Dec 7, 2010

WoW Post: Musing on Character Shuffling

So, Cataclysm is in effect, joy.  I've got a dilemma, though.  I have three characters on Twisting Nether, and since the time of our departure, the server has gone from a 2:1 to a 4:1 Horde:Alliance ratio.  On a PvP server, this is disastrous.  I attempted to play some of the new 80+ areas, today, on my 80 hunter, Arachnae. It was a sea of Horde, and maybe 10 Alliance.  I couldn't click anything, do anything, go anywhere, without getting murdered, accidentally or on purpose. The numbers were just so unbalanced.  I'm not exaggerating, by the way, I have screenshots of Ara swimming in a sea of red.  It's almost scary.

Shadow Council is my "new" home, and it's not a PvP server.  I have some choices here.  Choice one, continue on with my main characters there, and try to get them as well geared as the TN "big 3" meaning, Ara, Dawna, and Una.  Hunter, pally and druid, respectively.  Those three are equipped head to toe in purples, but judging by the stuff in the new areas, it more than doubles the stats of the old "epix" so, like with every expansion, stepping in to the new stuff means overhauling all your gear and starting fresh.  My SC chars are well...struggling.  I have one 80, my poor long suffering mage.  Her name used to be Gossamer, she was on AD from around retail, where I got her to 60.  Then I moved her to TN, when Burning Crusade came out, and got her to 70.  Then, when LK came out, I moved her to SC, and just recently got her to 80.  She goes through phases of "I'm doing ok, I have some good gear, and I can hold my own in a fight" to "omg, I just stepped out of the door and I'm dead."  But with just a bit of preservereance, I can get her well geared, I think.  Soloing as a mage is a study in agony, though, when you're gimped.  Then I have my paladin and hunter on SC, and they're 71 and 61, and again, with a little dedication, they can be 80 and moving into the new stuff in a decent amount of time.  I already created my druid worgen, to play the new content, from level one, and I'm really looking forward to that (or a priest.  Still on the fence, but I definitely want to heal).

The second choice is, immediate gratification.  I could transfer one of the "big 3" over to SC, which is a much better environment, and have one of my "old mains" on my new server.  It would cost money, which I'm saving, and would duplicate one of the character classes that's already there.  As in, if I move TN Ara over, with all her awesomeness, why bother to keep playing SC Ara?  I'd probably delete her, and have just the one high level hunter.

Playing on TN is no longer really an option, I don't think. Not right now, at least.  Someone said over General, that the ratio might swing back in favor of Alliance with the Worgen influx, but right now, it's a sad state of affairs.  It's sad, because the last vestiges of OOH are over there, in spirit.  There's still a "guild bank" and we have a guild name, and tabards.

As I mull it over, I think I am going to go do some general account maintenance, and maybe check out the new profession.

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