When World of Warcraft Classic first released it took me a couple of weeks to grit my teeth, lower my head, crack my knuckles and succumb to the call. It had been years since I had last played and I wasn't sure if I really wanted to get back into it.
I've had my share of bad experiences in WoW as well as good, but as with most things we focus on the bad. The bad in my case? "Adult" guilds filled with bona fide adults who acted like school children. Toxic people. Elitists.
So basically, my issue was PEOPLE. 😂
At the same time there were some good people mixed in amongst the bad -- just like anywhere, I guess -- and it was they (plus a bunch of posts in #steemace) who convinced me to give Classic a try. Which I also wrote about behind these blue words.
I stopped because my friend just had to choose a pvp server and I couldn't bloody do anything because of one evil Alliance rogue. A few times is fine and dandy and to be expected, but when the same max-level rogue haunts your little level 30 for your entire day in-game, it gets old and you decide to do something else with your time.
My friend had recently started a new Classic character and I decided to see if I could catch up to him and perhaps surpass him, because I'm competitive like that. He was still on that pvp server though. 👀 So I only had one option.
Make a rogue.
You literally can't be anything else on a pvp server.
MAKE A ROGUE.
I had a Pandaren Assassination Rogue back in retail WoW who I enjoyed, but I didn't quite enjoy her enough to induct her into my main cast of characters -- a warrior, priest, and hunter.
Having never mained a rogue, I'm not really too familiar with the abilities and I'm not snappy with the common rogue techniques like sap this, gouge that, fight that, crowd control this, win, victory!
I am in Star Wars: the Old Republic 😅 I love the Imperial Agent stabby-stabby dance that annihilates everything, but this is entirely different.
I'm enjoying it though.
I started off trying to replicate my Pandaren Assassination Rogue, but after investigating the trees I soon decided that Assassination was for chumps and I needed to go mainly Combat and Subtlety if I wanted to do any real damage and perform proper sneaky techniques.
Despite my not being entirely familiar with the class, I'm succeeding far more than I was with my warrior, a class I know inside and out. I've been taking on creatures higher level than me, the Echo Island trolls that annihilated my warrior early on were a piece of cake, and even a goblin warlock that gave my warrior much trouble was a complete walk in the park for this rogue.
At the time of writing this I've reach level 21, have earned 30gold which is amazing for a lowbie in Classic, and am on the verge of at last entering contested lands where this time I get to be the arsehole rogue that makes everyone's life a misery.
MUAHAHA.
More importantly, my friend's new Classic character is level 22 so I'm on the verge of surpassing him too!
MUAHAHAHA!!
Until next time 😊
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