Every WoW blooger has done it, including my bud, Matheo, with his 'Meet the Fam' blog post, so I'm jumping on the bandwagon and am here to tell you about my toons.
First, it all started with my cousin. I was on the phone with him one day and he said," Hey have you ever tried Warcraft?"
"No," I replied, "doesn't look all that good." (I know, I know, "Blasphemy!")
"Well, you should try the 10-day trial, but trust me, you will love it," he said.
"Okay, okay, I'll try it," I said.
After 5 minutes of account info input and 34 hours of download later ( I know, my net speed sucks, I fixed that, trust me) there I was at the login screen. I thought to myself, "I hope my computer can handle this." I type in my account info and begin logging in. I pick my cousin's server, Azuremyst. Then the character screen pops up. OMG! so many choices! Which one do I pick? Dang, I never found out if my cousin was Alliance or Horde. A phone call later and I was choosing Alliance. So do I pick human, gnome, dwarf or night elf.
Human. Clicky.
Warrior, Priest, Paladin, Mage, Warlock, Rogue?
Rogues sound cool. Clicky.
Hair and skin styles follow. Manly face, with black hair tied in a pony-tail and a duelist goatee.
Awesome.
Name? Wow, I get to name him? Sweet! Spiders are cool. I'll name him Spyder. Nah, too simple. How bout Redyps? Nice works for me.
Meet Redyps.
So I have my toon, I login and phone my cuz. I get with him, I play a few lvls to like 5 and am estatic. I buy the game the next day. Login my CD key, get in game and was invited to my cousin's guild which is my first guild, Reservoir Dogs. So far I'm having fun. I get my rogue to level 19 and was thinking that I suck at being a rogue. So I decide to reroll. I leave my rogue way out in Lakeshire just stealthed somewhere by the lake and log.
Character screen:
um Human! Clicky.
um Warlock, sounds good. Clicky.
Name? um....well everyone calls me Red short for Redyps.....so Red-something....
Warlocks, magic, fires.....Red-fire! No.....Redfyre. Little did I know that warlocks do mostly shadow damage and boy wouldn't it be sweet for him to have green fire spells.
Meet Redfyre.
My second toon. I level him to 40 or so and then my cousin tells me to meet him in Shat. 'I'm like why?' 'So you can set your hearth and get to all the major cities.' 'Okay, where is Shat?'
'Outlands.' 'There's no Outlands on my map!' 'It's another planet.' 'There are other planets!!' 'Um Yeah.' 'You did get the Burning Crusade expansion?' 'Um No.' Next day I buy the BC edition.
Get to Outlands and set my hearth. Well, I get Redfyre up to level 70 and start running Heroics and Kara and the such. its was fun leveling up my lock. Going through all those quest chains to get my demons, my mounts and my Soul Harvester, which I still have in my bank with a Fiery chant on it, mostly because I have the entire Midsummer fire costume from the achievements. With the staff, the costume and a little Noggenfoggers, I become the Tiny Fiery Dancing Skeleton of Soul Harvesting! A lot of gold was involved but I have great guildies. I read up on Warlocks on the online blogs and such and learned to play my lock really well and was always fighting for the top DPS spot with my Affliction spec. Also turns out I was one of the best Fear kiters out there. Oh what fun it is to Fear Kite! I took up Enchanting and Tailoring. Now those are some slave driving professions. But with the cool chants that only I could have and the gear that only I could wear, they have become my best friends. So here I was on my main toon, having the time of my WoW life, when something happened. Throughout leveling up, I found out about Battlegrounds. Oh what fun! Kill the HORDE!! But then IT happened. At level 70, I kept getting ganked by rogues!
I finally started watching how Alliance rogues worked, moved, stabbed, ganked. And I was like, 'I can do that!' I placed my rogue on the shelf because I had no idea what I was doing with him. Time to break him out and get him up to level 70 so I can gank in the BGs.
Welcome to World of Warcraft.
[Redyps] is now online.
