About me

I decided to finally write this post, since its really silly to not have an introduction of some sort in my blog. My WoW name is Ardol, my real name is Owen, and this post is about me.

Note: My blogger name was once O-Digga, so any comments that appear by that name are mine.

History of Ardol
My first character was an undead warrior. I decided to be a warrior class after I had seen an episode of Cheat on G4 about WoW and they recommended a warrior for anyone starting out, since they could take a lot of damage. Some of my newbie-er habits included only having one quest in my quest log at a time (so that I could focus on it) and selling my ore and skins to vendors (I didn't know about the AH). I got him to level 13, and when I joined a guild, I saw that the GM was a rogue. I had heard all about how awesome rogues were, so I rolled a troll one. He only got to level 8, when I decided to try a paladin, since Cheat had referred to them as a hybrid class, and I knew I wanted to be a hybrid. He was very boring, though, so I dropped him and rolled a hunter on a new server with one of my friends. He was alliance, so rolling on that server made my transition from horde to alliance complete. I got my hunter to 22 before my friend left the server and I decided to reroll to start fresh. I left the horrors of the RPPvP server and rolled a druid. I played my druid on and off and simultaneously sampled every class in the game before realizing that the druid class was for me. It took me a year and a half from when I started playing to get him to 70 (he was 46 when BC came out).

What attracted me to the druid class was the idea that they could tank and DPS with one spec, and since I wanted to be a hybrid, this was perfect for me. I leveled my druid feral and only had a brief fling with resto during BC. Aside form that, I was feral only until dual specs came out, when I made my second spec resto and put together a healing set. Since then, the healer shortage on my realm has become a tank shortage, so I have shifted my focus from healing back to tanking, a focus I will probably retain through Cataclysm unless healers are in short supply again. For the longest time, my healing set was better than my tank set, but now my tank set is better than my healing set, since that's the one I focused on after the healing shortage became a tank shortage again.

Why the name Ardol? Well, when I rolled my hunter, I named him Arder. Don't ask why; I thought it was cool. When I rerolled, the name was taken, so I chose Ardol instead. Why do I keep it? Meh, I'm too lazy to change it, even though I have a shaman named Ollendi so I'll always have that name reserved in case I ever decide to spend the ten bucks. (If you don't understand why I want "Ollendi," just read it aloud. Still don't get it? It reads, "I'll end thee." I know, it's a name more suited for a PvP'er, but like Arder, I thought it was cool.)

History of Owen
Due to the inherent risk in putting anything too personal online, I will simply tell you that I am currently a full-time student studying mathematics. I play video games in my spare time, including WoW and Rock Band, and I also enjoy biking, reading, drumming, and, of course, philosophy.

Achievements I am proudest of:

5. Cooking with Style 10 (11-15-2009)

4. Hail to the Chef 10 (02-13-2009)
3. Traveler's Tundra Mammoth 10 (11-08-2009)

2. Lil' Game Hunter 50 ( 11-22-2009)

1. What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been 50 02-15-2010