I was actually working for one of Blizzard's competitors when I first started hearing about WoW. (It was just customer service, so nothing exciting. But shh, don't tell anyone.) My initial reaction to the game was "there's no way this is going to be as good as EQ/EQ2... it looks silly!" I had absolutely no intention of ever playing, but I knew a bunch of people that were in the beta and loving it, so I was hearing about it constantly.I caved in and decided to try it. I never did get into beta and had a heck of a time finding the game when it was released (because of course I hadn't reserved it). So I ended up a few days behind the rest of the pack, but I loved it from the beginning and I'm still here. I'm sad I don't have the collector's edition pets from the original game, because I'm a complete nerd when it comes to cute things. To make up for this, I'm pretty sure I have about 8000 kittens on my account.My first character was a night elf druid that made it all the way to level ten before I deleted her and made my troll shaman. She's the character I have the fondest memories of, and I really need to get her to 80 one of these days. I regret not sticking with her, but hindsight is 20/20 and all of that.I spent a lot of time healing the higher levels defending Tarren Mill before the honor system ever came into being. It was one of the few ways I felt I could be useful at my level, and I got a lot of compliments on it. I loved it, and I've been a sucker for healing ever since.
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It was 4 years ago! A few weeks after I started working at my current job, we went for a drink for Bastille day (most of my coworkers were French). I was talking with one of them about Everquest and about how I loved that game and he told me about WoW. I bought the game just the day after! I quit after 2 months, no idea why... I bought the game back in 2007 and have played on and off since then.4 years ago, I started with a human priest. In 2007, I chose a BE warlock, then a draenei priest, then a BE priest. I mostly play horde now!
Strange that so few people played since release. Then again, I suppose its been 5 years since release.
I've never been a PC gamer... loved my consoles too much but all that changed around Xmas 2008. I bought my first decent PC to run C&C3 with my buddies but before it came out we started to play Supcom instead. While playing this I found out a buddy at work also played so one day during a session he suggested I tried out Wow.I joined on a trial, made my first Toon (a lock) and levelled him to 80 within a month. Now I'm hooked...got a few other low level toons but I just love my 'lock!So I've been playing now for about 6 months and that buddy and I have now started our own guild... Life is sweet
My now ex-girlfriend. Damn you Arideni! :'(
I played the Warcraft series with my then-husband for many years and tried to get into WoW beta testing for two years. Shortly after we split, he and I finally succeeded in getting in to the last two weeks of beta testing. I absolutely loved it, so much that when my graphics card decided it wouldn't play WoW any more after a few days, I burst into tears out of frustration, and then took over his computer to keep playing. However, being a hardcore Simmer at the time and having waited a couple of years for The Sims 2 to come out, I chose not to get WoW when it was released. I knew if I did, I'd never touch TS2. Last year TS2 line finished and I was still happy with it, but then my mother died, the family fights started, basically everything just went to hell. Suddenly controlling little people just couldn't hold my interest any more. I was sitting in my room, staring at the walls for weeks on end.My ex gave me the WoW battlechest for Christmas. I've been addicted ever since, bought WOTLK and I took months to get to 80. I like to play World of Warcraft, not Land of Northrend, so I chose to take my time and play the way I like, which is playing both factions, exploring every nook and cranny, doing every quest I find, and trying to learn everything I can about my classes on the way to 80. To me, the game doesn't start at end game. It starts when I start playing.
I'd always played Blizzard games; I grew up on Warcraft II and Diablo I & II. Teen ratings did not dissuade me at the age of 6 or 7.My sister was playing wow back in pre-bc, i watched her and wanted to play so bad. I made a human warrior named Poan on her account and proceeded to waltz outside of Northshire Abbey and get pwned in the face by a Mangy Wolf.Heh. I was about 10 at the time, so i got mad and didn't play again. Fast forward about two years, to a couple of months before the release of Burning Crusade. I convinced the parents to buy me an account as an x-mas/birthday present (my birthday is on the 15th). It worked, and i've been hooked ever since.
Like Arideni, I came over from Star Wars Galaxies. My husband and I had both been playing SWG since the beginning (he was in beta) and he got into WoW beta. We both started the game at launch and have been playing constantly since then.From day one I have played a Night Elf Priest. I wasn't a player who paid attention to things like racials and such so I chose a Night Elf because it was more interesting looking than a human and prettier than a dwarf. I knew I wanted to be a healing class and Priest seemed like the best fit for me. I made many other characters and played around with them but always came back to the Priest.If I had anything to do over I guess I would have played with shadow specs more at the beginning, would have made that initial leveling a bit easier.
