As something new we’ll try to make a get to know your guildie post. So every month we’ll introduce to you, the people we are playing together with, and maybe give an idea of who they are.

First up we got a long time member, Nolwenn.

So a cold april morning I met up with her, in the shattered lands of Shadowmoon Valley – a natural place for interviewing a warlock, since it was here the dark magic started.

The answers come quick, and you can see that this warlock knows all the answers. But this interviewer wont give up that easy!

But let’s start from the beginning. When I ask when it all started, the answer come straight away. “I started playing WoW the same year as I joined Arisen, haha. So it must be 2005… or 2006 maybe? Haha”. The amusement is big, my first question already shook the lock at bit, but I soon find out I wasn’t promised a win yet.
“I started in vanilla, and joined when Nolwenn was level 48. When I applied to the guild, i originally applied with my druid Arume, since Nolwenn just got into another guild called <Rush>. But that guild split right after I got in. It had nothing to do with me though”, she quickly adds with a smirky grin. “So now both my characters was guildless, but luckily Arisen let me in. I asked if my 48 warlock could join too, and Lightreaver was kind enough to throw me an instant invite”.

I sense that I might have a story here, so I try to change my tactics regarding the lock. Maybe a more direct approach would work. So my next question would naturally be if she joined Arisen to split it up, just like with <Rush>. “No, of course not. I wanted to get into a guild to meet new people, get some friends to play with, since I was pretty noobish back then. I remember when I got the guild invite, and I started to look at the chat and all the things you guys were talking about, and I thought to myself /gasp “so much to learn”. But luckily it all turned out pretty well”.

The big question still remains though. Why Arisen? And the answer to this is actually pretty simple. “I did some research on guild on Hakkar, but found out that most of them were italian guilds, and they usually required you to be italian to join them. Then I found Arisen, and I liked the name. Don’t ask me why”.
Naturally I had to ask her why!
“Well, it was short… and cool, haha. It just sounded promising”.

So apparently a short and cool name can get even the most evil of warlock to join a guild. But why start playing WoW at all? “A friend gave me 14 days of free trial. I never played this kind of games before, so it was all kind of new. I created Arume as my first character, but then discovered the might of warlock. So the decision to change was pretty easy. And then I just got hooked. It was a bit confusing finding my way around at first though. And people need to remember that this was before the built in quest helper, and we didn’t have coordinates either”, she laughs. Indeed I do remember those days, where every little exploring experience counted.

So as stated there’s more to Nolwenn than her warlock. She got her boomkin Arume, so the next question come pretty natural. They are both casters, what’s wrong with melee? “Actually I’ve recently started to enjoy Luaine a lot. She is enhancement, and my first melee dps. I’m starting to get used to being up front, but I’m not sure if I suck at it though, haha”.

So what is it about the game that is so interesting and keeps a busy warlock playing one might ask… so I did! “Well, I like the social part a lot, even if I didn’t go to the irl meeting, haha. I like to meet people and talk, but also the variety of things you can do in game. Different quests, dungeons, raids, pvp, arena, bgs. My best friend plays Lineage, but I don’t see that amount of variety in their game. Good graphics just isn’t enough for me”.

So apparently there’s a lot of stuff to do for this particular warlock, but what is it she enjoys doing the most? “I like raiding, now more than ever. In the beginning I was too scared of being bad at it, haha. I know I’m not super, but at least I’m not that shy anymore. But I also enjoy doing some arena. I guess it depends on my mental state, haha”. Afraid of getting a shadowbolt throw after me, I have to make sure what mental state she is in right now, but she ensures me that arena is only happening on sunday mornings, and she continues: “Besides, who dares to do our beloved guild leader harm? *cough cough*”· I think she is trying to trick me, so I quickly move on.

The game has evolved a lot since start, and so has all the addons you can get to the game. So it is naturally to ask if there’s anything in particular a warlock would need. Nolwenn got her favorites. “Necrosis! It tells you when you get an instant shadowbolt, since you can’t always see that little black thingy around you, when you are in the middle of a fight, and all kinds of spell effects goes off around you. So this dark voice tells you when it’s up. It even comes with an evil laughter when you try to fear an immume mob”.

