WoW is a multi-player game and in-game friendships are formed with players you randomly group with much more often than real life friends. Like other online multi-player games WoW has a guild system that are like your in-game family.

I had been in a couple of guilds the Frozen Pirates (it lasted a whole day before I left there) and Shield of the Felwen (until the GM vanished after a couple of weeks) before I finally found somewhere that felt like home in EZO, that had well over 400 members all of whom were very active. The guild was aimed at people that played the game for fun more than hard-core raiders and most people where levelling rather than doing any form of end-game content.

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I learned that solo questing as a priest was slow and painful and sometime deadly, I battled through the quests in Loch Modan and then moved onto the Wetlands, which is exactly what it is there. I started questing then met up with Kittiah on his 2nd character, a gnome warlock called Agonise, and a friend he was questing with. We teamed up with some other people and headed of to do some group quests, which except for my Deadmines experience wa sthe first time I'd tried grouping with people. I was really fun and was where I discovered I really liked healin . It was as if I had discovered the purpose of my character.
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The first day over, now the real work was to begin. Northshire Abbey was no longer to be a place called home. My adventures were sending me to Goldshire! I arrived and was sent awayagain to explore some mines, where more Kobolds were killed along with a few boars and then from behind me came the cry of "Aaaaaughibbrgubugbugrguburgle!" what the....

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 After being ganked by a Murloc and his friends I returned to my corpse and began to attempt to master the art of killing these annoying, slimy little fish men. Around Elwynn Forest I strode questing, gathering, killing and delivering as demanded until I was set my first real challenge, Hogger.I failed solo, a few times then the call went out to Falynn to help me, in he came to rescue the day and at level 17 made mince meat of the level 13 elite gnoll.

Elwynn finished I moved next to Westfall and hunting down the pesky Defias Brotherhood and the Deadmines. My first instance run was a complete failure. We did get as far as the goblin foundry area, but got overrun and everyone slowly left the group. The one good thing that came from that was meeting Hukin (the other priest) who has remained an in-game friend for almost 5 years.

Westfall completed time to move on to Loch Modan and more Kobolds and boars died, my next move was to Wetlands and my first encounter with orcs, they liked me so much they chased after me as I moved through the mountain pass. By the end of my 2 week trial I had reached level 19 in only 2 days played! more »

It all began with a lad named Matt (or Kittiah as I found out later). He was one of my team at Norwich Union and played this stupid game killing dragons and stuff. He even managed to get Andy (or Falynn) another of my team playing the game and between them they would talk about this game called WoW. It sounded a bit geeky and like DnD and I was really not going to waste my PC on games, I had a PS for that sort of activity, especially as you had to pay £9 a month to play the game they made you buy too!

Anyways, on a business trip to Norwich in November 2005 they bullied, yes bullied me into a trial of the game. I really was not interested but wanted to shut them up as much as anything o agreed to a 14 day trial. I got home that night too tired to do anything other than the couch potato role I filled most nights and put the trial pass and CDs on a shelf. In work next day got pestered all day as to why I had not tried it and promised I would install it that night.

I got home and installed the game 5xCDs took over 1 hour. Not impressed by that anyways install completed and trial account ready to rock, I was keen now to get playing. Then "Downloading patch" message appears on screen another hour later (1/2Mb ADSL sucks for big DLs) I am finally ready I log in select the Shadowsong realm that Kittiah and Falynn play on I "have" to roll Alliance to play alongside them, which seemed a good choice because the Horde were ugly looking races.

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Before diving into the character Evlyxx, I thought it much more appropriate that the real me was revealed first.

I have been on this planet for over 40 years and during that time have been a son (hi Mum and Dad), a brother, a husband to a very patient Louise and a very proud father of Dominic.

I attended the Hewett School in Norwich and left with average qualifications after stupidly quitting 1/2 way through my A levels, and went to work for Norwich Union. In 1990, I reloacated from Norwich to Sheffield with them and eventually wormed my way into an IT job as a result of some work I did on the Millenium Bug and spent most of the next 6 years providing consultancy and support to their multi-location Call Centre dealing with telephone routing, IVR set ups as well as the general PC and user issues.

In 2007 I was made redundant and went started working as an IT contractor in roles including the European Space Agency in the Netherlands which did not last long as working away from home for 12 days out of every 14 was not for me. I then spent the a few months bouncing around short-term contracting before returning to full-time work with my current employers who are the UK's largest independant supplier of wireless networking infrastucture.

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