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Hello World …of Warcraft
Hello. My name is Megalis. And I’m a Druid.
I started playing World of Warcraft on December 15th, 2007 on a 10-day trial account. Some new friends had invited Vishyna and I to a LAN party. They were all playing WoW, and we were playing Tabula Rasa, a game we had picked up about a month earlier.
Now don’t get me wrong here. I already new what WoW was. I had spent the last three years continuously making fun of the people I knew who played WoW. I also used to make fun of people who played Everquest. Until I started playing it myself that is.
Vishyna and I had played EQ2 together for about a year before we decided it would be best for us and our relationship if we quit. Two years later, I came home from work one day and find that Vishyna had bought herself a copy of WoW. She broke the news to me by offering me the 10-day trial card that comes with the game. I respectfully declined and she started playing it by herself. She didn’t play for very long though. I think she got to level 20. Then she heard about Tabula Rasa at work and started playing that instead. A week later I started playing Tabula as well. Until the LAN party.
So at this LAN party, seeing all these people playing WoW was nothing new. It wasn’t the excitement of seeing a game completely new to me that made me decide to start playing. That was what did it for me with Tabula Rasa. With WoW, it was just out of pure curiosity that I finally decided to give it a shot.
Without saying a word to anyone, I went to the official site and signed up for a 10-day trial. I downloaded the game launcher and started playing the streaming version. I rolled a Dwarf Paladin (yeah, the “easy class to play“). Vishyna rolled a Warlock and another friend (who caught me downloading the game) rolled a Gnome Rogue to come level with us. We got to level 12 that weekend and I had a really good time. On Monday I went to GameStop on my lunch break and bought the Battle Chest.
Now one of the reasons I didn’t want to play WoW was because I knew I would enjoy it and I knew I would become addicted to it. Alas, that is exactly what happened. I never played that Paladin again though. I rolled a Draenei Warrior instead. I leveled him into the 40’s as Fury, then swapped over to Arms. Vishyna and I had joined the guild that the people from the LAN party were in and they needed tanks. It had been my intention to try and fill that roll. So in the low 60’s I changed to Protection.
I had barely dinged 70 when I was whisked away to off-tank Karazhan. There was a Feral Druid in the guild who would be main-tanking the trash pulls, then I would main-tank the bosses. It worked out very well. We had a really solid group of players in that guild and we were doing things that everyone says you can’t do, in gear that isn’t supposed to be good enough for what we were doing, with classes that aren’t supposed to be there and without some that are.
A few weeks after I hit 70, Vishyna and I had to leave that server. We started playing on another server with some people that she works with. They needed another bear tank. So I rolled a Druid. Vishyna rolled a Priest. We started out doing our own thing. Just grinding out the levels however we could. That went on until about level 25 when I found Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide. Vishyna and I picked it up from the beginning (even though we were already halfway through our 20’s) and we haven’t looked back.
As of today we are level 62 and gaining fast.
As for this website. Vishyna had mentioned this “big bear butt blogger” to me a couple weeks back and suggested maybe we start our own WoW blog. I read that blog and found many others as a result. I really liked the idea and started looking for some good domain names right away. We came up with a solid list of interesting domain names related to WoW in some way, but we still haven’t officially settled on one. We’ll let you know when we do.