An Elitist Casual

About Me

I am a self proclaimed elitist casual. If you’ve read at least Part 1 of the series, you’ll understand what I say when I’m using my elitist energies to reach out to others like me.

In WoW, I’ve been frustrated by social casual guilds. I’ve lead a serious casual guild focused on progression. I’ve climbed the hard-core ladder.

In my past, a game called Dragonrealms honed my love of MMORPG’s. My most recognizable online persona is likely “Easttuth”, a name which I’ve used for characters off and on in nearly every MMORPG imaginable.

Everquest - Easttuth the server 2^nd max-level enchanter on Fennin Ro (Dragoons of Asterlazindril, Seekers of Norrath, Silvan Rangers… anyone?). I sold jewelcrafting pieces such as the high demand “Sapphire Necklace, Ruby Ring, and Ruby Earring” for exorbitant process on EBay before IGN was born.

Asheron’s Call – Easttuth the tri-spec mage on Thistledown, 2^nd in command to Mythrandia if anyone remembers him. Well Mythrandia turned out to be a douchebag, but that’s another story. SplitPea ruined the spell research game, and just as I had broken 80% of my seed myself, and I was well into my 6^th rank spells at that point. The countless hours I spent building that spreadsheet.. oh the agony of having a little program tell me all my taper combinations at the drop of a hat. Easttuth lurked around at the bottom of dungeons farming timed bosses for high value drops… to sell on EBay. I actually sat on my ass in my apartment for months on end doing that. Wow.

Anarchy Online – Easttuth the diplomat or whattheheckever, played long enough to figure out that after a bugged death I looted duplicates of bags I already owned out of a recovery machine, and figured out how to duplicate items using said bags. Flying around in my 14 mil credit “Flight of the Navigator” machine and selling tokens by the hundreds on EBay was cool until the account was banned.

Dark Age of Camelot – Easttuth the server 2^nd max level Healer on Percival. This started my graphical multiboxing days (Healer/SM/RM/Sham). I’d sit in AG in Emain Macha spamming 4 different AE’s on the door flattening anyone that tried to run through. Single-handedly clearing the Goborchend spawns after that damn Rune of Mana or whatever the overpowered as hell ability was that came out with ToA. Good times in that game with Sargen, Bombarta and the crew from Twilight Mourning, Fist of the North, etc.

Lineage 2 – Solo 5-boxed Giants Cave and above. First max rank clan and leader of first official clan alliance on Erica. I quit before any expansions, the game got too boring too fast.

World of Warcraft - Well, that brings us to WoW. I just dinged 30 IRL, have a wife, 2 kids, and a great career. I am a frustrated gamer that’s been burned by bum leadership and broken committments, and I’m just a little too good for the time I spend playing. You wouldn’t believe how much it pisses off 16-hour-a-day players to be beaten in the DK leveling game (Mine’s Ghouldan, first Alliance DK to 80 on Korgath) by a casual that took off 3 days of work specifically because he wanted to accomplish something he’d never done before. (Guess what guys, it’ll happen again with the next hero class. You are not prepared.) And then the same DK with worse gear and a support spec mathematically proven to be sub-par DPS beats ¾ of the guild DPS’ers on single-target boss fights in his first Naxx raid ever.

It really, really, pisses them off, especially when he rerolled from the most skilled PVE Resto Shaman in the guild (Kotton, you were already on pally, stfu).

Well, now you know more of my story (and my ego) than is healthy for you. If you are still reading this out of hate, then try for once in your life acting like an adult and start up a conversation so we can work it out chika-boom style. If you are reading out of love, then I love you too (you know who you are). If you are just eerily enthralled, then drop by again soon. Maybe we can do lunch.

-          An Elitist Casual

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