World of Warcraft Guild

October 23, 2005 7:40 PM

A recent thread on something that happened on World of Warcraft led me to realize we probably have ... quite a few (?) players here on mefi. Anyone up for the idea of creating characters and a guild on a specific server? Please ignore this post if you are not interested.
posted by beth to MetaFilter Gatherings at 7:40 PM (82 comments total)

Try here and here. Perhaps you should send EB an email?
posted by onalark at 7:45 PM on October 23, 2005

hmm... are the Mefi guilds on Shadowsong still around? Most of my characters are on Blackhand, but I'd be willing to roll another alt.
posted by The Pusher Robot at 8:00 PM on October 23, 2005

Dorks.

Please ignore this post if you are not interested.

(sorry)
posted by Kwantsar at 8:14 PM on October 23, 2005

Yes, I am a dork.

See also.
posted by The Pusher Robot at 8:17 PM on October 23, 2005

Yeah I'd love to, actually. But I'm a cold newb without a clue.

How do I:

1) download the game
2) get started and not hate it for 3 months because I suck so bad and get raped killed & robbed constantly by more experienced players
3) find y'all up in all that nonsense?

I bought Warcraft 3 a while back. But that's probably completely irrelevant, right?
posted by scarabic at 8:20 PM on October 23, 2005

NEEEEEEEEEEERDS!!!

I love nerds.
posted by loquacious at 8:21 PM on October 23, 2005

Yeah, nerds and dorks. Jesus.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:21 PM on October 23, 2005

The guild we started before is dormant, it looks like. I'd be happy to be involved in starting another one with a bunch of people. I suggested the server I did back then because no one was currently on it, in the interest of fairness, but in retrospect it seems to me that it might be better for someone to have at least one high-level character on the server.

I'd not played for months, but the last couple of weeks I've taken my 38 Priest to 42.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 9:25 PM on October 23, 2005

Metafilter: The guild we started before is dormant.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:26 PM on October 23, 2005

scarabic: the funny thing about WoW is that the first three months (or at least the first month) is pure fucking honeymoon. Blizzard has packed the early levels so full of good sweet grind-free wonderment that you find yourself kind of disappointed when you hit level 16 and have to start, like, trying.

As for how you start: you pays your fitty bucks, you takes home a box. Or you find a friend who is geographically local who can lend you his CDs and a Guest Pass code (the latter of which you can get from us nerds on MeFi if your friend-with-cds doesn't have one) and you install and start up your ten day trial.

It is the crackiest of crack, however, being less flawed and more friendly from a casual player's perspective than any previous fantasy hack-and-slash MMORPG. You may well die. Or at least keep playing after your 10 day guest trial expires.

cenarion circle rules your asses
posted by cortex at 9:37 PM on October 23, 2005

Seriously, you start a horde group on Cenarion Circle and I've got a crew of five or six level 30+ zombies who can give you a helping hand when you're starting out.
posted by cortex at 9:38 PM on October 23, 2005

"I imagine being a government contract killer MMORPG fantasy hacker-and-slasher who has taken an active role in an illegal and immoral invasion and occupation must be somewhat stressful. The poor - dears. My heart is struggling real hard to bleed here"
posted by mullacc at 10:01 PM on October 23, 2005

I'm a +77 mage on the Mildew server and I've got another +42 level Bowel Compactor that I've been playing on the Lethargy level in the Seamstresses guild. Both of them have fire protection and squirrel nut zipper cds. I call one of them Steve and keep him under my pillow. At night, I stroke him and call him 'wiggles'.
posted by cyphill at 10:04 PM on October 23, 2005

"Seriously, you start a horde group on Cenarion Circle and I've got a crew of five or six level 30+ zombies who can give you a helping hand when you're starting out.
"

Sandy Glasser owns a cheese shop!"
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:05 PM on October 23, 2005

Wow - so I have to actually buy a physical object to enter this imaginary realm? How contradictory! But ok. Maybe I'll order it on Amazon or something.

Will someone volunteer to "sponsor" me please? I'd get a lot further toward being a worthy member of a group a lot faster with a single source for question/answer and advice. I learn damn fast, but only because I'm so good at asking questions. Anyone up?

