It took months for me to finally complete "Dever's" Merciless Gladiator set. The pride and accomplishment I felt after spending close to 2 months here and there working at it made realize that I was pretty good at something. In World of Warcraft there is currently a type of event called arenas. Each week in order to receive points, your team must play at least 10 games, and you yourself must partake in 30% of those games. For low ranking teams usually around the 1400-1600 you might receive 200-300 points, and for the teams Dever was on I was receiving close to 500 points a week. The gear itself cost about 1200 apiece so with 5 pieces in the set, 2 months was pretty good timing. This screenshot was taken in Karazhan (A raid consisting of 10 players) all but 2 of the players in this run were real life friends, except for the character that is cropped out of this photo. It's not even earning the rewards thats the fun thing, it's doing them with your friends. Untill you've personally experienced the thrill of talking to your teammates letting them know that you've silenced the healer and now would be the perfect time to unload that DPS (Damage Per Second) they've been hiding, you could never truley understand why WoW (World of Warcraft) is as addicting as it is.
Raiding was a fun but different experience for me, it involved tremendous coordination and team work. Me and several of my friends decided that raiding was what we wanted to become good at, and formed what is known as a guild (Group of players establishing a team name to accomplish a goal). Thus "Brutality Train" was born. After raids which ended around 11:00pm we'd all get into our cars and meet up at iHop to discuss potential promotions of members, and just the overall effectiveness of our strategies. I miss those nights sometimes but it was very time consuming.
Overall learning new games such as Runescape and World of Warcraft, can be difficult even if you do have friends in the game. But after you are exposed to it for a certain amount of time it becomes almost a second nature.
Raiding was a fun but different experience for me, it involved tremendous coordination and team work. Me and several of my friends decided that raiding was what we wanted to become good at, and formed what is known as a guild (Group of players establishing a team name to accomplish a goal). Thus "Brutality Train" was born. After raids which ended around 11:00pm we'd all get into our cars and meet up at iHop to discuss potential promotions of members, and just the overall effectiveness of our strategies. I miss those nights sometimes but it was very time consuming.
Overall learning new games such as Runescape and World of Warcraft, can be difficult even if you do have friends in the game. But after you are exposed to it for a certain amount of time it becomes almost a second nature.
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