Ch-ch-ch-chexer? [Part 9]

As you might have guessed I changed Notarcaniac's gender and name. It took a while to think of a decent name but in the end, I found one that suited. After it was all done I logged on, the few people that knew me spammed me with whispers, who I was, why I got a name change etc. I really liked the new appearance, the animations were pretty cool and my name was short and sweet!

During a wintergrasp I saw an officer of Vendetta, the guild i was apparently declined from because of my gear. I challenged him to a duel and funnily enough I beat him. Soon after he whispered me saying I should apply to his guild... I replied that I wasn't sure my gear was up for it. He said that gear didn't matter, and it wasn't that bad anyway.


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I was annoyed and happy at the same time, annoyed about how people were treating me, but sort of relieved that I could put it behind me. I was determined to make a good impression. After days of studying and learning about my class I applied. This time specced Mutilate with the best blues the AH could buy! Sure enough I was accepted and the raiding ensued. It was much more fun than I thought it would be, there was something about the about of teamwork that went on that really made it worth while.

As I started gearing up, with a "Rotation" my dps was really increasing, usually in the top 3. I loved the amount of buffs, flasks and food that was in the raid. Everything just seemed so powerful. As I knew how to behave in a proper guild, well sort of, I tried to be nice to everyone, but i tried a little too hard. It seemed nobody understood my sense of humour and some people took offence to it. During one raid of OS, we had a semi pug/ semi guild run. We had wiped once but that was due to the pugs. What i saw next was the dragon running towards a mage in out group, after killing her, and the raid. I said "Hehe Nice going" Oops.

She didn't take it so well and started flaming me, spamming about how it was shamans totem. I told her to calm down but she didn't stop. I started to really annoyed so I whispered her that I made a mistake and she should just shut up. I heard nothing from her after , but shortly after my chat log says "You have been kicked from Vendetta" Or whatever the kick message is.

BullS*&T, so yet again I was guildless, yet again I had a bad reputation. I can't remember what happened next, somehow people knew who I was again and I was being denied from everthing yet again. At this point I really thought I was going to quit the game. But no, you can't just quit the game.

Next il talk about what was to be my last attempt at cleaning my rep.

Ding, ding, ding! [Part 8]

Ok after 73 leveling slowed down a great deal for me. I put less and less effort into the levels and it goes down to 1 every 3-4 days. At around 76 I /who Naxx and there are already some 10 man teams going. Im getting pretty frustrated but I keep leveling. Once I hit 77 I grab Cold winter flying and go straight to Sholazar, the new terrain was a nice change. Around this time, Nick hit 80 followed by Drake. Recik was still under level 70 but Rp'ing away.

I never like killing quests, weather it was in Stranglethorn, Nagrand or Sholazar. Killing beasts mindlessly just wasn't fun. As soon as i hit 78 in flew to the Storm Peaks, it was snowy, but the quest chains were awesome. My favourites were the Sons of Hodir chain and the Brunnhildar Village ones. Once they were finished I skipped the rest and went to Icecrown. I was pretty excited about nearing 80 so I started ploughing through the quests. The same day i hit 79 was the same day i Dinged 80!

Now it was time for heroics and raids. At this point I was still clueless about my class. I was combat specced but I never used poisons or Slice and Dice. It was pretty embarrassing being out DPS'ed by everyone. After doing some heroics and getting some Pvp gear i decided it was time to raid, I checked out the forums and saw a guild named Vendetta were recruiting rogues, this was the guild Nick was in. I knew my gear sucked but I applied anyway.

Sure enough I got denied but i suspected it wasn't because of my gear. Ironblade, the guild i was in first, had fell apart into Castellum and Ironblade. I also applied to Castellum but again i was declined. After pretty much being denied from all the raiding guilds on the server, I hadn't a clue what I should do. When I was on my account management page, wondering if i should cancel my account or not, I noticed the character customization tab... I knew how i was going to start fresh.

Next time il write about the name change/sex change and a few surprising turn of events!

Go go RP-GG [Part 7]

Ok, I bought Wrath of the Lich King the first day it came out, It was the collector's edition. Not sure why I bought the collector one, the box just looked amazing! I put the discs in and it started installing. I rooted through the box to find other goodies. There were some cards for the Tcg but I ignored them. There was a special card that had a code on it. I looked up on the Internet and it was a code to buy cookies for a pet. Cool! Also, while I was online I upgraded my account to support WotLK.

I dusted off my XBOX and slotted in the DVD in the box. It was a behind the scenes for the game. Pretty cool but all I could think about was the game. By this time Drake told me about skype and I bought a mic. We could talk endlessly, so I called him up and he also bought the collectors edition.

