Spec, the Final Frontier
Well, the cat was finally out of the bag, the other day, when Sehainne asked in Vent if I was still Fury spec. Historically, I have been known to tell as much of the truth as I can without venturing into "unmititaged frabrication," but there was certainly nothing to gain by not letting my guildies in on my deepest, darkest WoW secret: I finally respec'ed over to Protection.
/wrist
I kid about the drama involved, of course. Varice was Protection, from 58+, but bless his heart, he just didn't have the gear to be cool about it. The guild situation was so precarious on Magtheridon that there was no possible way to get him properly geared to make the most of everything that he had going on. All things considered, when I'd decided to roll a character on Whisperwind to play with this band of misfits known as The Pod People, I thought long and hard about which class to play. From the sound of that first podcast I listened to, I was just going to get eaten by a lvl 12 elite murloc, so it hardly mattered.
I considered resurrecting Ruckuss, my very first Horde character- a hunter from Skywall, then shaman on Shattered Hand, but the name wasn't available. There was the option of playing a caster, but to be entirely honest, that just didn't appeal to me in the least. Besides, Eloy and Kirn were casters, and Cromley was a shaman, so that didn't light any fires, either. I'd pretty much come to the decision to bring Kumite, my troll rogue on Shattered Hand, back from retirement, even getting so far as the character creation screen, reproducing him perfectly. I just wasn't jiving with the yellow facial tattoo set. At this point, I discovered that even bald, you could manipulate the face paint colors by changing hair color, though it not be present. I found a nice blue tint to the skin, and then I ran across a striking complementary navy for the face art, and I was digging it. With the default class for all races being warrior, when you're rolling a new character, something caused me to pause and look at this troll. Did I really want to see about going through this tanking nonsense all over again? Varice isn't even 60, at this point. I was torn as to what I wanted to do. Granted, I I'd just found out that Kumite was taken, name-wise, so there went that plan. I had to come up with a name for this bugger, and given the kindred spirits I'd heard on Taverncast, I figured I'd take a leap and put it all on the table, geek-wise. In this position, it took me about 7 seconds to dredge up a semi-obscure Star Wars reference that was suitable for this troll. Thus, Echuta was born.
As far as character class went, though, I liked what I heard from these guys on this crazy TC show. If I was going to play with these miscreants, I might as well make as good a showing as possible, and in the six months that I'd been playing the game, the only thing I knew to do was to tank. Oh well, here we go again. At least I knew what I was doing, this time, and where all the best drops for my class were. The one thing I promised myself, however, was that I wasn't necessarily going to sacrifice my own enjoyment of the game for stupid UBRS pugs, trying to get my Draconian Deflector. Protection spec was a miserable experience for me, and I wasn't going to get burned like that again. Not unless these folks were worth it. But this was going to be an alt guild, anyway, so it's not like I was even going to see Scarlet Monastery. Good, I won't ever really have to tank. That's gonna rock. I can stay Arms on this char, and everybody's happy.
/grin
/wrist
I kid about the drama involved, of course. Varice was Protection, from 58+, but bless his heart, he just didn't have the gear to be cool about it. The guild situation was so precarious on Magtheridon that there was no possible way to get him properly geared to make the most of everything that he had going on. All things considered, when I'd decided to roll a character on Whisperwind to play with this band of misfits known as The Pod People, I thought long and hard about which class to play. From the sound of that first podcast I listened to, I was just going to get eaten by a lvl 12 elite murloc, so it hardly mattered.
I considered resurrecting Ruckuss, my very first Horde character- a hunter from Skywall, then shaman on Shattered Hand, but the name wasn't available. There was the option of playing a caster, but to be entirely honest, that just didn't appeal to me in the least. Besides, Eloy and Kirn were casters, and Cromley was a shaman, so that didn't light any fires, either. I'd pretty much come to the decision to bring Kumite, my troll rogue on Shattered Hand, back from retirement, even getting so far as the character creation screen, reproducing him perfectly. I just wasn't jiving with the yellow facial tattoo set. At this point, I discovered that even bald, you could manipulate the face paint colors by changing hair color, though it not be present. I found a nice blue tint to the skin, and then I ran across a striking complementary navy for the face art, and I was digging it. With the default class for all races being warrior, when you're rolling a new character, something caused me to pause and look at this troll. Did I really want to see about going through this tanking nonsense all over again? Varice isn't even 60, at this point. I was torn as to what I wanted to do. Granted, I I'd just found out that Kumite was taken, name-wise, so there went that plan. I had to come up with a name for this bugger, and given the kindred spirits I'd heard on Taverncast, I figured I'd take a leap and put it all on the table, geek-wise. In this position, it took me about 7 seconds to dredge up a semi-obscure Star Wars reference that was suitable for this troll. Thus, Echuta was born.
As far as character class went, though, I liked what I heard from these guys on this crazy TC show. If I was going to play with these miscreants, I might as well make as good a showing as possible, and in the six months that I'd been playing the game, the only thing I knew to do was to tank. Oh well, here we go again. At least I knew what I was doing, this time, and where all the best drops for my class were. The one thing I promised myself, however, was that I wasn't necessarily going to sacrifice my own enjoyment of the game for stupid UBRS pugs, trying to get my Draconian Deflector. Protection spec was a miserable experience for me, and I wasn't going to get burned like that again. Not unless these folks were worth it. But this was going to be an alt guild, anyway, so it's not like I was even going to see Scarlet Monastery. Good, I won't ever really have to tank. That's gonna rock. I can stay Arms on this char, and everybody's happy.
/grin
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