It was about 8 years ago, TBC Season 1, my friend who is in top raiding guild at that time, poison me about WoW. All the while I wanted to play the game, imagine you're running a 3rd person toon from Warcraft, how cool is that..the monthly sub just draws me off. He constantly show me how cool the game is but meh the graphic at that time, quiet sux compare to other MMO with big big gigantic AOE spell effect, he throws me the installed with 7 days trial and I give in. I started a Human Warrior and level it 20 at Suramar PVE server, it took me about a week for that 20 level, no looms, mob hit so hard, no self heal, first aid all the way then I heard lock is pretty OP at that time so I started one and see how it looks and all the way to max level, 70 at that time. It is very very OP srsly mainly due to I'm really sux in pvp, so do I don't even know what is dps/recount/dbm/burst/1 shot macro stuff. 1v2 is never a problem even I tried 1v3 at bg, multi target fear vs 1 trinket ftw. Lock eats Mage like cookies at that time, 1 pet silence and they are done. The only problem I have is rogue stun lock. I still remember pre-void-bubble before arena starts.

During Wotlk lunch, I'm being an ******* for playing DK because they are..haha OP! It was fun to run Hellfire Citadel with 5 Blood DK(blood is still dps spec and I heard frost is the tank spec) during that time, spam self heal all the way to last boss and the whole team was like LOLOMFGBBQ. I leveled my DK till 80 and I quit WoW for RL stuff. I came back during almost end of cata and play a mage, I never spend time on learning the rotation or how to play pvp, it just doesn't catch my interest so I went to play a Tauren warrior, and came back to my Human Warlock with my RL friend again. Cata is sux imho, the only raid I did was LFR Dragon Soul and the entire experience doesn't catch my interest. Until MOP 5.1 I quit again because my RL friend quit too

In year 2014, I tried a several stuffs that I've never tried before, I played a Prot Warrior up to lvl55 and deleted him because, the Human Male animation after revamp, however, is godammit screwed, played huntard, feel like want to delete her, not so fun, and 3 monks lol, played all 3 specs. Then tried resto druid. I srsly hate myself DPS in druid which is kind of disappointing, wearing looms and still doing shit DPS, read icy-veins, did the stuff but meh..no luck on druid.

All the time, I've played so many different classes, can't really find the one that I want to main.
I fell in love with Monk, more or less I'm being affected by PwndaTV playstyle, and his attitude towards the game. It is so rare to see monks in BG, rarely see them in pug, though Monk doesn't give anything to the team but finally a 10% movement speed buff after 6.0, so I believe, the rare monk will shine in group if you play well!

What I do in game that makes me feel happy: giving free ride, give free mage portal, help out lowbies killing mob when i happen to passby, be it same or opposite faction, loot some nice looking xmog gear.
What I don't like in game: number game, grinding, chat fighting.
During the time where bloody coin was introduced, timeless isle is the worst, you get gank for anyone you see. The debuff that makes you don't award bloody coins is bs, Blizz should make the penalty more serious to prevent ppl from graveyard farming you for no reason. 

repost from another thread in this forum, just to share my exp

"Putting out sort of an ad to ppl out there. Looking for like minded gamers out there to play wow together. I started wow 2 years ago, as a total noob. Along the way I met a nice raid leader who was nurturing enough to guide me learning the ropes of wow, thought at a very demanding pace. I was up for the challenge, and in fact, I was actually hooked to the game, so spending effort on it was not a problem. 2 years passed, I am still playing the game and enjoying it.

So in the coming few weeks before expansion hit, I am willing to contribute back to the wow community, I am willing to guide and assist new or returning players in wow, but of course you in return must show your effort as well. High commitment to the game is necessary, of course, passion towards the game will help. 2 years ago I leveled a rogue to 90, being new to game, wanted to try out playing with other ppl instead of just playing single player mode. I wanted to join raid, but nobody wanted my rogue. The raid leader I mentioned earlier came to me and told me he wanted a healer, a holy priest specifically. Wanted to belong to a group, I leveled a new priest from lvl 1-90 in 9 days. After that, I spent weeks learning how to use it, and over the course of 9 months, I was finally able to say I was a decent priest healer. During that 9 months I averaged bout 10-12 hours a day in wow (yes, I was just staying at home for 9 whole months). Of course I do not expect many out there to have the same level of dedication as me (thought I do know a few does). But effort is a must especially for newcomers.

