I recently hit level 60 on my worgen mage and decided it was time to take her into some battlegrounds for the first time. After all, I had heard that mages have a very high damage output and frost spec provided some very good survivability in PVP. So I took to her to Alterac Valley for my first person versus person on my mage. I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that I was in the top five of DPS for the battleground despite the fact that I was level sixty in a bracket filled with all levels from sixty to sixty nine. So being the lowest level allowed in the battleground and being in the top five of damage for a forty man team pleasantly surprised me. It also got me thinking.
I remember semi-fondly the leveling experience of my first character. I was playing on a PVP server. If you've ever played on a PVP server then you know that leveling in neutral zones can be quite annoying. You're running around killing bears and trying to find their ears, which for some reason not every bear drops ears for your quest, and BAM! You're laying on the ground dead getting ready to run back to your body. Why? Oh that's right, a level seventy Priest (Hutch*) with nothing better to do just ran up to you and just smited you into the ground. So you run back to your body, pop back up and BAM! He jumps out from behind a bush and drops you again. Inevitably, this is the way it goes in all “neutral” territories from level ten to seventy.
I am in remembrance of those days full of trial for the simple reason that it drove my desire to PVP to a new level. When I hit level seventy, all I wanted to do was build up a good set of PVP gear and head out into Azeroth to hunt down the bane of my leveling existence (Hutch*). Back in BC, for me and my friends there was only one thing we all gathered up the guild to do and that was hit Alterac Valley. So now to the part I've been thinking a lot about lately. I really miss doing premades.
If you aren't familiar with the term, an AV premade is a group of forty people (or less) forming a raid group and with the help of an add-on (av premade) all getting into the same Alterac Valley fight at the same time. The advantages of this are pretty obvious. You get a group of that size or magnitude into the same battleground with the same goals it's not hard to win a battleground. It's a lot easier to work together with a group working together than it is with a group thrown together. You cut down on the people that are just there to kill a horde player (or alliance player), loot their body, then turn in armor scraps for reputation over and over. Everyone knows where to run and what to do making it very hard to lose when you almost always end up going against a group filled with the people I just described.
I don't do a lot of Heroic dungeons since I started playing Cataclysm, so I usually find myself playing filling empty time doing battlegrounds. I love running into a wild gunfight finding the person in need of the most medicine and healing them back up to 100% while the person they are beating on watches in astonishment as the last of his hit points are taken from him. It's fun to me to find an unsuspecting target and blast him with a moonfire, root him, then start blasting him down. All that mixed with the strategy involved with Alterac Valley makes it one of my favorite places to constantly go to for my honor points.
Cataclysm coming offered the idea of rated battlegrounds, and to me that sounds like the closest thing I'm probably going to get to a premade at this point. I am also an avid raider. My guild also is filled with people that are avid raiders, problem is most of them aren't avid PVPers also. So I haven not yet stepped foot into a rated battleground. I hope to do it eventually, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get at least ten people together to do it right now.
I only write this to reminisce about the long hours I spent in premades back in BC. I started out playing PVP before I raided, and I probably always will PVP. I just hope that I can find a way to have as much fun doing it as I did back then. Did any of you participate in AV Premades? Maybe I'm only part of a small group that did this, even though I thought that it was pretty common.
*Hutch: Elocine and Kierphas can tell you all about him. He hung out in Hillsbrad Foothills terrorizing anyone that went through. He was well known to Horde on the Gurubashi server cause all he would do besides arenas and battlegrounds is hang out in Tarren Mill ganking lowbies.
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
What's in a name?
Well as I sit here on this week long underway with nothing to do but stare at my laptop screen, I figured I'd write a blog about something that we all have and each have a different story for. Your probably wondering what I'm talking about but it's really simple, character names. I know a lot of the time I'll sit and create a character in a few minutes only to sit staring at the screen trying to think of what the name of that toon should be. Every character has a unique story to their name be it personal experiences or the random name generator. So here is a rundown of the names of my characters and where I got them.
