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 04:27 pm (UTC)What level is he?Ahhhaha, I finally saw the cut-tag! Came here from the alert in my inbox that an entry had been posted, and was too excited to do anything but come right here. :)And do male Blood Elf characters do that sulky slouch-sigh thing in their idle animation that female Blood Elf characters do? I tried a Blood Elf rogue but she just irritated me so much, because she always seemed to be rolling her eyes at me. I finally just deleted her. :/
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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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