I'm sure that there have been many a blog post on what the author's view of an archetype is in WoW. This is mine. 8~P Now, archetypes are not the most efficient builds, the best leveling specs, or the biggest money makers.
Let me first say, that I like playing archetypes. When I make an character and choose a talent build and profession combo that I think "fits" the character best, I have a more enjoyable experience. I feel like I'm actually role-playing THE archetype of what ever race/class that I've picked. My dwarf hunter is such an example.
I'm still trying to figure out how best to write this post, so please bear with me. I suppose I'll list my idea of some of my more favorite archetypes, or the ones I think are more obvious to me.
Dwarf Beast Master Hunter, Miner/Engineer. This is Dwarfvader.
Beast Master spec: Hunters have a special bond with their pet and this spec emphasizes the pet.
Miner: Uh...Dwarf = mines, right?
Engineer: DV uses guns because I think Dwarves should use guns. Bows are for Elves. So, using guns means making them as well as ammo. Ergo, engineer.
Night Elf/Blood Elf Beast Master Hunter, Skinner/Leatherworker. This is Rysteranch.
BM spec: See above.
Skinner: If you're going to be a LW, then you should be a skinner. Besides, hunting involves killing skinnable animals.
Leatherworker: If fletching was a profession, I'd probably pick that only if woodcutting was also available. Given that it's not an option, making leather/mail armor is the next best thing.
Night Elf/Tauren Druid, Herbalism/Alchemy. This is Flowerdax.
I am not stuck on a spec for Druids, although I do lean toward Feral because that seems to be the "typical" talent build, and I am more likely to be a bear or kitty.
Herbalism: I view Druids as flower picking, long haired, hippie freaks. So, this fits nicely.
Alchemy: Along with the flower picking, this goes with the hippie drug-culture theme.
Human Holy Priest, Tailoring/Enchanting. This is almost Human Daxe and BE Daxe.
Holy spec: When I think of "The Light" I can't help but think of the great cathedral in Stormwind; sorry, but the temple in Darnasty to Elune should be manned by Druids....
Tailoring: Priests, by nature, are soft handed, "inside" individuals more apt to read a book or pick up embroidering than get their hands dirty by mining, skinning, or actually working.
Enchanting: I see this profession as viable by any caster class, as it adds to the arcane or magic knowledge that would be inherent in knowing spells and the like.
Other race/class combos:
Orc warriors, warlocks, and shammys
Undead Shadow Priests, warlocks, and mages.
Tauren hunters - see Dwarf hunters, I see a lot of similarities between the two.
Gnome mages, warlocks, and rogues.
Blood Elf mages, warlocks, Shadow Priests, and hunters - They are Elves, ya know...
Draenai holy priests and paladins - The draenai seem to be very attuned to "the Light".
Troll hunters and shammys.
Some race/class combos I think are the anti-archetype include:
Blood Elf Holy Priests - Yes I have a couple, but that doesn't make it right.
Gnome Warriors - Sorry Wally, it's unconventional, which is cool. But cool doesn't make it right either...haha
Draenai Mages and shammys - the Draenai are tied to the Light, which means priests and pallys.
Dwarf rogues - pickpocket with those fat fingers? Right.
So, by listing some of the anti-archetypes, I also realize that a lot of fun can be had by playing such a character. Watching a gnome tank a fel reaver is a hoot! And, of course, one of my favorite combos is the pink haired female gnome warlocks; all the mastery of the dark arts wrapped up in a cute bubbly package!
I'm sure my two readers have their own archetypes in mind, feel free to list them in the comments.
EDIT: Fixed my poor spelling of archetype.../sigh.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Impromtu Poxing
Last night, I saw that 4/5 of the Purple Poxers were on Kael'thas, so I put out feelers for an extra "running around" session. The idea was to finish or move along some class quests for Wara and Sal, as well as grab some flight points and maybe do the SM quest we picked up in the Graveyard.
Well, we ended up doing Wara's quest first in 1K needles; it was easy peasy. We grabbed the FP at Freewind Post and headed back to Camp T for the journey into Dustwallow. Hmmm, Dustwallow is a 35-45 level area and we're all level 30. This could be interesting....
The level 37 spider that first attacked us was not that much of an issue. The 37 deserter, the 38 spider, and the 39 spider were all long fights, but thankfully, single mob fights. The real challenge was when we aggroed a ?? dragonkin dude. HO-BOY!! Alright, everyone calm down....Harisan had a hard time getting aggro due to most of her spells being resisted, but after a little bit, she finally hit it enough to tank it. It was a loooooong fight due to the majority of all our spells being resisted and attacks being dodged, but in the end, we were victorious!!
So, Sal got to complete one of the harder legs of his class quest, we grabbed the Mudsprocket FP
, and we got the heck outta there back to 1K needles. It was a short jaunt to the raceway and another part of Sal's chain quest, and we ended the night after picking up the FP in Tanaris.
