Who Am I?

Hello all, Eldron here!

I hate writing introductions, and have given up on a decent one for this blog after my 5th or 6th attempt. Instead, I'm gonna take a few minutes to talk about who I am.

I am a level 70 Night-Elf hunter called Eldron, based on EU-Nordrassil, and am currently a member and officer of Wolf Guards, my second guild. I chose to roll a hunter after a disastrous attempt at levelling a warrior. Ardron, my first toon, did OK up until the mid-20s when it became clear that I had no idea how to play the character and that I harbored a severe dislike for Redridge Mountains as a zone to quest in (this was before Patch 2.3 when elites inhabited a large part of the zone). So, I sat my warrior down in the inn and went off to Teldrassil to play with a hunter.

Choosing a hunter was a bit of a strange choice for me. Although I have a great affinity for ranged weapons both in gaming and in real life (I once held a qualification to teach people how to shoot air rifles), the concept of having a pet was kind of off-putting for me. However, upon reading the class descriptions in the WoW manual, I decided that magic users were not for me, nor was shape-shifting. Thus, the hunter was the only class left to roll as a Night Elf, based far away from Westfall and Redridge. And so, Eldron was born.

Eldron levelled his way all the way to level 10, when he was able to tame pets. Having tamed one of the nice Nightsaber Stalkers that inhabit Teldrassil, I gave him a cutesy name, Sweetums, as the idea of a furry killing machine with a cutesy name tickled my fancy (I was alse unaware that you wouldn't be able to re-name him), and Sweetums has stayed by my side ever since.

Around level 25, I started questing with a Dranei shaman called Shikoba. After a couple of days of meeting up with him to kill things and grind XP, he asked me if I would like to join his guild. Guilds kinda scared me at that point, I was unsure of meeting people online and felt that I was better off on my own. However, Shik had been a nice player, and his description of the guild - one of mature players - made me hopeful that I wouldn't be in a guild with a bunch of little kids. So I accepted his invitation and became a member of Pride of St George.

The Pride was a great place to level and learn the game. As I had started playing WoW about 2 weeks before Burning Crusade was released, the steady rise of players from lvl 60 up to 70 inspired me to get on with my levelling and, despite one moment of insanity at level 40 that I will write about one day, I became fairly good at putting on XP and working my way upwards. At some point, a vacancy arose for an administrator for the guild's forum, a position I put myself forward for and was given. After much work to reinvigorate a lifeless forum, I was promoted to officer within the game.

As I completed my last few levels to 70, I started meeting up with fellow officers in real life, and we laid out our plans for the future of the guild. Karazhan was on the menu, and we started running lvl 70 instances and easier heroics to gear ourselves up. Finally, in December 2007, 11 months after rolling Eldron, I led our first exploration of Karazhan, downing Attumen and Moroes on our first attempt.

Progression came in Kara, sometimes easily (Big Bad Wolf), sometimes with a lot of pain (Maiden). However, frustrations began to arise. Apart from myself, no-one else seemed to be that interested in 2 raids a week to really push our progression, and attempts at getting a second raid night off the ground failed. After many weeks of pondering, I decided to look around for a new home for Eldron, a home with more regular and dedicated raiding, but not a hardcore, DKP-ruled, miss-a-raid-and-get-booted home. Wolf Guards had a pretty good reputation, and I was accepted into the guild.

I am now Hunter class-leader in the guild, as well as an occasional assistant raid leader. I split my time between Eldron (raiding ZA, SSC and TK, grinding dailies to build up his bank, skinner, leatherworker, cook and fisherman (fisherelf?)), Starbug (lvl 70 druid, JC and shard-maker), and levelling my mage, MsMage (currently lvl 65 and rising, herbalist and alchemist).

And I guess that's me!

As for this blog, it's gonna be mainly hunter-focused, with occasional thoughts on new info from the Wrath beta, and occasional druid posts, mage posts, crafting posts, leveling posts, etc. etc. etc.

I hope you enjoy this!