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A short history of Rada

The very first character i made on a server was a human paladin. Think i got her to level 8, which seemed like really far at the time. After that i made a gnome mage, which i even got to level 19. I started to think on what type of server i wanted to play on. At the time i simply picked the first recommended server Eonar. I decided to go for a roleplaying server next, with the vague idea people might take the world seriously and not simply run around through everybody. So i made a character on Steamwheedle Cartel, a rogue.

First record in the warcraftrealms character history of Rada is on July 2: a level 11 in the guild The Ace Lords II Chapter. A typical starter guild with all the drama, guildleader shifting and people coming and going all the time.

The Malvalon Gang was a real roleplaying guild, set to steal from citizens of Stormwind. It was my first introduction with rp in World of Warcraft. As a rogue i could sneak around and eavesdrop on conversations an see what other people were up to. It was kinda fun, but i wanted to level my character to, learn the game and go into instances, which the gang didn’t do at all.

The leader of the Malvalon Gang knew about this other guild which was more focused on leveling and doing other things, the Sisterhood. One morning i was in Stormwind City and saw a woman standing besides the auction house selling flowers and asking for people to join the Sisterhood. I talked to her, we had a short interview and she invited me then into the Sisterhood.

The wedding between Dynahir and LittleKrissy in Darnassus was a big event. I had to find a nice new dress – not the strongest point of a scruffy rogue – and a present for the newlyweds. After the wedding we went back to the Darkmoon Fair in Goldshire and drank beer and danced away on the stage. We also did some roleplaying adventures.

I stayed in the Sisterhood untill i was level 60, only a month before the Burning Crusade was released. I decided to start looking for a raiding guild seriously when i was level 70. This was another game! I joined Gryphon, where i worked on my Karazhan attunement and heroics to get starting gear for doing real runs.

This was so much fun! It was hard work, but the raids were challenging (yes, Kara in the beginning was hard if you had just blues and maybe one or two purples from heroics). Sadly, it didn’t last long. It’s hard to keep a raiding guild together, to build a team and find responsible, dependable people. So one morning when i logged in, i found out the guild disbanded. I joined the follow up, but nothing much came of that.

Around that time 25 man raids started to become an issue. he jump from 10 to 25 was a real struggle. When i joined Divinity i became part of the second team to go through Kara, with the intention to gear everyone up and go for Gruul first. This did take some time, people started to get impoatient and joined a further advanced guild. In the end i did the same and joined Solitude.

Solitude was serious raiding. I mean real serious raiding. We were expected to be in on time, to be prepared and fully committed. It was tough, the fights were tough. We worked on Kealthas for weeks, a phase at a time. We couldn’t run into Black Temple like you can now, you needed the attunement done, Lady Vashj and Kealthas, then Rage in Mount Hyjal. That time still is one of my favourite times from wow, it felt like such an achievement to get all this done (and a server first on Kealthas too!).

Good things don’t last though… but it’s been a good time and happy memories!

I joined the Ascended after Solitude. More on that later. I’ll leave you with my armory link, just to show of some epics and achievements: Armory Rada.

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