Hey, hey, hey……..

Was just having a conversation with the guys in the office about what is was like when WoW was released, you know what it’s like what with the 5 year anniversary fast closing, and we’d already discussed sunday nights Top Gear being blokes we have little else to discuss other than cars and computers (ok mebbe one or two other things, but I’m trying to keep it clean).

Anyways back on topic, when WoW was new, so what I was thinking how about we try some form of “Azeroth of Olde” chain blog thing (c’mon you all know what sorta thing I mean) the idea being to answer a few shortish questions about you’re experiences of WoW when it was new – now to some it might be Vanilla playing the game on release, for others it might be as recent as WotLK, once you’ve answered the questions, you get (politely) ask 3 other blog type sites to complete the same questions – it might be a laugh or two.

• When did you first start playing World of Warcraft.
• Name, Race, Class and Server of your first character.
• Where is that character now?
• What was your first level capped character, and is it still your main?
• From days gone by – what is your favourite in game item and why?
• What was your “classic” noob error – and just how stupid did you feel when you realised?
• Favourite instance or in game event that has passed or you no longer visit?
• Any fond memories you’d like to share with the collective?
• Finally – if you could change any one thing in the game – what would you change?

When did you first start playing World of Warcraft.

I bought it on day of release, I can still remember having bought it my better half dragged me to one of her friends houses on the way home from work, and expected me to hold a civil conversation with them, whilst all the while I had this red hot game begging to be played.

Name, Race, Class and Server of your first character.

Flystar – Undead Priest on EU Shadowmoon

Where is that character now?

hehe, I have no idea – theres a small possibility that it’s still festering on EU Shadowmoon but thats highly unlikely, back then the priest was marginally unintersting, so I rerolled an Undead Rogue.

What was your first level capped character, and is it still your main?

The undead rogue I levelled up to 60 first, before I considered rolling another alt, it was also the first goon I levelled to 70 when TBC was released, but sadly I got all “rogued out” by the time WoTLK was released and Buel the Druid was the first to 80. Now my main is buel, and the rogue gets an outing rarely, but it’s still there to be used when needed.

From days gone by – what is your favourite in game item and why?

It has to be The Lobotomizer, it was a long grind to get the rep to finally purchase it – but wow what a rogues dream it was the best dagger in the game (to me anyways) which perfectly fitted in with the old “tri-specced” rogue (basically a smatteing in all three talent trees gave proabaly the best dps for the rogue) at level 60

What was your “classic” noob error – and just how stupid did you feel when you realised?

Oh I can believe I’m gunna share this, but I guess it’s kinda two-fold – levelling the rogue I didn’t know I had to train – so there I was about level 20 odd untrained and shamefully untalented not realising that I coulda made things sooo much easier with training and talenting – I felt perhaps the biggest idiot ever when I mentioned in guildchat that that game was kinda boring with virtually no interaction during fights – it took a while to live that one down, fortunately all was explained to me and things got easier – and the mocking eventually died down.

Favourite instance or in game event that has passed or you no longer visit?

Would have to be just before the release of TBC, the dragon kin’s that kept appearing where they shouldn’t be (like in Orgrimmar, or flying over the crossroads) had some amazing run in’s with them tring to kill elites from instances that kept spawning where they shouldn’t.

Any fond memories you’d like to share with the collective?

Wow, way too many that would probably send alot of you off to ZZ land, but fond memories of instances and raids gone by, I have plenty of those – My first time as main tank (on my warrior) in Karazhan sticks in my mind I was there as offtank supporting (in my opinion) one of the best tanks in the game (Maniac – known as Manny on our server) when on TS he proudly announces – “I want a nice clean easy night tonight, smooth run, and no arsing about…… oh by the way Forty (my warrior is FortyTwo) your main tank”, and so it was thrown in at the deep end, I was petrified of wiping the raid, I’d not been tanking long, and here I was MT with my “hero” OT he was a legend, talked me through everything whilst in there, and to this day is still a “real friend”.

Finally – if you could change any one thing in the game – what would you change?

Personally I felt that they should have allowed the horde to have “Anti Paladins” and allow them to be undead, reckon that would have made it awesome rather than just giving us Paladins through Blood Elf only.

Hey well thats me – I’ll nominate three others shortly and let yer all know who, hopefully they’ll join in

Buel