character squee
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adventures_in_azerothHey folks! It's great to see an active WoW community here on Dreamwidth, even if we're small at the moment. I'm sure we shall grow. :-)
I'm particularly happy because it means I have somewhere to squee about my character. LOL. I can't help it, I'm so in love. Let me introduce you, and I hope to hear about your favourites as well!
This is Rayner:
I took a screencap in Undercity, but it was so dark his armor was a blur of black. So here's one of him on my loadings screen.
If any of you are comic book fans, then the answer is yes, yes he is named after Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern #5). :-D I made a vanity guild for him, too, Lanterns Etcetera.
How Rayner came to be is a bit of a story that I'm going to skip for now. Suffice to say that he's the…*counts*…eleventh character I made. I think. Despite the fact that he came to be after so many others, including my one character who has reached level 85 (a frost mage), Rayner is the first one I've really fallen in love with. I liked playing the others, but this is different.
Maybe he's got an unfair advantage, being named after and based on Kyle. Maybe it's because he's the one I discovered Battlegrounds with (I <3 BGs). Maybe it's his class (he's my second Prot Pally, but I was trying to tank with the other and that was super stressful and never went anywhere). Probably a bit of all of those.
All I know is, he's my favourite to play. I love pulling three mobs on a quest and then decimating them. I love picking up a multi-person quest and knowing I can handle it alone. I love doing the most damage in a BG because he just won't die. I love throwing my Avenger's Shield at folks and watching it smoke them. I love the way he moves, and his dance makes me LOL every time.
He's on a different server from my other characters (only way I could get the name), he can't join a guild because I refuse to give up the vanity guild name, and I'm probably going to have to make him a Ret off spec so he can do dungeons for achievements (so not a dungeon fan), but I wouldn't change him. <3
I'm particularly happy because it means I have somewhere to squee about my character. LOL. I can't help it, I'm so in love. Let me introduce you, and I hope to hear about your favourites as well!
This is Rayner:
I took a screencap in Undercity, but it was so dark his armor was a blur of black. So here's one of him on my loadings screen.
If any of you are comic book fans, then the answer is yes, yes he is named after Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern #5). :-D I made a vanity guild for him, too, Lanterns Etcetera.
How Rayner came to be is a bit of a story that I'm going to skip for now. Suffice to say that he's the…*counts*…eleventh character I made. I think. Despite the fact that he came to be after so many others, including my one character who has reached level 85 (a frost mage), Rayner is the first one I've really fallen in love with. I liked playing the others, but this is different.
Maybe he's got an unfair advantage, being named after and based on Kyle. Maybe it's because he's the one I discovered Battlegrounds with (I <3 BGs). Maybe it's his class (he's my second Prot Pally, but I was trying to tank with the other and that was super stressful and never went anywhere). Probably a bit of all of those.
All I know is, he's my favourite to play. I love pulling three mobs on a quest and then decimating them. I love picking up a multi-person quest and knowing I can handle it alone. I love doing the most damage in a BG because he just won't die. I love throwing my Avenger's Shield at folks and watching it smoke them. I love the way he moves, and his dance makes me LOL every time.
He's on a different server from my other characters (only way I could get the name), he can't join a guild because I refuse to give up the vanity guild name, and I'm probably going to have to make him a Ret off spec so he can do dungeons for achievements (so not a dungeon fan), but I wouldn't change him. <3
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Date: 2011-05-12 01:21 am (UTC)Honestly, I think it's that way for most characters! They have a lot of abilities that are designed primarily for dungeon and raid situations in which you have complicated mechanics and a team who need specific types of support. When you're questing, you really only need a couple of buttons.
Ohgod, mine spend a LOT of time just standing around while I Google stuff
Google? Don't you mean WoWhead? *grins* I constantly have WoWhead open in one tab. I don't I could play the game without it, because I get frustrated super fast when I can't find something.
I'd love to get a report on that, active time versus time spent waiting for the player to get off her ass and DO something.
That would be really interesting! I wonder if there's something in the stats that counts it...probably not, but might be worth checking.
I was reading some of the battle.net forums yesterday (something I may not do again for a loooong time)
Gah, the forums are so negative! I try to stay away, but I am weak, and go back regularly. These days I try to restrict myself to reading blue (moderator) posts, though, just to keep up on happenings in the world of The Management. *g*
and thinking I should create a character with the idea of Learning To Tank, because apparently good tanks are in high demand.
They are in super high demand, but that's because they have a huge amount of responsibility and are treated like crap most of the time. :-/ I'd love to tank, but I'm just too thin skinned. But if you don't take things as personally as I do, there are also a lot of game perks (extra loot, etc.) that go with tanking!
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Date: 2011-05-12 12:14 pm (UTC)*G* Yes, definitely WoWhead as well, especially when researching auction prices -- it's incredibly useful!