It just occurred to me that this weekend marks three years since I first started playing World of Warcraft. I can’t recall the exact date I entered Azeroth, but I know that it was approximately a day or two before Valentine’s Day. I remember my wife was away on a business trip, so I decided to install “that game she bought me for Christmas”.
I was heavily into the Diablo series, but aside from that I wasn’t much of a gamer. I put WoW on my Christmas list only because I read it was tops graphics-wise and I wanted to see what my super-duper PC was capable of. I had a screaming machine at the time with dual WD 74GB hard drives in a raid 0 setup, 2GB of super low latency ram and an nVIDIA 7900GT graphics card.
I was torn between making a Hunter or a Shaman. I ultimately went with a Hunter after watching the mind-blowing cinematic after installing the game. I wanted to be the class that had a pet for a sidekick, but I didn’t want to be an ugly Dwarf at the time so I rolled a Night Elf. Dwarf lovers need not be offended however. Since then I’ve made 2 Dwarf toons and I love the race. In fact, back before x-realm PvP I made a second Hunter who’s a Dwarf because I felt the race was better geared towards PvP (Stoneform and Gun Specialization FTW), plus I wanted to roll a Hunter with Engineering for the battlegrounds.