So, next week, we should be able to finish running around and maybe complete the Guano quest. The following week, we should be raring to go put a pox on Doan and his cronies in the Library!
Well, we ended up doing Wara's quest first in 1K needles; it was easy peasy. We grabbed the FP at Freewind Post and headed back to Camp T for the journey into Dustwallow. Hmmm, Dustwallow is a 35-45 level area and we're all level 30. This could be interesting....
The level 37 spider that first attacked us was not that much of an issue. The 37 deserter, the 38 spider, and the 39 spider were all long fights, but thankfully, single mob fights. The real challenge was when we aggroed a ?? dragonkin dude. HO-BOY!! Alright, everyone calm down....Harisan had a hard time getting aggro due to most of her spells being resisted, but after a little bit, she finally hit it enough to tank it. It was a loooooong fight due to the majority of all our spells being resisted and attacks being dodged, but in the end, we were victorious!!
So, Sal got to complete one of the harder legs of his class quest, we grabbed the Mudsprocket FP
, and we got the heck outta there back to 1K needles. It was a short jaunt to the raceway and another part of Sal's chain quest, and we ended the night after picking up the FP in Tanaris.
So, next week, we should be able to finish running around and maybe complete the Guano quest. The following week, we should be raring to go put a pox on Doan and his cronies in the Library!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Moar posts!!
Well, unlike Dammy, I have no problem with people posting multiple times a day. In fact, I'm constantly checking the blogs that have a history of multiposting. So, with that said, here's another post.
As you can see from my previous post, someone (three guesses, first two don't count) has their Big Bear Butt. I have been leveling this girly with a priest that I only met a couple of days ago. We got to talking for one reason or another and decided to level our toons together. He has a level 70 druid and I have a level 70 priest (or 2), so we figured we'd be able to give each other tips and tricks on playing the classes.
We've had a ton of fun just leveling to 10. We are both playing female toons, so we have a good time flirting/dancing with the guys and sitting in the hot tubs...er..moonwells. We've both made macros for our buffs with the line "/y GIRLS GONE WILD", which was inspired by my Mark of the Wild buff. Yes, it's sophomoric and silly, but that's just the way we're rolling...haha.
Since his playtime usually ends around 5pm my time, and that's the time I really need to get dinner going, we're fortunate that we both have around 2 hours to play together without interruption. Currently, he is away from his family on business, so his internet connection stinks and he occasionally will be unavailable for weeks, maybe months, on end.
So, we'll have to wait and see if we'll be able to continue what we've started. I really have no problem waiting around because I'm really interested in this toon for her Herbing and Alchemy skills. Although, I am looking forward to being able to charge right into a fight knowing he has my back on heals, even if I've died already due to lag and D/C issues...lol.
As you can see from my previous post, someone (three guesses, first two don't count) has their Big Bear Butt. I have been leveling this girly with a priest that I only met a couple of days ago. We got to talking for one reason or another and decided to level our toons together. He has a level 70 druid and I have a level 70 priest (or 2), so we figured we'd be able to give each other tips and tricks on playing the classes.
We've had a ton of fun just leveling to 10. We are both playing female toons, so we have a good time flirting/dancing with the guys and sitting in the hot tubs...er..moonwells. We've both made macros for our buffs with the line "/y GIRLS GONE WILD", which was inspired by my Mark of the Wild buff. Yes, it's sophomoric and silly, but that's just the way we're rolling...haha.
Since his playtime usually ends around 5pm my time, and that's the time I really need to get dinner going, we're fortunate that we both have around 2 hours to play together without interruption. Currently, he is away from his family on business, so his internet connection stinks and he occasionally will be unavailable for weeks, maybe months, on end.
So, we'll have to wait and see if we'll be able to continue what we've started. I really have no problem waiting around because I'm really interested in this toon for her Herbing and Alchemy skills. Although, I am looking forward to being able to charge right into a fight knowing he has my back on heals, even if I've died already due to lag and D/C issues...lol.
Level 28/29...SM?
Ok, ok, now I haven't read any of the other write ups, and I know I'm late. Sorry. Yes, the Purple Poxers went into Scarlet Monastery on Tuesday; the plan was to do the Graveyard and see how far we could get in the Library. The Graveyard has level 31-33 mobs; the Library has level 33-35 mobs.
We started the evening with a mix of level 28 and 29's and had all dinged 29 by the end of the first Graveyard run. So, off to the Library we went. The first couple of pulls were...interesting. We had some adds from runners and quite a lot of our spells were being resisted. But we survived and moved on. We cleared the courtyard and took on Loksey with his puppies - 4 level 33/34 elite mobs, one of which was a boss.
