That was totally why I became so absorbed in WoW.
I started playing as something to do when I was working on call from home.
Then I got completely hooked, I was able to be a different person, and forget about all of my issues for 5-6-12 hours at a stretch.
It seriously controlled 3 years of my life. I raided into naxx pre-tbc, and we cleared through mu'ru before the 3.0 patch.
I logged in the day after 3.0 hit, we killed KJ, and I retired before the Wrath expansion hit.
I've been WoW free for a month now. It feels good, but the temptation to log in is still there. (of course, I'd have to go buy the expansion and then put time on my account before I could do it now). Pretty sure my GF would leave me if I did.
My main was a 70 human female warrior - Flutter - where my name here came from. She not only had full T6 tanking set, and 7/8 T6 DPS set, plus all the other little extras...... and she's a Scarab Lord, so yes, she has the once per server bug mount.
(I did say I was an addict)
(If you're not familiar with the Bug Mount, because it is an extremely rare item, it involved uncountable hours of solo questing, about 15 hours of dragging a 20 man raid around farming for drops, a 5 hour BWL clear, items from Onyxia, Ragnaros, and a trash drop in MC [do you realize how ->-bleeped-<-ty it is to have to loot every corpse in MC as the main tank?] kill 3 outdoor bosses [A big shark, Maws , Dr. Weavil, and a Satyr in the emerald dragon portal in Duskwood that only spawned if you had the quest to kill him] all leading up to a world event in Moonglade that required at least 80-120 people to show up and help defeat Erranikus..... and after you did all that, and both factions finished collecting the war drive stuff.... two days after the war drives ended - you could ring the gong in Silithus to start the invasion event, and then anyone else who completed the chain had 10 hours to ring the gong in order to get the mount [the title was added later]. All told, I put about 3 weeks of real time into getting this mount, and I had it easy because I didn't have to farm Cenarian rep before I could start the chain because I transfered servers.... that was a 2 week ordeal for most scarab lords. And yes..... that is exactly how big of a WoW addict I was.)
In addition to Flutter, I had Flustered - 70 human priest, Elsbet - 70 gnome lock, Phinaes - 70 night elf rogue, Volleygirl - 70 Night Elf Hunter, Goatsechs - 56 Draenei shaman, Solipsist - 46 human paladin- all on Executus. And Elsbet - 70 Blood Elf Paladin on Vashj (US).
Flustered and Elsbet both had decent starting t6 level gear (1400 spell damage +)
Flutter was over 200 days played, Flustered had over 100. I'd say between all of them I was approaching 450 days played in 3 years time.
You may be able to armory Flutter, I think she was last logged in in DPS gear because I just wanted to play with Titan's Grip once.
The other toons probably don't show up on armory because they haven't logged in in over a month.
And Flutter...... was a total butch dyke.
Like.... hardcore boycut and scowling face.
