Notarcaniac - Chexer - Laochran - Matchstick [Part 11]

So yeah, I trasferred my warrior back onto Darkmoon Faire with Matchstick. Once I whispered the Leader of Optima, I got an invite to the channel. Suddenly my rogue was rotated out of the raid, even though we were short a few dps. They were in "dire" need of a tank so of course I didn't turn the spot down. We were doing well and we decided not to bother attempting Kologarn again, Instead we went to Ignis. I had a lot of experience tanking the adds here from Nagrand, so I already knew what to do. It seemed to be taking a lot of time to lower his hp, the Dps was really lacking. Also the tanking of the boss was horrible, the scorch patches were all over the place.

After another night of wiping, everyone was getting annoyed. I knew I was going to be dragged into this so I applied to Vendetta on my warrior while I was on Nagrand. Nobody knew who I was so there should be no reason for me to be declined, they were in need of a tank. Well, the leader of Optima knew but he said he wouldn't tell anyone.

I got accepted and the next day I logged on, I was about to whisper an Officer for an invite but someone from the guild whispered me before I got a chance. It was an alt of an officer and all they said was "Hello Chexer" I wasn't sure who this was at the time, but after a quick /who I knew I was caught. He was really smug, as if he had put all the clues together and worked out a puzzle. I was really frustrated, as now I had no options, this person didn't care about me, so whats stopping him from telling the whole server? Getting me blacklisted all over again? Of course I was declined but a friend of mine who was in the guild started getting blamed. Nick, who was a member of Vendetta, never told the guild that I was who I was. They seemed to not understand we were just friends and he was helping me get into a good guild.

He was thinking of applying to a diferent guild. He shortly left Vendetta and stayed guildless for a while. Nick rejoined again, weather he was asked to, or he wanted to im not sure. His friend from a top ranking guild joined his guild aswell so he had a few friends in it.

The guild Castellum split apart into another guild during this time. They were in need of a tank and I knew it had friendly people in it. I applied hoping they did't know who I was, hoping that someone who disliked me would keep a secret for me. He said he wouldnt tell anyone but surely enough the rumour got out.

I found myself trialed in an Exodus raid (The guild that formed from Castellum) and it was nice to be progressing. It seemed to be going really fast as I was so used to getting 1 or 2 bosses down a night. I really enjoyed it and I was accepted. People were nice to me so I knew they didn't hear. After a while I started feeling guilty. I felt as if these people had taken me off the streets and now I was stealing from them. If kept building and building inside of me..

Untill I blurted it out.

Part 12 will just continue from here, see you then!

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!]

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.

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...