Currently in transition stage, many things can be done much faster. You can level up a toon 1-60 with raf buff in 4 hours. So instead of taking 9 days, one could hit lvl 90 much faster now. Once you hit 90 with item level about 450, you can power grind the toon to get to ilvl 570 in maybe 120 hours game time. So if in hard core mode, average 18 hours of game time a day (done that before, in fact for a continuous 20 days stretch, food in front of computer, minimal toilet break and shower once every 2 days), that can be done in roughly a week, and you can join mythic soo the very next week. Since there's two more weeks, you can probably cut the game time to half of that, say 9 hours per day on wow.

In fact, for the coming expansion, I will be taking caffeine pills so that I can average out 20 hours log on time per day (if server does not bar me from login due to full population). So, anyone who feels they have about the same level of passion for the game, do contact me and I will extend my hand to my best ability."

Started WoW in Nov 2013 until now. Blizzard's Game fanboy since the playing Diablo in 1997, played everything except the Warcraft Universe (maybe a little Warcraft 2 & 3 but not that into it) mostly focus on Diablo & Starcraft Universe, then it was during the Hearthstone Beta i decided get into WoW lore & universe so decide to purchase the then USD9.99 panda promo edition.

Started in Gundrak Server at first, with recommendation from players here in WoW LYN, played a Belf pally up until level 20, friendly guild (AR), then the ganking started, since i'm the type that dislike conflicts and calling for help from senior guild members, i decide to start fresh in a much more peaceful RP server. Choose Wyrmrest Accord Server, been there ever since, two 90's toon (main toon is pally and 2nd is hunter) and hoping a 3rd 90's on the way (currently 60+ Frost Mage).

Started my own personal guild with all my character in it, mainly because the one thing i enjoy the most is transmogrifying my toons, own guild means i can design and re-design the guild tabard to match the mog

Geared up with BG and Timeless gears only since raiding is not much an option for me, a noob which nobody wants to carry since mostly Raid team need players that know the fight (i understand that, no prob). Done all raids from Classic to Cata which is soloable in 5.4 (with Cata raids soloable recently after 6.0, xcept for that %$#@#$ baradin hold Alizabal).

And today marks the first time i will experience the wait and anticipation of a WoW official expansion (since Panda was the first WoW for me). From what i heard it will be the usual like any MMO game that goes to expansion upgrade...bugs...server restart and etc.

1st thing in WoD? well for me it will be the Garrison, then level main and 2nd toon to 100, and after that, this time...que for raids since everyone is new..

See you guys in WoW WoD..

Am anticipating the release of original WoW. do all i can to get a copy of it. at the end get slaughtered by this cybercafe in penang selling me at rm350. got my copy, started a dwarf hunter, loved it all the way to 50 and started to hate it, why? its not cheap being a hunter and being a noob at the same time, didnt get my mount until im 54. at the end stopped playing while the first BG released cause always playing alone during our day time, can only dungeon at around 3am our time, bad for work. stopped

Back during the Burning Crusade xpack, getting more and more exposure, manage to join in a public Gruul run, was fun going in waiting 1 hour for the leader to explain and organise stuff and ppl start leaving after 2 wipes. Also experienced my first "town invasion" the night before my first oveseas trip with my gf (now wife). Guess what happened the next morning? sleeping all the way to bali lol.

WotLK is less fun after i convince some of my friends to join in, as a tank, ever been questioned that your dps is too low? while the damn stupid faks dps just blast away? did some raiding during this time, manage to down lich king only after 2 buffs. been going back home early from work on thursdays and fridays to raid.

Cata, raged over my job and quit without another costs me too much. played the whole expansion full time. raided until 10HM.....i forgot the numbers but the last we manage to clear before the boss nerfs comes in is the stage behind the dragons back. thats the best we went until we got dissolved due to bad leadership. stopped before panda until i got a job

panda, i came back only during the last patch, didnt play much, some simple LFR here and there, not even going all out. subscription still on but not playing at all

results? all class up to panda level, is that 90? yes, all 11 classes
and a f***ed up resume that has 1.5 years missing from it

Since this is suppose to be a nostalgia thread. I post some pics in the Wodnet day

Note: im a great supporter of blizzard games, and i am by no means to promote private server play, but i do believe private server play a part in allowing people to try the game, especially back in the days when the cost of entry is very high.

Most of the mate back then lost contact alrady