And yes, I am a neeeeerd. Whatever that means. I think I'm also a jock, a mod, a preppie, a pornstar, and a hippie. I collect your labels like pocket lint.
posted by scarabic at 10:16 PM on October 23, 2005

I FOUND A CHAM RUNE TODAY.

Okay, has nothing to do with WoW but D2 is a Blizzard game too.

I am considering purchasing WoW for the winter months since I can not garden. My mind is not made up though.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 10:25 PM on October 23, 2005

I'll be glad to "sponsor" you, scarabic. I like you and I enjoy the game and I prefer a helpful role anyway. (That's why I play a priest.) And I just got an email form Blizzard about Recruit-a-Friend.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 10:30 PM on October 23, 2005

weretable, be a tauren. they're cows.
posted by shmegegge at 11:28 PM on October 23, 2005

Cool - I'll drop you a line when I have obtained my "-50 physical object" (bad-dum-bump-tsch!) and am ready to roll.
posted by scarabic at 12:13 AM on October 24, 2005

If anyone is interested, I've got a 10-day guest pass available. If you don't know someone who has the game that you can borrow CDs from, you can download the beta client (here, for example) and patch it to the latest version.
posted by The Pusher Robot at 12:18 AM on October 24, 2005

I've got another +42 level Bowel Compactor that I've been playing on the Lethargy level in the Seamstresses guild

I have no idea whether this is a joke or not a joke, but it makes me want to play this game.
posted by jack_mo at 6:04 AM on October 24, 2005

Both of them have fire protection and squirrel nut zipper cds.

This is truly inspired coffee-spitting material.
posted by Mid at 6:07 AM on October 24, 2005

I'll second Cenarion Circle on the Horde side. *waves at cortex* Probably have some spare bits of equipment and such kicking around in my bank as well. C'mon out and play with us!
posted by NsJen at 6:11 AM on October 24, 2005

My poor undead mage on Shadowsong wants to see some play again. Any chance we can get that guild back up and active?
posted by MsVader at 8:41 AM on October 24, 2005

The Horde mefi guild on that server was run by, um, angry_modem, wasn't it? Or am I confusing him with someone else?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:53 AM on October 24, 2005

Sorry, i have enough horde characters, and I simply can't stomach another round of leveling up in the Barrens.

But, I *did* just make my first 4 alliance guys on the brand new Cho'Gall server, if anyone wants to start an alliance guild on a brand spanking new server.
posted by emptybowl at 8:59 AM on October 24, 2005

I thought it was Stynxno.
posted by MsVader at 9:01 AM on October 24, 2005

My highest level character is on Mal'Ganis, (26 orc hunter), which has horde outnumbering alliance by something like 3:1. This is probably due to the SA Goon Squad choosing this server as their horde server...

Anyway if anyone wants to try this server I can help you out. I'm Absquatula (my alt is Merrily).

I dunno if we have enough people to make an active guild on a single server. I think people are pretty invested in their high-level characters...

On preview, emptybowl's suggestion sounds fun to me.
posted by beth at 9:02 AM on October 24, 2005

Also, if anyone wants to make an alt on Lightning's Blade and join the horde guild MsVader and I have with our friends (there's only 5 of us in the guild, i think), I'm sure I could sell the idea to our "guild leader". The only rule we have is to not be an asshat.
posted by emptybowl at 9:03 AM on October 24, 2005

I've already got a shaman on lightning blade that's been kinda shelved. I'd be willing to dust it off for a bit o playing.
The name is cubedbeef
posted by fnord at 9:05 AM on October 24, 2005

There's so many different servers and everyone's on a different one. It's frustrating. I think starting a new mefi guild (or branch of the guild) on a brand spankin' new server might be a good idea. I have noticed that the server that my main character is on, Silvermoon, is now something like 80% 50+ level characters. Which, I've found, makes playing lower level characters not as fun as it's hard to find groups for lower level instances and stuff.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 9:09 AM on October 24, 2005

Fnord, my Shaman, Boddington, will be on tonight. If you're interested, send me a tell and I'll get you an invite. That goes for anyone here. You're all welcome.

