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When the Burning Crusade came out, we had a Hunter at level 60 who ventured into Outlands long enough to reach level 61, but because of the lag, competition and instability of the Outland servers at release and for weeks afterwards, we gave our attention to Mage, who was level 23 at the time.
We continued to play Hunter but leveled her largely through quests and by helping friends, and avoided all the new instances along with the rest of our social guild friends. She was still the first to hit 70, even without being my main attention.
It is for sure that we usually had a handful of other lowbies that were getting leveling attention in the meantime so nobody really leveled very quickly. We weren't interested in any type of power leveling of toons at this time.
However, Mage was really the one that broke us into running dungeons regularly and finding a mindset that let us enjoy the contrast that PUG groups, instead of feeling negatively about them.
When the Mage hit Outland, we PUG like crazy. Everyone wanted DPS/CC in their groups, right from the first Hellfire Citadel instances through the heroics and even into raids. Even we're DPS and had no real tank and healer friends to start with, we had no problems finding groups and then making long-term Dungeon-running buddies because the type of DPS was in such hot demand.
The Mage turned out to be the toon we took first into Heroics, ten months after the expansion released and Heroics were originally introduced. We're the first amongst our peer group to have a toon that well geared, and the first to get into raiding.
We had a ball with Mage in the time that we used him as main raider. We remained Frost spec even though that was seen as an inferior raiding spec to Fire too. The reason is that in the raiding guild we landed in, we're beating out most of the Fire Mages and so there was no real evidence to support us having to change.
We raided on this toon with our first raiding guild for 6 weeks before joining their ranks. As a long-term committer, we wanted to ensure we enjoyed the raiding environment before we joined.
Existing from the first raiding guild inspired to work on another toon for a while for a change of pace and we had both a Rogue and a Holy Priest coming up through the Outland levels, so we the Priest and increased the commitment.
Now that we're in Northrend, we made a decision to leave Mage to be third amongst level 70 characters to make the progression through Northrend, its quests, instances and raids and mostly he's been sitting quietly, benefiting from the Priest and Hunter's travels and monetary gains and leveling only occasionally.
Priest and Hunter are both at level 80 and geared well enough for raiding that Heroics runs aren't required anymore, it's time to turn attention more fully to Mage again.
