I’m a 33 year old male living in New Orleans, LA.  Enough personal crap, on to gaming!!  I originally got into gaming at the age of ten when a buddy in summer camp busted out Gamma World, a tabletop role playing game.  From there it developed into other tabletop RPG’s and BBS games online such as TeleArena.  I was born to be a gamer…

I originally got into the MMO community with EverQuest and later Dark Ages of Camelot.  However I never became a “hardcore MMO’er” until City of Heroes.  Endless Hamidon raids for the fail…lol.  But CoH was what lead me to play World of Warcraft.  Eriss had joined our Super Group, the equivalent of a guild, and convinced about 5-10 of us to come try a trial of WoW.

They dragged me here kicking and screaming…

Humorously enough, after 1 day of playing WoW I was the first one to cancel my CoH account.  I was hooked.  While my original intention was to play an Undead Rogue, Eriss convinced us to play Alliance with her where she had a 60 Night Elf Druid at the time.  She also managed to convince me to play a warrior as well, little did I know how desperate people were for warrior tanks back then…

So I started off my WoW career as a Warrior.  And while I was a Fury Warrior at heart, I ended up being a Protection Warrior in practice…  I ended up joining a guild called Category 5, which is sadly disbanded today.  I stayed there for almost all of the original WoW release until I left and joined Sleepless Knights.  At the end of vanilla WoW I had attained a full 8/8 set T2 Wrath on Elorien, cleared all content through the end of AQ40, and cleared the Spider Wing in Naxx.  Over all, it was a pretty good experience!

During the BC release however my desire to play a Shaman finally took over.  People called me “E” often (short for Elorien) in Category 5, and I’m from New Orleans (also called “The Big Easy”).  So when I rerolled shaman, Bigeasy was born.  I raided as Elemental and PvP’d as Enhancement.  It was a blast.

Before the big 3.0 release, and subsequent nerf of all boss encounters, I had attained almost a full set of best in slot gear in game, minus a trinket.  In addition to that we managed to kill Muru before the big 3.0 nerf.  Admittedly it took us 3 months of solid wipes to learn the encounter, but we did it damnit!! 

I felt like I “won” at WoW for the first time ever.  However as we killed Muru the last, or second to last, week before 3.0 release we did not kill KJ until after.  So for BC I cleared all content through Muru before 3.0, and then killed KJ after 3.0 release.

And then Lich King came.  By this time I had finally become involved in reading blogs about WoW.  The big one that got me started was Big Red Kitty, but I also started reading Critical QQ and Out of Mana as well regularly.

I was already planning on rerolling to a Death Knight (best class evar!!), and I got it into my head to start blogging about DK’s.  So I did it.  I bought myself a website address and got to work.

During the LK expansion however I finally came to a point where I needed to leave Sleepless Knights.  After being there for nearly 3 years a lot had changed, and not all to my liking.  So for personal reasons I left SK and joined Paragon, effectively dropping from the number 1 guild on server to the number 2 guild on server.

It was then that I suffered from massive burnout on WoW.  It was a combination of issues from SK, swapping guilds, dropping to lower content, playing for nearly 5 years straight, and blogging so much while raiding hardcore playing roughly 30+ hours a week.  On top of work, rl, etc…that’s enough to burn anybody out after 5 years, lol.

After taking a much needed and solid sabbatical from WoW I came back refreshed and ready to go.  While I still had some “blogging burnout” I was 100% ready to dive into WoW.  I even started up a 2nd Death Knight named Skeletonjill, a Blood Tank DK!!  She’s awesome!!  And right as things were going well in ICC and I had Shadow’s Edge in hand I got the dream job I had been waiting for…

After 2 months of training, I finally got a locked down permanent schedule where I work 3-11pm central.  Which is great.  I love the job and everything involved.  But it did kill my gaming night (friends playing tabletop RPG’s) and has made it impossible to raid with Paragon any longer.  Currently I’m running 1 or 2 nights a week in ICC25 with a PuG group called GMT10.  It’s not much, but it’s all I’ve got for the moment.

I’m exploring a method to still get my Legendary weapon here on Bronzebeard before jumping to a new guild on a new server, but we’ll have to see how that pans out.  But if you know of a top end raiding guild that would be “late night” or “am” for someone in the central time zone, then send them my way!! 

While I’ve missed some of the more challenging content of LK due to a burnout period and swapping guilds, I have managed to still partake in some awesome stuff.  4/5 Heroic Grand Crusader, Firefighter, One Light in the Darkness, 2 Heroic Wings of ICC10, and more…

So who am I?  I am Skeleton Jack.

I’m a blogger, a raider, a pvp’er, a writer, a theory crafter, a jokester, a gamer, and a Death Knight.

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters…