So, let me give you a little information about myself if you dont know who I am, what I do and where I come from. IRL I'm 20 years old and studying, but that's not really entertaining or funny. My name is Martin, and I'm from Denmark. I've used the internet to play games for, well I dont even really know, 7-8 years I believe. I started off with Counter-Strike like so many others. Played with my brother in some clans and had a lot of fun with that. We also played a lot (read: _A LOT_) of Diablo2. The only thing that I want to mention here is the fact that we did Clan Wars and/or Practice Clan Wars at 19:30 every night. A standard time so everyone could plan. Anyway, moving on..
I started my WoW 'life' in the open US Beta where I played a Shaman to level 20-something. After that it was the Korean open beta where I played a rogue. Then it was the closed EU beta where I played a Warlock. In the open EU beta I tried a Warlock again. When retail came, I decided to try a Druid instead. My brother went with a mage after having played a Warrior during all the beta's (except the korean one where he played a rogue like me). Back then, I was a writer for a site called DailyRush. There we had a guy whose name Ive flat out forgotten. He lived together with a guy called Goldenboy. I of course knew of Goldenboy, since I wrote about WarCraft3 for Daily Rush. Goldenboy had an idea to start a guild with some friends (Kilrogg and Midnight). The basic concept was to get invited by friends. It seems really nice in principle: Goldenboy invites a friend, this friend then invited me. We voted on a name and we ended up with 'the Lodge'. So while leveling it was basically Goldenboy as Guild Master with Kilrogg and Midnight as officers. Back then none of that mattered though since everyone was just leveling up and enjoying the retail version of WoW.
After some time, the officer staff in the Lodge needed some help handling everyday tasks. My brother, Skarr, Orinaka, Friwak and myself were promoted to officers. We started raiding with a guild called ClanGLB. This guild had a lot of members who played with Goldenboy and Kilrogg on the closed US beta. Players like Wacksteven and MrO (Renew, Dispel) are among them. We started raiding together, and we got the server first Onyxia kill! Huzzah! As time went by, our server became worse and worse. We literally had 1000+ queues that took an hour or more to get through. Eventually, Blizzard opened up for tree migration and we moved to Magtheridon on the 3rd of October 2005 (/guildinfo says 10-3-2005, no clue if its mm-dd-yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy  ). When we migrated, we thought it was a perfect time to merge our two guilds. We called ourselves GLodge, the Lodge + ClanGLB, get it? The guild master from ClanGLB, Crashie, was voted our common Guild Master. We had a rather large officer staff back then, consisting of Potemon, Farore, Zolex, Kilrogg, Goldenboy, Midnight, Skarr, Brestfloda and myself. Things went by for a while as they always did. I was still the Raid Leader as I had been since Onyxia and our first trash in Molten Core. Of course I had no idea what I was doing, but that was half the fun!
At around the time we killed Maexxna, Crashie decided to step down and stop playing. I was voted the new Guild Master by the remaining officer staff. Things went on much as they always had and then The Burning Crusade hit. As many other guilds, we of course lost a bunch of members for a number of reasons, and we had to recruit new ones at 70 and so on. If you take our Eredar Twins first kill, there were 15 people in the raid who were in GLodge before TBC. So as far as mass-replacements go it hasnt been that bad here.
Fast-pacing up to what I actually wanted to write about now.. Im a Guild Master and Raid Leader in a high-end raiding guild filled with a lot of people who've been raiding together for a very long time. Besides that, I'm a very successful Arena PvP'er. Currently Im sitting at 2666 2v2 rating, which makes me a worldwide rank5 2v2 player. I've written a guide on warrior/druid gameplay for this site as well some time ago. I've been asked how it is to be the top of both aspects of the game, and especially about being Raid Leader/Guild Master on top of that. I enjoy both aspects of the game, hence I need to find time to do both. I haven't cancelled a raid or signed out from a raid because I need to PvP, there's always going to be time for that anyway. I cope with doing both mainly because of the people I do it with. You wont find a cooler person on this earth than Souji. My guild has stuck with me for more than 3 years now, so they know what I'm about as well. They have no doubt I always try to do what's best for the guild. That also means I have very little in-guild drama to deal with. Actually, I have none at all. If there is any, whoever starts the drama just gets frozen out by the entire guild and eventually he/she just doesnt feel welcome and leave on their own. I wont hesitate to be the hard-ass Guild Master and gkick people, anyone who knows me knows this fact as well. I do however prize myself on keeping the guild atmosphere as nice as possible. As a consquence of that, people enjoy being here and actually handling both PvP and PvE on the levels I do them becomes a lot smoother.
What goes around comes around.. To a lot of people I'm not a very nice person, and from those people I dont get a lot of love. Im very aware of how I act and how people react in response to that. However, in spite of what a lot of people might think, Im actually nice to people I believe are valuable to me in one way or another. Valuable is a term I define very loosely here. A person is valuable to me if I can spend my time with him/her without feeling like I'm wasting my time. To get something in return.. Either a laugh, a memory for life or something else. I've got a lot of people around me now in my online life both inside and outside my own guild who I just really cant imagine life without. So I guess thats the answer to the question.. I can handle both because I dont have to worry about neither. If you start worrying, you start trying harder and if you start trying harder you stop acting like yourself. If you lose yourself then whats left? |
, Nice read keem em comin! Cya ingame bro
