I’ve been playing the same rogue character since I started with WoW in December 2004. I tried a few alts, but only one alt ever became level capped, and that was done so I could get some raid tanking experience in anticipation of my future death knight. I love my rogue and have done much with it. I raided up into tier 2 content in Azeroth. In Outland my guild is pushing through tier 6, trying to down Illidan before expansion. I’ve done PvP, from getting a Knight-Captain rank in the old honor system to 5v5 arena teams. The rogue is exalted throughout Azeroth and Outland, has won the Stranglehorn Vale fishing contest, has all the raid titles (though Hand of Ad’al always felt like the beginning or ending of a joke), and a pretty green netherdrake.
Above all these last three, almost four, years have given me an intimate understanding of the rogue class which allows me to be one of the top melee DPSers in my guild. And this impressive character, on expansion day, will be sitting in Shattrath City gaining rested XP… for a long time.
Yeah, that’s 4 years I won’t get back now because I’m rerolling. Oh well, nothing much planned for the next 4 years. MMOs are all time sinks, put in enough effort and anyone (case in point) can becoming a pixel guru.
That says a lot, I think, for the death knight class. Though within my own guild I’m seeing very little interest in taking up a death knight as their new main. If that turns out to be the case everywhere then I hope I can help my death knight main character brethren out there, and probably all of the death knight alts we’re bound to see as well. Of course some of my motivations for finally switching main characters aren’t related to the death knight class so much. My guild has traditionally had a tank shortage, so a death knight who can DPS or tank should be welcomed. When was the last time who had a group say, “Hey, we need a rogue before we can go.” I’ve also always wanted to play a gnome. My rogue is a human, because when I created it I was new to MMOs and was quite boring and unimaginative in terms of creating my character. The desire was never strong enough to justify rerolling my rogue for another rogue, but I’ve got to start over with a death knight anyway so why not. Besides, what in all of Azeroth is more evil, in appearance and soul, than a female gnome death knight with pink pigtails?
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