“Lume the Mad”?

In a general sense, Lume the Mad is a blog about World of Warcraft. But addressment of the origin of the blog’s title should be made for context.

In 1999, I began playing Ultima Online. After about a month of screwing around on it, I searched the Internet for some information about the game and came across a blog called Lum the Mad. With interest piqued by Lum’s commentary, it became a staple in my daily reads (even after I had quit UO).

At first, Lum’s posts were primarily ranting in nature, addressing every negative detail about UO. But, over time, he began writing more and more about a few of the positive points. Thus his blog evolved into a semi-intelligent string of commentary on UO and MMO’s in general.

That’s not to say I agreed with all of his opinions. But I admired the trail he blazed for MMO bloggers. So when coming up with a title for my own blog, I realized one of my main character’s nicknames was similar to “Lum.” Furthermore, I founded and lead a guild with a name synonymous to “madness.” And thus I titled the blog in homage to the old relic. However, I do not intend to channel the exact same sort of commentary. The comments I have to make about WoW are solely influenced by my own experiences with MMO’s and WoW.

As a secondary note, although not known in its prime, Lum the Mad was written by Scott Jennings. Scott now works for NCSoft and previously worked for Mythic on Dark Age of Camelot from 2001 to 2006 (a game I played up until the release of WoW).

Who Am I?

I’m going to keep this short and sweet.

Even though the blog title is based on a female character of mine, I’m actually a guy. I play a druid on US-Proudmoore Lilume. I am one of two GM’s for a guild named Lunacy there. M’uru is our most recent kill. This kill was ranked 40th in the U.S. and 97th in the world, according to WoWProgress.

MMO-wise, I’ve played Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Horizons, and WoW, all to varying degrees. DAoC and WoW are the only two I have played on a hardcore level, however. UO and Horizons I only played casually (and Horizons only in beta). I’ve also tried EverQuest, EverQuest 2, Guild Wars and Asheron’s Call 2, but not for more than a week, so I don’t really consider myself as having “played” them.

WoW Experience

I’ve played since the latter stages of beta. I’ve been pretty much everything ranging from casual solo player to hardcore raider. I haven’t been as hardcore of a raider as people in guilds like Nihilum or Elitist Jerks, but the fact that my guild has killed M’uru puts me in a very select group. I haven’t been a hardcore arena player or PvPer, however. But I have been moderately serious in both areas at times.

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