World of Warcraft Geeks? - Page 2

On March 05 2009 18:00 Osmoses wrote:
Used to. Now I just log on every now and then to say hello to my sister.

On March 05 2009 18:00 Ragnorak wrote:
There is certainly a line past which you can class it as addiction. For the most part though, if you're raiding, you've made a commitment to doing this instance for three or four hours. You've already told 9 or 24 other people that you'll do it, and presumably they are your friends, so in that aspect you can't just run out on on them.

I ran a raiding guild from Vanilla through to the end of BC before retiring. I retired simply because those sorts of situations cropped up too often, and I felt it was affecting my RL friendships. I still play casually, mostly just to keep in touch with my game friends. I really enjoyed levelling in Wrath, and raiding is a lot of fun, but I'm not really interested in running the same raids over and over again.

I play Alliance on Greymane if anyone is on that server.

On March 05 2009 18:04 Eminencia wrote:
Yeah, WoW cause serious damage to relationships. Most of my friends in WoW are singles. =X

And most of us, would prefer getting a partner that games too.. preferably wowers too, haha!

(My alliance toon is on oceanic server, frostmourne!)

On March 05 2009 18:02 Phearlock wrote:
I've been playing on and off since may 2005, was never really that hardcore but I found a nice guild and while the guildname has changed once or twice I've stuck with the same people for about 3 years now. I really only play for fun but I do enjoy casual raiding (although I might not be that casual, no idea these days).

I think I'd have quit ages ago but I just like the community I ended up in, and I still have lots of fun so I doubt I'll quit anytime soon =)

(I've been trying to get some of them converted to watching starcraft progaming, but alas, no such luck as of yet).

On March 05 2009 18:10 Ragnorak wrote:


I met my girlfriend through WoW, which was also why I didn't mind spending a lot of time on the game. The downside is that she played a holy priest, me a holy paladin, so we couldn't do much in game together, as you generally only need a single healer. Raids aren't really a good way to spend time with someone. Stupid attention-paying-requirement.

On March 05 2009 18:02 Phearlock wrote:
Edit: Guess I can add this: I play horde on Dragonblight-EU, my main actually shares the same name as my username, lol.

On March 05 2009 18:14 Roxen000 wrote:
I used to play Pre Expansions when the game was actually slightly challenging...

On March 05 2009 18:14 Eminencia wrote:
Well, you can respec to ret or prot!

I own different characters so it's no issue switching classes as and when i need to. ^^

Eh, yes Raids are a pain in the ass. Especially when players go for smoking breaks one by one and we waste time waiting for them to return. Toilet breaks, smoking breaks, telephone calls etc* I just hate those.. -_____-"

On March 05 2009 18:19 Ragnorak wrote:


I can respec ret/prot, but I'm nowhere near as good as I am at holy, and she was the same way. We both really didn't enjoy doing something that we're not good at. Still used to do it on occasion though.

Raiding I absolutely love. If your raiders have time to think about the bathroom, smoking etc etc then you're not pulling fast enough. I used to have specificed break times throughout the night, and everyone knew when they were, so they tried to scedule stuff in that time, rather than on my time.

If worst comes to worst though, you really don't need a full complement of raiders to clear the trash, or indeed most of the bosses. So if someone went afk, we just continued on.

On March 05 2009 18:21 haduken wrote:
What are your roles at razer btw?

Anychance you could ask them to provide drivers for linux?

On March 05 2009 18:25 Phearlock wrote:
Well, yes I do play a warlock, name was inspired by the fact that back at lvl 60 my old main (firemage, on the alliance side of dragonblight) always died because the silly fear effect never broke. ^^

Ironic that soon after I made the char back in vanlilla they nerfed fear effects (again), heh, good fun. Still, I liked playing the class and oh how I still do, the most fun caster to play by far. (although I hated the fact that you sort of had to go SL/SL for PVP in TBC, which killed all the fun). I really don't enjoy leveling or grinding so yeah I've stuck with this being my only max lvl character through all of TBC and it'll probably remain so through all of WOTLK and beyond. ^^

Edit: @ haduken, I think you're in the wrong thread, it's ok, happens to everyone =P

On March 05 2009 18:32 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
every time i look at this girl's screen today she's on TL