As all things, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll start at the beginning. How did I start playing World of Warcraft? It had to do with moving to my current company. At my current workplace, we use Mac laptops. Now considering that I have a UNIX background, the Mac works best for me except in one area, gaming.
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\nNow you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your work computer, why are you gaming on it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Well, when you find yourself 2000+ miles away from home, in a strange city where you spend all day in a classroom and have no desire to go out at night, you have a lot of time on your hands. And since at that time, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even own a personal laptop, that means my work laptop was with me and some evenings, there just was nothing on television that I really wanted to watch. This left me with limited options for entertaining myself. Even then I probably wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have gotten into WoW except that my co-worker would play it during lunch. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d watch him and he would talk about doing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153such and such\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in game. Eventually, I gave in and picked up a copy of WoW…
\nAnd, given my sometimes obsessive personality, found myself spending unwholesome amounts of time playing. But I was having fun, which was important. Not to mention stress relieving. So now there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my co-worker and myself, playing WoW during lunch, and naturally we begin infecting the office. So far, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten 6 other co-workers, 2 spouses, and several other individual friends to either join or move over to our realm server where we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve formed the mighty \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Plush Kitty Toys\u00e2\u20ac\u009d guild. Complete with a pink tabard with baby blue highlights! (Because if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a big bad Horde, do you want to admit that you got taken out by an Alliance player who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Plush Kitty Toy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d running around in a pink tabard?)<\/p>\n
Okay, maybe \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mighty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a misnomer. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a casual guild in every practical sense. But that has to do with the nature of our makeup more than anything. Most of the other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s are married and\/or have kids. At least two of our people are a couple of timezones away in New Mexico. It makes getting together to run Raids or even instances difficult. On the hand, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no pressure and complete understanding when someone can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it for a run or has to cut out because the kids need feeding or wakes up or whatever else kids do. (As you can tell, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite single.) For most of us, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fun diversion and stress relief. Not to mention the fact that WoW also acts as our company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emergency help desk system, because if the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s network is down, you can usually find an engineer online somewhere on WoW…<\/p>\n
Anyway, back to my involvement with WoW. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been playing for a couple of years now, have been around for both the launch of Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, and have at least one of each character class and at least one from each Alliance race. (Sorry, just haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gotten around to playing on the Horde side of the fence yet.) Am I an expert? Not really. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand or research a lot of the mechanics or number crunching involved. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have my characters fined tuned, or macros that allow you to do amazingly complex activities. I do consider myself a decent player though.<\/p>\n
Which leads to this blog. I have started reading several of the WoW blogs out there and a lot of them are enlightening, informative and entertaining. This is not one of those blogs. I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give you advice on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153must have\u00e2\u20ac\u009d gear or how best to put your spec together for maximum effectiveness. You won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see me breaking down the how and why of things in WoW. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be lucky if I make sense most of the time. What you will get are my observations and insights of the game through my eyes, some of the reasoning and thinking behind my characters and I, triumph and frustrations of being an average player, and maybe an entertaining horror story here or there of PUGs gone horribly wrong. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a place for me to get things out of my system without forcing my co-workers and guild-mates to put up with my nattering. Hope you enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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