Oscar Winner Steve Preeg Interview

After learning that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s Steve Preeg is a guild leader in World of Warcraft, Ten Ton Hammer fired some questions at him about his (now Oscar-winning) career and his time in Azeroth.

Ten Ton Hammer: How do you manage WoW and your time?

Steve: When Benjamin Button started, I knew I was going to be really really busy. So at that point, I handed over the guild leadership over to somebody else, and I basically said that I wasn’t going to be consistent enough to be raiding or anything like that.

We’re not necessarily one of the top raiding guilds in the world or anything like that, but we do alright and we try to stay competitive. We have Sartharion and the three drakes to finish in the expansion content and that’s it.

Ten Ton Hammer: Tell me a little bit more about your rogue. I hear that you’re more combat-specced, but I want to know a bit more about the character.

Steve: He’s an undead rogue, and it actually wasn’t my main originally. In the beginning, my main was a hunter and I played with him for a long, long time. Then I moved on to a priest, because our guild was in desperate need of priests for Molten Core and I played with a priest up until Burning Crusade. In the end, I really didn’t like the priest because in the pre-BC era, holy priests couldn’t do anything but heal.

They didn’t have good DPS or anything at all. So by the time BC came out, I had around five or six level 60 characters to choose from. And I had six 70s by the time Lich King came out. I really started playing my rogue right before Burning Crusade and I’ve stuck with him thus far.