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Victory. 
For the Forsaken. 

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For Lauderon. 
For the. 

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Kieran Tour for Pandaria. 
For calendar to. 

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The burning region for Gilnaeus,
but has not done for the Lich 

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King, for the Sindora, for the 
Alliance for the Horn, for 

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Azeroth. 
Hello and welcome to a bonus 

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episode of For Azeroth. 
This is Lex Rance. 

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This weekend I was at the Boston
Warcraft 30th Anniversary event,

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which was really, really 
wonderful, and it made me think 

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about how lucky we are as World 
of Warcraft players that we get 

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so many opportunities to be 
around other World of Warcraft 

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players. 
We have things like LFG, 

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BlizzCon now, these 30th 
anniversary events, and it's 

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always such a wonderful and 
beautiful and exciting time 

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because you're just surrounded 
by people who love the same 

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thing that you love and just 
want to be there and tell their 

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stories and get excited and talk
about the thing they love. 

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So I wanted to see if I could 
bring a little bit of that 

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energy and excitement into the 
podcast. 

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So while we were there waiting 
for two hours outside because we

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heard a rumor that they oversold
the event and not everyone was 

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getting in, I went up and down 
and I asked people what their 

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first memory of Warcraft or the 
World of Warcraft was. 

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This was the most fun I had 
during the event. 

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It was an incredible party, but 
getting that time to talk and 

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chat with just strangers who 
loved this game like I did was 

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so fun. 
And people had these hilarious 

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and beautiful and exciting 
stories and I'm so excited to 

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share them with you all. 
So without further ado, let's 

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get into it. 
I am Jet JETTE. 

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One of my earliest memories of 
World of Warcraft is actually 

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not actually playing the game, 
but being told about the game 

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from profit. 
And that same night, he was 

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really excited to show me what 
the World of Warcraft is all 

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about because I had heard of it 
before, but I never really had 

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any experience with it. 
So he stared his screen for me 

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and he's like, all right, here I
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And so this is the RP server. 
And, you know, this is what they

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do on the RP server. 
And, you know, they go to 

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Goldshire. 
And he showed me there was a 

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party in there. 
And I was like, wow, this is a 

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really cool party. 
So my name is Prophet. 

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I'm the CEO and owner of Valor 
Gaming, Warcraft in general. 

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I started playing Warcraft 3 
because all my uncles had 

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computers and that's all that 
they played. 

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And so when they upgraded their 
computer, they gave me their 

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like Windows XP or whatever it 
was. 

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I played so much Warcraft 3:00 
every single side quest, like 

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every single side mission, like 
everything. 

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That would probably be my 
earliest memory. 

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Hi, my name's bitters. 
I started playing like back in 

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vanilla. 
I I think probably my earliest 

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remember make memory was being 
at like a card gaming shop for 

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like magically gathering and 
they had like a land area and a 

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whole bunch of people were it's 
all like gathered around and 

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like they were like, oh, this 
new game just came out and like 

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some of my friends started 
playing and I was like, what is 

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this? 
And I see like it's like orange 

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big city and all these spikes 
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And later on come to see that 
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they got me to start playing. 
And that's just, yeah, just been

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playing since then. 
Name is Amrath. 

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My first memory is loading into 
vanilla back like the first two 

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months after I came out. 
I was really young and making a 

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night off warrior and just 
walking around and inevitably 

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getting assassinated by a horde 
rogue. 

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Let's go Jason. 
So I grew up in a very like game

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focused household. 
My dad had like an old Windows 

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95. 
He had Warcraft 2 installed on 

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it. 
And so that was one of the 

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earliest games that I ever 
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But once I started like 
realizing what games were, we 

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pick up Warcraft three that I 
played for years and years and 

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years. 
And then one day we were out. 

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I was out with my mother 
shopping for a Father's Day gift

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in like 2008 and we saw World of
Warcraft down there. 

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I remember very much my mother 
was like, do you think he'll 

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like it? 
And now, you know, all these 

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years later, my parents still 
play over the winter as like a 

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way to like, you know, be 
inside, play cheap. 

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My sister plays every now and 
then and so do I. 

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So like the whole family got 
into it very early on. 

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So yeah, I've it's my whole life
really. 

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Like truly and honestly, like 
I've known Warcraft my entire 

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life. 
Aloysius a Grove layer. 

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The end of Burning Crusade is 
when I started. 

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I got my first piece of raid 
gear and that was it 2008. 

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I run as Jasmine. 
I currently play to Warlock. 

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Oh gosh, levelling is a mage. 
It was. 

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I'm a Wrath baby. 
So back then of course I started

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with a mage, which back then, 
you know, you hit something and 

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then you sit and eat and drink 
for 5 minutes and then, you 

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know, Mike gets play again. 
But yeah, that's my earliest 

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memory. 
But I loved it. 

