Personal Information

Name :- Adrian aka Ricoz
Date of birth :- 21/01/82
Location :- Singapore

About Me

Before world of warcraft i was in a guild in ragnarok online called The Thirteen Apostles. Naturally when wow came out in dec 2004, we migrated to wow making the us server gorgonnash our home. I started as a night elf hunter but found it overwhelming hard to combat stray hordes while leveling in the wilderness. I rerolled after reaching level 30 to a human warrior where i come to love. But 3 months later my guild and i felt disillusioned with nothing much to do at 60 but running scholomance and the rest of the dungeons for the dungeon sets.

But 6 months later we were back and decided to start anew as hordes in the us server maelstrom. It wasnt much of a progression guild then only clearing mc, zg and aq20 before tbc came out. I was then playing a tauren hunter then because i feel like redeeming myself with the hunter class. it was a good dps class but soon at the end of vanilla wow i went to play a feral tank. I was a feral tank into tbc but 6 mths later my guild is still stuck at ssc. Most of my real life friends was gone so i decided to transfer to another realm.

It was a dark period in my wow life as the next guild i got into was full of drama and QQ. 3 months later the guild disbanded and i went on back to the first server i started in. Gorgonnash. thats where i started to play a retribution paladin fulltime. The “underdog” classes have always appeal to me more and back in tbc, retribution was truely the underdogs of underdogs. I was at a guild called Orphanage. it wasnt a really progressive guild but it wasnt that bad. Did manage to clear black temple before wotlk. This is also the guild i stayed with for most of wotlk.

But changes has already taken place in Orphanage and most of the old vanguard already left orphanage with drama happening all over again. I decided to leave. This time i wanted to try for a hardcore progressive guild instead of casual raiding guild for my last 4.5 years of wow. I read about Clique recuiting retribution paladins and here i was!

Most memorable moment(s) in WoW

That would have to be my first Achimonde kill in Mount Hyjal with the guild Orphanage.(pre-nerfed of course) Orphanage was the first guild im in since 5 years of wow that really made progression though raid bosses. I was really excited back then with every new first kills. 6 months earlier back then before i joined Orpahange, i thought i will never ever see Black Temple and Mount Hyjal. As many might know already, Achimonde was a very tightly tuned boss thats impossible to “carry” anyone when learning. 1 death could easily led to a wipe. Everyone really need to know what to do and stay alive. When we finally killed it after 3 weeks of wiping, i thought i would die from a heart attack. my heart was pounding heavily from the adrenaline rush. It was awesome! The only time i ever felt this way was launching my first nuke in modern warfare 2 multiplayer and counter-strike ages ago when i was the only in the team left and going about killing the rest of the enemy.

Of special mention would have to be given to the first kill of Anub’arak of heroic Trial of the Crusader. This boss was the first boss that truely makes me want to quit wow in frustration. Using the 2 tank strat, i am incharge of stunning the adds before they cast shadowstrikes as the 4 adds together would make in impossible to interrupt them after they have casted with our lantancy. The combination of unreliable timer, pressure from guildmates and my perfectionist nature shatters my confidence and broke my will. After numerous failures, i begged to be replaced but i was the only Retribution paladin at that time in the guild. I will like to take this time to thank the officers of Clique for their faith in me and also Deus Vox Ecounters addon for the timely release of one of the best shadowstrike timers i have seen. As we finally kill this, as Gorrfang likes to say, blue cockroach, everyone in the raid was nerd screaming away but it was a different kind of feeling for me. All i could do was a sigh of relieve and say finally.

Character Information

Vanilla wow main :- Ricoz – Tauren Hunter – Maelstrom
TBC main :- Alisya – Tauren Feral Druid – Shattered Hands
Current Main :- Astína – Bloodelf Retribution Paladin – Thaurissan