A little spin on one of the current shared topics from Blog Azeroth.  Now, I’m sure I’ve covered what concerns I have with other players and their thoughts on rogues as well as mentioning some things that rogues can do which others don’t realise so I’m going to rant on another little bugbear of mine - misconceptions about dwarves!

First, though…

• We are not all holy-loving, shiny or knee-cap melting priests.
• Neither are we all bloody hunters!
• Nor are we all Paladins.
• In case you didn’t get the theme here, we’re definately not all warriors, either.

So, before you ask for a blessing, particular aspect, tankage or haelz… please check your dwarf is not, in fact, a rogue! *Ahem*

I’ve had all of the above happen to me a few times - people don’t seem to realise dwarves come in rogue-flavour.  That aside, though, there are some other common misconceptions about dwarves in general which people should remember not to insinuate when grouped with a dwarf.

• We do not smell badly.
• Our women do not have beards.  Well, except one.
• We are not short, everyone else is disproportinately tall (except gnomes, who’re too short).
• You may not punt us, we are not gnomes.
• We are not fat, we are big-boned.  No, really.
• We’re not all drunkards.  We just like a wee drink (or five) now and then.

I love being a dwarf, I enjoy being part of what is becoming an increasingly small community.  Although we may not have the same sort of thing going as some class-communies (I’m looking at the druids, here!) I’ve always found dwarves have more of a kin-ship than any other race I’ve played.  Dwarves playing with each other will often greet one another enthusiastically, we will dance and drink together and female dwarves are coveted rarities.  I think this comes from the fact there are so few of us in comparison to most other races - especially now that all priests can have fear-ward.

If I’ve missed mentioning any other dwarven bloggers here give me a poke for linkage! Dwarves must stick together in the face of what is becoming an overwhelmingly racist attitude against our kind!

For Khaz Modan!! /charge.

Hug one, hug all. Does it really matter who’s got whit as long as yer still enjoying yersel? Does it make ye happier to deny someone else somethin’? Ah really cannae understand this whole thing…

You’d think, the way some of my guildies and some others are talking, that when 2.4 comes out they are going to have all their epics perma-removed and given to newly dinged 70’s. In fact, it’s worse, their e-peen is going to be cut off and tossed to the murlocs!

I usually stay away from topics like this, I even tend to try and ignore them in g-chat as they’re something that’s likely to bug me and both sides have pretty strong feelings. But, to hell with it, I’ll write it all down here where no-one can interrupt me while I write.

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Cannae be daein’ wi’ adventurin’ or slayin’ on an empty stomach an without my bag full o’ bit an’ pieces which give me a wee bit o’ an advantage.

So, Onionpeels over at Blog Azeroth suggested jotting down what we take for raids and I thought I’d do a little writeup on what I take as it sounded kind of fun. As a rogue I don’t have any reagents to bring (thankfully) but that doesn’t mean I don’t bring bags full of consumables to a raid!

When I started raiding I had one raid bag. I put everything I needed into it so I wouldn’t forget when the time came to go somewhere. Slowly, as I added more items to my repetoire and started doing a wider variety of bosses my little stash grew and now takes up almost two full bags, not including the extra stamina gear and trinkets I carry with me just in case!

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Ah, well, y’see mah name has a long a proud history, handed doon by ma faithers, faither’s great uncles cousin!

This is a question which comes up a lot online. People want to know why you chose that particular name, what it means to you, what you hoped to convey by choosing it and measure it up against their own perceptions of it.Now, I bet you’re thinking “I know where your name comes from, Aurik! That’s easy! It’s just a basatardisation of a certain villian’s name, amirite?! Of course not (you knew that was coming hehe). I… never liked Bond films, I’d never seen Goldfinger and it wasn’t until someone asked me if that’s why I chose the name that I realised there was even a connection. Nope. However, I chose it for, likely, the same reason. It sounds like gold! For those of you not familiar with chemistry the symbol for gold is Au (from the latin, aurum according to wikipedia). I had a dwarf, his hair was golden-yellow. It had to be a name which was ‘gold-ish’! My other half, whilst creating a female dwarf hunter at the same time, suggested Aurik and it stuck. Personally I pronounce it “Aww-rick” but most of my guildies from other parts in Europe pronounce it (probably more correctly) as “A-oo-rick”. Read more

Well, I seen a lot of blether by a bunch of paladins, hunters, and priests all talkin’ aboot how their class was smashin’ so ah figured I’d have to dae my own wee piece.

So. What’s fun about beein’ a rogue?

Everything! Well, nearly. It’s a really fun class to be especially if you like to try finding novel ways to do things by yourself. I remember one of my first ‘great achievements’ - soloing the group quest in Searing Gorge where you have to get some plans from behind 3 elites which were, at the time, a level above me. That was one of my first “heart-in-mouth, can I really do this?, OMG hurry up and finish gathering!” moments with my rogue - where getting a sap, cheap shot and blind off in quick succession was the difference between life and ‘death’, between an easy finish to an otherwise painful quest or a long, miserable corpse run with a tricky res position. I was a nublet at the time and I don’t find that sort of stuff very hard these days but I still look back with pride at that moment when I learned, truly, what it was to be a rogue.

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