Note: For some reason I can’t post this in the Roleplay section so I have to post it here.
I’ve normally always avoided RPing the overpowered Demon Hunters, but when I created my character Daeva, inspired by the Elder Scrolls mystical Dunmer, I fell in love with her demonic looks.
However, most Demon Hunters are problematic to engage, being the edgy, favourite toy character of blizz, not to be destroyed personalities they are.
All and all, they are less fun since they can be godlike overpowered.
I’ve really soften that edge of my character a bit. Although an Illidari, she doesn’t carry too many fell enchanted stuff around. I want her to be able be part of events without saying “Yeah I just killed all the bandits because I’m just that OP”
She is powerful, she’s still dangerous. But I prefer to keep her level with that like a very highly experienced Warlock or powerful mage.
I just try to avoid the title “Demon Hunter” with my character, as it gives the impression her powers come natural to her. For now I use “Fel Witch” but I’m still not sure about that.
What do you guys think? There must be other titles for an Illidari?
I dont think dancing around it will really help you, nor MUST DHs be decked out in fel enchanted gear or super powerful.
You’d be just as well off if not better by making it a point of personal restraint for the character.
For example, few know the horrors of the fel as well as the illidari, so why would she expose others to it by going all out when she can take a much cleaner, albeit slower approach instead?
Personally my DM goes under the name of fel-mutant but that is a can of worms I shall not let lose here.
I can understand not wanting to be OP
but at the same time you are a demon hunter, you have been trained to slay demons
and demons are (for the most part) not cannon fodder enemies who ironically is used as cannon fodder against us (or were anyway)
as such a group of bandits may prove a threat to you should you be careless, but in terms of skill you far surpass the thug.
however as said, restraint on your part is a natural way to be less op.
you also shouldn’t think of them as god killers, if they were, Illidan wouldn’t have needed an army of them.
and remember, combat can be govern by circumstance.
Titles are better of being descriptive than vague imo. Also:
Demon Hunter is a class. You sure could use it as a title, or you could substitute it for something else, but at the end of the day most people will look at your character and go: it looks like a duck, talks like a duck, kills demons like a duck, so it’s a duck (duck = demon hunter).
A highly experienced warlock or a powerful mage is, in this setting, extremely dangerous. Like stopping swathes of minion-level creatures in their tracks with the flick of a wrist kind of dangerous.
I think if you’re concerned with playing an OP demon hunter, just… don’t RP an OP demon hunter? Honestly, you shouldn’t be beholden to nor give much thought to the people that RP a concept ‘poorly’, and there’s no need to break your back over figuring out a funky + vague title to describe your character when some very on-point titles (Illidari, Demon Hunter, etc. etc.) already exist.
edit: hope the tone of this reply doesn’t come across as condescending or anything, just wanted to give my $0.02 without the fluff
Yes maybe I used the wrong example. I thought more like Witcher kind of powerful.
Can slay monsters, can use magic, knows her potions, but a buckshot in the back is a buckshot in the back. So a Westfall bandit can still have an edge on her if they are clever enough.
I personally like to use the title of “Illidari Enforcer” since that seems to be the bulkhead of the Illidari’s Demon Hunters, or at least that is the impression I’ve gotten from how Legion portrayed us.
I’ll also say that I might be wrong on this, but I never really got the idea of Demon Hunters being outrageously OP in comparison to equally heroic members of other classes. If anything, I feel that Blizzard did a fairly decent job at keeping the “classes” equal in this regard. They naturally have their perks, but so too does other classes and their respective orders.
Besides that, and back to the topic of titles - The Illidari generally speaking doesn’t seem to work like any sort of military hierarchy, and thus doesn’t really have a great variety of ranks/titles on offer. That of course simply offers a big opportunity to get creative and have your character give themselves a title that reflects their lifestyle, personality ect ect. Just don’t expect people to immediately know or understand what the title is supposed to represent, but that is always something a quick IC explanation can resolve.
If anything, most titles with exception of the basic Illidari, Enforcer, Taskmaster and Slayer seems to be more reserved for the Ashtongue and Naga forces, since they have a great variety of Battlemasters, Sirens, Beserkers, Seers and every other generic mob term a developer can put at the end of the nametag, to offer a bit of flavor and variety in the mobs we see around.
In a way, more often than not, most of the named characters simply refer to themselves by their names and surname / personal title? Although someone can correct me if that is incorrect, since that’s merely my own observation.
So yeah. If your character want to be known as Daeva Fel-Witch, I don’t necessarily see why anyone would have a gripe with that. I sure wouldn’t!