Ainx, Part 1

Though Ainx the Warrior's journey began in late 2005, my history with MMOs goes a couple years back. I initially started with MMOs in late 2003 when Final Fantasy XI came out. As it was my first MMO, I had no clue what to expect and there was no standard to relate to. I played FFXI for about a year. There was a lot to do in that game. I vividly remember my first run to Jeuno on my Thief with no subjob. I remember having to zone Goblin Leechers in Selbina, some idiot calling /help on Kirin and completing my Zilart missions. Though I started with a Thief, I actually played a Ranger and later a Ninja - both funded by my level 65 Thf/Whm camping Castle Oztroja's Astral Ring coffers. I remember doing Dynamis and forming a raid group for Sky with a very rudimentary DKP system. This awakening experience came to a close shortly after Chains of Promathia came out. During CoP, I was already playing World of Warcraft closed beta and spending time learning the ropes of that game. CoP wasn't really even finished, as we beat all the missions up to a point where the plot just dropped off a cliff only to be added in later (after I had already quit).

Pneumatic THF/WHM, Oztroja coffer hunting	Pneumatic RNG/NIN, slaying Kirin

On November 23, 2004 I stood outside Gamestop awaiting the midnight release of what was to become the next several years of my life. Box in hand, I rushed back home to install and start playing. Having already had a small amount of experience from the beta, I wanted to jump in and experience the whole game. My first character was Medea, a human rogue. I chose the name, because, well, I like how it sounds, and I thought a tragic Greek character would fit a rogue well (especially since there was poison involved). Several of my friends from FFXI also swapped to WoW and we decided to roll on the server Kilrogg. Later I found out that some of my real life friends were also playing on Kilrogg and we created a guild called Zenmetsu (jp: annihilation). Upon reaching level 60 and completing a few of the instances, I found out there was an even bigger dungeon called Blackrock Spire which allowed up to 40 people inside! Blackrock Spire was divided into Upper and Lower sections, with Upper being locked unless one of the group members had a special ring obtained through a quest which would open the gate. I found my way into a few of these LBRS and UBRS runs on my rogue, but quickly realized that playing a melee class such as a rogue would be detrimental to my enjoyment of WoW. For those uninitiated, melee-range classes in vanilla WoW were basically shafted on a lot of encounters due to stupid amounts of incoming damage (this trend continued into expansion packs unfortunately). I also learned that healers were in great demand and almost always guaranteed spots in raids. I promptly logged out to the character creation screen and shortly after Itada the Priest was born.

Pneumatic the Paladin, WoW Beta	Medea the Rogue, my first character

End, Part 1