Nashamire (Level 81 Balance Night Elf Druid)
This one is an easy one to explain. I grew up in Arizona and I'm a huge sports fan. Growing up in Gilbert I was always a big Suns fan. So when I first started playing wow this was the second toon that I created and I was lost on what to name him. So I decided to name him after the two best players on the Suns at the time, Steve Nash and A'mare Stoudamire. So I took Steve's last name and the back half of A'mare's name and created Nashamire. That's pretty much how that happened.
Nashette(Level 85 Holy Draenei Paladin)
Nashamire was my main for the whole time I played as a Horde so he was my first level 70 toon and my main in BC. But after all my friends kind of stopped playing WoW I decided to move to a different server to play with my friend Elocine and started Nashette. Well since Nashamire was my main and the toon I spent the most time on I decided to name my paladin in tribute to him. So the female version of Nashamire became Nash-ette. I'm sure this needs no explaining but you know how people add “ette” to things to make them feminine? That's basically what I did with her name.
Nashes (Level 46 Frost Worgen Mage)
I figured I'd move to this toon next even though she's my newest toon because her name also starts with my infamous “Nash” moniker. When I created my mage I figure I'd be playing her a lot and besides my death knight Jip, there was no other toons that I named anything other than Nash that I continued to play on a consistent basis. So I figured to avoid confusion in guild chat I would keep the Nash part on the name so people knew who the lowbie was piping in on everything. So I decided I'd figure out a way for Nash to fit in the name while still keeping with a mage theme. Well, even though I think of ice now, when I thought of mages I thought of fireballs. Out of fire comes ash. So I decided N-ashes would be a fitting name for a mage. And since I'm not going to list him in this list I also have a priest I named “Nashlight” because the plan was to make him a holy priest.
Jip (Level 80 Human Death Knight)
Well when I first heard about WOTK bringing a new hero class I was pretty intrigued. I thought that a new class would add a lot of new possibilities which was pretty exciting. The confusing part to me was the fact that these new Death Knights started at level 55. I thought it was going to cause a lot of problems with balance since more than likely every person with a main leveled to 80 would give a DK a try since there was only 25 levels to get through to have two capped toons. I thought it was a bit of a way to skip out on the meat and potatoes of the game which is all the leveling you do in all the areas of the game that the developers had spent some much time creating. I basically thought it was a Jip so that's where the name came from. He was my free ride to a third level 80. In essence, he was my Jip.
Argamatese/Leinadia (Level 54 Beast Mastery Draenei Hunter)
There are two names on this toon because this toon has incurred both a realm transfer AND a faction change. So she WAS a he before. I started playing wow on a trial account and the first toon I ever created was an Orc Hunter named Argamatese. Sounds like a strange name doesn't it? That's what all my friends said too after I started playing. It's a very simple name. I must have had pirates on the brain when I created him cause the name is just the phrase “Argh... maties” squished together and changed a bit to look like a name. Well after being on the shelf over on the Horde side for a long time after I moved over to the Alliance, I decided to move my oldest character over to my current server where he might get played more often. So after doing that I decided that what I wanted to do was make him a her and created Leinadia. I took inspiration for this toons name from Elocine my friend Nicole's toon. Elocine is basically her name backwards with an e on it. So I decided to turn my name backwards (Daniel) and add a few letters to make it look like it could be a girl name.
Manaspring/Hoth (Level 59 Elemental Goblin Shaman)
This toon was the first toon I ever created on the azuremyst server. I named him Manaspring after the shaman totem. That's nothing out of the ordinary but I did it in tribute to my friend Hess who always threw down that totem when I was new to wow because I was constantly going OOM on my boomkin since I was still trying to figure things out. So I named my Shaman after my lifesaving totem. After this last deployment I was really wanting to play a goblin so I decided I'd get back onto the Horde side a bit by faction transferring him over. And to my surprise I decided to type in the name of the famous Star Wars ice planet (Hoth) and the name wasn't taken. Sitting here thinking about it, Hoth might actually make more sense if it was the name of my Frost mage, but whatever. Haha.
So it would be cool to hear from my friends how they came up with their names and their meanings to them. It's always fun to reminisce. Maybe some comments are in order.