We did not die. I ran out of mana, and Madja had to help heal, but in the end, we were all standing and amazed that we had just done what we did at level 29. So, we pushed deeper into the Library and just after the end of the first hall, wiped. The mobs were level 33/34, but there were 5 of them. The skull kept getting heals also, so that didn't help. We figured out we could handle 3-4 of the mobs if it was just tank 'n spank, but fighting against group dynamics was a different matter. The resisted spells just added up to too many misses and wasted mana.
Since we already had respawns when we retrieved our corpses and since we still had an hour and a half left for our playtime, we decided to run the Graveyard a couple of times. We ended up running it 3 times (each of which ended with the killing of the guy at the bottom of the end crypt.), killing 2 rare spawns and the guy in the aforementioned parenthetical. Harisan got a REALLY nice chestpiece off one of the rares, we all dinged 30, and some of us got some upgrades.
So, now that we have our level 30 spells, we figure we should be able to run the Library next week. I think we finally found a challenge....
We started the evening with a mix of level 28 and 29's and had all dinged 29 by the end of the first Graveyard run. So, off to the Library we went. The first couple of pulls were...interesting. We had some adds from runners and quite a lot of our spells were being resisted. But we survived and moved on. We cleared the courtyard and took on Loksey with his puppies - 4 level 33/34 elite mobs, one of which was a boss.
We did not die. I ran out of mana, and Madja had to help heal, but in the end, we were all standing and amazed that we had just done what we did at level 29. So, we pushed deeper into the Library and just after the end of the first hall, wiped. The mobs were level 33/34, but there were 5 of them. The skull kept getting heals also, so that didn't help. We figured out we could handle 3-4 of the mobs if it was just tank 'n spank, but fighting against group dynamics was a different matter. The resisted spells just added up to too many misses and wasted mana.
Since we already had respawns when we retrieved our corpses and since we still had an hour and a half left for our playtime, we decided to run the Graveyard a couple of times. We ended up running it 3 times (each of which ended with the killing of the guy at the bottom of the end crypt.), killing 2 rare spawns and the guy in the aforementioned parenthetical. Harisan got a REALLY nice chestpiece off one of the rares, we all dinged 30, and some of us got some upgrades.
So, now that we have our level 30 spells, we figure we should be able to run the Library next week. I think we finally found a challenge....
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Seeing double...triple...uh..
I apologize for the multiple posts on the previous entry. The preview link doesn't always present the actual way the post is displayed, so, I'm having to fiddle with it a bit.
EDIT: Ok, it's not perfect, but I'm sure you guys are tired of the revisionist history....
EDIT: Ok, it's not perfect, but I'm sure you guys are tired of the revisionist history....
Gnomer is Gnot bad!
I'm not sure if it was the nerf bat or the well organized team of the Purple Poxers, but let me tell ya, Gnomer ain't that bad.
Now, we were forearmed with the knowledge of the Alarm-bots, so we tried to kill them immediately, but even when they did get off their warning, only two elites came. Phhhhht!
Now, being Horde, we got to have a little different experience than our Alliance counterparts.
First of all, we only had two quests inside the instance (I'm not counting the quest for the teleporter) - Kill the last dude and escort the goblin out. So we didn't have to fiddle with keycards and all the other quests that those poor Alliance saps have to deal with.
Secondly, we did have the teleporter quest! I present to you two pics:
Anyone notice what poor Sprok is wearing? That's right....a Red Shirt.....he's gonna die....lol.
Anyways, we found all the bosses, got a little lost, and generally had a great time! We're still looking for a challenge, though I did run low on mana once....but for the most part, a Renew and a couple of Lesser Heals did the trick.
The Poxers went to G-city
and pwn'd the place, what a pity
The loot, it was phat
and Madja was a cat
and we exited looking real pretty.
Next up, Scarlet Monastery: Graveyard and Library!
Now, we were forearmed with the knowledge of the Alarm-bots, so we tried to kill them immediately, but even when they did get off their warning, only two elites came. Phhhhht!
Now, being Horde, we got to have a little different experience than our Alliance counterparts.
First of all, we only had two quests inside the instance (I'm not counting the quest for the teleporter) - Kill the last dude and escort the goblin out. So we didn't have to fiddle with keycards and all the other quests that those poor Alliance saps have to deal with.
Secondly, we did have the teleporter quest! I present to you two pics:
Hmmm, Something seems familiar about these two...Anyone notice what poor Sprok is wearing? That's right....a Red Shirt.....he's gonna die....lol.
Anyways, we found all the bosses, got a little lost, and generally had a great time! We're still looking for a challenge, though I did run low on mana once....but for the most part, a Renew and a couple of Lesser Heals did the trick.
The Poxers went to G-city
and pwn'd the place, what a pity
The loot, it was phat
and Madja was a cat
and we exited looking real pretty.
Next up, Scarlet Monastery: Graveyard and Library!
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