My Start with WoW

Hello and welcome to the newest blog for Square TV. I love this idea. Of course there are several others who do as well.

Just for this introductory post I'll give you a bit of information about myself and my raiding history. Yes, I'm a WoW-aholic. It is my entertainment and my passion!

I've been playing the game since the beginning and unlike most players my first character was NOT a hunter... it was a Paladin. I loved the idea of a character that could wear plate AND heal... ok, well at that point I didn't know that, while they could stand there and take damage forever, it also took that long to kill something. Leveling was slow and I lost focus with her at around level 53.

During the time I was playing my Paladin I accidentally bumped into a great group of friends and became the token girl in their guild. They were a bunch of Marines who were all stationed together and they played together, as well. Their guild leader later went on to another guild and became the leader of one of the cutting edge guilds on the server. Very l33t.

Of course, when I was originally started playing the game no one believed I was really a girl! I have to say that I can understand why though... there are lots of guys out there playing girl toons, for various reasons. My friend Skip likes to play girls toons because he says "If I'm going to watch a toon run around all day I'd prefer to watch something I like to watch!"

Back to my original character, the Paladin. She was fun, but when the GM left the guild I felt lost... so one day I saw that a brand new server was up and I created my first Hordie!! Yes... this time it WAS a hunter! I leveled her all the way to 60 and in the pre-BC (Burning Crusade) environment this was the max level. I still knew nothing other than how to level at that point. I knew I loved to play and loved to group with others and kill the big bad bosses!

Guild politics can be a real killjoy, tho... I'll post more on that subject later.

-Svana