Musings of BC.

And so the first expansion of World of Warcraft comes to a close, it is time for us to review what kind of stuff I've done and what exactly I think was the success rate of WoW with it's expansion.

Come the release of BC, we were given the overly joyful entrance screen of Illidan speaking to us and telling us YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!!!!!OMFGBBQ...ok maybe not that but you know, close enough. Going into Outlands, I was on my Smolderthorn server with my rogue first, and I plowed through as fast as I wanted to. It was good and bad in the same way because honestly, I didn't really read much and I just skipped through as much as I can so I can get to level 70. Do I regret it? At first yes, but then I played the Warrior and took it far slower.

Hitting 70, the guild i was with was slow to get off it's feet. We were a good guild that thrived in the 40 man instances but were dealt a rather crippling blow when half the guild branched off and made their own little guild, claiming that we weren't hardcore enough for them (Sure enough, they lasted all of maybe 3 months before they themselves disbanded. Suckers.) At this point, we were struggling to even get the people for the raids. Constantly while working on content and trying to progress, we'd have to cancel. And we're just talking about 3 nights a week, 3 hours worth. So cancelling one night really was harsh.

I took a very tough decision at this point: We weren't doing much. In fact, at this point, I had transitioned myself from my Rogue to my Arms warrior, and had leveled a new level 70 Shaman to help the guild. Circumstances did not allow me to raid with the shaman in the end, and in a way I was rather insulted after the work I had put in for the guild to help them progress. People accused me of a lot of things and I guess that was the last straw that broke the camel's proverbial back. I started fishing for a guild that was slightly ahead of mine. And on came Ascension, the guild I am in.

A little history: Llane was my first ever server. I had an orc warrior there for a lil while but I had stopped playing due to my obsessive nature with Final Fantasy XI. That stopped after 2 years of religiously playing the game to focus on WoW. But Horde didn't interest me, so I tried on a PvP server and said to people who asked that I wanted a challenge while leveling. (I, to this day, REGRET DOING THIS PROFUSELY! Omfg I hated leveling any toon through Stranglethorn vale. x.x)

So going to Llane was an easy enough decision. I had alliance characters, I wanted to raid on a new class that the alliance hadn't had much to work with (The shaman) and my friends were there, albeit on the horde side. At least if I ever did wanna play with them, I could just transfer over some cash from the other toons. So I talked to an officer and got a shot in.

Since then, I downed Vashj, Kael, and even got close to downing Illidan. I downed Archimonde and got my shield on my shaman, and even turned her resto at the end. And all above else, I had fun. I can't say some of the instances were the greatest in the world. Hyjal? Hated it. With a passion. Something about killing trash upon wave of trash over and over when you're an ele shaman really does NOT make it a fun instance. BT to me was an amazing experience. When we got to Illidan, it was epic in it's own proportions and I don't understand what people were griping before 3.0 about how Illidan was a joke. Yes, the fight may not of been as hard as say, Kael or IC...but it had it's own nostalgia feel to it. This was a main pivotal character that we were battling..and I was happy I at least got to fight the man. A part of me will always regret not killing him, but another part allows me to be happy that we didn't kill such a pivotal chracter in the story.

And so with Wrath coming along the corner, I once more am at the brink of change: The Death Knight, the class in which is completely new, is the class I'm choosing to play come the expansion. I'll be working on a role that I haven't had much chance to play as: A tank. My warrior was MT for Karazhan and I felt truly epic when I tanked Kara against Prince and we downed him after fighting him for a while. ..granted I was drunk so it made things feel more epic than they should of been but who cares!

So my BC experience was favorable. With the fact that I never had the chance pre-bc to really go past BWL, I would like to think that at the least, we had seen most of what BC had to offer pre-nerf. I never stepped into SWP, and I probably will at some point when I'm 80..but I don't regret it. I got to see my fight. I was happy.

Now..come on Wrath..2 days left, let's make this another fun filled experience.