Fortune Favors

Lately I’ve been finding reasons to avoid playing with Splat.

I’m not talking about the time I’ve been spending away from the game entirely.  (The apartment looks a LOT better and I’m not even done with the spring cleaning!)  Lately when I log in, I find myself gravitating to my bank toons and other alts.

I’ve done this before – it’s why Artus and Elumi both made it to 50.  It’s also why Splat took so long to get to 70.

… and why Elume never made it that far.  She used to be my main, and I enjoyed playing her immensely.  Most of my “n00b” mistakes were made with her, from not DPSing with a wand to begging guild members for instance runs.  Suffice to say I learned a lot.

Then a few alts later Splat came along, and guild members were already calling her my main before I got her to level 20 – I enjoyed being a paladin that much.  The mana-economical heals! The plate armor! The ability to run into Scarlet Monestary by myself and decimate everything at a level where I was told it couldn’t be done!  Mwa-hahaha… um …

*Ahem.*  Moving on.

Splat wasn’t the end of my character creation spree (also known as my alt-oholism), but I always came back.  No mater what class or character I leveled, I knew that Splat was my main.

I’m just not as sure of that now.  You see, hunters are just that much fun.

I’d rolled a hunter or two before, but never really got into them – mainly because I was playing them wrong.  I could play a healing spec and do a phenomenal job, but when it came to DPS I never quite did it well, then lost interest and deleted the character or turned it into a bank alt.

Until I learned what I was doing wrong.  Now I love the class (even if I have a somewhat unorthodox take on how to play them) and have made four of them (so far) spread out between various servers and factions.  I really should just pick one and start leveling it, but I love them all.

I know I’m giving up a lot by switching from paladin to hunter.  As a holy spec I had a lot less competition when it came to instance groups, but I’m not going to play a specific class/spec JUST so I get picked for instances.  That wouldn’t be fun for me, and I’ve already ranted about that.