Pugcast is a World of Warcraft podcast hosted by long time real life friends Jeg and Draechen. The show is dirty and raunchy, but that is what makes it fun. It certainly isn’t for everyone. You can check it out at Pugcast.com. It is available through all of your favorite feed readers like iTunes and Zune.

Now that you know about the podcast, you’re probably wondering what is this blog about.  Yeah, ok, probably not. I’ll tell you anyway.  Pugcast.net is my personal playground. Oh, this is Jeg writing this by the way.  I’ve been wanting to make a blog but never got around to it. Drae has been adamant that he is likely to not write. Slowly but surely I’ve decided to just use the Pugcast.net both to host show notes and personal opinions. We still hold Pugcast.com through our sponsor, Guildlaunch.com. That site will remain the “business” end of the deal.

Who is Jeg? Most people would probably answer “an opinionated douche bag.” I tell it like I see it and have a bad habit of not caring if it hurts feelings or pisses people off. I have my opinion and you have yours. For those that agree or are at least curious as to workings of my inner asshole, I present this blog. It will not always be about Warcraft. In fact, time will tell but I would wager it is a general MMO blog. Pugcast is where I vent my Warcraft opinions. We’ll see what this turns into, but I can promise one thing. It’s bound to be controversial.

Jeg the player is a late 20′s husband and father of three. I’ve played almost every MMO you can think of except for the Everquest games. I seriously have no idea how I avoided them.  Ultima Online was my first MMO. It didn’t really do much for me though. Asheron’s Call soon followed and had me hooked for a while. Mix in some other games including Star Wars Galaxies  and Final Fantasy XI and the stage was set for WoW. My life got busy and I actually avoided WoW until the start of 2006. Drae managed to get me hired at the company he was working for and we started our adventures in WoW.

We have always had a bad habit of rerolling. We would level, him faster than I, and when we neared the end of the leveling process we’d start over on the opposite faction and on a different server. We finally level capped and raided on the Horde side of things. This was in the Burning Crusade days. When I talk about my own personal “glory days of WoW” I am referring to this time period. I find it hard to think anything can beat those days.

Eventually other games started coming out. I would usually go AWOL for open beta’s but actually quit WoW for the first time for the launch of Lord of the Rings Online. My computer back then wasn’t so hot so performance issues drove me back to WoW.

I quit a couple of other times but nothing like the Warhammer Online launch. This game was hot. The open beta played like crap but I figured they were running debuggers on the server and were stress testing it. I went so far as to purchase the Collector’s Edition for WAR, deleted a couple of higher level toons in WoW and gave all of my gold and wares to my wife. I was convinced I was not coming back to WoW. Warhammer still played like piss. What does a sane individual do in that case? Buy a beefed out computer of course! WAR was amazing fun in comparison to WoW…until you find yourself alone. I’m not a PVP person, but WAR was fun. If you take the PVP out of WAR and focus on PVE leveling all you are left with is a turd of a game with no substance. I hung on for two months before retreating back to WoW.

In March or so of 2009 I received my first iPod. The Touch was awesome for carrying around music in my pocket but the applications hooked me. One day in iTunes I searched for Warcraft just to see what would come up. I found a list of podcasts. Hearing of podcasts but never actually listening, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I downloaded a few and it was as if an angel touched me in the privates. Sure most podcasts are low budget and horribly edited, but they are short little wanna-be radio shows with a very exact topic. My hour commute to and from work was instantly made tolerable by hearing talk of WoW. Not only did it keep me interested in the game, it made me want to podcast.

Enter Draechen. Drae has played since we started and hasn’t looked back. He’s way more into the game than I am. So I started trying to convince him to try podcasting with me. It took a solid two months for me to get him to agree. We needed a name. The biggest and baddest kid on the block is Scott Johnson’s The Instance. This “instance run” is so fluid and smooth we knew it would be the opposite of our show. What’s a bad instance run? A pick up group, aka a pug. Hence such, the Pugcast was born.

At the time of writing this there are 42 episodes of Pugcast and we are rapidly approaching our on year anniversary.

As I said, life and gaming isn’t all about WoW. So god only knows what I’ll come up with to post here…