Copycat
Alternate Title: I am a unique and beautiful snowflake, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!
Alternate Alternate Title: This is my character. There are many like him, but this one is mine.
So, my first character to hit 80 (and 50, 60, & 70, for that matter…) was a Holy Pally. My second was a BM Hunter, thanks in part to the influence of a particular someone. I suspect I was far from being alone there.
Third was a Priest that I had respecced to Disc, which then gave me a Disc Priest, BM Hunter with a T-Rex, and a Pally that I didn’t play as holy any more. Oh yeah, and I’m also a Guild Master that isn’t afraid to post screenshots of guild chat. Sound familiar?
I am unabashedly a fan of the BM Hunter spec, after having tried the others and found them wanting. I think Kara was and still is the best raid zone ever. I am also a geek and do enjoy the wonders of Linux. I am not alone here.
Engineering is, for me, the best profession – and not just because my day job immerses me in a high-tech environment. I’ll admit it has some shortcomings, but I’ll take the DPS loss in exchange for goggles, vehicles, an exclusive pet or two, and of course some high explosives. My latest baby hunter is also a male Draenei. Once again, this is far from being a new and original situation.
I have started over from scratch more than once, and am not afraid to host a podcast or two on my server. (Granted they were education themed and not WoW themed…) I know another hunter that’s done that as well.
The more I read the blogs of others, the more it seems I don’t have an original bone in my body. Everything I do seems to have been done by someone else first, and in most cases done better. Heck, even the name “Splat” is taken on most servers, forcing me to pick variations.
So I’m not really that unique in regards to characters, specs, and professions I choose. I imagine this is quite common, as WoW and its culture encourage us to fit into certain niches.
Want to be a “good” Hunter? Well if you’re a new 80 you’ll want to spec Survival and get yourself a wolf pet.
Want to be a “good” Mage? Sorry, Frost isn’t as good as Arcane for DPS – better make the switch.
Want to play a female troll? Have fun looking just like everyone else, as there’s only one acceptable face for you to choose.
Gearing your character up? Well, you’ll really want to do that before you queue up for random heroics. Anything less than a 5k gear score will just hold the rest of us back.
These are not necessarily my points of view, but they are commonly held ideas.
I could go on, but do I need to? I imagine most people reading this have already thought of several other ways that the variety of choices given to us by Blizzard have been sorted out into one or two “right” ways with all the other choices being “wrong.” Some are backed up by hard facts (All things being equal an SV Hunter with a wolf will do more DPS than a BM Hunter with a devilsaur), and others are merely opinion, but you get the idea.
This isn’t as depressing as it sounds at first. All of my Hunters (I have lots of alts, sue me) are BM, and while my time at the training dummies tells me the other specs do more DPS I’m quite often at the top of the meters when I queue up. The only exception to that is because of a gear issue – namely I haven’t been farming heroics to get him badges.
BM is not the “best” spec, but it’s fun for me and I’m not holding anyone back if I’m pewpewing more than they are.
I have a Disc Priest, but I’m not Amber and I doubt I play the same way she does.
I’m a BM hunter, but I’m not BRK, Pike, Brigwyn, or (again) Amber.
I have a male Draenei Hunter that’s an Engineer, but anyone who knows both of us KNOWS I’m not Rilgon.
I am LIKE many other people, but I am not exactly copying them just because we enjoy similar things.
I am my own person.
… just like everyone else.







So today I got the
So last night the baby paladin had an interesting run through Blackfathom Deeps.

Yes, I’m a paladin in a dress. But you have to admit, it looks good on me.


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