That's what happens in those games. People kill you. All the time.
And so on and so forth, ad nauseum. ^^
But he was a persistent bastard, if nothing else. He even offered to BUY the game for me. In the end, evidently, I caved.
I'd never played an MMO before. It was a strange, frightening, foreign land that I simply wasn't able to walk away from.
And now, here I am, happily converting everyone I know...and so the cycle continues...
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Post by pilfkin on Mar 8, 2010 7:45:34 GMT -5
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Post by poneria on Mar 8, 2010 8:28:02 GMT -5
I was playing Jelly Blocks in Chem class next to a friend. When I got to level 80 in less than half the lecture period, I looked over his shoulder to his laptop, and remarked that his character was in a weird-looking place (Shattrath). I decided Jelly Blocks wasn't working for distraction and needed something new. Oops.
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Post by Ravven on Mar 8, 2010 8:30:07 GMT -5
I started in late 2005, early 2006, I think - this was my first MMO. I rolled a warlock named Ravven (which is the name that I use for my artwork) and raided on her all the way through to the first part of TBC. At that point I was allowed to switch to my longtime love, my hunter Kitsune, and I raided on her all the way through most of Ulduar. I then totally burned out on a five-nights-per-week raid schedule and virtually stopped playing for quite a while until I read an intriguing post about an all-blogger EU guild. I haven't played this much in ages. I play a lot of other MMOs, but Warcraft will always be my first love. I think most of us have had that "OMFG" moment as a new gamer when you look at the clock and realise that you've actually sat at the PC playing a game for six hours straight...it's all downhill from there. I admit that I've taken a week of holiday for each of the expansions (and did so for Aion, as well) - thank goodness I live with a hardcore gamer!
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Post by Jaedia on Mar 8, 2010 8:37:45 GMT -5
I met a guy, he played WoW, I watched him one time running around Org while I was writing an essay and thought Cleft of Shadows looked pretty, mounts were interesting, it was like another world. So he let me make a gnome warlock on his account called.. Ennis! Thinking about it, that was an RP server and a random mage gave me some water and hailed me as a 'dark lady', spose Argent Dawn isn't my first time Started out as an undead warlock called Hadlo (he was the reason I rolled on a PvP server too, else I'd have gone Alliance PvE I guess, thought not complaining, met my current bf there too) and ended up playing Shadow Priest for most of TBC. Hunter for most of Wrath.
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Post by Nefernet on Mar 8, 2010 8:42:34 GMT -5
I remember very well the first time I saw someone playing Wow, in the summer 2008. I was at my cousin's and she had invited her friends and myself (who was working in the same town at the moment) for her little sister's birthday. And her boyfriend was playing in the living room, I wonder how he could listen to TS in his headset with all the chatty girls in the room (and the TV...). I remember having a look at his brand new 26' screen and there was a bunch of toons on the screen with flags... (I now suppose he was in some arena...). Then I thought it was very geekish. But my cousin told me she played too. I had heard about it before and in my head it was associated with "addiction" but also with "the best online game".
I forgot about it until Christmas 2008. I had changed workplace and my then-soon-to-be boyfriend was a true videogames addict, and when doing some shopping, I stumbled upon the battlechest, with both Vanilla and BC for a good price. I bought it, pure curiosity, and seeing that, my soon-to-be boyfriend bought it too and I was quite happy to have a geek around me to help me starting.
We rolled two characters on Krasus-EU. I rolled a baby hunter named Nefernet, and he rolled a mage. I remember that empty character screen, and how I choose the name carefully. He had already played the game with test accounts and he rushed, but I was a total noob. I remember those first steps into Azeroth. I remember starting on my chair every time a mob would attack me by surprise, squeaking, closing my eyes and randomly pushing buttons in panic. I died a lot in those Teldrasil's caves...
I remember my boyfriend offered me help : "I'll do that quest for you if you want", and me : "DO NOT TOUCH MY HUNTER OR I'LL BITE YOU ! I want to do it myself... But if you want to come with your 10 levels above mage to burn those disgusting mobs, I'd love that..." *shy smile with teary eye*
I meleed my way up to lvl 10 where I instantly catch how aggro worked : the pet save your life insulting the mobs harder than you, it keeps the mobs of you, and you're safe killing them from range as long as your pet doesn't die... No more meleing to death. Huzzah ! The boyfriend helped me a lot, he explained what talents were, and we did our first instance (Deadmines of course \o/ ) and he explained what a tank and a healer were.
