The last character I want to introduce individually is my Undead Warlock. That’s him on the left in the picture below, along with his demon minion Flaaroon. This little guy was the first character I ever made in World of Warcraft, and the first one I got to the original level 60 cap.
There’s a lot to unpack in that picture, especially for people unfamiliar with the game and I’ll try to get to that. First, I want to start at the beginning. As I said, this is the first character I created in the game. His name was originally Deadline, but with name changes required by changing servers a few times he has settled on Khabit. I’ve been leveling him and my Priest side by side for 20 years, on and off.
Like any good role-playing game, Warcraft has a crafting system. There are a long list of crafting and gathering professions you can choose, and Khabit is a miner and an engineer. The engineering profession allows yo to craft all kinds of interesting gadgets, including the goggles Khabit is wearing in the screenshot. A lot of the engineering gear has a strong steampunk-like aesthetic that I have always found appealing. It isn’t always the most useful of professions but it is fun. Mining, of course, allows me to gather all the ore and raw materials needed to craft all the insane creations.
Warlocks are a DPS class and have long been a trouble spot for the game developers in terms of balance and playability. The short version is, Warlocks have generally been pretty terrible right from the beginning, with the exception of some very bright spots for a specific talent specialization that I never use. In spite of that, they have so much cool-factor as a class I have never given up on them. The good news is, as a class, they appear to be in a pretty good spot at the end of The War Within, which means they are getting torn apart and completely redesigned in Midnight, the expansion coming out in March. This is a very Warlock thing to have happen; you spend all your time calling upon demonic forces, eventually it will bite you in the ass.
Whatever happens with the Warlock class in Midnight, I’ll be playing mine to the level cap sooner or later. He’s not a serious contender to be a Main, but he’ll always be around somewhere.
While the group below is far from the all of the rest of my Warcraft characters, these are the ones who seem to currently be along for the ride. Pictured, from left to right are: Whitelilly (misspelling unfortunately required by the curse of “That Name is Unavailable”) my Darkspear Troll Death Knight; Thornhelm, my Bloodhoof Tauren Paladin; Ragehorn, my Highmountain Tauren Warrior; Definitely, my Highmountain Tauren Rogue. The little hourglass near Definitely’s name indicates that he is a Timewalker character, which is to say he was created as part of a special event in the game and hasn’t merged with the regular timeline yet. In terms of the roles they perform in the game, and honestly I’m kind of noticing this theme for the first time myself, we have (again from left to right) Tank, Tank, Tank, and Pirate.
Anyway, that pretty much introduces everyone. I will now start throwing around names and jargon as if this brief series of posts has explained everything.