Lo-Quality WoW

The person who introduced me to WoW played a rogue. He loved it. His rogue would slaughter things left and right, with nary a care in the world. Watching his rogue take on higher level things and just devastate them was amazing to me. One of my guildmate’s friends joined in and his rogue was one of the most powerful characters I “knew”. At lvl 60, he would take us in to Stratholme where he would kill things so fast, I was lucky if I got a shot or two before it was dead. When BC came out, while I was leveling either every day or every other day, he was going up a level or two a day. Why did I create a rogue, with these fine examples to go by? I created her so she could open stuff for the guild…

Odd, but that’s the main reason she leveled at all. Our main priest was the guild alchemist, so her professions didn’t drive her leveling. I was better with, and had more fun, as my hunter so it wasn’t because I especially had fun with her. It was because as new people joined in to WoW, they were finding lockboxes and we didn’t have anyone to open them.

What? Well, the person who got me into WoW, never bothered to level his characters lockpicking skill. It actually became a running joke with the guild. We’d run an instance, run across a locked chest, and say “oh, too bad our rogue isn’t here…” then laugh our heads off. Heck, even when our rogue was with us, he’d laugh as well.

And the other one? Well, two reasons we didn’t bother him. One, he got his level up enough that he could get into various instances without the key. I’m not sure, but I believe that was his focus and I don’t know how much higher he had it. And two, when one has the closest thing to a nuclear warhead available you don’t go bringing it out to take out an anthill. We knew we weren’t at the same level as him and if he did go with us somewhere, it was more a favor to us than anything he was really gaining out of it.

So, I was there sitting with my main and my warrior at level 70 (i.e. before Wrath) and was trying to figure out who was going to get the attention next? I myself had a lot of lockboxes sitting in my bank, taking up room. So I started running my rogue up, specifically to open them. My guildmates started sending me their boxes as well. I had something close to 60 lockboxes in my bank waiting for me. And as I finally level enough to open one type of box, the bags would soon fill again with other lockboxes from the others who got them while leveling.

At level 45, my rogue had a higher level lockpicking than our “main” rogue! The ironic thing is that our guild rogue soon started leveling his lockpicking as well, mainly because he was tired of people bugging him. But a few months after BC had come out and well before WotLK was here, my rogue was sitting at level 70 with a maxed lockpicking skill.

My rogue, Kuroisora, was always the little odd child in my group of characters. Since I knew where I was going with my hunter and warrior, I never did quite figure out where I was going with her and it showed in her talent tree builds. My hunter and warrior also went to Aldor’s side while my rogue was the first Scryer character I had, and she greatly benefited from the Scryer related drops the other two were gathering at a demented rate. (Especially after Sunwell Isle opened up.) In fact, I believe she hit exalted with them well before hitting 70. It was sort of sobering realizing that she wouldn’t be able to wield a Retainer’s Blade just yet.

She’s also the only one of my four high level character’s who’s secondary professions didn’t make her a “guild whatever”. My hunter makes most of the higher level leatherworking stuff for the guild, same with my warrior and enchanting, and my mage and her jewelcrafting. Kuro was alchemy/herbalism and one of our priests was better at it than her.

And lastly, a little before Wrath came out if I recall correctly, she left the Plush Kitty Toys. Not because she wasn’t useful to the guild, she still is the lockpicker. But I had ended up “buying” a guild from someone and I elected her to be in charge of it. So even more so, she’s my “bank” character, hanging out in town while everyone else goes on adventures.

Then again, who better to be the one in charge of my bank than my rogue? I will still run her up to 80, if anything to get her lockpicking maxed but she’s still behind my hunter and warrior for getting things done. Not sure if she or my mage will get the next work over. Who knows, maybe my Death Knight will sneak in there and become my next high ranker?