From WAR to WoW

Well, my cousin, his friend, his wife, my girlfriend and myself and what we had hoped to be more of our friends decided to quit MMO's for a bit and anticipate the release of Warhammer: Age of Reckoning. So we started a Guild website, got everything under the gun and were getting real excited for the release of the game. The game finally came out and it was everything we wanted and more... at first. We played Destruction and had a blast with it. After a time we discovered that Destruction wasn't for us.. something was missing, and it just so happend that the server we played on, we were outnumbered and outclassed by Order. So we switched. When we went Order we had even more fun. We loved almost all the classes and had a truly great time and met some wonderful people to join our new but not improved, just renamed guild. As time went on however we discovered little things.. constantly, that were missing in the game. It wasn't just a few big things, or one big thing. Just a whole lot of little things. Things that were never fixed, things that made Mythic look like simpletons and amateurs at gaming. The game had and still does have a ton of potential. The character mechanics are beautiful and a lot of innovative ideas were put into play. But all in all we found we were missing something. So as my cousin left the game, I filtered off the game, others in our guild did before that. People slowly were falling off the Warhammer world without even a goodbye.

The World of Warcraft expansion had also recently came out. So my cousin decided to buy this and test it out. I came over one day and he let me test out the new heroic class, the Death Knight. From that night on, even though I never said anything to my cousin or even to my girlfriend or anyone else. I knew I was going to get the expansion and start up WoW again. And so right before Christmas, that's what I did.

My cousin, however, is on a different server than my characters are on. Which is another story in itself. So I had to start over fresh, so we both thought. Easy though, right? It's WoW, the easiest game in the MMO world. So I started a Warlock and was playing pretty casually and got him to 49 in two weeks, nothing great. During this time, our friend and his wife were convinced to come over to the dark side with us, and we created our guild again and started fishing for fresh recruits. Then one evening when my cousin, my girlfriend and I are sitting over at his house and he's messing around on his laptop when he just bursts out in laughter. We both look at him and wonder what's up. He looks up at me and starts to chuckle and asks me if I've been to the character transfer section on the Warcraft site since I've started playing again. I told him no, though I've thought about it, just to see if they had maybe lifted the PvE to PvP server transfer restrictions. He starts to laugh again and says, "Well.. that's just what they did. Apparently quite some time ago." So those two weeks I spent leveling a worthless toon I never intended on playing to begin with just to start a Death Knight was a bunch of wasted time, when I could have just paid a measely 25 bucks and brought a lvl 70 from my other server over from the begining. And not only that, but I could have started getting a 70 up to 80 while also enjoying the new heroic class. Oi! After long moments of cursing, that's just what I did.
I created the Death Knight as soon as I brought my lvl 70 rogue over to the other server and was playing him until I went on Vacation 11 days ago for 10 days and just got back, only to find out that my cousin decided to merge our guild with another called Knights of the Keyboard, who so far have seemed to be a pretty damn good group of people. But they're mostly 80 and now my cousin is 80 and our friends are in the high 70's and I still have a character sitting on 70... The Death Knight is obviously going to have to wait /sigh.

WoW may not be the best game in the world, it certainly isn't imo. But it beats the everyday mumbo jumbo of life itself.