It’s arena tournament time! Well technically it’s arena practise time but whatever, you can spend the time until things get official dressing your character in all the things you wish you really owned. Duel some persistent yet curiously cowardly mages outside Stormwind, try out other classes, run about spamming owl macros, whatever tickles your pickle. You could even do some arena, though I hear that’s a controversial approach.

Playing enough ranked games nets you a cool non-combat pet, but actually being good at it could get you a title. If there’s a reason for not taking part (*cough* apart from the £12 entry fee *cough*), I just can’t think of it. Look out for Shootygoose,Holygoose and Hittygoose!

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Oh yes, and if you’ve forgotten how to turn off the annoying newbie popups, it’s in your interface menu under “help”. Don’t spend 2 days looking for it like a certain priest did.

An easy one for you this week! I remember when I first heard about WoW. I’d been living like a student for a couple of years despite working and hadn’t had internet, so I was completely out of the loop when a friend mentioned he was getting it. I yelled at him not to be silly, because at the time he was working 12 hour days and I worried he’d have a nervous breakdown.

Of course after the first night of sitting in his bedroom calling out instructions from the manual while he, like a typical bloke, dived straight in and then found he didn’t know how to make his character sit down, I was officially counting the days until I could get my hands on some internet and join him. A few months later, in Summer 2006, my first character was born (and then crashed in IF never to be seen again.

Anyway! The upshot of this rambling is that I want to know how did you get into this game? Do you have bragging rights because you knew about it since Beta, or did your husband hassle you to join to avoid wife aggro?

If your partner is to blame, feel free to leave a comment and let us know whether you’re male or female. I think it’ll be interesting to see just how many girls get their man into WoW rather than the usual.

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