A Dark Family Secret  

It's a little known fact in the WoW community that I have a brother, Falstann,that plays a dwarven hunter as well.

I don't mention him a lot around my guild. It's just too painful. You see, my brother is a recovering huntard.

It's hard to talk about. When I think back, it still makes me shudder. The rare strength gems socketed into his Season 1 chest piece. Watching him try to melee everything in sight as soon as he got his Season 3 axe. The spirit gear from the auction house, and the BC welfare epics worn long after he should have upgraded to Wrath Blues.

I know what you're thinking. "But Gringott, you're an officer in a nicely progressing guild. You are admired for your DPS, and distinguished in game looks. How could your brother have ever been a huntard?" But it's true. Recent MMO research reveals almost no hereditary basis for leetness, instead consisting of a complex array of acquired characteristics. But therein lay hope. Great hunters are made, not born.

I've offered advice here and there to point him in the right direction. He's learning to use google, and talent calculators (his spec could use some work). He's crafted himself some starter gear. I still catch him hanging around the BG queues late at night, and trying to put Heavy Borean Armor Kits on everything in sight. But he's taken the first steps out of darkness, toward the light.

/cheer