I am sorry to admit I was about 11 years old when I started playing back befor BC came out. I thought poo was still funny so I named my character Darthpoopie, he was a human priest so I fit the cliche of alliance being kids. I kept him for a year but he stayed at level 15 the whole time. After I got him to 15 in a month I made a character named Olar, he was a Dwarve hunter. He is currently level 80 and I deleted Darthpoopie a year after because I realised how stupid it was.
Hi! My name is Flip and i been a WOWaholic for 8 months. This big tall scary black man (my cousin) said take a try just take it, i felt the peer pressure and once i did it my world was spinning around. :)Seriously though, my cousin said give it a shot and made my first character (rogue) and couldnt stop playing it.
I had previously played Final Fantasy on the Xbox 360, but dropped it because I found it somewhat inpenetrable and very group orientated i.e. you couldn't get anywhere without grouping. This was about the time I'd heard about the Burning Crusade expansion in the mainstream press and knowing that a guy at work played asked him a few questions in he pointed me in the direction of the trial.I remember watching the intro movie and thinking how cool the NElf druid looked, but I had been playing alot of stealth games around that time so opted for a NElf rogue. I got myself to level 12 within a day or two and upgraded because I couldn't talk in General and it was driving me nuts and haven't looked back.I went from my rogue (got stuck in STV at 42 so faction changed) to a Belf Lock before discovering my first paladin (don't I make that sound like a class addiction), this was over a six month period. If I could change anything I would have liked to have discovered the paladin class when I first installed the trial as this in turn introduced me to tanking. Am now the proud owner of 2 prot paladins and a prot warrior at end-game (the pallies are on different realms, I'm not that bad, really :D).
It was way back when, 4 years ago, back in the epic times when Chuck Norris jokes flew abound from the biggest guild on our server (before it got forcefully disbanded, because of the Chuck Norris jokes, and partly because it was just so BIG). Back when the Ahn'Qiraj war effort was going on (I, unfortunately, never got geared enough to run any of those big, fancy raids. I was a noob back then, just a lad of 12). My uncle got me into it, back on a trip to visit him a state down. He showed me the game, gave me the basic mechanics, and I created the most epic of epic characters ever epically created.Meangreencow, the level 1 Orc Warrior.Needless to say, about 2 weeks later, my parents purchased said game for christmas. As we all gathered round the warm blue light of my dad's crappy laptop, we watched patch after patch fly by, until I finally created my first real character. Rhalid, the Night Elf Rogue. (I only got him up to level 11. He still exists on Spirestone, sitting lonely in the wilds of Teldrassil). Before I knew it, we had purchased 2 more accounts, and would end up purchasing 5 total (One for dad, one for mom, one for sister, one for brother-in-law). Now, I sit on top of many characters, and have slain many foes. In addition to my first serious character, I have....Hanakabo, level 72 Troll mage. (My first serious character ever, and the one I got to 60 before BC hit)Darkdude, level 74 Undead rogue. (My second character, leveled to 70 after my mage hit 70)Healunz, level 72 Tauren Druid. (My third character, leveled to 67 before Wrath hit. He was then leveled to 72 after...)Matsya, level 80 Death Knight. (Slayer of babies, destroyer of worlds, and the most cheap character I have ever rolled)Cåzadora, level 80 Hunter. (Leveled to 80 after I realized characters 1-3 got boring.)and finally....Locknoir, level 36 Warlock. (My next up-and-coming characters, because characters 1-3 still remain boring.)All on Dragonmaw, my server now and forever, until Blizzard cancels WoW, or the server rots from the undead plague seeping from the browsers.
One of my close high-school friends. Some time around May of 2007 we were pretty much just hanging out..."Dude, you should come play World of Warcraft with us!""Nah man, I played that sh*t freshman year, effed me up pretty good.""Well okay, but if you ever end up with some free time, you know where we'll be.""Haha alright."Next day, WoW Battle Chest, Blood Elf Warlock >_<Yeah, I've stopped for now, but I'll probably be back for Cataclysm.
I started playing during the european open beta, and bought the game upon release in europe, February 2005.My first character was the druid that is still my main at the moment. I played a warrior during the open beta, but the total lack of self-healing put me off a bit. I leveled my druid completely resto from 1 to 60... *shivers*During BC I diverted a bit and played a priest as my main, but before the end of it, I was back on my druid. ^^I can't really say that I would do thing differently if I could be starting over again. Maybe I would try not to level as rest, lol... ;-P