Out of Character
Maccath - Blood Elf Warlock, Turalyon EU
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About Me
I’m a 22 year old web developer and general geek from England, UK. I started playing World of Warcraft on 28th August 2005 and have mostly enjoyed it ever since. I attended both The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King midnight launch events in London - in cosplay. This earnt me my five minutes of fame, as I was featured in the British media after I dressed up (very crudely but nevertheless hilariously) as a Warlock and attached my minion to a chain.
About The Domain
Maccath.com was created in May 2006 when I used it as a placeholder for my then main World of Warcraft character - a level 60 human mage named Maccath on Azjol-Nerub EU (now a level 70 human mage named Maccathh on Turalyon EU). I wrote a short description of her below an image and linked to her guild and armory webpages. Later, just after the release of The Burning Crusade expansion, I decided to turn Maccath.com into a blog from the perspective of the in-game character herself. Yes, I am roleplaying.
Eventually, due to guild drama and wanting to play with IRL friends, I rerolled on a new realm (Turalyon EU), creating a Blood Elf warlock with the same name (see Maccath’s armory page). I closed Maccath.com for the time being. When the release date for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion was announced I decided to re-open Maccath.com to co-incide with its launch. I was never very good at keeping up with writing detailed articles, however. At the release of the third expansion, Cataclysm, I archived maccath.com and switched to Tumblr. Much easier!
This domain now features two distinct Tumblr blogs - one at maccath.com and another at ooc.maccath.com. The former is a continuation of the previous Maccath.com, and the latter is an ‘out of character’ non-roleplay World of Warcraft-themed tumblelog.
About World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Blizzard Entertainment as a sequel to its popular games set in the Warcraft fantasy universe (starting with Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, 1994 - a real-time strategy game). World of Warcraft is a fantasy adventure game wherein you play a hero of your choice to help ‘save the world from ultimate disaster’; or at least try. You can find out all information about the Warcraft universe and all the books and games at WoWWiki.
The game is simple - you choose a character to play which has a race and a class. Which race you play will determine which faction you are sided with (Horde - the ‘bad’ guys, or Alliance - the ‘good’ guys) and base statistics (Tauren are a bit more robust than Blood Elves!). Which class you play will determine how your character will battle and what armour, weapons and abilities it will be able to use. For example, a hunter will use bow and arrow and tame beasts to fight for them, a warrior will have unpenetrable armour, rogues ‘do it from behind’, and mages and warlocks will use powerful magic to defeat their foe but are very weak physically.
As you explore the land, complete various tasks and slay enemies you gain experience and level up. As you level up you become more powerful and learn new abilities in order to progress through the world. The enemies you defeat may also drop armour items that you can equip to boost your statistics. The more powerful enemies in the game are hard to defeat and may require ‘raids’ of up to 40 players. In-game community is important and most people will choose to join a guild of players with whom they can team up to complete more arduous tasks.
If you would like to play the game and don’t mind starting out on European servers I currently have a number of referral codes available which come with free game time and special benefits for both of us. Message me!
