I'm Famous in Eastern Kingdoms

Oi, I'm sick. It's times like this I wish I was a priest IRL. I'd cast a few spells and BLAM all better. Anyways, I'm all done with Eastern Kingdoms! Loremaster is proving to be a major time sink but it's bringing back such wonderful memories. Do you remember the first time you set out on your first quest? I'm going to tell you guys the story of my very first character in World of Warcraft.

Dear badlands. I hate you. Signed Honsue

I played WoW when it was in beta for about 2 weeks. I mostly played Alliance but decided I would go horde because I liked the way the Forsaken looked. Well, I thought warlocks were neat in beta so I made one. I was a little tiny level 4 when I ventured outside of deathknell. I wanted to see what was on the other side of those walls. I began running to Brill getting attcked by a few darkhounds along the way. I even died once because I thought it would be a good idea to check out that neat little farm along the road. Those zombies did not fall for the whole me being a zombie thing. Once I made it to Brill I saw the neat towers just outside of the small town. I thought "Oh wow what are those?" and off I went to check them out. As I climbed the long and winding staircase I saw the zeppelin pulling up and was blown away. I quickly hopped on the zeppelin and waited for it to take off. I was excited to know where it was going. Now, I had a pretty terrible computer back in the day. It took me a really long time to load on loading screens. Once I loaded all the way in the zeppelin was still moving so I thought I would hop off it and explore my new found lands. Bad idea. The zeppelin was hovering over the thunder lizard cavern and I died upon landing on the ground. I had no idea you couldn't jump off those things like that. I released and started running back towards my body. I got very lost and by very lost I mean lost for almost 45 mins. I was so frustrated that I logged off and deleted that character. I said to myself ok this time I won't go adventuring until I know more about my surroundings. I made a male undead rogue with a purple mohawk and named him Anthrax. We went through some epic times together. I remember when I first stepped foot into Shadowfang Keep. I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen in a video game before. Anthrax and I had a hard time trying to figure out how rogues worked but once we got the hang of working together we were an awesome team. We stabbed, kicked, blinded, and posioned our way to 60 in about a month. 

My first video game boyfriend. <3

 Shortly after I was 60 I joined a raiding guild. I knew what raiding was from my experience with running UBRS. However, I had no idea what I was getting into. I farm and farmed and farmed to get my full shadowcraft set. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I mean who doesn't like a ninja hood? I know I do. I must of run UBRS 30 times to get the chest to drop. I remember yelling "WOOOOOOO" really loud at 3am when I finally got it. My dorm neighbor wasn't happy. The night I joined a raid group for a place called "Molten Core" I was excited. We ran through and attuned people about an hour prior to the raid starting. I got on a little program called Ventrilo and started chatting. Before I move on.. Back then female WoW players were unheard of and the harassment I got then gave me the thickskin I have now anyway back to the story.. after vent chilled out we all started to zone in and bam I was instantly hooked and we hadn't even started on trash yet. I was taken back by the amount of people we had. There were 40 people that was a lot more than the 15 we had in UBRS and the 10 we had in Stratholme! We managed to kill two bosses that night. I made out with a pair of nightslayer bracers. My very first purple. Anthrax and I raided our way through Vanilla WoW slaying deadly bosses and grabbing their phat loots. With each passing day my skill grew stronger. I remember the first time I had someone comment me on my playing. We were mid way through a Blackwing lair raid and we just wiped to Chromaggus. The raid leader opened his mic channel to yell at us for wiping. I remember his exact words. "Listen we need to stop wiping to bosses we know we can kill. The dps is aweful. Guys, you are being beaten by a girl. Anthrax is third on the DPS charts. How does that make you feel?" I was grinning from ear to ear. I know its not really a compliment but to me it was. I stayed with that guild until the bitter end. The guild eventually parted ways when we got stuck in Naxx. Anthrax is still there to this very day forever locked at 60 and he will always have a special place in my heart. As will vanilla WoW. I will always and forever remember Azeroth as it once was. Please if you read this share your WoW memories with me. Let us have an epic nostalgia session.