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So I ended up keeping Warcraft offline from January 2005 until November of 2006. By far the longest lapse in my subscriptions. My wife and I were about to have our second anniversary, and she had said on more than one occasion that I was never to play Warcraft again. We had lived with this guy who played it all the time. Literally all day long every day. She thought this was not something I should do, and she had become convinced that this game was destined to ruin all players. So I let it rest.

But around Thanksgiving in 2006 I was bored one weekend and renewed the subscription. The expansion was looming at the time, and lots of people I knew were getting back into the game. Two friends from work and I started up new characters on a RP-PVP server getting ready for Christmas. Three Tauren Druids named Bullthazar, Calfspar, and Milkior, walked the Barrens looking for a King. We only played a few sessions but it was still remarkably entertaining (and this was not just because I had created a “/yell TELL ME, %t, HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS?” macro that I would use whenever we started a fight). When we went on the druid quests, we would sometimes encounter very high level Night Elf players, and most of the time they wouldn’t kill us. They would bow, and we would bow back. It turns out, I actually liked this game, quite a bit. Oh yeah, and another guy showed up named Beeflehem, which was an added bonus to our Christmas Story.

I learned two things in our time as the Wise Men. One: this game is more fun when you quest with friends; you level up faster and you die significantly less. Two: the priest class was not for me. While I never really liked playing a Druid, I had way more fun playing one than a low level priest. After Christmas, though, we sort of tapered off. I’d log in every now and then and use the GOOD NEWS button on NPCs, but we never played these character seriously again.

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