So… I just had a chat with a friend and fellow WoW player (who is much more immensely into the game that I am now, although I’d like to think that I had played a part in getting him to get into the game. But that’s another story.) It sort of dawned upon me that I haven’t made any progress on any of my characters. None. Nuh uh. Zilch. Apparently, I’ve been playing on way too many alts. I don’t even have a main, for goodness sake.
I had started out thinking my DK would be my main but meh… they’re a dime a dozen, tanking has been nerfed to the ground and… I’ve just sorta lost interest. The initial reasons I had liked DKs that much? Path of frost – water walking effect, Army of the dead – zombiesssssssssssss nomnomnom j00 brains; the relative ease that they blew Outlands and Northrend content away. TLDR version? They were OP.
The characters that I had considered mains before that were a warlock and druid. Which are FOTM classes yet again. Both are classes that dominated arena… not that I’d actually taken part in much of that. The classes that I’ve rolled, I liked the class mechanics. There’s just something about the different classes that draws me to them. Warlocks DoT’ing was fun and something different from the typical “press 1 for frostbolt. Now spam it till your finger breaks” play style… which I sorta fell for when I played my Troll mage. lol much? Druid? Loved healing. That’s all. Pure and simple. I like the feeling it gives – power. That I control the lives. That I can choose who lives and who dies.
Recently I started leveling a Tauren shaman as well (which I’d left collecting dust on my account). I’m trying to get him to 80 asap so I can raid with my ex-clique but I’m starting to feel the burn out. Leveling isn’t as fun as it used to be, especially when there’s no one to compete with. My druid? Rushed to 80 cuz I was competing with a guild mate to see who would get to 70 1st. Rushed to 80 because I wanted to heal (it’s another of the playstyles I fell for). Chained heroics like some crazy bitch the day I got to 80… and is now still mostly in Naxx gear, some 25man gear.
I guess the thing is… I don’t see my WoW characters as an online avatar of myself… or of someone I’m playing even. I treat them like tools – they provide me with fun and entertainment. They’re not an extension of myself. If I had to pick a race/class to represent myself, I wouldn’t know what to pick eiher. I have been thinking on this for awhile now and it’s scary. I don’t think I’m the sort of person who would make use of others. Yet here I am, using my WoW characters.
I seriously need to settle down on 1 of my characters and am currently trying to figure out which. I won’t let this stop me from having fun, but I’d also have to treat 1 of them more seriously. As quoted from said friend, “i think instead of looking at what class you’re playing, look at who you are playing“.
But if I’m going for achievements… it’d definitely have to be the mage. It has noblegarden achievements. Midsummer achievements would’ve been easy if I was 80. The thing about mages is they have all the right tools to get the holiday achievements easily… or maybe druid stealth (and the new forms are exquisite). Warlocks for holiday achievements? Out of the question.
I guess to solve this dilema, I really need to settle one issue 1st – am I DPS or heals?
3 Comments
27 June, 2009 at 12:12 am
… or I can just go for different kinds of achievements on different toons. Say… old world dungeons and such on DK, holiday achievements on mage, pvp achievemetns on Druid, pve achievements on warlock, etc…
27 June, 2009 at 11:12 pm
“just go for different kinds of achievements on different toons”
So troublesome. That’s the problem, you factor in too much about what’s good for this, what’s good for that. Naturally you end up with whatever’s OP and FotM at that time. But fact of the matter is, they -will- get nerfed, and another class will take its place. There is no point in maximising what’s best, because it changes every patch.
You know you’ve found your class that even if you got nerf, you ADJUST and adapt to it instead of “QQ reroll” another FotM.
Achievements are not something you log in and say “I HAVE to get xxx points by end of the day!!”, it’s just something that you find cool and just, do it lol. They have tabs right? Pick a tab and just slowly get each one. Me having 4980 points is just something I thought “it’ll be cool to have for lulz”, not something “die die must have by !! Must grind must grind!!!”.
There is no point in having diff classes lvled to grind diff achvmts. You know if you’re actually -that- serious in finding your right toon, you’ll delete off EVERY toon that you have not logged into 60% of the time you spent playing WoW over the past month. Clean spring your account. God knows, while deleting you might actually reminiscient some nice memorable moments with the toon and actually recreate another one and it might become your main. =/
Oh and no, I found out about WoW by myself kthx. Only part you played was convincing me to go to Alliance. Would have been a fantabulous male BE Hunter otherwise <_<
27 June, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Also, use your Kesleia and actually post this on WoWForums, both in GD and Nagrand. More perspective from many diff. individuals.