'Cough, Cough, Hack, Cough.' /shake Redridge dust off body
/stretch Let's give this a whirl. A total of 16 playing days later (about 2 1/2 weeks in RL time)
70 DING!
Through the leveling, my rogue had Herbalism and Skinning. At level 70, he dropped Herbs and picked up Leatherworking.
Since my lock and rogue are one of the few pure DPS toons, I switched them through Kara, ZA and other raid runs and eventually geared my rogue up. And I start owning in the BGs on both my lock and my rogue.
Lich King expansion hits and I have a choice. Which toon do I level first? Redyps was my first toon made, but Redfyre was the first to 70. Well I headed to Borean Tundra with my lock. I get there and the place is full of ninjas!
[Redfyre] has gone offline.
Human. Clicky.
Death knight. Clicky.
Name? TheRedDeath........I like reading Poe, if you haven't noticed. Since my guild had a tank shortage, the DK became my tank and my main. My DK currently carries the professions Jewelcrafting and Mining. Jewelcrafting was majorly needed in my guild. ResDogs was small and no one else in guild had that profession.
Shorty after getting my DK some epics my rogue finally made it to level 80 and shortly after that my Warlock hit 80. Right now Blizz seems to be against Warlocks. Just about everything in Northrend was made to be warlock unfriendly. Everything is Undead and unable to be feared. /pout
When I need to hide or get away from Northrend for a while I have a level 40 Night elf Hunter named Redblud and his four pets: the spider Spitz(my current favorite), the wolf Vargr, the kitty Blackblud and the bear Corduroy. I also have a level 36 Night elf Druid named Redwulf that I hang out on. I also have a few other toons scattered out on a couple PvP servers and maybe even 1 or 3 toons on the Horde side somewhere but my passion is the Alliance.
Well, there you have it.
My unstoppable Tank and DPSer, the DK named TheRedDeath.
'My services go to the highest bidder but kill all Hordies' rogue named Redyps.
My fear kiter and all round Demon enslaver, the warlock named Redfyre.
My hunter, Redblud and my druid Redwulf.
All them have become the Shadows of Red.
First, it all started with my cousin. I was on the phone with him one day and he said," Hey have you ever tried Warcraft?"
"No," I replied, "doesn't look all that good." (I know, I know, "Blasphemy!")
"Well, you should try the 10-day trial, but trust me, you will love it," he said.
"Okay, okay, I'll try it," I said.
After 5 minutes of account info input and 34 hours of download later ( I know, my net speed sucks, I fixed that, trust me) there I was at the login screen. I thought to myself, "I hope my computer can handle this." I type in my account info and begin logging in. I pick my cousin's server, Azuremyst. Then the character screen pops up. OMG! so many choices! Which one do I pick? Dang, I never found out if my cousin was Alliance or Horde. A phone call later and I was choosing Alliance. So do I pick human, gnome, dwarf or night elf.
Human. Clicky.
Warrior, Priest, Paladin, Mage, Warlock, Rogue?
Rogues sound cool. Clicky.
Hair and skin styles follow. Manly face, with black hair tied in a pony-tail and a duelist goatee.
Awesome.
Name? Wow, I get to name him? Sweet! Spiders are cool. I'll name him Spyder. Nah, too simple. How bout Redyps? Nice works for me.
Meet Redyps.
So I have my toon, I login and phone my cuz. I get with him, I play a few lvls to like 5 and am estatic. I buy the game the next day. Login my CD key, get in game and was invited to my cousin's guild which is my first guild, Reservoir Dogs. So far I'm having fun. I get my rogue to level 19 and was thinking that I suck at being a rogue. So I decide to reroll. I leave my rogue way out in Lakeshire just stealthed somewhere by the lake and log.
Character screen:
um Human! Clicky.
um Warlock, sounds good. Clicky.
Name? um....well everyone calls me Red short for Redyps.....so Red-something....
Warlocks, magic, fires.....Red-fire! No.....Redfyre. Little did I know that warlocks do mostly shadow damage and boy wouldn't it be sweet for him to have green fire spells.
