Travel sickness. [Part 10]

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At first, when me and (Val is recik, he stopped playing a Dreanei Paladin and made a human paladin!) Val discovered Recruit - a - Friend, we thought that the person who recruited could grant levels, After buying the expansions and game we realised this wasn't the case. But the x3 Exp was fun. I heard warriors were fun, so I picked a warrior and Val picked a mage and we just started leveling.

It was way faster than normal leveling, we got to 20 within a few hours. We agreed that we would try level to 80 together, but it didn't work out so well. In fact, me and my friends tried several times to make a "leveling alt group" but we all had different play times, sometimes one person wouldn't want to level, others someone would want to level on their own.

This time it actually worked out, mostly. Once we hit 60, which was in less than a week real time, Val wanted to take a break, go rp and such. I really started enjoying warriors so I kept going. I don't remember Outland but it was pretty short. Entered it at 60 left at 68. Triple Exp was gone but it didn't slow me down that much. Once I hit 68 it was straight to Northrend. That's when it started to slow down, It was a change from going to anywhere between 3-20 levels a day to just 1-2. I kept going and soon enough I was 80. I didn't put much effort in gearing up to begin with, I disliked heroics. They seemed very repetitive. While I was still in blues, I applied to Castellum as a tank. They were pretty stuffed on tanks and I didn't have an off-spec.

I don't know why but I felt I needed to change server, meet new people, different play styles, so I looked on the Alliance recruitment page. After searching through pages I found one guild on the server Nagrand that seemed to have everything I was looking for. Starting Ulduar, raid days were nice, as well as their times. I made an alt and saw that there was usually members online so I made an application. I was accepted and I transferred over. It was pretty weird, it felt different. I whispered an Officer and I got invited, I was greeted and felt at home. They went back to naxx a few times to help me gear up and soon I was ready for action. Tanking was fun but it was very stressful. I had to concentrate non-stop. But it was good fun downing bosses.

I found myself logging on Chexer during the daytime to talk to my friends and then Back on Laochran at night. (My warrior)Eventually raids were called off to a lack of members but nobody seemed to care. I understand if people have to go somewhere they can be excused, but people were making no effort, after a few weeks I got fed up. They didn't even notice me. The "Trial" rank was supposed to be for at max a week. After months/weeks they never changed it.

I left the guild but I didn't know any other guilds on the realm... I logged on my warrior less and less until I stopped playing all together. I found a raid group on my rogue, they already had 3 rogues but they trialed my anyway. I was second on the dps charts to my surprise in my first raid. After another trial I was accepted. It was perfect, I didn't need to be in a guild and I could still raid. I made myself a bank guild and just filled it up. The progression was a bit behind of the Nagrand guild. The raid group "Optima" got Flame Lev and XT down and that's about it, after days of wiping constantly on Kologarn we finally got him down. But when we tried it again the next week we couldn't down him. I noticed that people in the raid didn't have a clue what they were doing. The healers were decently geared but they weren't very skilled. The tanks stacked stamina so they were getting hit hard.

After more weeks of wiping on Kologarn I told them that I had a tank on another realm. I transfered him over and had to change his name to something. I usually get my inspiration for names from my surroundings. I look around my desk for something I could use. Mouse? Ipod..? Bottle..? I lifted up my keyboard and there was a little piece of wood hidden underneath it.

Matchstick.
Next it will be about Optima screwing me over.

[I done all of my leveling on one computer so il post some pictures of it once I get home. For now il just add a few random onces!]