About Gravity

Hi, my name’s Gravity.

I’ve played a DK since WotLK launch and planned for months in advance.

I’m a mod and administrator at deathknight.info, an enthusiastic tank, and a passionate warcraft player having raided AQ40, Mt Hyjal and Ulduar 25. Currently I’m in Icecrown-10 with a casual guild of ex-hardcore players.

I’ve had about 9 years experience in both MMO leadership and ‘real life’ people management. I’ve an MBA, and am studying towards an MSc Strategic Planning.

I’ve rerolled a DK tank for my move back to Australia, and my original beloved Euro DK was also called Gravity: Current Armory.

I write mostly about tanking.

I like to help people understand the game, enjoy good mathcrafting, theory and analysis. This is a backdrop for an interest in tools which assist raid or guild leadership, and of general management.

I find it interesting to look at guilds through the lens of management theory and practice.

My gaming history

I’ve played WoW since launch, ‘raided’ UBRS, then up to AQ40 in a guild I’d started and GM’d. I had a succession plan so when I needed to play less, my GM replacement was my top officer and a raid leader. Then I moved to the UK then eventually Gravity, Death Knight, became my main the day WotLK was released. I raided Ulduar 25 with a casual EU Turalyon guild.

Since launch, I’ve raided as an resto druid (Hammersmith), mage (Nibbly), paladin (Hammerjudge), warlock (Overlock), hunter alt (Stephaniefox) and settled with my DK (Gravity).

Wrote a post with a bit more about me and my tanking views.

Interestingly, I learned a lot about guild management from Achaea MUD, where at my peak I was “Archdragon Shusen”, leader of a monk guild. I still have a soft-spot for that game. It involved leadership in a game where there are few shared objectives, and yet lots of politics, an active economy and competition to get new players.

I also played Eve Online for a while, as Hammer Judge. I’m the author of the popular Hammer’s Eve. I wrote that when I had a break from WoW for a while, to help other former-WoW players learn Eve.

My real life specs

I’m a professional services manager at a global IT vendor, two awesome kids and a perfect wife, except she hates gaming. I’ve been in IT for around 16 years.

Charitable giving: micro-finance, here’s the TankSpot Kiva team. I have also been a regular donor to Oxfam for many years.

Contact

Email: gravity@pwnwear.com

Twitter: gravitydk

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