Hi
My name is Kaeana and I’m a lvl46 Blood Elf Beast Master Hunter with experience eliminated.
I don’t like this game anymore…but I love how it can be played. The reason I don’t like it is mostly about the race to top level, to clear content for gear that’s rendered “useless” within a short time due to catch-up gear being tossed at the less “hard core” players and alts.
Yes, this may sound a little old school elitist, but I played a holy priest in vanilla with a guild raiding 5-7 nights a week. I payed for my shiny epics with skill and dedication, alongside eveyone else with the same skill and dedication. I remember when the game was challenging and gearfarm was a necessity to progress the new tier.
Now it’s just gear hand-outs and killing a mob for that quest is a joke…we’ve become too powerful and mobs too powerless.
I do have characters on both classic vanilla and tbc, but how long will they last now? I’m only casual now and I like a lot of the improvements and additions to the retail version, so wouldn’t enjoy the classic versions as much.
Now, I have always done things a little different.
My vanilla rogue alt was deep combat fist weapon spec (what…?!)
My vanilla mage was a lvl47 fire mage twink with every possible slot being …of fiery wrath or an item with +fire damage. I was the main target in bg’s, cause I could easily kill two players before they could get to me, if taken by surprise…fun times!
In tbc my prot warr was def capped from lvl66 and what’s better than a dungeon with a tank at top dps, hardly taking damage and healers who just forget about healing?
In cata my guardian druid had stamina as the number 1, 2 and 3 stat weight and in normal DS gear + pvp gear(because, more stam) I had as much or more HP than any fully geared HC tank. Wipe iminent? Whatever it was, that druid heal everyone for amount based on HP…pseudo tranquillity incoming! And Ysera’s grace or whatever that passive heal talent? Just another HoT going out.
Now these things aren’t as easy as before, but as I am casual and trying to remember the game is -drum roll- a RPG!
So I strayed from the usual power up my alts with catch-up gear and farm gold for fun and I made this hunter to just play through old content for lore. And I’m doing this with one of my witty twists…because we’re too powerful,the twist is nerfing my gear as much as possible.
I have a staggering 16 bonus agility and an item level of 7. My bow is a green lvl9 vendor bow with a massive 1.7 dps. I would love to be able to drop the +agi, but it’s hard to find stamina only gear nowadays.
The reason my gear isn’t grey/white? Transmogrification (to be resolved in Dragonflight?)! It’s too good to pass up! I just love the recoloured Dragonstalker set, complimented with Zod’s Repeating Longbow and my pet (the Blackrock rare) Chromehound.
So i’m reliving the days of vanilla, with hard to kill mobs (as hard as possible anyway) to actually feel like they’re a threat and just focus on the lore/rpg side.
Dare to be different, as they say!
-Kaeana
