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I guess I'll start my introduction with a bit about my history within WoW.
I started playing shortly after WotLK was released after watching RL friends play the game for years. My first character was my rogue. I had no idea how to play him, what the stats meant, what any of the fancy terms anybody used were (what's an "aggro" and how did I get one? Further, if it's so bad, why does that guy with the shield want it so bad??). After a couple months I had my first 80... a Prot Paladin. I'd given up on the rogue as my intellect swords weren't stabbing the NPCs very hard, and I certainly didn't feel like I was smart about attacking when that guy with the skull by his name lol'd at me and 1 shot me. Anyway, somewhere along the way I got sick of asking my RL friends questions (that they couldn't or wouldn't answer) so I started reading. And I read... and I read... and I read. Around 60 I learned what PVP was and realized that it was kinda hard to kill me. I liked it.
I hit 80 with my first toon about 2 months after I started playing, just busting ass and questing like a mad man. Gearing was pretty quick as all the dailies I'd been doing while leveling paid off and I soon made the jump from helping members of my new guild gear with heroics to being asked to OT one night in Naxx. It went well. So well I ended up being offered a permanent position as an OT, later becoming the MT, and eventually a raid officer. After a few months I had to quit for the next year to go out of state to take care of my grandmother. I came back in the spring of last year to a radically different game in some aspects. What do you mean the gear in 5 mans is better than my Ulduar/Naxx25 gear? After a couple weeks my pally just wasnt doing it for me anymore, so I decided ok, you know things now, how about you finish leveling that rogue? Sparing the details (too late?) I again found myself raiding, but from a different outlook. I loved DPS. In a little under a 5k GS I was doing between 10-14k dps in ICC10.
I PVPd here and there, but never got very good at it. Spent the rest of Wrath leveling my Shaman.
In cataclysm I decided I wanted a break from raiding. I felt too comfortable in PVE and wanted to shake things up a bit. So I transferred my rogue Horde and started reading up on lore. I'm not a super lore nerd, but I definitely try to take in as much of it as possible when playing video games. My girlfriend (who I met raiding with my Ally guild) had finished leveling her Pally to 85 so we started doing BGs. We found a new love for the game. Now we're obsessed. After finally giving arenas a try we stopped being afraid of new aspects of the game and wondered why we had never tried it before. We're not gladiators by any means but we're starting to get much better, now ending our weeks with a positive win-loss ratio and usually having a blast doing it.
The problem we've encountered is within our guild. We're the only two people on. We leveled it to 4 mostly by ourselves. Everybody has transferred their mains to a different server to raid with old RL friends and old guildies, and now it's pretty much just us and a couple of our old close ally friends who rerolled with us. Now we look for people to BG and wander around completing achievements with, or whatever other random things sound fun. We're PVP focused but we're always more interested in fun over just getting gear. The gear is the carriage and the fun is the horse.
My question for SoH would be are you interested in new members who have a PVP focus? We're not opposed to raiding and if the need is there we don't mind gearing to help, but our main goal is PVP. We love it. I know some guilds are looking for specific members to do specific things. We just want to make friends. We want people who are down to have fun and stab/slam/nuke/trip/tickle ally (in particular, our old guildies ), and we want them to want us. We're very peaceful. You wont see us QQing. We are fully capable of discussing and debating things, but I'm 27 and she's 28 so we're pretty good about refusing to breakdown in to childish kicking and screaming.
I hope to hear from you guys soon. We're on almost every night and almost all day on sundays and mondays and would be glad to talk to anybody, whether over realid or vent/teamspeak. If you're looking for a couple of PVPnuts we're definitely looking for you