How I first got into WoW (A Story) and my life in WoW

**~~DragonfireEX402~~** · 03-14-2014

Well, it's been almost two months since I got caught in the infamous PQR/PQI Banwave. Since then, I stopped playing and never looked back. So I felt the need to share my story of how I had gotten into the game in the first place. I hope others users of Ownedcore may also share their stories as well.

It was early 2008. My brother had given me permission to mess around with his account and it was kind of cool. Granted, I didn't play past level 5, but communicating with others while playing was very new to me at the time. Still, as I said, I didn't really play past level 5. I guess I didn't really care to either lol.

In 2010, I had finally caved in and got my own account with a Battle Chest (It only had Vanilla and BC at the time). When I started to play, I was amazed at how much there was to see in the game. Unfortunately, I was so horrible, I couldn't level past 10. However, after taking nearly a 2 month hiatus from game, that changed as I started playing with my brother and cousin (questing and instances) and that was pretty cool. In 2011, I finally was able to upgrade all the way to Cata and do some heroic instances with my cousin.

After a 6 month break, I started playing again and got to do LFR and Instances with my cousin and brother. Unfortunately, they both quit in late 2012. However, my neighbor was still playing and I met him that year, so I hopped on his server and leveled a toon there to 90.

In late 2012, I had also found PQR and Honorbuddy. I had actually purchased an Honorbuddy key back in 2011 out of curiosity and it was okay for AFK questing. When I had found out that Honorbuddy worked exceptionally well like PQR and I could use it to level my toons, I had started using Honorbuddy on a regular basis for leveling and sometimes raiding/PVP.

In the beginning of 2013, I had my level 90 and was ready to do some raiding and PVP with my neighbor and the rest of our guild. We had some pretty good fun dueling outside of Goldshire, messing around in Orgrimmar, trolling Trade Chat, and so on. I had confessed to my neighbor that I had been using automated programs in mid 2013 after a few mishaps in Arenas because I had felt bad that I cost him his rating. He actually didn't give two shits and his reason being that "PVP is really really going down the shitter. Maybe if Blizz actually fixed their shit, I'd actually be disappointed in you".

As the rest of my time went on, I just continued playing the way I've been playing for the sake of finding something to do at night. That is, until January 23rd, 2014 when mine as well as many other WoW players had their accounts terminated. I had started getting frustrated with the way the game had been going in late 2013 (see my "Why I'm leaving WoW behind (A Rant)" thread as I will not repeat my opinion here), so I was kind of happy the banhammer had hit me because I was ready to stop after my sub expired.

And that's my whole story. Please do not hesitate to share yours.

**baptism** · 03-14-2014

back in the days when i was twelve years old (I'm 1992 born) i wanted to buy Warcraft 3 TFT. My stepfather then said "hey boy i heard about a completely new warcraft" and i googled for it and bought a closed beta key account on ebay (2 weeks were left). I think i don't have to mention that this was greatest gaming experience of my life. I was twelve and this was a completely new thing for me. I created a Nightelf Hunter called "Kaldores" cause my family had three Dogs and i wanted a pet in game. I remember how epic everything was, it was pure magic. I feel sorry for any boy who couldn't experience that game. The atmosphere really caught and absorbed me. As i was twelve years young i was rather bad in the game.

When closed Beta ended i pre ordered World of Warcraft. Actually i had to pre order it over ebay and the plain vanilla version cost me about 130 euros. I raged hard when it came 2 days late and i nearly cried. My poor parents, lol. It took me very long to level and i always wanted to pvp. I went to Blackfathom Depths (all-time favorite, it was my first instance and i nearly pissed my pants in there.) till level 32 and went to Zul Farrak for at least 100 times. Not to mention Crossroads PvP. I always had trouble to find a decent raiding guild since i was a kid and my parents wouldn't allow me to play till late night.I pvpd and made it up to rank 11 pre nerf.

I enjoyed TBC and Arena was a great addition for me. I played a rogue in 2s up to 2100 but never came higher. When i played Wotlk the magic of the game was all gone. I don't know what happened, maybe its because WoW started to suck from Wotlk or i became older. I had the best time in WoW while leveling my first characters. Being new to the genre and to the game was the best experience. When it came to gearing up the game became worse.

All in all i have to say that i wasted many years with that game, but actually had an awesome time. I remember every friend i made in World of Warcraft and i seriously miss them.