Havent played this game for about 8 months and im not planning on ever starting again. Great game, but it has stolen (literally) hundreds of days of my life and I do not posses the capacity to play it casually. Here is my history.
Orc SHaman (healer for raids ele for pvp) on Warsong-US in vanilla. Progressed to Twin Emps in the #4 (at our peak) guild on the server(very very competitive server in vanilla) before we disbanded late in Vanilla. I was an absolute terror in BG's and ran with the horde honor farming group. Geared ele shamans were so win in Vanilla.
Switched to Nelf Warrior on SUramar-US for BC, this was by far my favorite time in WoW. I changed servers to play with real life friends, and our guild was legit, we were #2 on the server and I was the main tank for our progression through Kara/Gruuls/Serpent Shrine/Tempest Keep. We got to Vasjh (pre nerf) before the world first kill on her, failed horribly and disbanded. I then Started playing a Dranei Shaman and was a healer in the #1 guild on the server. Progressed through Black Temple and Hyjal and got server firsts on every boss in the instances. I was the best geared shaman on the server for quite some time. Were were #1 in progression in Sunwell before we failed on Muru, at which point me and the other resto shaman quit raiding, causing the guild to fall apart. If you raided with a top guild in TBC you know how important chain heal was in high level raids, so losing 2 well geared shamans pretty much nailed the coffin shut for the rest of the guild. I still feel kinda bad about it.
During this time I also got into arenas, which is when the real addiciton set in. I was 2100+ in 2's and 3's on many many different teams on my shaman. And 1800+ on 2's and 3's on my warrior. I was in 5's teams aswell, but never managed to get enough solid players to get over 2k.
I was also big into twinking at this time. I had a lvl 29 rogue that was fully twinked and would srsly 2 shot people that didnt have twink gear. But the most beast twink (and probably the most powerful character I ever played, relative to the level) was my 39 warlock. I had somewhere around 3000hp and 350 spellpower at lvl 39 due to a glitch in the mining profession that gave me about 1000 extra life at lvl 39, plus fully maxed out spellpower enchants. I would use my 3 DoTs and pretty much anyone would die by the end of their duration. I also had 2 friends with twink healers so when they were with me I could literally camp the entire horde team at their spawn, pretty fucked up, but thats how I rolled in WoW. My old harddrive had multiple screenshots of my lock with like 70+ killing blows in WSG.
I quit playing at the end of BC, and of course relapsed when lich king came out.
By lich king pretty much all the old raiding guilds had transfered servers, and in my opinion the recycled content they started putting out in that expansion was really crap, So I pretty much did only areans (plus they nerfed twink enchants... sooo pissed). SHaman were nerfed to shit in early Wotlk, so I rerolled pali and ended up getting duelist on him with 2300+ rating in 2's and also 2200+ in 3's. Tried playing my warrior, but they were shit compared to DK's so that was pretty frustrating, couldnt find a decent healer to play with me so never did very well there. Quit towards the end of Wotlk.
My second relapse (surprise surprise) happened when cata came out. I liked the leveling zones, but really disliked the dumbing down of raiding, and PVE in general, so once again I pretty much did only arenas. Burst damage was way too low in cata and I lost interest fasr, despite being on some of the top pvp teams in the battlegroup.
Never managed to make gladiator, which was my ultimate goal in WoW, but overall I was well known and generally considered one of the best players on my server. It was fun while it lasted, but im done with that game and I hope to god I never get sucked in again.
At the end I had a level 85 druid, warrior, paladin, shaman and mage.