You might be wondering why the fuck would i want to be in an US server since i’m from Europe but it’s quite simple really. The people talking about WoW in QT3 were mostly playing on the same server and since i didn’t want to deal with retards that i don’t really “know”, i chose the server with most people from QT3 : Moonrunner. Choosing an US server proved to be a good thing but at the same time, also a curse. More on that later.

After finding a suitable fake address, i created my account, grabbed the installer and left it running during the night. Next morning i was ready to kick some Azerothian ass but first i had to create my virtual self.

Choosing a faction was easy, the people i’ve mentioned before were on the Alliance side so that was it. Creating a new character though, that was a bit harder.

First of all and even though i like the cartoonish aspect of World of Warcraft, i gotta say that most characters are FUGLY as hell. Dwarves were the only cool enough but if i’m rolling with a dwarf, it’s going to be a class that can smash your face with a big fucking hammer or axe. But i was tired of playing a melee toon. I wanted something new.

Looking at the caster classes, they all seemed marginaly interesting. Well, except for priests but that’s just because i hate to play a healing class. So, it was a tie between mages and warlocks. Well, except warlocks have a demon and trade life for mana. Those two aspects of the class were both quite interesting and that made the deal, i was going to be a warlock.

Now i just had to choose a race and there were only two races that allowed me to create a warlock: human and gnome. This wasn’t very hard because gnomes sounded like they were like that annoying-little-brat-next-door so they were immediately excluded. (And damn, wasn’t i right about them!)

There was just another final and crucial step that had to be made: choosing a name for my toon. Oh boy .. how i wish i had spent a bit more time here. I was starting to get annoyed because this was taking so long and quickly my dementia kicked in: “Let’s see, so i’m just doing a trial, i’m a noob to WoW and will be a warlock. That’s it … i’ll be called NoobLock!! Aww yeah!”

And finally i could start exploring Azeroth …

First i tried EVE Online. EVE was cool. Since in the past i had been addicted to a simple retarded browser game called “Dark Galaxy”, it was very nice to find a visual representation of the kind of game. I played it for 3 or 4 weeks(2 different trial accounts ;) ) but although it was cool and sci-fi, it didn’t capture me somehow. In the end, i made up my mind that i wouldn’t want to pay to play this game so i went to try other stuff.

Around the time that i quit EVE, the Lords of the Ring Online public beta’s were announced. I like the LOTR lore so, why not? Well, maybe because it was still in beta, i also didn’t find it a much better experience than EVE. The available character classes seemed boring, i couldn’t get along with the control scheme and i stopped playing it. However, reading the reactions on QT3 about this beta, there was a couple of users who kept saying that the UI was a total ripoff from WoW.

Intrigued, i downloaded the trial and started my journey into Azeroth.

So here i was thinking about how i had never blogged again since i threw myself into the depths of World of Warcraft and other games and then i had this crazy idea “OH … blogging was nice, maybe i should restart my blog!”.

And just like Shaq would say :

“SHAZAM!”

If you ever visited my blog before you might notice something different like … where the hell are all the older posts?!?! Well, i threw them away. They were old and stuff and i wanted a fresh start!

With that behind our backs … let’s get this show going!