Destiny Rides a Deathcharger

Continued from Destiny (or) Back to the Dark Side

If you’ve noticed the character profile at the top of the sidebars over there, you’ll already know what my decision was.

Yes, I decided to reroll my Death Knight on the Alliance.

Despite being level 77, I didn’t really have much to show for my time and effort. My gear was whatever quest rewards I’d gotten along the way, I hadn’t gone out of my way to get any achievements, I had no PvP points (Marks, Honor, or Kills) that I’d be losing, and any social ties would still be there when I flipped to Alliance.

Now with just about anyone else, this is where the saga would end. They’d send anything that could be sold to their Auction House mule, and vendor the rest of their gear.  Once their cash was sent to their mule, they’d delete the character post-haste, and get right to making their new one.

But not me. Before I could click that “Create New Character” button, my long-dormant roleplay habits piped up.

When faced with the task of designing my new Death Knight, I suddenly (and rather inexplicably) had a strong desire to remake my Shadow Knight from Everquest; a Dark Elf named Drajha (pronounced DRA-zha). Even though I likely wasn’t going to roleplay her, I felt a kinship with her that I wanted to have again. There was just one little problem.

I already had a level 51 Hunter by the name of Drajha on the server.

So I deleted her.

The Hunter class had lost its luster for me a long time ago. My biggest problem was mana. I’d run out after two or three fights just from using Scorpid Sting and Arcane Shot. Aside from that, the class had grown rather boring. Granted, I could have put forth a little more effort to make things challenging, like pulling multiples or something, but I just wasn’t into the class.

I am a Death Knight.

I deleted 128 levels of work so I could make this new Death Knight. And of course, after I do this, I find out that they’re changing Hunters so they don’t use mana. And if I’d known that faction changes were going live so soon, I might not have deleted my Blood Elf.

Such is life, however. I’ve made these decisions, and I’m happy to live with them. Drajha, my new Death Knight, is better than my Blood Elf. I’m going to take her to 80 and beyond, and experience the end-game content for the first time with her.

Drajha was my main character in Everquest, and she’ll continue her legacy of being a strong, reliable, and powerful force.