Egwene and Damer
The following events are what took place as my wife tried to decide what kind of character she was going to play for our WoW experiment. After reading my posts on the various classes and spending some time thinking about her options, my wife sent me the following entry to post here. The following are her words alone. I have not changed a single thing that she wrote. I promise. Not a word.
Hi everyone, Egwene here. A few days ago Adrenis caught me in a moment of weakness and convinced me to play Wow for a minimum of 10 days, so that he could blog about it. Honestly, WoW is the bane of my existence, but Adrenis has been
so good about not playing too muchsuch a tiger in the sack lately (Ed. Note: Rawr!) that I’m going to give it a shot. He’s really excited about this and, since he is such agreat father and husbanddreamy awesome hunk, I want to do it for him.After agreeing to play Wow, Adrenis started giving me a very detailed summary of all of the classes while I cooked dinner. Between chopping onions, and watching items on the stove, I got lost pretty quickly. So I suggested that he write a few posts on the classes, and then I would read the posts and make a decision. After reading them, here are my thoughts.
Melee vs. Ranged Attack
I really stink at maneuvering characters. It doesn’t matter what we’re playing: Halo, SSX3, or Mario Carts - I can’t steer. I just end up spinning in circles while an alien kills me, falling off a mountain, or crashing my car into something. So, as soon as I heard about the different classes, I knew from past (embarrasing) experiences that I did not need to play one that specializes in melee attacks. So that eliminates the warrior, rogue, and paladin.
Good vs. Evil
I know, I know - there are no “evil” characters in WoW. But I really just can’t bring myself roll a class that even seems evil. (I don’t really try to make excuses for the vagaries of my decision-making; I’m just relieved that my husband finds them amusing.) After reading Part One of the Newbie’s Guide to Wow, I deem the following classes to be evil and rule them out: Warlock.
Hmm…I really thought that I would have eliminated more than one class with that one. But while we’re on the topic I also deem the orcs, trolls, and undead to be evil. Having read Lord of the Rings , I just can’t get past the fact that orcs and trolls should be bad guys. I am undecided about the tauren, but they remind me somewhat of the trollocs in the Wheel of Time series, so they are not going to be my first choice.
Coolness Factor
In case you’ve lost count, the remaining choices at this point are mage, shaman, priest, hunter, and druid, with the rogue possibly thrown back into the pot because I really like the idea of using poisons. I tend to enjoy playing characters that do magical damage, rather than physical, so that rules out the hunter. The idea of being a priest or a shaman doesn’t really appeal to me, so I’m ruling them out too.That leaves the mage, druid, and rogue.
After rereading the posts on these classes, I discovered that you can play a druid as a mage or a rogue. Since I really liked the rogue and the mage, the druid seemed like a good option. The fact that I would get to shapeshift as well only strengthened my decision, as that is a super cool ability.
So, a druid it is!
I get that in my email and a little while later, my wife comes into my office. Here’s an accurate-as-possible re-creation of the conversation we had:
Me: So, a druid, huh?
Her: Yeah, they sound really cool and I like the whole shape-shifting thing.
Me: Ok, well, since we’re thinking about playing Horde, then this is what your character will look like.
Her: Aaack! What is that?
Me: That’s a tauren. A walking, talking cow. They’re the only race that can play a Druid on the Horde.
Her: Well, that’s not gonna work at all. I want to be cute and sexy.
Me: Ok, then I guess we could play as Alliance and you could be a night elf.
Her: Hmmm… I’m not really digging the face paint but she is pretty hot… I think we can go with that.
Me: But you said that you liked the idea of playing the druid as a mage right? So then this is what you’ll eventually be playing as.
Her: Aaack! What is that? That’s worse than the cow chick!
Me: That’s the moonkin form. That’s the main form you’ll use as a Balance Druid.
Her: Well, that’s not going to work at all. I have to choose another class.
(Leaves the room.)
After a bit more discussion, we ended up as this:
She’s a Mage named Egwene and I’m a Paladin named Damer. It worked out pretty well I think. I definitely wanted one of us to be able to heal but I also wanted her to be in the lead as much as possible instead of hanging back healing me. So I think this will work fine. I’ll post more on our adventures together as we level up!
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