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: 2011-05-05 04:41 pm (UTC)What is it you love about battlegrounds? I adore questing, and I enjoy dungeons if I'm playing with at least one friend in the party, but I've only tried the battleground zone in Northrend -- Wintergrasp? I think. I enter and either I find a cannon and look for things to shoot (and only die if someone comes looking for me) or I get within range of an enemy player and I die. Like, without time to hit back. Which I'm sure is charming for them :) --Of course, I'm not geared for resistance or resilience or whatever it's called. But I'd like to understand the appeal of battlegrounds, and maybe even get to where I could be useful on one, if only to be a more general-utility player for my guild :)
((I've played Wintergrasp only on my Ret Pally; I'm still leveling a number of other characters, including hunter, druid, warrior, rogue -- no mages or warlocks yet. Advice for any is welcome.))
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Date: 2011-05-06 06:57 pm (UTC)For me, battlegrounds are the perfect balance of fast paced and dynamic play with interacting-with-people stress. YMMV, of course, but my reactions to the different types of play go generally like this:
Questing: Go here. Kill/collect 6 things. Hand them in. Repeat until boredom breaks my will.
Dungeons: Zone into a group. Struggle to keep up with strangers who never talk and are usually mean when they do, struggle to do damage in a fight I don't understand, stress out over letting down the group by dying, feel incompetent/pathetic/like a failure if I die. Repeat until stress breaks my will.
Battleground: Zone in. Head for objective. Watch BG chat for info about objectives ("enemies incomning to X location", "only 2 on defense at Y location", "I'm going for the flag, want to come?", "they're turtling", etc.). Try to fill the gaps. Fight hard against unpredictable opponents, die frequently (like everyone does), resurrect and jump back into the fray. Win or lose, come out of it with honor points to buy better gear with. \o/
I have been insulted in BGs, but it's only been personal three times, and I've run dozens of BGs. Folks do say stupid and bigoted shit in BG chat, but I would say I only see that about 30% of the time and it gets less frequent the higher level you are.
If you like a calm pace of play, BGs definitely are NOT for you. But if people stress you out and questing is getting repetitive, give them a try.
I've only tried the battleground zone in Northrend -- Wintergrasp? I think.
I'm not high enough level to play the Battleground zones yet, although I'm looking forward to it. I play the instanced BGs using the BG finder (default keybind to bring it up is "H").
Of course, I'm not geared for resistance or resilience or whatever it's called.
BGs have level brackets, so if you take a character with no resilience into a BG you're going to get one-shotted a lot unless you have awesome PVE gear. :-/ But if you put up with that for a while, you'll build up honor points and get some genuine PVP gear. And if you have gold, at higher levels you can get some crafted resilience gear on the AH.
((I've played Wintergrasp only on my Ret Pally; I'm still leveling a number of other characters, including hunter, druid, warrior, rogue -- no mages or warlocks yet. Advice for any is welcome.))
I have an 85 mage, but alaso, I got there exclusively by questing, so I am without tips for anyone but a mid-level Pally. :-/