I joined around 2004, made a warlock. Saw my first level 40 mage in brill, he was raining fire down from the sky on a raised hill - his guild just blazing across the lands and they were killing everything. I wanted to stop them and tried to hit them with my staff and died pretty fast. I kept doing that over and over and feeling anger over what they were doing, but also feeling amazed at the same time.
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Day 1. Most of my guild came from Everquest. Some stayed behind.
i stand corrected, looks like they changed the page.
February 11, 2007. Had found an ad on a SWG site about the free WoW trial. Was getting tired of just RP and screwing around in Restuss, so I gave it a shot.
Dropped SWG like an ugly baby and never looked back.
During Hallow’s End - October 2006. My current roommate introduced me to the game.
I previously played Ragnarok Online on a private server and Phantasy Star Online ep 1&2 on the Gamecube, so the only MMOs I knew were the “Korean grinds” - where you level just by killing mobs and barely any quests. When I tried WoW and saw how fast I leveled from questing, I was hooked. It was the first MMO where I reached level cap.
Where abouts? I haven’t been able to find me and the transaction history only goes back to 2010. I started in 2005 but I don’t remember when.
My first time was Jan 2008. I was taking a break from EQ. Went back to EQ, came back in 2010 for a few months, returned to EQ. Came back full time in late 2013. I’ve been here ever since.
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Go to warcraftrealms and search your characters. It will give you their creation dates.
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February 2008 the final months of TBC.
Oh, sweet. Thanks!
My first character (tauren female shaman, Vaccia) was rolled on July 2nd, 2009. I do remember Eye of Eternity being the raid people recruited for in Trade Chat in Dalaran, just can’t remember which character I was on at the time, since I wound up with three characters I played in Wrath (the shaman, this hunter, and a BE paladin).
Edit: Oh, wow. I made this hunter later the same month as my shaman. I didn’t remember getting into alts that soon lol.
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i’ve been on 3 realms, and have deleted more toons than i have. it should be an interesting search. maybe i need ancestry .com
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Launch. I was playing a Tauren and I was so young I didn’t know what to do. I was too stupid to pick up the quests or figure out where to go.
I met another player who was very kind to me and showed me the ropes. I deleted my character a day later.
I met them again in WOTLK by chance on Alliance. They were using the same name. It was remarkable.
Played for 3 months in Vanilla, quit, came back in BC. Switched accounts to RAF with a friend. Didn’t pay attention to TOS. Gave older account to friend. It got banned.
Summer of 2005. My son and husband got me started. This is my first character. My son made this guild and gave it to me. I still have the first five friends who started with me on it. We same five are on a horde guild my sister started. Good times, still.
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I started playing World of Warcraft shortly after release in 2004. My first character I made was a Night Elf Warrior, On the realm Gnomeregan.
However, That account no longer exists as I made this account during The Burning Crusade expansion. In that expansion, Is when I decided to switch to Horde from Alliance.
I joined at launch on the Azgalor server. Still main the character I started with.
Early 2010 WotLK is when I say I started in earnest, but technically it would be some unknown time during BC. I definitely remember level 30 riding training, so I can assume July 2008 at least, but I’m pretty sure that patch came in the middle of those first 4 months I played on an account I didn’t bother recovering when I came back in 2010, so I guess more like April-July 2008, somewhere in there.
April of 2005. Started playing with real life friends who have since quit.
Apr of 2005 for me here. Been playing since
December 13th, 2004. I was big into EverQuest at the time, and actually believed that EverQuest 2 would win the coming MMO war. I played WoW beta right before it launched and seriously started to doubt that belief. Played EQ2, despised it, made the switch, and the rest is history.