User:Yugure

I am known by many different characters, originally across several servers. This page shall act as a dumping ground of a variety of random facts about me.

Guilds
I've been in a number of guilds throughout my time in this game. Although I cannot recall any particular guilds on my first character, a rogue, I do recall everything since then.
 * Starting at level 3, my druid was a member of The Crimson Watchtower.
 * At 18, I left that guild, as no one ever spoke.
 * I remained unguilded until 26.
 * At 26, while speaking to the reagent vendor in Darnassus by the Temple of the Moon, I was approached by Tristantia, co-GM of Reverentia Aeternitas. She asked why I was unguilded, then offered an invitation to her guild. As guild invitations were bugged at the time, she told me that she would try again the next day. Sure enough, she did and I became a member of a guild that did raiding, roleplaying, PvP, and anything else that may entertain its members.
 * By 45, the guild was starting to die. Tristantio, the other GM, had a fight with Tristantia. The two of them broke up, if I recall correctly, and neither one came online much. Many members left and much of it fell apart. I left during one quiet afternoon when only one other person was online.
 * At 46, I was reading General in Stormwind and saw an advertisement for a roleplaying guild. I spoke with the person and signed the charter for Warders of Antaril. We had various RP events.
 * At 48, Warders of Antaril reformed as Order of the Silver Fire. I was temporarily GM of Warders of Antaril while the new one was finalised.
 * By 52, Order of the Silver Fire wasn't doing too well. At this time, I met a similarly levelled rogue named Gheta in Un'goro. We started talking and he offered me a position in his guild, of which he was an officer. After much internal debate, I left my roleplaying guild and joined The Cordial Blade. I met Aphieleon (human paladin), Kaapsemeisie (night elf hunter), Arcanest (human mage), Daur (gnome rogue), and others there.
 * At 58, while in LBRS, Aphieleon had a disagreement with the GM, Paladore. A piece of shaman loot had dropped from trash mobs. Aphieleon wanted the item, as it was an upgrade over his current plate piece, but Paladore decided to have it disenchanted instead. This sparked an argument that ended with Aphieleon being demoted. Having had enough of the poor decisions of the GM and his pet officer, Starstalker, every aforementioned person and I quit the guild.
 * Days later, we refugees of The Cordial Blade reformed as Team LuXury, a temporary guild while we sought out a new home.
 * At 60 and during the Scourge Invasion of '06, a friend of Aphieleon, Christopher, had spoken kindly of us to the GM of Tears of Elune, a roleplaying and raiding guild. All of us were accepted into the guild.
 * The GM of Tears of Elune, Lorandir, became fed up with everything and snapped. He disbanded the guild.
 * We reformed as The Tears of Elune while we figured out a new name for ourselves.
 * Having long stopped being mostly about night elves, it was decided that the guild would be named simply Tears.
 * Guild leadership issues hurt Tears considerably. Disagreements with our raiding alliance members, Rooks and The Hidden Palm, broke out. We went through several GMs in a short period. Ultimately Tears died.
 * Members of Tears scatter all over the server. Many of us ended up in Rooks and The Hidden Palm. Aphieleon wasn't allowed into Rooks due to previous disputes while in Tears. Kaapsemeisie joined, but later left.
 * In May 2007 and long since at 70, Kaapsemeisie transfers to Shattered Hand. After much begging, she convinces me to transfer my druid to that server. Meanwhile, my low level shaman stays in Rooks.
 * On Shattered Hand, I am a member of Destruction. I earned the respect of the mages and warlocks in the guild when they saw that I consistently did more damage than anyone else.
 * Due to drama on Shattered Hand, I play my shaman more and more. Eventually I play him exclusively. In August 2007, my druid comes back home to Twisting Nether and resumes membership of Rooks. By this time, my shaman was 70.
 * In December 2007, I become an officer of Rooks.
 * When drama and hatred for PvP become a bit much, I made a blood elf paladin on Moon Guard in February 2008. I went to that server because it was said to have the best roleplaying of all of the servers. Even better in my eyes, there would be no ganking unless I was foolish enough to flag myself. My Alliance characters continue to be members of Rooks.
 * At 18, my paladin joins Apple Grass, after seeing advertisements for it by Célie in GuildRecruitment.
 * My druid is transferred to Moon Guard. My shaman remains in Rooks on Twisting Nether.
 * At 60, my latency becomes so bad that I have to quit the game for a month. Upon my return, I focus on my Alliance characters first and find that Rooks is in terrible shape at this point.
 * I leave Apple Grass while no one is around, having come to feel that few would remember me or care that I was back. Célie was also no longer GM of the guild, having since gone to a person with whom I had issues at the time.
 * At 64, Apple Grass members and Célie notice that I'm around again. I'm dragged back into the guild.
 * At 68, the guild finally has its dying breaths. I leave. Many follow suit soon after.
 * My shaman and human paladin are transferred to Moon Guard, leaving Rooks behind. As the guild had largely fallen apart to the point that few even spoke in guild chat anymore, I left without saying a word.
 * At 70, I join Burning Tusk Tribe. I am a member for two weeks, but eventually find that the guild is not for me.
 * I join Kinsmen at the recommendation of Iosephus. Several other former Apple Grass members join as well. The guild does not go well and has major issues, of which Iosephus knew nothing during his recommendation.
 * I leave Kinsmen and join Emprise. That guild goes poorly as well. Few members. Unfulfilled promises. I leave that guild a few weeks later.
 * At the behest of several former Apple Grass members, I apply to Iron Dragon. I am declined. Most of the others get in, however.
 * In early September 2008, I am told to apply again, as the raid leader really wanted a reliable retribution paladin. I am accepted and become an initiate of Iron Dragon.
 * I am made a member of Iron Dragon in October finally.