Nashamire (Level 81 Balance Night Elf Druid)
This one is an easy one to explain. I grew up in Arizona and I'm a huge sports fan. Growing up in Gilbert I was always a big Suns fan. So when I first started playing wow this was the second toon that I created and I was lost on what to name him. So I decided to name him after the two best players on the Suns at the time, Steve Nash and A'mare Stoudamire. So I took Steve's last name and the back half of A'mare's name and created Nashamire. That's pretty much how that happened.
Nashette(Level 85 Holy Draenei Paladin)
Nashamire was my main for the whole time I played as a Horde so he was my first level 70 toon and my main in BC. But after all my friends kind of stopped playing WoW I decided to move to a different server to play with my friend Elocine and started Nashette. Well since Nashamire was my main and the toon I spent the most time on I decided to name my paladin in tribute to him. So the female version of Nashamire became Nash-ette. I'm sure this needs no explaining but you know how people add “ette” to things to make them feminine? That's basically what I did with her name.
Nashes (Level 46 Frost Worgen Mage)
I figured I'd move to this toon next even though she's my newest toon because her name also starts with my infamous “Nash” moniker. When I created my mage I figure I'd be playing her a lot and besides my death knight Jip, there was no other toons that I named anything other than Nash that I continued to play on a consistent basis. So I figured to avoid confusion in guild chat I would keep the Nash part on the name so people knew who the lowbie was piping in on everything. So I decided I'd figure out a way for Nash to fit in the name while still keeping with a mage theme. Well, even though I think of ice now, when I thought of mages I thought of fireballs. Out of fire comes ash. So I decided N-ashes would be a fitting name for a mage. And since I'm not going to list him in this list I also have a priest I named “Nashlight” because the plan was to make him a holy priest.
Jip (Level 80 Human Death Knight)
Well when I first heard about WOTK bringing a new hero class I was pretty intrigued. I thought that a new class would add a lot of new possibilities which was pretty exciting. The confusing part to me was the fact that these new Death Knights started at level 55. I thought it was going to cause a lot of problems with balance since more than likely every person with a main leveled to 80 would give a DK a try since there was only 25 levels to get through to have two capped toons. I thought it was a bit of a way to skip out on the meat and potatoes of the game which is all the leveling you do in all the areas of the game that the developers had spent some much time creating. I basically thought it was a Jip so that's where the name came from. He was my free ride to a third level 80. In essence, he was my Jip.
Argamatese/Leinadia (Level 54 Beast Mastery Draenei Hunter)
There are two names on this toon because this toon has incurred both a realm transfer AND a faction change. So she WAS a he before. I started playing wow on a trial account and the first toon I ever created was an Orc Hunter named Argamatese. Sounds like a strange name doesn't it? That's what all my friends said too after I started playing. It's a very simple name. I must have had pirates on the brain when I created him cause the name is just the phrase “Argh... maties” squished together and changed a bit to look like a name. Well after being on the shelf over on the Horde side for a long time after I moved over to the Alliance, I decided to move my oldest character over to my current server where he might get played more often. So after doing that I decided that what I wanted to do was make him a her and created Leinadia. I took inspiration for this toons name from Elocine my friend Nicole's toon. Elocine is basically her name backwards with an e on it. So I decided to turn my name backwards (Daniel) and add a few letters to make it look like it could be a girl name.
Manaspring/Hoth (Level 59 Elemental Goblin Shaman)
This toon was the first toon I ever created on the azuremyst server. I named him Manaspring after the shaman totem. That's nothing out of the ordinary but I did it in tribute to my friend Hess who always threw down that totem when I was new to wow because I was constantly going OOM on my boomkin since I was still trying to figure things out. So I named my Shaman after my lifesaving totem. After this last deployment I was really wanting to play a goblin so I decided I'd get back onto the Horde side a bit by faction transferring him over. And to my surprise I decided to type in the name of the famous Star Wars ice planet (Hoth) and the name wasn't taken. Sitting here thinking about it, Hoth might actually make more sense if it was the name of my Frost mage, but whatever. Haha.
So it would be cool to hear from my friends how they came up with their names and their meanings to them. It's always fun to reminisce. Maybe some comments are in order.
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