I've played WoW since December 2006 at various levels of hardcore-ness. My first character ever was a Troll Rogue who only made it to level 29 before I rerolled with a group of friends.
My first real main was a Troll ShadowPriest (Tuwei) during BC where I raided through SSC and TK, including killing Vashj pre 2.3 and Kael just after 2.3. We also cleared the first few bosses in Hyjal and accomplished ZA bear runs. It was a ton of fun, but all great things must come to an end. A couple weeks into T6 progression I took a break from raiding and from WoW. I didn't have the time to raid much anymore and playing casually during BC didn't appeal to me at all.
Not long after 2.4 was released, I reactivated my account and finished leveling a Blood Elf Paladin (Jasari) that I had sitting around 60ish. I knew I didn't have time to raid very much but figured it'd be fun to gear up a new character, particularly a tank and just play casually for a while. The new badge gear implemented in 2.4 made it entertaining enough to farm heroics, Kara, and ZA with my friend who played a holy priest.
With the launch of 3.0 and WotLK, my priest buddy and I joined a casual guild with similar interests as us. None of us really had the time to devote to 25man progression raiding but were able to take advantage of 10mans that were introduced with the new expansion. With a new and improved prot paladin as my main, I tanked for the guild as we quickily cleared Naxx, Sarth, and after some trouble downed Malygos. We were on the verge of killing Sarth 3D when Ulduar was released and stole our focus. Ulduar wasn't much of a problem for us either and we had quickily cleared it along with several hardmodes before the guild started to crumble. Right about the time 3.2 was released the guild had disentigrated and I again found myself bored of the game and took a leave of absence.
With the release of 3.3 I came back to the game with my characters spread across several servers. I had an 80 warlock off on Hakkar to play with my Holy Priest friend, who was now playing a Holy Paladin. My Paladin tank was over on Bleeding Hollow in what ended up as a failed attempt to revive our old BC guild, and my many alts were piled on Blackwing Lair where my home had been since the start of BC. Since I didn't have a lot of time to devote to raiding I decided to just do whatever felt like fun, which was playing my level 12 Druid.
So that brings us to today. I'm casually leveling a Tauren Feral Druid named Tooee, pronouced "2 E". It's a blast, especially with the new LFG tool introduced in 3.3. I'm doing about a 50/50 mix of questing and instancing. The fun part is instancing, and not just because running old and forgotten dungeons is kind of cool. The really entertaining part for me is dealing with the pugs. At low levels I've encountered everything from a player who is leveling their very first character and who "has never seen a druid tank before" to the alt of an elitist prick who "wants to try to solo this boss".
This blog will be about the adventures of pugging in the crazy world of warcraft.
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