Our guild name is "Eet Mo Chikin".
posted by emptybowl at 9:10 AM on October 24, 2005

Awesome. Assuming I'm not stuck at work, I'll find ya empty.
posted by fnord at 9:38 AM on October 24, 2005

E_B, like I said, I'm perfectly willing to spearhead an alliance guild initiative on Cho'Gall if that is the will of the court.
posted by emptybowl at 9:58 AM on October 24, 2005

I'm liking the Cho'Gall alliance idea more the more I think about it, actually. I looked at some of the census data and I kind of like the idea of running around on a server where there aren't 23423423423 high-level people who can gank me. I mean, assuming I level quickly enough to keep up with the crowd.

So emptybowl, count me as one vote for that idea.
posted by beth at 10:04 AM on October 24, 2005

For future reference, here's my Cho'Gall characters:

Lameolas - NE Druid
Boddington - Human Warlock
Shortround - Gnome Warrior
Grolsch - Dwarf Priest

All of them are currently level 1, except Lameolas, who I've gotten to level 6.
posted by emptybowl at 10:37 AM on October 24, 2005

Okay, I've created a gnome warlock, Sprongle, on Cho'Gall. I've added emptybowl's characters as friends, and I'll start playing Sprongle right now and anyone else can look for me and we can hook up and maybe start getting sigs for the guild?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:46 AM on October 24, 2005

Okay, I'm running the beginning of BRD tonight with my hordie on Lightning's Blade, but I'll try to be on Cho'Gall around 9-9:30 tonight, after MsVader goes to bed. (It's better for me to play Lameolas when she's not around anyway, since she said she'll probably never forgive me for making a female Night Elf. I just don't like the way the male NE looks!) I'll work on raising the money for a Guild Charter. How much is it? 10s? (I think I have at least half of that already)

Any ideas on names? MeFighters? Or something less lame?
posted by emptybowl at 12:22 PM on October 24, 2005

I brought Strongle up to level 6 and he's in IF now.

This is a PvP server, which I've not played on before. I have no opinion yet as to how I'll enjoy PvP, but I will say that the population seems to me to be more juvenile than I'm used to. Lots of really stupid and annoying conversation on the general channel.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:56 PM on October 24, 2005

(This is where I hang my head in shame.)

I am willing to try to give this another go. After taking a break from WoW, I am back for small bouts of time. I'll roll a character on this server tonight.

But - for a guild name? "JRun Refugees of Azeroth".
posted by spinifex23 at 2:00 PM on October 24, 2005

Great guild name!

As an aside, I follow the virtual world academic/business/theory blog Terra Nova, and today they've added another academic to their roster. The entry annoucing this is funny:

The brow just keeps getting higher around here. Terra Nova's newest author, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee anthropologist Thomas Malaby, brings an agile and sophisticated understanding of modernity and its contradictions to bear on the contemporary meaning of play. From the social stakes of gambling in modern Greece (the topic of his first book, Gambling Life: Dealing in Contingency in a Greek City) to the ethical life of code in Second Life (the focus of his current, NSF-funded ethnographic research), the questions Thomas pursues -- and the answers he chases down -- light up the intersection of culture, technology, games, and chance like so many signal flares. Indeed, as I recently heard Thomas remark, while his Tauren druid and my Tauren shaman were out slaying Razormane Geomancers near Thorn Hill the other afternoon, "Die, you fat little spell-casting man-pig, die!"

Durkheim himself, I believe, could not have said it better. Please welcome Thomas Malaby.

posted by Ethereal Bligh at 2:05 PM on October 24, 2005

I like just "JRun Refugees" myself. I'll go make a character now.
posted by beth at 3:12 PM on October 24, 2005

Gah! It's *FULL*?! And I started as 187th in the queue.
posted by beth at 3:15 PM on October 24, 2005

"JRun Refugees" works for me as well.
posted by spinifex23 at 3:24 PM on October 24, 2005

Okay, I'm on there as Marble, dwarf hunter. Look me up.
posted by beth at 3:39 PM on October 24, 2005

...but I will say that the population seems to me to be more juvenile than I'm used to.

EB, where do you normally play? While WoW has been a step up from Counter-strike, I've yet to find a server without a vocal crowd of yammering idiots.

i play WoW because it feels like MeTa, btw

zing!
posted by cortex at 4:00 PM on October 24, 2005

Holy cow, you're right, beth! Cho'Gall is full right now. You know, I've never gotten that message on Silvermoon (to also answer cortex's question). I'm currently 451 in the queue and 24 minutes till I get in. Damn.

