Craving for World of Warcraft

Ever since December started I've been having these strange cravings for World of Warcraft. I don't know what is the actual cause of it - there might be a biological explanation, such as lack of exposure to sunlight or receded physical activity in winter which causes increased production of who-knows-what hormone. Perhaps it's the other way around, which seems a more plausible explanation due to my current physical state, a hormone overload causing various impulses, among them a desire for WoW. Whatever the reasons, I am seriously considering about starting to play in very limited amounts - flying over the lush plains of Nagrand on my green drake, gazing at the wonderful sky of violet mists, role-playing as a softly-purring kitten and ganking the lowbies in Stranglethorn Vale (I heard it got a brand new flight path!) - this is what I seem to be yearning for.

Naturally, my first priority is to get rid of about 50.000 in-game gold for about 1000€ to finance the purchase of my laptop. But beyond that... selling the whole account which I invested two years in for a measly 100 Euros? That would be, as I've been thinking lately, a kick in the dark.

WoW was my passion and and addiction for a long time, and the latter is what scares me the most. Would I be able to control myself sufficiently this time? I keep repeating "yes I would" to myself but I don't feel that I have a strong enough counterweight in real life to keep me from slipping into the magical world of Azeroth for yet another year, I've lost enough time as it is.

It is of course hard for someone who isn't a player to understand what the fuss is all about, how important in-game friendships that you make and the various aspects of community - especially on the realm (server) where you're playing - really are.
That is why I've decided to present some of my own forum posts in chronological order that I've made a long time ago and beautifully show how much I've actually cared for the game in the past, alongside it explaining the context they were written in and thus briefly outlining my entire WoW history.
Some of the posts that I intend to publish here are pretty extensive (read: long) but I still find them a worthwhile read, particularly because they make me wonder what drugs I was on at that time...


Part I - The Circling Fervor
Part II - Caring for Daggerspine
Part III - The Kazzak Migration