WoW and me

I started off play­ing World of War­craft because my best friend said that he loved it. He’s usu­ally a great gauge for what I will like, although I hated Heavy Metal 2000. (In all fair­ness, it was one of those times where he loved the orig­i­nal Heavy Metal in his teenage years and was hor­ri­fied upon see­ing the sequel ten years later) He asked me over to his place so I could try it out, and my first ques­tion was “Where’s the run but­ton?” He laughed.

A cou­ple of years later, and I’ve solo’ed to max level, had my wife join me in game (to great joy), grouped up to max level more than once since then. We’ve been in a cou­ple of guilds, and ulti­mately found the guild that became our WoW online home. In this guild, I’ve been: an enthu­si­as­tic mem­ber, a new­bie offi­cer, a raid leader, guild mas­ter, and am now a vet­eran officer.

My guild is casual/raiding pve, which trans­lates to max-level/light-endgame. We’re all adults with jobs, we play well when we’re on, but all of us have real lives that we don’t put aside for the game. We’re good friends.

I raid with a heal­ing priest and a tank war­rior (whichever as needed), and dab­ble with other classes as time per­mits. My wife raids with a com­bat dag­ger rogue and dab­bles with a druid. We know a lit­tle about bat­tle­grounds and arena, but not much.

The game is fun; it was my pri­mary hobby before my daugh­ter was born (less than a month ago). Now I’m a casual dad. I play when I can. I help out the other offi­cers in other ways when I can’t be online.

I’ll expand on most of this over time, but this is a decent overview of where I’m com­ing from.

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