The Bizarro Warcraft World

Since I’d had about enough of multi-hour queues on my real Warcraft server, the past few days I’ve been committing class, realm and server adultery … the gates of Hell yawn wide before me, I’m that full of sin.

I created a just-for-sport character on a server with only about 12 players, one of which is me: human rogue. (Hey, if I’m going to screw around behind my guild’s back, I might as well be the Chosen Class in the Chosen Realm.) Eventually, I’ll return to my real online job: Horde Priest and leveling slower than a roleplayer.

This is how alliance leveling goes: grab 20 quests from two or three buildings, run out to the kill area about 50 paces away, run back, ding to level 10. Move to the next area, rinse, repeat, ding level 15. Ok, I exaggerate, but not as much as you’d think.

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Rezz Yourself! (It’s faster)

I have this e-friend — known him since way back, maybe 6 or 7 games ago. He has a saying, “You can really tell a lot about a game by how it treats the clerics.” I’ve come to realize over the years, this is dead-on gospel.

Which brings us to Warcraft, that I may start referring to as Warcrash — because me and this game, our love affair is fast coming to an end.

I volunteered to take one of the mandated priest positions in my WoW guild, well, mostly because everyone else already called rogue or shaman so the guildleader was screaming that he needed more priests. We do have one warrior in the guild, apparently that class really sucks.

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