Did you base your character on something?

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I’ve got two Monks. One for the Alliance, one for the Horde.

I was faced with the thought: how do I make them unique in their character builds? Personality. Fighting, etc.

I decided to base the Alliance character on Street Fighter. Flashy kicks, fireballs, Ryu, and not killing people.

My Horde monk I was inspired by Mortal Kombat. X-Ray moves for breaking bones, Fatalities, Liu Kang.

Curious, what inspiration did you use?

lmao.

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I created my Tauren out of revenge since after a heated argument and called a cow I then got to yell “How did you know I play a Tauren?” when the same person would call me a cow when we got into future arguments. (There long gone from my life but the Tauren stayed because of Warstomp.)

And yes, yes I have a female worgen too. :smiling_imp:

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I have a human female (actually recent changed the body-type, lol) monk named Tifa.

Self explanatory.

I used to have a human male warrior with spikey golden hair named Cloud.

If you havn’t figured it out by now, I like FF7

lmao

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I was a teenager and big orc DK was cool and edgy

I am still cool and edgy, I made the correct choice

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Yes but I can’t talk about it :smiley:

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Had a meeting with Jill

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After watching Warrior on Netflix and then a Goblin Cartels patch coming out I wanted to theme my monk a little more grounded and low fantasy.

My Guardian Druid I love mechanically but I’m not into the whole nature lovin tree huggin deal, so I’ve been theming him as more of a Jekyll/Hyde alchemist with the werebear form.

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I have no idea what that means lol

Here are some potential reasons why:

  • If it’s a reference to a movie, I don’t watch many movies.
  • If it’s a reference to a song, I don’t listen to music.
  • if it’s a reference to a book, 99.9999% of what I read is either comic books and manga or technical books.
  • If it’s a reference to a game, I only play games that are funny and/or hot.
  • If it’s a reference to American politics, I’m not American.

I know, I’m quite boring lol

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As far as character builds go, I don’t typically take any particular thing as inspiration. I have taken to sometimes naming talent builds after certain things, but they aren’t explicitly inspired by those things if they’re references. A build I made on one of my Monks, for example, I named Ansatsuken.

As a rper, some of the characters I portray have some direct inspirations. One character I’ve potrayed on this Monk, Zhaoyang Cloudpaw, was primarily based on Zatoichi, and by extension the general trope of the blind combatant. Like Ichi, she was a skilled swordsman, working as a traveling masseuse, who initially favored an inverted grip on her sword.

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If you look at your thumb and index finger it sort of looks like a J

Then you have 3 more fingers, and Jill has 3 letters

I don’t know if I can explain it more than that

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:rofl:

Now I get it lol

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All of my characters are based on something.

My warlock was loosely based on Richard from LFG.
My evoker was based on one of my Kobold D&D characters.
My other evokers were similarly based on other Kobolds I played.
More or less all of my tauren were based on cow puns.

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It was either Jill or Palmela

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Well , not this character but my undead character

When I saw the song down with the sickness by disturbed and the video that went along with it.
I fell in love with the undead and mages…so

Then I went to see disturbed in concert “”’ best time in my life it was epic"’

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I recently created four Teenage Mutant Ninja Goblins. The half-shell, the masks, and the weapons. Each one is the last name of the four artists. All were available except Davinci. Used Devinci instead
Bettobardi: https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/character/us/rexxar/bettobardi/
Sanzio: https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/character/us/rexxar/sanzio/
Buonarroti: https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/character/us/rexxar/buonarroti/
Devinci: https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/character/us/rexxar/devinci/

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Did you base your character on something?

hallucinations, mostly.

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My inspiration?? I like ice stuff and cold corpses.

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Mechagnome hunter is based off of Robotnik in Sonic.

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Must be something new, cuz we didnt have all that in MK1 and MK2

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X Ray moves are sick.

Definitely my favorite part of the latest era of MK.

lmao.

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