User:Rasoma

Me
I am a casual player of World of Warcraft - I do not have the time now to play for hours at end end each night or at the weekends. I enjoy roleplay and questing.

I took a break from World of Warcraft and deleted my main character Gawain Ravensword in late 2006 - I had reached the end of what I could do and him at the time. The character had been known as Gawain in-game and when I returned (November 2010) I created a new human paladin named Ravensword as someone had taken the name Gawain.

I am actually quite pleased that I have to start Gawain Ravensword all over again as there have been so many changes to how you play a paladin. I'm not new to online games but it does seem to me as if each and every power has changed with some being notably absent. It does seem a bit simplier to engage in combat just now.

It's also great to get a horse at only level 20 and makes me wonder how I managed to not have one until level 40 in my previous incarnation.

I have a real life, work and also a very large circle of friends in a role-play community in the virtual world of Second Life. This means that my online time in WoW is limited and that will have to be taken in to consideration when I make plans for joining a guild.

I have no plans to have a character from either of the two new races being introduced in cataclysm. I'll play one of each through the starter areas of course just to see what they are like but Ravensword is my main and I want to keep him that way.

My role-play style has changed creatly in the years I have been away. I have had the benefit of being able to create things to support role-play in Second Life and returning to a very textual and emote based role-play will actually be a great deal of fun.

I'm not a character who considers role-play is something you do after you level - role-play is something you do right from creating the character. Your in-game level means nothing and a level 10 can role-play being a great commander in character of soldiers who are a mix of characters of all levels.

During my time away from WoW I had a nervous breakdown (six months off work) and a year later I had a major illness (3 months off work). My body is still in part recovering from the illness and my state of mind is greatly different to what it was when I last played Gawain Ravensword (for the better).

I am not going to rush into anything. I want to see what the community is like so that I can then see how best to fit myself and my character within it.