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Nemo or Nemo Damus depending on 
what server you find me on. 

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I am from WTF Nation Radio, 
which is part of U.S. 

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Army WTF Moments, all active 
duty veterans. 

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My earliest memory of World of 
Warcraft. 

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I've played Warcraft like many 
people, but when I was deployed 

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to Iraq in 2004, I carried the 
original box of World of 

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Warcraft in my pouch. 
No way to play the game, nothing

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like that. 
But every night or every few 

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nights, I would read the 
player's guide and it would say 

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all these things that I was 
really looking forward to 

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experiencing when I got back 
home. 

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Yeah. 
And in the back I remember it 

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said legendary heroes coming 
soon and all I could think was 

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they're going to let us be demon
hunters like Illidan. 

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So I played at Night Elf. 
Rogue was my first character I 

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made when I got back home and 
I've been playing ever since. 

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It's Alexia. 
When I was first starting out in

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vanilla, the first time a mage 
made a portal I tried to jump 

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through it instead of clicking. 
Hi I'm Alexis, gamertag is blue 

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lava. 
I played with my mom. 

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I was like 5 or 6 years old and 
she would like put me on her lap

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with her laptop and I would just
be playing my little gnome 

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rogue. 
And then I was probably like 8 

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or 9 when I finally got my own 
computer. 

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I was like this old school like 
desktop computer. 

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I got it in the living room like
nothing crazy. 

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And I just made my gnome and 
that's where the name Blue Lava 

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came in. 
I was a death knight. 

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Now I'm a Demon Hunter. 
Man, I've been playing forever. 

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Hello, I'm the vibe and Gorilla 
taking over my brother's account

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when I was younger because I 
enjoyed the game so much. 

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My name is Lucas, my character 
name is Dialica. 

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I'm Montreal. 
So my brother was playing and I 

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saw him in this is in Cataclysm 
and I saw him in 1000 thousand 

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needles on that boat. 
I thought the boat was really 

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cool and he would let me like 
jump on like drive around the 

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boat and I started playing after
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My name is Brittany, but my 
gamertag is Dana Scully. 

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I started in late BC, so the 
plague going through the Horde 

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capital. 
Well I guess Alliance capital. 

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So just like logging in and 
dying. 

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Yeah, I'm Colin. 
I'm also known as Millicorn. 

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Warmest Accord or strong guard 
enjoyer on Blue Sky. 

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Total disclosure, it's the South
Park episode. 

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I saw that episode when I was a 
kid and I just watched it. 

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I was like, that seems awesome 
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This seems similar. 
So I so I bought the game, 

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downloaded it and it's been 
downhill ever since for me. 

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I'm kidding. 
I'm kidding. 

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I love, I love Warcraft. 
I love Azeroth. 

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It's it's really grown. 
I and I love it now It's sick. 

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I'm known as Elena, I'm a moon 
guard and I'm a balance druid 

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and have been since Burning 
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And my first. 
Memory the spider cave in the 

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night elf starting area and I 
died in there. 

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Hugo Stiglitz I play a warrior 
on Illidan if you want to ask. 

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The first experience of Wow. 
I remember high warlord pig 

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sticker that saved me in 
Hinterlands and I also. 

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Another good memory from 
Warcraft is I met my wife 

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playing a video game in 2008 and
we've been together since and 

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playing together for about 17 
years now. 

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Josh Hill Protoplate. 
My first memory of Warcraft is 

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making a troll shaman in in the 
valley of trials and killing the

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the gremlins that are there. 
Yeah the Imps. 

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My name is Kong and my gamertag 
is my fest. 

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My first memory of Warcraft is 
when my wife introduced me to 

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the game a few years ago and 
I've been hooked ever since. 

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I started playing with Shadow 
Lands and that was that was it. 

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I was set. 
But before the World of 

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Warcraft, I'll start playing 
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So that was my introduction to 
the war and the World of 

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Warcraft. 
So she got me into it and I'm 

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here. 
My name is Arzak. 

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And I think one of my most for 
like first prominent memories 

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was just creating a night elf 
and going through and doing all 

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this starting quest. 
And there was one where you have

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to go and cure this dude to the 
left of The Cave and and 

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afterwards you have to go back 
into The Cave and kill the big 

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spider. 
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brushwood blade and it's like 
the very first green weapon I 

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think you can get as a night 
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And I just remember walking out 
of shadow Glen with a green 

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sword and a white shield 
thinking this is it. 

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This is how I take over the 
world. 

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So I first started playing. 
My name is Al Qaedas from shadow

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remains. 
What was or the ring? 

