Haunted By Memories of WoW

This week we've been attempting the Hero World Challenge.  A great idea put forward by Callum and taken up wholeheartedly by Sven aka Holyfyre.  We had a misfire to start with and I jumped the gun rolling a toon on our own server who is now level 21.  Then rolled a toon on the designated Nagrand, I died at level 16.  The rules changed and I re-rolled a priest that died at 9 before registration, disqualifying me from the competition.  Everyone else is having a great time some players are into their high 20's and early 30's with just a few days to go until the competition ends.

I have been haunted by memories while leveling my little hunter on our server. Memories of running along with my eldest son's toon, a mage, through and around the horde area's on alliance toons. Seeing the amazing artwork for the first time around the Barrens also my favourite area was Ashenvale with the beautiful Autumn trees, forestry areas and the hills all around there. The abundance of herbs which resulted in my being able to make potions that my toon couldn't use.  I remember the surprise on all three of my warcraft playing son's faces as I sailed through the levels and reached level 42 where Krinsta ended up off my son's account and on my own account.  I loved fishing and BG's.  I loved questing with my American friends.  I loved to wander around the world of warcraft. If I noticed a guildy questing I'd often sneak up and help them kill mobs until they turned around and noticed me. I had some great friends two father and son duo's and a boy from Alaska who I later rolled and leveled to max my first horde toon.

Every time I'd lose a friend on WoW my heart would break a little bit.  My eldest son who played WoW in the beta phase and ran our massive guild on Dethecus said to me "I've known these people for ages, I couldn't tell you anything about their lives outside of WoW, you've been playing for three months, you know everyone and everything about their lives."  I guess that's why losing them was so heart breaking for me.  Some of my original WoW pals have transitioned over to Facebook Friends, it's just not the same as raiding together or doing BG's together or sitting by a river bank somewhere fishing, talking about everything.  It's a unique experience.  One that I am very pleased to have had. I've met some great people online and have met a few irl as well.  When I went to Melbourne last time I had lunch with my old GM and caught up with how things are going.  Often people log in and update me on their lives.  Great News; two marriages something like eight babies not all to those two couples of course. Four brilliant careers started.  I can't even count how many degrees completed. Some bad news a few breakups and two deaths.

I am haunted by wonderful memories of Warcraft. I'm looking forward to making new memories and building on the guild that we have hopefully some heroic progression as well as a RBG team. Anyone interested in doing Challenge Mode dungeons these are being held on Thursday nights prior to the alt raid and another night of the week yet to be determined.