Mine installed first and I logged into the game. I had no idea what i wanted to do first. Make a DK or start leveling. I thought there would be plenty of time for a Death Knight so I popped on Notar. It was pretty cool. I went to the newly opened docks in Stormwind, and popped on the Northrend boat. (I thought this was the only boat to Northrend, I never noticed the one from Minethil.)

I flew through the first 2 levels and wanted a change of plan. I searched for a portal to Dalaran and made it my HS. It was a nice city, smaller than Shattrath but OK. It had a sewer but no Auction house. I wondered the Alliance area and found a portal to Wintergrasp. I didn't know what it was but I hopped in anyway. After it loaded i checked the map and I was still in Northrend. It looked like some sort of battle area, since the battle wasn't on, I couldn't use any of the Vehicles so I picked up an RP-GG and tested it out. After this mess about i checked the /who and there was only one person at level 75. That night I was really excited about waking up, it seems the only reason I went to sleep was so I could wake back up.

The game was really fun and I loved the new dungeons, it seemed that I could start fresh at level 80. That wasn't the case. Next Il go through my last few levels and some changes at level 80.

The scourge flips out! [Part 6]

Righto, the scourge event starts. I start to see some bodies in Stormwind.. It was pretty confusing. I just assumed horde attacked. I then saw a ghoul attacking a guard in the trade district.

Argent healers and forces appear in all major cities and the attacks start to increase. These ghouls attack the AH blowing up and infecting everyone inside. It wasn't too bad.. 10 minute timer and several healers around the city. Il just stay and fight them off for a while.

I log on the next day and I get infected, I ran to my usual healer but he isn't there, scourge must have killed him. I run to the inn get cleansed. Somehow I was cutting it close with only around 2 mins left on the disease. Turns out the timer was getting shorter, and the healers were being removed. I went afk near a healer to surf the Internet, stick on some music. I come back and i died. I ress myself and go afk again, but when I come back, I was infected. I was going to explode and ress, but i started having some fun. I Organised a raid to Westfall to try infect some NPC's and lowbies.

After a long run and several deaths we made to Westfall. We start to attack everything in sight but then a few Alliance come along and start killing us. It seemed like a lot of effort to be wasted. There was notably 1 Paladin killing most of us, I whisper her telling her to stop but her reply is "She is Role-playing" This angered me so I flipped out at her. ( I know i shouldn't have but anyone who has tried this would know how frustrating it could be)

Turns out this paladin is a good friend of my guild leader and next thing I know I'm out. I got blacklisted from this point, denied from guilds/Groups so i just went solo for a while. After a few fail attempts at making a guild, the New expansion comes out.

Il just leave it here for today, got ANOTHER movie to watch! (I defiantly recommend "50 Dead men walking" Its about the Irish republican army when there was war in Belfast, a really great movie)

Next time, I will talk about the Expansion (Wotlk) and my leveling through it. Will have a lot of Screenies too!

The learning begins! [Part 5]

As a rogue i enjoyed the combo point system, I loved being a melee, getting in on the action. I leveled faster too, I was 10 in no time. I managed to get some of my friends, Drake and Recik, to start playing wow. Drake rolled a rogue also, and Recik was a Dreanei paladin. We rocked the levels and soon we hit 58. (I couldn't find a screen shot of us walking through the Dark portal..il ask if Drake has it)

And into Outland we were. We got another friend from school "Nick" to join, we was a typical noob at first, when he learned how to whisper, me and Drake got bombarded with questions, he quickly learned and boomed through the levels faster than any of us.

I had hit 60, and was going on holidays for 3 weeks. In that time, Nick managed to get to 70 first, followed by Drake. Recik on the other hand decided to take the RP route. when I came back i was amazed at how fast Nick learned the game, he started teaching me a few things about it. Drake was more knowledgeable about rogues than I and Recik had made a name for himself on the RP front.

I was eager to catch up. At this point I still thought i knew a lot about the game, but i was wrong. The real learning started when I hit 70 and i started doing heroics. Now people were judging me based on my gear. New dungeons called heroics, which were just harder versions of normals, were what I needed to do. As i hit 70 late, people had already moved onto raiding. I didn't have the gear to do heroics, yet I couldn't find groups for normals.

Eventually I saw that a new raiding guild called was looking for raiders. This also was a new step for me. Even though my gear was rubbish, I decided to apply and by some chance I got in. (Just want to mention at this point I was never in a civilised guild) I convinced Drake and Nick to join and soon the 3 of us were a team.

I was a bit reckless and immature, I also didn't take criticism very well. I knew very little about my class and couldn't pull off more than 500 dps. The word rotation meant nothing to me. For bad behaviour I received 2 strikes in Ironblade and was on my last chance. Things seemed to cool down for a while and I started to feel apart of the community.

That was, of course, until the scourge invasion...