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And my friend was a warlock and 
my other friend was a mage and I

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got confused of how portals and 
summons worked so I kept telling

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my friend to send me a portal 
and I did not understand that he

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couldn't send me a portal to 
take me to the city. 

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And I'm like but you're a mage 
this is how it's supposed to 

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work. 
If anybody played classic and 

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benediction I was Sabata the 
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So my very first memory, I 
created a Night Elf rogue who 

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was my original main and I 
played for days and days and 

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days and I ended up I was in 
Searing Gorge. 

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I was doing the quest to try to 
get like the the Lookout 

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Spyglass and the entire time I 
played up to that level, which 

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was like level 40, I didn't know
what a combo point was. 

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And so I actually thought it was
just the enemy charging up an 

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attack and I had to beat them 
before it got to five. 

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And I would just mash buttons 
until eventually it, you know, I

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killed the thing and I couldn't 
understand why it was capping at

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5 and never doing anything. 
But that's the thing I think of 

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the most when I think back to 
like the original wack fiend 

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using World of Warcraft to 
convince my mom to upgrade from 

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dial up Internet. 
It was Alyssa. 

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I go buy grumpy pants battle 
tag. 

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I first started playing Wow in 
2020, right around COVID. 

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I'd actually just gotten laid 
off. 

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I was not in a great space 
mentally. 

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I couldn't get a job because 
nowhere was hiring. 

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So my wonderful boyfriend 
actually pretty much picked a 

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computer out of the trash for 
me, improved it, put a gaming 

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card in it, and just set me up 
and went here. 

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Try this game, I think you'll 
like it. 

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I'm Tyler, I play on Nordresil. 
My battle tag is just tomato 

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meat, but in game I'm known as 
Jartan. 

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And yeah, I've been playing 
since I was about 7 years old, 

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something like that. 
I literally just told this guy 

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my first introduction to the 
game was my brother was playing 

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and he was grinding mobs in 
Duskwood and he sat me down at 

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the computer because he had to 
go to the bathroom and he used 

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me as an auto clicker. 
He literally said press this 

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button whenever the bar fills 
and that's all I did for like 5 

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minutes and then I was like this
is the most amazing thing I've 

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ever experienced in my life. 
I'm Billy and I play Warlock. 

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I was a shadow lands noob, so I 
remember doing Castle Naughty 

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for the first time and going to 
Huntsman Alabour and people 

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telling me, hey, get in the 
little traps, there's a haste 

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buff there, but there's no haste
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Sure. 
My name is Josh. 

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My you can look me up on 
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It's Jayvon 95. 
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I was nine years old. 
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I don't have a ticket to this 
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let me in. 
I'm crazy, I know, but I love 

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this game, the community that 
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all together. 
That's what I love about the 

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most. 
Kelly, blood elf priest on 

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Ilidon. 
Not being. 

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Able to find Undercity because I
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ground, and then when I finally 
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elevator because of lag. 
My name is Jason, I go by Kratos

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in game play Death Knight. 
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when Wow first came out, my 
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not Guild Wars, I'm sorry, 
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He joined Wow like right away 
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he gave me his login information
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ever since then I was hooked way
back from vanilla and I've been 

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playing ever since pretty 
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My name is Stephanie and my 
gamertag is Ed Phil's stuff. 

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Ace. 
Oh my goodness. 

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My first memory of Warcraft was 
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my dad in 2004. 
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game. 
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Alliance server together and I 
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Hunter. 
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And then we were just killing 
some boars together and that was

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my first memory. 
My name's Rob Sovereign, playing

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in the Barons, listening to 
Crazy Train and laughing at the 

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constant Chuck Norris jokes, 
Wigs of Zuljan, being told by 

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all my friends to log in and 
download the game. 

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Erlyn and my first memory was 
making a night off druid and 

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leveling to about maybe 5 or 6 
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character after I would leave 
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And then I would have to remake 
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family gathering and do the same
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I probably did that about a 
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So, And there you go. 
Those are the stories I heard, 

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but I know there were so many 
other beautiful stories out 

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there that I didn't. 
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my first memory of Warcraft was 
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I watched him play for all of 
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one that I remember the most was
actually the moment that Arthus 

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killed his dad. 
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being so shocked as a little kid
about what was going on and so 

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desperately wanting to play 
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If you're one of the people that
I interviewed, I'd love to get a

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chance to say hi to you. 
You can always come to the four 

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Azeroth Discord at bit dot LY 
slash FAZ discord. 

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I'd also love to hear from all 
of our listeners what their 

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first memories of Warcraft or 
the World of Warcraft were as 

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well. 
And again, you can go to our 

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discord. 
You can message us on Twitter. 

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However you get in contact with 
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We'd love to get to know you and
get to know your first stories. 

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Thank you so much for listening 
and until next time they all 

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your hits be critics.
