I have been in the same raiding guild for 8 years now, and while we have had people come and go, there is a core group that has stuck around. Bizarre coincidence lead us to find that my husband and I lived near several of the other guild mates. This summer will make the third year that several of us meet up in real life for a few days of fun, one guild mate even flying in from the other side of the country. This group of people has been with us through moving, job changes, buying our first house, and the birth of a child. It's hard for non-gamer's to understand why we care about our guildmates until we sit down and explain that to them, but we love our online family.
One of my freind is from wow, now we spent silvester together also, and many other things.
I have a wonderful friend in a guildmate of mine, who is a very experienced resto druid. He's been playing since vanilla and raided MC when it was current. He's the most patient teacher and is always willing to run stuff with me and help me get over my PvP anxiety, lol. We've never met irl, but I always look forward to spending time chatting with him and hanging out in-game. I already loved playing a druid, but he's helped me truly fall In Love with playing druid. My experience in WoW is made exponentially more enjoyable because of him!
I'm still in contact with someone I met while pugging Karazhan back in TBC. We've even met IRL a few times!
I started a guild in BC for no real reason other then to stop getting invited by people to join their guild. As I grew as a player and realized Raiding was more for me than my many years of casual PvP, the guild became something critical to that activity in WotLK.It started off casual, recruits came and went, but we grew into something so much bigger than I thought ever would happen. Many members have been friends for many years now, some more real then the friends just down the street. Sometimes Real life calls and people have to go sometimes for a bit, sometimes forever. SerialDamage-StormScale, The ever optimistic always fun to bring and scary to watch on the meters Undead rogue who always signed into vent with his greeting, Hey buddy. He joined the guild looking to raid and brought several friends who keep in contact to this day. He was one of my first officers. I was hard headed and distrustful online, so for him to win me over was a big compliment to his character. A few years in to raiding with him he began to ween for no visible reason. Finally he came to me and said he couldn't do it anymore. He told me that he had been diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. The serious conversations followed questions concerns comments all discussed. I told him as long as he was up to it and wanted to raid he was welcome in our roster. We did not want to raid without him and for a time he came. Small comments about doctor visits, but never one single complaint EVER. He might send a tell to me, to apologize for his absence and say that he had gotten sick, but never ever ever a complaint. On a particularly good day chatting with him in vent he talked to about how he had a lot of fun and was glad for the good days. He was happy to be raiding again, it was a welcome distraction to the doctor visits. He asked for my address so he could send us an xmas card. A few weeks later I received it in the mail. There he was the rogue I'd been raiding with for years, naked as day wearing nothing but a santa hat over his bits standing next to an inappropriate snowman in the Canadian weather, signed SerialDamage.Later that evening he and I were in vent; he chuckled over the reaction and was glad we got it. I replied scarcastic and a bit serious..."serial why the hell do you have to be a god damn over achier.... why could you stick to greens or blues, you had to go and get god damn epic cancer. (purple being the color of pancreatic cancer)." He said something to the effect of I couldn't let you guys have a higher gear score than me and laughed.I said good night to him and he came on a few times after and then said he'd be gone for a bit had to go to a doctor.He didn't come back.About 2 weeks later at 10:30 the end of our raid night, I texted his phone saying, "Serial we all wish you were here and miss you raiding with us. We killed putricide again for you! You best be kicking cancers ass because we want you back with us and healthy."Got a text about a day later saying, "I'm sorry but Serial passed away the night before at about 10:30." I promptly and in shock replied my deepest condolences and some other content which escapes me. I didn't expect it, it was an emotional day for me. I'm usually described as emotionally cold or even abrasive, but that wasn't at all the case that day. I broke the news to guildies that evening. Everyone that knew him was extremely upset, we were supposed to raid that night, but instead just talked for a bit and then all logged out.I sent a token to his gal and offered our condolences. I told her how much he meant to us and how lucky we were to know him. We hoped this would in some small way help her ease our grief knowing that we cared. We expressed our concern and hopes for her to take care of herself. We knew how hard it can be to eat while grieving.His toon is still in Guild, and will always be.After the loss of Serial it was a period of time before we recovered from the loss. Cataclysm signified so many things for the guild. We pushed on in 10m's, and struggled. Some friends just couldn't find interest at that point and slowly drifted from the game. However many of his Real life friends are still in guild, many are very much real friends to me. We on occasion chat on FB, in game, GroupMe, Raptr, but lets face it no one uses the guild site.This last Blizzcon met for the first time some of my guildies. We had a blast and are hoping to encourage others to go next year. Many who went I first met all those years ago back in ICC with SerialDamage.Some of the details may not be perfect, but the story is always worth sharing.
I've met so many awesome people throughout the many years of playing WoW...Some good, some not-so-good.My guild leader from Sen'Jin (during Cata) has been a really close friend for a few years (since even before he was my gm)! We talk often about how our lives are going, and whats happening and so on.Another person who I met on WoW, even though the relationship didn't last, my ex boyfriend. We dated for about a year and a half. We raided together, PvP'ed together, everything. I flew out to VA one year to see him IRL, and it was nice. We even got to raid together in the same room :P it was a very cool experience. Although, we fought often. Evenually we just decided that our relationship wasn't working so we broke it off. Now I'm engaged to the sweetest man on Earth! (He shall play WoW with me when we are able to move in together.And the last relationship I'd like to share, is a friendship that has lasted a bit longer than just a few years. I met her during Wrath of the Lich King, and we call each other "Twinny" because we have the same name. Over the years, we've noticed that we're so similar in ways other than our name. She's coming to my wedding this summer, and we're so excited to finally get to meet each other!--Ivyrah
Awesome idea, though being on tv is probably my worst nightmare...