Meet Redfyre.
My second toon. I level him to 40 or so and then my cousin tells me to meet him in Shat. 'I'm like why?' 'So you can set your hearth and get to all the major cities.' 'Okay, where is Shat?'
'Outlands.' 'There's no Outlands on my map!' 'It's another planet.' 'There are other planets!!' 'Um Yeah.' 'You did get the Burning Crusade expansion?' 'Um No.' Next day I buy the BC edition.
Get to Outlands and set my hearth. Well, I get Redfyre up to level 70 and start running Heroics and Kara and the such. its was fun leveling up my lock. Going through all those quest chains to get my demons, my mounts and my Soul Harvester, which I still have in my bank with a Fiery chant on it, mostly because I have the entire Midsummer fire costume from the achievements. With the staff, the costume and a little Noggenfoggers, I become the Tiny Fiery Dancing Skeleton of Soul Harvesting! A lot of gold was involved but I have great guildies. I read up on Warlocks on the online blogs and such and learned to play my lock really well and was always fighting for the top DPS spot with my Affliction spec. Also turns out I was one of the best Fear kiters out there. Oh what fun it is to Fear Kite! I took up Enchanting and Tailoring. Now those are some slave driving professions. But with the cool chants that only I could have and the gear that only I could wear, they have become my best friends. So here I was on my main toon, having the time of my WoW life, when something happened. Throughout leveling up, I found out about Battlegrounds. Oh what fun! Kill the HORDE!! But then IT happened. At level 70, I kept getting ganked by rogues!
I finally started watching how Alliance rogues worked, moved, stabbed, ganked. And I was like, 'I can do that!' I placed my rogue on the shelf because I had no idea what I was doing with him. Time to break him out and get him up to level 70 so I can gank in the BGs.
Welcome to World of Warcraft.
[Redyps] is now online.
'Cough, Cough, Hack, Cough.' /shake Redridge dust off body
/stretch Let's give this a whirl. A total of 16 playing days later (about 2 1/2 weeks in RL time)
70 DING!
Through the leveling, my rogue had Herbalism and Skinning. At level 70, he dropped Herbs and picked up Leatherworking.
Since my lock and rogue are one of the few pure DPS toons, I switched them through Kara, ZA and other raid runs and eventually geared my rogue up. And I start owning in the BGs on both my lock and my rogue.
Lich King expansion hits and I have a choice. Which toon do I level first? Redyps was my first toon made, but Redfyre was the first to 70. Well I headed to Borean Tundra with my lock. I get there and the place is full of ninjas!
[Redfyre] has gone offline.
Human. Clicky.
Death knight. Clicky.
Name? TheRedDeath........I like reading Poe, if you haven't noticed. Since my guild had a tank shortage, the DK became my tank and my main. My DK currently carries the professions Jewelcrafting and Mining. Jewelcrafting was majorly needed in my guild. ResDogs was small and no one else in guild had that profession.
Shorty after getting my DK some epics my rogue finally made it to level 80 and shortly after that my Warlock hit 80. Right now Blizz seems to be against Warlocks. Just about everything in Northrend was made to be warlock unfriendly. Everything is Undead and unable to be feared. /pout
When I need to hide or get away from Northrend for a while I have a level 40 Night elf Hunter named Redblud and his four pets: the spider Spitz(my current favorite), the wolf Vargr, the kitty Blackblud and the bear Corduroy. I also have a level 36 Night elf Druid named Redwulf that I hang out on. I also have a few other toons scattered out on a couple PvP servers and maybe even 1 or 3 toons on the Horde side somewhere but my passion is the Alliance.
Well, there you have it.
My unstoppable Tank and DPSer, the DK named TheRedDeath.
'My services go to the highest bidder but kill all Hordies' rogue named Redyps.
My fear kiter and all round Demon enslaver, the warlock named Redfyre.
My hunter, Redblud and my druid Redwulf.
All them have become the Shadows of Red.
Fine lookin' bunch there, Red. Welcome back to the land of the blogging :)
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