{"id":1734,"date":"2011-04-03T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2011-04-03T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T04:15:13","slug":"day-03-your-first-day-playing-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/day-03-your-first-day-playing-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 03 \u2013 Your First Day Playing WoW"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of Saga\u2019s 20 Days of WoW Blogging Challenge<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

Day 03 \u2013 Your First Day Playing WoW<\/strong><\/p>\n

What’s funny about this is I kind of have two “first days” of playing WoW. Somehow, before I went out and bought a copy, I had found an online copy of WoW with a private server attached. Of course, I had absolutely no idea what a private server was, no idea what I was doing. I just followed the instructions with the download and found myself at the character creation screen.<\/p>\n

I created a human male warrior and then logged in to the world.<\/p>\n

So there I am, level 1, standing in Elwynn, completely amazed at the graphics and level of detail and everything.<\/p>\n

And then I decided to go exploring.<\/p>\n

There weren’t any NPCs, no mobs, not a soul. It was crazy. I ran, I actually RAN, from Elwynn, over to Redridge, up through Burning Steppes and then I saw Blackrock Mountain.<\/p>\n

I went into Blackrock Mountain from the south side and I have this very strong memory of running up the spiraling ramp and running up and down the chains.<\/p>\n

But, there was no one there. At all. It then dawned on me that I was on a local server, not an online server, so I went digging around and discovered I needed to buy the game to connect to the real game servers.<\/p>\n

It was over Canadian Thanksgiving that I did so, so that’s mid-October of 2005, and showed my brother the game. I had elected to roll a male night elf hunter, because I was trying to keep a low profile. As a woman, I’ve been harrassed a LOT in online communities by creepy guys, so I was prepared for that happening and decided to fly under the radar with a male night elf.<\/p>\n

So my first day of playing WoW for real was me running around Aldrassil and Shadowglen, playing like a scrub. I’d shoot something once, it would come at me, another autoshot might get off and then I’d melee the mob down. Somewhere in all of this, I convinced my brother to start playing and he quickly went out and bought the game and rolled a druid. (He beat me to 60.)<\/p>\n

My first real day of WoW play was pretty awesome. I loved dinging. I knew I wanted to do more of it. I really felt like a hunter, too, stalking my prey. I had no idea what it meant that a mob was red or yellow or green to me (both in terms of friendliness and level) and I was constantly getting lost by the spider tunnels.<\/p>\n

I also remember that Shadowmeld got a lot of use from me right from the start and I was SO sad that I couldn’t move while stealthed!<\/p>\n

Honestly, though, what I remember most about my first day of playing WoW is how gorgeous Aldrassil was. This lush, green place, a huge tree… it was really amazing. I was blown away by the graphics and I loved running around Shadowglen. And jumping. I loved (and still love!) the male night elf jump. Somersaults!<\/p>\n

Yesterday \u2013 Why You Decided to Start a Blog<\/a>
\nTomorrow \u2013 Your best WoW memory<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of Saga\u2019s 20 Days of WoW Blogging Challenge! Day 03 \u2013 Your First Day Playing WoW What’s funny about this is I kind of have two “first days” of playing WoW. Somehow, before I went out and bought a copy, I had found an online copy of WoW with a private […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,71,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20-days-challenge","category-blogging","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}