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A few years ago I was in durotar just going about my own business when a human warrior on alliance was flying around. I didn't kill him and he didn't kill me. He told me to /wait and he got on his horde low level like I was. We did dungeons together and soon became really good friends. After a while I joined his guild on alliance (he's the GM) and I met a ton of new friends in that guild. We've all been the best of friends for about 2 years now and World of Warcraft has truly changed my life.
Back in June of 2013, while talking to my raid team, I asked for someone to text me and remind me of our optional raid. Our boomkin said to give my number to our shaman and ever since that day, we texted, graduated to skype dates and eventually flying out to see him. I was in NC at the time, migrated to Florida, and after a few visits, and 7 months later, we now live together in Illinois and starting our own little family. I couldnt be happier with this guy. Hes the love of my life and the fact he is stepping up to be a father figure for my toddler just makes him all that more special.
i have met or kept in touch outside of wow almost all the friends i made in game. have a couple that just poofed wondered what happened to them but screen names wont get far when looking lol ( shout out ~aathnamas night elf hunter from the venture company~ or demorat undead priest from terrokar)
I met one of my great friend through WoW. he lived in wales, I lived in U.K. but we meet every now and then (Because we're awesome, you know?) but our in game friendship is even moar awesome! We PvP, progress through current tier, arena, help each other level (Boosting each other through dungeons and stuff ;D) and much more.I met him whilst I was leveling my Paladin, back in the great, amazing days of Lich King. We were both in the dungeon with a tank who was clearly a new play or new at tanking and we were both helping him out trying to get him to know his class and how to play a tank a bit better, after we completed the dungeon we all left without saying good bye, after the dungeon I thought to myself "Should've added him on real ID before I left)...bit sad that I didn't but I thought, what happens, happens so...I guess we were never meant to know each other all that well, and the next day I do another dungeon, get the queue pop and guess what? He's in the dungeon! I got his real ID and we've been great friend since! :)
I met four people in my guild back in 09'.I joined in on the Ulduar patch so I was only max level by the time ICC came out (I was a horrible noob). We all PvP'd and raided together up until halfway through cata when we all took a break. We had a lot of good times in World PvP such as raiding Razor hill or Crossroads. I still talk to all four of them every day. We still haven't met though in real life though. We're planning on seeing the Warcraft movie together when it comes out though. =D
Hm, interesting idea, first time I hear of that show.I've met one of my best friends in Vanilla, he stopped playing in WotLK, but we've been friends ever since. First time we've met offline was actually last year, when we went to Gamescom together :DSo, yeah, WoW has an incredible impact on my social life and I can't wait to see what will happen in the future!
I met my boyfriend trough WoW, and i guess that explains it all :)
I met my Polish people in TBC times, then started raiding with them till Cataclysm. We are not raiding together now but our friendship still lasts.
I got a damn good friend from Greek. I haven't meet him IRL, not yet atleast :) We talk alot on skype though, and we always have a blast! He even help me with my homework once in a while :3
Our whole guild (well the ones that can make it) get together about once a year for drinks and parties. I'm just so lucky to have stumbled into a guild where everyone gets along so well. We all met in Wow, but have become real friends because of it.
My wife and I meet on wow. I got the game years ago from a person at a job I was currently working at. He wanted me to play but I was reluctant. Finally, I told him to buy me the game and I was pay for the months, thinking that would be the end of it. But, to my surprise, he actual bought it for me. I started playing on his server, making my main a gnome rogue whos profession was engineering . Years later during Wrath I joined a guild and worked towards making my Mekgineer's Chopper. I had just finished making it and maxed when a guildmate, another gnome, asked for direction to a flight plan. Rather then just tell her, I offered to drive. So she and I, along with another guildy fly overhead traveled out. In the end, I took her all over the world, getting every flighplan in Northrend, taking every crazy jump I could find and pulling huge chains of mob across the world. I started talking more to my little mage friend. She not only lived across the country, but in the USA as well. I am Canadian. She was a mother of a 3 year old, recently divorced. I got to know her as well as her son. She came to visit me for 2 weeks a few months after we meet, then about a year after that I moved to a part of Canada much closer so I could visit. Now I live in the USA with her, we are married and had a 18 month old boy of our own. Without my old friend getting me the game, and my happening to be in that guild on that server, or without me being a engineer and having the two seater mount, None of this would have worked out
Oh i remember mine as it was yesterday...!it all started in wotlk years where the great king arthas ruled!i was forming a random group for ICC!she was the first one to apply!she was a healer paladin!when we first talked to each other on skype with rest of the group i knew she was kinda special!when we finally finished icc rest of the team left and it was just us for the rest of the evening!that was the sparkle that began a very firy friendship :) ! i still recall these years back then!i wish i could live that moment twice!we still keep in touch but free we both miss these days!hope we maintain our frienship for lots of years coming!