Intro!

or “What’s that weird guy talking about?!”

Hello, I’m O2! Yes, like that: Oh-Two!

I’ve played RPGs since I was 12. Caught the end of the AD&D train (I know what THAC0 means…), and then I started playing D&D3e and other games. Always liked playing other characters, bashing heads in as a medieval paladin or blowing things up as a modern mage. To me, the biggest hurdle to my RPGing habits has always been finding enough players for it. I’m not an american, and my country isn’t exactly famous for its roleplaying culture. I used to play in high-school, but then I moved to a nearby town and things got a lot more difficult since then. Last year I’ve found a new group for Storyteller-based games (Werewolf, more exactly), but I still felt I missed the medieval genre I had in D&D.

So… last December I decided to go and give MMORPGs another chance. Made a new account, picked up the 10-day trial, tried out a few different classes to see how they felt now, and well… here I am! Let’s go to the part that really matters here!

Here’s what to expect from [Verb] It Up:

• Lots of talking!
• Lots of talking about Alts!
• Lots of Tanking things up!
  
• Lots of Hitting/Shooting/Blowing things up!
• Hitting/Shooting/Blowing other players up, occasionaly!
• Lots of praise to healers!
• Faction-neutral speech!
  

Explanations after the jump!

It’s all got to do with what I am, really… =P

I’m a chataholic!

I simply can’t play the game for more than two hours without having some sort of intelligent conversation. Which means I don’t have much tolerance to “lol”, “u” and “noob”…

I’m an altoholic!

I’ve got druids, paladins, warriors, hunters, warlocks, mages, shamans… well, at least one of every single class available in WoW. Sure, I can’t level a Priest or a Death Knight, but I still keep up with the news!  So you can expect plenty of variety here (as well as stuff about the half-forgotten lower levels). =D

I’m a tank!

Tanking’s always been my first love in WoW. From the time I’ve seen a video of a Warrior tanking a huge mob of… uh… mobs, while the rest of the team blasted everything to oblivion, I’ve been in love with the very concept of tanking! Done a lot of it, and I plan on keeping it up! I’ve first leveled a Paladin as Prot all the way up to level 70, mostly due to the sheer fun of AoE-grinding. Pull twenty mobs, hit Holy Shield and just watch as they pound uselessy at your armor while you regain health and mana!

But, as much as I enjoyed simply Consecrating my way to Northrend, I ended up being seduced by the Warrior class. So I’m always torn between the two plate-wearing classes, even though everybody and their grandmothers seem to have a Paladin (and a Death Knight, but I don’t like those too much) lately! Light forgive them, they don’t know what they’re doing, doing DPS with Righteous Fury on!

I’m obsessed with survivability and efficiency.

Leveled a Prot Warrior with Alchemy and Herbalism, a Prot Paladin with Mining and Herbalism, a Demonology Warlock with a full stack of Bandages around at all times… Ayup, I just hate standing still drinking/eating for 30 seconds after every fight. 8 seconds of bandaging after a particularly bad pull, and it’s back to business! Sure, I never leveled as quickly, but at least I’ve only done 10% as many corpse-runs as most players I know, and my questing paths were always really efficient!

I’m a roleplayer.

I used to play on Grizzly Hills, but for some reason it started lagging like hell. So I said “hey, to hell with it! Might as well also do something I like doing!”. So I switched to Feathermoon and created a couple (well… nine, actually) characters there. Got in contact with some really good people, haven’t looked back yet.

I’m a PvE…er?

Hey, defeating dragons and demolishing old gods for t3h lewt is epic!

I like PvP, but can’t really do it.

Too many twinks and twichy maneuvering for me to go PvP. Besides, my latency is rarely consistent, so I go from 100 to 450ms within minutes, making all that bursting-cooldowns-and-mashing-every-key-every-GCD stuff you get in PvP a bit impossible to manage. I still go on the occasional battleground from time to time, though.

I can’t heal worth a damn!

As a guy who’s tanked a lot while leveling up, I can say a good healer is the best thing in the game. Really, I love healers! But I can’t heal. Sure, I’ve tried leveling a Priest, and even got through a few good solid Scarlet Monastery runs (the tank really wanted Aegis of the Scarlet Commander, but it just wasn’t dropping). But when things get more hectic, with three or more people taking damage and needing heals… I sort of fail.

Wait, let me rephrase that: I ph4il. Haaaaard. It’s a lot easier to watch out so no one but you has their portrait lined in red than it is to make sure everybody is above 80% health at all times. Huge props to healers, they can do what I simply can’t! I can’t even imagine the catastrophe that would be me trying to heal a 10-man! Or maybe even a ::shiiiiver:: 25-man raid!

I play both Alliance and Horde.

Mostly Alliance lately, due to the fact most people I know play Alliance. But hey, if I ever find enough people playing Horde, I’ll roll yet another alt and play along! Of course, I’ll still avoid the Barrens like the plague!

~O2

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