World of Warcraft, now with more pandas

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I'm in a good mood (just watched some semifinals for LoL). Going to happily rant away. For all the shit I give WoW, it was (and probably still is) a fun game, which I played for many years of my life, and which I have some very fond memories of.

So, we're all horde here though, right?
Trolls ftw, mon.

Yeah they existed before, but barely, like 4 references to em in the whole of WoW. Created essentially from scratch I'd say.

I'll bite... I segregated myself to neither horde nor alliance, but most of my highest leveled characters were horde, and I played them most. I would rather organize my play by races than by faction. I play primarily female characters, my male characters all steeped in role-play. Sue me

Dwarf
Blood Elf
Human
Undead
Troll
Gnome
Orc
Worgen
And.... everything else just no.

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Dwarves are #1. Female dwarves were always the easiest characters for me to just stick to. Started a female rogue (Expyra) and never put her down until I left the game (probably for good). Also a shaman (Grigorovna)... maybe it's weird of me to have two Restoration Shaman, but it is the best class in the game, and playing each of them felt wonderfully different. Male dwarves are among the very best male rendition of any in game race, and I enjoyed my warrior (Tova) on occasion.

Blood Elves. Always easy to get into (Weilordusala, the Big Salsa will never terrorize us again!), but hard to stick with. I managed a male paladin (mostly in pvp), and (my longtime main, Tension) a female hunter, and a female warlok (Instability) into reasonably high levels. I found I would start and blaze through the amazing first two zones... and would then stop playing the characters sometimes into their twentieth level.

Humans. Don't hate me, they are quick to connect to, and very relieving for my self-expression. I pulled more humans through their 30's than I dare to remember... but would generally stop playing them. There was an exception with a human paladin (holy, Faolin), but ultimately having nobody else to play alliance with me dropped most of these toons to my 'meh' list, and they'd get deleted for new alts

Undead. Much like the humans, I just couldn't hold on to them. My one and only tank (Swear it started with R, but the names are swirling). I didn't care too much for the female undead and their horrifyingly floppy breasts ("Are they real?! They aren't mine, but they're real!").

Trolls. I had one troll toon (my main for nearly the whole of WotLK and Cata), Sikuri. Shaman, healer. I started her with only 3 levels till max on Tension (BE hunter)... and Sikuri made it to 80 first (85 first too). Best character ever, and I love her, and i miss her. My account got hacked after me not logging into WoW for 6 months, figurred it was too much of a hassle, and too closely connected to an ex anyway. STILL miss this character, and would probably still be playing WoW if I could have her back Yes, that is a personal attachment to a completely recreate-able being. And I refuse to make it again, can't replace her in my heart with some newblood pretending to be her

Gnomes... lots of fun for a while... but their charm wears off slowly until it's gone. With very few exceptions (I was just starting a gnome priest and was enjoying it while roleplaying, and my second highest level alliance toon ever was a gnome fire mage, Aurem).

Orcs... I made a number of orc toons, but I stuck with precisely one of them (Troll rogue, combat, just like Expyra. Playing them felt totally different though). Don't remember her name now

DEATH KNIGHT NOTICE: These don't count as 'higher leveled toons, since you start at something like 58. That said, I only ever played one, and it was a human (Argentum). I would have played her a lot more... but I had nobody to play with.

Worgen: I could not play druid because I couldn't stand tauren and night elves. In cata, I couldn't stand troll druids... and could only play a singular worgen character. A druid. A fantastically enjoyable roleplay experience she was Only worgen I could stand to play. Ever.

Tauren... Never got into a cow. Tried to again with Tauren Pally... still couldn't.

Goblins... no.

Draenae can die in a fire. Seriously, I could not stand to get one past level 6, until I forced it with a priest which I got to something like 24 and just couldn't care about. Hate everything about them, especially from a lorefreak standpoint.

Night Elves: practically nonexistent. I just couldn't seem to enjoy playing as a female night elf, and male night elves tended to be a turn off for me.

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Hidden because it's longwinded, pointless, and I shouldn't force anyone to read through me being all personal and shizzle.