Well after coming back to WoW and having to learn what changed in my class and spec (Prot) I decided to make a change of my own.

Kami is now and forever a male. I use to think Pally armor only looked good on female toons but after seeing some people running around Dalaran I noticed hwo well it looked on the males. I also changed the hair color and style to be more on par with my other toons. I am hoping to actually get some new gear in the future but my T4, T5 and BoJ gear from before WotLK is serving me pretty well.

I don’t know where I want to level yet. I like both of the story lines for Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra. I was thinking of running Kami through HF and running Zan through BT. That was I get to enjoy both the story lines.

For now all I will say is I love just taking my time and enjoying the game again. I haven’t decided if I will want to raid again. I felt very overwhelmed most nights and had a few night without sleep because of raid bosses. But we will see, as I am still shy of level 80.

I saw blog description that got me thinking.

How long have I been playing MMORPGs?

Well it all started for me in1991 with AOLs Neverwinter Nights. I was 13 then and thought that the game was really cool. No body else at my school was playing it so it made the game special to me. Everyone else was playing Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis. I still like the old console games but I think this was the time I realized MMORPGs would always have a special place in my heart.

I played AOL-NWN until 1996 when I joined the military then I didn’t play any games for about a year. I was in Italy in 1997 and heard from a friend in the US that this game Everquest was all the rage. Well not being able to have my own internet in the dorms overseas, I had to wait until 1999 when I came back to the US to play MMORPGs. So during the time I played any and all table-top games I could find a group for. In 1999 I got my first computer and bought EQ and I think it was the first expansion, I loved the game alot.

In 2000 I moved to South Korea and still played EQ. Some of the people I worked with were going to play a game called Asheron’s Call. So I decided to take a break from EQ and play AC instead. That was a fun year of drinking, game playing and deployments.

I went back to Italy after Korea and still played AC. I got back into EQ when a friend told me abotu the game and how things had changed over the past year. So I would play AC and EQ on alternating days. When out of the blue Shadowbane was the flavor of the month. I had never participated in any PvP before and foudn the game very interesting. So I stopped playing AC and EQ and started playing Shadowbane. I kept playing SB even after I came back to the US in 2003.

I started playing City of Heroes in 2004 when my sister told me about it. So I was playing SB and CoH on alternating days. It was fun and enjoyable to have a distration like that. Some where in there I tried to play SWG but that game was to blah for me. I moved from CoH to CoV when it came out.

A guy I worked with, Tenryuu, was playing World of Warcraft since I came out and he told me how much fun it was. So I stopped playing anyother game I had and started playing WoW in 2006. It was then that I found my love of blogging.

So in the end I can say I have been playing MMORPGs for almost around 15 years, that equates to over half of my life. And what a good time it has been!.!

Well I knew I couldn’t stay away from playing World of Warcraft. I finally decided that although I am infinitely opposed to grinding reputation I still like playing the game. 

So after months of not being online I was shocked to see the changes to Protection Paladins. I was in whisper mode with my friends Tenryuu and Chiryuko. It was great talking to them again. 

I did some research on Prot Specs and found that when I was looking at the new talents I already figured out what to do. The only difference between what I thought for a spec and what the “norm” is was just 1 point. 

I made it to Northrend and began to dump all my old raid quests. I picked up the first 4 on the island and spent the rest my time fixing my buttons. I am wanting to get SpartanUI again, but I haven’t even checked to see if it is being updated. 

I did make a Dwarf Death Knight on Etrigg. I did it to play the game with my sister and a very close friend. I didn’t feel like grinding levels so I figure I would just jump to 55. Yes, I know I am just being lazy.

Other then that I find very little about the other games I have played that keep me interested for more than 5 minutes. At least with WoW I can hang out with friends and family.