There’s an up coming expansion on the way, and it seems that the warlock class will get a good over haul. What’s the thoughts about the new way of warlockism? “I’m excited to see the result! I do hope the changes are for the better though, haha. I guess it will be like playing a new caster, since it’s really gonna change. But I’m also looking forward to play a goblin. Because time is money, friend!”, she says while she looks at her clock.

That covered pretty much the in game version of Nolwenn, but who is actually in control of the keys? Ana is Spanish, originating from a lovely town called Vigo, but lives in Barcelona. When asked about her age she replies: “Haha, I’m never gonna tell that, not in this economical crisis, where everyone is searching for jobs. I’m having trouble finding one, and my age isn’t helping the situation”. With the risk of getting another shadowbolt thrown at me I ask her what age we should go for then, and she replies: “Well, I’m not sure myself anymore. I stopped celebrating after my 700th birthday, haha”. I’m not sure I understand this form of warlock humor, but my personal guesses must be that she is around 29, and she nods in acknowledgment: “Let’s just say that”.

As so many other places, find a job in Spain isn’t easy, but if Ana can choose her own job, what would it be? “Something related to languages. Like tourism or translation. I love to learn new languages, and I don’t mind teaching others too. As long as it’s small groups, and not like a whole class, haha”.

One could imagine that playing WoW doesn’t leave much time to other hobbies, but Ana also loves to watch movies and read books. “Currently I’m reading War of the Ancients, the WoW trilogy. But I also read other kind of books, like thrillers, adventures, comedies”.

Arisen is known for meeting up, and have adventures in real life too. So how about Ana? Has she met anyone? “Well, I talked a lot with Satura/Skitty. He suggested me to talk to Teddy since I wanted to get my epic mount quest done. And Teddy could help, since he had the mats and knowledge for it. Then when TBC came out, we quested together. The summer came, and he was whining about not having anythin to do, so I invited him to come see Barcelona. I must warn people though, if you’re going to meet Teddy. He isn’t a gnome in real life. He is huge, haha!”. She stops speaking and I look at her asking if there was anyone else she had met up with. She winks at me and smiles. I’m not sure what this is all about, so I ask her again. “Well, I did meet up with Unamithil when he was in Barcelona, but we’d rather not speak about it, since he is a noob at playing warlocks anyway”. Auch, I quickly look at my paper to find the next question, but she cuts me off. “Well, let’s ask HIM what he thought about it, shall we?!”. She takes my notes out of my hands and starts on a new section of notes: “So Una, how was it to meet Nolwenn?”. I look at her in disbelief, but it seems like she is going through with it. So I told her that I had a great time in Barcelona. Thanked her for showing me all the sights I never would have found myself. Especially the Elekk was great fun to see, since I didn’t knew they existed in the real world. So a short week with much of fun. But now I have to insist that this is my interview, so I take my notes back.

Where were I? Oh yes, is there anyone from the guild that she wants to meet. “Fydria! I’ve talked a lot with him, and he is funny! He always made fun of the pictures from Barcelona with Una hugging the mount. He even asked me: “If I come to Barcelona, do I get to take a picture with me and the mount?”. Apparently it’s now some kind of achievement for Ariseners, haha”.

Anyway, our time is nearly up and I finish off with five randoms:
Dungeons or questing: Questing
Cooking or fishing: Fishing
Gnome or Draenei? Draenei!
Guildies or pugs: Guildies
Tanaris or Nagrand: Nagrand

This concludes the first guildie of the month. I don’t know if we know the person Nolwenn any better now, but at least we had fun doing the interview.

See you all in game!

Guildie of the month.. good idea! Well written,, Looking forward to read more info on the guildies!

Cool story bro. And congrats Nol :)

:o Nol is a evil witch, who could have thought?!

Nolwen <3 <3 <3

THIS IS NOT EPIC. NAAAAAAAAT

Great Interview from a great member!

:)

I love it ^

Awsome:)

This was so nice to read, very entertaining :-D

Simply the best.

Nice little read, player or not it’s good to hear more about everyone :)

Awesome:D