User:LockeColeMA  

The start of a Wiki

Part 1: Who is Locke?

I've been involved with Allakhazam since, oh, 2003 or so. Back in the day when I was still in high school, I was heavily into the game Final Fantasy XI. The ONLY good website at the time was a collection of web forums on a site with a peculiar name. I started out stalking anonymously, but then finally made an introductory post. Early on in my posting, I was rated up for a post comparing Japanese business culture to FFXI and showing the reason why Americans can have such a difficult time with the concept of forced grouping. At or around that time I hit Sage status, and have remained there since. I'm highly curious to know how close I am to Guru. I estimate my karma at around a 4.15 or so, meaning I have a ways to go.

I quit FFXI not once but twice. After the first time, I used Allakhazam to come back to a new server (Bahamut, I seem to recall). However, I was only on for a couple of months... my goal was t get a BST (first I needed a level 30 WHM, for which I needed a black mage sub... ouch), just so I could solo. I loved FFXI, but I hated waiting three hours for a party. Over the winter of that year, a friend of mine introduced me to a new game: World of Warcraft. According to the game, you could SOLO the entire way up to level cap. I played a druid on his computer for about 15 minutes and my obsession with FFXI was broken. I bought WoW and started up in January.

I have been playing WoW ever since, and have kept up contributions to Allakhazam. I love the open forum format here. A couple of years ago I helped condense the Tradeskills forum and wrote the first FAQ. Sometime after I quit the game for a bit (people on the forum may still remember my RL reasons for doing so), and handed the FAQ off to someone else; although I still have the original credit! I also wrote the first herbalism guide on the site, although that might be far gone by now.

As for now, I'm job-hunting and contributing here when I can. Anyone want to hire an educated idiot?