Just a quick update today, lots of things going on and stuffs to do.

So I've totally re-subbed to WoW, just for a month right now, we'll see how things go...

I've rolled up a new Alliance Warrior on the Zul'jin server, and already gotten her up to level 24. Not bad considering things.

Hopefully I'll get some time to continue my recount of WoW soon.

-LaFollet

Smells like...

Fresh Forsaken, just popped out of the grave, whatever am I to do?

Why level up of course!

This is the farthest back (obviously) in my World of Warcraft playing, but it's also a time that I didn't keep track of anything. There was no log, no history, no posts on the guild forums detailing pointless fun things that I'd done that day/week/month, so this is probably going to be more of a summary of the first 60 levels of WoW for Euphe. And probably a (poorly) organized smattering of memories.

So, what I remember about WoW on my first time through:

I remember grinding on zombies around Brill to get Linen Cloth to make bags with, cause bags were awesome! (Went Tailoring/Enchanting on Euphe right from the start, cause Bags are Awesome! (And enchanting is all alone.))
I remember standing around Shadowfang Keep waiting for the rest of my party to assemble while I talked with a shamen friend about how they can tank... Sorta...
I remember dueling said Shamen friend, we were both on alts, me on a Rogue, with my pet snake out, so he knew where I was in spite of being in stealth...
I remember doing the "Robot Chicken" escort in The Hinterlands with my co-worker (on his 60 warrior) and our friend the undead rogue. (They went on to have a relationship for a while.)
I remember playing in Scarlet Monastery dueling with my friend's warrior and him saying I'd be able to beat him soon (with me at like 30 something and him being 60).
I remember doing instances with my co-worker on his alt-priest, our rogue friend on her warrior, and me on Euphe, tearing things up and taking names.
I remember doing Battlegrounds in the 50-59 bracket, owning all comers since Shadow Priests were the stuff back then.
I remember going through Black Rock Depths with a group from our guild. And swiping a truly large amount of loot since I was the only one who needed anything from their at that point.
I remember going through Strangle Thorn Vale, and the horror it was...
I remember watching my co-worker grind fire elementals in Un'Goro Crater on his lunch breaks, since they were good money and something he could take relatively painlessly as Prot.
I remember my first time in Molten Core, at 56, thinking I'd level from the xp since I was so close to 57 anyways.
I remember the first Epic Item I ever got. Sorcerous Dagger off of Lucifron. I said I wanted it through whispers, as our guild was doing it, then no one else said anything so I got it! While I was still 58. (Or there abouts.)
I remember grinding for Fel Cloth in the Jadefire Run, since it was good money and was needed for a bunch of things I wanted to craft.
I remember the craziness of what we were doing in Molten Core, crazy things like our two main tanks (my co-worker and our rogue friend-turned-warrior) being in a different vent channel just to talk to each other and ignore the rest of the raid, and yet still making progress on things.
I remember the guild basically falling apart from drama just as I reached level 60, leadership changes, my co-worker and friend leaving to re-roll alliance, and me just quitting the game.
I remember foolishness in the Plaguelands, with the group-cross-faction quests there.
I remember finally dinging 60 in the Eastern Plaguelands.
I remember crazy Strat/URBS/Scholo runs and trying to get my Dungeon 0 set.
I remember the guild-first downing of Kurinnaxx, and how I was healing for it and Lightwell was keeping me alive, if not anyone else.

...

Oh man, so many good memories from that time, and some bad ones too. I know nostalgia does bad things to our memory, everything seems better than it was, less frustrating, and less grindy, but it was a good time for me.

Kinda hard to believe it only lasted from December 19th, 2005 to August 1st, 2006. (According to my billing history, I know for a fact though that I stopped playing before my time ran out, it was a 6-month subscription, and I know I was back to CoH before the summer.)

It was a crazy time, my noobness was great, but so was my enjoyment for the game. Nothing will quite be the same as that first play-through, my only regret is not being able to remember more of the good times that I had.

-LaFollet

Once more from the top....

So I'm thinking that since I'm thinking of going back to World of Warcraft, I should probably write down my WoW history. I have a good chunk of it from one section, June 4th, 2007 to April 7th, 2008, when I was in a guild called Engines of Destruction, which ended in drama and a /gkick, which really wasn't my finest moment, but it is my most memorable since I have a ton of posts that I made in a "log thread" while in that guild.

It's quite interesting, since you can distinctly read my mood go from happiness with the guild and game, through frustration with things, to abject horror at my situation leading to a thread lock then shortly after (probably within a month), a /gkick.

But really, I'm getting far ahead of myself here. The tale really begins December 19, 2005, 4:55:45 PM.

Clearly I don't remember that date off the top of my head but rather got it off my WoW account as the creation date. I remember why I got in to the game, or really who I got in to the game for. One of my co-workers at the time was playing, and we often talked about the differences between WoW and City of Heroes, each trying to get the other to come to their game for some co-op goodness. In the end I made the jump to WoW since I was getting tired of CoH anyways, and he bought me the original box.

Yup, my original introduction to WoW was a gift of the original World of Warcraft game by a co-worker. Man he's an awesome guy.

But that gift actually came a few days after I'd already opened a trial account to see what this "WoW game" was all about. I rolled up an Undead Priest, cause my friend's guild needed healers, and Undead was the, at the time, most visually appealing horde character I could make.

And so began my long obsession with Priests in WoW...

But anyways, Euphe crawled her way out of the grave, (where do they keep getting those fresh Forsaken anyways?) to start her un-life in the wide world of Warcraft.

More later, of course. ^_^

-LaFollet

Again?!?!?!

So ya, I'm thinking of going back to World of Warcraft.

Again.

Quick rewind of things from earlier this year:

Champions Online started to catch my attention as something quite interesting and new.
At the same time was getting very bored with WoW and my guild's progression therein.
CO was delayed, WoW was prolonged, boredom was amplified.
Got in to CO's Open Beta, fun abounded. Wow was dropped.
Two months later, CO's lack of end-game is starting to become very apparent.

That's the 2 minute version.

Now don't get me wrong, I like Champions Online. It's fun, innovative in it's power selection, interesting in it's action-link play style, and absolutely awesome in it's costume creator. The problem though, in my mind, is that's provided a good breadth to the game, but their is a distinct lack of depth, just plain not enough stuff to do.

Now I may be expecting a little much from an MMO just in it's infancy, but when I want to continue a character that I enjoy playing at whatever "max level" is, I want interesting things to do, and as many of those interesting things as I can get my hands on. Champions just doesn't have that yet.

Yet.

I've still got high hopes for what's to come. Hopefully some concrete endgame of some sort, not just in character progression gear-wise, but also in variation of things to do, or at least locals to do the same awesome bad-guy-woopin that the whole game is about.

But that doesn't change the fact that I'm looking back at World of Warcraft with those old "man that was fun" eyes again...

-LaFollet