Ye has yer ups and yer doons and it’s guid tae share them wi’ yer pals so ah’m gonnae tell you a few o’ the moments that ah remember well fae the past few years.

It’s been a while but it seems it’s time for another Blog Azeroth shared topic!  Not going to number them as I can’t really choose an ‘order’.

Lightwalkers Al’ar FK

My first first kill.  I’d never had that sort of momentous moment before.  Feeling like part of the group and that “I helped achieve that!” was amazing - even more so as it was my first time in Tempest Keep and I was terribly under-geared and under-confidant.  I think this was the moment I really started to enjoy raiding began to strive towards the next first kill! Oh and I totally had to steal the front-center spot for the picture. *ahem*

Bloodrazor
When I was levelling Aurik for the first time (pre-tbc) I’d been ogling a certain beautiful big sword in the Auction House.  I’d heard it was pretty nice for a sword rogue but I knew I’d never get it - the price for it was extortionate.  So, when I woke up one morning to find it in my mail box? Very, very happy rogue.  My other half had been grinding in Western Plaguelands and it had dropped from some undead thing or other and promptly popped it into the post for me.  I still have it - I can’t bear the thought of selling it.

Flight Form

Fly up.  Click flight form off.  Drop.  Hit flight form before hitting ground.  Repeat for one hour, gleefully giggling.  Need I say more? (Remember when horde druids were black crows too? hehehe)

Stuck Warlocks
When on one of my first forays into Karazhan two orc warlocks got stuck in the staircase and we had to rescue them.  There was so much silliness over teamspeak and comments about seeing up each others dresses and so on.  Every guild has their fun moments even on serious raids and this showed me that raiding was not all ’srs bsnss’.

Seeing Shattrath for the First Time

The first time I walked into Terrokkar, stepped over the hill and beyond saw a city nestled into the hills, arched walkways extending into it’s core,  broken but not shattered,  It took my breath away.  I’d seen some concept art and possibly some vague screenshots but nothing had prepared me for seeing that beautiful landscape for the first time in-game.

Realisation
The day I realised… “I’m in Black Temple…” I never, ever thought I’d be there.  I always wanted to be - I loved the idea of pitting myself against Illidan, of breaking into his bastion in Outlands.  The Akama storyline is one I have enjoyed playing through a lot.  And I was here…

PvP in Ashenvale
My first ever pvp experience.  I was in Ashenvale, at whatever level people go to Ashenvale. Myself and my other half noticed local defense lighting up like a Christmas tree. “Maestra’s Post is under attack” etc.  We were intrigued - we were on a normal server and had never seen any world pvp before so we waited around until the Hordies hit Astranaaaaaaaaaaar.  Being only little rogues and hunters we went splat when we decided we’d help the sentinels out but, when a few levels 60’s began to show up, the battle got a bit more even.  It was fun and gave me a taste for occassional pvp.  I still prefer world pvp to battleground pvp.

First Time Through the Dark Portal

I stood there, grinning and walked (yes, I toggled walk on!) through the huge, looming gate.  I had re-rolled on TBC launch and resisted the temptation to try and get a port or summon to Outlands.  I entered a complex world, battered and was confronted with a large-scale battle immediately! (which, like every other nub, I tried to walk past and got squished).

First Mount
Everyone remembers their first mount, right?  Well, I do.  I spent about half an hour running around and jumping about on my freshly minted lamb ram! I doubly remember this as I spent all of my gold - so that I didn’t even have enough gold to fly anywhere afterwords…  Oops.

Dying to Dots
The number of times on my druid where I was the last party member surviving and tanked a boss into he ground and then died from some sort of debuff just after my glorious victory lap… Although this is not a specific single time I count it as a top ten memory as it has me in stitches every time it happens.  Recently, in Mount Hyjal, I got caught in a rain of fire just as Azgalor boss died, with no CloS up.  There were no healers left alive (first kill, unlucky dooms and other stuff) so as I leapt about and cheered over not dying (I’d died at the very start of the Kaz fight, whilst helping to distract him) I fell over dead due to the dot and was promptly mocked. /sadface

Wow has given me some awesome times and memories - most of them involving the people I play with and which would make little sense out of context.  For all those fun moments I thank those people who, without which, I wouldn’t be having so much fun.