Alt-o-rama

1. I am never leveling an alt again.

Don't get me wrong. I will continue rolling and playing alts. They're a blast, I love learning new playstyles, and sometimes I just need a break from the daily quests/gather stuff/rep grind of end-game. (Not the PVP, but I'm not always in the mood to shoot and/or heal people in the face.)

But I'm going to PLAY alts rather than LEVEL them. Ideale and Ahami were a blast because I just played them, my way and at my pace, instead of leveling them. Onashne is still a ton of fun — but every zone between the Arathi Highlands and the Western Plaguelands was a half-touched blur. Taking your time and savoring the "leveling process" is much more fun than shooting up 22 levels in a couple weeks.

2. My first three characters were my troll shaman, an undead priest, and a human rogue. I rolled all three within the first couple days of buying the game, and leveled them pretty much side-by-side for 20 levels each — which took a long time because I had no idea what I was doing.

The rogue I never really developed as far as story went. In fact, I only rolled her because I thought people would be RPing in an MMORPG (silly thought, right?) and didn't know enough about the lore to feel comfortable as anything but a human or undead. (The troll shaman was because I really, really wanted a shaman and liked Horde better — I spent my first few levels praying that no one would interact with me until I figured out no one on Whisperwind RPed. Ahami was much more developed than that original troll shaman, and is much more fun to play.)

The Forsaken priest, though. Oh, I pored over the WoWWiki entry on the Forsaken, and read every snippet of lore I could get my hands on. I came up with a backstory for her. I had dreams about her story (don't laugh). And she was the first character I rolled over on VeCo, but like Ideale, she was abandoned at level 8 while I tried other servers and dabbled with Alliance, because I couldn't get into shadow priests. I'm not sure now whether that was because she's just NOT a shadow priest, or because I hate the style — when I leveled her the first time on Whisperwind, I'd put all my points in discipline because I didn't know it wasn't a leveling spec (actually, she's just lucky I actually put all her points in one tree — the shaman and rogue were not so favored). I picked her up briefly when I got a real life friend to roll a warlock on VeCo, then dropped her for another hunter and eventually deleted her to roll Silang.

But probably my biggest regret about the game is that I never leveled my priest. And I had two open spots after consolidating bank alts, so a few days ago, I rerolled her. And I'm so glad I did — I missed her!

3. I still kind of hate warlocks. Which is too bad, because crazy Malisya's fun to play. Maybe I'll put her on Feathermoon with my other "fun to RP but taking up too much space" toons.