Your first character

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Just out of curiosity…

  1. What was your first character’s race and class?
  2. Why did you choose that class/race combo?
  3. When was this character created?
  4. Did your subsequent characters follow the pattern set by your first character?

I have a hunch that even adjusting for xpac-tied races and racial ability minmaxing, there are trends to be found in character creation choices.

In my case, this is my oldest character – he was rolled during patch 1.6. I hadn’t the slightest clue about Warcraft or even any other Tolkienesque fantasy setting at that point, which made the Horde thoroughly unappealing and other Alliance races questionable. As a noob, human felt like the “safest” option, so that’s what I went with. The majority of characters rolled since have been Alliance but not human.

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Undead warlock, vanilla wow… because it looked cool.

And well… im a holy priest as a main now so… not exactly a pattern.

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  1. Female undead warlock
  2. Because undead are awesome. I love spooky crap. Also loved them in Warcraft 3.
  3. Like December 2004.
  4. Kinda. I’ve always had an active undead character and an active warlock, usually the same character. Also, like, 90+% of my characters have been Horde and female.
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Don’t think there is really a pattern.

First character was a Human Warrior about a month after BC launch. Seemed pretty generic and safe. After that was Druid (Horde), Shaman (Alliance), Priest (Alliance), Priest (Horde).

Is there a pattern?

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This is Peppermint’s first character.

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Back in 2015 my first character was a Worgen Warrior since it combined battleaxes with werewolves. The pattern I had was making what called out to me.

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  1. Tauren Paladin
  2. saw a friend of mine playing a holy pally blood elf and it looked like fun. though I wanted a cow i could name Milkjug
  3. june or july 2011
  4. not really. so to speak. i still like healing but tend to stick with ranged dps outside of raid. and i went with Monk healer as a main in MoP
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  1. Night Elf Druid
  2. Thought it would be cool.
  3. Not long after launch
  4. To a point, but I’ve rolled Horde as well as Alliance at this point.
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Nightelf Hunter Vanilla. At the time I thought it would be easiest to play, and I like the idea of having the company of a pet. This is still my main although I’m a Worgen now. Subsequent characters haven’t followed a pattern as I have one of everything both Horde and Alliance, different races too.

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Undead fire mage, Vanilla started in 2006 so tail end. I chose her cause my ex made me, he needed free food and needed me to be an alchemist for his shadow potions.
I went fire cause everyone wanted me to go frost lol.

My main now varies between my shaman and my DK.

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  1. What was your first character’s race and class?
    ~Like my first ever? Tauren Druid
  2. Why did you choose that class/race combo?
    Because I like Taurens and Bears in general
  3. When was this character created?
    July of 2009
  4. Did your subsequent characters follow the pattern set by your first character?
    No, since the release of Pandarens, I switched. I even changed my Fursona
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Can relate to this so hard, lol. I begrudgingly respecced frost for guild MC and Onyxia but outside of that I was always some variant of fire.

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My first real char was a Blood elf hunter.

I had a few trial runs to see how things went in the game, then settled on her as a serious char.

Elf chosen as if elf a choice I will play them. Blood elf chosen since at the time a better backstory. Came to game late legion so not 100% up to speed on lore. I was coming from more WC3 memories. So I saw the birth of the blood elves as it were.

Hunter chosen since I tend to like ranged dps more archer style than magic user style. After I play tested a few classes I went back to what I know and like here.

Follow on chars followed the mold. Several elves both sides fill my ranks. I do branch out but in my heart I am an elf lol.

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Your looking at him. Started playing 6 months before BC came out.

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Human mage!!!

I was brand new at the game, had literally no idea what I was doing. Only played because my ut2k4 friends told me to. Mage seemed cool at the time however nowadays its def not my thing.

Damn… its been so long i dont even know. If i had to guess sometime in 2005/2006?

Not at all actually, i remember clearly when i was level 20ish i saw some horde invading a city of ours, they were big giant taurens on kodos, it looked so cool. i immediately re-rolled horde that day and never went back.

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Undead Priest

I liked playing the scourge in Warcraft 3 and the Horde in Warcraft 2 before that.

October 2005

My second character was a Undead Warlock followed by a Orc Warrior.

Though I ended up maining a Tauren Boomkin/Resto Druid for 7 years after I stopped playing my Priest until WoD where I rolled this Night Elf DK.

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This is my first Character, four servers and two name changes later. I stated playing just to play an undead, and warlock sounded cool. It was in the first year of LK, and I played Forsaken most of the time, I only branched out into Goblins and Pandas because I’ve seen every scrap of Forsaken content 100 times,

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  1. This is my first character, she was a Worgen though but I switched to Nelf in this patch for shadowmeld in mythic plus.

  2. I liked werewolves at the time and I thought being a werewolf was cool as heck.

  3. When I started in 2016. I’m a warcraft baby.

  4. Not really. I have a Draenei DK, a Velf priest, a panda shammy, a LF Paladin, I just go with what I like.

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I went into the game knowing nothing, by myself. Never heard of the warcraft series. It was complete blind.

I rolled a gnome rogue as my first. Played until I got to IF, and dueled a level 70. I hopped around trying to avoid his attacks. I died.

I then rerolled a Nelf Huntard, which was and still is my main.

And that, was that.

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Male Dwarf Hunter, created mid BC. I liked dwarfs in fantasy books. Hunter was said to be a good solo/beginner class.

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