Yes dammit Rob you did. He just happened to mysteriously have a PC Gamer trail disk on him when he came round to help me building my (then) new machine. Thus began my life as... a Mage!! I ran around Coldridge Valley, killing Troggs and Wolves with my Frostbolts; all was well in the world. Upon leaving Coldridge I encountered a level 6 Juvenile Snow Leopard, and was horribly killed. I was such a noob at that point that I figured since I had died and become a ghost, that was the end of the game and that I had failed miserably (I didn't realize I had to just run back to my corpse to resurrect). After reading about the classes a little on the website, I deleted the Mage and created a Warrior, I simply followed the logic that by carrying a shield and wearing mail I would not die as fast (lol). If I had known about ressing from the beginning I probably would have ended up staying as a Mage, so it's funny how that noobishness kind of played a major part in determining the direction the game would go for me.
Anyhow, aside from the noobing, after laughing at me for hours on end, Rob invited me to join the small guild he had set up called Azeroth Horde Slayers. There I met Hakon and Flatfoot, a guy called Firefly was there as well (a mate of Rob's who we had both helped by writing reviews and articles for his gaming website gameburst.com, which was also where the guilds forums were at that time) and a whole bunch of nice people. The whole idea was just small scale fun and the those that had reached sixty were trying a few nights a week to clear places like UBRS and Strat. As more people in the game leveled higher, a few people left to try and find an 'MC guild' as AHS was too small and didn't seem focused on trying to get raiding going.
I think Hak left around that time, as per this post:
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Originally Posted by Hakon
Dear friends,
Having been on a mission to obtained revered status with Stormpike (AV) and meeting that goal last night, I found myself wandering around with little to do.
I have started new characters and gotthem up to about lvl 13 but just cannot be bothered going through the long haul and repeating quest lines to get to lvl 60 for the same inevitable unsurity. Besides I like my Rogue just too much, something about moving around without being seen that appeals.
As mentioned by Snotty I feel a need to try and see what MC is like and I don't think we have the capacity in our good guild for me to achieve it.
I did a little digging and found the folliwng site for people who seem to be like us, http://www.theoldergamers.com/, older players who cannot always be online all teh time. Additionally they are all over 25 years old.
They have a guild on Dunemaul called 'The Old Garrisson' and I did a search and found there to be at least 15 lvl 60's on at the same time as me last night.
So I have registered on their website and will try the guild out, assuming all goes well i'll let you know what they are like. My hope is that they will be just like us and if so it would be good if we could all join them.
Of course I have most of you listed as friends so know when you are online and i'll keep you all in the loop.
So don't know when it will happen but we can wait and see.
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Then there was the horrible merger with Guardians of the Realm, which actually got us to MC, but the leadership was crap and the raiding usually didn't amount to much even though we did get up to Gehenas in MC. I was feeling a bit frustrated at that point. Then I read this:
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Originally Posted by Hakon
The Old garrison was the dogs knackers. We split and became The Garrison (the former on still exists). and that is now even better, Raggy on farm, about to go in BWL, AQ20 4 or 5 bosses down and i'm epicced up.
Yum
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I quit GotR and joined TG, then I quit TG and rejoined GotR because I'd been asked to help work out the problems we were having there, then pretty much everyone from AHS quit GotR and I rejoined TG.
Funny little journey that, hehe.