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!

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.

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...

A Legend was born...Of some sort. [Part 4]

One of the main reasons we had upgraded to a faster Internet connection, was specifically for the game, but since it took around 6 months to sort out, I ended up not even using it. Right before the start of the summer holidays, my parents announced that they would be having a divorce. I had known for a while but hearing still upset me. My mam moved out to a house that was a 5 minute drive from my old house. (I think they wanted me to feel close to home) It was fine by me.

After this, I needed something to do. I needed something to keep my from wandering. I bought a 3d jigsaw, but i got bored fast. I get Black & white and Devil may cry for the PC but my computer wasn't strong enough to play DMC. Before school ended, one of my new friends mentioned he played a game called Guild Wars. I called him up and he gave me the Details. So me, Drake and Lee (Not their real names, but their toons..Well actually "Lee" Named his toon after himself...er) bought nightfall and it was actually pretty fun.

Lee stopped after a few days but me and Drake keep on going. Another guy from my class "Vylin" started playing. This was OK for the first few months but after a while, i started thinking about Warcraft. I decided to give it a go, somehow I had time left on it, fired it up, but I forgot which server i was on. I made a new toon on Bronze Dragonflight, thinking it was Darkmoon Faire. I got a mage to level 10. I asked Ron and fionnach if they wanted to start playing again. They said no, but they also told me what server they were on.

Over the summer they go to level 40+. I started playing when school started again and it was pretty fun too. I was as bad a noob can get, but I thought I was amazing :P. As a level 37 mage, i started to get very annoyed. I wasn't very skilled so I i was getting hit, and as a clothie, I was getting 1 shot. So I decided to reroll a human rogue. (I forgot to mention that once I restarted playing, I didn't want to play my hunter. so i made a mage.)

My gnome mage's name was reported several times (As Darkmoon Faire is a RP server) I can't remember his first name but they went like this. "Name 1" " gnomedepo" "Pvpmage" "FireMage" After that I put a lot of effort into thinking what name I should pick. The song Maniac on the dance floor, had just come on the radio. It got me thinking... and Arcaniac was born.

Arcaniac might have been an old skool troll, if i knew what that was. His hobbies were, begging, spamming trade, insulting people. Dunno why though!

Anyway, I was messing around which characters i should make...Paladin seems good. Might even go horde... Then i picked a rogue. And what was his name? The only thing i could think of.

Not-Arcaniac!

(I would like to point out that Drake was playing guildwars long before he mentioned it to me, we has a respected player on it. Also, my story makes it seem that I roleld a rogue before Drake, this is not true. He started playing while I was on my mage, shortly after i made a rogue. HAPPY NOW DRAKE? :D)

The Start of a new world. [Part 1]

This is around December 2006, i saw an advert on the TV that blew me away. A game, that was not on a console, that looked enjoyable. After telling a few of my friends, they both agreed with me. After searching for information about it for countless hours, we had picked our class, race, names, server etc. We had missed one major point.. The game was a monthly subscription. Since it was nearing christmas, I asked my parents if they could buy the game for me. After much debate (and begging) They said they would pay for the subscription, my friends had also gotten their parents too.

At this time, I was very impatient. It was December 23rd and i could not wait another 2 days to play. Once a year i was allowed open 1 present before Christmas eve, I knew which one i was going to pick!

After unwrapping it, i saw a manual inside. It was small but had a lot of pages, after flicking through it, i noticed it was full of useful information. My computer was not the fastest of machines, and with 5 Cds to install, i had a few hours to spare.

I took the book to my room and started at page 1. Well..not really i skipped to around page 10, where it started talking about the game. It was amazing!

(Sorry about the next part being in Bold, i screwed with something and it didnt work. Sorry!)

Just when i thought i couldn't be more excited, i found a goldmine of fun. All this excitement.. I dont think I even felt this happy on Christmas morning.

After a few hours installing, I heard a loud noise coming from the Desktop, it was the Into to the game, it had finally installed. After watching the starting cinematic, I sat there in awe, drooling. At my age, i didnt know people could design such life-like animations. Once it passed, i say at the log-in screen wondering what to do. I checked my manual and it said i needed to make an account.

I think il leave it here for now, will update later. Hope your enjoying it so far.

Hey There!

Well, here it goes. Another blog in the masses of them.

Before i start, i would like to point out that i have no experience in writing and my spelling can sometimes be outragous.

I have been playing an MMO for the best of the last 3 years. I have spent countless hours at my desk, questing or grinding. I will now try and share my story with you. If you decide that you are not interested, feel free to move on. But for those of you who stay, i hope you get some sort of entertainment from these.

Bit of a backround story, I am a kid, living in Ireland. Where I live, not many people play World of Warcraft. They know it as the game that was being made-fun of on a popular cartoon. I did have some friends that played, but one by one they came to their senses. Here we go...