And one day, I decided to have a look on the Internet for more infos about my class, that's how I found BigRedKitty and Pike's blogs. I made my first steps out of the noob country that day and never looked back. I'm now a wowblogs addict, I try to play my hunter the best I can, I still have loads of fun with this character.
That's how I started playing wow : I was curious, wanted to try, had a big fright at the beginning but got totally hooked...
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Post by Issy on Mar 8, 2010 9:04:24 GMT -5
I started playing in June 2005 I think.. my new boyfriend (turned out to be a complete pillock, but that is another story) played WOW with his friends, he had a job where he had to go out at short notice sometimes leaving stranded, so he let me create a character on his wow account. Well, actually he told me I could roll a rogue or a hunter (I wanted a nightelf and he thought anything else might be beyond me to play..), and the hunter pets sold it for me. I loved wow from the opening sequence. He got me into his alliance guild, on Aszune. I think I was just about using a messenger client by then, so talking to lots of people I didn't know in guild chat was something completely new for me. I was really really crappy at playing - I spent the first 5 levels dead in the spider cave. Of course I had no manual, no instructions and had never played a game like it (die-hard Civ II fan). So I started talking to guildies, and they started helping me, and after a couple of weeks, I bought my own account, dumped my boyfriend (he really was a pillock) and ran off with one of them I have had breaks from wow, switched servers a few times, played other games. Playing Horde on a RP server is me settled though
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Post by Tufva on Mar 8, 2010 9:25:14 GMT -5
My then, ehm, ehm (what is the term in English for someone you live with and have a romantic relationship with? - *grumble* limiting language) - anyways he's my husband nowadays, so we'll stick with that. It was ALL his fault.
He was between contracts in the autumn (fall? I never can remember which one is British and which one is American) of 2005 and picked up this game someone had mentioned and got really hooked. Since he then spent most evenings after dinner in the study playing, he decided to try to corrupt me into playing it too. Which he did by buying the game and a 1-month subscription for me. I wasn't really a very experienced gamer, but it was just so pretty and so easy to pick up.
I spent the next while levelling millions of different race/class combos, I think the highest level one made it to 24. After that it seemed to get, like, really hard. You see, I hadn't twigged that I could move away to another zone to do some easier quests and then come back later at a higher level. I'd never played such a big game, so I just assumed that I could only quest where I was sent.
Late spring 06 I was finally on the go with my first main - a nooby hunter (what do you mean I can't help my pet kill stuff by stabbing it with my sword?). She was around level 40 when she stumbled across some people doing a group quest in Arathi. Was invited to their guild (yes, that would be the same one that I am still in).
Somewhere along the way I started levelling a priest as someone said we needed healers in the guild. I had never really done an instance (groups were way too scary), but I wanted to be helpful so I levelled Tufva from 1 - 70 as holy.
Once I got over my instance-phobia I actually enjoyed healing a lot and was the main healer in the guild through Karazhan, ZA and Wrath up until ICC when I burnt out on it and decided to pewpew for a while. DPS-ing, like blogging, is proving to be a learning curve, but an enjoyable one. :-)
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Post by Tamarind on Mar 8, 2010 9:50:05 GMT -5
My then, ehm, ehm (what is the term in English for someone you live with and have a romantic relationship with? - *grumble* limiting language) Oooh, I have no idea ... let's try to come up with one. Paramour?
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Post by protflashes on Mar 8, 2010 9:58:17 GMT -5
My then, ehm, ehm (what is the term in English for someone you live with and have a romantic relationship with? - *grumble* limiting language) (Romantic) Partner Significant Other (SO) Common-law spouse Live-in boyfriend Personally, I vote for paramour. These are all very business-sounding. ^^
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Post by Tamarind on Mar 8, 2010 10:21:10 GMT -5
I quite like the idea of having an Insignificant Other....
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