Introducing Kajah and the Alliance Update

Over the weekend, my Moon Guard Death Knight, Relimna, reached 300 herbalism to go with her 300 mining, dinged 60, and then I race-changed her into a Dwarf. I was really stuck on what to name her, though, so I went with Kajah.

In my head-canon, the real Kajah is a Victorian Werewolf sort. She’s extremely eccentric, aloof and an X-Men fan character (though she can and does stand alone – she insists on it). Sometimes I think of her as a werehyena, because hyenas are awesome, though for simplicity’s sake a werewolf works as well.

No, Dwarf Kajah will not be a Worgen in the guise of a Dwarf or some other such nonsense. She’s a run-of-the-mill, undead Dwarven woman with a penchant for taking hits to the face. She is an Unholy Tank with a Ghoul companion that she has named Mortimer and who may or may not have been her now-deceased husband in life. This Kajah will be as eccentric and detached as the real one – I hope – though she is most certainly dead. I cannot tell you if she’s rotting or not because I’m not going to take off her armour/clothing and check, and neither is anyone else – but beneath the scents of cigar smoke, cheap mead and crushed Felweed, there is indeed something foul.

The MG crew got a little monetary boost with the sales of Kajah’s ore – Mithril is crazy expensive over there – and some of her herbs. Tristynne has given up trying to sell glyphs/ink and sells her pigments instead, I’m guessing people buy those to level with, I’m not sure why. Taashti went Disc, but I haven’t actually attempted healing with her yet (NO PRAYER OF MENDING, OMG, HOW WILL I SURVIVE).

Did I mention that the queue on Moon Guard for a level 60 tank was … about 20 minutes? No lie. This was also kinda late at night, though, so maybe it’ll be better at another point.

I haven’t been on MG much lately as I’ve been working on Masamba and Delplas, so my time has been eaten up by all of that. I am hoping to finish pushing Daniil to 10 so I can get Garios to 15, then Daniil to 15, then attempt the LFG project with those two.

Babes in Dwarfland

My first ever Alliance character to make it past level 20 is edging up to level 40, and has been into a few more PuGs than my 80s – in fact, I kind of want to get the pug pet for her.

I swapped Ailsey from Protection to Retribution, deciding to favour the quick and messy approach to leveling over “AoE everything to death, slowly, but profit anyway” because I don’t want to spend years leveling this poor girl. I kind of want her to see level 80.

Of the three PuG dungeon runs that I dragged her into, two of them were in Scarlet Monastery. SM Cathedral and SM Armory, both with warrior tanks, wound up being AoE-fests that were cleared relatively quickly. Uldaman was also cleared pretty quickly (though the meleeing, mob-pulling mage made me facedesk repeatedly, but the druid tank booted him, yay!). I love SM because:

1. It’s easy.
2. The loot is awesome for casters and metal-wearers.
3. It’s fast.
4. The XP is plentiful.
5. SO. MUCH. CLOTH.

Ailsey will probably finish up level 39 in dungeons in her quest for a pug. Now… I wonder how some of my other toons will fare in LFG?

Keep an eye on this site for my Shaman’s Adventures in Healing in… one more level.

Skipping About Like I Know What I’m Doing

I wasn’t able to connect to my blog last week on my usual machine and it’s working now, so here’s hoping it stays that way!

I’ve been a hardcore Hordie for about four or five years. In that time, the majority of my characters have been Trolls and I’ve found that my ability to play Alliance was very… very limited. My highest Alliance character before the past month or so was a level 15 Gnome Rogue – right now, the highest that I’ve leveled fully as Alliance is a level 32 Dwarf Paladin.

Over the past two weeks I have found myself playing Alliance a little more often, poking at the quests, even faction transferring an underplayed hunter and priest (level 31 and 63) because I am a little unhinged. Three of my Alliance toons are on Thorium Brotherhood, the others are on Moon Guard where I’ve found the atmosphere to be pretty welcoming and the RP to be fascinating to watch. Plus, in my head, TB is “Horde” and MG is “Alliance”. I still have crazy goals for my TB Alliance toons, like Stormwind Exalted for Valeni and Exalted with the Gnomes for Daniil, but they don’t get played very often (maybe once I do some writing for them I’ll be more tempted).

Why did I do this? Because I’ve been getting damned tired and burned out with leveling through Horde zones and quests, quests I’ve repeatedly done since I first rolled Talasha, now Dybo, on Eredar all that time ago. I needed a change.

Overall, standing in the shoes of the other side hasn’t made me like them more than the Horde. I still find that my Trolls have more depth to them, but I’m seeing that Dwarves, Humans, Draenei, Gnomes and Night Elves can all be unique and develop in unusual, unexpected ways – even if some of mine start off rather cliché. Korynna is a slightly rough-and-tumble, serious business tomboyish Technomage; Ailsey is a country girl that believes that she’s destined to do good things and that the world is shiny and awesome.

Will I ever completely migrate to the other side? No. Horde is where the heart is, but once in a while, it’s nice to experience something a little different that I’ve never seen before.

… Also, I’m trying to see how much stuff Ail can solo, and it’s kinda interesting. Prot is OP.