Cortex, I'm guessing that there's a difference in feel (and maturity) between the PvE and PvP servers. I'm pretty sure that I've heard that the RP servers are the most mature and well-behaved. But it stands to reason that the adolescent male crowd would be more attracted to PvP than PvE. The very frickin' annoying banter that was bugging me on the general channel on Cho'Gall was the typical posturing about which class and spec can kick ass, etc.

You know, it was reminiscent of MeTa, actually, as someone complained about the stupid chatter and why don't they take it to a private channel and the response was...wait for it: "you could unsub the general channel or ignore, jerk."

I hope some of you are on the server now. Beth, are you there? I'll add you to my friends list. Who's going to start the guild charter?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 5:54 PM on October 24, 2005

OK, I'm on.

I made a Night Elf Hunter named Stereotype. I'll even get a pet cat to drive the point home.
posted by spinifex23 at 7:25 PM on October 24, 2005

Estimated time: 28 minutes. So while I wait - hmmm ... hunter, priest, mage ... decisions, decisions ...
posted by NsJen at 7:46 PM on October 24, 2005

I'm on. Dwarf priest named Anoia.
posted by NsJen at 8:10 PM on October 24, 2005

Wow, I was gonna check in after I finished my BRD run, but the queues kicked my ass. It was up to nearly 500. Surprises me, since it wasn't like that at all over the weekend.
posted by emptybowl at 8:25 PM on October 24, 2005

Gnome mage named Blastcannon. We have a charter going yet?
posted by The Pusher Robot at 11:30 PM on October 24, 2005

I set up a priest named Hemmingway and a warlock named Snackytreat.
posted by fnord at 6:13 AM on October 25, 2005

Within minutes of me creating my NE priest (Melancholia), the general chat started in on "libruls" and "fat chicks". I made the mistake of making a comment - "What is this, Barrens chat?" to which I got the reply "yr moms barrens chat". *sigh* I didn't think anything could be worse than Barrens chat. I was wrong.
posted by MsVader at 10:05 AM on October 25, 2005

What a great idea. When I pick up WoW again, I'll look you all up.
posted by artifarce at 10:06 AM on October 25, 2005

After rereading what all of you have created, I'm thinking of maybe going warrior instead. I've only ever really played caster classes so far, so it might not be terrible to try a melee class. Maybe I'll see you guys on tonight...
posted by MsVader at 10:08 AM on October 25, 2005

Yeah, I'm on there as Marble, dwarf hunter. Do we have enough for a guild?

I'm worried about the queues... maybe this is just an initial thing, and few people will stick it out for the long haul waiting to get on... I don't know.
posted by beth at 10:18 AM on October 25, 2005

The queues aren't bad once you get into them; I used my 'queue waiting' time to clean out the fridge.

I'm assuming that most of us are in North America? If so, at least for now, we could maybe have a 'window' that at least a few of us will be on, so we can at least get the guild charter going. If MeFites know that between, say 7-10pm PST tonight others will be on Cho'Gall, they may be more willing to wait out the queue.
posted by spinifex23 at 10:35 AM on October 25, 2005

Okay, I have enough cash to get the Guild Charter, and I'm in Darnassus. Should I just buy it, and I'll start getting sigs tonight? Are we gonna use "JRun Refugees"?
posted by emptybowl at 12:11 PM on October 25, 2005

Actually, what distribution of races do we have? It might be easier for me to send the money to my human or gnome and have them buy the charter, since it's easier to get to Ironforge and Stormwind.
posted by emptybowl at 12:14 PM on October 25, 2005

I think we have about 1/3 Night Elves, which means we're stuck on our side of the world unless we make the Elf Death Run through the Wetlands to IF.

Which I might do tonight, just for yuks and giggles. And to collect flight paths.
posted by spinifex23 at 1:51 PM on October 25, 2005

Okay, my gnome Shortround is going to buy the charter. I'll be on tonight for people who want to sign.
posted by emptybowl at 2:15 PM on October 25, 2005

Also, I'm accepting donations to purchase our tabard design.
posted by emptybowl at 2:33 PM on October 25, 2005

I had planned to be on tonight, but I just went to a dr visit and picked up some scrips and I'm hurting so bad I thought I'd pass out on the way back to my car in the parking lot. I'm taking three tylenol 4s and going to bed. But I'm real excited about a new mefi guild and I hope to see you guys soon!

