Death Knights

Ok, the real question on the minds of everyone who plays, and can make a Death Knight when WotLK comes out is:

Do I level my highest toon to 80 or play a Death Knight.

My answer: All four.

I'm going to level my Druid and Gnome to 80 on Dark Iron, my main server.*

However, I'm also going to level a pair of Death Knights on another server where a different set of friends play. The only question remaining is whether they both will be female gnomes with poofy hair. It's assured both will be gnomes, but I might make one male.

So, when I'm ganked to death by all the arena uber-super-grand-masters leveling in Northrend, in their "gank-suits," I'll pop over to my other friends PVE server and level a pair of DK's.


*I have two accounts , two computers, and I dual-box.

Azeroth Big, Outland Small, Dire Maul Easy

I helped a friend with Dire Maul West yesterday. I helped him get his charger for his pally. We used a rogue to pick the lock. I figured I would just leave Dire Maul West after we were done and go get the key in Dire Maul East, so I can later help my pally get his charger (I have two accounts, don't try this with only one). Instead I got locked inside and had to teleport to Moonglade and fly back to Feathermoon again.

It takes something like 10-12 minutes for each flight, which means I spent 20 minutes yesterday on a gryphon. This was after riding my robot chicken with my gnome warrior from Gadgetzan to Feathermoon (with a swim at the end) just about 20 minutes before helping with Dire Maul.

I'm fairly sure that in the time I spent riding from Gadgetzan to Feathermoon or in the time I flew from Moonglade to Feathermoon, I could have ridden from one end of Outland to the other. This isn't all bad, I actually like that Azeroth is so damn big and full of interesting visuals, but can we please get faster gryphons, or more teleports, or something. Outland, on the other hand, is tiny, and though it has some cool visuals, don't blink, you might miss them.

As an aside, I stealthed in to Dire Maul East and managed to get the key with my 67 Nelf Druid, really no sweat. Except I'd never been there before and fell off one of the ledges into the bottom. One of the ledges has what looks like vines on it, turns out the ledge is cracked there and you fall. While trying to find the way to the top took on a boss in cat form (should have used bear) and got killed. Otherwise getting the key for Dire Maul East was really not hard at all. I had to clear some mobs to talk to that imp each time, but in the end, I just beared up and beat the crap out of him and all his buddies. I finished the fight at about 40% health and never had to heal.

Druid Gnomes

Just to be clear, I chose the name DruidGnome because I WANT to play a gnome that can heal, and it would just be totally weird and funny if Blizzard let gnomes become druids.

There a plenty of others who feel Gnomes should be able to heal. Search the WoW forums and you should see plenty requests and complaints on the subject.

After starting this and doing a search, I noticed the following:

The Gnome Druid Movement
(the images are 404ed, but the main argument is interesting)

Gnome Bear Form
(originally from this thread)

And apparently there are transporter accidents.

Which are all good starts, but really, I want a Gnome Druid because it's totally freaking weird.

And just FYI I had nothing to do with this video, but I kind of like it, since it reminds me that I don't have a little poofy haired gnome warrior wielding a lightsaber and I need to go make one.

Yes, yet another alt...

Altamatic Altaholism

I have tons of Alts and I'm not afraid to use them. If only I could raid...

I was going to count up all the toons and levels I have on various servers, but that looked like too much work and Skroo asked me to tank with my highest level alt for one of his alts last night. Yes, my highest level alt, not my main, cause honestly, I have no idea which toon is my main.

I know conventional wisdom is that the highest toon is your main, but in my case, I really don't feel that way. My highest toon is just the one that I have played the most. I am certain I have spent at least as much time on toons under twenty, that I have deleted, as on my highest toon, and, more importantly, had just as much fun.

Skroo, who is the guy who turned me on to WoW when I asked about MMOs, loves to raid and he's been at me to GET TO 70 since the beginning, and he's been very helpful, but, considering that my highest level toon was probably the tenth one I created, I'm sure it's been at least a tiny bit annoying, since he knows me in real life and I play the same game on the same server.

So, I am slowly leveling my druid and learning to tank, but I'm still horribly tempted by alts, and the two hours I spent playing a new mage on another server a couple of days ago I'll just keep to myself and I won't mention the priest I made last week...