Only thing I definitively remember of my first day in WoW was that I made a Night Elf Priest. I originally intended to make a Night Elf Mage, having no prior concept of race/class restrictions or knowledge of the previous Warcraft games; and thus, no knowledge of why such a thing would be restricted in the first place (which is also why I have my disposition about race/class restrictions). It was through a trial and on a server specifically for new players.
I think I spent a considerable amount of time fighting things in melee, thinking of myself as a kind of monk. Eventually, I did make a Human Mage, but I couldnât get over the fact it wasnât what I really wanted, so he was relatively quickly forgotten. I ended up settling on a Night Elf Warrior who I gave an elvenized version of my real name and I stuck with that until Cata where I did soon finally get my Night Elf Mage.
None of these characters exist anymore, by the way. Anyone not on Wyrmrest or Moon Guard was deleted for space years ago when character limits became account wide.
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Around 2006, a coworker played a lot and was able to convince me indirectly to try it out. So I did, picked a random server which turned out to be Trollbane and made a tauren druid named Furrball because Furball was taken. I wandered around, hitting stuff and followed the quests that I could find. Pretty sure my first day was entirely spent just in the starting zone but what kept me going was the propsect of getting animal forms.
Pretty sure I quit until Wrath a little while after clearing Wailing Caverns though.
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My sister took me to her then-boyfriendâs house when I was around 8 or 9. He was playing it when we arrived. Iâd heard of WoW through Oxhornâs Machinimas, but didnât realize it was a game until I saw him playing it, so I asked if I could play it. I said I wanted to turn i to animals because, famously, Oxhorn was a druid. So he told me to play as a druid, and thus began my journey of making countless free trial accounts so I could keep on playing. That is until my mother finally decided to get me the game and, reluctantly further, a subscription.
First character was Awarass. Tauren Druid. Altar of Storms. Burning Crusade had released by the time I started but not WotLK. Sort of became less interested when cata came out because all my favorite zones were changed, particularly the âboring desertsâ like Desolace and ESPECIALLY Thousand Needles.
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Stormrage, human warlock back in 2005. Put the game down multiple times because it just didnât click with me and I was having more fun with RS2.
Gave it another go around with TBC and started to like it more, and became beyond saving in Wrath. Only took a couple of long breaks here and there since; you never really quit an MMO. Not this one.
There is not escape. Not in this life. Not in the next.
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I made a tauren warrior on a PvP server my friends were playing on. I played all evening and into the night; the Barrens seemed so big and dangerous after getting to know the fields of Mulgore!
Good times~
Admittedly, Stormrage is my favorite server. Iâve always played it more than othersâŚ
My first day in WoW was late Vanilla - someone I knew from forum RP invited me and a friend to their server. I think it was Silvermoon. I donât remember the character I made, but they met us in Goldshire and immediately dropped bags and a bunch of gold on us. Which tbh was pretty disheartening. We wanted to learn from the ground up, not have everything handed to us.
So we left and went to Llane - same day. I looked at the classes and tried to pick the hardest sounding thing at the time. Rogue. I also made a mage, warlock and something else. I remember 2 humans, a tauren and a troll named Zuzupetals. I didnât play any of the alts. The rogue ended up being my main from Vanilla to mid-LK.
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Relatively soon after release but I donât remember exactly when. Copies were hard to come by where I lived at that time and no place would hold one for you. I rolled an Undead, Warlock on Eonar.
Spent my first day fumbling around having no idea what I was doing.
I do, but not very clearly. I made Etamalgren-Drenden (since been transferred to GrizzlyHills), a tauren druid that I made well before I ever started roleplaying in WoW. I remember doing a bunch of questing in Camp Narache and made it to Bloodhoof Village at like level 6 or so, went into the inn, laid down in a bed, and logged off.
(âŚI think I kept laying in an innâs bed and logging off to get rested XP for like a month for the culture before going âeh, can just log off in the doorway and get rested XPâ. 
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