Characters
These characters are listed in the order of creation.

Qaitakalnin
This is my first character. Being entirely unsure of whether or not I wanted a caster or melee, I finally decided on melee. Being able to stealth sounded interesting, so I pursued this option for a while. This character got to level 20 before I lost interest in the game and quit.

Qaitakalnin is a Siberian guardian spirit. 

Beornulf
Going away to college, I found myself with a lot of free time. I reactivated my account and reconsidered everything that I had done as a rogue. I liked being able to stealth and I understood the night elf starting area fairly well, so I decided to make a druid. I also decided to pursue something different for a server and reached the conclusion to try an RP-PvP server. It sounded interesting. Twisting Nether was the server that came up. I liked the name and made Beornulf there.

I experienced many things on this character. It was here that I realised just how big the world really was. I knew the tiny night elf starting area as well as Darkshore. I learned to zoom out shortly after reaching the mainland and was shocked to see how big everything was. At this time, I didn't even know where the other Alliance races were. Simply seeing the dwarf NPCs in Darkshore was neat enough!

It was on this character that I learned that balance druids were not accepted. I fought against constant disdain for what I specced. I was often told to respec to something "useful". Despite this, I pressed on and made a name for myself. In these early days, I could count on one hand how many balance druids were on the Alliance side of the server. Eventually getting a bit bored with balance, Beornulf was respecced to feral for several months before the Burning Crusade came out. I was met with even more resistance then.

During his peak, I got to see Molten Core, Onyxia's Lair, Zul'Gurub, Blackwing Lair, Naxxramas, and the world dragons. Later, during the Burning Crusade, I saw Karazhan and Gruul's Lair for the first time.

For RP purposes, he's always been a bit of a loner. His family was no longer alive and he sought to gain the power that would allow him to defend his loved ones in the future. He constantly tugged on his gloves and sleeves in order to make sure that his arms were covered at all times, lest it be discovered that he cut himself.

His last name was sadly lost during one of the periods where I didn't play him as much. I'm not sure why I can't find any documentation, but I'll keep him without a last name, as I feel that nothing else would do justice.

Beornulf is Old English for warrior wolf. 

Shealc
When Burning Crusade came out, I was very interested in how shamans worked. Having been in love with balance druids, I really wanted to know how they compared to elemental shamans.

Initially being levelled as elemental, I found that it was nearly impossible to cast. Already I found a fault with the class, especially with the lack of any meaningful crowd control. I rapidly respecced enhancement and moved through Azeroth quickly. Upon hitting Outland and getting some new gear, I went back to elemental. He hit 70 on July 26, 2007, and became my main.

As elemental, he participated in Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, SSC, and Magtheridon's Lair. Having grown tired of elemental after many months of being top DPS (but slowly falling behind destruction warlocks), I respecced to restoration. My first time healing as a healing spec was in Tempest Keep as the main healer for the melee in the Void Reaver fight. To say that I was nervous was an understatement. After that I healed every raid instance in which I had previously DPSed. I eventualy got to solo heal Karazhan a few times.

Shealc is a respelling of Old English scealc (pronounced the same), meaning servant, retainer, soldier, subject. The idea was that he served the elements. 

Seaxulf (later Thryth)
While playing my shaman, I decided that I wanted to have experience with all of the hybrids. When my shaman was entering Outland, I made the paladin known as Seaxulf. I had made paladins in the past, but never found them very interesting. By the same measure, I also never pushed myself to play one until more abilities became available. Having fallen in love with the draenei starting area, I made a draenei paladin and levelled him into his early twenties. I found that I hated the animations for two-handers—odd, considering that my shaman did that until 41—and promptly deleted the character. I remade him as a human and progressed much better.

