Surprise substitution!

Not a Paladin, not a Shaman, not a rant about the Life Tap nerf (or its reversion)… It’s…

A lowbie Hunter!

I love levelling, I know a lot of people find 1-70 to be the foreplay to 70’s intercourse (to use the vernacular), but I don’t. 1-70 is its own experience, and it’s why you fell in love with WoW in the first place! Don’t believe me? Well you sure didn’t do 1-60 (or 1-70) saying “I hate this, it sucks, but the endgame will be worth it!”. Not back in the day at any rate, and not even when I started playing on the US servers. You did 1-60 because you enjoyed that game, then you learned the mantra the game changes at 60.

Now 1-70 are the content you bolt through to get your welfare epics and then PVP or instance your way to the “real endgame”.

Well bugger that! I enjoy levelling I love to level characters, I love seeing the same stuff from a new perspective… I’d love even more to level horde, but we’d miss our friends on The Maelstrom too much to move… Last time I went to 70 I stuck around Azeroth to 62, just so I could have gold giving quests left in Outlands at 70, that’s how much I like levelling (and the old world).

So a Hunter then. First of all the name is a particularly bad joke… My wife’s Hunter is Hikaru (that’s hick-ah-roo, not hikaroo like kangaroo) and she was named after Utada Hikaru, indeed her son of hakkar was called Utada (her black cat is called Ravage).

So I have a joke Hunter. Except it’s not a joke now. My wife (70 mage, hunter, druid) wanted to level a Shadow Priest and I wanted to level my Shadow Priest too, but I wanted to go 1-30 with her, so I made a Hunter, now I think Almeara’s going to be stuck at 30 while Utada goes to 70. Why do I like it? Well, I loved my Blood Elf Hunter, my wife (on a Rogue) and I 2 manned Dar’khan at 19 with them, and that left a lasting impression. I like pets, especially boars, and I like crowd control. In fact if a Hunter could heal instead of DPS it would be my perfect class (I like CC and I like healing, DPS I find a little dull to be honest). It would be totally non-solo viable, but since I duo with my wife (I need a new name for her, Altette perhaps?) and she is all about the killing it would be fine!

So my Hunter then, I realise my spec is non-BRK approved, but I might fix that. Still I like IAotH too much, and little Kungen (who tanks all) is surviving just fine without the extra HP and a minimal armor boost. I’m having a blast, I considered levelling survival, then I got real around level 9, just in time to not do it!

OK, I’ve rambled a bit, not surprising, but there you go. My new baby, and my current pick of the litter for fun.