Also, I, ahem, bought some gold specifically to distribute between mefi guild members for the purpose solely of buying the charter and buying tabards for everyone--not for nerfing. So you might wait till I get there to give people money for buying tabards. Unless you have a philosophical objection.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 5:23 PM on October 25, 2005

Okay, I have 5 sigs so far. Hopefully I can catch up with E_B, beth and Fnord tonight or tomorrow. (Especially since I won't be able to play Fri-Mon).

Also, can we set up a message board somewhere to move this conversation to? Or even just set up a LiveJournal community or something? (Of course, that would require me to *get* a LiveJournal account, something I've long resisted...)

We still need more people if any other MeFites are interested!!!
posted by emptybowl at 5:45 AM on October 26, 2005

I caught up with you last night (snackytreat, the warlock).

I know there are more mefite gamers out there!

Can you have multiple characters sign the charter, or is it 1 signature per player?
posted by fnord at 6:03 AM on October 26, 2005

1 sig per player, unfortunately.
posted by MsVader at 6:05 AM on October 26, 2005

I'd be down for joining -- who currently has the charter, and where are you located? I'll roll a char based on that, if you need a signature to get things going. Email's in the profile.
posted by gnomeloaf at 6:39 AM on October 26, 2005

My gnome warrior, Shortround, has the charter and is currently in Ironforge. I'm gonna try to be on again tonight, but it may not be until 8:30-9pm EST, because MsVader and I still have a lot of work to do for prepare for our party this weekend. If any of you have specific times you'll be on, let me know, and I'll get on briefly so you can sign the charter.

Also, sorry, Fnord, I indeed did saw you last night. I was just thinking in my head "Haven't gotten Hemmingway's sig yet..." and I forgot that you're both characters. :P
posted by emptybowl at 8:30 AM on October 26, 2005

Damn. I should have signed as Hemmingway. Would have just made the whole thing complete.
posted by fnord at 8:42 AM on October 26, 2005

I can create the Livejournal community. I think that'd be the most painless way to communicate with each other.

My LJ, BTW, is 'meathelmet'.
posted by spinifex23 at 10:35 AM on October 26, 2005

I don't have an LJ. That would preclude me from participating in this community, yes?

I've got some web space lying around; I can put up a forum or wiki or some such, if people want.
posted by The Pusher Robot at 11:00 AM on October 26, 2005

I don't have a LJ either, but they're free, aren't they? It's just the most painless way to set something up. If you want to set up a forum, though, TPR, that's fine with me. I just wasn't sure anyone would want to go through the trouble.

What say you?
posted by emptybowl at 11:13 AM on October 26, 2005

LiveJournals are free. The paid accounts are optional.
posted by spinifex23 at 11:31 AM on October 26, 2005

'k, I'm now "thepusherrobot" on LJ.
posted by The Pusher Robot at 12:55 PM on October 26, 2005

I'm "msvader" on LJ.
posted by MsVader at 1:18 PM on October 26, 2005

Our community is made.

It is called 'jrun_refugees'.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/jrun_refugees/ is the page. Anyone can join, anyone can post, and I put 'pie' in the Interests section, because I like pie.
posted by spinifex23 at 1:26 PM on October 26, 2005

Also, I made it so that anonymous people can post, so if you don't have a LJ, you can still post.
posted by spinifex23 at 1:27 PM on October 26, 2005

Hahaha....I went to create the community and it said it was already made.

So, I guess all conversation about these things should be moved to: http://www.livejournal.com/community/jrun_refugees/
posted by emptybowl at 1:31 PM on October 26, 2005

Aaaaand...I picked the wrong week to switch to decaf.

The JRun Refugees LJ Community.
posted by spinifex23 at 1:32 PM on October 26, 2005

518 in queue on Cho'Gall, with a 25 minute wait? It's not always this bad, is it? My characters are on Stormrage -- one of the very first servers -- and I haven't seen a queue longer than 70 in months.
posted by gnomeloaf at 5:42 PM on October 26, 2005

Before I created characters on this server, I'd never seen a queue, ever.

I'm hoping this will die down soon.
posted by MsVader at 5:31 AM on October 27, 2005