Unlike Shealc, Seaxulf was never a serious project. I didn't intend him to become my main or even become a raiding character. I levelled him here and there when I didn't have anything important to do on my shaman. People would often ask me to tank, but I had no desire to tank, having done that on my druid pre-BC. While in Sunken Temple, however, my group suddenly lost its tank and I was the only person capable of doing it. One of our casters also dropped the group, leaving me with a holy priest and a shadow priest. Much to my amazement, we cleared the instance with just us three at the proper level for the instance. It's one of my crowning glories on this character.

I eventually fell in love with the Scarlet Crusade, so my character became a Scarlet Crusader for his RP. As Twisting Nether never had any RP by this point, this was something that was kept largely secret. I gathered gear for the role, often farming Scarlet Monastery for the right pieces. Having the shield, I found myself lacking a proper weapon. One day, while playing my shaman in a remote part of the world, I was told that Foror's Compendium of Dragon Slaying was available on the auction house for 200g. I immediately purchased this. I had the related sword within a week. The Quel'Serrar has been his RP sword since then.

When transferred to Moon Guard in May 2008, the name was already taken by my newer paladin, so the character was renamed Thryth.

In Old English, a seax is a type of short sword, while ulf is simply wolf. Thryth is also Old English for strength, might, power, force; glory, splendour, majesty. 

Seaxulf

 * Read more about his roleplaying background...

This version of Seaxulf, made when my human Seaxulf was just entering Outland, was my attempt at fleeing the horror of PvP servers and their associated inability to type. I was also burning out on raiding a bit, so I went back to my roleplaying roots. Wanting to be even more different, I chose to play as Horde. I had played Horde a few times in the past, but never seriously and never for long.

Already having played a paladin and knowing retribution rather well, I made this character a protection paladin. Although I switched back to retribution periodically in my boredom or when my gear just didn't allow me to kill things as protection, I did ultimately return to protection every time. The majority of my time on the way to Outland was as protection. I tanked often, especially pre-40.

My oddest memory on this character was being grouped with my GM, a holy priest. Moon Guard had a tank shortage, so any group of mine should have filled quickly, especially with a healer already being in the group. This would be wrong. We wanted to go to Scarlet Monastery Cathedral, but we couldn't find any DPS classes to help us. We were in LookingForGroup for two hours. It got to the point that higher level players, looking for their own groups, would yell at the rest of the channel to help us.

Upon hitting Outland, I found that my latency was becoming unbearably bad. I couldn't tank anymore, as I was getting disconnected often. It got to the point that I couldn't even solo very well. Eventually this forced me to close my account for a time. Upon my return, I respecced to retribution and sped along.

After months of being retribution and fighting to be allowed into groups, I finally got into a guild that accepted me for my spec and actually wanted me present at raids. Later, in the lull before Wrath of the Lich King, I respecced back to protection and stayed as such. Most of my retribution gear was sold on November 8, 2008. 

Halignes
After I fulfilled my desire to have a 70 of each hybrid class, I turned my attention to the priest class. It was essentially a hybrid as far as I was concerned and the class had always proven too annoying to level, so it became a target for me. Partnered with a friend, we both made priests, one holy and one shadow. We worked together and got to 33.

Shortly after getting that far, the friend and I stopped playing together. The priest has not been levelled since.

Halignes is Old English for holiness. 

Tosleetan
This character was made when I reached the conclusion that I wanted to tank, but had no faith in either death knights (having been nerfed into uselessness on the beta) or paladins. I attempted to level this character quickly, but it didn't go well. I didn't like how rage or the stance system worked, finding it too different from when my druid was feral and often in bear form.

After paladins received several positive changes on the Lich King beta, I paused on levelling and focused on Seaxulf again. This character hit 36 and hasn't moved since.

Tosleetan is a respelling of Old English toslitan (same pronunciation), meaning rend, sunder. 

Nydgenga
There were many times where I doubted that I would ever make a death knight. During a period of time on the beta, the class was nerfed so hard that I just couldn't play it anymore. I lost faith in Blizzard to be able to make the class good again, having been burned so many times in the past with my hybrids. At the same time, paladins were suddenly becoming good and viable. Many of the glaring issues were being fixed.

Amazingly enough, the class was largely fixed. The damage was no longer entirely pathetic. It was fun to play again. My faith was restored.

On the beta, I got my death knight to level 73. I enjoyed every minute of it. While I was certain that I would make one on the release day, I was becoming increasingly attached to my paladin. Tanking as a paladin was amazingly fun. The mana problems were largely gone. I had actual attacks to use, instead of relying on seals and judging. And then, in the cries that retribution paladins were overpowered, every single seal and judgement was nerfed. Retribution was gutted in several places. Protection couldn't generate as much threat anymore. Holy could barely solo. At that point, I lost the last bit of hope that I had for hybrid classes and have since focused on my death knight.

Nydgenga is an unholy tank. On November 11, 2008, the  raid leader made me offtank for group one of our ten man raids. I was one of the first death knights to 80, as well as one of the earlier people to be 80 in general.

Nydgenga is Old English for wretched wanderer.