My evolution as a World of Warcraft player



As I men­tioned ear­lier, I started play­ing World of War­craft over eight months ago as a Human Pal­adin on [EU]Karazhan — Alliance.

Lev­el­ing on this realm was hard (and still is) because of the high num­ber of horde pop­u­la­tion. When I started play­ing the Horde to Alliance ratio was around 7 to 1. Now it’s around 3 to 1.

You can imag­ine that gank­ing alliance play­ers was a com­mon thing to do for horde. Zones like Arathi High­lands, Tanaris or STV were hell of earth for us, poor alliance. I remem­ber wak­ing up and play­ing early in the morn­ing just so I can com­plete some quests. Those were some hard times.

Find­ing PUGs and group­ing for instances was also very hard on Karazhan. Few play­ers, most of them being starters at this game, like me, made groups rarely suc­cess­ful. I remem­ber that at my first DM run I was forced to heal (yeah, I know!) by a druid tank who just pulled and pulled and didn’t think about mana or even marks. And after he died a few times because of his own idi­otic behav­ior, he left the group in the mid­dle of the instance.

I was lucky enough that around level 25 I met a really nice Draenei Pal­adin named Revlon who got me in a guild called Dam­age Inc, in which I stayed until 70 and a long time after. In this guild I met a lot of good play­ers and fun peo­ple to play with. I would just like to men­tion Revlon, Drac­the­laen, Ten­tak­los­sus, Elysia, Shalix, Unvin­ci­ble, Xath­rina and many more.

Even­tu­ally I made it to 70. It took me 23 days, 4 hours and 9 min­utes of play­time. I know, I’m slow. But I made it. The last two lev­els I was rested (I didn’t play for a week) and I was really happy I’ve done them in a short period of time. First thing that socked me at 70: the insane price you have to pay for the skills. Around 100g. It was a lot of money for me at that time. But I had to train them so I paid. Lucky for me Pal­adins get the level 40 mount prac­ti­cally free and the 60 mount cheaper than the other classes so I had some money to spare. But after that I was broke.

I wasn’t a guild shifter like many on my realm. I stayed loyal for a long time to the first guild I was in. I made friends there and wanted to play with them. I even became offi­cer in that guild. I really enjoyed stay­ing and play­ing in Dam­age Inc. But every story has an end and the guild even­tu­ally dis­banded. Some trans­ferred to Dag­ger­spine to join a good raid­ing guild, some stayed behind and made progress on Karazhan. I pre­ferred to take a brake so I didn’t renew my sub­scrip­tion dur­ing the win­ter hol­i­days. But after almost a month of not play­ing, I came back and here I am, still on Karazhan.

What now? I don’t know. I recently joined a guild called Pan­demic who trans­ferred here a few days ago and for now, I’m enjoy­ing my stay here. They like Pal­adin tanks and they take me raid­ing. They are also nice peo­ple to talk and play with. What’s more to ask?

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One Response to “My evolution as a World of Warcraft player”

1. Tenta/Vigdís says:

   12/02/2008 at 20:41

   Hep­hey! Tenta(klossus) that’s me.

   Strange read­ing about this — see­ing myself men­tioned in a blog. I’ll browse around for a while — an inter­est­ing read indeed myfriend!

   Take care mate!

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