Published on February 13, 2005 By MrBadAxe In Gaming
First, an update to my Hit list:

* Hitokiri
* Khonan
* Mings
* Mokomoh
* Murrough
* Petis
* Voider

Surprisingly, though, the ganking has all but stopped, allowing me to reach level 36. Part of the reason why is that I found the perfect spot to kill enemies without worrying about the Horde. An island off the Savage Coast, home to a host of level 36-37 water elementals. Dubbed "Kimo's Island" by my friend Kimo Oshiro, whose character, a now-level 42 paladin named Avelynn, spent hours leveling there.

One person has commented on the creation of Omni's Hit List, saying I should ask friends to help. Well, help has arrived. Duplicate copies of the hit list have been given to Afic, Skittle, Winchester, and Narut. Afic could be especially helpful, since he is a member of Immortality, the largest Alliance guild on the Skullcrusher server.

One of the other possible reasons the ganking may have stopped was that I haven't been playing as much with Omni. I have four other "alts," that I have been playing. Although I'm not an a straight role-playing (RP) server, that doesn't mean I can't create a little RP background, so I thought, just for kicks, I'd have all my characters on Skullcrusher be related in some way.

First of these is Keahrde, a level 15 dwarf hunter, and his wolf, Lekhrad. (I thought both names sounded good when said with a dwarven/exaggerated scottish accent.) Omni's best friend.

Next, Asmira, my level 12 Paladin. She would be Omni's younger sister. "The light runs in our family," as Omni might say, referring to the holy nature of both their classes.

Finally, Rashida, level 9 Night Elf Druid, one of Asmira's childhood friends. Though techically all night elves are about 15000 years old, Rashida still has the maturity of a human teenager, full of hope and promise, eager to restore the night elves to their former glory.

Vesper, my lost character from the Beta, could be the theoretical father of Omni and Asmira. I have one more character to fit into the equation, so I'll say that Vesper was killed in a horde raid on Stormwind. By whom? None other than Exadab, level 13 orc warrior! Since I can't have both Alliance and Horde characters on the same server, Exadab can't be on Skullcrusher, so he's on Eredar. Of course, there might be a whole host of other characters related to Exadab, but that remains to be seen.

Omni will probably be on Kimo's Island for a long time. At least until I reach Level 40. For the WoW-uninitiated, you can't learn to ride a mount until level 40. A mount increases your travel speed by 60% and looks very cool, so it's kind of an incentive to stick with one character until that level so you can get your mount. One reason that there are disproportionately many Paladins on Skullcrusher is that Paladins get a special mount (warhorse) for free. Warlocks also get a special mount (a felsteed, a black horse with flaming hooves!) for free.

Everyone else must spend about 100 gold to train in riding and then buy the horse. So Omni gets short-changed again, twice: one, others get a free mount, two, since he's human, he gets a horse. Other races get much cooler mounts: Dwarves get a Ram, Gnomes get a mechanical bird called a Mechanostrider, Night elves get a giant cat called a Nightasber. Orcs get ridable Wolves, trolls get Raptors, undead get Skeletal Horses, and tauren get the dinosaur-esque Kodo Beast.

I could get a mount intended for another race, but that involves doing enough quests for that race to bring my reputation with that race to Exalted level. This is a LOT of quests. Including all the n00b quests that would get me no experience, get me no good items, and waste a lot of my time. I'll take the damn horse.

Kimo, on the other hand, is determined to get Avelynn a nightsaber, so, if you're reading this, Kimo, the best of luck with that. I'm gonna kill some more water elementals on your island. Seeya.

Comments
on Feb 14, 2005
This is why I play PvE. Ganking would just drive me further insane.