The Power of the Light Compels You!

Today has been a day of an unusually large amount of posts - I will probably not be able to keep this pace up, but I'll do my best to publish once a day, at least - sometimes you just have a lot to say about nothing. :)

Earlier I finally got a positive response from my professor - phew + yay!

Lately I've been thinking about paladins. I have two of them - one ally, one horde, one level 23, one level 18 - and so far I'm leveling them both. Every once in a while, at least. I'd really like to have a plate-wearing character, and the tanking possibilities are appealing. Better multi-mob tanking, you say? Sounds like something for me.

The alliance one is a human female, and I started her with the intention of going prot some day, and the race was chosen because I'm well aware of the pain rep grinding can be - 10 % extra rep sounds like enough to make a real difference. Since I a lot of the time have the attention span of a goldfish, she's been put on ice until recently. When I started playing her again, I respecced her retribution - prot before level 40 is just too slow for me...

The horde one is obviously a blood elf, and a female. She was started because of this fancy site my husband found: RETLOL - The Guide. Seal of Blood, once you get it, is supposed to be the thing to have when doing PVE as retribution, and the blood elf racials (Mana Tap and Arcane Torrent) are by some people considered to be nice alternatives to the regular Avenger's Shield pulling - I have seen that Captain America-thing go off to mobs you didn't expect it to reach, and maybe Mana Tap can be useful in crowded places? I don't know, really, but since the range is the same it doesn't seem completely useless. And Arcane Torrent should be useful when trying to pull casters. But then again, an 8 yard radius - hmm. As I've said already - haven't gotten any pally past level 23, so I can't really have a qualified opinion. Anyway, the belf was started with the goal set to retribution, and that's were she is.

Now, since I can't decide which one to level - easier rep or fancy schmancy seal - I'm going to try and alter between them. The human will probably go prot somewhere around 40, so there's some kind of variation, while the belf stays retri. And yeah, yeah, I'm aware of the Holy tree, but someone would have to pay me a substantial amount of RL cash if I was to level up as holy!

So, there it is. Hopefully I won't lose interest in this project completely now that I've kind of made it public :D

The Habit

So, yesterday, around this time, actually, I - once again - started a new character. Inspired by Incompetent Warrior (yes, we do play on the same server, don't know the guy, though) I rolled a warrior. Human female with red hair, goes by the name Swirly. I don't really know what the main focus will be in the long run, but I do hope I'll get a chance to learn how to tank for real. I did try some tanking on the druid, last year, but Oh. My. God. The chaos. The frustration. First time was alright - Sethekk Halls is easy enough - but my second run as a tank was Arcatraz, with a trigger-happy, pugged enhancement shaman. Enough about that, though.

Point is, I leveled as moonkin, and hadn't really taken the time to grow into my feral abilities until I'd been level 70 for about 6 months. I'm hoping that when one plays a warrior, one more frequently ends up in situations where protection abilities get used. See, if I'm in moonkin form, I don't have access to growl, but I should be able to use taunt even if I'm arms or fury. (Right?)

Now, why was I inspired by Incompetent Warrior? Why will it be different this time? Why will Swirly not be stranded somewhere between level 10 and 15 like all my previous warrior alts? The answer is kind of the following: Stuntyone, or the Incompetent Warrior, has a quality that is quite unusual among people who play warriors, or even World of Warcraft. He seems to actually play for the fun of it. Now you're going "What does she mean? Don't we all play for fun? She's deluded or had way too much pie last night", but I'm serious.

What I mean is: He seems to find a lot of pleasure in the MMO part of the game, which is something I've found to be very rare among warriors who actually express their opinions on the warrior class. People call for nerfs, mock everyone else's talent build, hates the itemisation and yadayadayada... The class forum at wow-europe.com is always more or less depressing, and the moment I've tried to find some info there, has in the past been the moment when my latest attempt at the warrior class has halted. Now I have a new strategy: Don't even go there. I've found some builds, and I have them bookmarked, and I've decided to just go for it, and put some trust into my general knowledge of the game. If I get to some kind of high level, 60+, I'll look up ElitistJerks, but for now, I'll try and have some fun :)

And so, that's what Incompetent Warrior does for me: He makes square 1 a happy place, shows the fun in being a warrior, without whining and calling for nerfs for other classes. Kudos to Stuntyone!

Time for breakfast - bought yoghurt yesterday, when I've had some of it, I'll make tea.