Where do you find "The Love"?

[Arnulf]

i'd add a 5th type... "builder"... that i'd describe as someone who likes to interact with the world...
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That puts you actually more in the explorer corner. Explorers are people who are interacting with the game world more than anything. Building (or crafting) new stuff is a way to discover new things of the world. (http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm; scroll down to the interest graph to see what I mean)

Of course, no one is a pure explorer, or a pure achiever. I would myself consider mostly achiever, then a bit of a socializer, and then last explorer. Discovering new stuff is always fun, but if you have the feeling you've seen 99% of the world, then that takes the back seat. Also while playing the game and building my first characters, I was 90% an explorer. Now that I'm in a guild which gears up for Molten Core and have a 60 pally, I'm a socializer/achiever. Which also means that I'm rarely playing my low-level alts.

It's funny, but the social part of the game becomes more important to me lately. It is crucial to know the people that I'm associating with to tackle the big things in game. We had some drama in our guild. How do we handle this as a group? How do we handle this if that happens again?

Also what people are playing on our server? You know, I could find myself with them in every one of the high Instances (UBRS, Scholo, Stratholme, etc.). Using teamspeak adds a great part to this.
Going into a group to discover that the Nightelf warrior talks in the broadest Vienna dialect is one example (had to turn off my microphone because I had to laugh...).

So to sum it up, the focus shifts somewhat. In the beginning mostly explorer, in mid-game achiever (build up a character for end-game stuff), and in the end-game socializer-achiever.

-Arnulf