Focusing on alts

December 6th, 2007 | Posted in blog posts, gaming |

Playing World of Warcraft, I have decided to stop focusing as much on my Gnome Warlock (Bratta) and instead focus more on some of my lower-level alts and try to get them up to level 70.  I kind of miss the fun in gaining experience, completing quests, exploring, and whatnot.  Raiding constantly is kind of a drain due to all the stress involved in coordinating 10-25 people, fairly distributing loot, dealing with complainers and people who don’t care, and so on. 

I got to the point where I just wasn’t having any fun, so i said to myself, “self, either quit playing if you aren’t having fun, or make a change so you WILL have fun.”

So now I’m going to level my three alts and put Bratta on the back burner for now.

My “main alt” is a level 47 Draenei Hunter named Borattan.  The pet I use most right now is a monkey named Xabbu (taken from the Otherland series by Tad Williams). I feel very comfortable playing this character and I will most likely level him to 70 first. But he’s considered another DPS class (damage per second, or a class who sits there and beats really hard on the enemy), and so finding a raiding spot for him (if that is what I decide to do) will be a little hard.  In PvP I am very comfortable with Borattan and can hold my own against most opponents.  With Bratta, even though people consider Warlocks overpowered, I struggle in PvP.

My next alt to focus on is my level 27 Warrior.  I decided to roll a tank (i.e. the character who is supposed to take all the hits from the enemy monsters so the DPS and healers don’t die) but I wanted there to be a bit of irony.  So I created a female gnome (the smallest race in the game) with cute pink pigtails and wearing as much pink gear as possible.  Her name is Improbable.  It’s a lot of fun playing her.

Finally I decided to create a Draenei Shaman and named him Leitmotif, after an album by a progressive band named Dredg. Alternatively, a leitmotif is a recurring musical theme that is associated with a particular person, place, or idea.  Coming from such a musical background that I do I thought it very appropriate.  I created a Shaman in order to fill the healing roll but still be flexible so I can adequately DPS and even tank in some situations if I needed to do so.  And as I tell my friend Heathe, Shamans are just Druids that don’t suck.

Between those three characters, I have plenty to keep me busy for a while.  Since Blizzard decided to lower the amount of experience points needed to level, it shouldn’t take too much time to get them all to level 70.  Let’s see if I still remain interested in the game to get them there!

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